Days 3-6

Stuck on it.  Ate only Whole30 foods.  Too lazy to write what I ate all the days so I'll just do yesterday.


Breakfast: didn't eat
Lunch: leftover kale salad with hard boiled egg, a bunch of pistachios and cashews (so good)
Dinner: rosemary braised beef with sweet potato mash and asparagus.  So good.  Oh man.  Had friends over.  Everyone else had pumpkin roll from Wegmans but I held strong.
Snack: went over to friend's house to watch Emmys.  They had all kinds of junk food.  I brought guac and red pepper strips and stuck to that

Feeling sleepy today.

Day 1 and 2 redux

Ahhh!  How has it been 6 days since I started???  Especially when on Saturday, Sunday and Monday I failed.

Sat:
Breakfast: Sweet potato hash
Lunch: Went to Felicity's kid's baptism.  Went to their house after.  Had chicken salad on croissants, chocolate cake, and ice cream.
Dinner: Had people over.  Fed them coconut lemongrass chicken, which was fine, but then also mochi and chocolate babka cake.  Oops

Sun:
Breakfast: leftover babka
Dinner: went to friend's.  Had Italian beef rolls.  Then had Reese's mini cheesecakes for dessert.

Mon:
Breakfast: finished off the babka.  Frosted mini wheats
Lunch: I forget
Dinner: Leftover lemongrass chicken

Tues: (Day 1 again)
Breakfast: none
Lunch: beef taco salad
Dinner: kale steak salad

Wed: (Day 2 again)
Breakfast: leftover kale salad with 2 soft boiled eggs
Lunch: none
Dinner: chicken pot

Feelings: Ugh, I feel like I've been doing this FOREVER, but I've only just begun.  Again.  And I think I may cheat because there is good food in DC and I'm leaving so I should eat it before I go.  But I want to be skinny.  I walked 5 miles on Monday and messed up my foot again, so I haven't left the house the past 2 days.  Fail.  I ordered stiff shoes so maybe when they come they will fix everything?

Whole30-2 Day 1

Breakfast: 2 fried eggs, banana
Lunch: Zuchini and turkey chili
Dinner: taco salad with guac, pickled onions

Exercise: does sitting on my couch all day count?

Respawn

So I didn't really do anything since my last blog.  I sort of ran a couple times, but didn't finish C25K (on the last week).  On July 4th I tried to do it, but it is hot as balls and I only ran about 10 minutes before I had to walk.  Also, I've been eating crap and thus feeling like crap.  I have this summer off though to respawn.

So I started to workout more this week.  I ran (sort of, as mentioned) on Monday the 4th, then I did 30 minutes of Combat, then walked like 4 miles to the fireworks (round trip).  Tuesday I was feeling it.  No run.  Did 30 minutes of Combat (the strength one) which I failed at.  Walked to the grocery store twice (oops, I thought I had bought potatoes last week).  Now today, I "ran" C25K day 1, but even failed at that.  It is so hot outside I was feeling lightheaded, and I don't think I had enough water in me, so that was a problem.  Ended up walking 3 miles ish.  Then did 45 minute Combat and 20 minutes of stretching.  Ate frosted flakes for breakfast (so bad but so good) but then lunch had my healthy stew.  But then chocolate.  Dinner will be shallot chicken and fruit.

Goals:
Sleep as much as possible
Eat mostly whole foods-save treats for special occasions, Whole30 during Sept
Exercise by running 4x a week, doing Combat 5 times a week while near somewhere I have access to a DVD player, stretch 6 days a week, lots of walking!
Drink lots of water

Weight: 139 lbs (I don't have a scale this summer, so we will see how things are looking come October!)

Physician, heal thyself

I don't take care of myself.  Like, at all.  Now that Scott's gone, I just eat cereal and sit around.  I need to take better care of myself.

Weight: 140.0 lbs

Feelings: abdominal cramping pain (gluten and milk aren't great for me I found out)

Goal for the week: Finish C25k (I'm on week 8 day 3).  Wake up at 6am every day.  Make more food and not just eat cereal every meal

"Ok poop, you're not the boss of me!"

I have been off my routine for a while.  I went to a conference in San Diego week before last, which I ran once at but not again, and then I didn't run since because my job in Maryland fell through and I was kind of sad.  Whatever, I got over it. I finally went running tonight.  Things were going ok until the last 5 minutes, when I thought I was going to crap my pants.  This was C25K week 7 day 2 and I really wanted to stick with it (I had run 20 min straight already!) so I kept telling my poop that it wasn't in charge.  It worked!

I guess the moral of the story is that there may be crap that is trying to ruin my current life goals, but I can't let it boss me around.

Day 1 & 2 and Goalsssssssssssss

SUNDAY

Breakfast:
3 scrambled eggs, guac, 1/2 tomato

Lunch: cashews

Dinner: Spare ribs, sweet potato mash, grapes

Exercise: 30 minute walk

MONDAY

Breakfast: chia pudding with almond milk, 1 banana, 2 hard boiled eggs

Lunch: orange, chicken soup with veggies

Dinner: leftover spare ribs, strawberries, raspberries, 1 piece chocolate, grapes

Snacks: nachos, fried calamari.  Happy hour for one of our nurse's last day

Exercise: C25K week 6 day 2, walk home from work (1.7 miles)

Feelings: oops, I didn't do this today


FOOD GOALS THIS SUMMER/FALL

May: eat whole30.  May be hard while in San Diego, but eat as healthy as possible.  Can go out to eat when with Scott maybe

June: continue whole30 while Scott is away.  Can go out to eat a couple of weekends maybe

July: paleo except birthday, Norway may be tough

Aug: paleo-will be tough when in Utah, but goal to keep with it 80%

Sept: paleo 100%

Oct: formal whole 30

FITNESS GOALS THIS SUMMER/FALL

May: finish C25K (goal done May 22).  Start combat when home from San Diego (should be done right when going to Norway)

June: work on running speed.  Run every day not on call

July: increase running to 4 mi.  Run 5x week before Norway, 3 x week while in Norway. Finish combat

August: increase running to 5 mi.  Run 5x week except during Grand canyon. Continue running while in Utah.  Restart Combat

Sept: run 3x week once work starts.

Oct: run 3x week. Some other form of exercise all other days except when on call