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I had a very good workout today. I did my usual workout, elliptical and running. I ran another 5K, 3.2 miles at 4.1 miles per hour. I have decided that I am going to start training for a 10K that happens in May 2013. In order to get ready for it, I will have to add 1/2 a mile of distance every month, or a 1/4 mile of distance every two weeks. I think I can do it. A 10K is 6.4 miles - I am already running 3.2 miles, so I have to run twice as far. I am also going to try to increase my speed at the same time. I also may have to start running outside in the spring. Right now, I can only run an hour at a time on the treadmill and if I go at this pace, it will take me a little over 80 minutes to run that far. So I may have to run on the track at the gym, which I don't like. The walkers are too slow, the runners are too fast. I run SUPER SLOW. 4.1 miles to run is like a joke. It's like.1 faster than a power walker. I will admit, I am a slow ass runner. But I don't like dodging people on the track, or holding up the really fast runners on the track. Also, no one on the track really runs A LOT. The fast runners will clock out one, maybe two miles. The walkers maybe do a mile - it's rare to see a walker do two miles. I can't imagine myself on the track with all of that trying to run for an hour and a half. It's very frustrating. I actually do not like running outside. Yes, it's getting cold. I don't like pounding the pavement with my 40 year old knees. A treadmill is totally cushioned and forgiving. The track is a little better than running outside on concrete. I don't know. I've got running on the brain and I am trying to get an action plan going. It's going to take a lot of training to run twice as far as I do now. Other than that, my bipolar seems a lot better. My only problem is that when I hear people talking, some words trigger wild and tangential thoughts in me. I don't think people are talking about me or know anything about me, it's just when they say certain words, it makes me think weird thoughts. Hopefully more medication will help with that. I am trying like hell to keep my RDI under 1300 today. I do well during the day but admittedly, I fall apart at night. Especially when I am eating a whole pan of brownies in my sleep! I am going to try to chill out a little bit, I'm going out tonight to watch James Harden, my favorite basketball player play in a game tonight, and then when I get home, hopefully I can confine myself to some diet cocoa. I got so off track when I was psychotic. I didn't grossly overeat - most days I kept it to 2000 calories, and I was active. Still, it's really hard to get back in to a weight-loss RDI when you've been so lenient with yourself for two weeks. I don't fall apart if I eat 1500, but I REALLY want to get back down to 1300 calories a day. I still want to be a size 8 and ultimately a size 6. To heavier people trying to get into a 14 or larger, it may sound ridiculous for a person that is now a size 10 to want to be smaller. But I do. I like the way I look now and I don't think a size 6 would make me look prettier, but I really want two things - I want to be lighter, stronger and faster to run, and I really want the apple-shaped deposit of belly fat that I still fight to be gone away. Even though I am a size 10, I still carry an unhealthy concentration of belly fat. I whine about wanting a slimmer waist for cosmetic reasons, but when it comes down to it, my belly fat may be why I got diabetes, or a contributing factor. Also, I can only IMAGINE the visceral fat I carry around if the fat I can jiggle on the outside of my belly is still in my opinion unreasonable. I think the last 30 pounds of my weight loss is going to be harder and longer than the first 50. I am still a work very much in progress.
Diet Calendar Entries for 16 November 2012:
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1690 kcal
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Fat: 59.62g | Prot: 107.84g | Carb: 204.53g.
Breakfast: Atkins DayBreak Peanut Butter, Blue Bell no sugar added Dutch Chocolate ice cream. Lunch: red delicious apples, Kraft Light Mayonnaise, Sara Lee Delightful 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Oscar Mayer turkey bacon, romaine lettuce, tomato. Dinner: Kikkoman stir fry sauce, brown rice, baby carrots, onions, mushrooms, broccoli, chicken breast. Snacks/Other: Swiss Miss diet cocoa, HUnts sugar free vanilla pudding, reduced fat string cheese, Atkins Endulge peanut butter cups, no sugar added frozen yogurt. more...
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3330 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Conditioning exercise (health club) - 10 minutes, Running (jogging) - 5/mph - 47 minutes, Exercise machine (fast) - 28 minutes, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 35 minutes, Sitting - 4 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 2 hours, Driving - 2 hours and 30 minutes, Desk Work - 4 hours, Shopping - 1 hour, Housework - 30 minutes. more...
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