I don’t know if it’s fair to really have made this long holiday weekend a test, but I sorta did.\u00a0 All in all, I don’t think I did so bad – and of COURSE after a weekend where I took 2 days off, had 2 days of good backyard patio drinking going on, and hosted a BBQ with too much yummy good, there might be a little gain.\u00a0 C’est la vie.\u00a0 It’s Wednesday, and I’m about 1 lb up from last week’s weigh in.\u00a0 I’m thinking that by the weekend I’ll be back under 160 and this week will be a wash and we can get on with it next week.<\/p>\n
I did go back to tracking.\u00a0 It just feels like a reasonable thing to do and it’s a nice check.\u00a0 It was a good break for the last week to just eat as I felt like, and I did notice a few extra chocolates creep into my consumption, but considering the time of month, that’s pretty normal. I’m kinda used to the “earn my calories” philosophy, although I can’t be sure that I was exact each day, I did definitely chill on the calories on non-workout days (minus memorial day proper).<\/p>\n
Here’s the familiar rub – I know how to eat to stay around my same weight.\u00a0 My body wants to stay around 160 here.\u00a0 I’m rarely much over 160 for long even when I abuse the chompings a bit, but it’s hard for me to get much UNDER it either no matter how good I am.\u00a0 I’m tempted to say that maybe THIS is my happy weight, but it’s not.\u00a0 I was much happier with my appearance 10 lbs ago (I think this gain went straight to my tummy and face, the two places that suck the worst) and didn’t seem to have much problems maintaining without a race thrown in.\u00a0 So here I am again, 2 months<\/span> years later, banging my head against the 150’s still.\u00a0 Battling my size 6 jeans that once fit but now don’t.\u00a0 But I digress.<\/p>\n Last week, I have no recollection of calories in or calories out.\u00a0 I took the week off running and DDR because of my heel.\u00a0 I rode my bike a lot.\u00a0 I rode about 12 miles Monday, 14.5 miles Tuesday (and bike commuted for the first time!), arc trainer’d for 40 mins on Wednesday, did 45 mins of weights on Thursday at the gym, rode my bike about 8.5 miles Friday, took Saturday off, rode my bike 18 miles (a new all-at-one-time record) Sunday, and took Monday off.\u00a0 Yeah, 2 sessions of weights and yoga fail.\u00a0 But I did have an awesome biking week!\u00a0 I can tell I’m getting faster and stronger in my quads.\u00a0 18 miles was a bit long…it’s certainly going to be a bit of training to get to 25 (let alone the swim before and the 10k after) but I think I’m up for it.<\/p>\n This week, I’m going back to the norm.\u00a0 I’m going to give it my all to chip away at these last few silly lbs until our July 4th trip.\u00a0 So far, the schedule is looking like:<\/p>\n Monday: off (walking a mile or two, tubing down the river), maybe 1800 calories.<\/p>\n Tuesday: weights and yoga (300 burnt), ate about 1550.<\/p>\n Wednesday: 12 mile ride, 5k run (850 cal), eat about 1800.<\/p>\n Thursday: 40 mins arc trainer or bike commute (500 cal), eat about 1600.<\/p>\n Friday: weights\/run intervals (600 cal), eat about 1700.<\/p>\n Saturday: 20 mile bike ride (1000 cal), eat about 2000.<\/p>\n Sunday: swim 800m (400 cal), eat about 1600.<\/p>\n I have a feeling I’ll skip ONE of these since this is crazysauce calorie burn but I’d like to PLAN on doing it all.\u00a0 I’m pretty set on the long ride to get my mileage up.\u00a0 And the swim since I haven’t in a week.\u00a0 I don’t want to go much above a 5k running until I go get new shoes and I know it’s not going to be a huge issue anyway (hello taking off most of last summer and then bouncing right into half marathon training).\u00a0 But I do want to get some nice soft-landing treadmill runs.\u00a0 So that leaves tomorrow’s workout but I really want to do that too.<\/p>\n Hi, my name is Quix, and I am insane.\u00a0 And since I have nothing else to say, I will leave you with a video of a dog riding a turtle.\u00a0 Take it easy, see ya soon!<\/p>\n