Thanks as always Maryanne! Your posts always make me smile! I havnt been on here much, work is crazy busy right now, and by the time I get home, I'm just exhausted. 7 more days 'till vacation, and I'm in need!
I do a long run (23k is what the training plan calls for!) today, and thankfully the forecast says it should be in the teens...so warmer than this past week when it hung out around 0F and below all week!
I have attracted and caught a little runny rosé and stuffy chest...I think it's from all the pollution here...it's really heavy as you may have seen on the news.
Goals:
Scale/clothes
I didn't weigh in this week, but I am proud to report that my size 12 pants fit me great right now...not loose, but not snug either...just right. My 12 curvy pants are a tad loose in the hips and my 14p are getting a little loose in the hips, but they are chino's and I wear them on the construction site, so I like to have them loose so I can wear my long underwear under them!
Eating: still hanging out around 1600 cal/day. Most days I hit that, some days I go over by a little, some days by a lot (depends on how much I run!). The best thing is I don't crave carbs or sweets any more. My husband fixed me sliced strawberries the other night and he put artificial sweetener on them and I had to tell him that next time don't put that stuff on there...I don't want or like to put those chemicals in my body. It's in those moments that I realize that I have come such a long way and that I really do have a different lifestyle now...it's not "a diet", and that is a great feeling!
Exercise:
I continue on the marathon training. Today is a 23k day. I will do the run/walk method and I'm sure by the past experience now that I will recover a lot faster and still get the benefit. It took me awhile to get my ego to do it, but I'm sold now! I did a couple of sessions on the treadmill during the week, one hills, one just 45 min run/walk, and then the other days were elliptical. I am still doing the stairs after my workout, and while they are not easy, I do feel them getting easier..I don't run some every day, but I can run from 3rd floor where I start to 8th floor, then I have to walk. This is really working on my butt muscles... I can feel it!
Tools:
I'm still listening to dishing up nutrition and peoples pharmacy podcast and this is really good while I am on the elliptical. I listen to music or the extra mile podcast by Jeff Galloway when I run. I tried Jillian michaels podcast but I wasn't impressed, so I've stopped hers. I am also still logging my foods on myfitnesspal every day. It is an easy way to keep myself honest and for me to keep track of my food intake and make good choices.
This is the time of year for "Chinese new year" here in China, so I will have to go out to dinner a lot and make a lot of tastes and drink more peach neater or watermelon juice (since I don't drink alcohol) than I will drink of either of these 2 options all year...but it's the right thing to do and would be considered culturally unacceptable not to...so I'll do it and try to run it off!
The good news is that I will only have 1week to do that, then I will be away from work for 3 weeks! Woot woot!
Well, I've rambled on long enough.
Good choices to all!
Sarah
Looking forward to the new photos xoxo Cate