It's called my weigh-in this morning! Didn't budge one ounce! After what I ate and the lousy and lack of workout's I had though, I really thought I was going to be going up on the scale this week.
It's honestly been no good!! Connor has been sick and while my mom has been in town to help me out, I have been under the weather now as well. I went to the gym on Tuesday for a strength training workout and it was fantastic...felt good and added weight to my usual routine. I was really proud of my workout Tuesday. Wednesday I was sloted to do 7 miles but after I got there, I could only manage 3.5 and I was done! I was having a big problem with my left contact and couldn't see a thing out of my left eye...it was making me incredibly dizzy and out of control. So, I left after I got in what I was moderately satisfied with.
Today was weigh in day and you read how my lack of progress has me a little discouraged. I was supposed to go to the gym for a weight training session but Connor had a rough night and I am not feeling well so I decided it was a no-go. The diet isn't going to be any better today as I am treating my mom to mezzaluna for dinner and a cookie pizza for dessert...yummy!!
Tomorrow after I drop my mom off at the airport, I am really hoping to get the gym for an intervals session on the treadmill and hopefully, if I am feeling up to it, a little modified strength training workout. Saturday is an off day and depending on whether or not I go to church on Sunday morning will dictate if I log my 2 miles or not. Next week is a new week....hopefully a Saturday morning trip to the doctor and some med's will put me on the mend and with Connor on the upswing, maybe we can get back to some sense of normalcy.
I still have the same goal for next Thursday that I had for this one...I really want to be at 120 even. That is almost my mid-way point and just that nice, round number would be beautiful on the scale and in my head to push me through the next 10-12 pounds!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Icy Hot is not for me!
So, I am extremely allergic to Icy Hot! I put some on my ankle and it was fine for awhile, but eventually it started burning. I tried to wash it off, but it had already absorbed into the skin and it burned all night long. Thankfully, the burning has stopped and now it's on to good 'ol ice packs. PS- if you use the method I put on my blog PLEASE make sure you use a towel between your skin and the ice pack- it will cause frost bite!!!
Today was weigh in day for the Biggest Loser challenge. I am down to 122.8 and felt awesome!!! This puts me down 8 pounds total and 3 pounds down from the start of the challenge.
There is no workout for me today because of other obligations I have. Tomorrow morning I am running outside and then in the evening (crossing my fingers that I have the motivation to go), I am going to the gym to get a strength training workout in.
I am trying really hard to lose 2.5 more pounds before the weigh in next week and that will put me at a 10 pound weight loss since Ben has deployed. I would be 1/2 way to my total goal weight!! Not only am I pumped about the weight loss, but 3 miles is now coming easier and easier and feeling more natural!
Today was weigh in day for the Biggest Loser challenge. I am down to 122.8 and felt awesome!!! This puts me down 8 pounds total and 3 pounds down from the start of the challenge.
There is no workout for me today because of other obligations I have. Tomorrow morning I am running outside and then in the evening (crossing my fingers that I have the motivation to go), I am going to the gym to get a strength training workout in.
I am trying really hard to lose 2.5 more pounds before the weigh in next week and that will put me at a 10 pound weight loss since Ben has deployed. I would be 1/2 way to my total goal weight!! Not only am I pumped about the weight loss, but 3 miles is now coming easier and easier and feeling more natural!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Close but, I have an excuse (as always)
I ran today at the gym and felt great. Training calendar had me running 6. I wanted to hit 6, possibly 6.5 but I stopped at 5. I really do have a good excuse, not that it matters. My hip was starting to get sore and my ankle hurt and since Connor was in childcare, I stopped after 5 and ran to Target to get what I needed to make a few ice packs...mostly ace bandages and alcohol.
PS- Dad John has an excellent "recipe" for ice packs that they use in the rehab clinic at Fort Hamilton Hospital. In a gallon freezer bag put 1c. rubbing alcohol and 2 c. water. Seal and stick inside another gallon freezer bag the opposite way (so the zipper tabs are on opposite sides- prevents leaking). Freeze those and then they will make an amazing ice pack that stays cold for 30 minutes.
I feel really good today...too bad the Icy Hot I bought to hold me off until the bags freeze is burning my skin!!!
PS- Dad John has an excellent "recipe" for ice packs that they use in the rehab clinic at Fort Hamilton Hospital. In a gallon freezer bag put 1c. rubbing alcohol and 2 c. water. Seal and stick inside another gallon freezer bag the opposite way (so the zipper tabs are on opposite sides- prevents leaking). Freeze those and then they will make an amazing ice pack that stays cold for 30 minutes.
I feel really good today...too bad the Icy Hot I bought to hold me off until the bags freeze is burning my skin!!!
Monday, September 28, 2009
I'm a slacker....
I would love to say I am only a slacker when it comes to updating my blog...but after this non-productive, poor eating weekend, I guess I'm a slacker on the workout front too.
Let's recap: Wednesday I rocked out 7 miles.
Thursday was Bible Study, so no workout there. But it was weigh in day.
Starting weight: 125.5
Weigh-in: 125
Percentage of weight loss: .99% OUCH!!!! I didn't even lose 1% of my body weight this week!
Friday, I went to the gym for a long workout. Running didn't go so well and I only put up a little more than 2 miles. But I got my ab and leg workout in, so it wasn't a complete loss.
Saturday, forget it!
Sunday, forget it!
So here we are, Monday. After I saw the numbers I put up this week, I knew I needed to get my act in gear. While I know I am in a competition with Jo, I really feel like I am going to happy whoever wins as long as we both keep on this and continue to lose weight. I really like this journey with my sister. I need to keep workking hard because I want Ben to come home and be completely jaw-dropped at how I look. I am blessed to have a husband who doesn't care what I look like and is over-the-top supportive of my efforts, but knowing that he won't see me once on this weight loss journey and I get the excitement of a "big reveal" is cool. It is really funny to see the wives come out in full-force the second the guys leave. Everyone wants to look A-MAZING when these guys come home!!
So I ran 4 miles this morning. I didn't feel like I had to convince myself of going further either. I felt sooooo good. I was cruisin' along, sweating my tail off and rocking it out. It took less than 1 hour too, so that was positive for me.
Meals for this week are pretty standard:
Running mornings on M and F is yogurt with granola and a banana sushi wrap before I run
Running morning on W is yogurt with granola and a scrambled egg white and a banana sushi
T and R mornings is Special K cereal and a Special K protein water for a mid-morning snack
Lunches are grilled chicken salads (I prepped EVERYTHING on Friday, so it take 4 seconds to put it all together now)
Dinner on M: fish and sweet potato
Dinner on T: chicken nuggets with veggie
Dinner on W: spaghetti with veggie
Dinner on R: frozen meal
Dinner on F: fish and a veggie
Afternoon snacks are either apple with a string cheese or yogurt w/granola.
Let's recap: Wednesday I rocked out 7 miles.
Thursday was Bible Study, so no workout there. But it was weigh in day.
Starting weight: 125.5
Weigh-in: 125
Percentage of weight loss: .99% OUCH!!!! I didn't even lose 1% of my body weight this week!
Friday, I went to the gym for a long workout. Running didn't go so well and I only put up a little more than 2 miles. But I got my ab and leg workout in, so it wasn't a complete loss.
Saturday, forget it!
Sunday, forget it!
So here we are, Monday. After I saw the numbers I put up this week, I knew I needed to get my act in gear. While I know I am in a competition with Jo, I really feel like I am going to happy whoever wins as long as we both keep on this and continue to lose weight. I really like this journey with my sister. I need to keep workking hard because I want Ben to come home and be completely jaw-dropped at how I look. I am blessed to have a husband who doesn't care what I look like and is over-the-top supportive of my efforts, but knowing that he won't see me once on this weight loss journey and I get the excitement of a "big reveal" is cool. It is really funny to see the wives come out in full-force the second the guys leave. Everyone wants to look A-MAZING when these guys come home!!
So I ran 4 miles this morning. I didn't feel like I had to convince myself of going further either. I felt sooooo good. I was cruisin' along, sweating my tail off and rocking it out. It took less than 1 hour too, so that was positive for me.
Meals for this week are pretty standard:
Running mornings on M and F is yogurt with granola and a banana sushi wrap before I run
Running morning on W is yogurt with granola and a scrambled egg white and a banana sushi
T and R mornings is Special K cereal and a Special K protein water for a mid-morning snack
Lunches are grilled chicken salads (I prepped EVERYTHING on Friday, so it take 4 seconds to put it all together now)
Dinner on M: fish and sweet potato
Dinner on T: chicken nuggets with veggie
Dinner on W: spaghetti with veggie
Dinner on R: frozen meal
Dinner on F: fish and a veggie
Afternoon snacks are either apple with a string cheese or yogurt w/granola.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The Bumblebee
The quote of the day is "Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it flies anyway."
Love it and it really struck a cord with me. We are the bumblebee's. When our brains are shut off and not telling us what we can and can't do, we are pretty impressive people, able to accomplish a ton. I have had non-bumblebee moments, and a lot of them lately. Actually, pretty much my entire running career (that exists for all of 9 months). My non-bumblee moments are those times when looking back, you probably could have kept going but your brain psyched you out into believing you HAD to stop, for whatever reason. If my goal is 6 miles, I would stop at 5 or 5.5, if my goal was 3, I felt like I was spent at 2 miles. I feel like over the past few months, I psych myself out. The knowledge that you are more than 1/2 to your daily goal mileage is amazing and then when you see the end in sight, your brain shuts down and puts you into survival mode, as if you can't physically move one more foot or you're going to fall over. I proved my brain wrong this morning. I was supposed to run 6 miles at a 14:15 mpm pace. I knew the treadmill would shut off after an hour so I was going to stop and reset after 3 miles. I got to 3 and felt great, had the extra time on the treadmill so I ran on for another mile. I stopped after 4 miles, reset and started again immediately, knowing I only had 2 miles to go. I ran the next 1.5, walked to catch my breath for a 1/10 of a mile and then finished my 6 total. The last .5 miles, I got to thinking, I wonder if I can keep going....can I? I know I can finish my 6 so anything extra is a bonus and I can realistically stop whenever I want. Now, the 7th mile was tough. I ended up walking .2 of it...but I did run the other .8 and was pretty darn proud of myself for doing an extra mile AND channeling my inner bumblebee to do more than what was expected of my today.
Diet has been really good as well. I had a bowl of Special K cereal and a banana for breakfast and after my run had a Special protein water. Lunch was a Lean Cuisine meal and then for an afternoon snack I had fat-free yogurt with a couple Tbsp. of homemade granola. Pretty good and still feeling pretty satisfied at 4:30pm. Dinner is going to be another frozen meal because I have to take Connor to the doctor in a few minutes and I know we won't be home in time for me to make anything. It may be a resort to a drive-through...we'll see.
Love it and it really struck a cord with me. We are the bumblebee's. When our brains are shut off and not telling us what we can and can't do, we are pretty impressive people, able to accomplish a ton. I have had non-bumblebee moments, and a lot of them lately. Actually, pretty much my entire running career (that exists for all of 9 months). My non-bumblee moments are those times when looking back, you probably could have kept going but your brain psyched you out into believing you HAD to stop, for whatever reason. If my goal is 6 miles, I would stop at 5 or 5.5, if my goal was 3, I felt like I was spent at 2 miles. I feel like over the past few months, I psych myself out. The knowledge that you are more than 1/2 to your daily goal mileage is amazing and then when you see the end in sight, your brain shuts down and puts you into survival mode, as if you can't physically move one more foot or you're going to fall over. I proved my brain wrong this morning. I was supposed to run 6 miles at a 14:15 mpm pace. I knew the treadmill would shut off after an hour so I was going to stop and reset after 3 miles. I got to 3 and felt great, had the extra time on the treadmill so I ran on for another mile. I stopped after 4 miles, reset and started again immediately, knowing I only had 2 miles to go. I ran the next 1.5, walked to catch my breath for a 1/10 of a mile and then finished my 6 total. The last .5 miles, I got to thinking, I wonder if I can keep going....can I? I know I can finish my 6 so anything extra is a bonus and I can realistically stop whenever I want. Now, the 7th mile was tough. I ended up walking .2 of it...but I did run the other .8 and was pretty darn proud of myself for doing an extra mile AND channeling my inner bumblebee to do more than what was expected of my today.
Diet has been really good as well. I had a bowl of Special K cereal and a banana for breakfast and after my run had a Special protein water. Lunch was a Lean Cuisine meal and then for an afternoon snack I had fat-free yogurt with a couple Tbsp. of homemade granola. Pretty good and still feeling pretty satisfied at 4:30pm. Dinner is going to be another frozen meal because I have to take Connor to the doctor in a few minutes and I know we won't be home in time for me to make anything. It may be a resort to a drive-through...we'll see.
Monday, September 21, 2009
This sucks
I feel soooo defeated. This weekend wasn't the weekend I was hoping to have after the kick-off to Biggest Loser. I went to the gym today and only did 2 miles. I can use a bazillion excuses, but I only did 2 miles and I wanted to be closer to the 3-3.5 mile mark. I did all my ab's...but none of my upper body strength training. How am I going to run 6 miles on Wednesday (let alone a 13K in October), if I bail out after 2??
The diet was better but not great today. I had a wrap this morning with a little yogurt. Note to self: I have to find something other than the wrap. The tortilla makes me gag! Am over it! I may switch to an egg white omelet with veggies instead, but we'll see. As soon as I got home from working out, I had a special K protein water. Lunch was a grilled chicken salad....topped off with a handful of mini-Reese cups (thank goodness those are gone now!!). Had a cheese stick as a snack and a leftover hamburger and veggies for dinner. Followed off with waffles just now and Tostidos. Oink, I know...but I was starving all of a sudden!!
The diet was better but not great today. I had a wrap this morning with a little yogurt. Note to self: I have to find something other than the wrap. The tortilla makes me gag! Am over it! I may switch to an egg white omelet with veggies instead, but we'll see. As soon as I got home from working out, I had a special K protein water. Lunch was a grilled chicken salad....topped off with a handful of mini-Reese cups (thank goodness those are gone now!!). Had a cheese stick as a snack and a leftover hamburger and veggies for dinner. Followed off with waffles just now and Tostidos. Oink, I know...but I was starving all of a sudden!!
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Derailed...for sure
Yep, that's kind of how the entire weekend ended up. I had some high points, but it was a pretty low-point eating and working out weekend. John and Ashley were down and while I may not have done a lot personally, I did a ton to help my mental well-being by getting a ton done around the house. Between all the housework and craziness with Ben, Connor has been out of control as well. Waking up at midnight to cry the rest of the night....awesome! I need nothing else on my plate...totally set with a full-course for the time being, thanks for the overwhelm!
I am really looking forward to my run and workout tomorrow. I am going to go knock it out and come home and see off John and Ashley. The day should be a good start to a new week and I should be able to rock out all my workouts this week. Goodness knows I'm going to need it with all the junk I ate this weekend!!
I am really looking forward to my run and workout tomorrow. I am going to go knock it out and come home and see off John and Ashley. The day should be a good start to a new week and I should be able to rock out all my workouts this week. Goodness knows I'm going to need it with all the junk I ate this weekend!!
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