The journey from fat to fit. Road trip, woo hoo!

Weight 139.3

Breakfast: ham/pear/brie crepe w/ small side salad, hazel nut mocha. DOES LIFE GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS?

Lunch: late lunch/early dinner, skipped lunch

Dinner: one glass champagne, one glass red wine, one beer, munchies at happy hour, but nothing too much

Half Mary: training plan calls for cross training, which I will be getting in the form of a girls only 70’s disco dance party tonight. Seriously.

Other exercise: hmmmm, I’ll think about it

I have not been very attentive to other people’s blogs. It has been “one of those” weeks. But I want to get caught up with what is going on with all of you guys this weekend. And I want to say thanks to you for commenting and being supportive even when I don’t always return the favor so quickly.

Hope everyone is ready for a good weekend!

Out of time to get anything done today! Wah! 

Weight: 138.6 (go figure)

Breakfast: yogurt with Total cereal

Lunch: nachos with EVERYTHING, and lots of it, diet coke

Snack: going to a movie, so I will probably have popcorn UPDATE: sat in the lobby and read a book, so I did not get to partake of the popcorn. Oh, well, fair trade off in my book

Dinner: going to happy hour, so I will be on a munchy/liquid diet for tonight : ) UPDATE: had one pint of Fat Tire, a grilled chicken salad and a small but scrumptious ice cream treat.  Not bad, not bad at all!

Half Mary: Rest day, amen.

Other exercise: Other exercise? What other exercise? I don’t need no other stinkin’ exercise.

Weight: 141.0.  Again.  Shit.

Breakfast: mixed fat free yogurt and fat free pudding

Lunch: Jack in the box chicken fajita pita (low fat), diet coke

Snack: handful of sunflower seeds, 100-cal bag of cookies

Dinner: tba UPDATE: had a medium size serving of spaghetti and a small pc. of garlic bread

Half Mary: scheduled for 3 mile run. Will do it, eventually, but had to work this morning

Other exercise: goal: 50 sit ups and 50 push ups

I already wrote this post, yet it did not appear. Wah.

Weight: 141.0

Breakfast: granola bar and water

Lunch: squash soup and a croissant, more divine than you could ever imagine

Snack: 100 cal bag of Mr. Salty’s

Dinner: tba UPDATE: Healthy choice steamer thing with rice, chicken and shrimp. Handful of sunflower seeds. Diet coke. 100 cal bag of cookies

Snack: fat free pudding mixed with fat free yogurt. Yum.

Half Mary: Ran 2.5 miles. It was supposed to be 3. Crap. Didn’t realize my mistake until after I did the run, came home and wrote it in my log. I’ll run 3 miles tomorrow.

Other exercise: goal was 1 min 15 sec plank. I made it for one minute, and it was NOT a pretty minute. Take my word for it.

OTHER: Motivated by a comment from blondemommy, I decided to do something concrete and get registered for my half mary in January. Only to find out it is already full. WTF? It is on January 25, registration opened Nov. 1 and it was full on Nov. 5. Such bullshit! I did quite a bit of wallowing in self-pity last night, believe you me.

So I am using the Hal Higdon 10k training program.  I am now in week 10 of 12… woot!

I mentally decided I was going to push through and run a half-marathon, but I never really committed to that with any firm plan. But now I have a plan, and what better place to put it in writing than here, where my good chick friends will call my ass out when I slack.

Week 12 of the 10k training plan is three runs of three miles each and one run of six miles. The next week, which would in essence be Week 13 for me, I am going to pick up at Week Six of his Half Marathon training program, which would mean running 4 miles, 2 miles, 4 miles, 3 miles that week, which is in keeping with the 10k plan I’ve been doing, where you do a 3 mile run on your long day every other week and push up the distance every other week.

One thing I see that is different, though, is that in the half mary training, you push up your distance two weekends in a row then step back one week, so you go long, longer, short, as opposed to right now I am doing long then short alternately. Also, in the half mary you push up a full mile when you push, whereas the 10k I’ve been pushing up half a mile.

So what that all boils down to is I may have to add a few short weeks into the half mary training if I can’t keep up with the increase in pushes. Is anyone still here? Have a bored everyone to tears yet? Could I be any more self-important with MY RUNNING this and MY RUNNING that? Sorry.

So here is my plan:

Week 10 (this week): M-rest, Tu-2.5, W-3, Thu-2.5, F-rest, Sa-cross, Su-5.5 mile run; and EVERY WEEK will be Monday rest, T/W/Th shorter runs, Friday rest, Saturday cross train, Sunday long run.

Week 11: Tu-3, We-3, Th-3, Su-3

Week 12: Tu-3, We-3, Th-3, Su-10k! Six miles!

Week 13/Week 6: Tu-4, We-2, Th-4, Su-3

Week 14/Week 7: Tu-4.5, We-3, Th-4.5, Su-7

Week 15/Week 8: 4.5, 3, 4.5, Sunday-8

Week 16/Week 9: 5, 3, 5, Sunday-6

Week 17/Week 10: 5, 3, 5, Su-9

Week 18/Week 11: 5, 3, 5, Su-10

Week 19/Week 12: 4, 3, 2, Sunday-half mary!

I have to tell you, after reading the comments about my favorite Mexican restaurant, that it is very easy to make good choices there because it is a little mom & pop place with all fresh foods, nothing greasy. It is so delicious. I mean, seriously, the roasted veggie quesadilla is out of this world and the salads are divine, so it makes it easy to pass on the nachos (though the nachos are heavenly). So I’m not as strong as you think I am, haha, they just make it easy.

Weight: 141.2, which means watching the food today

Breakfast: fat free yogurt with granola

Lunch: tba, but probably Jenny Craig burrito

Dinner: tba, but DD9 has a pizza party at a pizza buffet place, so I’ll probably have salad bar and a slice of pizza

10k training: ran 2.5 miles, as scheduled, then walked another half mile. Decided to do it on the treadmill even though I have not been digging the treadmill lately. But I had this weird achy twinge in one leg and didn’t want to run a mile and a half from home only to go OW and limp home in the drizzle. But the run was uneventful, the leg felt okay but is still not 100%.

Other exercise: goal for today is 1 minute 15 second plank

UPDATE: The day went INSANE. I got called into a job on short notice, TWO HOURS AWAY. So I was in the car for four hours today and, sorry, you can’t eat a salad and drive at the same time, so fast food it was.

11:30 a.m. - on the way to work: McD’s crispy chicken sandwich combo with diet coke

3:30 p.m. - on the drive home: Burger King, drove in for a diet coke for the rode and ended up with a small burger from the dollar menu. No fries.

Dinner: did not eat the pizza! just had a salad, but it was a buffet salad, so loaded with un-saladly goodies. But not bad, and I did use their disgusting “lite ranch” dressing. Barf.

Did not get around to any exercise. So glad I got my run in this morning!

All right, another new rule. I am not tracking food OR weight over weekends. Too much up and down and stress. This weekend ranged from 139.0 to 143! Forget that. Weigh ins will be five days per week. 140 or under, normal no stress day. Over 140, watch the calories. How’s that for a maintenance plan?

Weight: 140.2

Breakfast: nothing, too much stress this morning trying to bring our tv back to life. Had lunch at 11, though

Lunch: favorite mexican restaurant. had a salad with grilled chicken and two wedges of a roasted veggie quesadilla, chips and salsa, diet coke

Dinner: tba UPDATE: I had a large order of sweet potato fries and a small diet coke. Hey, at least I didn’t order a burger.

UPDATE: I did end up popping a mini bag of Curve’s popcorn and having another diet coke.

10k training: rest day, celebrate!

Other exercise: shooting for 50 sit ups and 50 push ups this evening. UPDATE: Old Skool, done. Talk about difficult, tonight was a real challenge after no having done it for a while. I did sets of 25 sit ups, 25 pushups, 15 sit ups, 15 push ups, 10 sit ups and 10 push ups. And then I died. Now I might go pop some popcorn.

We had a fun chat about our movie. Some of us chicks are going to try to make it a weekly thing, set a date and time and see if we can make it work. If you want in on that action, keep an eye out for details here, and post a comment suggesting days/times that work for you. I’m pretty flexible once I get my kiddo to bed at night, but I’m on the West Coast, so that might be too late on week nights for some of us.

ON THE FOOD FRONT, oh yeah, this is a diet blog, isn’t it? I am instituting a new rule. NO WEIGHING ON THE WEEKENDS. It has been so decreed. There. I feel better already.

Breakfast: JC turkey burger and diet coke

Lunch: bowl of fat free yogurt (vanilla) mixed with fat free pudding (chocolate), which is my new favorite treat. Also had a 100 cal bag of chocolate pretzels

Dinner: a bunch of ritz crackers with peanut butter.  I know, but it was sitting on the counter and made for an easy supper. 

10k training: Today was a 3 mile run. I did it. It was uneventful.

Other exercise: does vigorous shoe shopping count?

Literally.  I’ll pop into the chat and see if anyone is around, and will continue to do so throughout the evening. Hopefully we can pull this off!