It's a New Day!!

First of all... Happy Birthday to my sister and Happy Valentines Day!! 


So now that we got that out of the way... I DID IT! I started working out again. I took almost 2 whole weeks off from any sort of exercise and on Friday morning I kick started my 5k training back into gear and working out in general. I caught up week 5 days 1-3 in 3 days. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. While I was on vacation I worked out, even getting up at 8am to make sure I could hang out with my mom at 10am. Sunday I jogged for 20 minutes straight and didn't die. I actually did it. I couldn't believe it!! 


Workout schedule for the week :) 


Monday - Off
Tuesday - Coach soccer - Run 1 mile with dogs
Wednesday - Week 6, Day 1, Ab ripper X, Upper Body
Thursday - Week 6, Day 2, lower body
Friday - Run 1 mile with dogs, Ab ripper X
Saturday - Play soccer 
Sunday - Week 6, Day 3, Ab ripper X


Will do my weigh in tomorrow morning, which should be terrible since I'm giving up chocolate tomorrow so I'll probably binge. UGH. 


So here are some short term goals because apparently long term goals scare me into hiding.

• Lose 10 pounds in 4 weeks (Posting weekly loss results here)
• Finish 5k training program
• Run ShamrockNroll in March
• Give up Chocolate for 4 weeks
• Make dinner 4-5 nights a week, leftovers 2-3 nights a week
• Reduce beer intake during the week (No I don't drink every night but I've found recently I have had more than 1 beer after work on more than 1 night a week, not including Friday/Saturday)
• Weight train at least 1 day a week for 40 minutes, if 2 days a week, 20 minutes each day
• Work my abs for 10 minutes or more, 3 days a week

Fer Serious.

So I haven't worked out since I sprained my ankle. I feel like such a waste of space and sadly I still have to get into shape to run my 5k in March. And honestly, it's not like I haven't had time but it's really that I've been a lazy fat fat and using my ankle as an excuse to not run. Well that is going to stop. It was going to stop today but as work has gotten a bit crazy it looks like I'll be working from home tonight instead of working out. But as I type this I keep thinking that I'll bundle up and take the dogs out, I mean I can spare a half hour for a run. And yet it's never just a half hour, because it's 10 minutes to get my stuff together, 30 minutes or more of running, then there is cooling down and stretching, another 15 minutes or more. Plus I need to cook dinner, sweep & mop the bedroom, pack my stuff for home, start some laundry, clean the guest bathroom, and get some work finished. Oh and before I do any working out, cleaning, cooking, or working, I need to go to the grocery store because we're almost out of dog food and stop by the other car to get my ipod case. And the worst part about today is that I feel totally fat and it's because I eat like crap, not because I haven't worked out. So again, it comes down to me.
So tomorrow night I'm going home for the weekend and I feel like I'll be able to get refreshed and my legs back under me. I already have plans to work out Friday and Sunday and have thought about working out on Saturday too but I think I'll just be so sore on Monday that I won't want to workout.


Since I forget at times that I am now a soccer coach I have to adjust my goals. I am hoping that next week my workout schedule will go as follows...

• Monday - Run 20 minutes (W5D3), Abs
• Tuesday - Coach soccer, run 1 mile with the dogs
• Wednesday - Week 6 Day 1, Abs 
• Thursday - Coach soccer, day off
• Friday - Week 6 Day 2
• Saturday - Soccer Game, Abs, Strength training
• Sunday - Week 6 Day 3

I am hoping that my normal weekly workouts will go as follows... 

• Monday - Week X Day 1 until program is finished, once finished either start Bridge to 10k or run 3.1 miles or more, Abs
• Tuesday - Coach soccer, run 1 to 1.5 miles with dogs
• Wednesday - Week X Day 2 until program is finished, once finished 40 minutes on the elliptical, abs
• Thursday - Coach soccer, day off
• Friday - Week X Day 3 until program is finished, once finished start bridge to 10k or run 2.5 miles, abs
• Saturday - Coach soccer, run 1 to 1.5 miles, strength training
• Sunday - walk dogs, rest

So here are some short term goals because apparently long term goals scare me into hiding.

• Lose 10 pounds in 4 weeks (Posting weekly loss results here)
• Finish 5k training program
• Run ShamrockNroll in March
• Give up Chocolate for 4 weeks
• Make dinner 5 nights a week, leftovers 2 nights a week
• Reduce beer intake during the week (No I don't drink every night but I've found recently I have had more than 1 beer after work on more than 1 night a week, not including Friday/Saturday)
• Weight train at least 1 day a week for 40 minutes, if 2 days a week, 20 minutes each
• Work my abs for 10 minutes or more, 3 days a week

I am beginning this regimen starting Monday, February 14th so wish me luck!!! 

Did I Mention Road Blocks???

Big sigh.... *siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhhh*
So last week I was ready to rumble. I was amped up and ready for anything that came my way. Friday night I went out and got new shoes to help with my training. Saturday I played my usual 2 soccer games and actually tried to take it a bit easy because I wanted to stay healthy, imagine that thought process. That bit me in the ass because I just don't have it in me to not 'go hard' at a sport I love. Long story short, I now am the proud owner of a high ankle sprain in my left ankle. 
So me being me, I tried to play soccer on Sunday, failed. I have also planned on running every day this week have just haven't had the pain tolerance to try. I was sincerely planning on trying to run today until friends talked me out of what could have been a bad decision. But since I have amazing friends I have decided that I will still go to the gym tonight, lift weights and ride the stationary bike. It is a good alternative to running and training for my 5k, not good enough, but it'll do. I am also going to look into the pool hours to see if that can be an alternative workout for myself. I really need to let my ankle heal, I know that, I'm just so stubborn. 
Enough whining now. Time to just face the music aka my restrictions and continue on. 
So tonight's plan, ride bike 20 minutes or more. Lift weights for 20 minutes or more. 


Dinner tonight... 


Grilled Chicken Breast
Seasoned & Oven Roasted Vegetables
Pan Seared Red Skin Potatoes


Rough calorie estimate... 498 per serving


YummmO


Listening to - Hey Jude, The Beatles

Progress Report

Alrighty then!! It's week 4 of my couch to 5k training program and I'm still going strong. Week 4 consists of run 3min, walk 1.5min, run 5min, walk 2.5min repeat. Day 1 was miserable. I hated it. Day 2 was much, much, much better. The first day I found that I was counting down the seconds until the timer went off to let me know that I could walk. The second day I felt so much better, when we were finished with the full workout I felt good, my body didn't hurt so bad. Tomorrow we're doing our third day and I'm really looking forward to it, I think we'll be able to make good time on it also.
This week I am starting to incorporate strength training in my weekly workouts. I'm a little nervous to do this because that means I really only get 1 day off from working out but I think I'm okay with that. I run 3 days a week and play soccer 1 or 2 days on the weekend, sometimes up to 4 games on the weekends. Oh well!
Today's agenda is to do some upper body and ab work to jump start my strength training. The only downside to this is that I have no workout partner for strength training, only for running, but that isn't the end of the world.
Lucky for me, Nick and I started carpooling to work and since I can't pick him up until after 5:30 I have more than enough time to get in 40 minutes of working out if not more, depending on his day.
So basically I am going to hit the gym 4 days a week, my evening I'm not working out will be reserved for grocery shopping (yay) and relaxing (very yay). So here's to hoping I can stick with this routine for 60 days and then after that it'll just be a habit right??

Weight: -5 pounds

Starting weight: 165

Road Blocks...

So I've hit about as many road block as one could imagine. While I'm no longer actively doing P90x I am still working out. I just really don't have the time to do P90x, while I loved doing it, an hour or more a day, plus 2-4 soccer games a weekend, it really just takes everything out of me to shower and go to work. So instead I have begun training for a 5k with a girlfriend. 
While I have been doing all of my training my fiance has tore his hamstring, which basically means he was unable to do anything on his own 10 days. So I worked half days at the office, came home, took care of him and worked from home. Also, took care of the house and dogs, it was absolutely exhausting. Then he started to heal a bit and returned to work, so while training still, he was able to help around the house a bit but unable to drive so I cart him back and forth to work, which isn't terrible because I workout on base while he's still at work, 3 out of 5 days it works out really well. 
So then this weekend happened, Saturday morning I experienced my first migraine. This resulted in a cat scan, blood work, and 7 hours at the ER. Today has been better but I've been nauseous and still have a headache, it's not been a fun weekend. So because Saturday I was supposed to run my W3D3, I planned on doing so today, well that didn't go as planned. 
My biggest problem to date is my eating habits which comes down to ME. I have to start making better choices. I really have to because I'm not dropping any weight when I make the choices I am. So starting tomorrow I'm going to keep a food diary on this blog. Keeping myself 100% accountable. It has to happen. So I'm fairly certain that no one reads my blog but if you do, please give me words of wisdom and support. And if you do read this and see that I'm not eating well, call me out. 
So here is to better choices and a better lifestyle. 


PS my 5k is March 13th, 2011 and I'm very excited for it. 


PPS please don't judge me for my poor writing today, I'm on my pain killers, very out of it, in pain, and exhausted. 
tootles

Week 2! Yes, we made it!

Barely made it... 
This morning it was unbelievably hard to wake up. This weekend really took it out of both of us, him more than I. We stayed up really late (for us) on Friday and had 2 soccer games on Saturday morning/afternoon. While I ran errands, he stayed and reffed 2 more soccer games. We both got home and got ready for the Christmas Party. By 10:30 I was ready to go home and crawl in bed, so we did, although I wish I could have stayed later because it really was fun. Sunday we got up sort of early and ran our errands and played ANOTHER (our 3rd for the weekend) soccer game. This time in 38 degree weather with winds of 20mph, so it felt like it was 20 degrees out. It really took everything out of me and I felt awful because Nick had to stay and ref another soccer game in that weather. I went home and crawled in bed with my big warm dogs on either side of me and I was still so cold. I finally warmed up after sitting in a hot bath for about 30 minutes. At this point I had no desire to cook dinner. We opted for Olive Garden. 
I originally planned on skipping the bread sticks and getting soup and salad, but I failed. By the time we got there I was so hungry I could have eaten a small child. Kidding. Kind of. But I practiced a tiny bit of restraint. I only had 1 bread stick and 2 helpings of salad. But I went all out when I ordered my entrée. I got the Lasagna pasta rolls, I don't remember the exact name but it was delicious. Lucky for me I only ate less than half of it and with my small calorie intake throughout the day I still came out roughly even. Now did I eat good calories, probably not, but it's the small steps in life. 
Tonight's menu sounds delicious though. 
Pecan encrusted white fish
Brown rice or redskin potatoes (haven't decided yet) 
Oven roasted veggies 
and a protein drink. 


Tuesday 
Grilled Chicken

Brown rice or redskin potatoes (haven't decided yet) 

Oven roasted veggies 

and a protein drink.

Wednesday

Pan Cooked Fish with a delicious dill sauce

Brown rice or redskin potatoes (haven't decided yet) 

Oven roasted veggies 

and a protein drink.

Thursday

Pan Roasted Chicken 

Brown rice or redskin potatoes (haven't decided yet) 

Oven roasted veggies 

and a protein drink.

Friday

Sirloin stir-fry wraps

I will eventually remember to post recipes and photos. 

Currently Listening To: Winter Song (Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson)

Starting Over... Kinda

So... We went home for Thanksgiving and we worked out 1 of the 5 days we were gone. Fail. We just had SO much going on, 2.5 days of driving, plus 2 family's to visit with, dress shopping (successfully might I add!) and finding time to rest between all of that, well it was impossible. So (last) Sunday night we drove home, all 14 hours of it, I had almost 7 monster energy drinks, which canNOT be healthy but it was about survival at that point. We get home late on Sunday evening and I feel terrible. Immediately go to bed and wake up feeling even worse. I decide to sleep through my alarm to try and fight off impending sickness. Unsuccessful. Monday I am wiped out and sick. We both get home, who knows what we had for dinner, all I know is I was in bed by 8pm that night. This routine continued until Friday and Nick even had to stay home from work one day he was so sick.
So at this point we're more than a week behind and we make a pact to start fresh again on Monday. Saturday morning comes and with that over 2 hours of soccer as well. Needless to say, it was a ROUGH day. We were both still barely recovering from being sick and we go and play 2 soccer games, one with no subs. Needless to say, I was in bed before midnight on Saturday and slept a solid 10 hours if not more.

So Monday morning came and my alarm never went off. I was so depressed. Not only did I have work to finish at home that night, we had an evening appointment to make, plus dinner, and an hour of working out. UGH! So we skipped our Monday night workout and started on Tuesday. We also have decided to double up our workout on Friday so we can have Sunday as a day of rest and instead of doing Kempo X on Saturday we're replacing it with our soccer games on Saturdays and sometimes Sundays. We also have a friend doing the same program with us so that's an extra motivator but really, I am going to lose 20-30 pounds and it's going to happen in the next 3-6 months. That's final. And luckily we're going home for an entire week over Christmas so that won't interfere with any workout plans we have. *phew!*