Running! (with update!)
I was SO proud of myself today! At school we had our staff only development day (the kidlets come back tomorrow!) and that basically equals a huge morning tea and lunch buffet that the social club provides. Generally I use a boring day full of meetings as justification to snack, but I was REALLY good! Here's my food so far:
*Breakfast was 3 x ultra thin rice cakes w/ light cottage cheese (only 75cals each, love them!)
*Morning tea was 1 x weight watchers apple bar and 1 x low fat yoghurt (while everyone was eating cakes and biscuits and slices!)
*Lunch was 2 x pieces of wholemeal & grain bread w/ two ultra thin slices of devon and 2 x rockmelon slices.
*Afternoon snack was 6 x vitawheat crackers w/ vegemite.
Ultra thin is my word of the day !!! Lots of small meals, all healthy, all filling. I love being back at school! Routines are lovely. :)
I am also weirded out at the moment, since I was dreading today's exercise really quite horribly. I'm just beginning week 3 of my Couch to 5k training, and it starts increasing the bouts of running this time. I was terrified my shins wouldn't hold up, or my breathing wouldn't let me complete it. But I did it!
13 minutes of brisk walking for a warm up. (Supposed to be 5, but I increased it to 10 for my shin splints and then ended up walking a wee bit further because a favourite song came on my Ipod!)
(2 minute pause for some shin stretching)
90 seconds of brisk walking.
90 seconds of running.
3 minutes of brisk walking.
3 minutes of running.
90 seconds of brisk walking.
90 seconds of running.
3 minutes of brisk walking.
3 minutes of running.
90 seconds of brisk walking.
90 seconds of running. (I wasn't meant to do this last jog, but I was feeling pumped so did a little extra.)
I know it's not much in the scheme of things, but my heart was pounding, I pushed through the laziness, and I came off alive! And feeling great! Just walked up the stairs and was puffing it all out, telling mum she should start the programme. Weight loss aside, running is something I never thought I'd do. Fingers crossed I keep on enjoying it, and managing to get through the longer runs without hurting my shins.
Sorry to blather, I'm excited. And tonight, we're heading off to a birthday dinner out at a restaurant for my brother. I'm looking forward to a very nice gourmet meal, with no cheap and nasty junk food options, just special YUMMY food.
Alright, yummy dinner all complete. I ate a small serve of beef voulezvant (spelling?) for an entree, followed by chicken w/ marsala sauce (scraped off, a bit too heavy for me) and I followed it with half of a miniature apple pie, gave away the icecream. Also had a diet coke with dinner too. YUM. It was perfect. Good night all!