Given all the news this morning I forgot it was Wednesday.
How's everything going? With my higher weekly mileage, I'm starting to fall into the trap of "I burned mega calories, I can eat whatever I want!" Ugh. I feel like I shouldn't have to count calories and watch what I eat but I know it's what I have to do. Boooooo.
Also, I'm feeling like in order to maintain my weight loss forever and ever, I'm just going to have to keep signing up for marathons. So far, that doesn't sound bad because I like marathon training (for now). But today is a day that I'm just sad that weight maintenance will never be easy for me. :-(
I haven't had time to swim because work exploded. But my foot is slowly healing. I need it to heal by the time I get to D.C. because there will be so much walking.
I'm gonna have so much more free time in D.C. that I will have no excuse for not working out!
Penny, yes, you are supposed to be eating back your workout calories. If you're not eating your daily calorie goal to begin with, plus you aren't eating what you're burning for exercise, I'm betting that's a big reason you're not losing.
My eating has been really wacky lately. My stomach apparently still isn't back to normal after my surgery, my appetite has been totally off, so when I look at MFP at the end of most days, even though I'm at or below my daily calories, most days I'm going WTF am I eating? It's not bad, but it's random. It's still more carb-y than normal for me.
However, my wedding rings don't fit any more. They're falling off. And my husband said he thinks I look like I've lost more weight. So whatever. I'm not going to stress about it until I'm at 100% again.
I have been able to swim 4 days a week, and I can do about 2/3 of the yardage that the rest of the team is doing. Sometimes I have to use fins on the sets, and sometimes I can't do what they are doing so I just kick instead, but it feels good to be out there.
I am SO glad I didn't sign up for the aquabike this past weekend. I would have been one of the people getting pulled out the water by the rescue boats. No way would I have made it.
Post by meshaliuknits on Sept 12, 2012 10:22:56 GMT -5
My pants today are size 8s! I haven't fit into these in for-EV-er. I walked for 5.5 miles on Sunday, which is a lot even for me. I'm sucking at the exercising outside of my normal daily walks. I need to do better. And not eat ginger bread instead of my sandwich for lunch.
I'm at a plateau weight loss wise at about 20# down. I've also slacked off with calorie counting since the hurricane. Trying to get back on that. I've been awful about packing my lunch and just eating whatever crap the cafeteria has which is never anywhere close to healthy. Sandwich from home and chips are actually better than what they serve.
My first 5k is a week from Saturday. Right now my actual running has me at about 2.8 miles + 0.5 miles warmup/cooldown walking. Hoping race day adrenaline gets me through the end of it. My goal is to finish under 40 minutes. My running paces averages close to 12 min/mile.
Marathon training is plugging along, I finished both my highest mileage week ever (36) and longest run ever in the same week (18)! I'm loving the cooler weather for running.
Saturday after my long run, I was hungry every hour or so no matter how much I ate. I try to have as much fruit and healthy snacks on hand to satisfy me.
If I'm trying to lose weight, I will eat back the calories I burned from running or whatever, give or take to adjust for estimates. I would have a set amount of calories to eat per day that includes the deficit I'd need to lose, say, 1 pound per week. So adding the exercise calories still brings me to a deficit, KWIM?
Way to go everyone! Pamela, I think sub-40 is a good goal based on your current pace. The adrenaline will make you a bit faster, but be careful not to go out too fast!
Mrshandy, I am kind of living vicariously through you since your marathon is right before mine and I think it's your first marathon, right? I have a 15-miler to run on Sunday, which will be my longest run ever, then an 18-mile marathon tune-up race the following Sunday. I'm so nervous! I just can't believe I've gotten to the point where I'm doing these huge runs now.
Half marathon training is still plugging along...sort of. I've taken it easy over the last couple of weeks in the hopes that some rest plus nightly ice pack sessions and some stretching will kick this achilles pain in the butt. It's considerably better and didn't hate me too much during my 10 mile rainy run this past Saturday so that's a relief. I'm going to attempt speedwork tonight but probably not the whole workout (10x800m Yasso-style, meaning goal time for each 800 is the min/sec equivalent of your goal marathon time...4:00 marathon goal=4 min 800s, etc with the same amount of rest in between each 800) because I don't want to screw things up. Eating well is going meh, since apparently cutting back on mileage kills my motivation in general...since I'm hoping to ramp my mileage back up in anticipation of my half on 10/21, my eating should fall in line. Or else.
I've got a couple of fun looking fall races that I'm planning on signing up for-a Zombie Buffet 5k on 10/13 and the Hot Chocolate 15k November 18th. I'm hoping the latter isn't a cluster like the one in DC was, but I don't think it will be based on a few factors. Now, I just need to stay healthy!
Post by heightsyankee on Sept 12, 2012 12:08:08 GMT -5
Great job, everyone! I am going to start participating in these posts. I owe a special thanks to everyone who told me to get the hell out the door on Monday. Thanks again!
I went to yoga on Monday and Tuesday. I am not going today because I have 2 meetings. My plan was to walk between them but it's raining so I think I will do some light housework. Win win I guess.
I have started logging my food on MFP, too. I went over my calories by <100 each day. I am not too upset because the 90 minutes of hot yoga made me insatiably hungry. I think to maintain long term I have to get working out started as a habit and once I am rolling there I can deal with food more.
I gained about a pound last weigh in day (Friday), but I'm hoping it was due to my period. I'm not going to record it again until it's lower than the 12.6 I've lost. I WON'T GO BACK THERE!
Totally period related. If you only gain a pound for that, I'm jealous.
Mrshandy, I am kind of living vicariously through you since your marathon is right before mine and I think it's your first marathon, right? I have a 15-miler to run on Sunday, which will be my longest run ever, then an 18-mile marathon tune-up race the following Sunday. I'm so nervous! I just can't believe I've gotten to the point where I'm doing these huge runs now.
Yep, it's my first. Good luck with your 15-miler! These longer distances are no joke. I was pretty sore Saturday and Sunday.
It was also a terrible idea to map out a huge hill at the end of my 18-mile run. I had half a mile left and I'm walking... :-( But my neighborhood is on a hill and I like to do runs where I walk out the door and run, so the hill at the end is really inevitable.
So what is an acceptable amount of calories to have left over at the end of the day? Less than 500? 300? I need to know how much more I have to eat. Yesterday I ate all my calories and like 100 workout calories, but that is really rare.
My RD told me that I should try to get as close to my daily calorie goal as possible. If I burn any calories exercising, I should eat them all back.
So if my goal is 1600 per day, I should eat 1600. If I burn 500 exercising, then I should eat those 500. At the end of that day then, I should have consumed as close to 2100 calories as possible to a) eat my daily calorie goal and b) account for the exercise calorie goal.
If I only at 1500 calories, and then I burned 500 exercising and didn't eat them back, then my net for the day would be 1,000, which is way too low.
Does that make sense? I think you need to look at your net. At the end of the day, after you figure out your calories eaten - your calories burned, what is that total? How close is it to your daily calorie goal? I personally would try to stay as close to that as possible.
If you're having trouble eating that many calories, then you may need to look at the food you're eating, and start swapping out some of your food choices for higher fat/higher protein/higher quality foods.