Weekly Wrap-Up

We've reached another Sunday and another weekly wrap-up. My weight loss goal will not be met. Oh well. I can't even be mad because I know I didn't try as hard as I should have. It takes more effort and discipline to transform my eating habits and I'm just not there yet.

The good news is, I'm six days away from Race Day and I am so ready. In fact, this week I ran two of my best times ever. On Saturday, I did my regular 3 miles in 34:29 and today I did 4.5 miles in 53:25. I ran with a partner today and when I was ready to stop she made me keep going. She told me to slow down (instead of stopping) and allow her to pace me. It was awesome. I like running with a partner.

So, I gained weight this week but I ran my best times ever. Ain't life funny?

I was feeling a little wonky this week ... call it hormones ... call it whatever ... but I was not on my game and I turned to food for comfort. Friday night I had Chinese food: spare ribs, shrimp fried rice, shrimp lo mein and an egg roll. Then on Saturday I had leftover lo mein for breakfast and then I proceeded to make the creamiest, cheesiest macaroni and cheese that I have ever made. It was delicious! And I didn't feel guilty.

I know I can't run off a bad diet. But running does help.

Here's the scale:

I'm not going to give up after next week. I will make better choices and I will resist the urge to stuff my face with creamy, cheesy goodness.

Weekly Wrap-Up

This week's meals:

Breakfasts:
Great Grains cereal w/2%milk (4 times)
Honeycomb cereal w/2% milk (once)
Banana and a granola bar
Greek yogurt
1/2 c of orange juice

Lunches:
Great Grains cereal w/2% milk
Salad (3 times)
Ham and cheese on wheat w/mustard
Chick-fil-a nuggets w/fries

Snacks:
Pita crisps w/hummus
plums
Townhouse crackers
Handful of blueberries

Dinners:
Meatloaf, rice, gravy, collard greens w/neckbones, cornbread, merlot (twice)
Andouille sausage and rice
Fried chicken, brocolli, cauliflower, merlot (twice)
Magherita pizza, merlot (twice)

Desserts:
Oatmeal cream cookie thingy from Little Debbie (one)
Skinny cow ice cream bar (one)
Skinny cow ice cream sandwich (one)

Weekly Exercise: Ran 13.8 miles over 4 days:
Wed - 3.1 miles
Thurs - 3.1 miles
Sat - 3.1 miles
Sun - 4.5 miles

I hate my scale. Another two-tenths of a pound down.

Okay, at least the scale isn't going up. I admit to doing some stress eating this week, but you try taking two kids to the cardiologist in one week and see if you don't stress eat. I did cut down on desserts, in that I didn't have one every night. But I know I shouldn't have had that fried chicken.

**sigh**

Countdown to Race Day (5)

It would appear that I've lost 2 lbs. But I can't really count this. The first weigh-in was in the evening after a full day of eating. So, we'll see what happens next Sunday morning.

It was a great Sunday. I did 4.5 miles this morning and it was a struggle but I got through it. I did some sprinting drills in order to increase my speed. I really thought I was going to pass out. The rest of the day I spent relaxing.

Today's Meals

Breakfast - power bar, banana
Snack - piece of havarti cheese
Lunch - 5 large cheese ravioli w/sauce
Snack - small plum
Dinner - roasted chicken, asparagus, mashed potatoes, 2 glasses of sauvingon blanc
Dessert - Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich

Today's Workout
Ran 4.5 miles

Countdown to Race Day (4)

Today's Meals

I inadvertently went all vegetarian today. Imagine that ...

Pre-run fuel - power bar
After run snack - nectarine
Snack - 11 pita crisps with roasted red pepper hummus
Lunch - Chef salad w/greens, 2 hard cooked eggs, dried cranberries, golden raisins, kalamata olives, croutons and greek viniagrette dressing
Dinner - I swiped this recipe from the BGR! site. Orzo, pine nuts and spinach. It was okay. Probably won't be making it again. But now what am I supposed to do with all these pine nuts?
Dessert - Skinny Cow chocolate truffle ice cream bar

Today's workout:
Ran 2.25 miles

Countdown to Race Day (1)

This will not be my normal weigh-in day and time but I needed a starting point. My offical weigh-ins will be on Sunday mornings.

Goals

Lose 5 lbs

Lose 2 inches off my waist

Complete the 5k (3.1 miles) in less than 30 minutes

The strategy is to strengthen my core, get rid of the extra fat around my midsection and improve my form in order to pick up speed.

Today's Meals

Breakfast - 1 banana, 6 oz Greek yogurt, green tea

Lunch - 1/2 cup of Frito corn salad

Snack - small plum

Dinner - Chicken breast with olives, raisins and spinach rice, glass of white wine

Drank water all day

Today's Workout: 2 sets

Superman - 10 reps

Bridge - 10 reps

Metronome - 10 reps

Plank Lift

Side Plank

By the way, did you know that one piece of flat bread is 260 calories??? Yeah, I didn't. Today's diet was not that great but I didn't plan to have a meltdown in the middle of the week.