I love long weekends..
Why can't every Sunday evening feel like this? No stress, no waking up early, I could get used to this, that's for sure.
I've had a good non-scale moment today, and the first thing I thought of was to come here and blog about it. I'm a weirdo, apparently, but that's how much I love talking to you guys. As you might know, after recovering from the horrible head cold from the last two weeks, I started back on my exercising every day kick as of Monday. (3 days of Couch to 5k, 3 days of brisk walking, alternated.) When I'm on a roll, I usually give myself Sunday off - a) to let my muscles recover and to be ready to go with the next running milestone on the Monday, or b) because I'm tired and simply need a rest!
Today though, I was feeling extra slouchy - it's that time of the month, the cramps have come on with a vengeance and I just keep thinking about food, ack! So I kept putting off the thought of exercising, no, I don't really want to, I'll wait until tomorrow, one night isn't going to hurt. But you know what? Tomorrow morning is weigh-in (my first one back since the gain) and I'm excited. I want to know where I'm at. I *know* I've been good, I have high hopes, and why not exercise once more? It's only half an hour..
So at 6pm I lugged myself onto the treadmill and started off on my walk, which I did at 6k/hour for 10 minutes. Since I was already there, I decided to have a brief jog as well, which I did. I was aiming for 3 minutes, because that's my current C25K interval, but as I was reaching that I realised I wasn't that tired, so decided to aim for 5 minutes. Believe it or not, I kept going, not feeling too badly. By 9 minutes I was feeling it, but I kept at it - and I ran for 10 minutes straight! :) The best thing, I ran about 1.3kms all up in that 10 minutes, which is pretty cool. I went back to walking at 6k/hour for another five minutes, had a 2 minute jog, and then stopped at 30 minutes total.
But I can run! For 10 minutes without stopping! That is such a huge thing, I'm so excited about that. And I'm glad I forced myself to get on that treadmill and just 'have a go'. Look what happened! Tomorrow I start Week 4, back to 3/5 minute intervals, and I *know* I can achieve them. Woohoo!
As for food, Jase and I cooked the best homemade pizza last night, and J did such a good job buying low fat ingredients! He even hunted down light mozarella so that our cheese wouldn't be too unhealthy, AND he enjoyed it. That's the best part, since he's not a pizza person.
Breakfast: Strawberry Fruche
Lunch: 2 slices leftover homemade pizza (yum!)
Snack: 600ml water
Dinner: To be determined!
I am about to go have dinner, and I'm thinking it's going to be either a) a bowl of porridge (it's cold!) or b) a frozen lowfat lasagne, because I'm tired and cold and it's already 8pm.
Wish me luck for tomorrow morning's weigh-in! I want to see an 8 and a 5 in there somewhere! :)