It's Friday!

Good day blog world! It is finally Friday and it is supposed to be a fantastic day weather wise. I so love the spring/summer time, I was definitely born in the wrong country.

 

The week has been good, long but productive. Got tons done at work and got a few good workouts in. Not as many as I would have liked but at least I did some. Today is a new day and I started it out right. I came downtown very early this morning, left the house at 4:45 and was jogging with my friend along the river by 5:45. I have not walk/run outside since sometime in April. All my Learn to Run sessions have been on the treadmill. We started out with 3:1x5 this time because it has been so long since we ran but honestly, I could have done much longer. It’s good to start easy and know where you are than to push it too much and overdue it. We agreed to get together twice a week like this downtown here as the river path is so lovely at that time of the day and there are very few other people about. Down here at lunch time, there must be thousands of walkers/joggers/bikers/rollers doing their thing and it gets a bit crowded.  And the good news is that my little toe did not hurt after I got moving. I went to the chiropractor yesterday to talk about my new orthodics and I mentioned my broken little toe. Now I know it’s not broken but I refer to it as that rather than bruised, sore and dislocated. Anyway, he adjusted my toe (ouch) and worked the  ball of my foot and viola – it feels much better now. Guess I should have gone to see him last week… would have felt better sooner. Live and learn!

 

So the weekend is coming up which can be challenging for me. We are not going camping so that allows me to workout hard and I will. But food is what I have issues with. I plan and organize for the week and then the weekend, I tend to forget to eat, then eat too much at a meal because I am hungry and didn’t get my 5 snacks/meals in. I don’t have an issue with drinking the water, in fact I’m probably better at home with water than I have been lately at work. I noticed this week I kept forgetting to drink my water. I sit here with a one litre bottle of water at my desk and I normally fill it twice during the day – I’ve been luck to complete one whole bottle lately.

 

 Anyway, I will be working on my yard and then having a BBQ later in the evening – which will involve drinks. I’ve got to find  something that I like to drink other than water and that is low in calories. I drink beer because it isn’t sweet and the fruity drinks have too much sugar and after one – yuck. So I switch back to beer…. I know I shouldn’t drink at all but I do and that is why my weight loss is so slow and it’s my fault and no one else’s. I’m in this for life and I just can’t see myself not drinking at all so I just need to moderate, be responsible and still enjoy myself.

 

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

 

 

 

Oh I'm Hungry Today...

I did really well in my eating yesterday and was successful in accomplishing all my exercise goals. I really enjoyed the CLX Burn 1 session and definitely have to increase the weights. I kept them low as I wasn’t sure how much harder the session was going to get so I paced myself. I need to up it quite a bit to really exhaust my muscles. I ran 4:90sx3 last night – not as much as I planned but I did it after I did the CLX and I was tired. I noticed something this time though, my legs were not tired (like they used to be) but my breathing was really taxed. I’m assuming that will adjust the more I run.

 

Again I was up way to late last night to get up at 4:00 a.m., so I walked to the train station this morning. It is about a 30 minute walk and is a nice way to start the day when the sun is just coming up. It is rather peaceful. Makes me a bit late for work though so if I walk, I need to make sure I leave at 5:50 rather than 6:15 (like this morning).

 

So here are my plans for today:

Exercise:

a.m. :    Walk to Train (30 minutes)

lunch:    Walk along river (30 minutes)

p.m. :    4:90sx4 (16 jog/14 min walk -30 min)

                Ab Jam

                Strrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeetttttttcccccccccchhhhhhhhh

 

Food Plans:

1              Steel cut oats & 3 Turkey Sausage

2              Apple

3              .5c Br rice, 100g lean pork chop, gr beans, zucchini

4              Almonds

5              Salmon, Veg of some sort

 

So about my blog title – I am hungry today – not sure why as I’m not eating any less/more than normal but I think with all the extra walking/exercising my body is craving food and unfortunately it is craving junk like popcorn or chips. I will defeat it though and eat only healthy stuff today. Maybe I’ll throw in an extra apple if it gets too much.

 

 

Hello Monday!

Well I had a fantastic weekend out camping in the Mountains. Took the pup for a lot of walks, she still can’t go too far yet due to her leg but she is getting longer and longer walks in before she goes lame. And speaking of lame, I tried to jog outside this weekend and my little broken toe just can’t seem to handle the pressure of the road and me banging down on it. It doesn’t hurt all that much on the treadmill but I think the impact of the hard pavement is not so good for it just yet. At this rate, I’m going to have to start all over again in my outdoor running learning.

I did not make good choices this weekend and feeling the bloat of it this morning. I always do so good during the week but if we go camping on the weekends, I just don’t care and tend to just let go (within reason still). I’m likely undoing most the good that I do during the week. It’s no wonder it has taken me 6 months to just lose 30 lbs (however there has been a lot of inches lost). At this rate it will take me 2 years to lose the rest of it.

But not if I workout as hard as I plan to and then make sure I make right food/drink choices. Hey there is really only me that can make those decisions and I know what to do! I’m going to start the Chalene Extreme 30 day burn workouts starting tonight and I just got my Shakeology drinks to try. Man they sure do ship fast – I just ordered it last Wednesday and it showed up Friday – talk about good service. I’ll be adding the one shake a day for awhile and see how I feel.

I think I’m going to start listing all my eats and exercises on this blog so that I can review it anytime (and from anywhere there’s an internet connection). And this allows anyone that actually reads these to help me make the right choices (critique away) ;)

Exercise plans:

Lunch: Walk along river (25 minutes)

P.m.: 4:90sx4 L2R on treadmill (30 minutes)

CLX Burn Dvd 1

Stretching the heck out of my muscles

Food plans:

1 Steel cut oats & a banana (I needed protein here)

2 Apple

3 .5c Br rice, 100g Chicken breast, asparagus, zucchini

4 Almonds

5 Shake

Missing In Action

Wow, I have not written in quite some time and I don’t have an excuse. At least not one that matters.

 

Since my last posting, my 7 month pup broke her hind leg, it was a spiral fracture and quite serious. She was in the hospital for two days and we picked her up on Monday night. No learn to run for me that night because I wasn’t leaving her. She is doing fine and has a plate in her leg right now. No cast, stitches on the inside and still in some pain. She forgets it’s broken sometimes and darts off and I think it hurts her enough that she limps (3 legged run) for a few minutes.

 

So for my L2R, even though I was unable to continue my outside training sessions, I did keep it up on the treadmill and did one more minute than what the class was doing. I find it much easier to run on the treadmill than I do outside. It is easier on my back and hip as well. What I’ve done for that is I had 3 visits with a Physiotherapist and she performed some Inter Muscular Stimulation on my lower back and hip (ouch is all I can say). But it worked…. Amazing really and had I known about this ability years ago, I may have been out of pain sooner.

 

Then the following two Mondays I was in Mazatlan and was unable to attend the L2R classes. I did 3 days of 7:1x3sets in the gym at the resort but it was so HOT it was unbearable. They didn’t have air conditioning… can you believe that – In a hot country with a gym and there is no air conditioning…. I sweated buckets and I’m not exaggerating. Then on the Friday, we went deep sea fishing and with the rocking of the boat and my unsteady feet I walked right into this engine cover that stuck up from the floor. Now it had yellow tape on the front and back, but not on the side, which is where I came at it from. I hit my toes dead on and it really hurt. As the day progressed, my little toe on my left side swelled up and turned a lovely shade of purple. I rarely bruise but I sure did this time. I throbbed all that night and was extremely sore. I could not walk very well with any sandals on my feet (barefoot was better). Must have walked funny with no shoes to make up for any pressure on my toe. However I got up the next morning and did attempt to put on my running shoes which lasted all about 2 minutes. So now almost a week later, the swelling and bruising is almost gone but I still can’t put my foot into an enclosed shoe. I’ve very bummed about not being able to exercise.

 

So yesterday I did an hour of my Cardio Party in bare feet and I managed well enough. Had a good upper body workout anyway. And then last night I hit my toe again and it brought tears to my eyes. It absolutely sucks. So I have to face it that I have to take the time to heal the toe and take it easy. But that doesn’t stop me from doing any strength training and I’m going to focus on that until I can run again.

 

And for Food, well while on vacation, I took a food vacation too. I didn’t eat all that healthy while there and all the food is not prepared in the healthiest way. But I didn’t gain any weight and that is good for me. So now that I’m back, the vacation is over and although I can’t workout cardiovascular, I will have to ensure I eat very clean.

 

So back to blogging and being accountable to myself.

 

TTYL