August Activity Numbers
Better then July, Not as good as June.
Definately a maintenance month.
| Date | Activity | Time | Distance |
| 8/1 | |||
| 8/2 | Walk | 45 | 1.5 |
| 8/3 | EFX | 45 | 3.60 |
| 8/4 | EFX | 30 | 2.65 |
| 8/5 | Walk | 70 | 3.2 |
| 8/6 | EFX | 20 | 2 |
| 8/7 | |||
| 8/8 | RUN | 35 | 2.1 |
| 8/9 | Walk | 35 | 1.2 |
| 8/10 | |||
| 8/11 | EFX | 60 | 4.90 |
| 8/12 | |||
| 8/13 | EFX | 30 | 2.33 |
| 8/14 | WALK | 20 | 1 |
| 8/15 | EFX | 50 | 4.00 |
| 8/16 | |||
| 8/17 | EFX | 20 | 1.6 |
| 8/18 | EFX | 40 | 3.1 |
| 8/19 | EFX | 45 | 3.8 |
| 8/20 | |||
| 8/21 | |||
| 8/22 | |||
| 8/23 | |||
| 8/24 | EFX | 25 | 1.85 |
| 8/25 | EFX | 20 | 1.62 |
| 8/26 | EFX | 45 | 3.45 |
| 8/27 | |||
| 8/28 | EFX Walk |
55 20 |
4.25 .60 |
| 8/29 | |||
| 8/30 | Walk | 45 | 1.5 |
| 8/31 | EFX | 25 | 2 |
13hours 50.15 miles
Routines and such
Lookey lookey that two weeks just flew by. I can see the wake of crumbs I left behind.
Just a quick update. I’m pretty much maintaining status quo.
Still eating too much, but working out almost daily which is just keeping me in the same place weight wise, and frustrated with my lack of progress.
It is what it is.
When I’m not working out regularly I can tell. I don’t sleep as well, and I certainly don’t have as much patience. The last week I had a couple cake projects, family graduation and company in town so 4 days in a row I really didn’t get much movement and ate too much. It just feels gross.
The good thing is I can feel the difference when I get right beck into a routine. It feels good to be working out the last few days, even if my calories are too high.
Here comes fall and a schedule change again and I feel much more ready to handle it then before this stint on second where I could get my workouts back in order. Soon I’ll be getting up at 4:30 in the morning again and working out in the afternoons. But I have faith in myself and my determination.
Matter Over Mind
Clearly my resolve from earlier today didn’t stick. I finished off the damn container of cookies at work.
Why? Because they were the most exotic cookies ever made? NO
Because they are rare and hard to find and if I didn’t I may never get them again? NO
Because the flavor was so good they they were irresistible? NO
Because they were there…..that must be it. Because I had no will power….yea that played into it somehow.
I didn’t want them. They were not that good, after the first one they were not even enjoyable. Each one that I ate made me feel worse.
Matter over Mind!
My Own Words
The last couple days have been a wasteland of empty calories.
Thing is except for the excuse of “PMS” there doesn’t seem to be a reason.
I would like to think that my body about to shed a bunch of weight because of the increased exercise and is trying to maintain that fat so sending me to the cupboard and to foods I don’t usually eat.
So today I get a comment on a blog from last year. The blog was entitled Snacks. When the comment came across in my email it was pretty vague so I went back to read the post. I clearly just needed to “hear” my own words.
I have had more snacks in the last few days then I have had in the last two and a half months. I think after this I am done, for now. Lets hope next time my own words hit me sooner in the calorie loading craze.
10 weeks / 10% loss
That was the goal. Ten weeks ago, tomorrow.
I hate to even put up the beginning weight but here it was 204.4. So my goal for 10 weeks from May 25th to Aug 3rd would be a 20.44 pound loss.
Well I didn’t quite make it. However I am thrilled by what I did manage and more importantly I have some good habits in place again.
I was able to really focus or over-focus in June which helped. What it helped with was once July got here and I had company in for 10 days and a wedding cake order that took up 3 days, then unexpectedly the last week of the month my work shift got changed I was still tracking my calories and working in small workouts where I could. The loss in July was much smaller then the loss in June. In fact it was half. I lost about 12 pounds in June and 6 pounds in July. But that is 18 pounds. I am only 2 pounds away from the 10% but more importantly I am down 18 pounds since I started, 10 weeks ago.
The other number that is quite telling is my activity number. June was an awesome month for working out and I had the half marathon. I ended up with 80 miles for the month. That I am sure has something to do with the 12 pound loss. July wasn’t as spectacular, although it was much better then other months with so many distractions. I ended up with 19 miles totaling 6.5 hours.
My next goal is to stay on this pace for the next 5 weeks and loose another 5%. That is a goal of 15% between memorial day and labor day. That will put me at 175 and about where I was in weight when I bought my house six years ago.
July Numbers
Besides not being able to get the table copied my performance for July
was not stellar. Better then no exercise however and still a weight loss.
About 7 hours for the month. That is about a 13 minute average per day.
August wont look quite like June but there will be an improvement.
Date Activity Time Distance Stretch/weights Thoughts
7/1 EFX 30 2.44 14 min Squeezing in workout before work
7/2 Walk 45 1.5 10 Stroll at dog park
7/3
7/4 Pool Bobbed around in the pool for several hours. Fun but really not a work out.
7/5
7/6
7/7 Walk 50 2.25 w/chari at track
7/8 Walk 60 3.0 w/chari at track
7/9
7/10
7/11
7/12
7/13 EFX 20 2 miles Chari left this morning.
7/14 3 hours shopping for cake
7/15 10 hours baking
7/16 Baking, filling frosting
7/17 Cake Due
7/18 WALK 60 3 MILES Walked Greenlake with Char. Felt great to be moving
7/19
7/20 EFX 30 3.30 30 minutes Getting back in the groove
7/21 RUN 35 2.10 RUN!! awesome
7/22 EFX 30 2.75
7.23 EFX 30 2.75
6.5 19.59
boomerang
With Chari here for 11 days and then a wedding cake due there were legitimate reasons I haven’t gotten much exercise (so far) this month. However those “excuses” being over I have to get back on track.
It would be so easy to keep missing the workouts, I mean its not like I don’t have enough house work, yard work, garden work, pool maintenance and dog care to make more “legitimate” excuses.
However I am feeling better. That makes it sound like I felt bad, that’s not it. I am feeling prouder. Wait that makes it sound like I was ashamed. I am making progress, I am loosing weight. I am still getting projects done. Maybe not as quickly if I weren’t stopping in the middle to go for a run or ride the elliptical and do some weights but in my promise to take care of myself. Its just what has to happen.
Last week I didn’t loose everything from the 11 days Chari was here. But I also didn’t work out and baked a wedding cake all week (which includes required tasting of cake.) I did loose most of it so I am thinking with just doing what is now considered “my usual” routine, I should drop the rest and then some pretty quickly.
It will be hard but I can still make the 10% in 10 weeks if I really try hard. That will mean 2.5 pounds both this week and next.
Dear Body
This was inspired by a Dove Body and Soul Dear Body project.
I tried to put the letter on their website but I guess you have to live in Canada for that.
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Dear Body,
I don’t know whether to thank you first or apologize.
I have not always liked you and have treated you poorly. Worse than I would treat a stranger or even an enemy. I have abused you with gluttony. I have abused you with slothedom. I have abused you with lies and deceit. I have hid you from a good time because I was ashamed of you. I have hid you under large baggy clothes. It is not your fault my dear body that I got so heavy. That I gave you poor fuel to work with, filling you with too much sugar, chemicals and never enough water. That I deprived you of sleep and respect.
You have carried me through my toughest challenges. You have survived rape and abuse. You have pumped blood and oxygen through you/me. Healing wounds and fighting off illness. You have stood every day, even days when I didn’t want you to. You have lived on ice cream after mom died, staying in bed for days until you ached.
You knew when to ache more than my heart to give me something else to focus on. Yet bounced back like a spring with just the littlest of encouragement from me.
You have carried large, heavy loads for me so my “hobbies” would flourish. You have carried me through marathons. Your strong hands enable me to work in the garden, to feel the softness of my dog’s fur. You allow me to smell the flowers, the paint, the coffee, the morning, the rain and the wood smoke.
Thank you! Thank you for always being true to me. Even and especially when I ignored you. Thank you for every grey hair, every wrinkle, every muscle, and every curve. For my strength which fuels my determination.
I am sorry for having treated you so poorly. An apology does not fix things so from here on out I promise to treat you with more respect. To use my muscles and give you the exercise and movement you deserve. I promise to feed you healthy and natural fuel. I promise to treat you to the occasional nap in the sun, swim in the ocean and hike in the woods to celebrate your strength and love of the fresh air.
Thank you body for loving and supporting me for so long. It’s my turn to love you back.
Love,
Valria
Back Sliding on week 7
For my mini goal of 10% in 10 weeks I am up for weight on week 7.
This puts me behind my goal so I need to be extra diligent for the next three weeks.
I didn’t really “maintain” during my visit with Chari. However it was much better then usual. I would say that the last four days of the eleven were a complete disaster. I did keep track of calories and think it helped to at least stay aware. At least when I weighed up on Monday I knew exactly why.
This week I’m supposed to be getting back on track. Yesterday I ate the leftover Risotto instead of throwing it away but I did manage 20 minutes on the elliptical trainer. Today I went shopping for cake supplies and ended up not working out and having a poor excuse of a lunch of potato chips until I over turned the bag into the trash.
Tomorrow I will be starting to make butter cream frosting for the cake due on Friday and possibly baking the larger of the tiers. HOWEVER, a cake that needs to bake for an hour, gives me enough time to at least get on the Elliptical trainer for 45 minutes!
My goal this week, week 7, is to get back to were I was at the beginning of week 6 so there will be a stronger possibility of making the goal in the two weeks that follow.
Mini Maintenance
One of my weight loss road blocks is the interruption in my schedule. Be it a trip or company in town or schedule change at work. When it is tough to fit in daily exercise because there are other obligations filling in the “exercise” time slot.
I am having a fabulous visit with Chari in town. This does mean that I have not had a work out in four days now. Even though everyday we say “tomorrow lets go to the track” it just hasn’t materialized. Perhaps tomorrow.
We did have fun bobbing around the pool on Saturday but it really doesn’t count as exercise.
What I am doing to maintain during this time is keeping my portions in control. Not having seconds when I have had enough and keeping fresh veggies and salads in the daily menu.
It is also nice to be doing so much grilling outside right now. Summer is great for grilling veggies and low fat cuts of meat. I think zucchini and salmon on the grill for lunch tomorrow is the plan. Right after we get back from the track.
My mini maintenance goal for this two weeks is to keep my weight were it is. Watch and log my food. Fit in workouts if I can and once the “routine” is back in force I’m sure my body will shed some weight just from the ramp up after this little break.
