A Smidjin at a time

So, things are only so so. I had a butt load of activity in the beginning of the week, weights at the gym, tennis, swing dancing. Yet aunt flo decided she had to come Wednesday night, right after weigh in. So yep you guessed it, weigh in was a gain. Even with 24 activity points in the week leading up to it a gain. And then the day after weigh in was a migraine day. Full probably the worst one I have had. Thank goodness Ted had given me some imitrex, it took 2 doses of Excedrin migraine at work and then the imitrex at home before it went away, and of course I forgot the aleve with it so I had a little bit of rebound this morning. And I have been working so many hours lately. 6 straight weeks of overtime, I only need to get through 6 more days of work and I will be free for 16 days. 16 beautiful days where I don't have to go to work. 16 days where I am free during the cool sounding gym classes. 16 days where I plan on doing a little hiking (I'm thinking silver falls, multnomah fa

So last post I mentioned how many times i had tried to do even week one of the couch to 5k training plan but how I always was cutting myself short. Well I am very happy to report that I have now done the week one work out 4 times, completely. Now it designed to be done 3 times a week and then move on to the next week. I think however I am gonna spend a couple weeks in week one and then move on the week 2. Week one still is difficult and I would like to feel it is halfway under control before I move on. I did however add some weight training today afterwards. For a total of 5 weight watcher activity points!

What you ask are those? Well since I haven't blogged in forever let me catch you up. *C25K stands for Couch to 5k. It is a programs designed to get you from walking to running. It builds with slow intervals. Week 1 is a 5 minute warm up, a 60 second running interval alternated with a 90 second walking interval, repeat for a total of 8 and then a 5 minute cool down. Each week it builds to the point that you are eventually doing all running. Well as least that is what the plan says, I have never made it out of week one. No matter how many times I did it, how good I felt going into the workout or how well rested I was, I was never able to fully complete a day. i would cut nearly half of my running intervals short by like 10-15 seconds each. So tuesday I went to Gallagher Fitness Resources in Salem. They are an awesome running and walking specialty store. They helped me find a nice pair of workout shorts that has pockets so my phone, id and house key all safely go with me for an outdoo

I am doing so much better. Would like to report that I am doing great, but alas this is a journey after all. But I have been eating a heck of a lot better, and I have been moving more. I even did outdoor exercise the last 2 times. There is this trail next to albertsons that is a mile and a half long. So far I have only made it one time around each of the days I went out, but I was doing the couch to 5 k plan those days, so had some jogging intervals in there. I reall like the working out outdoors but I need to find a better time than right after work. It was a little hot out.

I haven't blogged in forever. Well I guess not technically forever, but over 2 weeks. Which coincides exactly with how long it has been since I had a truely "on plan" day. I had to work a stretch of evening shifts and let me tell you, they were not good to me. Besides the fact that they were bad work wise it totally threw me off eating wise. I was up late and therefore slept in late, I didn't ever feel like cooking anything healthy, was stopping at fast food for lunch, stopping at fast food for a release after work. It is not what I wanted to be doing, but it happened. And I am paying for it. The scale does not say what it just said a few short weeks ago. But that is all about to change... See I signed up for the Warrior Dash. A 5k obstacle course. With hills, and mud, and barbed wire, and fire. And what I hear is an awesome after party. And while a 5k is a lesser distance than any of the other races I have done, I have never done an obstacle course race. So Couch to