Well I would call the first week on the program a success, with the exception of one thing…  The Dreaded Scale.

I was able to get in 4 runs this week, just missing on my goal of 5.  However, my eating regiment was pretty spot on.  I went over my alloted calories a few days, and under a few days to finish the week at 125 calories over.  Not bad when the plan was to eat 7,000 calories less than normal – following my plan of 2 lbs lost per week.

Can you guess from the picture which days I ran… no trend here…

And that even including a delicious cupcake from my nieces birthday party. (it was sooo worth it)

So what the hell happened?  I stayed flat.  Well techincally I gained .5 lbs according to my lovely digital scale.

I am trying to not let it bother me and keep plugging away.  But in my “dieting history”, the first week usually nets the biggest results.  Have no fear, I will not be swayed off the path so easily.  But fear for that scale, because if it doesn’t show a different result next week… it will be replaced.

It’s GOTTA BE the scale, right?