Day 83 (Saturday)
Saturdays are usually a wonderful day of the week. It’s a “me” day. But this week it was not. This week I had to work from 8:30AM to 1:30PM. It wasn’t horrible. I actually had a good day at work but I felt like I was robbed of a Saturday! I got home around 2PM. I was dreading Saturday to be honest. Saturday was the day that I was set to run 16 kilometers. The furthest I have ever ran at once. I was scared. I knew there would be no reason why I couldn’t run 5 more kilometers than my longest run at that point (11km). I didn’t believe in myself. I was afraid of the pain. I thought I would stop. I thought I would disappoint myself. I was literally in my room for half and hour and I was psyching myself out. Then I decided that I could not do this to myself. I could not put myself in the way of my success. And so I looked up some motivation videos on Youtube. Of course Rocky Balboa came up.
“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!”
That is how I got myself into gear to go out for my 16 kilometer run. I couldn’t believe it as I was running. I was overcome with so many feelings while I was running but I told myself that this is me. I have changed. For all the times that I was too lazy or thought I couldn’t here I was at 3PM after a day of work running 16 kilometers. It was hard you guys. I’m not going to lie. Those last 3 kilometers were rough and not enjoyable. My knees hurt, I was tired and dehydrated and I wanted to stop. BUT I DID IT. Nothing can take that away from me.
Day 84 (Sunday)
Oh Sunday lol. Sunday I woke up at 5:30 AM. You must be asking yourself why?! Why is she doing this to herself?! Well there’s an answer for that. I was going to go climbing that day. I know, even I think I’m insane. The hike lasted about 6 hours up and down. I was tired yo. My knees, my poor knees, LOL. We did not reach the tallest peak of the mountain though because one of the people in are hiking group got a pretty bad leg cramp and continuing up was just stupid but what we did see was beautiful. I ate a lot lol. I didn’t feel bad about it though. After that 16km yesterday and this 6 hour hike today, depriving myself of what I wanted seemed stupid. I don’t think I would characterize it as a binge but more like I don’t give a rat’s ass how much calories this curry, bread, homemade fruitcake have. I am going to eat it. I am going to enjoy it, and I am not going to feel bad about it. I ended the day with some steak and cauliflower. It was good.
Day 85 (Monday)
Yesterday was rough. I didn’t want to get up. I was really tired. I had an 11km run scheduled for that day and the mere thought of it almost broke me into tears. I decided yesterday after getting home that a rest day was necessary. Sunday was supposed to be my rest day but I went on a 6 hour hike! How is that resting?! I told myself that I wasn’t being lazy or giving up but that I really shouldn’t be stressing my knees so much. I have a race to go to in two weeks and I want to keep on training for it. Also I weighed in this morning for the Powell Bet and I was at 78.4kg. That is 2.2 kg higher than what I weighed on Thursday for my Shaun weigh out. It has to be water weight, but I also can’t lie to myself. You can’t outrun a bad diet right? I know I will make my goal for my transformer seeing as how it is 79 kg, but I don’t know what will happen with Jen’s diet bet where my goal is 75.6kg. That is more of less 3kg. I have 8 days to go. I need a miracle right about now lol. I just have to make sure that I take this week seriously. Even if I don’t make it I want to be making good habits I don’t just want to focus on losing x amount of pounds in x amount of days. This is something that I am going to be doing for the rest of my life. So we shall see with Jen’s diet bet. If I make it I make it. If I don’t, I don’t. This is not me giving up by any means. But this is me promising to myself that I am going to do this the smart, healthy way.
Have a good week everyone! <3
Day 83 (Saturday)
Nutrition:
- Breakfast: Soy milk and coffee, Banana Pancakes, Blueberries, Plain Yogurt
- Lunch: Artisan Baguette, Zucchini, Brie, teaspoon of Balsamic Vinegar
- Dinner: Proscuitto Pizza (700 cals.)
- Snack: Protein Shake, Banana and Apple Yogurt
Sleep: 8 hours
Exercise: 16.5 km (7:28/km)
Water: 4 liters
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Day 84 (Sunday)
Nutrition:
- Breakfast: Almond milk with coffee, Plain yogurt, blueberries, banana pancakes
- Lunch: Chicken Curry, Artisan Bread, Spring Rolls, Beef, Tuna and Cucumber Salad, Coffee, 4 pieces of assorted cake (they were small and relatively light but I probably at more than I should have, NO REGRETS!!)
- Dinner: Steak, Cauliflower, Gyoza
- Snack: Ham and cheese Sandwich, 1.5 soy joy bars, Fruit yogurt
Sleep: 7 hours
Exercise: 6 hour hike
Water: 3.5 liters
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Day 85 (Monday)
Nutrition:
- Breakfast: Breakfast: Almond milk with coffee, Plain yogurt, blueberries, banana pancakes
- Lunch: School Lunch (Rice, Oden soup, Bonito Flakes, Cucumber Salad)
- Dinner: Chicken Breast, Spinach, Romaine Lettuce, Salsa, Tomato
- Snack: Coffee with milk, Fruit yogurt, Tofu, Oikos Blueberry Greek Yogurt, 1 Tbsp of crunchy peanut butter, 2 chocolate covered marshmallows (went kind of calorie crazy lol I was 369 calories over my goal. Oh well…)
Sleep: 7.5 hours
Exercise: REST DAY (finally I just noticed that I had been working out since Wednesday up to Sunday, I deserved that break!!!)
Water: 2.5 liters