I'm happy to announce that I have now bought the tickets for my "vacation," and as a result can go ahead and make it public that I will be in Miami from September 2nd to the 8th, will then travel north to New Jersey/New York City (!!!), where I'll be until the 13th. Then, I am to return to Miami, where I'll spend another 4 days, finally concluding my vacation on the 17th, when I fly back to my home country.
To be completely honest, I wouldn't be traveling if I weren't going to New York City. Don't get me wrong, I obviously miss Miami and the people that I left there, but this is my first real vacation in a long time, and I wanted to go somewhere different, somewhere I hadn't been to before. So, I figured, what better place than New York??? Also, I didn't plan it this way, but it seems that I'll be there for New York Fashion Week! Wooo. My visit also coincides with the 10th anniversary of 9/11, so I'm sure there will be lots going on.
I'm proud to say that the New York leg of my trip is financed by me, myself, and I. I am taking this as a reward for having lost 30 pounds so far. (I've got 2 weeks left before my trip and am working really hard to make it 35 pounds lost by then, but we'll see. I've been doing more strength training lately, and this usually hinders weight loss a bit. I'm perfectly fine with that though, because I am not interested in being stick-thin. I'm interested in being at a healthy weight, athletic, and strong. So, yay for muscle definition!)
I'll probably be renting a car for the first leg of my Miami visit, so transportation shouldn't be an issue. Yea, for those of you who don't know, my dear Hildegaard (my car's name) is in Honduras with me. Hehe. What else??? Despite the fact that I lived in Miami for 5-6 years, I never went to Key West, so I'm planning to go this time around.
I no longer have a gym membership in Miami, so I'll have to figure something out in order to get my exercise in. Maybe I'll have to settle with running around the block. LOL. If not, I'll contact local gyms to see if they offer any day passes, or something like that. In terms of nutrition, I'm devising a diet-friendly vacation eating plan with the help of my nutritionist. I doubt I'll lose weight while I'm up there, but as long as I don't gain more than 2-3 pounds, I'll be fine.
I know that this is my VACATION and that I shouldn't start worrying about this, but I have this ongoing irrational fear that I'll suddenly gain all of the 30 pounds that I've lost back the moment that I'm not 100% in control of my eating. Again, I know this is irrational, and I'm working on it, but I know I can't undo 15+ years of negative habits in a few months. I should be fine - I've had great discipline and self-control these last couple of months and I really have just been working on gaining healthy habits, so hopefully they've become or are well on their way of becoming a part of this new me. :)
And that's pretty much about it. Right now I'm about to go run on the treadmill for about 30 minutes. I think I mentioned in previous posts that one of my goals is to be able to call myself a runner. So, I'm currently on the 4th week of the Couch 2 5K plan. I had to take like a month-long break from running because my knee was bothering me too much. But now, I'm back on the program and working on my endurance/stamina! Week 4 is really challenging, though. It's as follows: 5 minute warmup (walking at 3.5 mph), 3 minute run (5.5 mph), 1.5 minutes walking (3.5 mph), 5 minute run (5.5 mph), 2.5 minutes walking, 3 minutes running, 1.5 minutes walking, 5 minutes running, and a 5 minute cool down. My body is kind of tired - I've been working out 2 hours everyday since last Saturday, but as I said before, I'm giving it my all to lose 5 more pounds before my trip. So, with that, let me go hit the treadmill.
I might just have a drink after my run, though. LOL. (Coconut rum and coke zero, FTW! LOL) Anyways, I shall be back to update you soon.
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