• Saturday: there was no exercise beyond hitting 10K+
steps for the day. I worked overtime on
the night shift Friday night and then overtime on my own shift Saturday
afternoon/evening.
• Sunday: long run time! I set out for a 10 mile run, even mapped it
out on MapMyRun and headed out the door.
I got to mile 5 and was feeling pretty good, so at 5.3, I kept going
straight instead of turning right and ran around this neighborhood there,
adding 3 miles to my run. So, you
remember a couple weeks ago I was going to run 13.1 but could only finish 10
because of the temp + humidity. Today, I
redeemed myself and instead of the 10 I set out to do, I did 13.1!!! The sorta bad news is that shortly after mile
11, I tripped over a buckle in the sidewalk and down I went. Scraped up my knees and it hurt. Oh did it hurt. I almost cried. I did cuss.
But I pulled it together and finished the run. It’s not the first time I’ve fallen, but it’s
the first time in a long time that I’ve fallen and also the first time I’ve ran
while wearing a skirt instead of capris, so my knees actually got scraped.
Then, I had my therapy appointment at 11, so I did my
standard pre- and post-therapy walking.
• Tuesday: was going to 1) wait until Wednesday to
run but didn’t know if they might need me for overtime last minute Tuesday
evening, so I decided to go ahead and run and then 2) I was only going to run
4-5 miles, but then my packet for the Runder the Sea virtual race arrived in
the mail on Monday and that was a 6 mile race, so I decided on doing 6
miles. Then I decided it would be fun to
throw in some track work. Hey, track
work is fun to me! I easy ran the 1.35
miles to the track, then did 10 laps with 100m sprints followed by 2 easy laps,
then easy ran the 1.35 miles back home for a total of 6 miles. the track is apparently not a ¼ mile
track. It’s closer to a 1/3 mile track.
• Wednesday: since I went ahead and ran Tuesday, that
made Wednesday a gym day. So I went to
the gym and did my 65 minutes on the elliptical followed up by 2 upper and 2
lower body strength training exercises.
For those exercises, I did what I’m calling reverse cable squats (go to
a cable machine, load your weigh, then squat while pulling down) and kettlebell
swings. Then I wanted to do some TRX
exercises but there was just too many people in that area. Good thing I have my own TRX-type straps at
home! So I went home and did bicep curls
and supine rows with my straps.
• Thursday: went for a 4 mile run. Just ran easy, no time or pace
concerns/goals. I ran hard Tuesday morning,
so this was basically a recovery run to stretch my legs.
• Friday: I rode my bicycle to and from the gym, 6
miles round trip. While at the gym, I did
my standard 65 minutes on the elliptical and then moved onto my 4 strength
training exercises. This session, I did
woodchoppers and low flyes on the cable machine, then I did the leg press and
ended with resistance band side steps. I’m
super happy with this workout. I was
thinking I might do a 20-30 minute swim while at the gym, but I decided not to
shortly before I headed out. I also
nixed extra cycling around after I got done with the gym portion of this
excursion.
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I started off the week with absolutely no overtime scheduled
and by the end of the week, I ended the week with no overtime picked up. Oh well, I got my minimum that I like to get
when I maxed out my overtime hours last week, so I was okay with not getting
any overtime this week, but I still hoped to pick up 1 or 2 shifts. Sometimes, I just get a week off from the
overtime grind.
Last week, I had a pretty awesome weight loss week, losing
4.2 pounds. Then, come Sunday morning, I
had regained a pound. Now, I’m not saying
this because I was worried, because I wasn’t.
I usually go up a little bit on Sundays.
And not because I over indulged or anything like that on Saturday, it
just seems that after I lose a good number, that my body needs to bounce back
up a little bit for a day or two, but then usually it starts going back down
again.
I forgot to mention it last week, but I started having
little urges in the back of my mind, especially when I was bored or time was
dragging…always at work. At home, I’m
good. Urges…urges to just eat, stuff my
face. But the good news is, these are
now easily ignored and pushed aside!
Woohoo! On Sunday, when I ran the
13.1 miles, I was thinking I could get some of that caramel frozen yogurt I
love and that I would be 100% okay with having just the serving amount, but
immediately decided that I didn’t actually want that, that it was just an urge,
and that I wasn’t even hungry. These are
great little victories for me.
While I was out and about for my run on Sunday, one of the
new bands I ordered for my FitBit Blaze arrived and was waiting for me on my
doorstep. I love it! I’m calling the design like a tattoo style
design. It’s very fitting to me, I
think. The other 2 bands I ordered are
coming from China because they won’t be here until the middle of next
month. The other thing that arrived with
the new band on Sunday was the extra chargers and screen protectors set I
bought. It came with 2 chargers, one
with a standard cord and one with a shorter cord. So I put the short cord one in the car and
the longer cord one in the bedroom. I
messed up with the first screen protector I tried to put on, but nailed it with
the second one, so now my blaze has a screen protector! Then, Wednesday, the bands that were coming
from China actually arrived (a month before I was expecting them)!
As you’ll recall, I lost an amazing 4.2 pounds last
week. That’s not from the Saturday
previous, however. I usually bump back
up about a pound on Sundays, so I’ve been starting my weight loss week with
Sunday’s weigh in. Of course, I didn’t
even realize I was doing that until now.
I’ve been screenshotting my FitBit daily weigh ins and it didn’t even
dawn on me that I wasn’t doing my pounds lost from one Saturday to the next
like I was before. So, this week I’ve
remedied that and I’ll be telling what I’ve lost since last Saturday, not since
Sunday, because I did, in fact, bump up a pound between Saturday and Sunday
last weekend. So, with that, I was at
170.3 pounds last Saturday. And, without
further ado, here are this week’s weigh ins:
Another 2.9 pounds lost?!?!?! Damn. I
keep expecting things to slow down, but they haven’t. Since May 1st, I have lost 19.1
pounds. The breakdown of what I’ve lost
each week is:
1st week: 1.9#
2nd week: 5.3#
3rd week: 1.5#
4th week: 3.3#
5th week: 3.2# (even though I mistakenly put last
week that it was 4.2)
6th week: 2.9#
I seriously could not be happier with these numbers. I am confident that I will reach the
maintenance phase of this journey that I started 6 years ago and that I will
reach it soon. Just 7.4 pounds to go
until I hit that goal weight of 160. If things
keep going the way they’ve been, then I wholeheartedly believe I will be at
goal within the next 4 weeks. Definitely
by the end of July.
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