This
morning, I didn’t want to get out of bed. But, once I was up, I
couldn’t wait to head out the door for my scheduled 6.5 miles. I ate my
2 multigrain waffles with PB2
and a banana for breakfast…with a cup of coffee, of course.
When I got up this morning and went into the bathroom for…well…you
know…and
to brush my teeth, I really wanted to step on the scale. But, I
resisted. Tomorrow! Tomorrow is weigh in day, not today, so I must be
patient.
I am really excited to get on the scale. Even though the fitness
competition was completed at the beginning of last month and I am no
longer “required” to take progress pictures every 2 months, I still want
to take those progress pictures. But with a twist.
I will only take a new set of progress pictures on October 1st if I make it into the 160’s by then. Of course, Keith was talking about doing a second fitness competition…to
start October 1st…but
then again, he hasn’t said anything about it since he originally
mentioned it to me shortly after the last one wrapped
up. So, I’m not really holding out any hope that there will be a
second competition. I will just keep doing what I’m doing on my own. I
will compete against my doubts and reservations and I will overcome
them. I’m just going to continue to take it all
one day at a time…the best way to do it, in my opinion.
So,
my run this morning went pretty good. I started out at right at 10
min/mi and ended at 12 min/mi. I was holding steady at 10:30 min/mi up
until a little after the 3rd
mile. Around mile 3.25 I noticed I started to “feel the effort” of
running. My strides didn’t feel as strong and I slowed to 11 min/mi and
then just kept slowing down bit by bit. But, my overall average for
the entire run was 10:53 min/mi and I’m happy
with that. On my regular runs, that’s faster than I’ve been averaging
so that’s good. So, for this week I ran a
total of 5 days for a total of 31.7 miles. I’m so very happy with both
of those numbers. This is my second week
of running 5 days and I love it. I’m definitely going to keep going
with the running 5 days a week.
Oh,
and when I got to work today, I opened my email and I had an email from
one of the night shift supervisors telling me that after reviewing
their schedule that they
don’t need me to work after all. Damn. That’s ANOTHER almost $200 I’m
now out. Guess I’m not getting that tattoo I was wanting to get at the
end of the month now. Damn, again.
But,
the plus side to not working that overtime tomorrow night is that I
won’t be working 16 hours and then going straight to run a 5K that won’t
start for 2 hours after
I’ve gotten off work, then go home, try to sleep for like3 or 4 hours
and then get back up to go have sushi with the co-workers. But, good
news. While I lost the overtime for tomorrow night, I gained overtime
for tomorrow morning. So, that means that I
will be getting my tattoo at the end of the month (I hope).
Anyway, after
my run, I had time to run to the store and buy some food. I needed an
avocado
in case I’m feeling like turkey burger patty for dinner tonight. I
also bought some preseasoned chicken leg quarters (I’m a sucker for dark
meat…I
can’t help it), some preseasoned pork ribeyes, some yogurt bleu cheese
and ranch dressing, and some buffalo wing sauce. I’ve decided that when
I made that chicken-turkey meatloaf next week that I’m going to put the
wing sauce in the meatloaf and use the yogurt
bleu cheese dressing to dip it in. YUM! So, now I’ve got pretty much
everything to make the meatloaf with, 4 pork ribeyes and 8 chicken leg
quarters. Gonna cook all that stuff up the first part of next week and
then freeze in serving sizes. My freezer
is going to be STUFFED!!! I love it!
On
my way to work, I stopped at Starbuck’s and got my super low calorie
indulgence…a trenta iced coffee with skim milk and 3 sweet’n’lows.
YUM!!!! After I arrived
at work, at about 4pm, I ate my ff cottage cheese with diced peaches in
light syrup. Then, around 6pm, I ate my 0% plain Greek yogurt with
mixed fruit, granola and 2 stevias. Then, at 8-ish, I ate my sliced
bell peppers. For dinner, I had a few options
ready to go in the fridge for me to choose from. I had a serving of
molasses salmon, a serving of the quinoa stuffed peppers, and a turkey
burger patty sitting in the fridge waiting for me to eat them.
For dinner, I chose to eat the stuffed peppers. Yum yum yum!
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