Last week, you will recall, my scale told me I was up. I did the math, however, and so long as the
body fat % is somewhat accurate on the Aria scale, then I was up about .8 lb in
muscle and the rest was most likely water retention as I increased my daily
water intake by 20 oz earlier last week.
So, I didn’t worry about the gain at all. Someone on Instagram commented in response to
me saying that just shy of a pound was muscle gain. They said “just a tidbit, it’s extremely hard
for a girl to put on a lb of muscle a week, especially when you are cutting
calories and running. At most, eating a
crazy amount of protein, with an excess of calories, and no cardio, girls can
put on maybe .25 lb of muscle…” I responded
to this comment by saying that I have a background in bodybuilding and
powerlifting and that I disagree with what they say, at least in regards to
me. They conceded that only I know my
body, which is true. I know that I can
pack on muscle super fast. It happens
every time I start working out and lifting weights on a regular basis. It helps that I lift heavy when I do
lift. I don’t lift “girl weights” (ha,
sorry I honestly hope no one takes that as offensive as I don’t mean it that
way). I have held my own in the past
with “the boys” and the amount of weight I regularly lift, if I use free
weights, usually only men can “spot” me, for everyone’s safety. But, that all sounds like bragging, so I’ll
stop.
Let’s get onto this week in exercise.
• Friday: if you’ll remember, I posted on Friday last
week, so there was no Friday exercise update.
I didn’t do any actual workout, but I did walk a lot and explore around
South Padre Island a little and walked about 8.5 miles total!
• Saturday: ran my 4th marathon!!! (keep an eye out for the recap, which should
be posted in the next couple weeks, just waiting for my official photos)
• Sunday: I just focused on recovery this day. Went for a 5.8 mile walk to stretch the legs
and ease swelling and soreness.
• Monday: went to the gym and was going to do 65
minutes on the elliptical followed by my machines workout, but decided to let
my muscles rest and just did the elliptical and ended up with 5.75 miles on it.
• Tuesday: went to the gym for the Body Attack class followed
by 65 minutes on the elliptical for 5.5 miles.
I tweaked the ligament I sprained in my right ankle while we were doing
sprints in the class, but after a few minutes it was fine.
• Wednesday: okay, I had been seriously itching to
run again since Sunday. Yea, I’m a
weirdo, but I’m okay with that fact. I made
myself wait until this day to head out for a nice, short run. Just my 3.25 mile loop was on the
schedule. I had some brand new shoes to
take out for a test run as well, so figured this was the perfect time for that. I was very cranky on Tuesday due to not
allowing myself to run, so I really needed this run. It was worth the wait, though! I ran an average of 10:33 min/mi…wow! This was just at my “comfortably hard”
effort, so I really wasn’t pushing myself, just going with what my body wanted
to do. Also, my first run this season in
THUMBHOLES!!! The new Hoka One One
Huakas did fantastic! My feet felt great
while running. The sole is a little “stiffer”
than the Clifton, so not as cushy, but still highly supportive. I will probably replace the slidelock
shoelaces that came “installed” in the shoes with the regular laces that were
in the box loose. I don’t like the
slidelock.
• Thursday: ended up working overtime on the night
shift Wednesday night, so no workout this day.
• Friday: worked overtime again on Thursday night, so
again no workout.
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I don’t count calories the day before or the day of a
marathon. I just focus on fueling my
body and not stressing over those numbers.
I was back on track when Sunday rolled around. This week was twofold as far as what I was
eating for lunch. I still had 3 servings
of my salmon jerky, so I ate that Monday thru Wednesday, then I switched to
crockpot salsa chicken that I made for Thursday and Friday. And I have enough of that to last me Monday thru
Wednesday next week and then I have another 4 day weekend! Woohoo!
My eating was less than stellar this week. I’m
currently battling urges to binge and eat junk. I won’t even be hungry,
I’ll just be wanting to stuff my face with things I really shouldn’t be
eating. There were a bunch of cookies and a 7-11 hotdog one night, and
gourmet kolaches one morning. Ugh. Don’t worry, though, I’ll get it
together. It’ll take a “minute” for me to get a handle on it completely,
but I will get a handle on it. For the most part I’m eating the way I
want to eat, so that’s good. There’s just little “splurges” here and
there. I said last week or the week before that I wanted to start cutting
what is currently a weekly cheat meal/day down to just once a month or
bi-weekly. I want to get rid of the once a week thing. I think
that’s just too frequent and can be a recipe for setting myself up for failure.
I really would like to get down to 160 by the end of 2015 so I can make my big
2016 goal “maintain my weight loss!” instead of “lose a couple/few more pounds
and then maintain it.” But either way it works out is really fine with
me. I’m just hot to get to the maintenance phase of this whole journey
and figure out what works for me there.
I really wanted to focus this week and make last week’s gain
this week’s loss. Let’s go step on the
scale and see how I did with that.
Honestly, I’m relieved.
I thought that, even with the running of a marathon this past week, that
the way I was eating the rest of the week was going to spell disaster for me on
the scale today. I’m going to make sure
to talk to my therapist about my bingey feelings when I have my appointment on Tuesday. Hopefully we can work it out and figure it
out. But, the good news is that I’m
catching myself and not just letting it happen all willy-nilly.
Also, even though I'm only down .3 of a pound, check it out, I finally broke the 34% mark in body fat and am in the 33%!!! Woohoo!!!
Sounds like you had a good race, congrats!
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