Thanks, Sara! Being in good shape comes slowly. You do it, you do more, you push yourself, you listen to your body, you rest when it feels necessary, and you WEIGHT TRAIN, to keep all your joints/ligaments/hips/ankles strong and ready to take a pounding. High impact stuff works on me. I SWEAR it keeps my bones dense and strong and tough. Genetics helps, too--I've never broken a bone and very few people in my family on either side has, too. But they all run or do something, too. Weight training is my secret weapon, though. Not enough runners (my family included) know how useful/functional it is--not to mention it makes you look HOT!
Fat is along for the ride when you run--and adds weight. Muscle (though heavy) helps propel you along--it pulls its own weight and then some. Thus, weight train and you will be a better runner.
Update:
Kickboe was great and Michael's wife was there. She did not give any bad vibes, nor did she give me any looks. Nuthin. I wondered if I was imagining things, but it didn't matter--Psycho Michael was very nice to me and encouraging. I like that he encourages us to push ourselves and remarks, "Good!" when we succeed. That is a good trainer.
Food:
b-fast:
Cliff Protein Bar, Peanut Butter-caramel,
270 calories
73% Dark chocolate & cassis, 3 little squares with no caloric info but probably about
50 calories each (thin little things! Trust me, I know chocolate!). I had 2, so
100 calories
(Kickboe)
Lunch: I will make my scallop dish tonight instead, lunch was
green salad, grilled salmon with
chili-lime lemongrass sauce and a side of
white rice. I forgot to ask for brown. That is OK, I'm going to shower and pack up for my bike ride to Davenport and back from the brewery (close to HWY 1). All this exercise today is the green light for some rice, beer and chocolate, trust me!!!
Hmmm, calories? Probably
260 for the salmon,
150 for the beer I forgot to mention I had (Newcastle), hehe hehe,
150-200 for the damn rice, hard to tell, the portion looked more than 1/4 cup but less than 1/2 cup,
100 for the sauce,
75 for the salad and dressing.
735 calories. Wow, and it seemed so light! Hey--that's how it goes, huh?
Total so far: 1155 I forgot to mention I had the other chocolate square
Hey this is pretty good considering when I'm on my ass in the office on a weekday, I usually eat 1300-1600 calories before dinner! Stupid M&Ms and cheese and crackers and nuts! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Oh yeah, and when I re-weighed myself this morning I was
142.5, not 143. So that's cool, too. By the way, that is a BMI of 22.3
Yeah that girl is a waste of time. I kind of feel bad for her. Wouldn't that suck to be always peeking around your boyfriend's shoulder, and muttering in his ear about other girls?
So today is Day 1, and I weighed a wonderful 143.0 lbs--not effin' bad for the first day of my period, all bloated. IF I continue to eat under maintenance, and even drop a few hundred calories (I am now in menstrual stage, not luteal, which means I'm burning less fat), It's possible I'll be 139 by the end of my period.
