Half of Phil

Holy cow not only is it October, it's nearly halloween!!! I'll be 42 on the 28th.  That's kinda hard to believe as well.  Seems time is flying by all the while it also seems like forever ago I started this journey. I am claiming the 125 lb mark this week!!  My weight loss has slowed some, my nutritionist says it's likely due to stress and the like.  I've been working on getting that under control.  I had a good conversation with my manager this past week, hopefully things will smooth out now that we've cleared the air some. Soccer season is winding down, but the last weekend of the season we have a soccer tourney in mooresville, a swim meet in greensboro and the largest release of the year at work.  Nah that won't make for a hectic weekend!!!  Oh well it's a few weeks away so no worries  right now I guess. I was doing some 5k training and running more the last few weeks, but had some knee pain so I've put that off again for awhile.  Maybe I

We are getting some cooler weather!  Fall has definitely arrived.  We go to Boone this weekend for soccer and are looking forward to doing some leaf looking. It occurred to me after my last post that I've been tracking my steps for a full year now as of the beginning of Sept.  My average step count for the last 3 months of 2016 was 12,920 and my average step count for this year so far is 16,094.  Overall I've walked 6,128,017 steps since Aug 27, 2016.  That equates to roughly 3,000 miles walked!!!  That is hiking from Murphy to Manteo the entire length of NC 6 times in one year. I'm down 124 lbs overall as of this morning which is encouraging.  Weight loss has slowed the last few weeks.  I really struggled to get up an walk this morning, more than I have in a long time.  I was so tempted to just cut the alarm off and plan to get some steps later in the day.  I pushed through though and completed day 3 of week three in the 5k training app.  Hey its only been about 6