Six weeks

the previous day marked six weeks until my marathon, and there is something approximately that range that screams "do a challenge!" or "make a few six-week dreams!" Six weeks simply seems like the best amount of time to awareness on a intention. After questioning all week what type of "six weeks till my marathon" assignment I wanted to do, I surely got here up with two things.

the first, as I stated more than one days in the past, is to surrender peanut butter for 6 weeks--not forever, but six weeks. i've been consuming way an excessive amount of of it, and when I binge, I always binge on peanut butter or some thing with peanut butter in it. So i am really form of excited to discover new snack meals. to date, there had been no withdrawal symptoms ;)

the second one, is some thing I never notion i might ever do--I actually signed up for Weight Watchers online. i've written before that I had awful studies with WW, and i did their application on my own after I first started out losing weight. eventually, i found all varieties of flaws with the (vintage) software and determined to replace over to counting calories. I did attempt the brand new PointsPlus software for multiple weeks while it first came out, however I did not have good fortune with it, and that i by no means attempted it once more.

these days, Mary gave the new program a attempt, and it planted the little seed in my mind that had me questioning, "maybe I need to give it every other risk, i've all of the substances..." every other motive I decided to attempt it is because of marathon education--my appetite is all over the vicinity. sometimes i am ravenous, even after eating all of my calories for the day, and once in a while I experience simply best ingesting the low give up of my calorie variety.

the one thing that I favored approximately counting points in preference to calories within the beyond is that there are "loose" meals--after I did the program, it became most vegetables that have been unfastened. but with the new application, all fruits and most veggies are loose. So on the ones days during marathon education when I sense like i am ravenously hungry, i will truely bulk up my food with end result and veggies.

also, as i've stated, i have been feeling sort of out-of-manipulate lately with my consuming, and i sense like I want some shape, at least for some time, to get returned on course. once I referred to WW to Jerry, he got clearly excited about it. He said that he sincerely misses while we used to be counted points together. He become bummed the day past to see that his weight is up about 10 kilos as properly, and he stated he desires to count factors again to get it go into reverse.

Now, I realize there is not anything magical about counting points (or PointsPlus, as a substitute)--it truely is only a glorified way of eating much less. but from time to time i like to alternate things up and do matters in a different way to make it amusing for me. enter the six-week project. i'm going to give this system six full weeks (remaining time, I only gave it about two weeks), sticking with it as carefully as i will, and just see what the results are. I would really like to lose five-10 pounds in that time, but most importantly, I just want to benefit back a experience of manage.

I constantly do fine with my eating in the course of the fall and winter, so hopefully i will get returned into my aim variety. after which I want to provide you with an excellent plan to stay in the range rather than going up and down with 10-15 pounds. but for right now, i am going to try embracing this system and giving it a fair threat. My pal Stephanie does Weight Watchers, and i was top notch inspired after I noticed her current before and after pix. She seems first rate!! She reached goal this 12 months, however keeps to count factors.

So besides, these days is Day 2 and everything is going well. I got off to a rocky start the day gone by, because my buddy Danielle was on the town (she's transferring from Minnesota to Washington D.C. and become passing through) and my mother made dinner. I ate there, after which had not one, however two pieces of dessert. I did look it up and depend it, but I used up a whole lot of my weekly points already.

I had an lousy morning as a long way as jogging goes.

nowadays, I had deliberate on doing an 18-mile run. remaining night time, I plugged in my Garmin to fee, plugged in my iPod for a few new podcasts, laid out my running tools, mapped out my direction, were given the whole thing ready in order that the morning wouldn't be hectic. This morning, I awakened and were given wearing my going for walks clothes, then were given the kids prepared for school. I left as quickly as the bus picked them up, and drove the 20 mins to park on the network middle, in which I begin my run.

As quickly as I pulled into the lot, I found out I forgot my Garmin at domestic. i used to be SO bummed. I notion about doing the run without the Garmin, however I actually did not want to. If it became just a six-miler or something, i would have run without it, but the Garmin gives me an entire timeline of my run, which is amusing to have while i have run 18 miles. So I decided to head home and get it, after which visit the kingdom Park instead (that is most effective 10 mins away instead of 20).

So I drove domestic, grabbed my Garmin, and headed out to the kingdom Park. I got nearly all of the manner there once I realized that the heart charge reveal I put on wasn't operating. I had placed on an vintage heart rate strap because the new 910xt strap looks like razor blades under my boobs. once more, I could have just long past with out it, but on a run so long as 18 miles, it is critical for me which will reveal my heart. So I went again domestic once more, switched out the strap, then went to the kingdom Park.

As soon as I pulled into the lot, I noticed this:

there was a signal next to it that stated the trail turned into closed, and there were a bunch of trucks performing some sort of creation. At that factor, I just screamed in frustration. It become already after 9:00, which is late to start a long term. In my frustrated kingdom of mind, I just idea, "exceptional--i'm just going to run 18 miles on the fucking treadmill!" Hahaha...

were given domestic, installation the treadmill and started out walking. I could not parent out why my tempo become showing to be so gradual even when I saved bumping up the velocity at the treadmill. Then I realized that I had forgotten to show off the GPS on my Garmin after I began going for walks interior, so it screwed up my tempo. I did not need to do all 18 miles like that, so I determined to just cross outside, do a shorter run, and do my 18-miler on Friday.

i am satisfied I at the least were given in an amazing run nowadays, because i was in order that frustrated and indignant by way of the whole thing going wrong (made worse by PMS, i am positive).