200+ (Week 30) Let's Get Moving in May!

So, I'm down in weight this morning to where I was pre-TOM. Whew! Let's hope I'll continue to drop a bit this week to compensate. Even though the number is where I imagined it to be, I'm having a hella fat day. I feel gynormous this morning and pretty much like a blob. I don't know why, but yeah... not feeling the best.

Plan is tonight to hit up the rec center, unless the weather is good out- then I'll run. I'm trying to figure out the best way to train for a 10K- and a 7 week training (to have me ready by the beginning of July) has me doing my long run this week of 6 miles! I know it's to overtrain you, so the race won't seem that bad (I liked that feeling with the 5K, as I knew I could run farther), but I've only run 5 miles once. I don't think I'm ready for 6 miles. I'd like to do another 5 miler this week though, weather contingent. Maybe 6 miles next week if I'm really feeling it. I just would like to feel more comfortable with the 5 mile distance before jumping up another mile already.

Pub trivia tonight probably, which means not so healthy food. I've sort of been carbing it up the past few days at lunch/dinner, so tonight won't help, but am trying to cut back a bit on the breads and pastas otherwise. didn't get a chance to make my spaghetti squash yesterday, which I was hoping to bring for lunch, so have a butternut squash ravioli lean cuisine, which is yummy, but more sodium than I want, and more pasta than I want with potential sandwich and fries tonight. Oh well.

Keep your fingers crossed about the condo for me. I should hear today or tomorrow if I get it or not. *bites nails*

Ladies- I got the phone call! The condo is mine! *dances* *twirls* I'm now eagerly awaiting the lease to be fedex-ed to me, so I can sign and send it back. Move in is June 15th- less than a month away. Very excited. Will feel especially so once everything is signed and I have those keys in my hand (always nervous until it's official official)! Looking forward to decorating as well, as I basically need to buy a new living and dining room, after giving most away to my little brother when he got his first place. And painting of course! So yay!

That makes my day about a gazillion times better. I'm so happy the housing search appears to be done, and I pretty much got my ideal location and a cute charming place to live.

My afternoon should be pretty busy with client contacts, but I'll check in later tonight with the damage after pub trivia.

Thanks for the congrats on getting the condo. I'll feel better once I have all the paperwork in, but I'm definitely excited about moving to my own place again and making it all my own with fun decorations. Deb, no, this doesn't have a fitness center, though the complex has tennis courts and a pool, but what's nice is that i could walk to the rec center where I have been working out from it- less than a mile away. Yes! No excuses, eh?

Pub trivia went well. I ate well otherwise today and worked out pretty hard, so my intake on the calorie front wasn't as horrid as I thought it would be.

Here's my check in for the day:

2426 needed to maintain
1731 eaten /820 burned/-1515 day/-4139 week (over a pound now down, calorie deficit-wise)

Exercise: was hoping the weather would hold out and I could get a run in, but it started raining around 4ish, and still is going. Is supposed to tomorrow as well, but then be nicer later in the week. Need to get another good run in. Would like to do a 5-miler. Anywho, did 65 minutes on the elliptical in cross country setting and about died. I think because I pushed myself harder/faster on the higher resistances (because the didn't feel as high compared to the peak resistances), I was totally tuckered out by the end and didn't think I would make it several times. This definitely isn't something I can do every time I do elliptical. Kept me changing my speeds and how hard I was working though, and burned a wee bit more calories than on a normal elliptical for me- my heart rate was so high, I imagine it could be even more. As I just recently started cranking my resistance up to 10 towards the end of my workouts, and this one spiked at 16, which was hella tough. Went 5.4 miles on the elliptical. Heart rate was still pretty high, so did a 5 minute, quarter mile walk on the treadmill.

Plan for tomorrow at this point is another gym day due to weather. Is it the weekend yet? I'm thinking about taking an Ikea trip to browse possible furniture goodies, and also just get some good ideas for staging of furniture.

Victoria- way to go with another 5 miler!! You're ahead of me now on that front! I really want to get one in this week when the weather improves, cause I can't imagine running 70 minutes on a treadmill. For some reason, it doesn't seem so bad on an elliptical, but a treadmill sounds like torture. You're just a little over 1 mile away from a 10K. You go girl! *high fives*

Kendal- I totally had to get new gym pants when I started c25k because they kept migrating down as I ran and most of my lack of coordination on the treadmill came from attempting to run and hike up my pants at the same time. I was wearing pretty loose fitting pants, but had to bite the bullet and buy some former fitting pants in order to keep them up and not falling down. Plus, you're totes losing weight. So happy for you for finally being out of the 230s!

My weight was horrendous this morning when I stepped on the scale. Only up a pound, and that I'm sure is due to eating late, and eating pub food. Hopefully it'll drop back down again by Friday morning. Plan is for me to go to the rec center at the end of the day. I'm pretty tired this morning and would like to go to bed early, but it's BL and Glee night, so a girl's got to have her priorities!

Glee is usually online, but Neil Patrick Harris is on this week's episode, so I can't miss that! Need to watch it as it airs. I'll even miss part of BL for it. I'll watch the beginning of BL though.

I'm exhausted today. I don't know how I'm going to make it through the day. If only I could nap here. Perhaps that elliptical yesterday and not enough sleep caught up. Still planning on getting the exercise in anyhow. It's crappy outside today. Argh.

BL was definitely a running inspiration!

Here's my check in for the day:
2426 cal needed to maintain
1885 eaten/809 burned/-1350 day/-5489 week

65 minutes of the elliptical. 5.59 miles. went easier, but it seemed especially so after crosscountry setting. don't enjoy that setting cause it's so hard, but I think I need to keep doing it occasionally, because it makes the manual setting easier. Sort of like running hills, eh? haha.

tired. going to bed.