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Considering the options:<\/strong><\/p>\n So I ain’t getting any skinnier.\u00a0 It really hit me when I had to pull out the slightly larger shorts for the cruise.\u00a0 Not that it’s a travesty (to be honest, I’m in between both sizes and I figure the comfy ones will be better for vacay – while I know tighter is better for ) this upward trend must be nipped in the bud.\u00a0 I had REALLY, REALLY hoped to be about 10 lbs lighter by now.\u00a0 I’m stuck here in the 167-170 range.\u00a0 And now I’m heading in the month o eating pitfalls (cruise, birthday, Zliten birthday).\u00a0 I need to regroup and get my head on straight.\u00a0 I need to now, really and truly, shift my goal to maintenance, not loss, and pick it up again in about a month.\u00a0 This month, I focus on the bloat and getting my body back into stasis.\u00a0 Here’s the plan:<\/p>\n I got a homeopathic remedy for bloat and some probiotic supplements from the hippie dippie grocery store today.\u00a0 While I’m sure it’s just in my head – I already feel less bloated.\u00a0 We’ll see how I continue to feel, it usually hits me pretty bad late night\/early morning.<\/p>\n I’m setting aside some dough and going to bite the bullet and get a nutritionist for a while.\u00a0 While I’m still fighting it because, well, fuck, I lost 110 lbs myself without paying anyone thxuverymuch, if it’s causing me this much strife, then I need to do something.\u00a0 And (I’ll cover this more below), I CAN afford it without cutting out anything.\u00a0 I’m going to do some research, but I will probably end up just using the one at my gym (I do like her little blurb – she’s into moderation).\u00a0 Any ATX folks with recommendations (or advice about online services – I’m totally down for that too, doesn’t have to be face to face), I’m all ears.\u00a0 It actually feels very cathartic to finally admit I need help and commit to it, I tend to be stubborn and proud about shit like this, when I actually don’t need to be.<\/p>\n For the cruise – the plan is to get activity each day, but no timing\/pacing\/whatever goals.\u00a0 I don’t think that will be hard at all, there are a billion things to do both on board and on our shore excursions, I think I’ll have to be coerced to STOP moving.\u00a0 Food – while I don’t want to go crazy, I also recognize this is one of the awesome parts of the vacation.\u00a0 The goal is one desert per day, try to fill up on the healthiest food I can at breakfast\/lunch and taste the not-as-healthy stuff.\u00a0 Dinner – all bets are off.\u00a0 If you’re serving me a 4 course meal, I am going to enjoy it.\u00a0 Overall – just because it’s there does NOT mean I need to consume it.\u00a0 If I’m hungry, eat.\u00a0 If not, don’t.\u00a0\u00a0 The highest I’ve weighed in recently has been 170.\u00a0 I would like to be 170 or less when I get back.<\/p>\n For the next few weeks, I plan to try out the “veggie fast” for the first few days of the week.\u00a0 Considering I have my birthday, then Zliten’s, then an out of town trip to run the Warrior Dash… there is not a full week window anytime soon.\u00a0 I’m figuring a few days of real clean eating can help balance out some of the crazy.\u00a0 The goal is at least 2 days\/week.\u00a0 We’ll see how it goes from there.\u00a0 The goal is both to cleanse, and to see if I have any weird, new food allergies.<\/p>\n I think that’s about it.\u00a0 I don’t want to throw too many things at the problem right now, in spite of that being in my nature to do exactly that.<\/p>\n Traaaaain:<\/strong><\/p>\n I am a tale of two Quix’s.\u00a0 I am torn asunder at both being excited that I have had some leeway in my workout (4 days instead of 5 this week? Eh, no biggie.\u00a0 Or…I don’t feel like running today, think I’ll DDR), and I really have enjoyed feeling like I’m getting WAY better with biking and swimming, but I’m also feeling a little lost without a race to train for.<\/p>\n In March and April, I really need to sit down and plan for the rest of the year.\u00a0 I think May will probably kick off seriouspants training for a sprint tri, and it will be all training all the time until I finish up for the year.\u00a0 I think, while I’m sure there will be some 5k – and maybe 10k action, I need to have some quality time to focus on getting faster, and I just haven’t been into it this winter. I think I went a little too crazy on my NY resolutions.\u00a0 I dunno if I can PR all these races and still lose the weight I want and also have a life and some downtime, so something’s gotta give.<\/p>\n I’ve been too enamored with getting better swimming and biking and conquering hill running (though I do admit I am cursing up a storm in my head during the workouts).\u00a0 I swam a 14 minute 750m last week.\u00a0 My average speed is creeping up on the bike from 15 mph to 17 mph.\u00a0 Running is kinda taking a back burner right now, and it’s ok.<\/p>\n So far the plan is:<\/p>\n -Warrior Dash (mud run), March<\/p>\n -Du Loop (duathlon), April<\/p>\n -Hell Run (? …not yet signed up), April<\/p>\n -Too Cool (6 hour adventure race), May<\/p>\n -Sprint Tri (not yet picked one), July<\/p>\n -Olympic Tri (not yet picked one), Sept\/Oct<\/p>\n -Dirty Du (trail half marathon\/camping\/duathlon), Nov<\/p>\n -Another for reals half marathon in there somewhere (maybe wait til ’12 and do 3M in Jan?)<\/p>\n -An out of town race somewhere<\/p>\n -Various and sundry 5ks, 10ks, fun runs.<\/p>\n However, right now I’m not even thinking about any of this, because I decided to lift heavier in my weights class, and threw my back out (owwww).\u00a0 I can actually almost pinpoint it in the clean and presses I was doing at the end with too much weight and ended up with bad form.\u00a0 It’s not so painful that I’m bedridden, but it’s VERY stiff in the morning and loosens up as the day goes on.\u00a0 I expected it would be better by now (started Friday nite and of course now it’s Monday morning), and am dosing on ibuprofen, icing (my back, trying to stay away from icing on all the crazy cookies and cake :P), and water, with small doses of icy hot and massage.\u00a0 Any other suggestions?<\/p>\n Happy News:<\/strong><\/p>\n Review and bonus time has come around at work and we did AWESOME!\u00a0 I got a significantly higher bonus than expected, to the point where I just kinda stared at it with my mouth open.\u00a0 No complaints there!\u00a0 Also, I got a very fair review with actual points to work on the next year (that made sense), which made me happy.\u00a0 What made me happier?\u00a0 I got the raise I asked for, plus some.<\/p>\n As for the bonus plans, Zliten bought himself a new laptop (which I *may* end up getting too, mine is over 4 years old…), we’re getting him a new bike that’s more in line with the quality of mine (instead of a 79 dollar target bike), and I decided with mine I was going to do the nutritionist thing, and also apply it to my race entry fees next year and not feel a lick of guilt for any of them, no matter how expensive.\u00a0 The rest will go into savings, go towards paying off the last bit of college loan, and also for cruise spending money.<\/p>\n It’s nice to be at a point in my life again where quality of life is more important than really pinching pennies.\u00a0 For example, we’re starting maid service soon (just wanted to double check that we were actually getting the proper raises expected).\u00a0 It is worth it to me to pay someone to do that, instead of the combination now of living in filth\/spending weekends and evenings cleaning up.\u00a0 I’m also hoping it will train us to keep things picked up, since we’ll have to pick up anyway before they come by and clean.\u00a0 Same with the nutritionist thing… I could continue to struggle, or I could fork over the cash to let someone else try for a little while.<\/p>\n So, that’s life in a nutshell.\u00a0 Questions of the day: any suggestions on how to un-fuck a back that sore (it’s my mid back – like right above the small)?\u00a0 Any nutritionist recommendations or advice or relation of past experiences (I have no idea what I’m getting into here)?\u00a0 Would you use an online nutritionist or would you rather have face to face time with someone?<\/p>\n Also: I’m finding less and less time to attend to my RSS reader.\u00a0 I *have* been able to keep up with twitter though and end up reading a lot of blogs this way.\u00a0 If I don’t follow you on twitter, I would LOVE if you would leave me your twitter handle so I could follow you.\u00a0 Or you can find me – quixotique. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Speaking of love… HAPPY VALENTINES DAY.\u00a0 I had one REALLY YUMMY truffle yesterday, otherwise I’m staying away from the treats and just trying to feel the LOVE.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/media.fukung.net\/images\/32967\/13950813b4928bbd19977945ad754210.jpg\")
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