WOOT! 3.5 miles in 73:40

I feel terrific! 

My avg speed is 2.84 mph
at this rate it would take me over four and a half hours to do the half-marathon.

I only jogged for like 8 mins.

Starting at 2mph every 4 mins I either went up or down on the speed. I jogged at 4.5mph for 4 mins then at 4mph for 4 mins with a 3 and a 2 mph between. (4.5 - 3 - 2 - 4 ) the rest of the time I was stil going up and down up to 3.5 mph. The most intense part ended at 36 mins. I probably would have kept going but about 1/3 through my last lap (each ‘lap’ is a quarter mile) I felt like I was getting a blister near my big toe on my left foot. There’s a red spot there so it’s probably good that I stopped when I did.

I wore those new shorts I bought. They didn’t bunch up and stayed dry, unlike the cotton ones I’ve used before. Great buy! Thanks Sis. 

They both absorbed the moisture, but the cotton ones held onto it, the silk ones (yes silk!) wicked it away.

The treadmill said I burned 390 calories. I still wonder how they estimate that. a 120lb woman?

EDIT: Every online calculator I’ve found online that has me input my weight puts calories burned over 500.

I updated my ticker in the side to have the goal be 200 mi.

I calculated that if I follow the training calendar I’ll run at least 100 mi just on the long ones. Hopefully soon I get to the point where I can run most of the length. I think if I was on a track or something I’d be more able to run. Something about the treadmill makes it difficult for me to run.

After doing 2 miles on the treadmill sunday I felt like I needed exercise. It’s a great cycle that exercise starts in me. I just don’t usually go do anything about it because it feels so inconvenient. OK, maybe I am just lazy or shy, but honestly, I don’t like doing exercise when someone might come in and see me. I can take an hour’s walk around town but I can’t stand to use the treadmill at home.

So while I was playing an MMORPG my friend and I were 1 minute late to catch a boat that takes off every 15 minutes. We had to wait 11 minutes to board the next boat and my friend decided to get something to eat, while she was gone I decided to try look up a 10 minute workout i could do without leaving my room. This must have been divine inspiration because I honestly don’t know why I did it. I was feeling a little like I needed some exercise because I hadn’t really done much since sunday. A few minutes of speedwalking etc throughout the day, nothing i bothered to make specific notes of. Anyway, I found one that looked really great, all you needed was 2 dumbells and a chair or bench. Right as it was time to board the ship! So after boarding the ship I went to find the dumbells. Right as the boat took off (boarding lasts for 5 minutes) I started the workout and Finished just after it landed. The timing was perfect. So.. I managed to find a way to incorporate exercise into my COMPUTER GAME time… those waits occur horribly frequently and are very boring. So now I have a workout I can do while I play on the computer… I feel pretty proud of myself (and nobody has to see me doing it!)
hehe

And today, my right buttock and several muscles throughout my thighs are sore and my back feels kindof tense. I need to find some stretching to do to loosen up the back. I also need to figure out the proper - word help : posture/composure/stature - for doing the exercises. Once I get it right i think the exercises will work my arms more too. I can do this a couple times a week for my cross training in my training program. Especially when I find myself drawn again to a computer game. maybe I don’t have to give it up for fitness!
Nancy

I’ve decided I am going to keep blogging here. There are many things going on in my personal life that I don’t want to put in an online journal. At the same time, there are several things that I can’t talk about with the people in my life that I do need to get out of my system. I think I’ll be able to calm myself down and quit having emotional breakdowns if I manage to open up to the right people about the right sorts of things. When it comes to personal things such as weight, diet, and exercise I don’t feel comfortable talking with anyone I am around on a day-to-day basis. When it comes to other sorts of issues, some of them I need to deal with internally and some of them I need to take up with the other people involved. I think I can do this with a balance between this blog (health), a private journal, and by kicking myself and making myself open up to the people around me how I really feel about certain things. I don’t feel any use for keeping a daily food journal. Tallying up for the day helps me not overeat on a day-by-day basis but I rarely review anything other than the current day. I probably won’t post as frequently as I have in the past but I do think I’ll continue posting especially now that the internet in my bedroom has been restored and my only access to the internet isn’t my parents’ computers or at work. Keeping this blog has helped me in a few ways, but I don’t think it’s really helped me with what I eat, this is why I’ve decided not to keep a food journal. Honestly, most of the time I know that I’m eating something that’s unhealthy or a poor choice. On another note, the chart of my weight has really helped. The further that little slider gets to the right the more I think :O YAY I really AM getting somewhere. Especially once it hit the halfway mark (on the current goal).

Recently I got excited because I thought I would be able to join an aerobics group that has been going on for long enough I honestly don’t know when it started. I even talked to the teacher/leader of the group about it and she was excited I’d be comming back. Then I realized that it starts before I get off work which had me really down because the group feel is really encouraging to me. I feel motivated to keep up and keep going.

I started a marathon training group with my sisters a while back. Honestly, it was just to give me motivation to acctually exercise. I thought we’d be able to get a bigger group and that it would give me that feeling that helps me so much. Since our group is so scattered, we haven’t ever all run together. I’ve only ever done 1 run with others, there were 3 of us. I don’t think my Mom’s done any training at all and one of my sisters has kept on {the} track really well. Two of my sisters don’t know if they can afford to sign up (45 if registered before Jan 1st, 55 after) and I don’t know if I’ll be able to get TO the marathon. Some group effort. However this paragraph was supposed to be about the encouraging part of this whole mess. I just got off track. I started an online MSN group, Centennial Runners, for us to post on since we live so far apart and group e-mails aren’t as cool. Everyone but Mom has joined the group. I don’t think Mom’s really going to do it, though she sounded like she wanted to at first.

So far I’ve bought a sports bra and some shorts that are supposed to wick moisture away better than cotton. I haven’t used either yet because I haven’t been running.

To get over the blues about the aerobics class I ordered this set of exercise vids and an exercise ball that’s about the size of a 4square ball. It was only 17 dollars after shipping was added and it seemed pretty typical but It’s a routine set up by someone else that I just have to follow. Pure mental laziness on this one. It’s the only way I think I can stick to a routine.

So, now I’ve gotten you all up to date on my thoughts over the past few days. I also have a post I wrote earlier today in notepad.  I’m going to post it seperately then go do what the other post says ;) 

Best Wishes to All

~*Nancy*~

P.S. I’m going to weigh in when I go to the treadmill and post it right here

Current Weight : 273

Tuesday November 13th

Breakfast: KS blueberry yogurt

Lunch : sandwich on moms homemade bread. 2 slices wheat bread, little mayo & mustard, lettuce, pickles, 2 slices turkey, 1 slice muenster w/jalapeno cheese

I don’t know if remembered all of what I ate, in the evening I got a flu shot and then I went to the store with mom, and I followed her example, buying tons of candy that I shouldn’t have…

I ate some of it.. some of each kind except the chocolate orange
1 serve of the symphony bar (13 pt)4.5
around 1 serve each rollos & reeses  (9.5 + 13) 4.5 + 5
Sunbelt fudge bar - 12 pts, when i bought these i thought they’d be like …4-5 … apparently i’m not that good at estimating yet.. I also didn’t imagine any of those candies were over 8 points a serving… and then I ate them over the next few days

onli 4.5 =D not so bad afterall… ditzy nancy used fat CALS instead of fat grams xD

Wednesday November 14th
extra large banana nut muffin 15 pts
big salad with 6 oz (4-5?) chicken + salad dressing (abt 2-3pt)
way too much chocolate
1 serving portion of Symphony bar 13pt 4.5
1 serving of Chocolate orange 13.5 pt  5.5
sunbelt fudge dipped coconut bar 12 pt 4.5
Rollos 9.5 pts 4.5
reeses mini cups 13 pts 5

o.o

EW

This is what I get for buying candy… that was a horrible day point wise, over 70.

lmao… i was putting in fat calories for fat grams *phew* It was still bad but not 13 pts a treat xD

32..
Nov 15th

Lt Coffee - 1pt
simply asia take out box 16 pts (8 pts each, 2 servings in a box… but it was one package so… i ate the whole thing)
salad + dressing, 2 pts from dressing
chicken - 2.5 ?
cheese tortilla 1.5 serve cheese, taco size tortilla 4.5+3
1 serving symphony bar 4.5
1 serve choc orange 5.5
sunbelt fudge dipped coconut bar  4.5
5 pc rolo 3.5
3 pc reeses  3
I ate more of that candy.. theres a little left. Lets see how long it will last. Maybe I’ll give away those granola bars. No need now that i know they’re only 4.5 .. .right where I thought they’d be

total 50

I’ve been doing a little exercise, 15-20 mins a day. I haven’t been really sticking with my training, but I have been exercising.

YAY we did it! Two of us did our mile, one did a half-mile!

Go us!

We approximated that 20 laps around my parents back yard is 1 mile. Two of us (the younger two with no children) did all 20 laps, 2nd from oldest did half her laps, then had to take care of her son and never made it back out, and nobody else did any. Then we did DDR (finally ) all 4 girls did DDR and liz did one round. I only have 2 mats so we were taking turns but we’d stand around and do the moves anyway. It was great! The only problem is that I’m still energized and its 2:18 am o.o

However I didn’t do that great at eating today

appx 1 C Organic Rasin Bran + 1/2 C soymilk

2 c broccoli w/ bottled ranch dressing

1 slice Mom’s home made wheat Bread with honey

Big bowl of stew (appx 2 cups) including lots of veggies a little meat a little rice and the liquid.

With a few more slices of bread with butter

A few mini candy bars (like 5)

I think thats all. for food… gonna go take my calcium pill right now and I had lots of water today… so… I’ll have to calculate this later… its so late xD wheee *falls off chair*

Marathon training day 1 = success

What happened to all those good health habits my parents taught me over the years?

Don’t eat sugar when you’re sick. Never eat sugar before a meal. Eat your veggies. Cookies (icecream, cake)  are a treat, don’t eat a lot of them. etc

Oh … right, they don’t police what I eat anymore. *sigh* I guess I only ever did them because they didn’t want me to.

On another note, some that HAVE stuck with me

Don’t drink soda, it will eat your teeth and bones.  Drink your milk (I’d really like to… honest). Brush your teeth. Cover your mouth when you cough. (more for OTHER’s health)

It’s interesting to see which habits stuck and which ones didn’t.

 Ok .. Food Journal

“Breakfast” (do I dare call it that?)

Cookies & Iced Coffee… inspiration for that bit about the sugar and health habits up top.

I ate the cookies til it seemed like I’d had enough, turns out it was 4 servings. Looks like I’m suffering from Portion Distortion. I noticed this yesterday too, what I’d view as a normal amount of soup was 2 servings.  On another note… I tend to underestimate a serving of chips like cheetoes, but overestimate on flat chips like potato chips & corn chips.

I was watching tv while I cleaned up in my room a few nights ago. A program was on pbs, they took 13 people with highly sedentary lifestyles and over the course of 40 weeks trained them up for a marathon. Only one dropped out, a diabetic woman who got shin splints that were taking a long time to heal. The other 12 finished the marathon. It was pretty inspiring. I was telling my mom about it, she said we should try it. I’m going to see if I can find their (or a similar) training schedule :). I found 18-week and 22-week “walk a marathon” schedules. http://www.pbs.org/americaswalking/health/health18week.html

I think this was saturday but … I don’t remember if i ate anything else.

Oh right.. dad made cookies hehe then The girls made cookies. Then mom made dinner… or was that sunday …yeah that was sunday… did i eat on saturday? I honestly can’t remember… that’s what I get for finishing posting saturday on tuesday.

Oh oh i remember… mom & I got those pizzas from the store… from the refrigeration case, next to the cheese… Mmm.. fluffy bread. =/ I ate like 6 peices.

Got up late, didn’t have time to do my exercise, plus I’m comming down with a cold, it’s been worsening all day. 

Breakfast

•  Yoplait 3.5
• Graham Crackers 2.5

Morning Snack

•  I was lacking in protein and craving chocolate…I wanted a snickers, this is the same amount of points but a better choice.. i think
• Peanuts 4
• Chocolate Pudding 2.5

Lunch

• Soup 4
• Hershey Bar 5.5 - This was my biggest goof of the day IMO

Someone brought Sweet N Salty Chex Mix, Brisk Iced Tea,  Donuts, and Apples to class. I think I did fairly well

• Donut 6
• Small Apple 1

Back at work I was on a low from the sugar rush, and I was craving protein still. I had some Smoked Almonds - 28 is a serving

Dinner : Sloppy Joe on a whole wheat bun

• Bun 2pts - 1pt each side
• Sauce & meat - probably like 6 pts, just a guess.

I’m pretty terrible at this. Hopefully I’ll get better.

Mittelschmerz… That’s the official name for something I’ve been experiencing for years.  Funny sounding word… I think I have Mittelschmerz. A few days ago I had a pain … not the first time, but It’s been a while since I felt it. So I looked it up again, but it’s the first time I’ve found that word. Some ladies might already know what this is, Mittelschmerz is based on the german for middle of the month. I would go on, but I think I’ll let everyone look it up for themselves.

: )

essersise vill make me tuff… rite?

31 reps each crunches (2 types) leg lifts (both sides) squats.

I think I get hungry less when I exercise… is that possible? Was I just too busy to pig out today? Cause I didn’t really exert that much effort. Except when I passed on the pudding… they’re only 2.5 pts :~P I might indulge another day.

I also had a little more water today.

Ow ow ow… Between thismorning’s exercise and moving furniture all day yesterday I’m quite sore.

appx 1 c special K with red berries (2) + appx 3/4 c soymilk (<2)

Grilled Cheese Sandwich 8.5

• Bread - 1pt each slice
• Cheddar Cheese - 3pts/oz appx 2 oz
• Extra Lean Sliced Ham - .5 pt each slice

V8 Splash 3pts (1.5 per serving 2 servings in a bottle)

Not gonna post it in detail … Halloween Pitfall : 26.5 Everybody was doin it! My major malfunction… Group activity. It can be a benefit as well though, when I’m at a party where nobody’s really eating, I feel weird eating so that helps me avoid stuff.

I skipped dinner. *faux slap*

This morning when I woke up I decided to revert to an exercise plan I haven’t used since I was 13. That’s also the only time I ever lost more than a couple pounds. I’m doing it with a new twist though. As a result of this I probably won’t meet my walking goal. Maybe I’ll shift it down to 100 miles instead of 500.

I have a few basic exercises, 2 types of crunches, scissor leg lifts (idk what they’re really called), cross touching toes while extending the other arm behind, and push ups. All of these but push-ups I did 31 reps of. Tomorrow I’ll do 31 as well, 30 + 1, it’s the 1st. on the 2nd I’ll do 32, In December I’ll do 60 + the date. As for push ups, I really can’t even do one, so I’m doing “desk push-ups”, they’re on an angle so you don’t have to resist your full weight. I’m not sure exactly how I’ll increment these, probably just do as many as I can stand every day. Once I get more fit I’ll put jumping jacks back in, the impact is too much for my knees right now.

Food Journals… haven’t posted since friday

Tue
1 c organic rasin bran + 1 sliced banana + 1 c soymilk
2 slices wheat bread (1pt ea) + 3 slices extra lean turkey lunch meat + appx 1 serving cheddar cheese + lettuce + tomatoes + cucumbers + miracle whip + mustard
appx 2 C salad + Wishbone Italian salad dressing & appx 2 c noodles + chicken + alfredo sauce
LOTS of physical activity o.o Not enough water

Mon
Nestle Crunch bar & cheetos & v8 splash
corn chips & cottage cheese - “lunch”
Hotdog w/ ketchup & mustard

Sun
2 slices french toast (6.5)  with syrup (4.5) , 2 fried eggs (4) with salt & pepper
Spaghetti (9–3.3 per 1c for noodles, i had appx 1.5 c; 1.2 per 1/2 c for sauce; 4.5 per 3oz ground meat, i had appx 2 oz) 
& more garlic toast than I should have eaten (estm 10 pts) & grape juice (7 - - 3.5 per 8oz)
a few of those werthers candies (estm 4 pts)
pts used : 45;  over by 10

WI sunday was 283.0 again. umm yay for no gain?

Sat
As for actual food I can’t think of anything I ate.
Butterfinger Ice Cream bar
I think this night I had a bunch of those werthers candies
Weekly average points (leaving out sat cuz i can’t remember anything from it) : 
( 36 + 29 + 21 + 55 + 42 + 22.5 )/6 = 34.25
(sun+mon+tue+wed+thu+fri)/6days
… I thought so.. On average I eat the “right” amount of food.