Tuesday 2010-05-04

This evening I am meant to be going to the second week of Womens Running Network... but today was my first full day at work in over 2 weeks, and I'm ashamed to say I'm knackered from it. How lame is that!  To be fair to myself, I've not had a day off training since last Monday. But really I should have planned better, and taken a planned day off rather than waiting until I got to the point I was too tired to do something I'd been really looking forward to. Idiot that I am!

I got up and did a little yoga before work this morning, as I knew it was going to be a hectic day and thought I could do with quieting my mind a little before getting started. And I've told myself that if I'm not doing running club then I can't just spend the evening in front of the TV; I need to do something constructive. 

I think I'm doing pretty well with keeping up the exercise (today's let-down notwithstanding); I think my problem is with the food. Someone at work did compliment me today, saying that I seem to have lost weight while I was off, which was nice - and I have lost about a pound and a half - but if I'd not eaten half my bodyweight in chocolate and biscuits while I was off I probably would have lost a lot more! I need to be way more strict with myself on this if I'm going to get to where I'm going. I think part of the problem is that I've not set a proper goal weight or anything like that. Perhaps I should... Perhaps I should have a look at places like Weight Watchers and see what a sensible weight for someone my height would be. I'm thinking around 133lbs, or 9.5 stones. I've no idea if that's too much or too little, but I guess it'll do for now. To be honest I think I'd be happy just to be below 140 so that can be my interim goal.

Tomorrow morning I'm getting up for Spin class before work, as I can't make the lunch time class. And hopefully some abs work either after Spin or when I get home from work. Now I need to go and make a packed breakfast and lunch for tomorrow, to make sure I don't end up getting a bag of crisps and a Kit Kat from the sandwich lady like I did this morning!

My legs hurt already!

Exciting news kids, I've just (finally!) figured out how to post to this blog from my mobile - including pictures, it would seem!
I will try this out the next time I remember (and have something relevant to this blog to post about)!

Ooh I feel all technological now.

In other news, I'm thinking I should probably have a proper weekly weigh in, measurements etc. At the moment I'm just sort of coasting along. My best friend has just gone to India travelling for 6 weeks, I want to have lost noticeable weight by the time she gets back so it's time to start taking this seriously.

This also means planning, which I am notoriously bad at. This week I have overtime on Tuesday night, Thursday night and all day Saturday. This means I'll miss both Pump classes, and the Studio Launch they're doing at my gym (on Thursday night and Saturday morning! How bad is that timing!) So I need to plan how I will fit my workouts and food around that...

Monday - program before work, Body Balance at lunch. Possibly a run after work.
Tuesday - rest day
Wednesday - program before work, Spin at lunch (am thinking I'll need to split my program over 2 days in order to fit it in before work)
Thursday - cardio before work, may also fit in Gym Train at lunch again
Friday - whole program before work - I start later on a Friday
Saturday - depending on when the overtime finishes, a brief cardio/weights session afterwards.

I need to put running back into my weekly workouts, it's time to start training properly for the Great South Run in October. Argh, where to fit it all in!
Over the next few months I think I'm likely to have 2 weeks a month where I'm doing these extra hours 2 nights in the week and at least 1 day at the weekend. Food is always a problem then, because I don't get home until fairly late, so I don't have time to have dinner or prepare a breakfast/lunch for the next day. Hmmm... Need to give this some thought...