Fitness Blah-g

[threadwalker]

Last Week:

8/24: The week started out bad. I got on the scale and wanted to scream. How could I gain 5 lbs between Friday morning and Monday Morning? I then retroactively wrote down everything I ate over the weekend, did some points calculations and suddenly it was all clear to me. Mike's Hard Lemonade must be treated with caution: 5 pts each. I had 4 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. Refreshing but caloric.

The Pacific Grove Tri is in less than 2 weeks. I put on about 15 lbs since September last year and I was trying to shed the first 10 by the race on Sept 12. I'd really like to avoid hauling 10 unnecessary pounds of personal dead weight around the race course with me; I'm sure the arches in my feet will agree with me. We'll see. I've been wobbling in this annoying 3 lb range that's not close enough to my goal. I may not get the full 10 off, but I think I will be close. Although if I need a silver lining, I'll burn more calories at the race if I'm hauling an extra 10 lbs around; like having a 5lb dumbell strapped to each butt cheek. Humph. Maybe that's a tinfoil lining, not silver lining.

So then...

fitness journal
Monday Morning: stair-master at gym (left calf was pulling funny).
Monday Lunch: ran with "the boys" at work. They keep me at an aggressive clip for half an hour.
Tuesday Morning: ran at gym and lifted weights.
Wednesday Morning: ran at gym, did abs and did core strength stuff.
Thursday: Nada. My body needed sleep.
Friday: Nada. The sleep train hadn't left the station yet.
Saturday: Treadmill at home while my mom was over. (I can listen to mom and I'm too winded to argue with her. And sometimes she gets me so mad, I keep going and going. Yup, making lemonade out of juicy mommy lemons.)
Saturday afternoon: splashed with kids in pool for almost 5 hours. I must have burned a few calories there.

Sunday: nada - recovering from sunburns and ribs-beer fest from the previous night.

This week:

Monday Morning: Stairmaster for 50 minutes
Monday Lunch: Run with the boys. (30 minutes of lung-rending hell for me while it's an easy run for them. They chatter the whole time while I focus on breathing, moving, and not collapsing into an embarrassed heap)
Monday Night: Treadmill at home with 6% incline for 90 minutes. Walking with spurts of "slogging" (it is 6% afterall). Not fast, but I burned about 500 calories or more.

Tuesday 5pm: Run at gym, 40 minutes. Pace is great (for me).
Tuesday night: Treadmill slog at 6% at home for 45 minutes.

Tomorrow I'm carpooling. It's my "intention" to get up at 4am and "slog" uphill on the treadmill. then to go running with Coach B at work at lunch. And then, if I'm feeling super energetic, go straight to the gym at 5pm and do cardio and lift weights.

Nutrition stuff: This has been my missing piece.

I'm a carb-a-holic. Put the basket of bread in front of me and I'll devour it. I've been struggling with my impulses for the last few months. I start out great in the morning and then by dinner my great morning is a wistful memory undone by snacking. I have a few tricks I've dusted off:

-pack fresh produce to work with me. If I stay on target all day, I have better chances of staying on target at night.
-stop sitting infront of computer snacking (that's why I'm slogging on treadmill)
-don't be hungry while preparing kids' dinners. they eat more calories and have a better internal meter of when to stop eating.
-plan plan plan
-control my environment (there are no baked snacks on hand right now)

Why is it so easy to be so bad? Anyway, pity-party aside, I've been focusing on my healthy eating habits and I think that's one reason my running pace has picked up. Something I'd forgotten is that given the choice between 2 meals of identical caloric quantity, the protein one will leave me satisfied longer and the carb-based one will leave me satisfied for a while, but I will be hungry again sooner and I'll be craving more carbs.

So with that in mind, I need to change up my breakfast. Tonight I made a breakfast dish and I've got it staged in the fridge so that it can be a "grab n go" breakfast. I had some for dinner and thought it was tasty. It was pretty easy to make, so I'm sharing here:

2 eggs
6 egg whites
8 slices of deli ham
1/2 cup 1% milk
shredded cheese
chives

Mix eggs, egg whites and milk*
Spray muffin pan.
Line 8 muffin holes with a piece of deli ham
ladle/pour in the egg mixture
sprinkle chives on top
bake for 15-20 minutes at 350F
Add a pinch of cheese to the top and return to oven for 5 mintes.


*(I added salt and peper even though the recipe doesn't call for it. The recipe is from a weight-lifting magazine and they are nortoriously anti-salt. I need salt. I really really do.)

I didn't do the WW calc. I"ll do that later. But it was a winner for us.

Comments

[stealth-1066.livejournal.com]

Stay away from the Beer and Pizza.....
Protein is better than carbs....takes more calories to process and takes longer to breakdown!

[sirst.livejournal.com]

Sounds tasty....