Hey my name is Jaime and I am doing a 2010 reboot here on SparkPeople. I joined in Jan of 2009 and had a very good health year - ran two 1/2 marathons and a full marathon even. But when school started again in September my exercise went down (sometimes to non-existant) and my food consumption stayed the same as during marathon training and perhaps increased!

So now that I am on winter break from school I am going to take the time to be healthy and make a plan for when school ...

Hey my name is Jaime and I am doing a 2010 reboot here on SparkPeople. I joined in Jan of 2009 and had a very good health year - ran two 1/2 marathons and a full marathon even. But when school started again in September my exercise went down (sometimes to non-existant) and my food consumption stayed the same as during marathon training and perhaps increased!

So now that I am on winter break from school I am going to take the time to be healthy and make a plan for when school starts again in January so that I can continue to be healthy. I am also running a 1/2 marathon in Fargo in May again so it will be time to start training for that as well.

A little about me. I am 33 year old married mother of two back in school at the University of Minnesota and have 1.5 years left to get my BSN degree and become an RN. I also have BS in Management Information Systems and worked at IBM for 7 years before quitting for a career change after having my 2nd child. My kids are 2.5 and 5 and are big motivators as they have so much energy! My husband, Brian, and I have been married for 8 years and on top of being an engineer and a father he has also run 8 marathons! He is also a great motivator because even though he is one of those people who can eat whatever they want he tries to eat healthy and is a natural athlete. I have run six half marathons and one full marathon.

Weight Loss Goal:
Attain a BMI of 22 by April 10, 2009
According to my nutrition text book, women believe that they look their best at a BMI of 22. For me that is ~135 lb. At the present moment I weigh 148 lb so we’re looking at 13 lb to lose.

Goal: 1/1/2010 - 147 Actual: 146.8
Goal: 1/8/2010 - 146 Actual 147.4 :(
Goal: 1/15/2010 - 145 Actual 147.2
Goal: 1/22/2010 - 144
Goal: 1/29/2010 - 143
Goal: 2/5/2010 - 142
Goal: 2/12/2010 - 141
Goal: 2/19/2010 - 140
Goal: 2/26/2010 - 139
Goal: 3/5/2010 - 138
Goal: 3/12/2010 - 137
Goal: 3/19/2010 - 136
Goal: 3/26/2010 - 135

Race Times:
5/20/2006 - Fargo 1/2 Marathon: 2:11:27
9/07/2008 - Jesse James 15K: 1:32:48
8/23/2008 - Rochester 1/2 Marathon: 2:09:12
9/27/2008 - LaCrosse 1/2 Marathon: 2:03:56
5/09/2009 - Fargo 1/2 Marathon: 2:08:50
5/24/2009 - Med City 1/2 Marathon: 2:11:01
8/22/2009 - Rochester 1/2 Marathon: 1:57:08 (PR!!)
10/04/2009 - Twin Cities Marathon!! 4:24:33 (PR!)

Upcoming
5/22/2010 - Fargo 1/2 Marathon

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