SAHM 2/1/10-2/7/10

Shera, sorry to hear you're sick. I can relate. The gambu has made the rounds here as well. Best suggestion, get some airborne (boosts immune system), mucinex (force cough to be productive), chips & salsa (nature's natural decongestant!), and juices high in vitamin c. It should help. Keep it in check. If it gets to the point where you are up at night, see a doctor immediately!

Katie, welcome to the group! I recently started running, too. I am doing C25K, and ran my first 5k last weekend. In fact, going for run after lunch. Looks like the storms are clearing up enough to go for a jog around the block.

Hungarian beef goulash for dinner. God bless (really) whoever invented the crock pot!

recipe here:
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/hungarian_beef_goulash.html

Katie, that's WONDERFUL you achieved your 10 min mile! A great achievement for any beginner runner. I just got back from my 1.5 mile run. I only made it half way through today's session before getting lazy & walking the last part, with some running involved. I am wondering if I should pause to re-evaluate my goals. If Operation Smile doesn't have a walking division for the 5k in March, maybe I should look for an April one. I'm debating whether or not to repeat week 1 of C25K since I wimp out at 16-20 mins every time. Emotionally I feel like the road run went even better than the track run. Something different to look at every step of the way. Master Nicole, input please!

Thanks for supplying my lungs with more clean oxygen, Nicole! 50 trees? That's a big good deed!

I think I will try day 1 of week 2 on Monday to see how it goes. If I completely fail, I will do week 1 again. I am definitely doing better off the TM though, not being focused on time and speed and all.

So, good news! My mom called me today & told me she was on southwest.com buying the tickets to NY. She wanted to make sure I was really going. I told her unless I am mortally ill, I'm going to be on that plane! Just don't know how it's going to go with Grace. Mom was saying she would sit by window & I could take aisle, cuz nobody would want a seat in the middle with a baby around, but I told her that Grace can't sit in that seat unless she has a car seat, which means buying another ticket. So I hope that gets sorted out. Either way, Grace is getting new coloring books and crayons for the 5 hour flight!

My favorite aunt (mother of the bride) lives in Ronkonkoma out on the island. Most of the rest of the family lives in the city and upstate. I also have 1 uncle & his family in FL (not far from Canaveral & Orlando)

I can't wait to go shopping for Grace for the trip! I'll also get myself some new clothes. Hoping to be size 14. This week is discouraging though with that pesky 3 lbs hanging on from the race. Did I mention I'm easily discouraged? LOL
BIIIIIG ego, easily deflated.

Katie, I just did week 1, using PodRunner for music and training. When I cross train, I listen to my strong beated stuff from bands like Ludo, Maroon 5, and Cartel. I also like Beach Boys & original Jackson 5 (I have ABC & I Want You Back on my iPod, Steve). If you want, I can post my playlist some time. I need to add a few new songs like Uprising by Muse. When I am kinda down on myself, I really like The Climb by Miley Cyrus. I could go on for a while about music, but I won't waste your night
All you need to do is picture chubby chick on stationary bike, head bobbing, mouth going, legs flying at 100 rpm to get the picture of what I rock out to, LOL

I also just read an interesting article on diet on runnersworld.com. It helped me figure out where I want my calories to be if I want to keep losing weight. I even changed some of my percentages on my MFP diet so that it was 50% carbs, 25% protein, and 25% fat. I may drop the fat another 5% and up the protein. I do enjoy meat!
Basically if you times your weight by 13, you'll get about how many calories you burn in a day just living. After that, you can take 3500 cals (which equals 1 lb), and times it by how many pounds each week you want to lose, and divide by 7. Subtract that from the first number, and you've got what you should be eating in total, including workouts.

Example: I put in 220 as an average for me, and multiplied it by 13 to get 2860. After that, I put in that I wanted to lose 3 lbs each week just for now. So 3500 x 3 = 10,500 and divide that by 7 (cuz there are 7 days in a week). That's 1500. Now I subtract 1500 from 2860 to get 1360. 1360 is the calories I should be eating right now if I want to drop 3 lbs a week. I currently have MFP set at 1400, so I was pretty close!

I hope that made sense.

Just to confuse you (and myself) further, I did an experiment. I didn't want to forget how I got this calculated, so I guess I'm putting it here for posterity.

Part 1:
Use 3500 x the pounds you want to lose (3 for me = 10,500)
Add up the calories you did NOT eat back this week (1879 for me this past week)
REMEMBER THIS NUMBER!

Part 2:
Take your weight & multiply it by 13. (220 x 13 for me = 2860)
Subtract what you have your MFP set at for daily calories. (2860 - 1400 for me = 1460)
Take that number and multiply it by 7 (10220)

Part 3:
Add the final number from part 1 to the final number from part 2.
Divide by 3500.
You should have lost that many pounds the past week.

If this is true for you, then it proves you probably shouldn't eat your calories back. If it's not even close, then pay no attention to my rambling because I'm terrible at math anyway, and tend to think not backwards, but inside out (another perk of ADD for me-- brain goes too fast to keep up half the time)

For what it's worth, I expected a 3-4 lb weight gain from my 5k, which put me at 222. Using the above formula, I should be at 219 from there. Today I was 220. So when I weigh in tomorrow (making the above formula 1 full week), I should be 219.

I will keep you updated.

EDIT: The original result I came out with was a loss of 3.45, but now I'm getting a loss of 6+ lbs. So obviously I'm screwing the formula up somewhere. Hmmm...