So, I’m sure you’ve noticed that the last couple weeks I
haven’t posted my weigh ins and that I did “unofficial weigh ins” by using my
old scale that I just haven’t gotten around to getting rid of yet instead of my
new, fancy, Wi-Fi, auto-updating my MyFitnessPal and FitBit accounts Aria
scale. I touched briefly last week on my
depression. For the last 5-6 weeks, I’ve
been having issues with my eating disorder.
My depression symptoms were overriding my medication’s ability to
control them and when that happens, it sneaks up on me and next thing I know
I’m already a week or two into regular binge eating before I realize what’s
going on. Now, I know what you’re
thinking, how could I not realize that I’ve been binge eating for a week or
more on the regular? Bless you because
you do not suffer from an eating disorder.
I’m not saying that sarcastically at all, either. I mean it.
You are blessed. I am
cursed. But, I can also see it as a
blessing. How, you might be saying? Because having an eating disorder, or any
kind of disorder or disease really, is a daily reminder that life is not easy
and that if anything is worth it then you have to WORK FOR IT. Nothing in this life is a given to you for
nothing. Sure, it’s a gift when you
reach goals and accomplish things, but those are gifts you give yourself
through your hard work and dedication to your goals.
All that said, for better or for worse, I’m back on the Aria
scale next week (hello New Year!). I
will tell you that I gained way more weight than I was expecting to gain,
thanks to being unable to control my urges to binge most days. You’d think it’d be easy to just say no to
junk food, but unfortunately you’d be wrong.
It’s so hard. But, I have to face
the music and in today’s post we will see just what tune my scale is
playing. Will it be the death march or
something more positive? We shall
see. But first, let’s check out this
week in exercise.
• Saturday: another run with my awesome new friend
and running buddy, Stacey! She had 6
miles on her schedule and I wanted to do a little more. My original plan was to get to the trail an
hour early and run 4-5 miles before she got there. However, I had a migraine all day on Friday
that no amount of pain meds could seem to get rid of, so I opted for an extra
hour of sleep Saturday morning instead.
So, what we did was the loop that is a little over 4 miles, plus about a
half mile. Stacey turned around and went
back to her car to change into dry clothes and then head to the restaurant
while I finished up another 2.5 solo miles.
While this worked great, I think I will hope for no all-day migraine the
day before our runs together so I can arrive an hour early to get in the extra
miles I need for my long run. These
Saturday runs together are pretty much going to be a weekly thing except when
one of us has to work or has other plans.
I love this!
• Sunday: so…I had actually wanted to run a total of
12 miles and not 8 on Saturday but was not up to finishing up the mileage after
I got home in my sweat-damp clothes, so I moved the 4 mile difference to this
day and decided to make it a SPEED workout!
Woot! My first officially planned
speed workout (that wasn’t on a treadmill)!
And instead of a tempo run, which is pretty much the only kind of speed
work I have ever done, I wanted to do fartleks!
Oh yea! Instead of doing
fartleks, though, I perused the manual for my Garmin and figured out how to
program interval alerts and did a 6 minute warm up and then alternated with 1
minute of near sprinting and 2 minutes of easy running, then a 5 minute cool
down. I loved it. But, I will be honest, at 3.8 of the 4 miles,
I was all "I’m ready to be done"...good thing I almost was!
• Monday: HILLS DAY!!! I love this workout! 5 miles of delicious hills! They burn so good! Ran this same route last week. This day was about 4-5 seconds slower per
mile than last week, but I had just run a good, hard speed interval workout run
the day before so I’ll take it!
• Tuesday & Wednesday: worked overtime on Monday and
Tuesday nights, so no workouts on these days, just as much walking as I could
do in order to hit my 10K step goal each day.
• Thursday: Since I worked a double this day on the
overnight shift, I’ll be sleeping Christmas morning, so I had to get my
Christmas run done on this day! It stupid warm down here in Texas right
now, so I donned a green tank top, my INKnBURN red Christmas sport skirt, my
brand new Hoka One One Speed Mafate green running shoes and a sparkly red Santa
hat! I got loads of honks and people waving at me as I ran down the
sidewalks. Also, the few people I came across walking and running were
all happy to see me so festive. I ran a 12K run (7.5 miles). Why
such an odd number, you’re asking? Well, I signed up for this virtual
race called The 12Ks of Christmas (instead of the 12 days of Christmas, get
it? haha). The idea behind it was to do 1K each day leading up to
Christmas, but 1) there are some days I literally cannot run because I’ve
worked a double shift and 2) that’s only like .6 mile and that would just be
annoying…a total tease. So not doing that. I just decided to run
the whole 12K at once. The run went great. I ran by feel and
somewhat by heartrate the whole run. But I went faster than I meant
to. I meant to keep it around 11:00 min/mi the whole run, but ended up
around a 10:34 min/mi average pace.
• Friday: as mentioned, I worked overtime Thursday
night, so sleep and hitting my 10K steps is all that happened on this day.
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I’m a little annoyed I didn’t get to the gym AT ALL this
week. I was hoping I’d get there on Sunday,
post speed interval run, but I went to a Christmas party Saturday night and
didn’t get home until after midnight and I drank a little, so I slept waaaaaay
later than I wanted to and lost about 2 hours of my day as a result. So, there went the one opportunity I had to
go to the gym this week. Wah wah. I HAVE to get to the gym once, preferably
twice next week! As it stands right now,
I have no overtime scheduled at all next week, so I’ll have the time. I just need to make it happen!
I would like to go over my “plan of attack” for how I want
to do my workouts between now and the Austin Marathon on February 14th
(V-Day!!! Hopefully it’s a day of
victory for me!). I want to do 3 runs a
week: a hill workout, a speed workout and a long, slow run (aka: LSD…that’s
long slow distance, not drugs). I also
want to make it to the gym twice a week for strength training. I will do both workouts as full body
workouts. One will be all the machines
and the other will be done in the personal training area (last time I did that
one I was SORE for a week!). If I sign
up for the once weekly membership at Orangetheory Fitness, then that will take
the place of one of my gym strength training workouts, unless I have the time
to still do both gym workouts AND the Orangetheory workout. But, I’m going to wait until I get my tax
return before I decide on Orangetheory (right now, I'm leaning heavily toward not doing it for various reasons).
Most of my tax return will be set aside for my April Oregon trip.
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