The Last Straw

If food were alcohol, I would be three sheets to the wind. Sloppy as a soup sandwich. Tanked, sloshed and snockered. High as a kite and pissed to the gills.

Went a little off plan last night if you couldn’t tell. Not too torn up about it. I had to cut my calories down to 1,200 for the past week or two to get the pounds moving again. So I was ready to loosen up the belt and cut loose for once. I am ready to dive into the 160’s now. Granted, considering last night’s events, that will not happen too soon! I took a very much deserved detour off of this nose to the grindstone road of mine. So whatever. I will just avoid the scales until I have had a couple of days to recover from it.

Now, it is back to work. I am headed to the track. I downloaded week 2 of C25k. That is not saying that I will do it. I won’t bother to try to decide until after I warm up for about a mile. I do like the idea of less intervals. I think there are 8 of the 60 second jogs on week 1 whereas on week 2 there are 6 90 second jogs. I still can’t believe that I get so worked up about numbers that are counted in SECONDS! Geez Louise. Seconds! But whatever. It is where I am at in this. There was a day when I couldn’t make it to 60 even. So progress is happening, it is just happening slowly.

Added some Lynyrd Skynyrd to my mp3. Got me some Freebird. As I was downloading songs, my selections were totally based on whether it seemed like a good walking song. I am looking forward to warming up to some Freebird! Yeah! What else did I add? Oh, some Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away. Apparently there was something about flying and birds on my brain. I think there could some appeal to that. I mean, when you are sedentary like I was….this movement even if you are still counting your running time in SECONDS…feels very free. I often feel like I am running to escape that old life. After last nights food bender, I better run really fast!

mp3: check. Water bottle: check. Baggy tshirt to cover the gushy-gushy: check. Asthma inhaler to avoid hypochondriacal melt down: check. Looks like I am ready to go. 

…And now I am back. Felt inspired and went ahead and did C25k week 2. Must have been the Freebird. Anyway, this was my first day of week 2. And as expected, I did like the six intervals better than the eight shorter ones in week 1. Not sure why I was so hesitant to move on to week 2. Whatever. So anyway, I did a mile warm up then did the podcast and then walked another mile. My right leg tried to revolt towards the end, but then surrendered. I threw in some random jogging there in that last mile too. I think I will do that more often. Just jog a bit after I am done with the podcast so I can have the structure of the podcast which I think I need and then also have some time to just jog however far I feel like jogging while listening to something besides techno. I really like the podcasts and I think that the techno actually has some clear advantages, though. No chance of accidentally singing outloud and scaring my fellow track goers.