Category Archives: Weight Watchers

Five Things Friday

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Weigh in: +1.2
Total Lost: +1.2
Amount to Lose: 26.4 pounds
Emotion: Getting back up

  • This week was me finding my groove, and I am still lifting, so I am not expecting a tremendous amount to go away anyways.  I am actually expecting to land about 10 pounds higher than my goal weight and being happy with how I look.  For now, I will just keep on tracking, running, and lifting.  I’m happy in these areas.  I had plans of getting up early and working out before I started my work from home day, but sleep took over that.  I’ll be working out on my break for lunch.  I’ve planned out the first two meals of the day, and I still have a ton of fruit and veggies.  I’m on it!
  • Tonight our friends Kim and Edwin are coming over for pizza and beer.  Because nothing says healthy start to the week than pizza and beer.  It’s fine.  I’ve got a plan: 1 slice of pizza 1 Greek Salad.  Limit 2 beers.  I can exercise self control, and that is what I plan to do.  Tomorrow with the Nationals Game, I am planning on being awesome all day with a great workout, and eating cleanly, so while at the game I can enjoy Ben’s Chili Bowl.  If you don’t live in DC, you don’t understand.  Ben’s Chili Bowl could make a monk on hunger strike, give up.  This stuff is amazing.  AH-MAZ-ING.
  • Last night my poor dogs had a Vet appointment, in which neither was spared the agony of bad things.  Moody had three vaccinations, and a shot of cortizone because his back is bad, and Blarney had to have his ears deep cleaned (like REALLY deep cleaned) and his anal glands cleared.  Poor guy.  I’m like the worst dog owner ever.  I don’t know how to take care of these random things that you never think about.  I know now, and am grossly prepared from now on.
  • Today’s workout is: 4 mile run ( building interval style).  Tomorrow is lifting & intervals and Sunday will be my long run of 5 miles.  As long as the weather stays the way it says it’s going to be, then I’ll be running outside in the morning.  Monday, being a holiday, I’m going to take advantage of the long day off and really working on my form through lifting and then a good interval run.
  • Can you believe we are almost at Memorial day?  Where has this year gone?  I’m not complaining, as next year is going to be big changes and happy changes so I am looking forward to being there, but right now I’m like “WHAT?  TIME?  WHERE?”

Have a happy and healthy Memorial Day Weekend!

One Of Those Days…

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  • We all have those days where everything that could go wrong does.  Except I didn’t have one of those days.  I had an awesome day up until it wasn’t.  Everything was going well, and then it didn’t go well.  Then it messed up.  Then something big messed up.  It wasn’t my fault, but being caught in the cross hairs, I’m involved.  I’m not sure what is going to happen from it, but I know it’s long from being over.
  • I ate my stress and feelings yesterday.  I still tracked, and even with being On Plan and exercising today, I’ll still be over my points by a lot.  I’m okay with this, because frankly, sitting and wallowing never did anyone any favors.

  • I think it’s very easy to fall back into the same old routine.  Eat too much, don’t workout, and then feel bad for myself.  I used to say this was so hard.  But really that’s easy.  What’s hard is not doing those things.  I claim to be strong, and I claim to want this.  So if I want it so badly, then I should just do it.  I should just choose this hard, over the hard of being overweight, tired, sluggish, mad at myself, self deprecating, and loathing.  I started saying that I had to compete with others because they were losing weight/getting thin/looking fabulous, but I can’t anymore.  I am not them.  They have other things going on, other things building towards their success.
  • I have me, my sneakers, my weights, and the road.

  • The past is exactly that.  The past.  I can’t change it.  I can’t go back and rewrite it.  I don’t want to.  I want to rewrite the future.  I know what most people expect me to become.  I know what most people think I will do.  I know that because I am not following Paleo after 6 weeks of trying – and gaining weight, not fitting into clothes, and feeling like my stomach was being torn apart day after day, makes some people feel like I didn’t try hard enough at it, or I didn’t wait as long.  I know the fact that I am back on Weight Watchers, to some feels like me giving in to the hype, and that it won’t work, and I’ll be back to finding some other plan to follow eventually.  Well they aren’t right.
  • A plan works, no matter what it is, if you work it.  You can lose weight on Bob Harpers Skinny Rules of 800 calories a day.  It is possible.  It’s by no means healthy, but if losing weight is your only goal, then yes, it can be done.  Diet pills do work, if you follow the plan.  It’s not long lasting, and not healthy, but it works.
  • There are choices to be made by everyone.  I am choosing to continue with Weight Watchers, lifting, and running and if that doesn’t make me look like this:

  • I’m really okay with that.  I know that this is a goal for some women.  I really don’t need/want to be that muscular.  I just want to be stronger than I am.  A little less jiggly.  Could I be the above picture?  SURE!  (Without the tan)  I could most certainly attain that with enough hard work.  But I’d settle for this:

  • I know I am not fat, but I have fat to lose.  I know I’m not obese, but I am not where I want to be.  So I will keep chugging along.  I feel better when I am on plan, not just mentally, but physically.  My body functions better.  My running is better.  My lifting is better.  I feel better.

  • So after having a pretty bad day, that shook me deeper than I have in a while, I am emerging, much like a cicada does, with a new purpose.  My purpose is to be happy (unlike the cicadas, who emerge to have sex and then die).  I am choosing to be happy, and with that, loving myself.

Things I love:

  • My legs are strong.  I can run for long distances and they carry me across every finish line.
  • My shoulders have become stronger making shoulder presses easier, but not too easy :-)
  • It’s summer so my eyes are a crisp blue – which I love
  • My feet, although a bit beat up being runners feet, are still strong and improving in their movement during my landing

 

  1. What do you love about your body?
  2. What choice have you made to make yourself a better person?
  3. I’m lifting and running today, what are you doing to move?

Food For Thought Thursday:

Monday Moments

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  • First and foremost!  MY LITTLE SISTER IS ENGAGED!

Ahh I feel old.  Craziness!  Happy for both of them!  I’m mostly excited because it meant I could make a Pinterest Board – Wedding Board for Cece! - and start pinning things.  I am sure she won’t use any of my ideas, but I love weddings, and I like to plan fake ones in my spare time.  Congrats again to you both!

  • I skipped The Color Run yesterday.  My left eye was swollen shut, and I felt like death.  The Husband let me sleep in till about 9:30 and then we made our way to brunch where I properly stuffed my face.  I still feel sick from that meal, but hey, I was sick so my body wanted what it wanted.  I still managed to accomplish 3.25 miles on the treadmill yesterday (HIIT and some walking for the mileage) so all was not lost.  I am feeling much better today, and have doped myself up on all the allergy medication I could find.
  • I’m so far loving being back on Weight Watchers.  I’ve planned out my meals for the week, it helped that we went grocery shopping last night, and I’ve already made lunches too!  I’m still having the wave of doubt that this will work this time, but The Husband has faith.  He even said “I think you’ve learned a lot now.  I think this will be the time you can make it happen.”  It helps with that kind of support.  It also helps that I am routinely now making meals that are low on the Glycemic Index just from habit.  I know Carbs – Breads mostly – are a trigger, so I tend to not include them.  I also know that I can have a treat once in a while, but with all the veggies I’m piling on my meals, I’m not hungry.
  • I said it.  I am not hungry.
  • My arms are looking more and more tone.  Don’t get me wrong, there is still a nice layer of flab, and a wing that waves whenever I do jazz hands, but it’s a process, right?  I’ll get there.  Right now I am just enjoying my new love of HIIT running.  I don’t cover a lot of miles, but I noticed on my normal run on Saturday I was able to keep running at a constant pace longer, than before.
  • I start classes again in 2 weeks.  Wahhhhhhh.
  • Today’s Workout:
    • NROLFW Stage 3 B2 & 15 minute Intervals (1 Min @ 7.0 mph, 2 min @ 5.5 mph for 15 min)

Questions for You Readers!

  • What are you doing to move today?
  • Do you suffer from Allergies?  If So, what do you take?
  • Do you Like Weddings?

 

Food For Thought Monday:

I’m Feeling Friday

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  • I rejoined Weight Watchers.  It worked for the first 40 some pounds I lost, because I worked the program.  I am not giving up my lifting or my cleaner eating.  I am fusing the two.  I am excited about this.  I really hope this is the last ‘I THINK I’VE GOT IT” post.  I need to lose the body fat, so I am focusing on clean eating and lifting.  I plan on loading up on protein and veggies on the daily and eat fruit and some grain to keep me fueled for my runs.  I am going to be successful to the end this time.  I can feel it.
  • My hair is ALMOST back to the way it was before I had it chemically straightened.  You have no idea how happy this makes me.  I still have a long road ahead till it’s healthy and awesome again, but for now, it’s better than it was.
Friday OOTD

Friday OOTD

  • I’m seeing The Great Gatsby tonight with the Husband and Friend, and I am so excited.  SO EXCITED.  I love the book, and the original movie, but there is something about Leo Dicaprio being Gatsby.  It just works.

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  • Next week is a short week for me (working from home on Friday to start the three day weekend as early as possible) which I am more than looking forward to.  We’ve got a baseball game with my dad, Dinner with the Husbands parents to celebrate his mom’s birthday, and other than that – a whole lot of nothing.  Which is amazing.  Ahhhh weekends without plans are great.
  • Oh hey I’m on UglyRacePic’s!!
  • Not much else going on though.  My Workout today is:
    • NROLFW Stage 3 A2
    • 30 Minute HIIT treadmill workout
  • Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

Food For Thought Friday:

Refocus Your Mind

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Today is a rest day.  So obviously today is the day that I am like “I WANNA RUN ALL THE MILES.”  I tell you, Protein Shakes seriously make the recovery of a weight lifting workout.  Yesterday was NROLFW WB4 (workout B 4th time doing it – stage 1).  This included:

  • Squats
  • Push ups
  • Seated Row
  • Step ups
  • Prone Jack knife

Because I don’t own a rowing machine or a pull down bar those exercises I just change to bent over row – I am most likely screwing my results with this exercise not getting the full shoulder effect, but at this point at least I didn’t let that discourage me, and I am just keeping on (of course if you know of a better exercise to mimic this movement, I’m all ears).

The first two weeks I did the squats and step ups without any extra weight – Body Weight only – but this week I upped my weight so I also added weight to those exercises.  I squatted and stepped up with two 20# dumb bells.  The squats weren’t particularly hard to maneuver, they of course were more challenging and I have bruises from where I slammed the dumb bells into my shins (I’m smart.) but I realized quickly I need to take them slower so as not to eff up my form.  I told the Husband about this last night and he was like “Well you shouldn’t do that.”  I’m like “Gee thanks.”

Push ups I still suck at.   Like literally am failing at push ups.  The first two weeks I was like “I’m gonna do them on my knees” (that’s what she said) but then I realized when I was video tapping myself with my iphone to check form (because I am now that person) My butt wasn’t lowering.  So I was essentially doing nothing.   It didn’t feel like nothing, but it was literally me lowering and raising just my upper body, while in table pose, and even that form was off.  So yesterday I was like “Bethany, lower your butt.”  and then my entire body would hit the floor and I would horribly push myself out of it.  At least I am trying right?

Prone Jack knife I can still do a full set of without falling off the ball, but I don’t look like this:

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I look more like this, and I guess that’s okay, I mean this picture wasn’t like from ‘What not to look like when doing Prone Jackknife Weekly” so i’m still winning.

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I also think I need to add more firmness to my ball.  Heh.

The Step Ups were challenging.  But not for why you would think.  First, I don’t have a box in which to step up on, or really any sturdy surface of adequate height, so I use my weight bench.  Which normally would be fine, but it seems my weight bench doesn’t like to hold still when I am using it.  If I am trying to move it, it’s like “Bitch please” and doesn’t budge, but the minute I try to actually use it for it’s purpose it’s like “HAH, MOVE.” and then topples over.  So I secured it with weights that are currently too heavy for me to lift in hopes that it would remain steady.

I am proud to say I didn’t fall, and neither did it.  With two 20# dumb bells in my hands I stepped up for the full amount of reps in each set with only one instance of ‘WHOA THERE’ and finished with our incident.  Between the exercises I ran for cardio so it kind of looked like this yesterday:

  • Squats w/ 40# (12 reps)
  • Run 0.5 Miles at 6.3 mph
  • Push ups w/ BW (12 reps)
  • Rows w/ 40# (12 reps)
  • Run 0.5 miles at 6.3 mph
  • Push ups w/BW (12 reps)
  • Rows w/ 40# (12 reps)
  • Run 0.5 miles at 6.3 mph
  • Step ups w/ 40# (12 reps)
  • Prone Jack Knife w/ BW (12 reps)
  • Run 0.5 miles at 6.3 mph
  • Step ups w/ 40# (12 reps)
  • Prone Jack Knife w/ BW (12 reps)
  • Squats w/ 40# (12 reps)

I am realizing I actually need to listen to the book and rest between exercises because after that workout – which even though it was only like 35 minutes, was killer.  I was sitting at my kitchen table unable to lift my Protein Shake to my face.  I finally just got a straw out of the cabinet behind me.  I don’t think I felt that tired after my half marathon.  Weird.

Yesterday was not a good food day, but today is a new day.  I’ve pretracked everything on both Weight Watchers and MyFitnessPal (I am debating which one to actually stick with at this point) and I am moving forward.  Chugging water and eating lots of protein.

One thing that I realized I keep doing is I keep waiting for inspiration to strike me, whether it be from another blogger, a weightloss plan, or a new workout regime.  I am waiting for inspiration.  Then my friend Mei Li posted this photo on Facebook:

I think that sums it up.

 

Weighty Wednesday

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First, I’d like to thank EVERYONE for their support and positive comments from my extremely personal confessional post yesterday.  The minute it went live I started receiving tweets, facebook messages, emails, etc. all stating that I was “Spot On” or I had “Crept into their heads and stated how they felt.”  It was truly not only moving, and inspirational, but it was comforting.  Food is always going to be something I struggle with, like many of you, and being able to see that we as a community are not alone, was very motivational for me.

Yesterday was the first day in I don’t know how long, that everything I ate was tracked, allocated, and accounted for.  I was under my calories on MyFitnessPal, and only slightly over my daily Points+ Values on Weight Watchers.  I went to bed with a weird feeling.  It wasn’t emptiness, and it wasn’t fullness.  I am not sure if it was satiated, or not, but I didn’t feel like I normally do.  And it was good. Day 1 down.  

Yesterday also consisted of my 4 mile run which was fun and uneventful.  It also had me thinking for about 4 hours that I would sign up for the Marine Corps Marathon this year.  HAH.  I know.  I said I wasn’t going to tackle anymore long distance races until I was done with grad school – or at least had a better handle on it, and well, then I started getting the reminder emails I had signed up for back in November.  Marine Corps Marathon started tweeting me to remind me of the sign up.  I started thinking about crossing that finish line after 26.2 miles.  Then after putting it to a vote on Facebook – a lot of comments came back with good points like “Are you going to have enough time with school and work?”  ”I wouldn’t want to long distance train over the summer.”  ”The Marathon is an annual event, school is not.”  Ahh fine.  I hear you.  I’ll tackle it next year – but I might start training this year.  We’ll see.

Today’s Plan:

  • Breakfast: English muffin w/ PB, Smoothie w/ Protein, Coffee
  • Snack: Apple
  • Lunch: Spinach salad, yogurt, carrots and hummus
  • Snack: banana
  • Dinner: Chicken Stir Fry with Asian Slaw
  • Activity: 2 miles & NROLFW Workout A (Stage 1 Week 3)

I’m upping my weights today from 15 pounds to 20 pounds.  I am a bit scared, because 15 pound dumb bells (yes dumb bells I don’t have a barbell yet) are REALLY hard to keep steady for me on shoulder presses.  Everything else I can muster up the strength, and then calm down through the rest period, but shoulder presses KICK MY ASS.

This is also the week that the reps drop from 15 to 12, which makes sense because I am upping the weight, but still I’m like.. why can’t we keep the same reps with added weight?  Why aren’t more reps better?  WHHHHHHYYYYYYY?

I want things explained to me in child like terms.

Food For Thought on a Wednesday

Tuesday Topic – Binge Eating/Diet in General

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  • Has this year flown by so far for anyone else?  It seems like just yesterday I was freaking out about starting Graduate School and trying to figure out ways to fund it, not lose time for my training, and balance work and oh family and friends.  Now I am more than half way done with my first semester, and I am cataloging mistakes I’ve made along the way to make myself a better student, and hopefully, ultimately, a better teacher.  I have learned so much in the past 8 weeks that I am still kind of flustered that I was accepted to the program.  My mind is all a flutter today.
Fabulous Wine Induced Papers

Fabulous Wine Induced Papers

  • Right now I think the main focus I need to make for myself is my diet.  I know my issue is too much snacking (i.e. Bored eating) and the occasional (THANK GOD NOT FREQUENT) binge.  A lot of people think when they simply eat too much, it’s a binge, and may be for them it is.  I talk to my doctor the last time I was going through a binge period and she told me to write down everything – no matter how much or how bad – I ate during the binge.  So I did:
    • 2 sleeves of saltine crackers
    • 3 tortillas with hummus
    • 6 ounces of cheddar
    • 2 bowls (roughly 3 cups) of fat free vanilla ice cream
    • 2 diet cokes
    • 6 cookies (all we had in the house)
    • 1 bag of popcorn
    • 1 piece of wheat bread with Peanut Butter (about 2 TBSP)
  • The only reason why I stop there (I know some of you are sick just looking at that list) is because the Husband came home and it was time for dinner, which I then also ate without issue.
Pre Race Fuel - but it's consumed way too often - and not before many races.

Pre Race Fuel – but it’s consumed way too often – and not before many races.

  • So what can I do?  My doctor – as many other bloggers who deal with the same issue – said I need to find the root of WHY.  Why am I having these binges?  Is it boredom?  I frankly shouldn’t have time for boredom.  Any free time I have should be focused on school work, exercise, or sleep.  Is it emotions?  I need to learn not to “Eat My feelings” and focus on why I am feeling what I am feeling, and realize it’s okay to be sad.  Food won’t make it better.  Food isn’t going to hug it out with me, it’s just going to me more upset.  Which is the kicker.  I am upset, so I overeat, then I am upset because I overate, and then think, what the hell, I’ll start over tomorrow and be “better”.  I am the Queen of starting over tomorrow.  I am the Queen of excuses.  But when your only pants are so tight they leave indention marks on you stomach (that spills over your waist band) and you can’t find anything to wear that lets you breathe adequately, and in a hasty decision you donated all of your bigger sizes, leaving you with LITERALLY no clothes to wear once it gets warmer out – you start to realize, there is no more tomorrow.  You are in your tomorrow.  Tomorrow is staring at you with a bitch face laughing at your mistakes, and shaking it’s finger when you say “But I’ll do better!” Because even it knows, unless you make a valiant effort – which you haven’t done in almost two years – you won’t do better.  You will do the same and with that you will see the same results = nada.

  • I can’t go back so many steps to her, again.  I can’t go back to size 14, over 190 pounds, creeping towards 200 and look at myself in the mirror.  I can’t ‘wait for thin’ anymore.  I have to grab ‘healthy’.  It’s not so much a physical thing now, as it is mental.  I know what I have to do, but I have to want it, and need it.  
  • I spent the better part of last night wishing for some miracle.  The Husband said “you aren’t going to wake up magically one day and be thin, you have to wait.  It takes time.”  He’s right, but while I am waiting, I need to focus on getting my head straight.

  • I’m not the bride who almost couldn’t get her dressed zipped up and felt huge in her dress all day.  

  • I can’t hide from pictures anymore for fear that I won’t like what I see.  I am not going to make some big ass confusing plan to change my ways.  I am simply going to track what I eat.  I will continue to workout.  We went grocery shopping last night, and not only did we spend like NO MONEY but I didn’t put trigger foods in my cart.  I am going to be more mindful, keep myself busy.  Pre-track my food everyday.  Give myself a chance to see what happens when I actually put 100% into this.  I miss the way I was when I first started.  I was a rock star.  I dropped 25 pounds in my first 6 weeks.  I was elated.  I couldn’t believe that this was happening.  Every year I’ve said this will be the year I get into a two piece.  Well this will be the year. 

Tulle underwire top

  • Because JCREW sells swim year round, I am not ordering it yet.  I am waiting till I get closer to our Beach Vacay in now August (was June, but because of summer session we had to move it) – But this is the plan.  It’s not flashy, and it’s not all that revealing.  But I hope to feel comfortable enough to put it on and slather myself in SPF 30000 and sit underneath an umbrella in dense shade for a few hours at a time at the beach. 

One day at a time.  That’s all I can do.  So that is all I will do.  Today I have pretracked my meals on Myfitnesspal and Weight Watchers.  I am still with in my calories and points, and I am planning on running 4 miles after work (I swear once it warms up and I am not a baby anymore, I’ll be running outside).  I feel great about the NROLFW program, as I finished up week 2 yesterday.  I am starting Week 3 on Wednesday and upping my weight from 15 pound dumb bells to 20 pounders!  Then I need to buy more plates to up my weight for the next two weeks after that.  I am excited because it is still challenging and I want to see the results.  I need to see them.

Food For Thought on a Tuesday

Spring?

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So I woke up to this:

Yeah.  Spring my ass.  I was planning on running outside today, but everything will be gross, muddy and icy by the time I get out of work.  Plus, people tend to act like crazy idiots when stuff starts falling from the sky, like we are cavemen and the snow or rain is actually fire and lava and blood from children and we all must drive either too fast or too slow and weave in and out of traffic to avoid being pelted by this plague of weather.

Can you tell I had a great commute?

Plan of the Day:

  • Breakfast: Smoothie with Chike nutrition added, English Muffin w/ Strawberry jam, Coffee
  • Snack: Water
  • Lunch: Yogurt, fruit, carrots and hummus, Advo Meal Replacement Bar
  • Snack: Tea
  • Dinner: Whole Wheat Pasta w/ ground turkey and tomato sauce
  • Activity: NROLFW Stage 1, Week 2, Workout B & 2 miles on the treadmill

Yesterday after lunch (per my video) I came home and ran a sub-40 4 miles.  I was extremely excited by this, because I haven’t run that in a while.  My legs took a random turn of not wanting to listen to me around January of this year, and I started to think I was headed down the path of injury again, and now, yes now, it seems as though they have been beaten into submission Christian Grey Style.

Today I will be kinder to them with lunges and 2 miles of running just to keep them limber.

I know it’s supposed to take like 12 weeks or something for you to notice a difference in your body, and since the scale I know has stalled – which is fine, at least it’s not going up! – I need to see some sort of change.  A slight difference in my pants?  May be a shirt fits better than before?  Anything?  Well okay.  I realize it’s only been two weeks.  It’s really hard to watch other people (I should just wear a blindfold and not look in mirrors at all) have such instant success when they buckle down.

But may be that’s my problem.  Have I buckled down?  I’ve been following WW to a T.  Weight Watchers allows you to eat “Most” veggies and fruits without having to “count them” in their points system, which at first I was like “BAM!  I WILL ONLY EAT THOSE.”  Yeah that never works past one meal for me.  I love salads, but I also love cheese.  And Wine.  And Chocolate.  And Bread.  Wine, Chocolate, Bread and Cheese.  I have just formulated my dinner…

So I started double tracking again on My Fitness Pal.  I need to make sure with lifting I am getting enough protein, and protein on WW is always higher in points so I end up neglecting it.  Funny how that works.  Then just when I thought, “man this is gonna suck.  Jennifer is gonna make me give up my English Muffins :-) ”  I was thinking about all the stuff she  was telling me to add to my diet that I was neglecting which ultimately was Good Fats (YES THEY EXIST PEOPLE) and Protein.  Then as I was running through my blog reader (Google I hate you for giving me a doomsday on this) I saw Caitlin’s post on ‘Adding not Subtracting’

healthy living

 

So I’ll just be adding things that my body needs to my diet.  If I am fueling properly, I won’t have time (or room) to eat the junk.  But I am not giving up my English Muffins or Oatmeal! :-)

In other news, school is going well.  I’ll be crazed for 9 weeks over the summer (yeah I can’t count and thought it was 6, but no, it’s 9.) but that’s okay.  I am terrified I didn’t pass my VCLA test.  I got unofficial results which are percentages and mean nothing because the results you need are in points values, so I have no idea what this percentage equates to, or how much each question was worth, but needless to say I am scared.   I know I can take it again and that I have time to take it again, but from everyone being like “Oh it’s so easy, and you’ll be fine” for me to NOT pass, would make me rather, um, stark raving mad.   My Praxis II are slated for May 10 at noon – I get to leave work early to take them, so that’s a plus, but I am also pretty sure I needed to start prepping like a year ago.  Apparently anything pertaining to English (eras of literature, linguistics, grammar, spelling, editing, writing, reading comprehension, the development of language, etc) COULD BE on the test.  So the study guide is larger than any textbook I’ve ever pretended to study from.  So I will most likely get on that this week.  If not tonight.  Actually I wish it were here with me now.

Food For Thought On Monday:

No More Face it Friday

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I am chronicling my weight loss now in “private” I guess.  Being on WW you still weigh in once a week, so I plan to keep it up, but while strength training – and frankly fueling for tomorrow’s half marathon, I don’t see the number on the scale as an accurate depiction, and it could just get more confusing.  At the end of each stage I’ll post, weight lost during stage, inches lost during stage, and after photos.  This will keep you involved in the weight battle I will forever be in, but it won’t paint me as a depressed every week if the scale moves in the wrong direction.

I’ll suffer in silence :-)

So today I carpooled with the Husband to work where we got into two heated discussions: 1 about the “Deer Massacre” slated for Rock Creek Park in DC (you can guess my obvious bias) and 2 about how the Tax on Hybrid vehicles passed, and I agree with it.  He does not.  Well I am not in the business of debating those topics on here, so moving right along:

Plan of the Day

  • Breakfast: English Muffin, PB, Smoothie, Coffee
  • Snack: Apple
  • Lunch: Pita, Humms, Carrots, Yogurt, Diet Coke
  • Snack: Banana
  • Dinner: Salad at Chop’t
  • Activity: GOING TO GET MY RACE PACKET!!!!  AHHH SOOOOO MUCH EXCITEMENT.

I am happy today is a forced rest day in preparation for the Half tomorrow.  My legs are tired, and my upper body and abdomen are SORE.  I am keeping a log of my sets, reps, and weights that I do each workout.  I hope to progress with weight every 2 weeks.  (I need to buy more weights – or I need to just suck it up and buy a damn gym membership – we’ll discuss this later among my Husband and I).  When I say that I want to progress with my weights every two weeks,  I mean by 5 pounds or less.  I am currently at 15 pounds – I know puny – which is hard to maintain proper form with dumb bells for both sets and all of the reps.  I hope in two weeks to go for 20 pounds and see what happens.

Overall I am liking this all so far.  I know it’s been two days, and everyone likes everything new in this stage, but I like the idea of not looking at the scale for results so much as I need to look at the measuring tape and the mirror.  I’m totally ready.

I am also ready for this half marathon to be over.  I hate the anxiety leading up to a race.  I know out of like 30,000 runners I won’t come in last, or even close to last – especially since I am running the half and there is a full component – but I am just ready to get past the dreaded 8-10 mile range.  That is where I am like “THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE.”  When I hit 10 miles, I seem to relax a bit, and think about the fact I have like a 5k left, and then I am done.  I can totally do a 5k.  It’s totally doable.  I got this.

The best is the last mile – Part of it is usually up hill – and EVERYONE is there screaming and cheering.  You can’t help but be overrun with emotion – I am sure more so or at least a different type of feeling overcomes the people finishing a marathon – and last year, at this same race, while running up the hill to the finish line I remember tears falling down my face and feeling like I had just accomplished something that I never dreamed I could. It’s great when you prove yourself wrong.

So today, The Husband is coming to get me a little after 1:00pm and we are heading down to the expo to get my race packet, swag bag, and walk around the expo a little bit.  Stop by SparklySoul Inc booth to see if I can pick up a new headband, and then of course Potomac River Running’s Booth because I run like all of their races.  I’ll have to pick up this years Pint Glass, and possibly something more, but who knows.  I get all crazy at these expos because I want to buy like all of the memorabilia, and then the Husband has to remind me, that I can’t in fact wear any of it for the race, and that I have 8000 race shirts already (gross overstatement).

Tonight we are venturing back to Arlington, for Salad and dinner with Lisa.  Chop’t is my dinner of choice the night before a race, because in an experiment not controlled or really tested fairly by any science standards, I have had better races when I’ve eaten a salad with lots of protein the night before a race as opposed to Tony’s Pizza.  This is sad on many accounts, because I love Tony’s and I don’t eat it nearly as often as I want, but the grease, fat, and dairy is no bueno.

So that is my plan so far.

 

Sunday will be sleep in and do nothing day – except possibly a trip to Sur La Table.

 

xoxox