Lunch and 5Ks

I weighed myself the other day and I've gained 10 pounds since June. YUCK. I just feel gross and heavy and want to make it stop. I've been having such a bad sweet tooth lately. I always feel like I want to bake... and I LOVE baking so it's hard to NOT do something I really like. Normally when I bake I bring the goods to school and share with the office, but lately I've been keeping the goods at home and eating them myself. Well, this really only happened once but it was bad! I ate an entire Better Than Sex Cake by myself!!

Anyway, I'm trying to get back on track with my eating and activity. I've gone to the Y twice this week and will go again tomorrow (I think). I've started eating better breakfast foods but it's hard to get lunch and dinner under control. Jerry doesn't like to eat at home and I'm easily convinced to go to Zorbaz, Lakeside, or the Fireside. Even if it's just for lunch I find it hard to eat a lunch-sized meal. Today, for example, we went to Zorbaz and I ate almost an entire order of spaghetti plus half a pint of Blue Moon. I normally wouldn't have the beer but Jerry's doing this World Beer Tour thing and I help out sometimes.

When I was at the Y yesterday I saw Dakota and she asked me if I wanted to do the Jingle Bell Run with her and a couple other people. I think it would be fun and it would be something I've never done before but I really don't think I could do it. When it comes to running/jogging I'm so slow and tire so easily. I could go on the elliptical for hours but the treadmill just kills me. I've been around running and marathons and races my whole life (my mom is a marathon runner) but I've never been able to participate in them because I'm so slow. I was thinking I could just speed-walk it... but is that too embarrassing? Speed-walking? That's what moms and old people do. I can't speed-walk... can I? Maybe I could convince Jerry to do it with me...