My
eating has been straight up out of control the past week. During the
week last week it wasn’t TOO too bad, but it was inching up there and my
weight was up more than it was down, but by Saturday I was back down to
150.9. Then I went
out to eat at Olive Garden with a friend and I weighed in Sunday
morning and was 156.5! What the actual eff? How does one gain 5.6
pounds in less than 24 hours?!?!?! Then I went out for Latin food with
different friends Sunday evening and Monday I was up
EVEN MORE! 157!!! And then I put on my work uniform and was instantly
irritated because it was all snug around my middle. The legs were
still loose like they were last week, so I’m putting my money on bloat
and water weight. I was still having horrible
GI issues since eating those jelly fruit slices candy. But,
thankfully, Monday I didn’t really have them, but I still had left over
bloat, I’m guessing. Anyway, I just have my fingers crossed I’m back
down closer to 150 by the end of this week.
My
sleep has not been the greatest this past week. I have numerous
journal entries stating how I slept like crap the night before. I know
for a fact I had at least 2 nights where I kept getting up probably
every 20-30 minutes to run to
the bathroom.
Strength
training continues to be spotty at best. I did some abs and core stuff
at home one day last week. This week so far, I have done absolutely no
strength or resistance training at all. Ugh. I did take my resistance
bands to work
my overtime shift on Monday night, however never motivated myself to
use them. But hey, at least I took the first step and took them to work
with me…that counts for something, right? <taps microphone> Is this thing on? Hello? It counts...right?
My
phone continues to piss me off. For the past like 4 months or so half
the time I open up my camera app, the camera goes in and out of focus
super fast for 2-10 seconds straight. It’s really annoying. Especially
if I want to take a
picture right away, then I have missed my opportunity to take a quick,
candid shot of whatever it was. It overheats super easy. And the
battery dies pretty fast. Ever since it updated a couple weeks ago, the
battery dies even faster, if you can believe
that. Like, I’ll wake up, unplug my phone from the charger and an hour
later, it’s already down to 90% or less. And I haven’t used it hardly
at all! Literally just for a couple minutes. In March, I played music
on my phone for over 7 hours straight when
I did that San Felipe Shootout and now, I can barely play music for 3.5
hours before it’s dying! That will not do! So, when I get paid next
week, I’ll be making a trip to AT&T to 1) switch over from Verizon
and 2) get a new damn phone!
My
apartment complex dropped off my lease renewal notice the other day.
When all is said and done, when I renew my lease, my rent will go up
about $70 a month! Damn! That really hits me in the wallet/bank
account. Oh but they did remove
the $1.95 convenience pay fee for an e-check payment for rent. Gee,
thanks. I started make a rash decision to up and move when my lease was
up at the end of November, HOWEVER, I have now had time to think about
it and that is not the best option for me.
So I’m going to stick it out for one more 12 month lease and just deal
with the rent increase for the time being. I’m hoping I can pay off at
least one, if not 2 more charge cards between now and the end of
November so I can free up a little extra money that
will go toward the higher rent. So, I have to curb my spending a wee
bit over the next few months in order to make that happen. I mean, I
have some things I’ve already committed to doing that will cost a little
bit, but other than that. Nothing unplanned.
Ugh. I hate that. But it’s for the best. I need to get things
squared away.
I
switched my Saturday off this week for today off from my regular shift
only…I still have to go in and work the night shift tonight. I could
have had yesterday off, but I thought I could be more productive with
the majority of today off,
so that’s what I said I wanted. This coming Sunday’s long run was to
be 16 miles but since Sunday will now be my only day off this weekend, I
needed to free up a smidge of time on Sunday, so I'm doing my long run today instead (since it's 12:30pm, I'm not sure if I'll do the whole 16...might just do an early cutback long run and just do 10 or 11...we'll see how the temp is when I get to 10 miles). And I’ll do 7-8 miles on
Sunday instead. I’m also hoping to start work on my mermaid costume
tail later today. I’ll let you know next week how that goes. Ha! So,
I’m also doing a few of my weekend chores today as well, like vacuuming
and washing the dishes and putting away the
laundry.
This
past Sunday, before my long run really got started, I met up with a
couple friends from work and one of them is doing a couch to 5K
program. Then after we were done with his C25K workout, I continued
along with my 15 mile run. My
long run went quite well. In fact, I was feeling really good and went
way faster than I had planned on going. My “coach” friend always tells
me I run my long runs too fast and to slooooooow down. Well, she asked
what my goal time for South Padre Island
was and I told her 4:10:00-4:20:00 and she said I should actually go
FASTER than what I did on Sunday, that I should be aiming for
10:15-10:45 per mile. Okay. Cool. My body wants to go that fast
anyway, it seems. She said I should also alternate with a
slightly slower run with a fast finish one week and then 3 miles very
easy w/u, 5 (or whatever) miles MGP (9:45), then finish at 10:45 for 2
miles. I’m pretty excited to be mixing things up with this marathon
training season!
So
I had a bit of drama on good ol’ Facebook this past weekend. I posted
on Saturday how one of the office ladies at my apartment complex
complimented me and said I looked really pretty in the dress I was
wearing. I said in my post that
if I had still be 35+ pounds heavier wearing the plus sized version of
that dress that I guarantee that neither her nor anyone else would have
said I looked pretty. A girl on my friends list said that she doubted
that and that I was still pretty even when
I was heavier. I replied that no one I didn’t know ever told me I
looked pretty when I was heavier. She responded that that was my
perspective and that she weighs more than me now (not more than I
weighed back at the beginning of May, but now, mind you)
and she gets compliments all the time. I responded that it’s not
perspective if I literally did not get any compliments from people I
didn’t know when I was heavier. I discovered on Sunday that she had
deleted me as a friend. I messaged her and asked why
she deleted me. A couple hours later, after thinking about it, I
messaged her again and said “you know what? Don’t answer that. It
doesn’t matter.” Because it doesn’t. The 4 Agreements states that you
can’t take anything personally and that other peoples’
opinions and what they say about you actually have nothing to do with
you and everything to do with them. So I’ve moved on. It’s done and
over. I blocked her because I don’t need drama in my life, especially
right now when I’m trying to promote at work.
And now for some fun pics and things from this past week!
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