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why is my body fighting this so hard? doesn’t it know that this is good? and that ultimately i will win? i always win. hear that, body? you will lose this fight to be fat. Read the rest of this entry »
i hate these phases that i go through when i have no idea if i’m exercising too much/too little, eating too much/too little, still exhausted most days. one week i tried exercising less: no progress. last week i tried exercising more: no progress. i could blame the trail mix that my dietician gave me permission to eat, or i could blame my roommates for cooking high-fat meals on their days. or i could be building muscle (ha!) even though my measurements aren’t changing. or it could be that i am making bad decisions on what i eat. i really need to get a handle on this and get serious about what i’m eating again.
this week’s plan:
1. for serious stick to <2000 calories/day
2. ask roommies for recipes so i can better keep track of what i’m eating
3. take pictures of what i eat?
4. run mwf, swim t th, bike(?) sat, yoga sun
5. prep for bed 9:30 pm, in bed by 10 pm
today was the first time that i ran my c25k program outside on the track. and let me tell you, elliptical machines lie to you! here i thought i was doing pretty darn good, getting healthier and feeling up to running, and i was wrong. dead wrong. it was not fun. at all. it probably didn’t help that i started at week 2, but i barely made it through the program. i was out of breath, my knees were bothering me some, and my shins and ankles were complaining too. i stopped jogging a bit early for some of the segments, but i’m convinced that the podcast i was listening to was a little inaccurate on when to start and stop running. plus i forgot my water bottle so i was way dehydrated by the time i was done with the run.
theoretically i’m supposed to start week 3 next week, but i think i’m going to repeat week 2 so i don’t give myself a heart attack from trying too hard.
Last night I started the Couch to 5k program. I wanted to run outside on Stanford’s track, but it was a bit chilly and I didn’t have warm running clothes, so I ran on the elliptical instead. It’s a half-hour program with 5 minute warm up and cool down, with alternating 60-second runs and 90 second walks. Results: easy-peasy; probably too easy for me. It’ll be more difficult on the track, but if I’m running on the elliptical I might skip ahead a week or two until it gets challenging.
when i started this whole get-healthy thing back in september, i set a goal weight for myself of 260 by christmas. sort of a christmas present to myself. well, life happens, and i didn’t make it. however, yesterday i finally saw 260 on the scale. i’m so happy about that. Read the rest of this entry »
yeah, i’m trying to run. crazy, huh? my first go was last thursday after i killed myself on the stairmaster (i did not stop for the entire 20 minutes). one of the treadmills at the gym was open, so i hopped on and went for a jog. but after a couple minutes my shins started hurting so bad i had to slow down to a walk. i tried running again a few more times, but it still hurt. i don’t think it’s shin splints though, because the pain went away fairly quickly. Read the rest of this entry »
