Week 2 - Problems with Jenny
I made it through Week 2 and Halloween relatively unscathed.
Halloween
Last year I did not fare so well at halloween (you can read about it here). This year I told the kids at school, "Sorry, I am on a diet so you don't get any candy!" I give my students candy every year and if I am really honest with myself I do it so I can buy candy knowing full well that I will eat WAY too much of it.
I did go out to sushi with my Run Buddy (I think she may need a new name. She doesn't run with me anymore but still my best friend) twice and to Applebee's once.
Getting honest about the eating
Ok, must get honest about the Applebee's. I had told myself that if I stayed on plan all week I could go to Applebee's on Friday with Run Buddy. (I know, I know, I am not supposed to use food as a reward. Whatever.) I did not stay on plan since I went to sushi twice, had a snickerdoodle at Starbuck's twice, and I did not log my food, which I know helps keep me on track. But I went to Applebee's anyway. Not cool.
So as a result at JC I was up 0.2. I deserved it and, really, a 6.4 pound loss on Week 1 was a little unrealistic. I own the fact that I did not do what I needed to do to lose weight this week and I didn't.
Issues with Jenny Craig
However, I do have a problem. I feel weak and sluggish during my training. I
am not eating enough to work out comfortably and then I am adding empty
calories at off times because I am so hungry. This defeats two purposes:
1. I am not going to lose weight eating this way (i.e. eating
snickerdoodles the size of your head) and 2. I am not going to get the
training gains I need to get ready for Ironman.
I talked to the JC consultant about it and she is going to call the nutrition department about what I should do. When she puts in my height, weight, current and desired weight, and my exercise level (which is a 4 in their scale) it STILL says I need 1200 calories a day. So the whole it calculates your calories for your needs is BULLSHIT! That is the same calories JC has put me on every time for the last 13 years (I know sad, but I have been fighting this all my life) when I did NO exercise.
She is not allowed to give recommendations about supplemental diet ideas. Huh? Now, I know they are not registered nutritionists, but JC is NOT cheap. They better come up with something from the nutrition department. I do JC because it is easy and I need someone to give me only the portion and say "this is what you eat." I know how much I am supposed to eat, but I can not make portions to save my life.
I cheat.
A lot.
Exercise
I had an interesting run on Saturday. You can read about it here. With pictures!
Goals for the week
1. Log all food
2. Complete full training plan for the week
3. Get more sleep and drink more water
4. Finish poster project, Summary oral presentation (40 min), and first draft of Annual Review - Comp. Analysis Monotreme and Marsupial Reproduction (25 pages) by Tuesday Nov 11 pm. Sorry, my goal list has to include some of this stuff that is weighing (Ha! sorry about the pun) on me.