Monday, April 23, 2012

Running is Quality Time With Me

I'm a little frustrated with today.  I had planned all day to get my scheduled 3 mile run in after Preston was home from work and Kaiden and I were home from soccer practice.  Somehow I ran out of time after dinner was made and everyone was settled down for the night.  :/  So now I have to shove my entire schedule over a day, with the exception of my Saturday run, which I will still do on Saturday (I hope - it's a weekend with all the kids and we have a soccer game that day, so who knows if I'll be able to get away for 45 minutes.)

I know that in retrospect, it's really not a big deal.  It's not life or death if I don't get my run in, but I'm trying to take this seriously and I feel like I'm not getting a lot of help or support from anyone in real life.  Thankfully, my mother in law is pretty helpful and is willing to take Ben tomorrow morning while Kaiden is in preschool so I can get my run in, but since she watches the boys during the days that I work, I feel bad asking her to take them when it's my day off.  :/

Even though I don't really LOVE running yet, I do consider it my "me" time, even though the entire time I'm running I'm cussing at myself, wondering why I'm putting myself through hell.  LOL  But it's the way I feel afterwards that keeps pushing me forward - I feel incredible and working out and running are really the only things I do that is truly for myself.



I didn't eat too badly today.  When I don't work out, I like to keep my calories at about 1300, but since I'd planned on running this evening, I had an afternoon snack, which helped put me over.  I guess I could have skipped my second snack (the ice cream), but that was my sweet treat for the day and I had really been looking forward to it, so I indulged.  :)

Just trying to keep my eye on the prize - a great weigh in on Friday and hopefully meet my goal for April!



Food Log:
  • lunch - chili dog (372), doritos (140)
  • dinner -chili dog (384), cottage cheese (168)
  • snack - cottage cheese (244), snickers ice cream bar (180)
total calories: 1488

Not bad.  Not awesome, since I didn't do anything physical today, but at least I feel pretty good about my choices.

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