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Holy crap, I am tired. It's been a long week. Way back on Wednesday, it felt like a Friday... and you know that's not a good sign.
TS and I amped up our running schedule this week. Well, he seriously amped it up, considering he hadn't really been running at all before then (he's more a rowing machine and bike kind of guy). Me, I just increased the frequency and length of my runs. Our goal was to run/walk 25 miles this week... in the gym alone. Walking to/from work or each other's houses didn't count. We've done 15 so far. Well, probably closer to 16 once you factor in cool-down time, but I'm not. Last night was our first night off and I think it sort of screwed with my sleeping schedule. I had so much energy last night and I wasn't even the least bit tired until after midnight. Combine with that (1) a work issue that I couldn't stop thinking about that kept me up until about 2 a.m., and (2) a bathroom trip just before 6 a.m., after which I could not sleep continuously for more than 15 minutes or so because of the pounding rain, and I am a very, very sleepy girl. Oh! And we don't have coffee in the office today. I'm dying. I might have to break down and make a Sbux run. How I am going to complete 5 miles tonight, I have no idea. Fingers crossed that the increase in mileage might jump start some weight-loss, but I doubt it. My body seems pretty darn stubborn, although my legs were looking pretty good yesterday morning. :-)
I tried on some of my "marker" clothes the other day -- those items that haven't fit for a while that I try on occasionally to see how I'm progressing. I don't totally hate myself in bathing suits (yay!), and I fit into a dress that I wore to a wedding last June, before the bar exam weight came on. So, even though I haven't technically lost much weight overall, I've definitely lost some inches, because that dress was certainly not fitting at the end of last summer. I probably won't ever fit into my red dress from 3L law school prom again (definitely nowhere close at this point... and I can't even figure out how I possibly fit into it then), or my size 5 jeans from Express that used to kind of be baggy, but that's okay. As long as I eat healthy, workout, and no longer continue to keep going up in size, necessitating buying even more clothes, then I'll be happy. But I'll be even happier if I could maybe fit into my jeans from Old Navy that make my butt look good. :-)
Oh, I don't expect it'll last much longer than a week or two. It's more to try to jolt our bodies into letting go of some of the extra poundage it seems so desperate to hold onto, despite eating much healthier, semi-regular cardio, and even more regular weight training over the past 3-4 months. And so we don't feel so guilty when we eat tons of delicious food and drink tropical drinks in Puerto Rico in TWO WEEKS!
Posted by: Stephanie | February 1, 2008 3:57 PM
Congrats on the progress and geez, with that type of a schedule you are going to have some gams, lady!
Posted by: monkey | February 1, 2008 3:25 PM