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

wow, my days are all screwed up. everything I just updated on wednesday was actually for thursday, so I am missing a day somewhere. oh well.

weight: who knows. got on and off of the scale three times with readings of 152.2, 151.2 and 149.9. Time for new batteries. UPDATE got on one more time after my run and it was 150.6. I’ll take it.

food: tba

exercise: going for a run RIGHT NOW. brb. UPDATE: ran 3.5 miles in 40 minutes. Actually, total mileage was 3.5 miles. Run time was 38 minutes and I walked the last two minutes. Because? HOT OUT.

weight 151.2… next up, I’ll be writing my diet book, “The Fried Chicken and Chocolate Cake Diet.”

breakfast: 1 slice of toast with peanut butter and coffee
lunch/dinner: tba
LUNCH UPDATE: had a ham/pear/brie crepe before movie
SNACK: 1/3 of a medium popcorn, no butter
DINNER: had a big salad followed by copious amounts of chocolate covered pretzels.
EXERCISE: nada

challenge of the day: will be going to a movie with DD10 and will try not to devour large popcorn plus candy plus nachos while I am there

exercise: Did not run, had pressing things to do involving laying on my ass and reading blogs. oh, and facebook’ing. Can’t forget that. Of course now it is time to start the day, so no run is in my future since it is getting up to 95 friggin’ degrees today and I am not going out in that. Maybe I’ll “shred” this afternoon?

MARATHON DECISION: Ok, so I have firmly decided not to train for the full marathon on October 4. And there is no half-marathon being run in conjunction with it. But there is a local half-mary the last weekend in October, so I am going to train for that. I am going to take the schedule from my running group that went from Week 1 to the half-mary, 10 weeks total, and just reuse it. In order to be on track with that, I need to start week 1 on August 23. Which means I am on a “running vacation” from now until August 23! Holla!

My summer running plan: Run 2-3 days during the week, three mile minimum. Do the group runs on Sunday, which will be one hour only. We’ll be picking a direction, and then running 30 minutes out/30 minutes back, then joining the full marathon group for the seminars etc.

This gives me a nice couple of weeks, now thru August 23, to feel less pressured to stay on schedule with the running and get my household in order for selling/moving or whatever we end up doing. So I am happy with the plan. And I have a friend who wants to do the same thing, so I have someone to do the accountability dance with.

I don’t know how “effective” these little recaps are with regard to actually tracking my food. All it does is make me feel guilty after the fact. But here goes…

weight: 151.8 SHUT UP
breakfast: skipped it, did have a cup o’ coffee at the rehab clinic office when I took DS20 for his PT.
lunch: two FRIED chicken wings and a large salad, diet coke, followed by half of a pc. of chocolate cake. I should mention that the piece of cake was the size of a baby’s head
dinner: 1/2 of a FRIED chicken breast, a diet coke, the rest of the baby’s head slice of cake, coffee
exercise: ran 3 miles in 35 minutes (woot woot!) and then biked 7 miles in 27 minutes (kind of less wooty, but whatever)

MILESTONE EVENT: Was driving home from son’s PT appt and needing some lunch since it was noon and I had skipped breakfast. I was alone. PERFECT FAST FOOD OPPORTUNITY. And yet? Nothing sounded good to me. So I did not drive thru and get fast food. THIS IS A BIG DEAL FOR ME, FOODWISE.

But, alas, I totally blew the momentary step forward with two steps back by going to the grocery store, buying salad fixings and a few other essentials, and walking out with 8 pc. of fried chicken. WHAT CAN I SAY, IT WAS ON SALE! So that’s where the fried chicken came from. Luckily, it fed me and DD10 and her friend for lunch as well as DH, DD10 and myself for dinner. Hey, that’s a lot of bang for your buck when you get a chicken for $4.99 LOL.

OK, just some bitching and a food log and then I am going TO BED.

Did not weigh in this morning. Because? SICK AS A F*ING DOG. Allergies? Head cold? Who knows. But today it really was relentless. Plus this was a work from home day in which I actually had a HUGE amount of work to do and my computer decided to just not work. That’s all. Just not going to work. So a job that should have taken me 3-4 hours took ALL DAMNED DAY. So not a happy camper.

Also, can I just say. Fireworks? Already so over it. Some friggin’ kid on my blog got his hands on an assload of loud shit and has been going at it ALL EVENING.

OK. Now for the food:
Breakfast: ham/pear/brie crepe and coffee
Lunch: one slice of leftover pizza and about 20 lbs of chocolate covered pretzels.
Dinner: 1/2 of DD10’s subway sub, which was italian, plus two subway chocolate chip cookies, plus another 20 lbs of the delicious/evil chocolate pretzels
Exercise: rest day

To recap: a whole day without a single veggie in it, can’t breathe through my nose, head is pounding, work is backlogged and some asshead kid is doing fireworks outside.

Are we having fun yet?

Forgot to add on my Saturday update that DH and I went on a two mile hike while DD10 was at choir practice. The trailhead near the church/school was just revamped and is super nice. Great place to hike while she is at choir!

UPDATE: So I got up at 7 am and ran six miles. 6.2 to be precise, a 10k. It was the perfect amount of running to do and still get home in time to stretch, make coffee, shower and go to church and not feel completely wiped out.

I think I am going to forge my own plan and train for another half marathon in the fall. I *think* there is a half in conjunction with the Portland Marathon that my running group is training for. I do better when I am working toward a very concrete goal, so another half-mary in October would keep me on the right path with training, give me some nice downtime for the next few weeks before I start increasing mileage again.

That’s my tentative plan. It always feels good to have a plan! Later, chicks : )

So tomorrow morning, Sunday, is running group. 10 miles at 6:45 a.m.

My house is completely wrecked. I am in the middle of 100 projects. I have work to do (as in jobs that I need to finish to get paid!) and DD10 is playing violin at church in the morning.

Plus? I don’t feel like running 10 miles. I just don’t. Eight miles last Sunday was brutal. If I run 10 miles, I am pretty much spent for the day. All I want to do is take soak in the tub, go back to bed, sleep and eat all day. Which is just not feasible right now with the complete turmoil that my house is in (have I mentioned that we’re packing up all of our shit to “stage” our house so we can sell it?)

So I think I’ve made my decision. I am not going to continue with the training group that is pushing forward to the Portland marathon in October.

This week is a 10 miler, and then next Sunday, July 5, begins the “split.” The marathoners will continue a push/fall back schedule and the non-marathoners will still meet for a one-hour run, timed to finish with the marathoners for the group seminar.

So this week I think I’ll skip the group (for the first time ever since starting! which for me, Ms. Quitter, is, like, unreal) and go for my own run (six miles) and then next week be a member of the One Hour Club.

I think.

Or I may wake up at 6:30 a.m. and decide I’m running a fucking marathon. Though chances of that? Are slim.

weight: running late for work, did not weigh in, which is probably for the best after last night’s Rescue Me gluttony

breakfast: remember the part where I was running late? that’s my excuse. coffee and a chicken biscuit and hashbrown from McD’s. IT WAS DISGUSTING and hopefully will keep me from driving thru there again for a long, long time. But? I ate it anyway. All of it.

lunch/dinner: tba

LUNCH UPDATE: healthy choice meal, diet coke and three, yep, count ‘em, three chocolates from the assorted box from last night.

exercise: training schedule calls for 35 minute run, so I am going to the gym to hit the treadmill, probably followed by using the gym bike as well for a few miles. Goal is run three, bike seven.

EXERCISE UPDATE: Went to the gym and ran 34 minutes - 3 miles, woot! Ran 5.3 mph x 20 minutes. Then I did some speed work (holla!). Ran five sets of 6.0 mph x 1 minute and 5.0 mph x 1 minute. Then finished off the three miles at 5.0 mph for a total of 34 minutes, 3 miles. Walked a quarter mile to cool down. Then hopped on a bike and biked 7.75 miles (31 minutes). Boo yah!

Training group is doing a 10 miler on Sunday morning at 6:55. I am really not feeling the love for the long distance runs anymore.

weight: 150.4
breakfast: cake and coffee… the breakfast of champions!
lunch: 1/2 of a tuna melt and a side salad, diet coke
dinner: a large salad (at home) and then munchies with girlfriends for Rescue Me night. Brie with bread, chips and guacamole, tons of fruit and chocolates.

run report: Ran three miles. With no watch! It was torture because we all know how anal I am about my watch and my time and my stupid intervals and yada yada yada. Got dressed and ready to run BEFORE WORK, which I hate, but couldn’t find my watch and came THISCLOSE to just bailing on the whole run. But decided to just head out to the track (half a mile each way) and run two miles on the track for a total of three miles, because I knew that would get me home within my 45 minutes of time I had before I had to go to work.

So that’s what I did. And the world? Did not explode.

weight: 150.0. What’s this? A weight loss? Oh, no no no no no. This will not be tolerated. So I ate:

breakfast: coffee and chocolate chip pudding cake, a hunk about the size of my head
lunch: pad thai with tofu and a salad wrap
dinner: mushroom chicken and white rice from panda express (kid’s meal), and a fortune cookie.
dessert: coffee and another chunk of the effing pudding cake, this time only about the size of, say, my foot.

I went to a place today that I haven’t been in a long time. I ate until I was full. And then? I ate some more. Why is it SO FRIGGIN EASY to slip right back into old habits yet SO FRIGGIN HARD to stick with new ones? I guess if I could figure that out, I’d write a book and sell a million copies.

exercise: training schedule calls for a 45 minute run either today or tomorrow. Since I am about to leave for DD10’s two hour ballroom dance class, looks like it’ll be tomorrow.

weight: 150.2 WHATEVER, SCALE, EFF YOU.

breakfast: coffee before run and then a banana waffle with peanut butter and two glasses of water after run

lunch/dinner: tba

exercise: training schedule called for 40 minute run. I dropped off DD10 at camp and headed out on foot from there to check out the new trailhead that has been under construction for forever. Plan was run 20 minutes, turn around and run back. It took me 17 minutes to get to the trailhead, and then once I was on the trail it was really nice so I ran for 25 minutes. Then I got the BRIGHT IDEA to follow what looked like a path up out of the trail (which is in a ravine) to head back on the road. So I ran for 25 minutes, walked/climbed for 3 minutes up a steep embankment and then ran back to the school. Did a two minute walk around the parking lot to cool down.

So total was 45 minute run - 25 minute run/3 minute walk/15 minute run/2 minute walk. Total distance 3.65 miles.

Sunday was running club. We did eight miles. I finished in 1 hour 50 minutes. I took a couple of one minute walk breaks to drink water, and I was pretty much moving in slow mo, but whatever, got that fucker done.