First off, thanks so much for the comments on my push up video! (You readers are the best! That’s one thing I love about the blogging community. Supportive and friendly!)
I am extremely proud of my strength (uh oh – one of the 7 deadly sins here). I may not be at the magic scale number, but I am seriously strong. However, it has taken me a long time to build up to this level. I started serious strength training in August of 2008 using free weights, then the NROLW program (which took 6 months) in 2009. I started with pushups on my knees and could barely get out a set of 10 to what I can now do. It takes time and patience – it takes a long time to build muscle. Jody mentioned having patience today on her blog, and it is so true. So keep at it! Doing some of these kickazz moves makes me uber happy.
I had another great workout this morning. Tuesdays are run days. I fueled up with a Luna bar and hit the hamster wheel. I ran 3 miles basically around 5.5 to 6 mph. Then I decided to do some intervals:
- 1 minute at 6.5 mph
- 2 minutes at 6 mph
- 1 minute at 6.8 mph
- 2 minutes at 6 mph
- 1 minute at 7 mph
- 2 minutes at 6 mph
- 1 minute at 7 mph
- 2 minutes at 6 mph
- super challenge: 1 minute at 7.3 mph!! dying….
- 2 minutes at 6 mph
- 1 minute at 6.8
- 2 minutes at 6 mph
- 1 minute at 6.5 mph
Then maintained 6.0 to finish up 6 miles. I wasn’t planning on 6 miles, but the intervals ate up a lot of mileage and I figured “what the heck”! I had a high when I left the gym. Good sweaty workouts make me smile, not sure why. After I am done, of course 😀
Breakfast was fabulous! Steel cut oats cooked with a banana and almond butter and jam on top. Then John got out chocolate chips for his brekkie, so I couldn’t resist those.
Work was back up to normal, so I got right to it. I wanted some extra protein for lunch to have some good recovery superfoods for lunch:
1/2 cup lowfat vanilla yogurt, 1/2 cup pumpkin, 1/2 scoop protein powder, chai granola and a dollop of cranberry sauce. It was yummy, but cold!
I ended up eating another 1/2 of a protein bar after lunch because I didn’t quite feel satisfied. I think the run did that to me. I don’t like being hungry at all. The Beck book has one section where you write out something called a ‘hunger response card’ which is what you tell yourself when you are hungry between meals. Here is my card:
This can sometimes be an argument in my own mind over this. I actually read this card to myself. I tend to get blood sugar drops when I don’t eat at timed intervals. Enough to make me sweaty and shaky. It seems as though I can go from a little hungry to the fall off the cliff blood sugar drop very quickly, so this is a big struggle for me in allowing myself to feel hungry (the fear factor). One of my biggest in trying to lose the last 10 pounds. I tend to eat for maintenance, which – duh – doesn’t equal weight loss. I think you have to be a little bit hungry if you want to be in a deficit, right? So this is my personal battle and I think probably the last challenge to get to goal. But patience, right?
Good news on the broccoli front – I got someone to eat some tonight! We were watching Good Eats last night and I was so happy to see AB doing a show on broccoli! I was actually cheering 😳 dork alert! Anway, John said something about trying it and I jumped all over that and got him to agree to try some. I did my pan sauteeing with coconut oil for him. He only wanted a little, so that meant more for my plate 😀
Here is his “I kind of am okay eating this, but not really” look. LOL. We’ve got some work to do.
I am done with work for the night. These last couple of weeks have been hard. With a light workload, I have had to work longer days to get in my minimum lines, which often meant working at night as well. Now we are back on normal schedule and I finished up on time!
Here is my evening snacky snack.
Delicious. Here’s to a good night’s sleep with the snack!