I don't know if any of you have looked at my weigh-in pages this week, I updated both (the Countdown and the monthly weigh in I've been doing for years), but last week was a success. 😊I truly believe that my January beginning weight was high because of Christmas and all the food that goes with that. However, it still feels good to see -6 and more weight losses this week. Even though the week before I was taking those pills and my weight was up, I was still really good with my diet. And that showed in my weigh in last Tuesday. My weigh-in on Tuesday was 171, but the next day, I was 168.8 and then on Friday was down to 167.6, although this morning was 169, but still good. I am also taking monthly measurements and I am down an inch everywhere.
This weekend has been harder than last weekend with my food. I drank a whole bottle of wine yesterday and as a result, I ate more than I should have, and later into the evening than my intermittent fasting says. I have always struggled on the weekend, I don't really know why, but I am trying very hard to change my mindset, this weekend has been hard though.
There are two reasons I slip and start to back slide (and you're going to laugh at this), when I'm successful, and when I am not successful. I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's true. When I am successful and start losing weight, I think I can slack off, I get overly confident and start adding things in, or, specifically with intermittent fasting, I start pushing the times that I eat and I start gaining weight again. On the other hand, when I am not successful I start thinking screw it, and give up. It usually takes less time for me to say screw it when I am unsuccessful because I get so frustrated.
I didn't run much this last week, only Sunday and Saturday. I know I said I was going to try to run Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday, but this last week I had a hair appt on Wednesday. I actually took my running clothes to work so that I could run, but my work has been so busy, I didn't have time. I have been walking on my treadmill while working and actually really like it, but it is really slow and doesn't really count as exercise, it's more just moving.
I keep thinking that I want to run longer distances again, but I'm barely running 10 miles a week, and even then I'm still walking during my runs. I don't know what other watches do, but when I look at the stats on Garmin Connect, I can see how long I'm running vs. walking. Today's run was almost 10 min of walking and 26 min of running. I was feeling discouraged about that, but I just looked at my 3 mile run on Jan. 6th and that "run" I had 14 min of running and 26 min of walking, so not only am I getting faster, but I'm also running a lot more.
Honestly, I'm probably closer to where I was when I first started running in 2012 than in 2020. Looking back at my stats from February 2012 and I'm right. A 2 and a half mile run in 2012, I was running at a 13 min/mile pace (currently I'm close to 12 min/mile). Back in 2012 I didn't have a fancy watch, just MapMyRun, so I don't have the stats of how long I walked vs. run, but I'm sure it was pretty similar. Back then I had just started running and was worried I would stop, and was motivated, so was running 6 days a week, even if it was just a half mile or a mile. I'm not going to do that now, so will probably progress a little slower. I am doing pilates with weights this time, and they say weights is a good thing to increase fat burning, so we'll see.
I need to be patient and remember that I'm not in the shape I was 5 years ago, I'm not even in the shape I was a year ago, but I'm working on it. First, work on running at least 3 days a week and not walking during my runs. I am also still walking when my heart rates gets above 135-140. It's not really MAF training but a modified version, and I know true MAF training takes a while to see real results, and since I am not doing it the way it's supposed to, it will probably take even longer.
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