Weigh In #8

Today was a walk outside day. I've been trying to run on the flat spots. It went well today, but now my knees and shins hurt. I need to stretch and take a shower.

I'm down another pound. I think. I stepped on the scale before my walk/run and after. Before I had lost nothing, but hadn't gained either. Given that most of last week's loss was probably temporary due to illness, I consider it good that it's still gone. After my workout I was down another pound. So, it could have been water weight, but I'm going to claim it just because I want to. Hopefully it'll still be gone next week. This puts me into the weight range I've been fluctuating in for about 10 years now. We'll see over the next few weeks if I can break it. That'd put a "1" at the front of my poundage.

breakfast:
just ate the yuckiest oatmeal ever. Bleh.
1 % milk

lunch:
two pieces of leftover pizza

dinner:
a couple bites of pizza
a bite of egg
green salad with grilled chicken, tomato, carrot, mozzarella, and about a tsp. of vinaigrette

later:
1 bite of each kid's snow cone (it's Madilyn's birthday. We had to get a treat!)
1 lemon bar that a neighbor brought me. It was a gift. I had to eat it!

It's so old lady, but my hip hurts!

Week 6 FINALLY Begins

I didn't get around to posting yesterday. It was Sunday, so no exercise.

breakfast:

waffle (complete with butter and syrup. Didn't taste very good)
1% milk


lunch:
half a turkey cheese sandwich


dinner:
red beans and rice with a sprinkling of cheese
mandarin oranges
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It's off to a slow start, but after spending 14 days stuck in week 5 (thanks to an unpleasant bout with strep) week 6 is finally here. We'll see if I can hack it. Friday was ultra tough. I didn't eat well last week either, so I'm not expecting to see good things on the scale tomorrow. Today is all mixed up. I slept in. It's almost 11 am and I'm still sitting in my pj's. The baby went back to sleep after her morning nursing, so her schedule is all messed up too. Not sure when I'm going to work out today. It'll have to be next time she naps. Whenever that might be.


breakfast:
oatmeal with a little bit of brown sugar
1% milk (although I've only had a few sips so far)

lunch:
there was literally nothing to eat. I had a few bites of this and that; ham, pineapple, a bite of cheese, a bite of peanut butter, pineapple juice. Not the healthiest, but like I said there was literally nothing to eat.

dinner:
we grilled pizza. I ate four squares! Green salad

FHE treat:
strawberry shortcake, cream on the top...

later:
OJ

breakfast:
4 pancakes with blueberries on top (too many, I know)
1% milk


I'm so tired. The baby got up at 6:00. Which is normally the time I should be working out, but I stayed up really late last night, and since it's Saturday I was planning on a later run. I'm debating going back to bed while the baby naps and having an even later workout. Problem is, there's a lot I want to do today and going back to bed will waste a good chuck of the day. BUT, I'm really cranky. AND my workout would probably go better if I'm rested. What to do???

Running won out. It was the hardest work out yet. I looked at the timer sooooo many times. The first 15 minutes were long, but do-able. The second 15 minutes seemed to never end. I thought I wouldn't make it. I thought of quitting so many times. In the end I made it. I'm glad week 5 is finally at an end.

lunch (didn't get around to it until 2:30 p):
2 chicken tacos (and then after I put the baby to bed I was still hungry so I at 2 more! I was so full)

dinner:
greek steak salad, with Tziki sauce, and marinated veggies
falafel

I ate SO much! I haven't eaten that much since I started this whole thing. It's 11:30 pm and I still feel like I could pop. Why is it that I eat the worst on the days that I had to work the hardest? I probably negated the whole work out and then some. Good grief.

breakfast:
oatmeal with raspberry topping
1% milk
the rest of Cadi's banana

This mornings jog was difficult to get to. Stuart was sick, the kids were up in the night, I didn't sleep much, so I didn't get up early. I started my workout before 10 am after I put the baby to bed, changed, and took the twins potty. 45 minutes later I had only managed 6 or so active minutes on the treadmill! Fighting, pooping, yelling, climbing all over the treadmill... crazy kids! I did some yelling of my own and kicked them out of the exercise room. I felt justified, then after a while I felt bad. Once the workout was over, I was ready for apologies and starting over (It only took a few minutes before I felt justified again).

I'm back on track with week 5's schedule; run 14 min/walk 1 min. The first run went well. I felt good, but once my walk break came around I had to potty so I took a bathroom break, and it totally messed with my momentum. The second 14 minutes was harder. Took a minute to walk and then ran until I hit 5k again.

lunch:
the rest of Wrigley's banana
turkey and cheese, no mayo
grapes
Capri Sun

dinner:
homemade chicken noodle soup (courtesy of JoAnne)
bread
grapes

I ate waaaaaay too much at dinner. Gotta work on that.

I really need to get some new running shoes. I paid a lot for the ones I have four years ago, but they're really worn now. My big toe is starting to poke through on one shoe. I haven't had much trouble with my knees lately (although my legs have been really sore this week), but I'm starting to have hip trouble (sooooo old lady!). It doesn't hurt when I run, just later. I so hope I can work through it. I don't want to be sidelined!

Today was a walk day. I've been adding some jogging to my walk days. I decided to take it in smaller bites today (like not running on the hills). It was hard at the end, but I made it.


breakfast:
oatmeal with raspberry topping
1% milk


lunch:
turkey and cheese on homemade white, no mayo
another piece of bread, actually it was two, one with jam
2 glasses of root beer (that amounts to 240 calories that I drank) ugh.


Look at me. Drowning the stress caused by my children, and a trip to the grocery store with a non-budget in sugar. Way to go. Fabulous. At this rate I'll be fat forever. Probably true. I feel so heavy. Heavy in spirit. I just want to melt into the chair I'm sitting in. When will it all go away?

dinner:
barbequed chicken
potatoes
green beans

I thought I was going to bed earlier last night. I think I made it about 30 min early. Not good enough. Especially when you have really annoying, loud, pesky, early risers. I'm sitting here waiting for the baby to be finished with her breakfast so I can get ready for my run. This is the first morning in a long time that I don't even want to do it. I don't care today. That scares me. This strep thing is throwing me off. Where's my resolve?


Not knowing what to expect, I hopped on the treadmill with a loose plan. I'd shoot for last Wednesday's scheduled run (run for 13/walk for 1, repeat), and not be mad if I had to rest. I would have been happy if I could have run for 5 minutes at a time. I was surprised I made the first 13 minutes. Grateful for a walk/water break. I walked probably closer to 2 minutes and then ran again. It actually hurt to walk. Then I ran 12 minutes, took a 1.5 minutes walk/water break and ran until I hit 5k. I was incredibly surprised to see that I'd knocked 2 minutes off my time when the monitor flashed 3.2 miles! Amazing! Who would have thought that coming back after an illness, and sore legs from attempting a run outside yesterday would improve my time. I still can't believe it. *my legs hurt*


breakfast:
oatmeal with raspberry topping
1% milk


lunch:
leftover chicken tortilla soup with a sprinkle of cheese
capri sun

snack:
granola bar

here's where I succumbed to the monster that is my addiction (I don't even want to write it down) NO BAKE COOKIES, like 4 of them. I think. That's like 450 calories. Ugh. I tried to make up for it by not eating much for dinner.

dinner:
frosted mini wheats
a couple bites of chicken

later:
a slice (okay 2) of home made bread
a glass of rootbeer

Weigh In Day #7

Omigosh! I actually lost weight! Cadi got me up at the crack of dawn to go to the bathroom, and I casually stepped on the scale while I waited for her to go potty. I was too tired to be super excited, but I'd lost 3 lbs. Wow! Later, as I was changing for my workout, I stepped on the scale again just to see if there was really any difference between weighing in wearing my PJ's and weighing in wearing my birthday suit like I usually do. Incredibly it put me down another pound! That's 4 lbs. in one week. My best yet (which makes it weird that I feel so darn fat)! Now whether or not it's weight loss from exercise, or weight loss from irregular eating habits due to illness is yet to be seen. I'll take it either way, and hopefully it'll still be gone next Tuesday.

I went on my scheduled walk this morning. I decided to give running outside a try. I only planned on running about 100 yards, but once I'd finished that I was doing okay, so I kept going. I worried about my knees, but they did fine. I was breathing like an over worked race horse. Moving forward under one's own power is a lot harder than jogging on the treadmill. I kept picking out new landmarks to run to; just make it to that house, keep running until you get to that tree, you can stop at the next drive way, go until you get to the top of the hill... each time I felt fine (very loud breathing excepting), so I kept on going. I made it about a mile (I'll have to clock it in the car later to be sure). I stopped at the bottom of the big hill. It took me a while to recover, and my left leg was cramping by the time I got to the top. I had planned on running again, but I didn't feel I had it in me. I figure for a first time it was okay. Especially since I'm coming off a weekend of strep and inactivity. I'm usually tired after a run on the treadmill, but not sore. My muscles are sore (my back included. How weird is that?), tight, and tired after jogging outside. I guess it worked new things. It'll take some getting use to. It was kind of cool to feel part of the "club" as I passed other joggers (they were actually running). It was kind of freeing to run outside. I hope my body can keep it up.

breakfast:
oatmeal with b. sugar
1% milk

lunch:
leftover chicken tacos
1 cracker with cheese
1.5 no bake cookies (the baby snagged one of my cookies, doing her part to get mommy skinny)

You'd think that having a surprise weight loss this morning would motivate me to stay away from junk food. I'm just having such a difficult time with life's circumstances right now, that I'm drawn to it. I find that I don't even want to resist it. Right now, I can see myself walking to the fridge and getting another cookie. Ugh. I need to get up and be productive. I've wasted most of the day in front of the computer. I should at least shower. Then I have a whole list of things I should be doing instead of sitting here.

dinner:
chicken tortilla soup with a sprinkling of jack cheese
home made tortillas (I ate 3! Aaaak!)
snuck another cookie! (you'd think I wanted that 4 pounds back)

later:
OJ