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Thursday, April 19, 2012
My new goals:
1- Exercise 6 days per week, including running 3 times a week and crosstraining 3 times a week.
2- Track my food. Max 1830 calories.
3- 5 fruits/veggies per day.
4- 8 cups of water, calcium supplement and multi-vitamin daily.
5- 8 hours of sleep every night. Be in bed by 10pm.
6- Meditation 3 times a day for 10 minutes.
7- Reading and soul searching, 30 minutes per day.
8- Continue writing my blog daily.
I was considering calling today a cheat day, but it's not even that. Today was a complete loss. I slept something like 4 hours last night, and not even 4 consecutive hours... My lower back was killing me yesterday, it was killing me this morning, and it's killing me now. The doctor couldn't see me today, but he'll see me tomorrow morning. I need a monster dose of anti-inflammatories I think! That should take care of it!!
So as a result of my feeling totally miserable today, I did NOTHING!!! Good thing I didn't have to go to work! I didn't cook, didn't clean, didn't exercise, didn't stretch, didn't track, didn't meditate, didn't read and only reflected on my pain. I just realize now that I forgot to take my vitamins, and so far I only drank 6 cups of water.
So, yeah! Today was far from being a cheat day, it's a total loss!
One thing I did do today was whine! Complain, then whine some more! I wonder how many calories whining burns per hour!!
I'm sorry for not being Miss SparkMotivation right now!
Honnestly I could not be more annoyed and more frustrated at the moment! Geewhizz... on Tuesday I was bragging about my awesome run, about how I had never run so far and for so long! It's not like I ran a 100-miler, gosh I only ran 6.79 km... I know my lower back is sensitive and I shouldn't do too much, too fast, blah, blah, blah!!! I always, ALWAYS stretch well, and I did on Tuesday too. Yet that little extra kilometer was too much apparently.
Well I won't have it! No Ma'am, no Sir! I declared war to running many, many accountability blogs ago, and I'm not about to surrender now. I have a 5k race coming up in exactly 10 days, then another one on May 13th. Then a 10k in September.
So I'll go the the doc tomorrow, do what I have to do and keep running! And I'll keep bugging the world with my blogs, and I'll keep tracking my food and losing weight!
Who's the boss of me?? I'M THE BOSS OF ME!!!
End of story!!
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
My new goals:
1- Exercise 6 days per week, including running 3 times a week and crosstraining 3 times a week.
2- Track my food. Max 1830 calories.
3- 5 fruits/veggies per day.
4- 8 cups of water, calcium supplement and multi-vitamin daily.
5- 8 hours of sleep every night. Be in bed by 10pm.
6- Meditation 3 times a day for 10 minutes.
7- Reading and soul searching, 30 minutes per day.
8- Continue writing my blog daily.
I had planned a slow day today since I ran my best run ever yesterday. Especially since lately I've been having lower back pain, and when I finished my run yesterday I was in quite a bit of pain. I stretched well last night, but the pain is still there and worst. It's a pinching, radiating kind of pain... I tried everything today, stretching, heat, cold, taking a nap, medication, a massage, nothing is working... As much as I hate going to the doctor, I have a painful feeling it may the next step...
Anyways, I'm late with my blog tonight because I am waiting for my friend to get to my house. I haven't seen her since last summer and she is coming into town for the weekend. She should be here in about 20 minutes. It's going to be a late night but it's worth it.
Here are my goals for today:
1- Exercise 6 days per week, including running 3 times a week and crosstraining 3 times a week: I took a slooooww 30 minute walk and did a good 30 minutes of stretching today.
2- Track my food. Max 1830 calories: I tracked and stopped counting at 1787 cals... before dinner... Definitely went over for today!
3- 5 fruits/veggies per day: hmmm...nope, 1 of each only...
4- 8 cups of water, calcium supplement and multi-vitamin daily: done and done!
5- 8 hours of sleep every night. Be in bed by 10pm: no and no...
6- Meditation 3 times a day for 10 minutes: meditated once...
7- Reading and soul searching, 30 minutes per day: not really...
8- Continue writing my blog daily: done.
Okay I am doing TERRIBLE with my goals these days... What's up with that?!!!
No excuses tomorrow, I have to make it happen!
Wish me luck!
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
My new goals:
1- Exercise 6 days per week, including running 3 times a week and crosstraining 3 times a week.
2- Track my food. Max 1830 calories.
3- 5 fruits/veggies per day.
4- 8 cups of water, calcium supplement and multi-vitamin daily.
5- 8 hours of sleep every night. Be in bed by 10pm.
6- Meditation 3 times a day for 10 minutes.
7- Reading and soul searching, 30 minutes per day.
8- Continue writing my blog daily.
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I don't exactly know how to describe tonight's run... OMG!!! I'm truly without words!! But I have to find a way, I just have to describe it! I'm going to try not to turn this into an endless blog and try to sum it up nicely... Maybe emoticons?! Let's try:
        
Yes okay, that helps!!!
The run was !!!
Met with the club at 7pm. We started with 2 slow laps, so basically a half-mile warm up. The old me would have gone home after that!! Hehe!! But the new me was just getting started! Then we did some sprints and other various exercises, which I nailed easy-peasy, then we headed for the track again and ran for real! We have runners of all ages and all fitness levels in the group, so obviously not everyone runs the same. I run against me only and just try to get better and better each time.
Apparently it works, because tonight I ran 6.79 km, or 4.2 miles!!! NONSTOP!!! ME! Me, who couldn't even run for 30 seconds at first, without feeling like my life was going to end! Me who weighed 271 lbs the first time I attempted running!
I just cannot believe it! Down 45 lbs and able to run 6.79km in one shot!! WOW!
And it's only the beginning! The season with the club is just starting, imagine what it will be like in a couple of months!!
I love it!!! I just love it!!! 10k, 21k, 42k, here I come!!!
Now back to my goals, I did better today! I was more focused, and after complaining this morning that the weightloss fairy didn't come by last night to take the extra weight away, I stopped whining and just got moving! I got some really insightful comments from my sparkgals too, which really boosted up my faith that I could make it happen. It goes something like this: if we stick to our goals and make it happen, some morning we'll feel that the fairy did come to visit...because the weight will be gone... How very true!! I didn't think of it this way! Thanks friends!!
Anyways, my goals ( I need to focus!)...
1- Exercise 6 days per week, including running 3 times a week and crosstraining 3 times a week: 60 minutes of training and running, 6.79km!! yay!!
2- Track my food. Max 1830 calories. I tracked and am still a little over, but definitely better than yesterday: 1909 calories!
3- 5 fruits/veggies per day: 2 of each, total 4...
4- 8 cups of water, calcium supplement and multi-vitamin daily. Vitamins check, water 11 cups!
5- 8 hours of sleep every night. Be in bed by 10pm. I'm a little late but I did come home late from running. Good excuse, right?!
6- Meditation 3 times a day for 10 minutes. Meditated once...
7- Reading and soul searching, 30 minutes per day: did more soul searching than reading but still, I did it!
8- Continue writing my blog daily.
Good thing I was without words, imagine how long this blog would have been!!
I'm off to bed. Nightie night everyone!
  
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
My new goals:
1- Exercise 6 days per week, including running 3 times a week and crosstraining 3 times a week.
2- Track my food. Max 1830 calories.
3- 5 fruits/veggies per day.
4- 8 cups of water, calcium supplement and multi-vitamin daily.
5- 8 hours of sleep every night. Be in bed by 10pm.
6- Meditation 3 times a day for 10 minutes.
7- Reading and soul searching, 30 minutes per day.
8- Continue writing my blog daily.
I am going through a phase again where I wish a fairy would come by during my sleep and take all the extra weight away!! Every once in a while I have a weak phase and make that wish. And every time I am disappointed!
I love to exercise! I love to run and to do yoga and I have never been more convinced that they have both changed my life. Exercising has never been an issue, I love it!
My problem has always been with food. I love to eat, and I wish I could eat whatever I want, whenever I want, however I want! I know it's unrealistic, but it has always been a wish of mine! I wish eating really made me feel better emotionally, I wish I didn't have to use self-control when it comes to eating. No, the fairy didn't come last night, and no such wish was granted.
No such wish was granted because it doesn't make any sense. I've been thinking about it all morning, and my conclusion is that I have so much more work to do in order to change the way I view food. 138 days of accountability, almost 3 years worth of trying to get my health stabilized, and I haven't really made progress in the way I view food. It's still in the back of my mind all the time, and more often than not, when I look in the mirror, I still wish I was suddenly thin and have long, lean muscles...
I accept the fact that I have to make efforts day after day for the rest of my life in order to have my weight under control, in order to have those lean muscles I so desperately want to have, and in order to be healthy. It's just that sometimes my mind gets lazy and I start wishing a fairy would come back and fix everything.
Okay, it's not an option.... I know there is only one option, and it's to continue with my efforts. Continue trying and being accountable, one day at the time.
While we're on the subject of accountability, here is how I did yesterday, Monday:
1- Exercise 6 days per week, including running 3 times a week and crosstraining 3 times a week: it was yoga day, and I did 55 minutes!
2- Track my food. Max 1830 calories. I tracked and I ate way too much. Finished the day at 2463 calories...
3- 5 fruits/veggies per day: almost, I had 2 of each, for a total of 4 freggies.
4- 8 cups of water, calcium supplement and multi-vitamin daily: 9 cups of water, vitamins taken!
5- 8 hours of sleep every night. Be in bed by 10pm: no and no. This continues to be a real problem. Weekends are okay but week nights I go to bed late and have to wake up early. I'll keep trying because it's so important.
6- Meditation 3 times a day for 10 minutes: I meditated only once yesterday
7- Reading and soul searching, 30 minutes per day: I read the same pages as last time, I am still reflecting on my last reading, which talked about abandon. A little heavy, I have to think about it more.
8- Continue writing my blog daily: A little late but here it is.
Okay, since we have established that no fairy was going to come today, I need to stop whining and get moving. Today is training day with the running club, I can't wait, I love it so much! My vitamins are already taken and I am tracking my food. I'm hoping to finish the day strong!
Happy Tuesday everyone! You can wish for the fairy to visit, but don't wait before you take action! Get up, get moving, get healthy!
Sunday, April 15, 2012
My new goals:
1- Exercise 6 days per week, including running 3 times a week and crosstraining 3 times a week.
2- Track my food. Max 1830 calories.
3- 5 fruits/veggies per day.
4- 8 cups of water, calcium supplement and multi-vitamin daily.
5- 8 hours of sleep every night. Be in bed by 10pm.
6- Meditation 3 times a day for 10 minutes.
7- Reading and soul searching, 30 minutes per day.
8- Continue writing my blog daily.
Day 136 was yesterday, Saturday. It was my scheduled day off from exercise, but the problem is it turned out to be my day from everything! No tracking, only 2 fruits and veggies, only 3 cups of water, no meditation, no reading... no blogging...
One positive thing, I did sleep 8 hours the last 2 nights! Yay me!!
I seriously got back on track today though. My day started with an awesome run with the club! And I felt absolutely fantastic afterwards!! Let's do the goals one by one!
1- Exercise 6 days per week: I went 5.56 km in 43 minutes! I came home and did my stretches, had a shower then headed in the garden and did 90 minutes of gardening! The day was beautiful and I really enjoyed it!!
2- Track my food. Max 1830 calories: I tracked and went over, finished at 2185 cals. In all honnesty I was so hungry after working out, I really needed the extra calories...
3- 5 fruits/veggies per day: done! 2 fruits and 3 veggies!
4- 8 cups of water, calcium supplement and multi-vitamin daily: 11 cups of water and vitamins taken!
5- 8 hours of sleep every night. Be in bed by 10pm: I went to bed at around 11 last night but woke up at 7:15. So that's a little over 8 hours!
6- Meditation 3 times a day for 10 minutes: I meditated once this morning and will do another session right after I'm finished here. That's 2, I'm working my way up to 3 tomorrow.
7- Reading and soul searching, 30 minutes per day: I read and reflected this morning.
8- Continue writing my blog daily.
I'm definitely satisfied with my day! Now if I can just repeat this tomorrow, with less calories, it would be great!!
I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!
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