Extreme Accountability! ~ April 2014 edition
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FromHereOnOut
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So, let's be accountable by publicizing our goals (and the plans for reaching them) for the month of April.
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Goals:
1) Run 14+ miles per week. New dog classes start in April and so Wednesday will be dog classes all evening and Thursday will be dog classes all evening every other week. So no more Metabolic Conditioning class.
Monday: Swim with hopefully a 2 mile run or walk
Tuesday: RunSmart in the morning for the first 2 weeks of the month, then
Run to a class at the fitness studio (3 miles, plus class)
Wednesday: Dog obedience/Dog Agility all eveing
Thursday: RunSmart in the morning for the first 2 weeks of the month, then
K9 Nosework/Flyball all evening
Friday: Long run (7 miles week 1 and 2; 8 miles week 3 and 4)
Saturday: Dog Event or Swim or Walk or Run (4 miles) or a combo
Sunday: Dog Event or Run (4 miles) or a combo
I will run mostly on Sunday and run Saturday only on the week I cannot run on Sunday0 -
Okay, here goes.
April is a weird month, as I'll be all alone for the first 7 days, followed by DH's jetlag recovery, and a photoshoot for my son that week.
So, I'll be focusing on diet, drinking water (3l/day), and some home exercises to keep my muscles working a bit. As for activity, I'll be very active with all the chores, kid runningaround, etc.
I'd like to do some exercises like pushups, squats, lunges, planks, etc, and some dumbbell exercises (I have a list, esp combining like "squat w/press" and "glute bridge w/skull crusher", etc) about every other day during those days. <<"Every other day" b/c I want to be realistic and if I end up doing it more often, then GREAT!
Once DH is back & recovered, I want to resume my previous gym 5x/wk & running 1x/wk until the end of April before "mixing things up" a bit with regard to the specific exercises and splits.
Getting more serious about cleaning up the diet aspect of my life is key at this time and I'd like to lose 4 pounds *of fat* in the month of April. That's pretty ambitious (especially since I haven't maintained a loss in about a year), but Summer's coming, I've been slacking off my diet for long enough.0 -
I'm having eye surgery on April 4 so will be on rest from April 4-8. I should be able to start resuming my workouts on April 9, assuming I feel okay. I can lift, bend & run -- I just can't swim or do anything likely to get me jabbed in the eye (like play basketball, and since I'm 5'2" it's not like I get a lot of invites to be on anybody's BB team).
Once I'm recovered I'm going to start my half marathon training in earnest. Ideally with a 12 week plan I would be starting it this week, so I'm going to be a couple of weeks behind, but I've been doing enough running that it should be okay. The training plan wants you to be able to run 3 miles 3 times a week to start out with, and currently my shortest "long" runs are 6 miles.
The rest of my workout schedule should be pretty much the same as now.
I had hoped to get to a certain goal weight by April 1 and I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen (unless I magically lose 2-1/2 pounds in the next 6 days), but I've been doing really well this past week with eating so my goal is to maintain that discipline through my recovery from surgery and the rest of April.0 -
Guess it's time for a mid-month check-in and to be sure that I'm keeping myself focused.
I didn't get quite as much organized working-out done while DH was gone as I would've liked, but the daily chores ended up being much more demanding (read: calorie-burning) than I had anticipated.
But the greatest thing that happened is that I really succeeded in reeling in my diet while DH was gone. He tends to buy lots of chocolate, cheetos, cokes, etc and I end up falling victim to them. While he was gone, there was none of that stuff. He brought some goodies back from US, but once the novelty wore off, I've been pretty good.
I also finally...no I mean FIIIIIIIINALLLLLY got a food scale (I have literally wanted one since we moved here 7 yrs ago and just never got around to it--we had so many things we had to replace from the move, it kept dropping to the bottom of the list). I've been using it, but to be honest, I find that I normally overestimate (not underestimate), BUT just the process of weighing makes me eat less because, well...I'm lazy.
I think I've lost some fat already, but my weight fluctuates by upto 5lbs anyway (especially on days that I run), but I'll check at the end of the month and see if I manage to lose again some of those same 5lbs I've been losing and gaining for the past year. :grumble:
How's everyone else doing?0 -
I'm still recovering from eye surgery, and more slowly than I anticipated. I thought this upcoming week I'd be back 100% with my workouts and now am thinking it might take another week to get back to that. I ran 4 miles on Wednesday & 5 miles on Friday and they were both hard, awful runs, so I'm hoping my running starts feeling better this week. I'll plan on just a couple of shorter runs during the week and see how that goes. With my half training I need to start building up the distance of my mid-week runs too, but I'm just not ready yet. That's not ideal, but I don't really have a choice either.
My weight loss, on the other hand, is going great. I did not hit my mini-goal by April 1, but did just a few days later, and have lost a few more pounds since then.0 -
I'm running more often during the week, but with a shorter long run than planned (10k), so hitting the 14+ miles/week goal but not quite as I expected to do it.0
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Update: GRRRRRRR!! I'm going insane! :explode: I just can't seem to drop fat. I just can't seem to reel the diet in.
sigh. Needed to vent.
Basically, I've not been able to reel in the diet CONSISTENTLY for a very long time. I spent years...YEEEARS..."dieting" and I was very good at practically starving myself. Now that I don't want to do that any longer, I just can't seem to eat in lower moderation. I ~know~ I could drop down to barely-survivable levels of calories and lose weight, or I can eat how I am currently eating (maintenance)....I just can't seem to eat at that in-between level that I need to LOSE fat. grrrrr. It's sooo frustrating.
I'm not overly concerned with the scale, although it will have to go down EVENTUALLY. But I just feel "chunky". Too chunky. Surprisingly I squeezed into a lower size jeans today (the only jeans I have are either a size too big or a size too small and I got tired of pulling them up all the time, so I tried on the "too small" and they worked), but I looked so big and thick and bulgy in them. I think, for my own sanity, I really need to drop about 5lbs of fat, just to get me feeling like I'm heading in the right direction.
Luckily, DH might be going on another trip like the last one again in May. I was able to reel in my diet while he was gone, so maybe I'll be able to again. To his credit, he's been going out and buying salmon, chicken breasts, and turkey breast and salad fixin's and he is trying to "cut back" a bit too...but all this Easter chocolate today certainly didn't help either of us.
Okay, end of "update" (rant). Thanks for the sounding board.0 -
What the hey, I guess I'll weigh myself in a few days just to see if I dropped any.
Diet is still my Achilles heel, but I'm working it from alot of different angles now and hopeful. Warmer weather usually helps with that too.0 -
Weighed today and low and behold it looks like I did lose a little this month. It's hard to tell because my weight can change by 5lbs in a single day (in a matter of hours really). So I usually try to weigh myself complete depleted (after a workout, when I've depleted all my glycogen & it's water weight). Today I'd say I was about 2lbs lighter than I had been weighing depleted. Well, anyway, the scale hit a number that I haven't been registering at all, so definitely down. So, I'll call that a victory--and a mental victory that I REALLY have been needing lately! It'll definitely keep the hopelessness feelings away and keep me motivated withregard to diet.0
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