3 Weeks of Weight Watchers (WW) and Stryd Running Plans

 I'm almost done with my third week of Weight Watchers (WW) and I got to say so far it's been great. But also at this point I think is when things will start to get hard.  I'm still less than 10 lbs lost the last weigh in, but I feel like it will come.  I'm not starving by any means and I feel like I get to eat what I want. Mentally at times it's a bit hard to not chow down on 4 pieces of pizza BUT it's better than not having it.  Also at times I have a hard time eating things that are higher in carbs than what I've eaten in the past and what I'd still consider not the best food. But it is nice to have a piece of bread with some fried eggs.  

I've also picked up the Stryd training plans for running.  I'm currently following a 10K program as I have a trail race at the end of August I'd like to PR at.  It's slightly less than a 10K (4.8 miles I believe) so I figure following a 10K program should get me to where I want to be..or at least that's my hope.  Combine that with hopefully being the lowest weight I've ever run that race at and I think I've got a pretty good chance of a new PR.  Only time will tell.  This first week has been a bit boring and it's just been slow running.  And it will be that way for the next couple of weeks as well.  But I know if you "jump the gun" on these training plans you will end up paying for it. So I've only been running an extra minute or two and not doing much of anything else.  This week I might also end up running from work on one of the days which I've not done before.  Not sure what I think about that.  I want to try and run outside as much as possible now since hopefully the weather will be nice. 

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