Time's a Wastin, and I'm Still Fat.

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Thanks guys. Unfortunately it wasn't 'caring for my body' all my eating. 75% of it was complete junk food.

142.2 this morning.

Woke up at 7:20 this morning for some reason. I only was planning to wake up at 8:20. I am stiff like CRAZY from all the exercise I did yesterday! I didn't feel bad while hiking but who boy I felt it after sitting for the drive and sitting for lunch!
Got ready and headed for the hike. I had to pick some guy up and give him a ride to the meet up point. He was a weird bloke. I don't know if he was weird just because he was weird or apparently he was in a motorcycle accident and ended up in a coma for a few weeks so I'm not sure if that's why he was weird. He thought that by 2040 technology would be so great that we could decide if we wanted to live for forever or not. And just a bunch of weird things like that.
Got to the meet up point and there were quite a few people there. A few that I had met yesterday. Reorganized into different vehicles then headed out to the hiking area.
The hike was good. I was one of the fitter people there and tried to make sure that I was up at or near the front the whole time so I could keep up a decent pace to get some decent exercise in. It wasn't too difficult of a hiking barring a few steep areas. I was impressed with how quickly my body recovered from the steep areas. Everyone thought I was crazy fit due to what I did yesterday then still leading the hike this morning. It was probably around 3 hours that we hiked. It wasn't quite as social as the games day yesterday since you have to walk the trails fairly single file, but it still was social enough and I had a good time. I definitely plan to do more of these. I like doing these active things!
Here are a couple pics.
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But totally overdid it on the eating again! I've certainly had moments of feeling like I was gonna barf! Instead of feeling good after my exercise I feel like shit! My brain thought oh I did all the exercise it's fine if I stuff my face like an idiot. It also thought that since I was exhausted I obviously should comfort eat! And again all crap food. I should still be in a deficit for the week. If I divide the amount of calories I was over for the week by 7 days I'm over by 430 cals a day which means I averaged 2130. I think maintenance on a normal week is around 2200, this weekend I did about 4900 cals worth of exercise so it was a higher burn week than normal.

Won't list all my food again but my food intake was about 3100.
I need to really be careful this week and weekend, since I was so bad this week. Next week I'm going to be going camping for the long weekend and it's going to be quite difficult to stay ok on cals. For the first half of this week I'm gonna try to do lower sodium, lower carb to try to do some damage control from the weekend. Tomorrow will be a rest day exercise wise though I plan to go ride my horse finally! I'm going to have to bring my running stuff while camping. I will have to do a long run there. Good thing I often wake up before everyone else while camping. Gonna have to bring a jug of water to wash off some of the sweat!

I'm gonna see if I have the energy later tonight to go around to diaries. If not today I will definitely go around to them tomorrow.
 
Lovely pictures! Nice to hear the meet-ups are fun, I´m not even sure something like it exists here, although I have been planning to try one of the organized hikes from our alpine club. *eyes magazine critically*
 
Thank you. I think I just got asked out on a sorta date by one of the guys at the Saturday meetup haha. He messaged me and wished me good luck in my Tough Mudder and said to let him know if I would like to go for a training run together sometime. Not sure how to respond. He seemed like a decent guy but I dunno. It would be kinda nice to actual run with someone else, but I also like being totally comfortable setting my own pace with no other human distractions.
 
Your weekend sounded like it was really good Mystic. It's a shame you felt like you ate badly though. Imagine how good you would feel if you only ate healthy stuff after doing all that! Sounds like these meetups might be just the thing for you. You may get to know some of the guys better as you go, without having to actually go anywhere alone with them, for a while at least. It's great that you are getting so fit!
 
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Thank you. I think I just got asked out on a sorta date by one of the guys at the Saturday meetup haha. He messaged me and wished me good luck in my Tough Mudder and said to let him know if I would like to go for a training run together sometime. Not sure how to respond. He seemed like a decent guy but I dunno. It would be kinda nice to actual run with someone else, but I also like being totally comfortable setting my own pace with no other human distractions.
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:D Ah the "this is totally not a date so I´m not risking anything" kind of date! I actually rather like those (at least if I like the guy) because you are now under no obligation to treat it like a real date either. Takes away the pressure. If you go running together he isn´t spending money he doesn´t have so you don´t have to feel obliged to be nicer than you really feel and it turns out you don´t really like him you can always say your speeds didn´t match. But all that is of course only interesting if he seems fun to hang out with.
 
A running date, sweet, if you run out of conversation you can just act all winded. Your weekend sounded like fun, any word on the people who looked at your house?
 
Thanks guys. I did message him back but have not heard back from him.

145.6 this morning haha. I'm sure part of that is water retention in my poor muscles from me wrecking them over the weekend haha, and some of it is from the bad eating.

I brought the dessert I have been binging on to work and gave some of it to my mom, and some of it I'm going to give to my groomer tomorrow.
Had a hard time falling asleep last night which is so dumb considering how tired I was/am. Was tired all day today too. Glad I didn't have a crazy busy day.
My mom brought me the tent I wanted to use for camping this weekend, so I set it up at work to make sure that everything I needed was in there and was in good working order. It was, but I left it set up to air it out a bit. I'm sure people were wondering why there was a tent set up in my shop haha.
After work I went shopping cause I needed salad and watermelon, but I could tell that I was going to have a bad eating day before I even got home. I had a lot of cravings from my bad eating on the weekend. Got home and just started eating all the bad things. Grr!
However, at 5:10 I was able to switch that off and other than having some slivers of watermelon as I was cutting it up a little bit ago I have not eaten anything else for the rest of the day. I think that will have hopefully broken the hold the cravings had.
I'm gonna try to eat a little less than normal tuesday-friday so I have a little more wiggle room on the weekend for camping. I do plan to only bring water, not pop, and to try to bring things that are healthier, and not to binge snack too much while there.

Total Cals: 1753

Thankful for the day off exercise today, but tomorrow I'll be back at it with weights and running tomorrow.
 
Ohhh non-date date sounds fun! Ah I really must find one of those meetups and just do it... I'm sorely lacking female friends in my age group over here (I'm very close to a lot of the ladies at work and have hung out with them before- they are absolutely awesome people but they range in age from 50-60). Also don't really go out much... I should...
 
145.6 again this morning

I think I may have overestimated what the guy meant when he suggested going for a run together. It seems like he may have just been blowing smoke to be nice as I have not heard anything back at all from him. Oh well. I don't have the time or energy for a boyfriend anyways.
Stuck at work, at the moment so that's why I'm on here now, but will come back at the end of the day to update. I was hoping to get off work a bit early so I could go to the barn (for the first time since the show!!) and do my workout and it still wouldn't be too late, but I'm still stuck at work for probably at least another half hour (when I was done grooming by 2) and so it will all get pretty late. And I'm still feeling quite tired though I think likely it's a decent bit mental not physical.
 
Just got a message from one of the guys from the hike asking to go for a run together haha. Oh dear. This might become a 'thing' with these meetup groups haha. He was an ok guy, but not someone I would be interested in relationship wise... I don't know how to respond. If it was just to go for a run as friends it would be ok, but I doubt that's what that means.
BTW I am not having a good eating day again. And I'm sitting on my ass instead of exercising. Gonna fight hard to get back on track this evening and do my workout but right now things aren't looking great.
 
Going for a run as friends can't possibly hurt can it. He may be better than OK, if you got to know him a bit better. Off your butt Missy!
 
I hope you managed to get off your butt, because I am now sitting on mine and the universe will become unbalanced if you and I are both butt sitting at the same time. Call the guy back, schedule something casual like a short run to feel out his intentions. I can't hurt ;)
 
Thanks guys.
I did manage to get off my butt. Again, about at 5:10 I was able to stop my eating (after feeling like I was gonna vomit). I laid around for a while, half asleep. I finally had to get up to pee and was able to wake myself up a little and that's when I was able to change and head to the gym.
I did 5 mins of warm up then went to do weights.
Squats 115lbs
Overhead Press 55lbs
Deadlift 115lbs
I also did some pull up work. Instead of trying for full pull ups I am now pulling myself up as much as I can then holding it for 10 seconds, taking a break then doing it again. Did that 5 times, hoping that will slowly build that up till I can do full ones.
I then went outside for a 5km run. It was tough. My legs still felt tired from the weekend, so just picking them up and putting them down felt terribly hard, but again when I reached my first km ran it said I was running at a decent pace so that helped to keep me going.
Ran my 5km in 29:18 which I was happy with.
Total Distance (including warm up before weights): 5.68km
Total Cal Burn: 497
Pace: 5:51mins/km

Ate one slice of watermelon after my workout but haven't eaten anything else this evening.
If I can get my eating under control and eat less during the week, then just be semi reasonable camping I should be ok. Not going to make my goal for the end of the month though. I'm downing water to try to get rid of this water weight, but I need to have some lower sodium/carb days to help.

Total Cals: 1905
 
144.8 this morning. Starting to come down a bit.

IIII'm BAAAACK! Finally had a good eating day!
Work was ok. Suddenly at 12:50 my realtor texts me to tell me I have a showing at 3! And my house was not clean!! Ah! Thankfully I had enough time in my day to rush home and fix it up then rush back to work.
I finished work by 3:45 but then waited around until 4:45 because I knew my fitbit was going to be delivered today and didn't want to miss it. I really wanted to go to the barn today but when I only left work just before 5 and needed to run yet I just didn't have it in me. It seems I either can force myself to go ride or force myself to workout and right now working out is winning. Tomorrow I will DEFINITELY be going to the barn though my day will be quite busy as I have to ride, then grocery shop for my camping trip, do weights and 5km run, and do some packing for camping.
I felt really tired again today. Really didn't want to do my run but forced myself out the door. Some of the run was ok, but most of it felt really hard. I'm not sure if I'm still tired from all the exercise from the weekend or if it's just 'one of those weeks' where everything is just hard. You would think with all the extra cals that I would have all sorts of energy!
8km total. First 5km in 28:16. Total Time: Just over 45mins. Total Cal Burn: 711. Pace: 5:42min/km
I tried to have a shower after my workout and there was ZERO hot water. Grr! They were messing with the water earlier today and apparently it was still messed up. I think it's come back now so will hop in the shower before bed.
I have my fitbit charge now so it will be interesting to see what it says my cal burn is on my exercise days.

Lunch: Salad
Supper: Pita Sandwich, Salad, Watermelon
Snack: Watermelon, ice cream sandwich, Popcorn with sugar/cinnamon
Total Cals: 1256
 
Great work getting back into your normal, healthy eating but girl that´s a lot of forcing! Finger crossed for the realtor.
 
Thanks guys. Unfortunately sometimes one needs to 'force' themselves to get through it.

142.2 this morning.
So I thought I had this bad eating beat but I don't :(
I got off work a little early today and FINALLY went to the barn! Had a nice light ride on my pony since it was his first ride in like 3 weeks. He was quite good.
I then went to the store to buy a tarp for under my tent and a wiener roasting stick, then I went to the grocery store. I bought the FOOD things I needed but also wanted to find a snack or 2 that wasn't too high cal that I could have on the trip. Well all the looking around at cookies and snacks just made me crave them and I have been feeling tired and hungry lately (TOM is starting but I don't usually feel such strong feelings with it so I don't know that I can blame it for how I am feeling). I got home and started stuffing my face. I ate nearly non stop from 5:30-8:15.
The one thing that has changed a bit from the last time I lost weight is that before when I would have a bad eating day, I wouldn't be able to make myself exercise after because my mind decided it would be pointless.
If I ate 300 over cals, then exercised off 300 it would be like I never exercised (or so I would tell myself) so I wouldn't do it.
NOW if I eat over I try hard to go out and do exercise, because then if I eat over by 300, and exercise off 300 I'll end up within my calories so I'm much better off.

So I finally changed and headed to the gym. I did weights first (no run warm up)
Squats 120lbs
Bench Press 60lbs
Barbell Row 60lbs
Pullups, 5 reps of pulling myself as far up as I can then holding for 10 seconds (letting go and resting between each rep) I was surprised at how far up I could pull myself this time. Almost a full pullup.

I then went out and did an easy 6km run, and for the first time, tripped and splatted on my face! (well, not really on my face, on my hands and knees) Nothing really injured. A tiny amount of road rash on my palms, maybe gonna have a small bruise on my left knee. Some guy was driving behind me as I fell and even though he already had his window rolled down he didn't slow down and ask if I was ok, just kept driving.
Time: 36:40
Pace: 6:06min/km
Cal Burn: 538

So as I mentioned yesterday I got a new fitbit. Same as the old one I washed one too many times. I'm going to post the readouts everyday. Though I should really post it the next day since I won't get the full cal burn and such till midnight. But whatever, for right now here it is
At 10:45pm
Steps: 14627 (this one is a bit exaggerated as I forgot to take it off for riding and I find it gives crazy amount of steps for riding, I went back in and manually change the cal burn for that time to log it as horse back riding)
Floors: 4-5 (again, riding messed this up, my counter says 9 but 4-5 of those flights were from riding)
Miles: 7.04
Cal Burn: 2133

Total Cals Eaten: 2533 (+400 cals over TDEE)

Unfortunately due to today's binge I don't hold out much hope for a good official weigh in tomorrow. I needed to have a really good eating day today to get the rest of the water weight off from this last week's over eating and today will probably have the scale jump back up again. And I'm going to have to be much more careful and aware of cals over the weekend (plus if I way over eat crap after way over eating crap this whole week I WILL end up sick and vomiting!)
I should have done more packing today. I plan to be off work by at least noon but I want to run, shower, precook some food for camping, then still do probably a load of laundry (start it before my run, switch it over to the dryer right after, before I cook my food), pack my bag, pack up my food. I also was planning on cleaning out my vehicle of some stuff so everything would fit nicer but that apparently isn't going to happen. I just don't want to get out to the campground too late and it's probably maybe an hour and a half drive I would think.
 
Mystic, we never stop learning. No-one is perfect. As you said, once you would have not bothered exercising to get rid of the excess calories & these days you do-
"I then went out and did an easy 6km run."
Ha! How many people would do that?
Awesome! GO YOU!!
Enjoy your week-end, knowing that, whatever happens, whatever you will eat, you will fix it.
xo Cate
 
:iagree: What she said. Very much so! The "wiener roasting stick" made me chuckle. The word "wiener" means Viennese in German as in: Wiener Würstchen (Viennese sausages, which as far as I know are called frankfurters everywhere except in and around Frankfurt, a bit like syphilis) but also as in "a guy from Vienna". A woman from Vienna is called a Wienerin, which also makes my weirdo brain happy :)
 
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