Here's what I blogged while away...
Friday, February 27, 2009
Went for a run. I underestimated the difficulty of the hills. They kicked my ass. The hills aren't big but they are rolling. I managed to get myself lost. I had a route in my mind but went completely astray. I managed to come back past the house thinking I was coming in from one direction only to find that I had gone “around the block.” It was a very strange feeling.
Anyway, I did podrunner Gateway to 8k week 1. It’s a 43-minute run with 5 minute warm-up, 4/7 minute intervals with 1 minute rests, & a 5 minute cool down. I did the entire run despite the hills. This makes me feel really, really good.
I’m hoping to hit the gym later today to do the workouts that I blew off this week. I don’t know what got into me…Tiredness, not wanting to make this trip, packing for this trip, not wanting to make this trip…I just blew it off.
I also blew off my clean eating. Even after talking to Wendy on Tuesday. I am eating clean during the day here. Dinner is another story completely. I cannot be on the Cape & not eat fried clams, clam chowder, fried lobster, and did I mention clam chowder.
I have made a commitment to myself—and am putting it in writing here.
Upon returning home, I will eat clean until the first weekend of May (the day of the Broad Street Run). This includes laying off the alcohol—with the exception of no more than 1 glass of wine on on Sunday. On Easter I will indulge but not binge.
It is my hope that I will have lost the weight that I so desperately want to lose.
My friend, Leanne, that just got home from Iraq convinced me to do the Broad Street with her this year. Hence, the run today. We signed up on Friday. I can already run 3 miles without a problem so getting to 10 in the next 8 weeks should not be an issue.
Other than that I’m not planning on doing any other distance races until September. Then a bunch of us girls from work are going to do the Philadelphia Distance Race Half.
Wendy is this counter productive to getting my body into at least Cathy Savage’s “Wonder Woman” look?
1 March 1, 2009
It’s snowing! I was hoping it might hold off until I got another run in buts it has not. Bummer.
John & I ran a mile & a half yesterday. We ran the entire thing. I’ve got a touch of shin splints but otherwise feel great.
We’ve spent the last 2 afternoons packing his father’s condo out & putting the stuff in storage. Serge is finally settled into a nice assisted living facility. Guess you could use an update on him…
After he was admitted last year Christine put Serge into a full skilled nursing facility. The doctors there got him off all of his pain meds. Guess what…The old man was a junky. He was taking vicodin by the handful. His previous doctor had given him a 20 day supply with unlimited refills.
Today he is clear, has his memory back & is no longer combative. Go figure.
After getting all of the stuff out of the apartment John & I rented a truck to take some of the stuff home with us. I got a great functional workout in—lifting boxes & furniture for almost an hour.
So much for getting to the gym.
TODAY
After my bad, bad, bad food weekend, I am back up to 163. It was a very bad weekend indeed. Sigh.
Wendy is going to send me a new meal plan. She gave me some good pointers last week. I'm going to be putting them into action today.
I have to learn to read. She sent me the workout plan last night. She wrote, "Pick four of your favorite ab exercises – make sure they include front flexion (like a crunch) and side/twisting flexion (like bicycles or Russian twists)." I read, "make sure the don't include..." Doh! Good thing I sent her an email saying I lack imagination & couldn't think of any ab exercises that don't inclue front flexion & twisting.
It's going to be C.O.L.D. today--no more than 20. We have a truck to unload. Brrrr!
3 comments:
I am glad to hear you got your runs in. (Well, that sounds bad, lol.) I am right with you on the lousy eating. I swear I think it's some combo of the weather (dark and dreary here, freezing, more snow, UGH UGH UGH), feeling deprived, PMS, etc.
But, whatever, those are just excuses, right? Onwards and upwards and all that...
Deb, you are doing so very well with your workouts, and it shows in your progress pics! I'm just so impressed with your discipline--I know how hard it is to get in a quality workout after an exhausting day at work.
Now all you need to do is apply some of that focus and discipline to your eating. Even the most butt-kicking of workouts only burns a few hundred calories, and we all know how easy it is to devour that many. All it takes is a few really bad unplanned choices per week, and so much for all your hard work in the gym :( It sucks, but there it is, and we're all in the same boat. Even competitors are not exempt. The typical figure competitor will spend 12-16 weeks dieting down and doing ridiculous amounts of cardio, and then she'll do some other crazy stuff the week before competition to make sure she's not carrying any excess water weight, and sure enough, she'll look like a goddess on the day of the competition. Then she'll relax and eat whatever ... and in maybe a week she'll have regained a lot of the weight she worked so hard to take off. Her beautiful muscles will still be there, but they'll go back to being covered under a layer of fluff.
I hope I don't sound like I'm nagging. I just wanted to give you a pep talk is all :) You can SO do this, and you deserve it!!!
What a crazy thing to learn about your FIL. That must have been strange for you.
You are doing so great with your workouts. Go Deb!
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