Still working at this... Setting new goals...

Despite my lack of effort on the blogging front I am still very focused on fitness right now. I have maintained my weight over the last month since I blogged but have not lost anything more. (This is mainly because I have not been focusing enough on my eating though I am still exercising...)

I started running a few weeks ago and have decided to work towards doing a half marathon! I need to do some more research but I want to be able to run a half marathon by about Christmas time. I think it is totally do-able. Right now however I am just focusing on being able to run a mile and a half in a decent time...

I'm gonna sew... Yep.

Since none of my clothes fit and I still have more weight to lose I have decided NOT to go shopping. Rather than shopping I bought a used sewing machine.  Uhm… I don’t sew, but I figure how hard is it to follow the seam of an existing article of clothing to take it in…

Weekly Results: Goals and the process

Weekly Results: Goals

• Lost 3.2 pounds this week (Total lost so far: 46.8 pounds)
• Gluten free, meat free, made an awesome garbanzo bean cake so not totally sugar free…

Thoughts:

I mentioned that I extended my stay in Utah just to give the snow on top of Timpanogos time to melt. On my last night in Utah I was grumpy and complaining about it little bit to my dad. I told him about all of the hours on the treadmill walking on a huge incline, all of the stadium steps that I ran, all of the careful planning and visualization exercises, etc. I told him that I felt cheated.

He laughed at me as I sulked a little bit. He pointed out that it had not been wasted effort. I had gotten in shape after all and that it wasn’t like I hadn’t done several awesome hikes. I would not have been in shape for those other hikes if I had not been prepared for Timpanogos. He was of course right.

I realized though that there is power in pushing towards specific things. There is power in making plans and building dreams. We gain a lot from the process even if we never end up where we think we are going. I know that I am strong enough to climb Timpanogos even if it did not get to happen this year.

Perhaps next year I will get the required training to hike in snowy conditions and then it won't matter how much snow is up there... I will get to go anyway.

Weekly Results: Getting back into a routine

Results

• Lost since last report on June 13th: 5.8 pounds (Total lost 43.6 pounds)
• Status on my gluten free, vegetarian, no sugar thing... Well, I am still gluten free. I am not really a vegetarian anymore... I am more of a pescatarian (I discovered sushi and eat it all the time now). I am mostly sugar free.

Thoughts
While on vacation in Utah my weight loss has slowed down significantly. I am still losing weight but not at the rate I was before and really I've been ok with that. Next week I return home and will be getting back into a regular routine of cooking, and exericising.

I extended my stay in Utah hoping that enough snow would melt on Timpanogos to be able to make it to the summit, but its just not going to happen. I went yesterday and hiked about a mile and half up the trail and there was already one snowfield to cross. The higher elevations still have about five feet and they are recommending that anyone who goes up takes things like ice-axes with them... I have done a significant amount of hiking though. It has been great even if they were just shorter hikes.

Anemic again! Double WTF!!!

I'm anemic again... It happened a few weeks ago. This time I know that it is because I have not been taking care of myself. Celiac Disease makes absorbing iron hard, and then throw in being vegetarian and not being careful about your iron for a few weeks and you have a disaster on your hands...

Be wiser than I have been... I'm on vacation and have to spend time recovering... Not cool.

Iron rich foods people!!! Beans, quinoa, edamame, eggs, lentils...

Weekly Results - MUST WORK OUT!!!

Results

• -1.4 pounds (Total of -37.8 pounds)
• Still did not get another pedometer, but resolved to do so soon. I NEED the motivation provided by tracking steps…
• Gluten free, sugar free, ate fish a few times again.

Thoughts

This has been another off week… I got back into eating carefully and healthy, but I really have not worked out. I’ve done a lot of walking. I’ve been active, but have not gone to the gym… I guess what I am learning is that routines are sacred. Throw off your routines and everything goes crazy!

Unfortunately, I am going to have to try and get back into routines while on vacation because I’m not going to back in Louisiana for about a month and that is just too much time to lose messing around. ENOUGH LAZY FOR ME!

I have set a summer goal. By the first week of August I want to have lost another 15 pounds. That gives me about seven weeks. This is completely possible as long as I stay on track this summer. 

Nothing to wear...

I have lost enough weight now that none of my clothes fit properly except for the shorts I bought last week, and slutty skirt w/tube top... None of which does me any good since I arrived in Utah yesterday and it is still freezing... Not literally freezing, but its too cold for me.

I either need to go get a pair pants today or I need to attempt to use my mom's sewing machine right now... Hmmmmm...