Keeping Track

So, this week I have done MUCH better with monitoring my food intake.  The days haven't always been under the suggested calorie count, but they have all been monitored.  It's a step back in the right direction.  To be brutally honest, when I am done writing this post, I will be entering a couple girl scout cookies into my phone as well.  Who can resist those damn things?!

As for my workouts this week...I completed one of my three.  I had to complete it a day late due to obligations away from home on Wednesday.  For the past two weeks, I have been holding a book fair at school and having it for a parent night that night forced me to postpone.  I also wasn't able to get in my workout yesterday as I didn't want to overexert myself after cleaning up that book fair for 3 hours.  Believe me, it was still a workout packing up all those books and pushing carts around the school.

However, Mrs. Re-Dan-imation is on a roll and has reached a point where she is proud of herself.  Her last workout she ran for a constant 20 minutes.  Probably the longest she has run since high school.  I'm proud of her too!  She was pretty pumped when she told me about it.  I may not have gotten in any 8 mile runs this week, but that will be changing this week.  Wednesday will be the beginning of this weeks training program and we'll see where it leads.

My workout for the end of the week!

I was also able to take advantage of the WONDERFUL weather this weekend.  On Saturday, my brother in law and I headed down to hang out with some friends and watch the IU vs PU game.  I didn't really care who won, but it was nice to hang out and play a little corn hole in the 70 degree weather.  We had a pretty good time and a couple people had their first run in with the app Face-In-Hole.  That was pretty fun.  Also, I was able to enjoy some Buffalo wings as well. :)

Now for the weigh in.  Today I got on the scale and saw 263.6 lbs.  That would be a gain of 1.8 lbs.  I seem to be flip flopping around these few pounds.  I have a feeling that it will work itself out eventually.  I just need to keep being vigilant on the calories in and the workOUTs.  Until next week Food. Feet. Water. Repeat.

Mileage and Minutes

I definitely picked up the mileage this week.  The time on my prescribed workouts has surely not decreased.  I completed my workouts this week, and it wasn't without setting some new time and distance records for myself.  My long workout this week was 1 hour and 50 minutes.  I managed to complete 8 miles in that time period.  Obviously the longest time and distance I have run nonstop ever.  These milestones keep me motivated for sure.  Mrs. Re-dan-imation also completed all the workouts for her program as well.  Another reason to be proud.

Celebrating two different birthdays in the last week has not been kind to my diet (self-inflicted of course).  The result has been a bit of an increase in something else this week and that would be ice cream intake.  Mrs. Re-Dan-imation predicted almost perfectly what my weight outcome would be this week.

I mentioned in my last couple posts that logging my food has not been something I have kept up at.  This is the only thing that disappoints me regarding this process and has continued to do so.  I have become supremely lazy regarding food monitoring and it is taking its toll on my progress.  I have to get better at it.  I entered all of my food today and although I ended up over my allowed calories, I at least got it all entered on time.

As for the weight that Mrs. Re-Dan-imation guessed...I weighed in this morning at 261.8 lbs. for a gain of 1.6 lbs. (she guessed 1.5).  I should have expected this number, but I kind of didn't.  It's all about paying attention to my portions and entering my food into the app.  However, I am still down from 2 weeks ago, so I didn't completely relapse.  Until next week...Food. Feet. Water. Repeat.