First, I'm sorry, I got busy on Saturday and COMPLETELY spaced on posting this. I remembered about it last night so here I am, posting my weigh in and recap from Saturday...on Wednesday. D'oh!
This is going to be a 2-week recap. I didn’t
have a chance to post my recap for last week last Saturday. I did weigh
myself last week and I was not happy with what I saw on the scale:
I had training for work on Thursday and Friday
immediately before my Saturday weigh in. Before those days of training,
I had actually been down almost 2 lbs from the previous Saturday’s
weigh in. I had originally planned to eat sensibly
at Subway for lunch both days but ended up stuffing my face at the
Chinese buffet on Thursday. Then, on the way home, I stopped at
Freddy’s Steakburgers and got a patty melt with onion rings and a small
custard. Oy. Friday was slightly better. I had the
sensible Subway I had planned and was satisfied and a serving of my own
lentil curry for dinner.
Saturday I slept until noon because I worked
overtime on the night shift on Friday night, got up, hit Jack-in-the-Box
for a breakfast sandwich and hashbrowns. For dinner, I met up with my
friend Jennifer for a burger, fries, onion rings
and vanilla shake. Whoa.
Sunday, on my way back to Austin from San
Antonio (ran the Alamo Half Marathon) I stopped at McDonald’s and got a
quarter pounder with cheese…omg so much sodium. If it hadn’t cost me
$4.65 I would have thrown it away. I ended up choking
the whole thing down. I don’t think I’ll ever eat one again unless I’m
on a food bender…so you know it’s bad if that’s what I’m eating in the
future. Because of the bowel issues I had Saturday night, I slept
poorly, so instead of cleaning for my parents’
arrival so that they could visit my apartment, I slept. I was going to
clean in the evening after sleeping for a few hours but my parents were
already in town and texted me if I wanted to meet for dinner. DUH! Of
course I did! I want to see them as much
as possible! So, I chose Souper Salad for dinner and didn’t eat TOO
too badly.
Monday, I met my parents at the hotel, they
checked out and we made our way to IHOP for breakfast. I had the 2-2-2
breakfast platter. Sugar free syrup, of course. But still. Anyway, I
was stuffed after that. Then we went to Inner Space
Caverns (see my Instagram feed if you’re interested in the
pictures…they’re great!).
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| the tour guide took this one with my mom's phone wish he had taken it with mine because I have a night mode and it wouldn't have come out all grainy |
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| this is the professional picture the tour guide took that my dad paid $12 for. wish we were all hugging like in the other pic |
After that, they made their way north to my
uncle’s house and I went home to see about cooking and maybe some
cleaning. As far as cleaning goes, all I got done was the dishes that
were in the sink. By the time I got done cooking, however,
I had even more dishes than what I had originally started with. Ugh.
The joys of doing all your own cooking, right?
Tuesday, I was back on track.
And here’s this week’s weigh in:
Very happy with this. VERY. That's a 4.6 lb loss from the previous week, OR a 2.4 lb loss from my challenge final weigh in. Either way, great job me! I just hope I don't let myself down this week what with being out of town and eating out and such because of this Women in Criminal Justice conference I'm attending. I ate out 1 dinner, 1 breakfast (I did pick off their "healthier choices" section of the menu) and 1 lunch. Dinner was ridiculous and over the top. The breakfast, as I said, was semi-okay. The lunch was Jason's Deli and, while I could have made a worse choice by far, I definitely could have made a better choice...a healthier choice. A dry turkey sub from Firehouse Subs would have been the much better choice, for instance. Oh well. Last night, before I met up with Jennifer to walk around the Riverwalk, I went to the grocery store and bought a couple pre-packaged salads, some sushi, some strawberries and a decently healthy pre-packaged sandwich. No more eating out the rest of the time I'm here!!! I hope the scale is kind to me Saturday morning!
Alright, let’s start the exercise recap portion of this post, shall we? Let’s start with last week:
• Saturday: I ran 3.1 miles for the Pi Day 5K
virtual race I signed up for. I got a shirt and a bib and a medal! I
sort of wore the bib while I ran. I had it kind of rolled up around my
gear belt that way when I got done and I stopped
in my apartment complex fitness room for my post run selfie I could
unroll it and get my selfie with me wearing my bib. I also did wear the
shirt (not a tech shirt I might add…so glad this was just a 5K) they
sent me to run in. On top of the 5K, I went to
the renaissance festival so I was walking around for a few hours.
• Sunday: I went to the renaissance festival
again and walked around for a few hours. It was enough to get over
11,000 steps counted on my Polar, but not enough to get 100% of my daily
activity goal. I had planned to try and make it to
the gym in the evening, but I got a late start with my chores and meal
prep, so the gym didn’t happen.
• Monday: I had planned to run, but since I only
got about half of what I needed to get done on Sunday actually done, I
decided I should just take the day off from running (my feet were also
extremely tired from my weekend of standing up
and walking around at the festival, so that influenced my decision as
well) and see how much closer to finished I could get. I got about 95%
of everything done so I call it a success.
• Tuesday: ran 10 miles. It wasn’t a great run,
but definitely wasn’t bad like last week’s 10-miler. Also, St. Patty’s
Day! So I ran almost all in green! (no green shoes)
• Wednesday: worked a double shift the night before so no workout this day.
• Thursday: I had training this day, but did get in a 10K run when I got home in the evening, so win! The sun had gone down before I was even halfway through and it brought back memories of last summer when I was getting up before dawn to beat the heat of summer for my marathon training. It was a fond trip down memory lane, believe it or not. It kind of made me look forward to the summer training months that will happen later on this year.
• Friday: I had training again this day AND I
worked overtime on the night shift, so I did not workout…BUT we did
defensive tactics in training and burned a collective 479 calories, so I
counted that as my workout. I did take a nap between
training and the night shift…about 2.5 hours of somewhat broken sleep.
And now onto this week’s exercise:
• Saturday: nothing, rest day in preparation for the Alamo Half Marathon.
• Sunday: ran the Alamo Half Marathon (see my race report for the full details).
• Monday: nothing, visited with parents in the
AM and then cooked the rest of the day. Recovering from the Alamo Half
and doing all my cooking that I obviously didn’t get around to Sunday
afternoon/evening due to being asleep from being
somewhat sick and then dinner with my parents.
• Tuesday: ran a 5K for a free t-shirt! I’m
guessing that since I’m registered for at least 1 Rock’n’Roll series
races (Portland Half and San Antonio Full), they sent me an email
promoting their Kick Off 2015 virtual race. All I had to
do was run a 5K before April 1st and submit my proof of said
run via the provided web link and voila they’re sending me a free
shirt! Not even a shipping charge! I’m disappointed that it’s a cotton
shirt and not a tech shirt that I can wear to
run in, but it will get worn to the gym and, depending on how it fits,
maybe even out and about with jeans as well.
• Wednesday: made it to the gym!!!! WOOHOO!
First time in over 2 weeks. I made sure to push myself a little and
make myself a little uncomfortable with the weight I was pushing up and
down. It was a good workout.
• Thursday: ran 6 miles. It was a challenging
run, that’s for sure. The wind was gusting upwards of 25-ish mph and
half the time I was running straight into the wind and then sometimes
while also running into the wind, I was running uphill
as well. I had a good overall average, but I know miles 2 and 3 were
above 11 min/mi and were inching up to the 11:30 mark because of the
whole into the wind and uphill thing. I know, blah blah, excuses. But
it’s true! Haha. Part of my issue with this
run was because I was running into the wind, nature was forcing air
into my lungs on top of me trying to breath normally and I ended up with
a side stitch. Then, as I was attempting to get rid of said side
stitch, I ended up with another side stitch on the
other side of my torso. <facepalm> I just couldn’t win with
this one. But, I didn’t give up. I kept going. And, once I got up
that hill and turned the corner, and took a small breather break, and
the trend was a super gradual downhill for 2-ish miles,
it got better, my mile times dropped decently enough into the 10’s to
make me somewhat happy and the side stitches pretty much went away and
were just shadows of their previous selves.
• Friday: I was going to go to the gym, but
decided that since I was still sore from Wednesday’s trip to the gym
that maybe I’d rest and get the laundry done that has been clean for
weeks but I haven’t had time to put away. So, I played
move the cat as I folded my clothes. Haha. I also made a trip to Old
Navy as my size 10 The Sweetheart bootcut jeans started falling off of
me last week. I tried on the 8’s and BAM! perfect fit! So, here’s a
little non-scale victory for ya!
All in all, this was a great week. I’ll be out
of town for most of next week for a conference, but I’m hoping to eat as
healthy as possible. I plan to meet my friend Jennifer for a run
Tuesday evening after the conference is done for
the day. I’d like to check out the hotel gym for a workout Monday and
Wednesday. Thursday, after I get back home, if it’s not too terribly
warm (read: hot as hades cuz it’s Texas) then I’ll go for another run.
Just because I’m out of town and am not making
my own food doesn’t mean I can’t have a plan to be healthy, right?
Let’s see how I do. We’ll find out next Saturday!
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