Normally I kick off my workout week on Saturday & Sunday by getting in good, long workouts. However, I spent most of this weekend on the couch with my laptop. I can't really complain about it, since I did volunteer to help out if extra hands were needed this weekend. Could have been worse - quite a few of my co-workers spent the weekend at the office. At least I was home, snuggled up with the cats.
Anyway, now I feel like I'm "behind" in my workouts. I also did not make it to the Running Room to return/exchange the second pair of sneakers. Didn't get to do anything I had planned on this weekend actually. Ah well, life goes on.
We did cook last night, and we have leftovers for supper tonight which makes for an easy evening (aside from a bit of mess in the kitchen that still needs to be cleaned up). There will be a workout, just not sure yet what it will be. Hopefully some combo of cardio and strength training.
Last week Angie kicked off her Operation Wedding Dress and invited anyone who was interested to join her. I have a friend's wedding to attend this summer, and I'll admit it has been on my mind. I'd love to drop a dress size by then. So I decided to join in. Angie is following the Women's Health Ultimate Fitness Plan 2008. I was hoping to check out the plan over the weekend to see what I might be able to use to tweak my current routine. That's one of those things I didn't get a chance to do this weekend. I hope to give it a look tonight, we'll see how things go.
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Daily Record
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Weight: 142.6
BF: WW English Muffin w/Nutella, Coffee w/cream
Lunch: Raw cauliflower, cheese ravioli with tomato sauce
Supper: Kickin' Chicken, rice, veggies
Planned Workout: ???
Monday, March 31, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Weigh-In Day
Weigh In: 142.2(-0.6 lb)
I think I'm going to cry. Okay, not really. But I'm sooo tired today and I had this post all written and ready to go and somehow I've managed to delete it or something and I can't believe I did that and I'm too tired to do it all over again. Wah!
So, short & sweet. Down 0.6 lb - Good. A whole whack of exercise this week, and excellent mileage on the treadmill. Also good.
Tired from having my sleep interrupted last night. Yuck. Snowed all day. Yuck.
Deer were out today, after we got home from work:
Thanks to everyone who left comments on my Wednesday post. I appreciate the feedback on the sneaker situation. I will try to get back to The Running Room this weekend to return them. Hopefully they can get me a new pair of the same type of sneakers I have now. At the moment, that seems to be the best bet.
Now I'm going to put on my pajamas and crash.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
My Quiet Rebellion
I've read a few posts this week about Easter Candy. Or, more specifically, getting read of the Easter Candy. Banish the chocolate! Throw it in the trash! Just get rid of it!
I do sort of understand that, even while I wince at the idea of throwing perfectly good chocolate in the trash. Okay, so I'm assuming "good chocolate" here because that's what I would buy. As a matter of fact, there is a Lindt Dark Chocolate Bunny upstairs with my name on it at this very moment. Am I going to throw it in the trash? Not a chance. It may sit around for a while until I decide to eat it, but it will not be thrown in the garbage. If it's bad chocolate...well...you shouldn't have bought it in the first place. I'm just sayin'.
This morning, I was sitting in the living room, looking out the window, eating my breakfast and drinking my coffee as I do most mornings. Want to know what I was eating? A whole wheat English Muffin with Nutella. It dawned on me that not only was I eating chocolate, I was eating it for breakfast.
"So be it!" I said to myself. I absolutely realize that in order to lose weight, one might have to give certain things up. I also realize that eating for health is even more important than eating to lose weight. But. You still need to eat food that leaves you satisfied. I enjoyed every bite of my breakfast, and was indeed quite satisfied...All the way to 1:00 as a matter of fact, at which point I decided it was time to eat the healthy lunch that I had packed for myself.
Yes I am on a diet. Yes I will eat chocolate. For breakfast.
So there.
I do sort of understand that, even while I wince at the idea of throwing perfectly good chocolate in the trash. Okay, so I'm assuming "good chocolate" here because that's what I would buy. As a matter of fact, there is a Lindt Dark Chocolate Bunny upstairs with my name on it at this very moment. Am I going to throw it in the trash? Not a chance. It may sit around for a while until I decide to eat it, but it will not be thrown in the garbage. If it's bad chocolate...well...you shouldn't have bought it in the first place. I'm just sayin'.
This morning, I was sitting in the living room, looking out the window, eating my breakfast and drinking my coffee as I do most mornings. Want to know what I was eating? A whole wheat English Muffin with Nutella. It dawned on me that not only was I eating chocolate, I was eating it for breakfast.
"So be it!" I said to myself. I absolutely realize that in order to lose weight, one might have to give certain things up. I also realize that eating for health is even more important than eating to lose weight. But. You still need to eat food that leaves you satisfied. I enjoyed every bite of my breakfast, and was indeed quite satisfied...All the way to 1:00 as a matter of fact, at which point I decided it was time to eat the healthy lunch that I had packed for myself.
Yes I am on a diet. Yes I will eat chocolate. For breakfast.
So there.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Snow!
It's snowing. Was not impressed to see that when I got up this morning. I think the weather has a lot to do with my general crankiness and lack of motivation. It's been cold this week, and when I walk outside it feels like a slap in the face. Mind you, it is certainly warmer now than it was in the dead of winter. But somehow I'm not prepared for it like I was then. Now I'm just not expecting it, even when I know from looking at the weather page that it is cold. Maybe because we actually did have some warm weather and now it's gone back to being cold.
Today it actually is a bit warmer...and what do we get? Snow.
The Bag Lady suggested that I need a vacation. I think she may be right. Not only do I need some time off, I need to spend that time someplace sunny and warm. Alas, that is not going to happen. So I sit here at my desk and glare at the window where I can see the snow blowing around as if it were the middle of January.
Moving on.
If you've been wondering what's up with my Couch-to-5K training, it's gone slightly off the rails. Here's what happened:
Two Saturdays ago: exchanged the first pair of sneakers I had bought for a different pair. That afternoon, did my first Week 4 session in the new sneakers. Thought it went ok. These sneakers seemed better, though still not fantastic. It seemed like my heel was way lower than the front of my foot, and there was a weird feeling of friction under the pad of my forefoot, so I still ended up with that slightly numb feeling in my feet by the end. But I thought maybe I just needed to get used to the sneakers. Aside from that, I found the session tough but doable.
Two days later, I go to do my second session. Now, I may have made a mistake here but, it made sense to me at the time. I still was not positive about the new sneakers, so I didn't want to wear them any more than necessary until I was sure I was going to keep them. I wanted to do an upper body weight workout before my run, so I wore my "non-running sneakers" (yes, I have a pair that I use for weight training, exercise DVDs, etc) to do my weight routine, then changed to the new sneakers and hopped on the treadmill to do my C25K session. Within 10 minutes I felt like my calf muscles were completely seized up and I had to stop. I changed sneakers and slowly walked the rest of my cardio session.
I was then afraid to try the new sneakers again, and I didn't get in another C25K session that week.
This past Saturday, I hop on the treadmill and somehow the memory of that one Week 4 session I did is putting me off from doing it again. In my mind it has now become some sort of terrible ordeal and I feel like I'm not up to it. But, I don't want to give up altogether, so I decide to do my own thing. I did my 5 minute walk to warm up, then I alternated 3 minute runs with 90 seconds of walking (the week 4 schedule has you running 3 min, walking 90 sec, running 5 min, walking 3 min, then repeat sequence). That went well and I felt pretty good after.
My next session should have been Monday, but I had a bit of an upset tummy and was not feeling like running was a good plan, so I just did a walk.
Got on the treadmill last night and ended up alternating 5 minute runs with 3 minutes of walking, and that felt pretty good too. So now I'm not sure why I was remembering week 4 being so difficult - maybe it was the sneakers. Those last two runs, I was wearing my trusty old Mizuno Wave Riders. I hate to return another pair of sneakers, but I'm thinking I may have to, and ask them if they can order a pair of Wave Riders for me; they do have them in the store, just not in my size. They actually have a very limited selection in my size, which may be why I'm having so much trouble.
Anyway, that's where things stand with the C25K running at the moment. I'm still picking away at it, but doing it at my own pace. Which is fine. It's not like I'm on a deadline, I'm doing this for myself and I'm not in any rush.
Today it actually is a bit warmer...and what do we get? Snow.
The Bag Lady suggested that I need a vacation. I think she may be right. Not only do I need some time off, I need to spend that time someplace sunny and warm. Alas, that is not going to happen. So I sit here at my desk and glare at the window where I can see the snow blowing around as if it were the middle of January.
Moving on.
If you've been wondering what's up with my Couch-to-5K training, it's gone slightly off the rails. Here's what happened:
Two Saturdays ago: exchanged the first pair of sneakers I had bought for a different pair. That afternoon, did my first Week 4 session in the new sneakers. Thought it went ok. These sneakers seemed better, though still not fantastic. It seemed like my heel was way lower than the front of my foot, and there was a weird feeling of friction under the pad of my forefoot, so I still ended up with that slightly numb feeling in my feet by the end. But I thought maybe I just needed to get used to the sneakers. Aside from that, I found the session tough but doable.
Two days later, I go to do my second session. Now, I may have made a mistake here but, it made sense to me at the time. I still was not positive about the new sneakers, so I didn't want to wear them any more than necessary until I was sure I was going to keep them. I wanted to do an upper body weight workout before my run, so I wore my "non-running sneakers" (yes, I have a pair that I use for weight training, exercise DVDs, etc) to do my weight routine, then changed to the new sneakers and hopped on the treadmill to do my C25K session. Within 10 minutes I felt like my calf muscles were completely seized up and I had to stop. I changed sneakers and slowly walked the rest of my cardio session.
I was then afraid to try the new sneakers again, and I didn't get in another C25K session that week.
This past Saturday, I hop on the treadmill and somehow the memory of that one Week 4 session I did is putting me off from doing it again. In my mind it has now become some sort of terrible ordeal and I feel like I'm not up to it. But, I don't want to give up altogether, so I decide to do my own thing. I did my 5 minute walk to warm up, then I alternated 3 minute runs with 90 seconds of walking (the week 4 schedule has you running 3 min, walking 90 sec, running 5 min, walking 3 min, then repeat sequence). That went well and I felt pretty good after.
My next session should have been Monday, but I had a bit of an upset tummy and was not feeling like running was a good plan, so I just did a walk.
Got on the treadmill last night and ended up alternating 5 minute runs with 3 minutes of walking, and that felt pretty good too. So now I'm not sure why I was remembering week 4 being so difficult - maybe it was the sneakers. Those last two runs, I was wearing my trusty old Mizuno Wave Riders. I hate to return another pair of sneakers, but I'm thinking I may have to, and ask them if they can order a pair of Wave Riders for me; they do have them in the store, just not in my size. They actually have a very limited selection in my size, which may be why I'm having so much trouble.
Anyway, that's where things stand with the C25K running at the moment. I'm still picking away at it, but doing it at my own pace. Which is fine. It's not like I'm on a deadline, I'm doing this for myself and I'm not in any rush.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Last Tuesday of March
Time flies.
Thanks to everyone for the kind comments on my last post. I love my cats. I say that a lot, but it's true. They make me happy. Okay, sometimes they do a fine imitation of being a pain in the ass, but mostly, they just make me happy.
I did try to post last night, but my computer at home was acting weird, so I rebooted it and I did not have the patience to sit there and wait for it to boot up and then log on, etc. I was tired. I felt tired all day yesterday for some reason. Much better today (I say as I sit here yawning at my desk).
I don't feel like I have a lot to say. Though, being me, I'll use a lot of words to say that. For a quiet person I do tend to use a lot of words to spit out what little I do have to say. Basically, I've been feeling very discouraged and tired but I feel like you guys have listened to quite enough of my whining so I don't want to do it again. I want the scale to move, I think I need to make some changes, and I'm thinking things over to try and come up with a plan.
Last night was leftovers for supper (turkey breast with stuffing and veggies, and yes, one last piece of apple pie). I did lower body weights and a walk on the treadmill. Racking up the mileage for this week, so that's good.
Thanks to everyone for the kind comments on my last post. I love my cats. I say that a lot, but it's true. They make me happy. Okay, sometimes they do a fine imitation of being a pain in the ass, but mostly, they just make me happy.
I did try to post last night, but my computer at home was acting weird, so I rebooted it and I did not have the patience to sit there and wait for it to boot up and then log on, etc. I was tired. I felt tired all day yesterday for some reason. Much better today (I say as I sit here yawning at my desk).
I don't feel like I have a lot to say. Though, being me, I'll use a lot of words to say that. For a quiet person I do tend to use a lot of words to spit out what little I do have to say. Basically, I've been feeling very discouraged and tired but I feel like you guys have listened to quite enough of my whining so I don't want to do it again. I want the scale to move, I think I need to make some changes, and I'm thinking things over to try and come up with a plan.
Last night was leftovers for supper (turkey breast with stuffing and veggies, and yes, one last piece of apple pie). I did lower body weights and a walk on the treadmill. Racking up the mileage for this week, so that's good.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Weekend winding down
It's been a good weekend. I wouldn't mind another day or two of weekend, but unfortunately I won't get it. Back to work tomorrow! The weather was not very spring-like; it's been cold, snowy and windy. But, we didn't really have any place to be, so we stayed snug inside.
I spent a satisfying amount of time like this:
That would be me, on the couch, with both cats. See my feet sticking up under the blanket?
Thinking about waking up...
But, no, we are much too comfortable right where we are...
I didn't spend the whole weekend sitting around though. I got in a couple of good exercise sessions:
Friday's workout - Crunch Burn & Firm Pilates DVD followed by 45 minutes on the treadmill.
Saturday's workout - C25K session on the treadmill, followed by Crunch Pilates-Yoga Blend DVD.
Today, I had intended to do weights, but decided to do some cleaning instead. Lately I've been so concerned with getting in workouts that I exercise first and then somehow things come up and I never get to the cleaning. So, I spent the afternoon cleaning. Which felt like a bit of a workout anyway.
I didn't get the kitchen finished, but Moon has the day off tomorrow, so he said he will tackle that. The house is in much better shape which means I am feeling better. I'm caught up on laundry. The bathroom is clean (including the floor). The living room floor and furniture have been vacuumed. The stairs have been vacuumed. The downstairs bathroom has been cleaned. We're not 100% caught up, but we are getting there.
Now I think it's time to take myself off to bed and read for a bit. Tomorrow, back to work.
I spent a satisfying amount of time like this:
That would be me, on the couch, with both cats. See my feet sticking up under the blanket?
Thinking about waking up...
But, no, we are much too comfortable right where we are...
I didn't spend the whole weekend sitting around though. I got in a couple of good exercise sessions:
Friday's workout - Crunch Burn & Firm Pilates DVD followed by 45 minutes on the treadmill.
Saturday's workout - C25K session on the treadmill, followed by Crunch Pilates-Yoga Blend DVD.
Today, I had intended to do weights, but decided to do some cleaning instead. Lately I've been so concerned with getting in workouts that I exercise first and then somehow things come up and I never get to the cleaning. So, I spent the afternoon cleaning. Which felt like a bit of a workout anyway.
I didn't get the kitchen finished, but Moon has the day off tomorrow, so he said he will tackle that. The house is in much better shape which means I am feeling better. I'm caught up on laundry. The bathroom is clean (including the floor). The living room floor and furniture have been vacuumed. The stairs have been vacuumed. The downstairs bathroom has been cleaned. We're not 100% caught up, but we are getting there.
Now I think it's time to take myself off to bed and read for a bit. Tomorrow, back to work.
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