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

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143.4 this morning. I actually thought it'd be higher due to all the sodium.

Yesterday's Fitbit
Steps: 11657
Floors: 4
Miles: 6.04
Calories: 2004

Yesterday's Deficit: -1385

Started my day off with my 12km run. Did it in an hour and 11 mins. Pace of 5:57mins/km. Nearly got hit by a semi truck at a 3 way stop. He got lots of middle finger.
Got home and had lunch. Relaxed for a little bit then had to start cleaning my house as I had a showing at 2-3. As I was cleaning I took off my workout top and pants so I could get them put away because during the showing I planned to go ride my horse so needed to change anyways. So I was finishing my cleaning in my sports bra and undies. As I was vacuuming, around 1:10 I suddenly heard Stryder, my dog, bark at the door. I raced over to the door just in time to look through the peep hole and see the realtor about to put the key in to unlock the door and walk in! While I was still in my undies!!! I quickly grabbed the lock so they couldn't unlock it and yelled for them to give me a minute! Raced back to my room and through some clothes on! Went back to the door and they said they'd go look at another unit first to give me some time.
Quickly finished vacuuming, changed, and left to the barn before they came back. It was super windy by this point and blew the smoke all in again. Had a decent ride on my horse despite the wind and the smoke.
Went and got frozen yogurt, I felt STARVED after my long run, then went to my mom's house and had ham and cheese biscuit. I took my doberman for a walk and on my walk I got a message from my realtor that I had an offer on my house! We went back and forth a few times on price but it's now conditionally sold. For about 7 grand less than I bought it for :( but I don't really care anymore I just wanted it sold. We got a good possession date too. I should have the money from the sale to put towards my downpayment for my new place in time. So as long as the person's financing goes through and they don't find anything wrong with the condo papers my place will be officially sold on Sept 9th.
A friend called me and invited me to their place for a movie. They are part of the same group of friends as my best friend. They met my best friends boyfriend (who I don't think seems like a good guy which was a big reason why me and my BF had a tift, though I have never actually met the boyfriend), and they think he's a horrible guy and so does another one of our friends that met him so my feelings about him seem to be a pretty good conclusion about what he's like. Sigh.
Ate under my calories today which was nice. I did have to eat 'enough' though due to the long run this morning so couldn't help deal with yesterday's over eating much.
I'm supposed to go hiking tomorrow but for some reason I'm not feeling it, but I know that I would enjoy it if I went so I'm gonna force myself to go. Have to be there at 9am and it's close to a 30 min drive and it's already 12:30 AND I still have to make my sandwich for the hike and back up what I need.

Cals Eaten: 2148
 
Congrats on selling your condo Mystic! Sorry it didn't work out with C, but glad you didn't kiss him too.
 
Congrats on selling your place and also on not getting involved with Mr Weirdo. Sounds like a couple busy weeks coming your way packing/moving
 
Thanks guys. Possession date isn't till Oct 26th and I will have to move twice. Once to my mom's house before Oct 26th and then to my new house (hopefully around the first week of November). But it's not a big deal because I won't have much to move since I plan to get rid of nearly all my main area furniture so we can just leave it in the horse trailer in between.

144.6 this morning due to the sodium in my food and eating 2 bags of popcorn after 10pm

Yesterday's Fitbit
Steps: 26788
Floors: Not sure, high winds made my fitbit read really high floor count
Miles: 13.12
Calories: 2778

Yesterday's Deficit: 630

Almost decided I was too tired to hike today, but forced myself to do it and was glad that I did. Had a good time. A smaller group today than in the past but some good people on it. I led the way again. One of the guys commented on my 'impressive calves' and they were impressed with my fitness.
Hike was about 16km's or so with some steeper parts.
We went out to eat at a pub afterwards.
Got back to the city and just wanted ice cream. Which was yummy and if I had stopped there it would have been ok... but I didn't. Had 3 granola bars, then peanut butter. I get a bit caught up in thinking I need to fuel these workouts, and yet I end up over eating instead of just fuelling my workouts.
I'm slightly looking forward to next week as I will be backing off my workouts a bit to prepare for my Tough Mudder. I think my plan is
Monday: 5km run, weights
Tuesday: 5km
Wednesday: Walk, weights
Thursday: 5km
Friday: Walk
Saturday: Race Day!

I plan to eat at a deficit Mon-Wed then eat maintenance Thur-Fri (with a pasta dinner friday), then eating whatever on Saturday, then try to get back to deficit on Sunday.

Cals Eaten: 3246
 
Good luck with the upcoming tough mudder! First one? Those events are always a lot of fun and it's nice to have races to work towards.

I did a similar run a couple years back and the one thing I forgot to do as part of the training was to include race like events in the training like trail running and climbing obstacles.
 
MysticRealm said:
Got home and had lunch. Relaxed for a little bit then had to start cleaning my house as I had a showing at 2-3. As I was cleaning I took off my workout top and pants so I could get them put away because during the showing I planned to go ride my horse so needed to change anyways. So I was finishing my cleaning in my sports bra and undies. As I was vacuuming, around 1:10 I suddenly heard Stryder, my dog, bark at the door. I raced over to the door just in time to look through the peep hole and see the realtor about to put the key in to unlock the door and walk in! While I was still in my undies!!!
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So that´s how you get rid of your house! :D Congrats on the probable sale, I hope all goes well.
 
Thanks. It's my first Tough Mudder but I have done two 5km mud/obstacle races earlier this year.

Yesterday's Fitbit
Steps: 20461
Floors: 219
Miles: 8.6
Calories: 2507

Yesterday's Deficit: -739

Ate SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much today! About 4000 cals! And NO exercise AT ALL!
Had salad for lunch at work... then met my brother and nephew for lunch at the mall and had pizza and 2 garlic rolls. I asked for bottled water as it was a meal deal to get a drink, but they didn't have any so I got mountain dew.
I then got chocolate and kernel's double hit popcorn. Went home and pigged out on the popcorn, then chocolate, some more popcorn.
Then made a pasta/chicken dinner which was probably more than the 500 cals I put it down as.
Then after my stomach stopped flip flopping I had more popcorn.

Cals Eaten: 4000 or so.

Gotta get back on track tomorrow or things are gonna get dicey! TOM is visiting right now so maybe that's part of the over eating but I can't really blame it on it.
This also messes up my exercise plan for the week. So gonna do 5km tomorrow and weights, then 5 km wednesday, then 5km and weights thursday, then walk friday.
 
Whoa, the Tough Mudder is so soon! You've been doing great with training, you'll kick but on race day. But you gotta fuel yourself right, so get focused these next few days!
 
Whoah Mystic. 4000 cals? What was going on there? My stomach hurts just thinking about that. Hope things have settled down & you are back on track xoC
 
Thanks guys. It's been a tough go lately.

148 this morning.

Yesterday's Fitbit
Steps: 3992
Floors: 1
Miles: 1.67
Calories: 1705

Yesterday's Deficit: -2295

Another day of poor eating and no exercise!! Not good so close to my race!! Tomorrow I WILL be on track though so I should still be ok. I did go and work my horse which was the only positive of the day. I finished off most of the bad food in my house today so at least that is gone.

Cals Eaten: 3256
 
Can you articulate what is going on Mystic? I think it's important to your own personal mental health to face whatever is confronting you, rather than avoiding it. Don't eat your problems or fears sweetie. You must look after yourself. No-one else will ever have as much say or influence in how your life will go. You will do this Mystic.
 
Thanks Cate. In all honesty, nothing is going on with me. I'm not upset, or stressed or feeling at all out of the ordinary. I'm simply falling back into old habits of giving in to cravings, which is causing more cravings, which I'm giving into, which causes more cravings. Etc. The good news is is that I am still logging the food into MFP despite not really wanting to know how much I am eating, I'm still weighing myself every morning despite not really wanting to see how much it's going to say, and I'm still posting here. All things I usually stop when I'm falling into bad habits so I'm still feeling hopeful that I will pull myself out of this funk.

149 this morning. Can't wait to see that drop back off again!

Yesterdays Fitbit
Steps:4957
Floors: 5
Miles: 2.07
Calories: 1739

Yesterday's Deficit: -1517

Finally a good day food and exercise wise! I've decided to make a slight change in my plan.
I have set my calories to lose half a pound instead of a full pound a week. This will give me a little more play in my cals for right now. That way even though I feel like eating a bit more right now, I can do that a little bit, while still staying within my calories. If I still can't quite work with that I can back it off again to sit at maintenance calories (which was actually my initial plan, but I thought if I could lose 0.5 pounds a week instead of just maintaining well that would be gravy).

I almost had a bad day. I found out today that the person who 'bought' my house backed out of the sale due to a piece of paper with the condo documents that said there could be a special assessment if they couldn't get enough owner approval to finance. However they got enough owner approval to finance instead and so the whole matter was fully resolved but the stupid condo board never gave us any paperwork to confirm this so I then went and got proof that is was settled with no assessment but she still backed out! So I was pissed at her backing out AND at the condo board. They can send out stupid newsletters that nobody wants but they can't send out important info like this! So I kinda wanted to go home and drown my emotions in food and not do anything.
With my additional cals I was able to work in some taquitos I had been craving for the past couple weeks so I stopped at the convenience store to get them, but then... got a tub of ice cream too! Wanted to go right home and binge on it and not do anything else for the day. I started to eat it when I got home, but managed to stop at 1 serving that I could still work into my cals. It took a good amount of convincing to get myself down to the gym. Had myself convinced to go, then convinced myself not to go, then convinced myself to go, but finally managed to get myself down there.
Did 15 mins warmup on the treadmill (5mins walk, 5 min run, 5 min walk) before weights
Squats 130
Overhead press 60
Deadlift 130
I didn't do my pullups because the gym was so busy (mostly I didn't want to embarrass myself!)

I then got back on the treadmill and did 5km run. Man, that was mentally VERY hard. Obviously running 5km for me now is not an issue physically, especially at the pace I had chosen, but my brain SO wanted me to stop and be lazy so I really had to push myself. Still I couldn't force myself to run the whole thing in one go. I walked for a min every 10 mins. I then walked 10 mins for cooldown.
Came back up and made soup for supper and had one of my ham and cheese biscuits with it.
For snack I had some more of my ice cream and popcorn.

Cals Eaten: 1860
 
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Are you sure you´re writing about your own day and now mine girl? Ah, no, I see some running in there and I did no such thing! I think eating a bit more is a wise idea, not that you´re so close to your ideal weight I think it´s a good idea to take it slow and be kind to your body. Nutrient-packed whole food is your friend now that you´re an (amateur) athlete. I´m sending hugs your way in case they´re welcome (if not they´ll wait in the hallway until you send them away) and hope a real buyer turns up soon. Bureaucracy is a real pain!
 
I struggle with cravings if I eat processed c.arbs especially. Well done Mystic on winning against the little demon that was telling you to be lazy & to pig out. That there is a win/win situation! :D
Sucks re the condo!
Let's hope it sells soon for more!
xoCate
 
Thanks guys!

147 this morning. Starting to come down.

Yesterday's Fitbit
Steps: 15186
Floors: 10
Miles: 7.47
Calories: 2219

Yesterday's Deficit: 357

Almost had a bad eating day today but was able to keep under my goal!
Started the morning off grooming the one dog I had booked. Then headed to the barn and had a nice ride on my horse. I was feeling really hungry on my drive back in and so I stopped at the convenience store and got those taquito things for lunch. I then went grocery shopping and bought mostly good stuff but I was bad and bought white chocolate PB which I know I only eat with a spoon and far too much of it at once.
When I got home I started off weighing out one portion of the PB and ate it... then went and got the container and just started eating it. then had some ice cream, then 2 biscuits! Ah! But then I had people coming to look at my place so I went and took my dog for a 5-6km walk. And that got me going a bit. When I got back home I changed and went to the gym and did a 5km run with 10 min walk warm up and cooldown. That got me enough exercise cals to cover my supper and evening snack!

So my race is 2 days away! Ah! And according to the weather forecast it's only going to be 10*C and raining!!! And my first obstacle on course is the ice water plunge at 9:15am!!! Brr! I'm gonna freeze!!

Cals Eaten: 2154
 
No more tough workouts until the race then! Good eating and plenty of sleep and you´ll make it through, I think being wet all race long (and chafing, depending on your outfit) )will be a bigger problem than being cold; you WILL be running and working your butt off after all :)
 
Oh Mystic, I wish you all the luck in the world that the rain might hold off & the weather might not be so bad! :eek:
This white chocolate PB is still too much for me to get my head around. How many calories & how much fat & sugar can you possibly fit in one container? OMG!!!!
All the best!!
 
Thanks guys. Just about to crawl into bed so I hopefully get enough sleep for the race. I have to be up at 6am as its an hour and 20 min drive to get there and I need to be there early enough to get my race pack and such.
Not the best eating day today. But I don't think it was too terrible.
I hope I have everything I need packed and ready to go and I hope I'll be dressed warm enough while I wait to go. Brought my winter jacket! I'm not gonna wear my Fitbit. I wore it the last race but here I know I will be getting wet at least up to my neck unlike the other race so not gonna risk it, which is too bad I would have liked to see what it said I did. Oh well.
 
Fingers crossed girl! Hope you brought stuff to refuel, but then I´m guessing there are plenty of options around the finish line.
 
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