Beth's Check In

Good morning, Ladies!

Last week: 168.5
Goal weight (short-term): 160
Goal weight (long-term): 150ish
Current: 167

So I had a great week of diet & exercise last week. I "cheated" and weighed in after my friday afternoon 3 mile run (which I finished without walking!!) workout at 166, which was a loss of slightly over 2 lbs for the week. Unfortunately, that's where the good news ends...

In the process of my noteworthy run, I managed to do some damage to my foot on a hill. To compensate for that, I guess I started putting more weight on my other leg, so my knee was incredibly sore all weekend and with one bum foot and the other leg out of commission (think braces & bandages), that was all the exercise I was getting for the weekend. Add a planned "break" in my diet (I had old college friends visiting and did dinner/drinks/hangover all afternoon on Friday and Saturday), and I gained at least half of last week's weight back.

I finally had the feeling that those of you who have non-dieting friends/boyfriends have had- only this was my houseguests! My boyfriend very on board with the Get Healthy plan, but loses weight very quickly and therefore breaks the dieting more easily. Luckily, these distractions left on Sunday afternoon and won't be coming back before my short-term weight loss date of memorial day weekend.

I guess, all things considered, I'm still doing okay. I have class tonight so I won't have time to hit the gym, but I think I need this last day to rest my foot/knee. Hopefully I can pick up where I left off last week and avoid any major relapses over the weekend. The Boyfriend and I are going to a Red Sox game on Wednesday right after work, so I'm going to try and get to the gym in the morning before work since there will probably be a (light) beer and dinner at the game.

Week goals:
-fully recover from Friday's workout trauma (I'm such a drama queen- it's really not that bad, but I really can't exercise with it).
- once recovered, do one outdoor longer run this week without damaging myself, and get the rest of my cardio doing something low-impact (probably ellipticalling, which I hate).
-Bring my bike out of the basement and start to enjoy the sunny weather we've been having!
-plan dinners better so that I'm not stuck eating scrambled eggs & bacon for lunch AND dinner because I don't have time between work and class.
-No alcohol, except for one light beer at Wednesday's red sox game. No more. What a huge waste of calories. I got really grumpy after I figured out how long I'd have to work out to make up for Friday's night out!!


Take-aways from last week:
-I can do this, as long as I keep myself fully dedicated. If nothing else, I managed to get rid of over two pounds (fair enough, some of it was probably water) and work out 4 times AND run three consecutive miles.
-I officially registered for the 5 mile road race--there's no backing out of it now!
-my pants fit a little better, so something is working.



To everyone- good luck!

To those who are aiming to add more H2O to their daily routine: I suggest carrying around a Nalgene bottle filled with water at all times. They hold 32 oz of water and if you keep them alongside, you can finish off 2-3 in a day. Plus, think of the extra exercise walking to & from the bathroom!! Also, I have a 24oz water bottle on my desk all day that I put a little crystal lite in for extra fluids but no extra calories.


--Beth