Exercise update: I decided to be flexible today and let my swim move to Thursday, since that day only had strength training on it. I should be able to do both swimming and lifting tomorrow. It was also pretty rainy, so the woman I'm related to through marriage booked us for spin class at the Y. The Wednesday night instructor is well known for running a difficult class and she wanted to see me in pain. We actually rode our regular bikes to the Y to go to class, so we squeezed in a little more time in the saddle.
She was right, the class was challenging. The instructor doesn't really do any rest time during the 45 minute class and he loves to do interval sprinty type stuff. 2 months ago, it might have killed me, but I was able to make it through tonight. It was a nice indicator of improved fitness and those can be hard to spot sometimes.
Tri training is still on pace for a "just finish it" event in July and my eye is on that Urbanathlon prize in October. I think I'll need to do upper body work in addition to the cardio to be ready for that one.
Nutrition update: Thanks to the exercise class, I'm within the calorie limits for the day, but I did learn an interesting lesson about lunch. In my post McDonald's life, one of my lunch options has become a veggie slice and a salad at Rocky Rococo's. Sometimes my salad includes Rocky's phenomenal macaroni salad and today was one of those days. Of course, the days I seem to skip food tracking often seem to coincide with my Rocky's trip, particularly if it includes the macaroni salad.
Today I tracked it all and was stunned to learn that my "healthy" lunch of veggie pizza and salad exceeded 1100 calories! Obviously I need to make some adjustments if I return there. I think just a slice or just a salad would be fine and it might even leave space for the mac salad I love so much on occasion.
I also learned how to use http://myfooddiary.com/ to generate weekly and monthly reports on all my nutrition habits. I think reviewing that on occasion will help me understand why I do or do not meet my goals.
Random stuff: I normally report measurements on the 22nd, but I'm terrible at doing them the same way each time, so I think I'll just do a couple and talk about them.
Today I looked at my waist and was disappointed to see that it basically has not changed a bit. Even though I've lost 4-5 pounds and feel fitter, that is so slow to change. Frustrating and gives me mental images of fat stored around my spleen etc.:)
I haven't discussed my psychosis in a while, so for fans of that, I'll just tell you about a mental dance I've done twice in the last week. As I've mentioned before, I put doctoral studies on indefinite hold in an attempt to lead a happier, balanced life and develop someone non-work or school related interests.
Seems good right, except when I tell people... No one is mean about it,but they just seem disappointed that I'm not trying to become a vice-president or president or lord and master or whatever. It ranges from, "oh we were just talking about you becoming president the other day" to "you have to be vice-president instead of so and so." Now this seems like an odd thing to agonize over, theoretically these are just compliments. But what it does to me is simultaneously hit my ego button and guilt button.
So, I start thinking maybe I should go to school, maybe this is the path I should be on, people need me damn it!
Stinking thinking, the world will go on whether I decide to try to be a stressed out, anxious senior executive or not. If I can choose to do something, I can surely choose not to right?
Well, I know it can choose not to at least until I complete an Olympic distance triathlon next spring. Saying no today doesn't mean I have to say no forever and it doesn't mean I have to say yes either.
Psychosis displayed, mission complete:)
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