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Good Morning, FS Warriors! Slept in till 4:15 this morning. Had a wonderful steak dinner last night, and popped the cork (well, it didn't really pop, in fact, it crumbled) on a bottle of Merlot wine, and drank two glasses. Made me lie down in mellow pastures. Slept like a baby! Kind of jilted Jillian this morning in just doing the warm-up exercises and climbing up on the treadmill. Today, I upped my run/walk (according to schedule) up to Run 3 min/Walk 1 min (X7); then Run 2 min for a total workout of 30 minutes. Then, as is my custom, I walked at an even slower pace till my heart rate dropped below 120. The last couple cycles took my heart rate up to 164, but it was still sustainable, and other than sweating like a wart hog, I did pretty well. Getting a little over 2 miles in, so I'm pretty happy with my progress.
There just doesn't seem to be any relief in sight for these cold temps. Still getting down into the negative numbers at night for the next 10 days. I guess it's no big deal when you work inside, but I am getting a touch of cabin fever. I'm not really in shape enough to take my run outside, but there are a lot of things I'm putting off doing outside until the weather starts accommodating me, as it should.
DGD is getting married on April 29th, and DW is all excited about helping plan the wedding. They're getting married in the church, but I guess the theme is some kind of Redneck option. Everything is going to be done up with camoflauge. I ordered my Mossy Oak Camo Wedding vest yesterday. DW has been spending the nights making bootineers, with some kind of orange flower, brown stem and pearls that would have made any oyster proud (of course, they are not real). Doing up a bunch of small hanging mason jars with elecric candles in them (I'm tasked with capturing them in wire so they don't fall on anyone's head.
I'm often reminded of how many times I lost the motivation to exercise and diet because things just weren't happening fast enough. The long range benefits of it always seemed to evade my thinking. I think a key source of conflict is that most of us have grown up with this expectation of instant gratification. We want it now. We are willing to sacrifice and work hard for it, as long as it happens this week. And then we get on the scale, and no weight loss, or maybe even a weight gain, and we say, "This isn't working for me." We grab the bag of Doritos, head for the couch, turn the TV on and begin one arm excercises from bag to mouth. "Oh, I'm just so fat, I'm so disgusted with myself. I'm never going to lose weight. I'm just going to be a fat cow the rest of my life." I'll bet that kind of talk sounds familiar to some of you. It's kind of ridiculous really. In the business world, we are taught that you can't achieve long range goals unless you make short range goals. The problem with weight loss is that if you make your short range goals too short, you fail and never even get a glimpse of the long range goals. Don't set your short range goals to 1 1/2 to 2 pounds each week, and expect to see those kind of results on the scale every time; you just set yourself up for disappointment. Yes, those might be realistic goals over the long haul, but, with fluctuations, they're not necessarily realistic on a week-by-week basis. If you lost a pound a week, you'd lose 52 pounds in a year. How fantastic is that! But, do you get upset when the scale doesn't show a weight loss of one pound in any given week? If you're getting discouraged and you are making improvements in your eating habits, and being more active, and not seeing an immediate weight loss, maybe you would benefit from going two weeks before getting on the scale, or even if you weight every week, remind yourself that you're not going to lose hope until you see what a month's worth of effort shows. If you make changes in your lifestyle, it will pay off. Every time you make a better choice with regard to what you're about to eat, or do a little more exercise on a regular basis, you will see improvement over the long haul. I guarantee it!
Toodles!
View Diet Calendar, 26 February 2014:
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1709 kcal
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Fat: 60.90g | Prot: 89.65g | Carbs: 212.84g.
Breakfast: Bananas, Honey, Instant Oatmeal, Ocean Spray Light Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice, Coffee (Brewed From Grounds), Great Value Non-Dairy Coffee Creamer. Lunch: Flatout Healthy Grains Multi-Grain with Flax Flatbread, Mustard, Bongards Pepperjack Cheese, ShopRite Pepperoni Slices, Prairie Farms Dairy Fat Free Orange Cream Yogurt. Dinner: Unsweetened Iced Tea, Mashed Potato, Chicken or Turkey and Noodles (Mixture). Snacks/Other: Strawberries, For You Radishes. more...
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3082 kcal
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Exercise:
Calisthenics (light, e.g. home exercise) - 10 minutes, Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 10 minutes, Running (jogging) - 5/mph - 20 minutes, Resting - 18 hours and 20 minutes, Sleeping - 5 hours. more...
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