Today I am moving a little slowly. TOM arrived last night, as expected.
Okay, let's record this to keep for future reference....If you were ever thinking, hmm I've had huge gains from water retention/sodium over 2 days and considering fighting-sodium-with-sodium as a strategy...it does not work. So, I barely ate yesterday during the day, and then was ravenously hungry last night as we went out to a bar to send off a friend who was leaving the company. Apparently, if you're on a gaining streak, eating nachos and sweet potato fries and drinking vodka won't help. Who knew? I gained .4 lbs today.
It's back to work(outs) today. Since I've given up eating in restaurants for Lent, but we were going to a restaurant last night, my friend Lisa gave me a 'penance' of having to cover 5k today. I'm going to have to do it this morning, but haven't quite worked up the will-to-run quite yet.
I did try the week 4 of my C25K program on Thursday, but I didn't complete the session. I shortened the running bits to 3 minutes or 1.5 minutes rather than 5 min and 3 min as called for in the program. I added extra minutes on the end though and still covered 4k in all. I'm going to give it another whirl this morning, but I think I'll go back to week 3, repeat that this week and then attempt week 4 again after.
I'm on day 2 of TOM and we have a family play date today, 3 other families, 4 other children aged 4-8...this should put the Midol to the test! Can't wait for the karaoke portion of the evening though, Cameron does a mean Lenny Kravitz.
Saturday, 2 April 2011
Thursday, 31 March 2011
In the moment -- today.
General: Today I am easily irritated. It's a great day to work from home.
Motherhood: Today patience runs out on just the 2nd or 3rd time I make the same request. Still, I feel guiltly for not being perfectly perfect for the light of my life this morning. I will make it up tonight with something to make him feel warm and cuddly. His package from Daddy arrived today, so it will be fun to watch him open that.
Weightloss: Today I am at the same weight I was before I got married. Still a long way to go, but every number below this one is exciting! I am annoyed that after making a great decision last night (decision to eat strawberries/blueberries and fat free vanilla yogurt, instead of ripple chips with dip) and after eating 200 calories under plan, I gained 1.4lbs. Must get back to see Dr. Poon sometime soon.
Exercise: I keep looking at the treadmill. Work from home day is the perfect day to get in a run for my C25K program. I'm due to start week 4 any day now. Any day now. I'm a little intimidated. In week 4 you have to run 3 minutes then just a short break then run 5 minutes. It sounds simply awful to be quite honest. I know I always feel good afterwards, but I'm seriously thinking about just redoing week 3 before I take on week 4.
Pets: Today I am enjoying my pets. Goliath is sleeping against me now...we think we have baby finches in the nest, and Tido has barely tried to attack the birds all day.
Work -- Avoiding thinking about this today (except for the time when I'm actually working). For now anyway, decisions have to be made about my career path by tomorrow. I've seen a job that really interests me (still with same company, but outside the insurance area) and I would estimate that I have 80% of the requirements for this position, maybe even 90%. I'm petrified of applying for it, the change is scaring me to death...but it's exciting too. All the other change in my life has brought nothing but good things and a happy heart.
Motherhood: Today patience runs out on just the 2nd or 3rd time I make the same request. Still, I feel guiltly for not being perfectly perfect for the light of my life this morning. I will make it up tonight with something to make him feel warm and cuddly. His package from Daddy arrived today, so it will be fun to watch him open that.
Weightloss: Today I am at the same weight I was before I got married. Still a long way to go, but every number below this one is exciting! I am annoyed that after making a great decision last night (decision to eat strawberries/blueberries and fat free vanilla yogurt, instead of ripple chips with dip) and after eating 200 calories under plan, I gained 1.4lbs. Must get back to see Dr. Poon sometime soon.
Exercise: I keep looking at the treadmill. Work from home day is the perfect day to get in a run for my C25K program. I'm due to start week 4 any day now. Any day now. I'm a little intimidated. In week 4 you have to run 3 minutes then just a short break then run 5 minutes. It sounds simply awful to be quite honest. I know I always feel good afterwards, but I'm seriously thinking about just redoing week 3 before I take on week 4.
Pets: Today I am enjoying my pets. Goliath is sleeping against me now...we think we have baby finches in the nest, and Tido has barely tried to attack the birds all day.
Work -- Avoiding thinking about this today (except for the time when I'm actually working). For now anyway, decisions have to be made about my career path by tomorrow. I've seen a job that really interests me (still with same company, but outside the insurance area) and I would estimate that I have 80% of the requirements for this position, maybe even 90%. I'm petrified of applying for it, the change is scaring me to death...but it's exciting too. All the other change in my life has brought nothing but good things and a happy heart.
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