Weekly Weigh In & Recap

Well, last week I had to face some weighty music, if you’ll remember.  My anxiety had been getting the best of me, giving me pretty serious insomnia due to somewhat serious anxiety attacks, so I started taking some medicine to help me sleep.  That left me feeling groggy in the morning and I didn’t want to get out of bed and slept late and didn’t exercise for 3 days.  That’s 3 days without running and 3 days without the gym or any other form of exercise.  Top that with eating junk and you have a recipe for weight gain disaster.  I tried a little better this week to focus on what I was eating instead of just stuffing my face with whatever sounded good or comforting (aka: junk food).  I tried to work through my anxiety in a more responsible way than eating my emotions because that doesn’t solve anything.  It just makes things worse.  Here is the result of my efforts:

While I am upset that I allowed myself to backslide as much as I did and sort of put myself in a position where I was basically starting over again (but not quite because I did not get back up to over 190...thank goodness!!!), I am very glad that things are going in the right direction again.  I would have definitely liked to have seen a bigger drop this week, but I am not knocking losing 1.2 pounds.  Nope.  I lost weight this week and that is awesome, no matter how small.

 

I go on vacation starting next Saturday and will be gone for about 2 weeks.  I'm currently undecided as to whether I want to weigh myself next Saturday before I leave or not.  If I do, I might not post it until after I get back and do my next weigh in on the 30th.  

 

Also, I put together a before and during picture last night and in it, it's clearly obvious how much progress I've made.  I've lost about 80 pounds (unfortunately I did not weigh myself before I starting losing weight) and it really shows, don't you agree?

 

And now onto my exercise for the last week:

 

• Saturday: resting up for the Biggest Loser Half Marathon the next morning

 

• Sunday: ran what was supposed to be a half marathon.  The lead cyclists took the front runners on a wrong turn and completely skipped about 1.33 miles and then everyone followed the wrong way.  Everyone was complaining after the finish.  I mean, I still got a great 11.77 mile run at a great pace.  I was on pace to run about 2:15:00, maybe even a smidge faster.  But, my PR was stolen from me.  Anyway, it was a great run regardless of the distance.

• Monday: did me a nice little 4 mile progressive recovery run.  Splits were 10:52, 10:40, 10:37, and 10:24!!!

• Tuesday: I needed at least 6.4 miles in order to hit 100 miles for April and I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to run Wednesday, so I wanted to make sure I got it done this day.  So, I ran 6.5 miles…because really, who runs 6.4 miles?  Haha.  So, even though this run was longer than a 10K, I counted it for my Empowering Girls virtual 10K race.  I ran the 6.5 miles on my 8 miles of hills route, I just turned around at 3.25 instead of 4. 

• Wednesday: I slept in this day because I was working a 16 hour shift at work, so no workout.  I was going to use the rowing machine, but then I had to stand up at work for the first 8 hours of my work day.

 

• Thursday: worked overtime the night before, so just sleep this day.

• Friday: I was going to get up and run 5 miles, but the allergies were really kicking and it was pay day so the bills needed to get paid.  Ultimately, I decided to just rest and then leave early and go pick up my packet for tomorrow's 10K race on my way to work instead.

If I said I was okay with how my workouts in general were going, then I'd be lying.  Don't get me wrong, I'm super happy with how I'm running.  HOWEVER, I have made just 2 trips to the gym in the last 4 weeks.  Pathetic.  Unacceptable.  And I know this is the reason I'm struggling with the scale.  And, heck, my running would probably be improving MORE if I were making the gym more of a priority, or really a priority AT ALL.  Right now it's not a priority and that is just sad.  I have to spend the next week making sure I get enough mileage AND getting ready for my trip to Oregon, so once I return to Texas from my vacation, I am going to start making hitting the gym AT LEAST once, but preferably twice, a week an actual priority.