This will be a blog of highs and lows. Yesterday Jennifer and I ran at the Hartnell track and my first mile was my fastest ever: 11:50/mile. I couldn't understand why it felt so hard to run and why I got shin splits when I was doing it, and then I realized I was running about 1-2 minutes faster than usual. That felt great.
Today's weigh day: I'm the same at 241. But let's dissect the situation: this week was my birthday, so I ate an inordinate amount of desserts and went out to eat a lot. I kept to my 10-a-day all but 2 days (the 13.5 miler day because I was too tired to stay awake and eat and my birthday - both days I had 7 servings). I ran/walked 16 miles throughout the week, but over the course of only two days. I need to spread that out over at least 3-4 days a week and focus on doing some other types of exercise as well. I will not feel defeated by my lack of weight loss this week, I know what I need to do.
Last night I got home around 7:00 from running and Paul had made a healthy dinner filled with veggies: artisan lettuce salad with beans and feta, steamed broccoli, fresh berries, a little cheese and bread. When Olivia went to bed I found myself wanting to open the cupboards and dig around for a treat. After all, I'd had a really productive day, gotten some big projects off the ground, and I deserved a little treat. Whoa. That's my mentality! I forced myself to do something else - Paul had been doing house chores and I told him I wanted to get out of the house and go shopping just to get my mind off of food (replacing one thing with another). He wanted to go for his run, so it wouldn't have been fair for me to just leave. He said our gardening needed watering so I went outside for about 15 minutes to do that and it calmed me down. I realized I was really nervous for my weigh-in. Then why was I trying to sabotage it? I let myself have a little treat (a tablespoon of nutella) and then I had some carrots to finish up my 10 for the day. I need to learn other ways or rewarding myself than by eating something sweet.
Overall, it's been an enlightening week. I think I've already learned a lot of important lessons and appreciate all of the ideas coming my way. Keep them coming, although my main focus will remain 10-a-day and a 10 minute mile, your suggestions give me great perspective and will help me get there.
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Abby, you go girl! You are learning so much! I still use a substitute activity(like Facebook) to get me out of the kitchen. It is definately not food I am after but connection.
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