Doggie decided to wake me up this morning a little too early for my taste BUT since I’m hitting Bikram at 9:00 with these chicas, best to get up and start the day (i.e drink my coffee).
This week was crazy busy at work but on the whole pretty good. I started using The Daily Plate, which was suggested by a few of you, to track my food. This site has a HUGE bank of food products, a million times better than FitDay. (Yes, I did know you can input custom food to FitDay and I had done a lot of items but I it became very annoying that every time I added a new food to my repertoire I had to add in all the ingredients. I need something simple.) I did really good this week other than last night (beer, fried goodness and fudge all in the same night—UGH!). I am going to continue to track for February and then print up a report and see if there are places I can cut things out/make things healthier. My biggest issue with food tracking is tracking at night—I’m great during the day but once I get home I need to be more diligent.
On the exercise front, I re-discovered my love for morning workouts. On Monday, I took Zoey for a longish walk and did 30 minutes (of a 60 min DVD) of Power Yoga (that shiz is HARD, I forgot how hard). Tuesday, I met the Gazelle’s for a XT session and abs, she ran. Wednesday, the Gazelle’s and I hit the pool! I loved it! It was awesome! I forgot how great swimming makes me feel and how much I love the smell of chlorine. Yes, that’s weird, I know. (My favorite part is getting into the shower afterwards and you can still seem the pool—double weird, I know.) Thursday, was XTraining and leg weights for me, Gazelle’s was on the ‘mill. Friday…uh…was supposed to be another swim day for me but instead I slept in and ate massive amounts of fried food, drank beer and ate fudge for dinner. While I do want to lose a few pounds and be healthier with my choices, I also think that becoming too neurotic about counting calories and exercising like a maniac make me a not so fun person—likewise though, not exercising enough and eating crap also makes me not fun to around…it’s a balancing act.
Today is Bikram with some of the PDX’ers and tomorrow is spinning and/or swimming (haha, that rhymes).
Good luck to all the racers out there! LA Runner, Chic Runner, POM, The RoHo’s, TFH…there are a TON of you this weekend, sorry if I missed anyone! Can’t wait to read all the race reports!
14 comments:
Fudge for dinner is my kinda Friday!! :)
Fried food and fudge for dinner? Yes, please!
All your XT work is intense. I need to do that ASAP.
I'm glad you like daily plate - I kind of think it rocks. Cheers to balancing the craziness :)
Thanks for the good-luck wishes!
I am totally gonna use daily plate now...I agree, fitday is a pain in the ass to enter custom foods on! There is a definitely a fine line between observing your food intake and being neurotic about it. I always have to be careful with that also.
Happy to report fudge actually sounds good again! Thanks for the get well wishes. :)
yes loving the smell of chlorine is odd. but i know it felt great to get back in the pool.
i watched the tv special about the arizona r'n'r marathon and thought about you yesterday.
a belated thank you for the good luck shout out!!!!
hope you had a great weekend!
Great job with the morning workouts! I know what you mean about balance. It sounds like you're doing well-- everybody needs a little fudge and junk food now and then-- I even found I've had my best workouts after the occasional indulgence. :)
I love the smell of chlorine too -and bleach.
Nice job on all the workouts. I'm slackin' these days.
Lol on the beer and fudge, you sound like me:)
I am glad you like the daily plate. I use it for a couple of weeeks at a time when I feel I need to 'regroup' on my eating habbits. I usually type what I know I am going to have for dinner in the morning so that way I know how much I can sqeeze in during the hardest part of the day (for me the munchies hit at about 3:00 like clockwork). I LOVE putting in my workouts and feeling so happy that I get to indulge more. Happy eating.
p.s. I too love the smell of chlorine. When I get done with a run - I actaully sweat it out. Seriously.
Counting calories is no way to live.
Morning workouts are the best. When you get the motivation to do them.
I love chlorine, too! I'm not so keen on it making your hair smell, but I love how the smell lingers on my arms.
I LOVE the fact that you had beer, fried food and fudge on friday!!! I love food-and I'm not a big fan of calorie counting either!!! But maybe I should be because it's so much harder to lose now that I'm a "master". Damn I hit age 34 and everything changed! SUCKED!!
Oh well...
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