Weigh in day! I'm down another 4 pounds! New number is now 182.2. I admit I was a bit worried this morning with all the up and down I've been doing this week. I'm totally happy with this number, but my consultant is not. Oh she's happy I'm losing, but she is also worried that I am not getting enough calories. I have been struggling a little this week, but more about that later. So this week we basically discussed my daily calorie number and what we should or wanted to do about it. She wants me to go back up, but I've talked her into letting me stay at 1200 for another week, maybe (hopefully) two. She is going to talk with the nutritionist on staff to see what we can add to my daily menu to increase my calories. I told her that I don't want "empty" calories. If I need to increase the amount I'm taking in I want them to meaningful, not just junk food. I'm torn, part of me knows that I need to have fuel to run and keep my energy up, but I also want to lose. I tell myself that if I weigh less, it will make it easier to run, knowing that this is only partly true and that if I don't eat I won't make it through my race. So she will get back with me on Monday and let me know what the experts think and I'm supposed to eat at least 1200 calories a day. I skipped a few fruits this week because I found it difficult to stay under the 1200 mark eating all the foods on my menu. Yes, I was told not to worry about going over, as long as they are good calories.
Now for the part that I said I would discuss later. My running this week has been the good, the bad, and the ugly. The first part of the week I just got in walks because of work and I found it difficult at best to run on days when I worked so I settled for at least a 30 minute walk. I got those in this week, I got in one day of weighted ball upper body exercise, but I wanted to get in two. I guess I'll try for that again next week. I struggled with my miles on Tuesday and Wednesday. I did get in 5 miles on Wednesday, but it took every last bit of me pushing myself to get me there. I just wanted to stop at 4 miles. I was tired and felt I just couldn't go on. On Friday I did get in 6.7 miles though and was happy that I did. It gives me hope that I will finish my 10K in June. I plan on scaling back a little this week, not much, but a little. I did an evening walk with my husband on Monday evening that turned out to be twice as long was I thought it was going to be and I'm sure it was longer than he had planned. I was tired and very grumpy when we got home, well after midnight. I had already put in a 12.5 hour work shift and did my 30 minute walk that morning. He wanted to walk, so we walked, I don't think either of us wants to that again any time soon.
So there you have it, another week on the JC train complete. I'm really excited to get under the 180 mark. But I will try to be a little more patient, try. So till next time, keep moving everyone.
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