To Do List (the weather recovery seems to be throwing off any desire to time schedule):

- go to the gym

- get yarn for crotchet project because knitting SUCKS

- job phone interview

- edit thesis stuff

- laundry

P.M. Workout:

RWRunStreak Day 31 (Day 3) — 1.25 miles @ 16 minutes

Stationary bike — 6.90 miles @ 30 minutes

 Food:

Breakfast — omelet, milk

Lunch — yam with onions

Dinner — couscous, green beans, corn (went with these veggies instead of making a salad)

Snacks — cucumber, tomatoes, carrots, Publix no-fat low-cal vanilla yogurt, watermelon, grapes, banana

Reaction:

Meh.  Mediocre day.  Got laundry done which was absolutely necessary with no nice smelling workout clothes left.  Got my reward purchased for celebrating the end of RWRunStreak (despite missing a day that wasn’t my fault I’m still rewarding myself for accomplishing this).  Went around town and saw all the damage, flooded waters, sinkholes, and closed roads.  Took me half an hour to get to a gym that is seriously 10 minutes away.  Entirely way too many detours and rerouting.  Although now that I’m aware of the reroute I know a better way that might take slightly less time and isn’t residential related.  It’s really sad because you just see it on the news and don’t connect with it, but living through parts of it and seeing houses, neighbors, streets, buildings flooded is just heartbreaking.  What really gets me though is the fact that this was just a tropical storm!  I mean, imagine if a hurricane came through here and all the damage….

Got some stuff going through my mind that is actually fitness related *gasps* but not quite ready to unleash it on ya’ll.  But other than that, just truckin’ on with job applications, job rejections, thesis writing and editing, going to the gym, and trying some of the new workouts that my friend suggested.

Guys we’re on week THREE of Summer of Awesomeness!  Have you been feeling more awesome now that you’ve been in contact with your buddies for 14 days?  What about being able to create time schedules and meal plans for you to work around?

Well here’s another thing to add to your growing daily to do list — a workout plan.  Have a training schedule that you semi-follow?  Well write it down alongside your meal plan and time schedule to make sure you’re getting the most out of your time and eating the right nutritional foods to fuel those training workouts.  Don’t have a training schedule?  Don’t fret!  We’re in the same boat.

Why am I having you write down all these things into daily lists? It’s simple, I’m making you aware of all the daily activities, duties, and engagements that fill your day and making you more aware that you need to consider more than just work, family, and social life into your healthy lifestyle living equation.  It’s important to know what schedule you work with, but more important for you to make equal balance with time managing to throw away the nasty habits of procrastinating or “I’ll work out later” approach when you actually see there really is no later to work out with.

And don’t worry if you’re still faltering with the time schedule routine, it takes awhile to implement it in, especially if you’re still struggling with trying to start/continue your healthy lifestyle.  Life will throw you ups and downs, but being better prepared will just make it easier to manage when chaos erupts.

Let me know how you’re doing with putting all these things into a schedule!  Is it easier to have a handwritten schedule or input it into a Google calendar-like application?

Another one of those mix days of unknown planning.  The days I like.

A.M. Workout:

RWRunStreak Day 25 — 1.02 miles @ 13:01 minutes

Stationary Bike level 10 then level 15 — 5.70 miles @ 30 minutes

Stair climber, 45 steps per minute — 0.67 miles @ 15 minutes

Food — Based off decent calories and good decisions today, something I haven’t done in a number of weeks.  Had a smoothie at Starbucks, had half of a half of a Publix Cuban sandwich (so 3 inches instead of 6??), and chicken with white rice from the Chinese restaurant for dinner.  That with vegetables and fruits for snack.  Considering it’s been non-stop errands since the gym, well with social time, food choices were as good as could be.

Was at the gym at 6 this morning and left around 8.  Felt good for a morning workout.  Then proceeded to spend 5 hours at a Starbucks with a friend.  Really nice person, has standard 5K racing experience and is a personal trainer.  He had some really helpful suggestions, lots that made sense, and some that were later confirmed by the doctor.  So all in all, it’s been a win.

Thank you to everyone that made diet suggestions and were supportive of my “I hate my scale” comments from yesterday.  It’s great to know that some people are in a similar boat.  

So I’ll be taking with me some of what my friend suggested and some of what the doc suggested (which match for almost everything) and run with that for the next month.  Hopefully the scale will show some improvement.