A New day, A New Month, A New Challenge

Today my exercise was walking to pick up my kid, and walking through the garden centre.  I think I had about 6000 steps or so.  It was a low energy day, with little sleep last night.  Then some other stuff happened that left me feeling very rung out.

My food today (in no particular order) - chicken noodle & vegetable soup, thin crust pizza, banana, coconut oil, 2 cookies, a multivitamin, 2 wild cherry pepsi's, some kettle cooked chips & skinny pop.  So maybe 35% was desireable food?

I hope to get back on the band wagon tomorrow, ideally with a run and a fix video. I'm so f@#king tired at this moment.  Here's my first challenge

#1 My Fitness Story

Since May 2007, I’ve been a runner. I’ve never been fast, but I have run over 120 races, and have instructed various clinics at the Running Room.  I’ve done ballroom dancing, hula dancing, and a bit of line dancing.  In 2013 & 2016, I dabbled in triathlons, (10 try-a-tri’s).  I’m training for a couple of tri’s right now, and am signing up for the upcoming session of ballroom class.

My preferred beachbody program is 21 day fix, but I’ve never completed all 21 days in a row. I also have PiYo, which I haven’t tried yet.

I have been trying to get back on the bandwagon by pressing play, but I have chronically low energy, due to sleep issues and myotonic dystrophy, (which I wish I didn’t know I have, cause it got in my head and screwed me up a bit).  Pressing play on top of the running sometimes seems like too much.  I want to restart the fix, so I can get some weight training in, because I have only used the gym 4 (?) times. and kinda dislike it, and my membership is almost done. If I’m going to work out solo, I may as well do it for free at home.

My worst problems are my struggle with food and sleep issues.  Somewhere along the way, I developed an almost daily “chips and pop” habit that I can’t seem to shake.  Since I don’t always eat properly to begin with, the pounds have piled on.  I’m not comfortable with my size, and feel kinda blobby. I think my running has slowed and become more of a struggle due to the “extra Kerry” that has accumulated.

I want to feel strong again, and would also like to fit into old beloved clothes of a smaller time in my life.

Out on a High Note!

The last 3 days of May went well.

Monday ~ A relaxing 250m swim with Christie & Jessica
Tuesday ~ A workout 500m swim with Carrie
Wednesday ~ Run 2.44 k with Patricia's LTR (which turned into speedwork), Ran 5.46 k with Sherman, Christie, Jessica & Catherine.  Swam 450m with those 3 lovely ladies.

Day 10: Clusterfuck? Or general fail?

Sins 
-awake at night, sleep all day (was energized)
-three packs of mini chips ahoy cookies
-chocolate milk to quench fire from ESM leftovers
-sloth & self-pity & sadness kinda day (after woke from my sleep at 5:00 pm-ish)

Redemption
-apple
-lots of water
-peanut butter spoonfuls, spread out through the day
-1/2 purple of raspberries

Neutral
-leftovers from Scaddabush had no repercussions so far
-tried to eat spicy ESM leftovers and even added plain bowties & stirred = still too hot and Shane agreed
-half deluxe mini pizza

A canker sore appeared on my top lip sometime while I was awake last night - didn't notice it until morning. Ouch!

Also, am tired & ready for bed.

Day 9: Revenge of Scaddabush.

Okay, it's really not fair to blame the restaurant.  I swear I'll have to go there sometime & try the exact same meal again, when my overall diet has been better in general.

But it's easier to blame the mojito & buttery garlic bread for what I endured this afternoon.  I will spare you the gory details of my near death. ;) (cue melodramatic music here)

I didn't have a decent breakfast in any way, shape, or form.  Zesty doritos in a small bowl with water.

Late lunch was an apple, a 6 saltines (as my tummy was still feeling craptacular after it's drama), and a few malteasers.

Dinner was italian wedding soup, a coke, and some firecracker bowties with chicken (not shrimp) at my clinic's celebration dinner at ESM.  It was really hot, so I barely ate any.  I also had 1-2 pieces of bread with butter to quench the fire.

I came home & a couple of hours later ate: a very small bit of the rest of the veggie fried rice, half a mini deluxe pillsbury pizza, some chips, water & a glass of pink lemonade.

Exercise: was minimal.  Partly due to sore muscles (which are much better than yesterday), and partly due to tummy.  Even drove to J's school for pickup due to lack of trust in tummy.

I am actually writing this at 3:33 Am on Wednesday, and am currently experiencing heart burn.  Yuck!

Back on track tomorrow.  Please get me back on track.

Day 8: Did not go great.

I was up in the night.  I ate two bowls of veggie fried rice.

I ate some chips.  May or may not have had a coke?

I had some other junk I think in the day.

I had a nutrigrain bar and/or a granola bar - definitely had the granola bar, not sure about the other.

I had some water.

Had dinner out with Yvonne.  We got the same meal - the small Pesto Pollo Fettuccine (chicken, spinach, tomatoes & basil pesto cream sauce) and shared a classico charity bread with lots of garlic butter.  I also had a mojito.  It was such a delicious meal, and I have enough leftovers of the fettuccine.

May have eaten when I came home later.  Chips?  Something else?  It was only yesterday night, but who knows?

Exercise: as little as possible, due to sore legs (quads especially).

Day 7: Race Day #2

Ate about 1/2 a piece of pizza before the race. 

Had two gels during the race.

Had chocolate milk immediately after the race.

Had 2 half pieces of pizza & chips & can of wild cherry pepsi about 1 to 1 1/2 or so hours after the race.

Had chinese food at home.  Chicken Lo Mein, Veggie Fried Rice, Shanghai Noodles and One Chicken Ball.  With can of Sprite.

Exercise = ran 21.1 km in 3:24:18

Day 6: Race Day #1

I ate pasta with butter & salt for breakfast, my own custom blend of mixed noodles; sundried tomato spaghettini, spinach fettuccine, multigrain spaghetti & regular spaghetti.

Lunch was late, eaten after the race (approx. 8:30) at Mc Donalds.  Shared a 10 pc nugget meal & fries with Shane.  Drank Coke.

Dinner was a multigrain crust pizza with bacon, mushrooms & pineapple.  Ate 2 smaller pieces and had an apple.

Exercise was arguing with Jeremy about whether he was or was not doing the race, and walking for 1 hour, 12 minutes & 5 seconds.