WOW!! I lost 2.6 lbs. yesterday, even though I had a couple drinks and some semi-fattening chicken. Clearly biking is the way to go! I am elated right now. This means I lost 4.8 lbs. this month; for reference, my initial goal for July was 4 lbs. By the way, I've officially lost over 15 lbs. so far.
Yesterday I went to the muscle works class then biked for 2 hrs. I probably won't go that long everyday; in fact, today I'm planning on taking a 1-hr. ride, partly because it's really hot out and partly because I'm sore from yesterday (mainly from the muscle works class, although the bike seat has done a number on my butt). Here's what I ate yesterday:
2 mini pastry crisps
granola bar
2 carrots
nonfat cottage cheese
2 medium tomatoes with salt
organic fruit rope
roasted chicken leg and wing
sauteed veggies
Coors Light
1 glass red wine
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
174.6 Long Bike Ride
I took a 2 hr bike ride today on the KT trail. I felt exhausted afterwards, but I wasn't in pain so it was still better than running. I hope I am still burning as many calories.
I did not work out yesterday besides a few ab exercises with an exercise ball. Here's what I ate:
2 poached eggs
2 biscuits with butter and jam
granola bar
bratwurst with bun and mustard
mashed potatoes
large glass of apple juice
I did not work out yesterday besides a few ab exercises with an exercise ball. Here's what I ate:
2 poached eggs
2 biscuits with butter and jam
granola bar
bratwurst with bun and mustard
mashed potatoes
large glass of apple juice
Sunday, July 29, 2012
? Loving the Olympics
I have been having such a good time watching the Olympics! I've felt sort of neutral towards them in years past, but this time for some reason I'm sort of obsessed. Maybe because I'm more interested in being fit!
I did not work out today besides doing some ab exercises while watching womens gymnastics. Yesterday for my workout I went for a bike ride with Jack for an hour or. Here's what I ate:
cereal
1/2 avocado
medium tomato with salt
1-2 servings tortilla chips
black bean and veggie wrap with sweet potato fries
2 light beer
1 glass red wine
I did not work out today besides doing some ab exercises while watching womens gymnastics. Yesterday for my workout I went for a bike ride with Jack for an hour or. Here's what I ate:
cereal
1/2 avocado
medium tomato with salt
1-2 servings tortilla chips
black bean and veggie wrap with sweet potato fries
2 light beer
1 glass red wine
Saturday, July 28, 2012
? Tandem Problems
Whoops! Forgot to blog yesterday. I meant to in the evening, but then my eyes were so glued to the TV screen (Olympics Opening Ceremony was on), that I completely forgot! I weighed 175.2 yesterday, which means I had no net weight loss last week. :( I guess it must've been the chicken we had for dinner two nights ago; I did notice it had quite a bit of fat on it (Jack made grilled "beer can chicken"--it was the moistest chicken I've ever had!).
I was in intense pain yesterday after running. Not just my shins, but my entire legs and hips. Even walking to my car was very difficult. And I only made it to 1.2 miles! I think I'm going to take Jack's advice and do something else for my workout for a while. Today we went biking on the KT trail and decided to take the tandem, which we hadn't used all season. Once we started, we began to realize that many things were wrong with the bike, such as a missing cog, a messed up derailer, and the metal post under the front seat was bending back. Yes, bending. That's how hot it is here. So the bike ride turned out to be pretty difficult. But I think for the rest of this week I will make biking my workout.
Thursday for my workout I walked half a mile, ran 1 mile alternating between 6.7 and 6.9 mph, then went to the muscle works class. Here's what I ate:
cereal
leftover spaghetti and meatballs
small glass of strawberry milk
2 grilled chicken legs
small salad with cheese and caesar dressing
small serving of candied sweet potatoes
spumoni ice cream
Yesterday for my workout I walked .5 miles, ran 1.2 miles alternating between 6.7 and 6.9 mph, and walked .4 more miles. Here's what I ate:
cereal
salad with leftover chicken breast and caesar dressing
glass of V8
large glass of strawberry milk
4 small pieces of pizza
1 chicken wing
salad with cheese and Italian dressing
chocolate chip cookie
I was in intense pain yesterday after running. Not just my shins, but my entire legs and hips. Even walking to my car was very difficult. And I only made it to 1.2 miles! I think I'm going to take Jack's advice and do something else for my workout for a while. Today we went biking on the KT trail and decided to take the tandem, which we hadn't used all season. Once we started, we began to realize that many things were wrong with the bike, such as a missing cog, a messed up derailer, and the metal post under the front seat was bending back. Yes, bending. That's how hot it is here. So the bike ride turned out to be pretty difficult. But I think for the rest of this week I will make biking my workout.
Thursday for my workout I walked half a mile, ran 1 mile alternating between 6.7 and 6.9 mph, then went to the muscle works class. Here's what I ate:
cereal
leftover spaghetti and meatballs
small glass of strawberry milk
2 grilled chicken legs
small salad with cheese and caesar dressing
small serving of candied sweet potatoes
spumoni ice cream
Yesterday for my workout I walked .5 miles, ran 1.2 miles alternating between 6.7 and 6.9 mph, and walked .4 more miles. Here's what I ate:
cereal
salad with leftover chicken breast and caesar dressing
glass of V8
large glass of strawberry milk
4 small pieces of pizza
1 chicken wing
salad with cheese and Italian dressing
chocolate chip cookie
Thursday, July 26, 2012
174.4 Tomato Blight
I only lost .2 lbs yesterday, but that may just be because I went to the gym at 5 pm today. In order to get to my goal of 2 lbs for this week, I will have to have lost a whopping 1.2 lbs by tomorrow. It's happened before!
Sadly, our 16 beautiful tomato plants are afflicted with blight. It's bad. The other day I bought some copper soap as a fungicide, recommended to me by an employee at the lawn and garden store. All I had was a regular spray bottle, and let's just say that by the time I was done covering those 16, 7-foot tall plants, my hands were pretty tired. I need to get a more effective spraying contraption.
Today I only ran a mile since I was going to the muscle works class afterwards, but I increased my speed slightly to 6.7 and 6.9 mph. It felt fine. Yesterday for my workout I walked .7 miles, ran 1.8 miles alternating between 6.6 and 6.8 mph, walked .7 more miles, then ran .6 more miles. Here's what I ate:
cereal
1/2 avocado
small tomato with salt
oatmeal raisin cookie
handful pistachios
this rabbit fricasee recipe: 2 legs, 1 thigh, and 1 loin
small portion white rice
16 oz. Mich Ultra
Sadly, our 16 beautiful tomato plants are afflicted with blight. It's bad. The other day I bought some copper soap as a fungicide, recommended to me by an employee at the lawn and garden store. All I had was a regular spray bottle, and let's just say that by the time I was done covering those 16, 7-foot tall plants, my hands were pretty tired. I need to get a more effective spraying contraption.
Today I only ran a mile since I was going to the muscle works class afterwards, but I increased my speed slightly to 6.7 and 6.9 mph. It felt fine. Yesterday for my workout I walked .7 miles, ran 1.8 miles alternating between 6.6 and 6.8 mph, walked .7 more miles, then ran .6 more miles. Here's what I ate:
cereal
1/2 avocado
small tomato with salt
oatmeal raisin cookie
handful pistachios
this rabbit fricasee recipe: 2 legs, 1 thigh, and 1 loin
small portion white rice
16 oz. Mich Ultra
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
174.6 Lost 2 Lbs Yesterday!
Yay! I lost 2 lbs yesterday, which probably means that I was retaining water (from the Chinese food we had 2 nights ago). Today for breakfast I had a slightly larger bowl of cereal, and I felt pretty energized during my workout.
Last night Jack and I went to Buffalo Wild Wings because I was really in the mood to play trivia but couldn't think of anywhere else that would have it. They had a new menu that listed the calories for absolutely everything, and I was horrified! Almost every item on the menu had at least 1000 calories. I think if more restaurants started doing this, salads would become a lot more popular. Indeed, I ordered a salad, but I sort of felt like one anyway.
Yesterday for my workout I walked .5 miles and ran 1.8 miles alternating between 6.6 and 6.8 mph (and taking a 2 minute break towards the end). Here's what I ate:
cereal
1 large tomato with salt
nonfat cottage cheese
2 chicken wings
salad with blackened chicken
1 Bud Light
Last night Jack and I went to Buffalo Wild Wings because I was really in the mood to play trivia but couldn't think of anywhere else that would have it. They had a new menu that listed the calories for absolutely everything, and I was horrified! Almost every item on the menu had at least 1000 calories. I think if more restaurants started doing this, salads would become a lot more popular. Indeed, I ordered a salad, but I sort of felt like one anyway.
Yesterday for my workout I walked .5 miles and ran 1.8 miles alternating between 6.6 and 6.8 mph (and taking a 2 minute break towards the end). Here's what I ate:
cereal
1 large tomato with salt
nonfat cottage cheese
2 chicken wings
salad with blackened chicken
1 Bud Light
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
176.6 Why So Little Energy??
Whoops! Forgot to post yesterday. Yesterday I weighed 176 lbs. I've been gaining weight the past couple days. :(
Today for some reason I found running to be extremely difficult. After 1.2 miles, I had to stop for a couple minutes and drink some Gatorade before finishing out the 1.8 miles, and I didn't run another .6. On top of that, I can't remember the last time I was so exhausted after a workout. I felt like I could barely walk and I was zoning out on the drive home. I got a decent amount of sleep last night and had cereal for breakfast this morning, so not really any different from usual. I also had some iced tea which should have given me an energy boost if anything, but is likewise not outside the norm. Could it be my body being mad at me for what I ate yesterday? Could it be dehydration from too much salt (we had Chinese food for dinner last night)? I really want to know what's up because I don't think this is normal for someone my age who's sort of out of shape but not drastically so. I should be able to run my measly 1.8 miles!
Sunday for my workout I walked . 6 miles, ran 1.8 miles alternating between 6.6 and 6.8 mph, walked .6 more miles, and ran .6 more miles gradually increasing my speed from 6.6 to 6.8 mph. Here's what I ate:
nonfat greek yogurt
BBQ at Jack's parents' house: 1/3 porksteak, chicken breast and wing, small portion of pasta salad
3 glasses white wine
16 oz. beer
Yesterday for my workout I went to the muscle works class then walked .6 miles, ran 1 mile, and walked .25 more miles. Here's what I ate:
cereal
1/2 leftover meatball sandwich
leftover vegetable tian
chinese food: medium portions of pork and chicken entrees, small portion fried rice, 3 crab rangoon
large lemon bar
Today for some reason I found running to be extremely difficult. After 1.2 miles, I had to stop for a couple minutes and drink some Gatorade before finishing out the 1.8 miles, and I didn't run another .6. On top of that, I can't remember the last time I was so exhausted after a workout. I felt like I could barely walk and I was zoning out on the drive home. I got a decent amount of sleep last night and had cereal for breakfast this morning, so not really any different from usual. I also had some iced tea which should have given me an energy boost if anything, but is likewise not outside the norm. Could it be my body being mad at me for what I ate yesterday? Could it be dehydration from too much salt (we had Chinese food for dinner last night)? I really want to know what's up because I don't think this is normal for someone my age who's sort of out of shape but not drastically so. I should be able to run my measly 1.8 miles!
Sunday for my workout I walked . 6 miles, ran 1.8 miles alternating between 6.6 and 6.8 mph, walked .6 more miles, and ran .6 more miles gradually increasing my speed from 6.6 to 6.8 mph. Here's what I ate:
nonfat greek yogurt
BBQ at Jack's parents' house: 1/3 porksteak, chicken breast and wing, small portion of pasta salad
3 glasses white wine
16 oz. beer
Yesterday for my workout I went to the muscle works class then walked .6 miles, ran 1 mile, and walked .25 more miles. Here's what I ate:
cereal
1/2 leftover meatball sandwich
leftover vegetable tian
chinese food: medium portions of pork and chicken entrees, small portion fried rice, 3 crab rangoon
large lemon bar
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