I haven't posted in awhile because last week I was in New York City and the last 5 days straight I've worked!
Vacation was amazing. I have to say I'm proud of myself because Thursday was the only day we were not in the city and the first thing I did when I got to my hotel was go and run. It felt good, and I was so proud of myself for running on vacation.
As far as eating, the first night was the only night I really went crazy. We had tons of home made snacks for the car and then ordered dinner and also I had a few Bloodys. But other than that, I really don't think I did that badly for being on vacation, granted I probably had a little over my 1,200 a day allowance while there.
On the upside, we did A TON of walking. I'm talking miles upon miles. We did take the subway a few times towards the end when we were going to South Ferry and Battery Park, but all the other times we basically walked.
I have yet to step on the scale, I'm more than a little scared.
This week I did not do any running. I have told myself that the days I work I won't run because I walk so much at work that by the time I get home I'm exhausted. This week school begins, and I will have a definite routine, and I can't wait. I plan to run Monday, Friday, and either Saturday or Sunday and be off the other weekend day. On weeks that I work the weekend I will run either Tuesday or Wednesday.
I will update more once I get back into the swing of things!
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
Week 2 Day 2 C25K
I am so proud of myself for going and running tonight. I was up at 4am this morning with both stomach cramps and also I have NO LIE 15 mosquito bites between my two feet. I have one on a TOE. It is so awful, I can't even describe. I got up 2 times during the night and sprayed Benadryl on them. Then today I went and got some calamine lotion, but it was like the cheapest crap ever and didn't work.
So as I was doing my 5 minute warm up walk, my feet were DYING of itchiness!! Once I started focusing on the running, though, it got a little better. Everything went fine tonight, I felt good.
I'm going to forgo my playlist tonight because I am just so exhausted and there's a 10 page study guide with my name on it to complete and a suitcase to pack. We're leaving for NYC on Wednesday night. I think we have a gym in our hotel, however, I'm wary about running on a treadmill after not having shin splints since running on pavement. I may go and walk everyday, but running makes me nervous. I literally could not do above speed 2.5 on the treadmill without getting shin splints and I DO NOT want them, they hurt and they'll mess up my progress.
I'm going to try and do another run tomorrow, but I have a final Wednesday and I'll be studying a ton.
I weighed myself just because today and I was back to 172.0, which is down .8 pounds since Wednesday. I can't wait to hit the 160s.
So as I was doing my 5 minute warm up walk, my feet were DYING of itchiness!! Once I started focusing on the running, though, it got a little better. Everything went fine tonight, I felt good.
I'm going to forgo my playlist tonight because I am just so exhausted and there's a 10 page study guide with my name on it to complete and a suitcase to pack. We're leaving for NYC on Wednesday night. I think we have a gym in our hotel, however, I'm wary about running on a treadmill after not having shin splints since running on pavement. I may go and walk everyday, but running makes me nervous. I literally could not do above speed 2.5 on the treadmill without getting shin splints and I DO NOT want them, they hurt and they'll mess up my progress.
I'm going to try and do another run tomorrow, but I have a final Wednesday and I'll be studying a ton.
I weighed myself just because today and I was back to 172.0, which is down .8 pounds since Wednesday. I can't wait to hit the 160s.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Week 2 Day 1 C25K
Today I began Week 2 which consisted of a 5 minute warm up walk, 6 intervals of jogging 90 seconds and walking 2 minutes, and a 5 minute cool down walk.
I had a great workout tonight! Everything went perfectly it felt like and the amazing thing is that I can already feel my endurance increasing even just after week 1! I also noticed I had to make my route a little longer, both because I think overall I'm going faster than last week and also because I'm running for longer now. The only complaint was the last interval of running ended up being uphill, which was awful, but I got through it!
Today, being Wednesday, I weighed in ... and was 172.8. That is up .8 pounds from last week, but I expected it with the abnormal over eating that I did this past weekend with the State Fair, Olive Garden, and my stepmom's birthday. I actually was surprised I didn't gain more.
Also weight-loss related (sort of), I am going off of my birth control starting yesterday in preparation for pregnancy. I was told I should have a few normal periods before trying, so I am off them now. I know a lot of people say when you go on birth control you gain or lose up to 5 pounds. I don't know if that is true because when I went on I wasn't weighing myself, so I guess we will see!
I decided to do something a little fun when I update on my workouts. I'm going to share my playlist of the workout with you all. I put my whole song list in iTunes on shuffle when I run, and if I don't like the song for running, I fast forward it. So I thought I'd share the ones I like so you can see what kind of motivates me during my work outs! Here was my playlist for tonight!
I had a great workout tonight! Everything went perfectly it felt like and the amazing thing is that I can already feel my endurance increasing even just after week 1! I also noticed I had to make my route a little longer, both because I think overall I'm going faster than last week and also because I'm running for longer now. The only complaint was the last interval of running ended up being uphill, which was awful, but I got through it!
Today, being Wednesday, I weighed in ... and was 172.8. That is up .8 pounds from last week, but I expected it with the abnormal over eating that I did this past weekend with the State Fair, Olive Garden, and my stepmom's birthday. I actually was surprised I didn't gain more.
Also weight-loss related (sort of), I am going off of my birth control starting yesterday in preparation for pregnancy. I was told I should have a few normal periods before trying, so I am off them now. I know a lot of people say when you go on birth control you gain or lose up to 5 pounds. I don't know if that is true because when I went on I wasn't weighing myself, so I guess we will see!
I decided to do something a little fun when I update on my workouts. I'm going to share my playlist of the workout with you all. I put my whole song list in iTunes on shuffle when I run, and if I don't like the song for running, I fast forward it. So I thought I'd share the ones I like so you can see what kind of motivates me during my work outs! Here was my playlist for tonight!
1. Friday I'll Be Over U - Allison Iraheta
2. Telephone - Glee Cast
3. Miracles - Newsboys
4. Don't Stop Believing (Regionals) - Glee Cast
5. Amen - Chris August
6. Edge of Glory - Glee Cast
7. If U Seek Amy - Britney Spears
8. Thought I Told Ya - Diana DeGarmo
9. How I Feel - Kelly Clarkson
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Week 1 Day 3 C25K
Today was my last day of Week 1. I decided to do a morning run today, even though I usually run in the evening. I liked it because I felt like I had more energy, but I didn't like it because the sun was in my face the entire time. I already get SUPER hot when I exercise, like my face turns BEET RED, and I hate that, and the sun just made it worse.
On the plus side though, I had no leg/ankle pain today! I was so happy and it made it a lot easier to run.
Nothing else much is new ... I'm not looking forward to stepping on the scale for Weigh in Wednesday tomorrow because Friday I had a huge eat-fest at the State Fair and Saturday I ate Olive Garden. It's okay though, I haven't had a bad week in awhile. I can take it.
Must go grocery shopping this weekend. I have no food and it's making me want to go out and either pick up something or get fast food, this is not an option!
Thanks to my friend Bianca for the new layout!!!
On the plus side though, I had no leg/ankle pain today! I was so happy and it made it a lot easier to run.
Nothing else much is new ... I'm not looking forward to stepping on the scale for Weigh in Wednesday tomorrow because Friday I had a huge eat-fest at the State Fair and Saturday I ate Olive Garden. It's okay though, I haven't had a bad week in awhile. I can take it.
Must go grocery shopping this weekend. I have no food and it's making me want to go out and either pick up something or get fast food, this is not an option!
Thanks to my friend Bianca for the new layout!!!
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Week 1 Day 2 C25K
Today was my second day and it went pretty well! I found a nice route that I can take around our condo complex so that I don't have to run back and forth throughout it. When I run for longer I will have to find a longer route, but for now it is okay.
Tonight my legs did bother me a little, but overall it wasn't awful. My left ankle was kind of irritating me as well (I have two bad ankles because I've sprained both of them within the last 2 years). I hope that it's just the starting out of it all, and I do think soon I will get new shoes because I don't even think mine are appropriate good running shoes.
Everything went great though!! I plan to do Day 3 (the last day of this week) probably Saturday, since I work Friday.
Tonight my legs did bother me a little, but overall it wasn't awful. My left ankle was kind of irritating me as well (I have two bad ankles because I've sprained both of them within the last 2 years). I hope that it's just the starting out of it all, and I do think soon I will get new shoes because I don't even think mine are appropriate good running shoes.
Everything went great though!! I plan to do Day 3 (the last day of this week) probably Saturday, since I work Friday.
Weigh In Wednesday and Pre-Pregnancy Thoughts ...
Today I weighed in at 172.8!! 12.2 pounds lost so far (since May 25th) and almost out of the 170s!
Today I plan to do Day 2 of Week 1 of my C25K program, so I may do another post about that later. Today my husband and I went to Panera for lunch, so I'm going to let that settle before I go out and run in this heat. I'll most likely wait until the evening when the sun is gone :)
Today I was thinking of the issues I've been having as far as my PHE levels not going down most likely due to my weight loss and calorie restriction and trying to brainstorm ideas on how to get the best of both worlds. Starting next week, I will be sending in a PHE level every week basically until after pregnancy. I was thinking that since I'd be doing this, I could alter my calorie intake on certain weeks (up it a little) to see if my levels go down on those weeks. If I'm exercising enough, I don't think it will negatively affect my weight loss in any significant way. Especially if I only up it by about 100 or 200 calories or so a day. Right now I'm eating 1200 a day. I think to maintain your weight you times your weight by 11 ... so right now to maintain 172.8 I should be eating approximately 1890 calories. So even if I were to up to 1500 or so, I'd still be losing. I'm going to pitch the idea to Nikki (my dietician) and see what she thinks.
** SIDENOTE: I can't believe to MAINTAIN this weight I'd be eating almost 1900 calories. This seems like such a huge amount to me now ... like what in the world was I eating before when I was up to 185?! Scary.
My levels are more of a priority to me at this point than the weight loss because of trying to get pregnant. I still have a little time (we aren't trying yet), but I want to find the best way to get me where I need to be. I'm going out to lunch with my friend from Olive Garden on Saturday and it's going to be my last meal out in awhile. Because of my limited options at restaurants for PKU, I'm going to try and not go out to eat as much as possible. Then I'm thinking every Wednesday-Friday I will do diet records and send my level on Saturday every week. Just so I have a plan.
At some point in the next 4 months, I need to up from 3 supplements a day to 4. I'm trying to decide when I want to put myself up to that challenge. I'm thinking around maybe September or October but not sure yet.
Stay tuned ... LOL.
Today I plan to do Day 2 of Week 1 of my C25K program, so I may do another post about that later. Today my husband and I went to Panera for lunch, so I'm going to let that settle before I go out and run in this heat. I'll most likely wait until the evening when the sun is gone :)
Today I was thinking of the issues I've been having as far as my PHE levels not going down most likely due to my weight loss and calorie restriction and trying to brainstorm ideas on how to get the best of both worlds. Starting next week, I will be sending in a PHE level every week basically until after pregnancy. I was thinking that since I'd be doing this, I could alter my calorie intake on certain weeks (up it a little) to see if my levels go down on those weeks. If I'm exercising enough, I don't think it will negatively affect my weight loss in any significant way. Especially if I only up it by about 100 or 200 calories or so a day. Right now I'm eating 1200 a day. I think to maintain your weight you times your weight by 11 ... so right now to maintain 172.8 I should be eating approximately 1890 calories. So even if I were to up to 1500 or so, I'd still be losing. I'm going to pitch the idea to Nikki (my dietician) and see what she thinks.
** SIDENOTE: I can't believe to MAINTAIN this weight I'd be eating almost 1900 calories. This seems like such a huge amount to me now ... like what in the world was I eating before when I was up to 185?! Scary.
My levels are more of a priority to me at this point than the weight loss because of trying to get pregnant. I still have a little time (we aren't trying yet), but I want to find the best way to get me where I need to be. I'm going out to lunch with my friend from Olive Garden on Saturday and it's going to be my last meal out in awhile. Because of my limited options at restaurants for PKU, I'm going to try and not go out to eat as much as possible. Then I'm thinking every Wednesday-Friday I will do diet records and send my level on Saturday every week. Just so I have a plan.
At some point in the next 4 months, I need to up from 3 supplements a day to 4. I'm trying to decide when I want to put myself up to that challenge. I'm thinking around maybe September or October but not sure yet.
Stay tuned ... LOL.
Monday, August 5, 2013
Week 1 Day 1 C25K
On a total whim, I started my Couch to 5K today! I really wasn't planning on it because it is cloudy outside and also I wasn't sure if I was feeling 100% better. However, I'm so happy that I decided to do it!
We live in a condo complex so I kind of just jogged/walked all around it, which is nice because I wouldn't just run anywhere in my town. So it consisted of a 5 minute brisk walk warm up and cool down and then in between alternating running for 1 minute and walking for 1.5 minutes.
Whoever designed this was like spot on as far as endurance for first time runners, because about the last 10 seconds of the last run interval I was like, okay, I'm to the point where I need to slow down. But it ended up being the last circuit, so it worked out perfectly!
The best part was I DIDN'T GET SHIN SPLINTS!!! I seriously ALWAYS got them when I went to the gym if I walked/ran any higher than 2.5 speed on the treadmill and I got SO IRRITATED because I could have done so much more speed if not for that. Plus then my dad told me that you're not really supposed to train/run when you're having them. I'm just crossing my fingers that maybe it was something with the treadmill and hopefully running on the road now I'll be fine. I was using the same shoes too, so shoes couldn't have been the reason.
I honestly recommend this app to anyone who is a first time runner or trying to get into it. I just saw going through it today, it has the whole schedule planned out for you as far as days/weeks, and also it updates it completed and the date you completed it. I haven't looked beyond the first week, but the first week is 3 days, so that is totally do-able.
I'm going to update every day I run as a way to journal all of it. Hope everyone had a great Monday!
Saturday, August 3, 2013
A Small Victory!
I have been DREADING stepping on the scale since going to PKU camp last weekend. If you have followed all of my entries on this blog, you will have seen that I have posted a few times about my low-protein food containing a TON of calories. Last weekend at camp that is basically all I ate and there were no calorie counts on anything, so I had no choice but to not count all weekend.
On the way home from camp, Donaldo and I went to Olive Garden as a "welcome home" meal, and that's basically a total day's worth of calories at one meal. Then Wednesday, after helping move my sister, we went to a bar/pub where I indulged in french fries and fried mushrooms.
Finally, tonight I was like "screw it, I need to see where I'm at", and I get on the scale and see 174.0, which is my lowest weight yet!! 11 pounds lost now! My weight loss has slowed in the last month, but mainly due to the 4th, and then a few days like with camp where I wasn't able to count as much. I was supposed to get back to running, like I posted about in my last entry, but 2 days ago I got hit with a sinus infection and I've been feeling AWFUL.
This small victory made my night and gives me so much confidence that I'm learning how to eat right WITHOUT totaling every single morsel I eat on Fitness Pal. I have 4 months to lose 40 more pounds and I'm GOING to do it! I can't wait to get back to my exercise, as soon as I feel 100% again (hopefully by Monday)!
Hope you're all having a great weekend!
On the way home from camp, Donaldo and I went to Olive Garden as a "welcome home" meal, and that's basically a total day's worth of calories at one meal. Then Wednesday, after helping move my sister, we went to a bar/pub where I indulged in french fries and fried mushrooms.
Finally, tonight I was like "screw it, I need to see where I'm at", and I get on the scale and see 174.0, which is my lowest weight yet!! 11 pounds lost now! My weight loss has slowed in the last month, but mainly due to the 4th, and then a few days like with camp where I wasn't able to count as much. I was supposed to get back to running, like I posted about in my last entry, but 2 days ago I got hit with a sinus infection and I've been feeling AWFUL.
This small victory made my night and gives me so much confidence that I'm learning how to eat right WITHOUT totaling every single morsel I eat on Fitness Pal. I have 4 months to lose 40 more pounds and I'm GOING to do it! I can't wait to get back to my exercise, as soon as I feel 100% again (hopefully by Monday)!
Hope you're all having a great weekend!
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