progress report and SKECHER'S SHAPE-UPS!!!!

there was a brief scare yesterday when i thought i'd lost my pedometer - was starting to feel i was karmically destined to never own one for longer than two days! but it's okay, i found it this morning.

made all my walks PLUS on friday, i walked into minden (3hrs) and bought myself a pair of skecher's shape-up XF - omg, i LOVE them LOVE them LOVE them!

i'm planning to buy four more pairs: another pair like these so i can wear one, let one dry for a day; a pair of all-terrain for hiking on the trails, etc; and a pair of classic shape-ups for a real workout (you're not supposed to wear them all day long).

these are the ones i'm referring (shape-ups XF, forget the style number):

these are the All-Terrains i want:

and these are the Classic workout shoes i'm eyeballing:

i had no break-in period: i put them on in the store on friday and have basically not taken them off since. my feet actually hurt when i don't wear them, when i do wear them, i have NO pain in my feet, ankles, knees, hips, or lower back. if something starts to twinge, i can correct for it: ie, if my knee hurts, shift my weight to the outer edge of the shoe. if my hips hurt, shift my weight forward. if my lower back hurts, i need to tighten my abs and tuck my butt under just a bit to centre my posture.

they're *phenomenal*!

so here i go from "more than $20 for a pair of shoes is a waste of money" to planning out a $600 shoe wardrobe, lolol.

MORE great news!

i beat my first target goal! i was supposed to weigh 206.33 today and i'm down to 205!

but i need a new/better scale: this one's starting to wobble all over the place. the needle was swinging from 200 to 208 so i just picked the one at which it seemed to rest at the most.

eating-wise, i'm getting better. i did fall off the wagon and eat last night, but i really was truly hungry, not just craving. since i was up till 2am, i figured having some pulled pork, a bun, a banana, and some grapes at midnight wasn't going to kill me.