Well, I went in for my weekly meeting today. Just as I had feared I was up. My new number 177 pounds, yuck! Up 3.6 pounds, with last week that makes it a total of 5 pounds gained. I'm not really sure what exactly I did wrong, but I know a number of small things that I did wrong. I have to remind myself that I am still learning and that as long as I learned something from this week it is not a totally bad week. Did I learn anything? Well, I need to track my foods every day, EVERY DAY. Even if I can't put exactly what I ate into the phone or program, but something close! From here on out I will do my darnest to do this. Also that I need to get some type of movement in everyday, at least 30 minutes daily. If I'm too tired to run, well then walk, but do something! I also learned from last Saturday's run, that I need to add a core workout to my routine. It won't help me with loosing weight, won't make me run faster, but my lower back hurt about three hours after the run. So I am going to add a core workout to my schedule. So that's what I've learned from my past week. I was also so hungry on Tuesday! Meaning like I wanted chocolate, french fries, hamburgers, and lots of it. I was craving mostly junk foods, but I really had to fight with myself not to go to overboard. I'm wondering was this a side effect of my race on Saturday? I will have to research that. My consultant and I talked about water retention and what my plans were now that I've completed my race. We are going to keep me at 1200 calories a day for now, with allowances for the days when I am extra busy. We are also going to keep me on two days on my own because I need to learn how to eat foods that are not planned for me. I love having my foods planned out for me, it's easy, but let's face it. I can't be on the JC program forever. My wallet nor my taste buds could stand that. So I must learn how to eat and make good choices all by myself. I'm planning on working hard this week to get those few extra pounds off and get under the 170 mark.
As for what's next on the fitness side of my life? I believe that I have finally decided to run a half-marathon. I would like to do the Prairie Fire Run in October. I had an easy week this week, so next week I plan to kick it into gear again. I want to finish the half in about 2 hours and 30 minutes and while it was so much fun to run with Christina, I also plan on doing this run by myself. I can't lean on her forever either! I need to see when is the last day I can register at a decent cost, figure out how to work training for the marathon and working in to my schedule. So maybe by my next post I will have formulated a basic plan and I can give some details on that. I am surprised by how long it took me to "recover" from the race on Saturday. I hadn't planned on taking Tuesday off, but I just could not talk myself into running or even walking that day. We did look at my run on the BodyMedia program today and it was about an hour of intense exercise. With that if I get to travel back home to run in the Prairie Fire, I also want to be under 159 pounds by October. That would mean that I would have to lose about 1.2 pounds a week, which is doable. So there are some of my goal for the future.
I also need to get some classes done for my nursing career in the next couple of months so my life is again going to be full. I think I like it that way. So I plan to try to get some yoga in at least once a week. I'm really looking forward to have a routine again after the last month of chaos. So with that I guess I should sign off for this week and get busy studying and cleaning up at little. Till next week, keep moving everyone! ~ Darcy
No comments:
Post a Comment