The Battle Continues

Still trying to find a balance and control, over my healthy lifestyle. I’ve been so stressed out lately, and have a lot of things outside of my running life going on. My stress loves food. I haven’t been terrible staying on track, but by the weekend I’m a mess! What I need to really do is focus on staying on track all week, and allow myself to cheat on the weekends within my points and weeklies. My goal this week is to stay within the daily points range during the week, and save as many weeklies for the weekend, so that when it does come, I’ll have more than enough points, that I won’t feel so guilty, and go off the deep end! 

My workouts have been pretty good, worked out 5 days last week, ran twice! I feel like I’m lacking in my running, but then I had to remind myself, that this month I wanted a break from running. Beginning July 1st, marathon training starts, and  I don’t want running to feel like its all I do by then, because I’m sure by November it’s mostly what I’ll be doing each week! I also am hoping to fit strength training at least 3x a week when I hit marathon training. I like to do Jillian Michael’s DVD’s, because most of her workouts are no more than 35 minutes, so if I wake up at 5 am, on those mornings, then I can still fit in my run or cross training after work, before my house wife duties kick in! 

Being a housewife is a whole other battle I still have yet to conquer! So far I think I’m doing ok, I just hope when marathon training begins and progresses that my guy will be understanding that I won’t feel up to tackling everything that needs to been done at home right away! 

I’m also hoping to post weekly updates on marathon training until November, I’m thinking of coming up with a pros and cons format for weekly updates, that way I can make changes where necessary! We’ll see, my life is so hectic sometimes that I have no clue what I may be doing in the next 5 minutes!

Till next time…

Panera is Evil

Had meetings all morning at work, and the host of said meetings brought the office lunch since the meetings cut right into our lunch hour (which is a whole other story, that I disagree with!) Lunch was a Panera nightmare! Bread, sweets, gooey fatty foods, that had the hidden healthy stuff within it! Either way bc Panera is a) way too expensive b) far from where I live & c) not very WW friendly, I hardly if ever eat it. And to top it off the conference room is located in the basement with no cellular service, so I couldn’t even look up PP values for anything! (Only WW friendly peeps will get this!)
So I chose what looked the least harmful. I had half an Italian combo sandwich, side salad of lettuce, and a pickle. Well, thank god my instincts told me to hold off on the kettle chips included with the sandwich because that lunch cost me 17 PP! That’s more than half of my daily allowed value!

I thought about that sandwich the entire time I worked out tonight at the gym! But it’s tracked, and there are NO meetings with lunch tomorrow! :)

Panera is Evil, that is all.

Finding my Mojo

This past weekend has me feeling like I’m in such a rut, it’s so hard to get out of. I’ve made horrible food choices, binging to the point where I’m sick, and I don’t care. And I slacked on my workouts since last Wednesday. I don’t understand why I don’t have the same drive anymore. I feel unfocused and like mentally it’s all to much to deal with. My only goal this week is to try harder, to get better, and hopefully see some results.
Here’s to trying yet again, and never giving up.

Fingers crossed.