I was 166.2 lb this am!!! Whoo hoo! I sooo want to get into the 150's - it would be way less weight to carry when Robert and I do this Half Marathon.
Food -
3 mini donut holes (chocolate) and a med coffee with cream and sugar - also ordered a eng muffin with cheese and egg, but it didn't taste good to me so I had a bite or 2 and gave up on it.
lunch - yogurt, 1 cup each roasted mushrooms and squash, fiber one bar (I needed me some chocolate) Diet Pepsi.
Workout - 5 min stair climber then 50 crunches, 15 min stair climber then 50 cross crunches, 15 min elliptical, then 50 reverse crunches. Total time at gym was 1 hour (so average of 30 min cardio and 30 min weights - mostly upper body, some lower)
snack - handful peanuts and handful raisins, handful pretzels, a beer
dinner - hot chicken dip with a few crackers, baked potato with butter and mrs dash.
Awaiting my plan from my trainer since she is off with her baby (Congrats, Suzana - I am missing you)
I did a time trial - average time was 4.3 miles/hr. Robert did one today and calculated his time as being a 10 min mile, significantly faster than me. We have not yet decided if we will be running our half marathon together or not, I would love to be there with him, but don't want to hold him back. I guess we have time to figure out how this will go - after all, the race is not until November.
Life is good! life is good! Life is good!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Monday
Food for today.
Breakfast - potato adn gravy casserole at work with 3 ketchup pkts.
Lunch - 2 cups santa fe casserole (rice, beans, cheese, eggs, and milk)
snack - sour gum drops
post workout snack - fiber one bar and 1 cup milk.
post shower snack - one banana and 1 cup plain yogurt
Workout - 3.2 mile run in 44.5 minutes - then 20 min of yoga. Need to work on the flexibility and strength training.
Got work on getting better food in tomorrow. Life is good. I am going to miss my trainer for the next 2 weeks while she is on maternity leave.
Wt post workout was 168.4 lb (in the evening and before the post shower snack)
I got this - I got this - I got this! I CAN do the marathon. I just need to practice and cling to the belief that as things get cooler outside, my speed will get faster.
Robert and I watched a movie about Steve Prefontaine - he was one driven guy! Watching that movie (starring Donald Sutherland) was really interesting. He was a driven man. In this movie, he crashed his car and died because of a visualization exercise, planning how to win the next olympics. I was really inspired by the movie, and would love to run like that and believe that I could get to that level, but without the death bit. I want to run, but not get hurt or die. Is that too much to ask for?
Got one more movie from Netflix to watch as a part of my marathon inspiration. There will be more, but this is just to get me started.
Breakfast - potato adn gravy casserole at work with 3 ketchup pkts.
Lunch - 2 cups santa fe casserole (rice, beans, cheese, eggs, and milk)
snack - sour gum drops
post workout snack - fiber one bar and 1 cup milk.
post shower snack - one banana and 1 cup plain yogurt
Workout - 3.2 mile run in 44.5 minutes - then 20 min of yoga. Need to work on the flexibility and strength training.
Got work on getting better food in tomorrow. Life is good. I am going to miss my trainer for the next 2 weeks while she is on maternity leave.
Wt post workout was 168.4 lb (in the evening and before the post shower snack)
I got this - I got this - I got this! I CAN do the marathon. I just need to practice and cling to the belief that as things get cooler outside, my speed will get faster.
Robert and I watched a movie about Steve Prefontaine - he was one driven guy! Watching that movie (starring Donald Sutherland) was really interesting. He was a driven man. In this movie, he crashed his car and died because of a visualization exercise, planning how to win the next olympics. I was really inspired by the movie, and would love to run like that and believe that I could get to that level, but without the death bit. I want to run, but not get hurt or die. Is that too much to ask for?
Got one more movie from Netflix to watch as a part of my marathon inspiration. There will be more, but this is just to get me started.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Celebrate success, learn to live with not making goals.
Lets begin with the successes!
On Friday, my weight was 167 lb! I am down and staying down in the 160's - Did well on the June challenge, but it turns out that the challenge goes to the end of August - so I have one more month of really challenging myself to get to the best body that I can.
Robert and I did a 7 mile walk on Saturday and did well! :) We got done in 2.5 hours. My feet were so sore and blistered. We also did not take water with us so I was very dry when we were done and had to drink almost a liter of water to get back to normal.
Robert and I had a lovely 4th of July with my family. Life truly is good!
The not making goals part...
I ate too much yesterday and am up to 171,2 lb. Will need to have a very low calorie day and drink TONS of water to get things back to normal. However, I will still continue to enjoy days where I do not worry about what I eat.
I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that I cannot yet RUN the 13.1 miles for the mini marathon in November. Robert is challenging me to not make decisions now that about something that I still have 3 months to train myself for. I do feel like I still act childish from time to time. I still got some growing up to do....
Life is good all! Gotta keep training and challenging myself! :)
On Friday, my weight was 167 lb! I am down and staying down in the 160's - Did well on the June challenge, but it turns out that the challenge goes to the end of August - so I have one more month of really challenging myself to get to the best body that I can.
Robert and I did a 7 mile walk on Saturday and did well! :) We got done in 2.5 hours. My feet were so sore and blistered. We also did not take water with us so I was very dry when we were done and had to drink almost a liter of water to get back to normal.
Robert and I had a lovely 4th of July with my family. Life truly is good!
The not making goals part...
I ate too much yesterday and am up to 171,2 lb. Will need to have a very low calorie day and drink TONS of water to get things back to normal. However, I will still continue to enjoy days where I do not worry about what I eat.
I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that I cannot yet RUN the 13.1 miles for the mini marathon in November. Robert is challenging me to not make decisions now that about something that I still have 3 months to train myself for. I do feel like I still act childish from time to time. I still got some growing up to do....
Life is good all! Gotta keep training and challenging myself! :)
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