stepped on the scales today and was down another one or two pounds. making total weight loss since may 30lbs. (total from my highest weight ever recorded? 42. whoot). I had been avoiding the scales due to vast chocolate consumption over the past week but faced them this morning in the hopes that a gain would have been the imputous I needed to give up the chocolate. But no, there was a loss. And because I am vastly complicated and ridiculous there was more chocolate today. and there might have been cheesecake, but if asked outright I will deny, deny, deny. (it was gluten free organic cheesecake, but it was cheesecake none the less, if I had eaten it, which of course I will never admit *grin*).

I did the gym this morning - 3 sets of 3:1 and then during the fourth set I felt funny, like a fluttering in my chest, and so I took my heartrate and it was HIGH. So I stopped running and I walked at a pace of 3.5MPH for the remaining running times and then did my cooldown. I felt fine after, and while walking, and my heartrate returned to normal quickly, but it was still a bit alarming. I will try running again on Friday - tomorrow is an elliptical day.

Skipped the workout on Tuesday - I needed to get some bloodwork done and so went to the lab early to find out that they didn't open until 8 (not 7:30 like I thought) so didn't get to curves in the evening either, since I needed to get to the lab before they closed (6). And I skipped curves this evening too. And tomorrow is the first ww day...maybe i should go to curves tomorrow morning instead of the gym...hmmm...but i love the elliptical more...I know I do need to really start working on strength training - strong women, strong bones, etc. I just really hate it. It's boring, it's bland. Curves at least is a bit better than strength machines at the gym - it's only 30 seconds and the women are usually nice. at the very least, i don't have to think, I just do. But it's harder to get motivated to go there, when I so much prefer the other gym...meh. I know I need to do it, and I'll get there. I'm still working on the gym 5 days a week - baby steps. But I can't let me get away with skipping curves too often...Perhaps a more set schedule and more strict adherence to said schedule is in order...?