{"id":3591,"date":"2013-03-19T20:49:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2013-03-19T20:49:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:49:54","slug":"week-10-vodka-for-dinner-and-other-sacrifices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/19\/week-10-vodka-for-dinner-and-other-sacrifices\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10 – Vodka for Dinner and Other Sacrifices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Food:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This week I have learned that sacrifices must be made to make progress, and that I can’t have my cake and eat it too.<\/p>\n

I partied pretty hard twice this week.\u00a0 Both times, to justify the calories, for the most part, skipped dinner (I had small snacks both days, but not a meal).\u00a0 While I don’t typically drink to that level very often, I did remember days of having to shelve half my dinner or more if I wanted to indulge when I was losing weight.<\/p>\n

The good news is that remembering this made me stop bitching to twitter about poor little Quix who had to much to drink and is getting her dinner taken away and just enduring it.\u00a0 I’m a big girl and I make those choices.<\/p>\n

The bad news is that I will need to remember that when I do alcohol instead of the food I need to eat, rather than alcohol + the food I need to eat makes training days suck.\u00a0 My gas tank felt like I was running on empty most of Saturday because my gas tank was full of crap, and I didn’t do much better by myself the rest of the weekend.\u00a0 Today I feel sluggish, tired, I’ve been peeing all day getting rid of water, and really looking forward to NOT indulging in junk food for quite a while.<\/p>\n

But, I remember there were sacrifices on the way down from 20000 billion lbs.\u00a0 As much as I remember it with rosy colored glasses that it was just effortless once I got going, I went to bed hungry sometimes.\u00a0 I had vodka for dinner because I chose those calories over good calories.\u00a0 I went into workouts underfueled.\u00a0 And y’know what?\u00a0 This far away from season?\u00a0 That’s ok.\u00a0 I honestly believe 10 lbs down would help me much more than feeling awesome for each training session.\u00a0 90% of my meals are awesome, healthy food.\u00a0 I just need to remember that the 10% crap needs to be INSTEAD of the 10% healthy, or I’ll continue to end up with 110% me each year like I have been.<\/p>\n

However, there are exceptions.\u00a0 This weekend, I’m riding a metric century.\u00a0 I expect that I’ll be burning about 2000 calories doing that alone, so probably eating 2500-3000 calories that day is not too out of the question (and luckily, I have a wedding to go to that evening, so I should have no problems with that).\u00a0 There is underfueling and there’s stupid.\u00a0 I aim to find that line and not cross it.<\/p>\n

That being said, here’s the numbers:<\/p>\n

Monday: 22 DQ, 1608 calories
\nTuesday: 26 DQ, 1747 calories
\nWednesday: 27 DQ, 1530 calories
\nThursday: 2 DQ, 1977 calories (vodka for dinner)
\nFriday: 13 DQ, 2097 (ren faire catered meal + drink + desert)
\nSaturday: 3 DQ, 2696 calories (birthday fest)
\nSunday: 13 DQ, 1403 calories<\/p>\n

Average Calories In: 1865, estimated calories out 2285 (estimated deficit 420 per day or 2945 total, or about 3\/4 lb)<\/p>\n

Average Diet Quality Score: 15 (low low low)<\/p>\n

Weight: low 183.2, high 188.8.<\/p>\n

No wonder I’m getting frustrated, there’s no way to tell if I’m losing 3\/4 lb when I fluctuate almost 6 lbs per week :P.<\/p>\n

Oh well, onwards and upwards.\u00a0 Hopefully, there will not be vodka for dinner this week.\u00a0 My body would be thankful for that.<\/p>\n

Training:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I shorted myself a little less than an hour, which sucks, but oh well.\u00a0 It really wasn’t intentional.<\/p>\n

Swim:\u00a0 I cannot say enough good things about swimming.\u00a0 My slow pace is pretty not slow, I’m enjoying the speedwork, and I have a wetsuit to play in when the lake is cold.\u00a0 When my form is good, I feel like a spider crawling on top of the water, being pushed by the current.\u00a0 Isn’t that weird?\u00a0 I was bummed that I couldn’t get our first open water swim in this weekend (planned for 30 mins but only made it 10 mins breaststroking out and back to the first buoy) – but it was nice to know that when the lake isn’t like a wave pool, the wetsuit will work just fine even in 64 degree water.<\/p>\n

Bike: Eh.\u00a0 The wind made riding really unsafe, so we cut what should have an hour ride to 37 mins, and that was less than 9 miles due to WIIIIIIIIND.\u00a0 My wheel kept singing me the song of it’s people, which was an eerie whistling sound I’ve never heard before so loud and so often that it was really just unsafe to ride.\u00a0 The bike is my meh sport right now, but hopefully that will change once I get out and ride hills more and get my quad mojo back.<\/p>\n

Run: This sport is definitely coming around for me though sometimes I just want to say SHUT UP HEART.\u00a0 The great thing about recognizing zone 1\/2 running is that I can knock a 10 mile run (when I haven’t even run CLOSE to double digits since the marathon) and my legs are like… did we just take a long walk?\u00a0 Also, I did 2 amazing tempo miles in the middle – miles 7 and 8 – and the pace wasn’t that great (read: the wind), but I felt like I wanted to run that effort forever.\u00a0 So if I’m doing that around 10:45s in the wind, at the end of a long run, and on a day where I kinda felt like crap, I certainly can get uncomfortable and sub 10 on race day, right?\u00a0 Also, I did hill repeats and made the lunch run crew do them with me Tuesday – that will probably be a regular thing – they loved to hate it with me.<\/p>\n

Weights: Increased weights on some stuff.\u00a0 I can definitely tell I’m either where I’m supposed to be or at the top of my capacity right now.\u00a0 I’ve had fun with heavy weights, but I’m ready to move onto strength maintenance, and starting the harder “force” workouts actually on the swim\/bike\/run to build more specific strength for sport.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I’m a little terrified where I am at physically in relation to tri season on the bike, run, and body composition, but I’m also feeling super strong, and very confident in my swim and most importantly, my head game and strategy.\u00a0 And, I have a month and a half until the first race I sorta really care about (Rookie Tri) so anything can happen.\u00a0 Hell, a month and a half ago, I would have told you I was an awesome cyclist, mediocre swimmer, I had torn up my running card, and weights were the best thing ever so… yeah.\u00a0 Things – they change.<\/p>\n

By the days…<\/p>\n

Monday: Weights: MS Phase – Day 5<\/a> 45 mins, Easy Swim + Drills<\/a> 1200 m\/30 mins
\nTuesday: Bike: Trainer + Futurama The Wild G…<\/a> 26.02 mi\/1h15m, Run: Lunch Run Hill Repeats<\/a> 4.35 mi\/50 mins
\nWednesday: Run: Treadmill Run<\/a> 1.76 mi\/20mins, Weights:MS Day 6 + Stretching<\/a> 45 mins, Swim: Speedwork Day<\/a> 1800m\/ 40 mins
\nThursday: off
\nFriday:\u00a0 Futurama + Trainer<\/a> 13.05 mi\/37 min
\nSaturday: Run: Lake Pfluger 3+ Laps<\/a> 10.1 mi \/2 hours, Bike: Lake Pfluger Out and Back<\/a> 8.7 mi \/37 min, Swim: Lake Pfluger Wetsuit Test<\/a> 175 m\/10 min
\nSunday:\u00a0 off<\/p>\n

Total: 8h30 mins (supposed to be 9h30).\u00a0 It was really due to missing out on about 25 mins of bike and 20 mins of swim on Saturday, but oh well.\u00a0 Can’t control mother nature, and really really wanted a rest day Sunday.<\/p>\n

This week is super build week (10.5 hours) for the Build 2 cycle so I just want to get through it alive.\u00a0 4 hours of that, at least, is the Rosedale Ride.\u00a0 I’m super pumped to ride another metric century and looking forward to getting lots of supported outdoor ride time.\u00a0 Goal is sub 4 hours of time on bike (not counting rest stops).\u00a0 Hopefully the weather cooperates.<\/p>\n

Other stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We had Brazillian Steakhouse for lunch on Thursday (Zliten’s birthday) and took a half day off work and enjoyed some time in the beautiful sunny day on our patio drinking frozen drinks.\u00a0 I actually ate responsibly at an all you can eat salad bar\/meat place, are y’all proud of me?\u00a0 Then, I had vodka for dinner as I said, so don’t be too proud.<\/p>\n

And for the last birthday celebration of the year, we headed to our favorite bar with about 20 of our friends and enjoyed an afternoon\/evening of sipping cocktails and soaking in the sun.\u00a0 And, apparently, we had a long rap concert going on inside, which made for some awesome people watching.\u00a0 While again, I had vodka for dinner and looked longingly at all the greasy bar food that got ordered (I did snack on some fries though), I had a blast that day!<\/p>\n

However, I’m definitely ready for things to go back to normal.\u00a0 I’d like some solid time of good food, hydration, and normal human levels of alcohol consumption going on so I don’t feel like a lump of excrement.<\/p>\n

Question: what was the biggest sacrifice you had to make to reach a goal?<\/p>\n

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