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<\/p>\nY’all, I need a week off.\u00a0 Not a week off being healthy.\u00a0 Not a week off exercising.\u00a0 A week off running, yeah, but that’s just to rest my (#$*%&ing heel.\u00a0 Just a week off numbers, tracking, being neurotic, etc etc and so forth.<\/p>\n
Last week was just one of those weeks – I didn’t go OVER my daily burn totals, but I certainly didn’t eat UNDER or at the low end like I have been.\u00a0 The net result was maintaining from last week, which considering I’m careening right into that time of the month where I feel like a bag of water, but ultimately frustrating because it’s nearing the end of month 2 here, and I’m still hanging out right under 160.\u00a0 That 3.3 lbs DB says I should be losing per month?\u00a0 Notsomuch.<\/p>\n
So I’m going to take a week off tracking formally.\u00a0 I’m going to eat lots of veggies and fruits and healthy-feel-good-food and pay attention to how I feel.\u00a0 I’m going to go for a lot of low impact swimming, biking, arc trainer, and other such similar things.\u00a0 I rarely lose weight during this week of the month, so maybe it’s a clue from my body to just take a chill pill and relax a bit.<\/p>\n
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But without further ado, let’s crunch last week’s numbers:<\/p>\n
Monday: 1820 in – 829 out (12 mile bike, 5k run) = 991<\/p>\n
Tuesday: 1914 – 432 (30 mins DDR and abs) = 1482<\/p>\n
Wednesday: 1913 – 532 (1 hour volleyball) = 1381<\/p>\n
Thursday: 1634 – 381 (800m swim) = 1253<\/p>\n
Friday: 1447 – 0 (rest) = 1447<\/p>\n
Saturday: 2119 – 729 (5k race, obstacle course, abs) = 1390<\/p>\n
Sunday: about 1400 – 0 (rest) = 1400<\/p>\n
Avg calories in per day: 1749<\/p>\n
Avg calories out per day: 414<\/p>\n
Avg net calories per day: 1335<\/p>\n
Avg deficit per day: 477, or just under 1 lb loss this week<\/p>\n
Weight Monday morning: 159.8 (+0.2 from last week, -3.2 overall)<\/p>\n
Let’s call it water weight and move on, shall we?<\/p>\n
This week:<\/p>\n
So I’m kinda playing it by ear.\u00a0 I am taking the week off running, and I just haven’t had time\/mindshare\/desire to swim a lot, and I want to take it easy on the DDR as it is just a *little* aggravating on my heel, so I’m having a very bike heavy and arc trainer heavy week.\u00a0 Here is the general plan, which I’ve already completed through Wed morning:<\/p>\n
Monday: 11.5 mile bike ride<\/p>\n
Tuesday: 14.5 mile bike ride (5 miles to work, 9.5 miles the long way home)<\/p>\n
Wednesday: 40 mins arc trainer morning, abs\/back tonight.<\/p>\n
Thursday: no cardio, arms and legs, yoga.<\/p>\n
Friday: bike commute, abs\/back<\/p>\n
Saturday: 30 mins arc trainer\/DDR\/walking adventure, arms and legs.<\/p>\n
Sunday: morning bike ride, yoga.<\/p>\n
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Yeah, I’m gonna get flack for no days completely off.\u00a0 But I am really really really enjoying this mellow moving a bit every day, especially when it’s part of my commute.\u00a0 When I run and do crazy stuff I *need* my days off.\u00a0 When I ride my bike and get to enjoy the outdoors I just want to do it more.\u00a0 Even today’s wakeup session on the arc trainer was nice.\u00a0 I really really really need to get back into weights and yoga, I’m having a feeling some of the heel issues I’m starting to see is from the lack of stretching, which sucks, because I should do that. And…even if I PLAN to workout both weekend days I usually end up ditching one.\u00a0 So there.<\/p>\n
As for eating, I’m not tracking.\u00a0 Dailyburn keeps yelling at me for it but I will not repent.\u00a0 I’m guessing that I’ve kept it around 1500 calories per day so far, give or take 100 either way.\u00a0 I’ve consumed food if I was hungry, attempting to identify what my body needed (aka, last night, after a very meatless day and fairly light eating, I had a dinner of two turkey sausage patties, one grilled fish filet (not to be confused with the not-so-healthy filet o’ fish), a little leftover fiber spaghetti and marinara, a bagel thin and cream cheese, and a metric buttload of normandy veggies.\u00a0 ‘Bout 600 calories in retrospect (which is normal for dinner), but who’s counting?\u00a0 Apparently, I seem to not need to.<\/p>\n
I did dip into the chocolate over the last few days.\u00a0 One especially PMS-y day I think I might have consumed over 100 calories in chocolate.\u00a0\u00a0 Oops.\u00a0 But honestly?\u00a0 What I needed.\u00a0 And considering most days I either abstain or maybe have ONE chocolate kiss?\u00a0 Think I’m doing ok.\u00a0 This weekend shouldn’t be too bad, minus our BBQ.\u00a0 But I’m figuring on a nice bike ride that morning to pre-pay for my alcoholic transgressions, and then just be a reasonable human with the food.\u00a0 A plan, I has it.<\/p>\n
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It will be interesting to see what the scale says next week.\u00a0 Besides the whole water balloon thing going on around my belly, I’m feeling better.\u00a0 Haven’t had the courage to try on the skinny jeans lately, but once I’m through zee week o bloat, I might get some moxie and do it and see.<\/p>\n
Also, I signed up for the volleyball league at work.\u00a0 It starts next week.\u00a0 I couldn’t pass up how fun it was last week at the company fun day, plus how many calories it torched in an hour.\u00a0 So I’ve got that, a potential mini-triathlon I’d like to do June 20th, an urban assault ride sometime in June I *probably* won’t do but was mentioned to me by a coworker that sounds like a blast, and I’m sure more stuff that will come across my radar here before I know it.<\/p>\n
It seems that I am definitely having too much fun to regret not marathon training.\u00a0 And I am so totally ok with that.\u00a0 I’ve got 40 or so years until I *might* be too old to consider that as an option (though this is<\/a> encouraging), so there’s time.<\/p>\n What are you having too much fun to not regret not doing this week?<\/p>\n EDIT: photos from the gladiator games are up!\u00a0 Check it out<\/a> if you’re interested – there is even one of me in there!<\/p>\n