Last Friday, the only thing I did
after my trail run and my kettlebell AMRAP workout was walking and do
the stairs in the parking garage at work. So, nothing new to report in
this post from last Friday. So, we’ll just start from Saturday
like I do when I’m posting these on the regular day.
• Saturday:
I had planned to do a short, 3 mile run in the morning after I got done
working overtime on the night shift at 6am to help me stay awake long
enough to get my oil changed at 8am, however I was so tired since I had
gotten
up at 6:15am Friday morning, I set my alarms and took an hour nap
instead. I had also planned to do the gym in the evening, but that
didn’t happen either. I just decided it would be a rest day. FitBit notified me that I had won the Workweek Hustle...YAY! To get my
10,000+ steps in this day, I did walk around my apartment
complex and then up and down ALL THE STAIRS to all the buildings (14
total, so 28 sets of stairs for 54 floors of stairs), plus a couple
extra floors of stairs to hit 75+ floors for the day and earn me the
FitBit Ferris Wheel badge!
• Sunday:
went for my weekly bike ride. I just decided that I loved last week’s
super hilly 18-ish miles so much that I wanted to do them again, so
that’s what I did! Well, sort of…I did most of that route, but my foot
was hurting
really bad and time was running short (so much to do since I had plans
with a friend to watch a movie at her place and then get all my stuff
done before going in to work overtime on the night shift again), so I
only rode 14.9 miles. It was still a great ride,
even if it was shorter than I had originally planned to ride.
• Monday: no workout. Worked overtime on the night shift Sunday night, so just sleeping and my garage walks this day.
• Tuesday: A couple months ago, I found out about a virtual race for the National Park Foundation’s 99th
birthday. However, I missed the cutoff to register for it. I got an
email from the virtual race company putting
the race on that said they had apparently opened registration back up
and I could register for it. So I did! Anyway, the National Park
Foundation’s birthday is today. I signed up to run it as a 5K.
However…ugh…I hate to type “however” in these posts…however,
I was exhausted and then had a hard time sleeping because my apartment
complex replaced this light between my building and the next and now
it’s practically daylight in the middle of the night the damn this is so
bright. So I didn’t get up in time to do it
as a run. Instead, I parked about 30 minutes early for my therapy
appointment and walked it as a 5K, plus an extra .9 of a mile for a
total of 4 miles walked.
As
I was finishing up my walk, I was walking down this hill. An SUV was
pulling up to the curb and I was paying attention to that and not where I
was walking. Then a curb appeared out of nowhere and I stepped off it,
but because I didn’t
see it, I stepped ALL WRONG and rolled the hell out of my ankle. It
hurt so bad. So I sat down and after a couple minutes it felt a little
better so I finished up the last 1/3 of a mile of my walk and took some
ibuprofen.
• Wednesday: nothing. Went to
one of those private ERs and had x-rays done of my foot and ankle to
make sure I didn’t break or tear anything. The doc said it was just
soft tissue inflammation…aka: sprained ankle.
• Thursday: I wish I could say I
worked out, but I didn’t. I went to my regular doctor instead as a
follow up to the ER visit. He put me in a boot and on restricted duty
at work for at least 2 weeks. He did say I could swim and
use the stationary bike…but I’m not so sure about the stationary bike.
• Friday: I hate being
“broken.” I did finally take advantage of that free initiation and 1
month free that 24 HR Fitness had offered me and signed up there! I
can’t cancel my Planet Fitness membership until September 18th
or I’ll have to pay an early termination fee. Boo! So, one more month
of dues to them. But, now that I have a membership at 24 again, I can
start swimming a few times a week (while I’m recouping from the
sprain). They also have a hand cycle I can use for
cardio. As far as strength training goes, in addition to a plethora of
upper body and ab machines, they also have a TRX training area and I
love TRX training!
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And now, for week #2 with my Aria
scale!!! Going into this weigh in, I’d like to say that I was fairly
afraid of what the scale would say since I’ve been on the “broken” list
for half the week and took it kind of easy for most of the
other half of the week. But, here we go:
You’ll
notice that I am posting the body fat % from the Aria scale and am no
longer using the Omron. Like I said last week, I won’t be using it
anymore. The number on the Aria readout is higher than the Omron was
telling me, but honestly,
I didn’t really believe the Omron. I just liked what it told me…even
though I knew it was most likely just lies. Why is that? Well, a
couple years ago, I had the trainer at my gym calculate my body fat with
calipers and she calculated 36%. Now, take into
consideration that I 1) weighed less than I do now, 2) had been working
out just as consistently as I am now but for a longer period of time,
and 3) was just generally fitter than I am at this moment (but I AM
getting there again, don’t worry!). Take all
of that into consideration and then look at where I’m at right now and
the number on the Aria doesn’t seem so farfetched anymore. Which is why
when I saw the 37.8% on the readout last week I wasn’t even remotely
upset by it. I just took it in stride and
accepted it. I’m in a much better place than I was a few weeks ago
when I had that meltdown, that’s for sure.
I’m
mentally in a much better place since having that meltdown and then
starting up this new way of eating. My therapist even said that I’m
handling this really well. He said that because when he asked me about
what am I going to do when
(not if) it comes to a point where I’m feeling stressed about how I’m
eating and how (at least for right now) I’m not allowing myself any
cheat days or meals or treats and I start getting urges to binge or eat
junk food, my response was that I am just going
to keep myself aware that it WILL happen so that I will not be caught
off guard when it happens. I also said that when it happens, I’ll allow
myself a cheat meal and then get back on track after that. For
instance, I can go get a stack of pancakes, no butter,
with sugar free syrup, and maybe a couple slices of bacon as well.
Perfecto!
This was my 3rd week with
eating 1300-ish calories per day. I’d say I’m getting used to this and I
am really liking it. Last week and the week before, I had fish tacos
for lunch every work day because they were cheap, easy,
fast and convenient to make and I didn’t have much time for food prep
for last week. Needless to say, last Friday (even though they really
were still delicious) I was so tired of eating them that I seriously had
to choke them down.
Last
Saturday I went to Sam’s Club to buy a couple sides of salmon so that I
could make salmon jerky for this week’s lunches. However, apparently
Sam’s Club doesn’t sell those sides of salmon anymore because they were
nowhere to be found.
Ugh. So, I had to go with plan B…which was…drumroll please…STEAK!
Yep, steak. This had been my plan for lunches next week, so it just got
moved up a week. They had a 5-pack of bottom round steaks…4.75 lbs! I
used this seasoning recipe from the Fast Metabolism
Diet for their broiled steak and asparagus wraps, wrapped them up in
foil and broiled them for 23 minutes. Then I cut them up and portioned
them out evenly for 5 days. At first I was a little skeptical that
since the steaks were so big (about 15oz pre-broil
and 13oz post-broil) that they would be too many calories and that I
would have to portion it out into 6 or 7 or so different portions, but
it came out just right when I changed up my dinner from a large apple to
a salad of baby romaine with super low calorie
yogurt dressing.
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