Exercise update: Today was a non training day. I did walk my dog for over an hour, so I got off my butt for that. On a nice cool day like this, Jake loves to walk. He just does not handle heat very well. Whatever godforsaken dog orgy produced this mutt, heat tolerance was not among the characteristics his many parents shared.
Tomorrow is supposed to be an hour on the bike. I'm posting my training calendar on the fridge as there has been trepidation in the house that I will be too busy training to be engaged at home. I think all parties will be pleasantly surprised to see the training rarely exceeds 5 hours weekly. Now I just need to stick to it and not always skip the strength training elements.
Nutrition update: Rather than report on calorie counts and food diaries, I think I will just note a few troubling trends. I think the brain that lives inside my mind is taking advantage of the surprise success of this week's weigh-in to undermine me. As I noted, I've been lazier about tracking food this week, I've "tried" McDonald's and I took the family to lunch today and ate half an order of french fries. I'm also noticing a tendency to grab things like chips and candy and "forget" to log them in the food diary. And of course, I've had late night ice cream three nights running. It's very strange behavior and appears rather insane when I type it.
My empathy for people I work with and know who seem to make stupid, self-destructive choices grows daily. I know I'm beating the linkage to death, but the only comparison I can come up with is a drug or alcohol addiction. I suffer from "stinkin' thinkin' " and it lets me talk myself into doing things that are dumb, dumb, dumb. I've reached a fitness level where it is taking some weight off and improving my physical feel, but then I fall into an old trap that I can do it all through exercise. And it just isn't true...
I'm sure anyone who reads this regularly is getting tired of seeing me reach the same conclusions over and over, but that is what I'm going to do until it sticks. Once again, I have low hope for the weigh-in next week, but that is three days away. I need to focus on tonight.
But, what do you do? You do what you need to, which is to start making better choices right now. And then tomorrow, you decide to make good choices again and then on Sunday, I'll have to decide that again. Maybe by not trying to solve my whole life, but just trying to solve the day at hand, I'll get better results.
Geez, I really do sound like a 12 stepper the more I do this. If anyone has a clue what it is I'm actually addicted to, I'm all ears.
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