From 203 pounds to 1 Fit Chick!

Bfst- spinach/cheese omlette

Lunch- shelled some crab and mixed with a little lite m.whip, on crackers/ skim milk/ apple and pce. cheese.

Snack- caught myself back into that fresh crab the b/f brought in from trap fishing. Can’t keep out of it…help me…no, that’s okay  I don’t need help eating it…go away now!!!

Dinner- Bbq’d burger and of course I had it in a bun…(what? am I on a diet?) protein heaven today,  skim milk/ and I’m stuffed…for now. 

You can lead “this chick” ” to water…put a glass in her hand and show her the cold water faucet and yet she drinketh not enougheth!

I put on a Cathe Friedrich video “cardio+weights” 1 hr  of  step/weights circuits. I  have a few of her dvd’s and I want more. Her “gym style”series looks scary…heavy up the weights and sweat the bejeezes out of ya!

This water thing is bugging the heck outta me! How do you remember to drink enough? I’ll be up+down all night if I knock it back now.  At least I’ve remembered to take my cholesterol pill everyday now for a week…that’s a first! I’m not good with pills so hopefully that’s the only pill I ever need. I had 3 months worth that lasted 4 months (attaway to play around with the old arteries girlie)…wish I was that good with my pay cheque!

Got up with the pheasants who enjoyed breakfast in the rain while I debated treadmill vs.  running ‘out there’. I don’t know who I am anymore, and I certainly have no idea when I turned in this chick who spies an ad in Runners World magazine of a gal running in the rain, and thinks “why the hell not me”? I wanted to run in the damn rain!

(Big prof- if you read this- I got to tell you if we were standing in the same room and you said that my running inspired you, I’d look behind me to see who you were talking to! I guess sometimes we don’t see our own accomplishments for what they are. Thanks!)

I’ve struggle with the physical part of my running for about a year now. Mentally I eat, sleep and sh!t running! I knew there were people out there heavier than I  running marathons, and I’m not interested in that, but  I would like to run the length of this island and back. 7 miles. Just once to prove I can. After that i’ll be happy to run and then lollygaggle and then run again as my fickle mind desires.

I did that rainy day run and I made 4 miles! Did I mention we had a severe rainfall warning? My b/f drove past and gave me a big honk, another fellow called out and told me I was tough and that he would melt…yet another guy slowed and asked if I were afraid of melting. Rainy day drivers using me as a source of entertainment…the nerve! I really enjoyed that run!

Keeping track of the grub is difficult for me. I do so well at first then it just fades away…no not the grub…my plan to track it all. Biggest problem is my memory, of which I’m severely lacking. Take today, I know what I ate at the time,  and at that time my memory seemed all right enough, so I relied on it and now I rack my brains. I knew this would happen…at least there’s not a lot of racking to be done!

Bfst: Banana/skim milk/ an “after run” chunk of bbq’d cheese burger that looked all lonely in the fridge mmmmn BBQ mmmmm!

Snack- yogurt lemon flav. only 35 cals!

Lunch- salad/chicken bst/ I know-salad!!! Already made so why not…

note: I tried a salad dressing that is different, for me. It’s Kraft’s Mandarin Orange and when I first tasted it straight from the bottle I thought “Oh no, oh dear, oh what have I bought” To my surprise when I put it on my salad…lo and behold, I liked it.
I’m  not eating salad tomorrow!

Snack- small pce. of my mum’s angel food cake/skim milk

Supper- I’m having veggie fried (whole grain) rice with egg scrambled in…I’m drooling so gotta go!

5 lbs. down this week, me ducky, is no small quackers! Went back over my chow and noticed I’m starting to slide a little in the veggie arena. Yes, I had lot’s of salads, but gee where are my homemade soups and stir-fry’s loaded with veggies I lovingly, by my own hand, hacked the hell out of? Salads are getting a little b-o-r-i-n-g! Change is good, Donkey!

Got up with the gulls and right out for a 3 mile run. Did a little walk part way through just cause I could and wanted to. It looked so beautiful this morning down by the water so I took a time out to walk across the sand beach. Found the Beachboy’s “Kokokmo” on my ipod…ahhh perfect! bring on summer

off to sand chairs now…

Deciding to give my legs a rest from running today, I went out on my bicycle and polished off 20 miles. I have this to say about my new bike saddle that’s designed for women: It sure works good keeping the pressure off of the dainty parts, but by God my butt took just about all of the pressure it can handle for awhile! Heck of a ride!

Tomorrow is the start of week#2 and last night I had a small struggle with the munchies.  I made it through, don’t ask me how. I think it’s probably not a good idea to do a second workout. If I’m not careful hunger will be my downfall. Possibly not eating enough to support that much exercise.  Ah shit, how do you know? Sometimes it’s hard to tell if you can really handle more, or are you simply making excuses?   I’m sure I was some damned hungry last night!

I felt so good when I got up this morning. How good did I feel? 4 miles worth of great! That’s how good. I ran 4 whole miles. Completely. My back is sore from patting myself on it so much. I thought I had been sentenced to an eternity of walk/runs!!! After completing the couch25k program last summer I thought I was maybe overdoing it by adding more and more mileage until  my body felt beyond fatigued. Now I’m not talking 20 miles, or 10 miles, and criminey-crickets not even 8 (hangs head low) 5 stupid miles! Don’t get me wrong, 5 miles is wonderful, but why couldn’t I break through that barrier???  My legs ached badly and stiff hmmm can’t begin to describe it. I stretched good and took days off, bought good runners, yet after several days running-sore sore sore! Here and there throughout the winter I’d walk/ran when the urge moved me and that was that. I wasn’t sure why my legs felt like huge, tired, tree trunks. I recently went on “Runners World” and read up on running posture and in particular my foot strike and made some changes there. I had been “over striding” and landing hard and slow. Now I take shorter, quicker steps and keep my feet very quiet and “surprise” it works! Eureka! Time will tell, but I have to say this feels very good. All those times wondering how they(runners) do it and all I needed was a little technique adjustment. Go figure!

Food today has been a bit more like grazing. All good fuel though!

Bfst:Yogurt/apple

-Banana

Lite Ham slices, pce. of cheese. Salad.

-skin milk , more yogurt

Supper- headed to the kitchen right now for a mini Hawaiian pizza. (w/wheat pita bread/ sauce/lean ham/pineapple/blk. olives/cheese) A few minutes under the grill element in the oven and I’m one happy chick!

Did I mention that I’m doing 1 hr. circuit training tonight? 1 Fit Chick here I come!

I went out and ran another 2.5 miles. Non stop both times! Yes, I’m a happening chick! I took another peek at my calories burned/activity calculator thingamajig and updated my cycling calories I burned… yipeeee it’s a lot more than I thought. I mixed up the columns. Gots to love those kind of f-ups!
I’m trying to run more and walk less. Yes…of course it’s all about the calorie burn thingy…(I know, I know, I run a tight ship here in the spelling dept). I’m beginning to fall in love with running. I figured my pace is 5 mph and my 5 miles today burned over 700 calories! Makes me want to get the runners on and head out again, err… no it’s okay no fanatics here thankyou!

It’s like a bonus to find these two activities I like can burn so many calories.

Grub today:

Bfst/Lunch- most deelish omelette mentioned in post below.

After run- 1 cookie/yogurt/skim milk.

Mid afternoon- carrot sticksSupper- Salad/turkey meat/cheese/bacon bits/dressing

Snack-yogurt

It’s a wrap! Hmmm wraps? Mmmm!

For my cardio I went for a run and seems how I was running late, I went on an empty stomach…bad idea, me!  2.5 miles had me calling it quits. Well now seems like a good day to have my treat breakfast. Deeeelish…a 2 egg omlette with spinach, cheese slice and ketchup.

*note to self*   If you are used to having a little something in your belly to work-out then TAKE TIME TO EAT!!!

Now that my belly has settled I am on my way back out to finish my cardio. It’s not over till it’s over!

Thank u muchly 4 the comment, Lori!

Smiling! Down some more today. Yesterday morning I researched calorie burning calculators and found that one activity I can burn alot of calories is cycling. For my weight one hour of moderate cycling = average of 550  700 calories!!!

Thursday’s eats:

Bfst is usually the same. A yogurt and some fruit. Something light for before my work-outs.

Lunch- chicken breast, 1/2 sweet potato, peas, sliced cuke and tomato.

Snack- apple

Supper- big garden salad with cheese, ham, bacon bits and dressing

Snack- yogurt

I’d forgotten how much you have to run to the can, in the beginning, when you start drinking more water. I used to be in the habit of chugging all day. What’s this? one more bad habit to add to the junk pile…no wonder my weight’s crept up, sheesh!

This first week is showing results already and I expected that. I don’t expect it to be like that after this week, though I will be looking for about a 3 lb average. Sitting on my fat ass at night and gobbley-gutting didn’t work out…hmmm I wonder why??? Those nights are over. A hard craving to break if you are weak and used to giving in yourself. Not me. I am strong. Anything I’ve ever taken on I have completed to the best of my ability. This is no different, plus, there’ll be maintenance…

I have made myself my own project and am going to turn my body into the healthy, lean physique I have pictured in my mind. To be strong and toned and I can’t wait to hear the “ooohs and ahhhs” from the people in my life over this amazing transformation. I want to feel like an athlete! I want to be proud of myself! I don’t want to look like shit at 50!!!