Progress Report

Just got back from a weekend trip where I did a lot of forking off. But Sunday morning, I got back on the program and am already feeling better.

Here's my status from my commitments listed in my last post.

I looked at the Insanity recipes and meal plans and discarded it. It uses too many processed foods for my taste.  Not as many as most Americans probably eat, but too many for me.  Also, it is not Paleo and I'm mostly a Paleo girl these days. Many people don't think of breads and pastas as 'processed' foods, but they are.  I almost never do breads of any kind unless I'm cheating.  It's as if my body is allergic to them but not in the traditional sense of getting rashes or other aches or pains.  Just fat.  That's what happens to me when I eat breads and pastas.  I get fat.  And hey, that's why I put so much weight on over the holidays.  Too much cheating with the processed foods.

I have started eating more salads for dinner again. Today I'm making butternut squash soup.  I'm using all fresh ingredients.  Some of the ingredients were frozen, but purchased fresh.  Yippy!  It will taste good tonight. I am using up stuff in the freezer since we are a few weeks out from moving into an RV with a tiny fridge and even tinier freezer.

I am drinking more hot tea in the evening instead of a glass of wine, though when we go out to dinner, I'm still having that glass...or two. This was not a commitment listed in the last post, but one that I think is the right thing to do.  Hot tea, especially on cold nights, is soothing.  I've learned that I can't do it in the morning though on an empty stomach....or maybe it was that particular brand.  For some reason it gave me a slightly nauseous feeling, like I get when I take a vitamin on an empty stomach.

I started the 100 pushup challenge and on the third day I pulled something in my right side and it was painful enough to be a conscious thing for a couple of days, and still mumbling to me a week later at night when I'd roll over in bed. But as of this last Monday, I started again, and now I am bracing my stomach more when I do the pushups.  I learned that from the Insanity workout tape my daughter and I did a while back.  They talked about tightening up the core, and I don't think they just meant tightening it up by exercising it.  They meant tightening it up while exercising.  I think that will keep me from pulling something if that makes any sense.  Pulling that muscle or straining something, whatever I did,
made me feel old.  I almost never, in my life time, have had things like that happen to me.  I've always felt I was nearly invincible.  Not that I always thought I was strong or fast or that kind of thing.  But that I almost never had injuries like all the elite athletes get from training so hard.  I have always been a plodder.  I get the job, I persevere.  I'm still there working out years after others revel in their glory days.

No Loose-y Goose-y Goals

OK.  I can see I was too loosey goosey with my plans in the last post.  And no, that isn't cutting it.

Here's the deal:

Tonight: I am going to boil eggs for breakfast the rest of the week.

Tonight: I am going to find the Insanity recipe/eating guide that my daughter bought and study it.  Speaking of Insanity, I did the level one Insanity work out with my daughter last Friday and my calves hurt more than since I was in Airborne School in the Army as a 22 year old. I think maybe I even hurt worse than after my 50K. I guess that would be good advertising for Insanity, huh?

Tonight: I will have a light salad for dinner.

Tonight: I am going to buy fresh veggies and roast them for lunches and dinners and research recipes for green smoothies/juices.

Yesterday I started the 100 pushups program and printed it out and put it on my board at work.  I am checking each set off, and each day, so I'll stick with that.

Tomorrow: I will check back in with you on my progress.  I need to keep myself on this program.

I signed up to do a one mile run in DC on the 15th of February; the Cupid's Undie Run which raises money for the Children's Tumor Foundation. I committed to running in a nude body suit wearing not much else but Depends, wings, and carrying a bow and arrow.  I'll wear running shoes, of course. But with all the weight I put on over Christmas, I am not feeling good about my weight, have rolls and blubber when I lean forward, and a general bloated belly when I lean back.  My butt and thighs, and arms feel bigger and almost none of my clothes fit.  Yuck.  I hate this feeling.  I haven't been this big and out of shape in about two years.

And just think, I ran a 50K in November.  And I want to stretch out my distance to a 70.3 in June.

140 & Swearing Off Sugar

Yes, I am writing "140" on my palms and have it written on my dry erase board at work.

Why?

Because that is what I want to weigh eventually.  I haven't given myself a deadline yet, but I do have a plan to get down about 10 pounds over the next month or so.  I want to get back, at least to where I was pre-holiday, by Valentine's Day.  I don't know what I weighed pre-holiday since I don't normally weigh myself.  But I will know by how my clothes fit.

Right now I am about ready to bust out of my beloved NorthFace double lined, waterproof, winter hiking pants....and we can't have that.

I also read some of Food Babe's advise.  One of her "rules" was to swear off sugar.  To just do it.  So I did.  I won't be taking the ice cream maker, granite slab for making fudge, and my big-assed KitchenAid with me in the 5th Wheel when we pop smoke in a couple of months.  I don't like how I feel when I'm fat.  It adds to the stress.

So I choose to be thin. I choose the lifestyle of a runner, an athlete, a slender, fit person.  Yes.  I choose that.  I will be that.