Are We There Yet?

Fabulously Fit Fridays

Weeks since committing to get back on the bandwagon of good eats and healthier choices.

7

The Reality This Week

Yah!!  Down 1.8

Total pounds

9

Are we there yet?

No, the goal is 18 pounds, so that means that I am 9 pounds away.

The Plan

I'm happy with my progress, I'm happy to be moving in the right direction.  I'm happy that I have started to run aaain this week and get on the move again but I have only 24 days until heading to Maui. I will reach my goal before I leave and that means this week needs to be BIG.  B.I.G.  Let's see what I can do this week, no starving, no craziness, just serious!  It is time to pull out the big guns.  Check in next Friday to see where I'm at.

Fabulously (Not very) Fit Fridays

Weeks since deciding that summer is a great time to try to obstain from extra bevvies, appies, snacks.  In other words, weeks since I lost my mind. 

5

The Reality This Week

Boo!  I am up .2 pounds.

Total pounds

4.8

Are we there yet?

No, the goal is 18 pounds, so that means that I am 13.2 pounds away.

On the move?

All action has ceased and if I said that I wasn't bummed about it, I would be completely lying.  Last weekend it was my back, I was in agaony flat out on Saturday night but since then my pain has moved to my knee.  I know this bod pretty well, I know that squats and lunges are a recipe for disaster for me.  I had few options last week other than to squat to pick up anything a needed, bending over was searing pain.  4 days of that and the knee has completely gone wild.  It throbs, it aches, I actually thought when I climbed out of bed on Friday morning that my leg might buckle under me.  The diagnosis: Patello-Femoral Syndrome.  Each day that passes without a run means that I am one step closer to closing the door on the Father's Day Marathon.  I am trying to focus all my energy on what a very knowledgable trainer told me at book club last night, she seemed confident that the rest won't have been wasted time.  With the length of runs that I had been doing, Wendy seemed to think that I might surprise myself, recover and still be able to pull it off.  Time will tell.  Wendy, I will keep your words and encoragement close in my mind and hope with all my heart that you are right.  As for today, I will look for the silver lining and try to enjoy the forced rest and the Canucks game. 

Fabulously Fit Fridays

 

Weeks since deciding that summer is a great time to try to obstain from extra bevvies, appies, snacks.  In other words, weeks since I lost my mind. 

4

The Reality This Week

1.2 Vanishing Into Thin Air

Total pounds

5 pounds

Are we there yet?

No, the goal is 18 pounds, so that means that I am 13.0 pounds away.

On the move?

Last week was 37.2 km, this week was not.  My body hurts.  Period.  My body is taking a toll from my long runs. 

Like I said, I am training for the half marathon in June.  It has long since been at the top of my bucket list but babies and toddlers and pregnancies have not helped my cause.  This year is it.  I have been following John Stanton's running schedule...religiously, hills, speed, the whole nine yards.  I want to do it, I am registered, I am on track and suddenly...my body hurts.  I ran a total of 29.29 km this week, including a 19 km long run on Sunday.  It took my body until yesterday to feel good enough to run again.  My lower back is in agony, don't know if it is running related.  My knee has the all too familiar pangs of runner's knee creeping in and to top it off I have something called black toe.  It is disgusting, a black toe nail that has fallen (insert gross factor) victim to a terrible under the nail fungus.  My toe throbs and looks even worse.  I am taking Motrin like candy  but I know I can make the distance, at least I could last weekend.  What do I do?  Do I rest?  Do I taper for a week?  I feel generally beat up all of a sudden.  How do I beat this black toe thing and what on earth do I do with toe fungus? 

Runners, calling in any advice.  Do you ever just hit the wall?

 

Fabulously Fit Fridays

 
Weeks since deciding that summer is a great time to try to obstain from extra bevvies, appies, snacks.  In other words, weeks since I lost my mind. 

3

The Reality This Week

.6 pounds

Total Pounds Vanishing Into Thin Air

3.8 pounds

Are we there yet?

No, the goal is 18 pounds, so that means that I am 14.2 pounds away.

On the move?

Yep, this week my mileage was 37.2 kilometers.

So, again, I'm not 100% thrilled with my results but I have a bit of a mind game going on.  I run quite a bit.  Right now, I am running 4 times a week anywhere from 5 kilometers to 17 at a time.  I am running to cross the half marathon off of my bucket list.  I run because I love it.  I am a bit of an addict.  If the weather is like it was last night, I have a hard time sitting in my house when I could be out running.  I think if I gave up running, I would have a lot more flex time in the evnings for other hobbies or projects.  The downer is that I don't think I would be as happy.  I run because I love it and it makes my body and mind feel alive and at peace.

The off shoot of that is that when you are running 17 kilometers at a time on a Sunday afternoon, it is hard to say "No" when your family wants to have blizzards.  I think when you run 17 kilometers, not only do you deserve a blizzard, you earned it.  That is a bit detrimental to my plan.  I think I might be sabotaging my own success with these long runs, thinking that I don't have to be as discilpined as I could be because of the calories I am burning elsewhere.  I am trying to shift my mindset into realizing that all of this training requires nothing but good stuff be put into the body.  Imagine the success I might have if I could actually say no to all of these treats that summer brings?

Anybody find success this week??