Happy Sunday! How is everyone? I’m enjoying the snow being gone and the temp being a little warmer!

I’ve been struggling lately with the scale. After losing 120 pounds (well, about 115 by my last weigh-in) I’m finding it terribly difficult to get the last few off to get to my goal. I know that not much is going to change once I get to my goal weight, I’ve accepted the fact that I will have to continue to track my food and follow the program if I hope to maintain, but being at my goal weight would make me feel like I had finally succeeded and would be a weight off my mind to be out of “losing” mode. I’ve been bouncing around within the same 6-pound range for over a year! While I’ve certainly had other non-scale victories along the way, this one hurdle feels so insurmountable!

In the midst of my frustration 2 weeks ago, my wise and awesome Weight Watchers leader Annie gave me some advice regarding my mindset. She suggested that I try putting behind me the 120-pound journey, so to speak, and to pretend as though I had just come to Weight Watchers this week, with a goal of losing 15 pounds. This in a sense would take off the pressure of the long journey I’ve been on, and refresh my thinking. So, that it what I set out to do last week, and I’m happy to say that I think it has helped! I haven’t yet weighed-in since our conversation, but I feel like my mind has been reset and I feel re-energized about the whole process.

I also decided to talk with my running coach about my workouts. He takes my goals and races that I have upcoming and writes me workouts to help me reach those goals. Up to now those goals have been primarily around getting faster and improving my times. I asked him how different my workouts would look if I were to temporarily change my goal to losing this last few pounds. He said he would write workouts which would focus on keeping me within a less intense, fat-burning heartrate range. I was intrigued by this notion, I had heard about heartrate training before, but never done it myself. So, I decided to do some reading about it and to also look at my past workouts and see what range my heartrate tended to be in; after all I have this nifty new Garmin Vivoactive my husband got me for Christmas, but I had not yet really paid much attention to the heartrate part of it. To my surprise, it showed that I spend a large part of my workouts in a higher heartrate zone, higher that the fat-burning zone that my running coach had talked about. Maybe I’m finally on to something here??

So today I await my new training plan for the next 2 weeks from my running coach. I can’t wait to try this new approach! I know there is no magic bullet, but if this helps me to finally break through these last few pounds I will be ecstatic!!

I must sign off to check on my egg white frittata experiment for dinner (pics and recipe to come if it’s successful!) Have a great week!!