June Exercise Totals
Attached is my chart for June. Trying to be cool like my friend Char who does this every month.
I did have one to copy from last November and December. Guess I got serious this time.
Almost 21 hours of exercise for the month.
| Date | Activity | Time | Distance | Stretch/ weights |
Thoughts |
| 6/1 | EFX | 30 | 4 miles | 14 min | 1% weight loss goal this week. Starting PX90 |
| 6/2 | Calisthenics | 40 | 10 | ||
| 6/3 | EFX | 30 | 4 miles | 10 | |
| 6/4 | BTN | 30 | 5.2 | ||
| 6/5 | RUN | 30 | 2 | On track. Lost count of laps. 2 miles or just under. | |
| 6/6 | Walk | 90 | 5.6 | Two laps around green lake w/Char. Fabulous | |
| 6/7 | Rest | ||||
| 6/8 | Walk | 40 | Dog Park with Missy. Walked around for 40 minutes. | ||
| 6/9 | EFX | 20 | 1.6 | The minimum 20 minutes but I fit it in. | |
| 6/10 | EFX | 30 | 2.6 | 25 | Feels good fitting in my workouts |
| 6/11 | EFX | 20 | 1.75 | Minimum 20 min | |
| 6/12 | Run | 35 | 2 | Run/walk on street | |
| 6/13 | Walk | 45 | 2 | Dog park with Katherine and dogs | |
| 6/14 | Rest | Rest day: 8 hours of yard work | |||
| 6/15 | EFX | 20 | 2 | Minimum again | |
| 6/16 | Run | 40 | 2.2 | 20 min | Ran the whole thing. THRILLED |
| 6/17 | EFX | 40 | 3.33 | ||
| 6/18 | Walk | 45 | 2.2 | Walked Missy | |
| 6/19 | EFX | 30 | 2.56 | ||
| 6/20 | RUN | 35 | 2.2 | Could have done more, had to pee | |
| 6/21 | Rest | ||||
| 6/22 | EFX | 45 | 3.47 | 15 | |
| 6/23 | RUN | 40 | 2.5 | Ran further, added distance on the end. 2.1 miles ran, .4 miles walked | |
| 6/24 | EFX | 30 | 2.25 | ||
| 6/25 | EFX
BTN |
37
18 |
3
3 |
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| 6/26 | REST | ||||
| 6/27 | WALK/ RUN Walk |
4 hours 30 min |
13.1
2 miles |
½ Marathon
& to and from event |
|
| 6/28 | Walk | 40 | 2 | Dog Park | |
| 6/29 | BTN | 25 | 4.2 | ||
| 6/30 | Missed Workout | ||||
| TOTALS | 19hours 15 min | 80.76 miles |
1 hour 34 min. |
20 hours 49 minutes |
Oh and in my little code, EFX is the elliptical trainer and BTN is the stationary bike (Bike To Nowhere).
Numbers
Weight loss is all about numbers. Not just the number on the scale or on the waist band of the pants your trying to squeeze into but the number of hours number of calories number of days.
I am happy to say that at the 5 week mark on Monday (see a number), I am firmly above the 5% (another number) weight loss for this mini goal. I so want to increase the goal, start the 10 weeks over, loose 10% starting from here.
But I’m not, I am sticking with this number for now with this original goal. Still trying to loose 10% of my body weight (FAT weight) in 10 weeks. I am officially at 15 pounds (11 in June). I want to tell everyone. But really I saw the video of me crossing the finish line and hell I can’t tell by looking so what is someone going to say, to be polite….oh really, (eyebrow raising), good for you.
Although I do have to say recently my friend Katherine did say “I can tell you’ve lost weight I was walking behind you and there wasn’t as much butt as before.”
I tracked my calories every single day in June. The average for the month is 1568 a day. Some days less, some days more but that is what the average is from June 1 to June 30th. It is exactly in the range I was shooting for.
So my exercise Totals for June is about 21 hours and over 80 miles in cardio EIGHTY I think that is the number in this post that surprised me the most. Now I wont have a 13 mile run in July so I am sure I wont make these total again this month but for June I am quite pleased with the numbers. (break down in separate post)
I also got to go to About and change the number 50 to 40. Its all about the numbers, and today’s number is 14. Thats’ what size pants my ass fit in today!
Walken it off
I am actually quite pain free today.
I had a good night sleep and today my shoulders and my hips are a little bit tight but that is all the effects from yesterday.
I walked at the dog park for an hour, nice brisk pace and it felt good to move.
Luckily my period waited until the end of the marathon to start. But my appetite last night and today is kind of off the hook. I am still tracking calories but there seems to be a lot more carbs yesterday and today. I am pretty sure it has more to do with my period then the marathon.
Tomorrow is 5 weeks into the 10% weight loss in 10 weeks that I am attempting and although I am on course I wont stay on if I don’t pay attention to what I am putting in my broccoli hole.
So today was a walk, I exchanged my rest day for last Friday to go into the marathon with all my energy. I have been tracking my exercise all month and there are two days left and already have about 20 hours of exercise. I am excited to total it all up.
Time
Well I’m done. By the times below from the web site, I only cut 25 minutes from last fall.
This doesn’t take into count the long wait for a porto potty or the about 10 minutes I had to take to stretch out my calf at about mile 10. I pulled my hip early on and then over compensating for that got a cramp in the calf of my other leg. It could have something to do with mild dehydration also.
The morning was tough. Up at 4 a.m. and ate my cereal and soy milk way to early in the day to eat anything. Got down town and parked about 5 a.m. Walked about a mile back to the shuttle pick up and stood in the cool morning and waited for the shuttles and then waited at the other end for over an hour for the race to start and another 37 minutes before I was able to go.
I was pretty stiff and cold by that point. Couldn’t really walk to warm back up because I was in the middle of a pack that were running. I started out to fast and got tired pretty quick. At about mile 2 I was running down a hill and thats were I pulled my hip.
But I kept going. I finished. Here are my times:
- Splits: 5 Km 10 Km 9 Mile Finish
- Times: 49:02 1:46:41 2:38:57 3:57:22
- Pace: 15:47 17:11 17:40 18:07
I didn’t do as well as I had planned, or even as well as I had hoped. But I shaved time off from the last one and I did. I finished it. I may do the one in November again, but I am not signing up right now. Since Char, Leslie and I decided to do the one last year I have been signed up for a marathon for a year and a half except the five weeks after finishing that one and signing up for this one.
Cool Gear
Well today I picked up the packet for the race tomorrow. It was exciting and bustling with activity and I was very proud to be going through with this even though it will not be nearly as much fun without Char there this time. There were all kinds of t-shirts, sweatshirts, running pants, shorts, hats, water bottle carriers, GU, all kinds of stuff. I didn’t buy any shirts and will be wearing the free one.
I am glad that the T-shirt is short sleeved as the run wont be as hot, however the start of the race may be cold and if the end is anything like the last one I’ll be wrapping myself up in the mylar blanket.
I certainly hope so because I am carrying very little. I know the last marathon was in November and cold and I wore a fleece (and walked 99.7% as I couldn’t run) but I had pockets for things like lip balm and ID and keys.
What I was looking for I found lots of them. I had been looking for one of these belts because, well I’m tired of trying to figure out what to do with my keys and such when I run and this will come in handy for dog walks even.
In this little belt, that is not supposed to bounce, I have cash, debit card, drivers license, lip balm, keys and my phone. I have decided to take the clip on I-Pod but if I need to put it and the headphones in there they will fit also.
Everyone keeps saying leave the music at home becuse there are bands every mile, but I run better with tunes so I am taking them just in case.
My race number is 22621 and the finish line will be streamed live here.
Found Some
Motivation that is.
Today’s motivation besides the fact that I simply tacked on a half mile to my run is the fact that a pair of trousers I bought in London last time I was there (2006?) I took the tags off today and am wearing.
I have officially dropped a size in the last 4 weeks.
M O T I V A T I O N !!
Finding Motivation
One of my biggest motivations is success itself. Down over 11 pounds in 4 weeks is a good start. However catching a glimpse of myself in a reflection lets me know my “minds eye” is so much kinder to my ego then reality.
My good friend Char and I have been checking in on nearly a daily basis for the last four weeks. Weighing in every week. Declaring our daily goals. Our success and our stumbling blocks. It was a great way to re-start this journey for me. (Weight loss Journey, Healthful Journey, Journey of Accountability) Name it what you want.
Its myself I need to be accountable to. I can’t expect to email Char everyday for the next forty years. That being said now moving onto the challenge of motivating myself. I think it will help that I am still on this work schedule for another two months. I am still working toward the 10% loss in 10weeks goal and hopefully the success of that will propel me into further motivation.
Success is definitely my biggest motivation, in the same way that my personal failure is a free ticket into the land of who cares. I am not one of those people who can loose this weight and then forget about exercising or logging my food. I have always been heavy. If I don’t exercise almost daily and limit my calories my body resets right about 200 pounds. This will always be a life long lifestyle.
That can get depressing if I think about it too much. That doesn’t mean that I can never have french fries, that I can never have dessert. But that does mean that out of a 365 day year…335 of them I need to be on plan.
My plan, exercise six days a week and keep my calories under 1800 every day, most days closer to 1500. It is not easy, but it is doable.
Motivation will need to be found in increased activity levels, increased health and looking good and liking it!
PMS’n
I want to eat everything sweet, salty and cheesy that I can find.
I have brushed my teeth for the night to quit snacking….(TWICE)
Lame excuse to eat especially when I know why it is. Damn Hormones.
The same ones that have me tearing up at every damn commercial or nice thing I see or read. Or crummy thing I see or read.
So I don’t waste the entire weeks worth of work I am heading upstairs just to get away from the kitchen.
700 uneeded calories today. Chips. Not even mine, my room mates, and stale. GOOD GRIEF!
Drinking during weight loss
Most of us drink on occasion. The challenge of drinking while trying to drop a few pounds is alcohol is it is completely empty calories.
I received an email today from Beachbody.com today on the best and worst cocktails. (Yes an email, that happens when you buy products that you may or may not use)
So to plagiarize their article. And I’m happy to say, my drinks are on the BEST list.
Best.
- Red Wine. (High in antioxidants)
- Microbrews. (Microbrews built with higher quility ingredients contain double the protein, quadruple the electrolytes and more vitamins and assorted phytonutrients (like flavonoids) than mass produced beer.
- Guinness stout. It’s low in calories and high in iron, making it one of the best choices if you’re going for a mass-produced beer.
- Top-shelf alcohol of any kind. Straight, on the rocks, or with water.
- Vodka soda. Vodka is the purest of the hard alcohols, and soda is mainly water. Add a couple of limes, and you’ve got a clean and refreshing cocktail with very few calories
Worst.
- Scorpion.
- Long Island Ice Tea.
- Red Bull and Vodka.
- Jack and Coke.
- Piña colada.
I wont go into the “Why’s” these are on the worst list, but I linked the article above if you like. But mostly its calories, no antioxidants and way to much sugar. The key to even the Best list is moderation.
Progress not Perfection
It is a saying that is perfect in so many aspects of life. Fitness and Nutrition are no exceptions.
Three weeks into my revived mindset and the novelty has worn off. This is where the backsliding would usually kick in. One small thing here, leading to one small thing there. Or a missed workout or schedule change leading to an excuse creeping in and taking root.
That is not going to happen. I am going to stay present in this lifestyle. A lifestyle that puts healthy food choices ahead of unhealthy choices. But more importantly doesn’t allow room for excuses.
Logging calories and exercise helps keep me present. What I’ve noticed today is if my minimal workout (for busy days or between heavy workouts) is 20 minutes a day, well there have been several days this week that I only got the minimum in. Definitely not perfection, but it is progress.
Not allowing room for excuses does not mean there will not be days when I have too much to eat or fail to workout. What it does mean is that overeating at one meal does not mean its a free ticket to throw out the rest of the day. Enjoying a yummy desert is not the end of the world, progress is being mindful and not allowing that old lifestyle and being unaware take over.
Progress, not Perfection!
