I would have thought that summer would have made for easier training. The weather is nice so I can ride outside, David is home with the kids so I don't have to worry about picking them up on time, David is more than willing to cook dinner so I don't have to worry about that, it's lighter later in the day. Surprisingly, none of this makes it easier to train. Summer really makes me want to just hang out with my family, do things around the house, and go on vacation. It's a bit depressing being the only one going to work each day, so who wants to add another hour and a half away from the house?
Tonight, for example, I won't be home until 9pm. I got to work at 10am and will be here until 7pm. Then, I have to swim for an hour and a half. That puts me home around 9pm. Just in time to watch an episode of Rome and go to bed. Tomorrow I have to be at work before 8am to help conduct interviews, and work until 3:30. I'm hoping to bike home from work; hoping that the roads dry off enough by then from our lovely, rain-soaked day today. That gets my home by 4:30, an early day! I know I shouldn't be complaining. Afterall, I have a pretty awesome job, a husband who's willing to be with the kids so I can workout after work, and time to myself. I just wish that the time to myself wasn't always taken up by swimming or biking.
However, as I sit and complain about the time away from home, I have to celebrate that this morning I weighed in at 178.2! That's the lowest I've been in over a year :-) That's despite being in Vegas until last Monday and only getting in 3 official workouts last week. I did walk about a mile and a half in the mountains on Saturday, but I'm not counting that. The food thing really is important...duh. I really have to continue to keep in mind that food will make or break it for me. I'm working out to be stronger and maintain weight loss, but to actually lose the weight I have to eat right. I'm not going to reach my goal of being skinny by our anniversary, as that's only a month away now, but hopefully I've turned the corner now and can reach it by Christmas.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Back into it after a Sunburn Vacation
No, this is not a vacation from getting sunburns, it was a vacation from training due to a sunburn. For 7 days, I could not put on a bathing suit or bike shorts, let alone sleep well, due to the painful sunburn on the small of my back. Finally, today, I was able to put on a bathing suit and resume training. I swam a little over a mile in an hour. For those of you who are swimmers out there I realize that this is slow, but please remember that I swim breaststroke, which is much slower than pretty much every other stroke. I only have to swim a total of 1 mile for the race, in half-mile spurts, but at the end of June I'm swimming a mile and a half open water swim. It's no pressure, just practice. So, for the next 3 weeks I'm going to really focus on swimming. I'll still ride at least 2 days a week, but my swimming workouts will be the long workouts.
So, it will take me about 1 hour and 20 minutes to swim a mile and a half at a comfortable pace. If I push myself I can get it done faster, but for the purposes of scheduling training, I assume the slower time. Tomorrow, I have meetings from 7:30am until 4pm. David has to leave for hockey at 4:45pm. I can't really figure out a time in there to swim without waking up at 5:30am. I am so NOT a morning person when I can avoid it, so I doubt very much that will happen. So, I'll most likely be riding the bike trainer while trying to keep my kids out of trouble when David is at hockey. Tuesday and Wednesday will be pretty easy to schedule. Meetings only last until 12:30 on Tuesday, and Wednesday I'll go after my doctor's appointment.
I have a doctor's appointment on Wednesday to talk about this weight loss thing. They did blood work this week, and everything looks pretty normal, except I have borderline high Cholesterol. I think that getting that result back, along with being frustrated with the lack of weight loss has really focused me on the eating thing. I've been very good, without a whole lot of craving, for the past week. I did have 1 glass of wine and brownies (made with applesauce and egg whites) on Saturday. I'm really trying to work this out. This week is going to be brutal, though.
On Thursday, David and I are going to Vegas for much needed Mommy/Daddy time. Vegas is one of the worst places I could think of to go while trying to lose weight. The only think it has going for it is the massive amount of walking you do to get anywhere. I have to go to Vegas and try really hard not to drink and not to eat dessert. I have to watch portion size in a place that's know for everything being bigger than life. Plus, it's going to be difficult to train. I'm going to try to go to the pool early in the morning in hopes that I might be able to find a place to do some laps. We tend to average about 4 miles of walking per day, so that will be my way to keep in shape, I guess.
I weighed in at 180.0 Saturday morning. If I can maintain that when I weigh in upon returning from Vegas, that will be an incredibly successful trip!
I know the blogs aren't nearly as exciting now that I've backed out of the Half-Ironman length Aquabike, but I still hope some are reading. Maybe, somehow, my blog can give you entertainment, or solace in either the fact that you're not the only one, or that hey, you're one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to do much to stay healthy and keep skinny.
Have a wonderful week!
So, it will take me about 1 hour and 20 minutes to swim a mile and a half at a comfortable pace. If I push myself I can get it done faster, but for the purposes of scheduling training, I assume the slower time. Tomorrow, I have meetings from 7:30am until 4pm. David has to leave for hockey at 4:45pm. I can't really figure out a time in there to swim without waking up at 5:30am. I am so NOT a morning person when I can avoid it, so I doubt very much that will happen. So, I'll most likely be riding the bike trainer while trying to keep my kids out of trouble when David is at hockey. Tuesday and Wednesday will be pretty easy to schedule. Meetings only last until 12:30 on Tuesday, and Wednesday I'll go after my doctor's appointment.
I have a doctor's appointment on Wednesday to talk about this weight loss thing. They did blood work this week, and everything looks pretty normal, except I have borderline high Cholesterol. I think that getting that result back, along with being frustrated with the lack of weight loss has really focused me on the eating thing. I've been very good, without a whole lot of craving, for the past week. I did have 1 glass of wine and brownies (made with applesauce and egg whites) on Saturday. I'm really trying to work this out. This week is going to be brutal, though.
On Thursday, David and I are going to Vegas for much needed Mommy/Daddy time. Vegas is one of the worst places I could think of to go while trying to lose weight. The only think it has going for it is the massive amount of walking you do to get anywhere. I have to go to Vegas and try really hard not to drink and not to eat dessert. I have to watch portion size in a place that's know for everything being bigger than life. Plus, it's going to be difficult to train. I'm going to try to go to the pool early in the morning in hopes that I might be able to find a place to do some laps. We tend to average about 4 miles of walking per day, so that will be my way to keep in shape, I guess.
I weighed in at 180.0 Saturday morning. If I can maintain that when I weigh in upon returning from Vegas, that will be an incredibly successful trip!
I know the blogs aren't nearly as exciting now that I've backed out of the Half-Ironman length Aquabike, but I still hope some are reading. Maybe, somehow, my blog can give you entertainment, or solace in either the fact that you're not the only one, or that hey, you're one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to do much to stay healthy and keep skinny.
Have a wonderful week!
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