Snow??

I had a slack week last week. I exercised Wednesday/Friday and did my Learn to Run sessions. That’s IT!!!! I mean what’s up with that? -- I needed the break --

Monday night was week 3 of the L2R, and we did the 2min run, 1min walk x 7. I made it through. My lungs struggled a bit, it was cooler and windy outside and we certainly aren’t running on level ground. Then I came home and walked the dog and afterwards stretched the heck out of my back and hip (with the help of my dog… she sat on me and she’s heavy the little brat). I feel much better today for it. So tonight’s schedule will be the Turbo Jam 3T or Turbo Sculpt & the Ab Jam session. I need to get my strength training sessions back in to the scheme of things. All this running (ha, 14 minutes Monday night)… is going to eat my muscles away… Do you believe that? This is what a personal trainer told me last week. He said he thinks it is very wrong of me to do this running clinic because based on my heart rate, my body is in an anaerobic state and is eating away at my muscles for fuel, not the fat. Hmm….. Is he right?

I’m just going to burn off that fat and build that muscle at the same time… might move back a step or two during the muscle building phase, but I’ll still be burning fat during the cardio and I’m not quitting now….

I joined this short 4 week fitness challenge through a facebook group I belong to. I’m only going to do 3 weeks as the last week I will be in Mazatlan sitting on the beach, swimming in the pool, and hopefully doing my week 5 (5min)/6 (6min) of the Learn 2 Run sessions on a treadmill or on the boardwalk along the ocean. The FB challenge is over the day we get back and so I’ll probably be very bloated (I bloat with the heat and humidity… and likely the alcohol I’ll drink). I probably won’t be winning any prizes but I like the challenge so going to put all I can into the next three weeks.

I’m logging everything I eat and exercise on a daily basis so hopefully I’ll be able to see a positive trend and keep it up long term. I don’t go below 1500 calories per day as I am not on a diet (per se) but eating in a clean way for a lifetime. I’m just keeping the calories below 2000 until I reach my weight goal. Which is still 45lbs away…. Yah I know I said in an earlier post I wasn’t going to weigh myself, but as a scale junkie, that lasted about 2 weeks.

And it’s snowing outside – what happened to spring?