And, I lasted – ¿what? – 9 days doing daily posts? Observations:
- As soon as something bad happens, I lose most motivation and stop doing things right.
- If I don’t over-eat and actually do a bit of exercise, I lose weight.
As noted in my March 20 post, the week started out fine – good, even – with both food and exercise. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, however, were very cold and I did practically no exercise, though I still got my rings filled doing “flexibility” work for my joints. Also, I made drunken noodles (pad kee mao; ผัดขี้เมา) on Tuesday, which I love, especially since I started to make fresh rice noodles. Unfortunately, I’m still figuring out my adjustments to the recipe, and with the amount of chicken I put in this time, with the same amount of sauce as last, it was very dry. So, the bf said that he didn’t want his left-overs, I got 3 bowls instead of 2. It has a huge amount of carbs compared with my normal food. Compound that with the fact that I ended up eating two bowls that night, and Wednesday was just unpleasant (going to bed Tuesday was unpleasant). Carb overload. And I’m still having issues with those two snack foods from Costco that I clearly cannot have in the house again: Sander’s chocolate-covered caramels and peanut butter -filled pretzels.
But, I counted it all (I think). Or the vast, vast majority of it. But, I put the calories and meals on various days of the week that were open, rather than focusing on counting everything on the exact day that it was eaten. So, “today,” I’m having salad and Greek chicken (true), peanut butter -filled pretzels (true), gummy bears (Thursday), Triscuits (Monday), more gummy bears (Tuesday), and protein shake (true).
So, there is no real point in making infographics for the various days.
I’m also writing this around noon instead of the end of the day today, so I’ll note that I plan to go walking today: The bf wants to go swimming, so we’ll drive into Boulder, he’ll swim at the gym, while I’ll walk on the various paths. It’ll be a nearly hour-long walk, so that’ll be a nice, continuous baseline, and it’ll be mostly flat (at least compared to normal), so I’ll also get a reasonable VO2 max reading. Writing this part at almost midnight, we didn’t go to town, but after spending more than an hour cleaning out the linen closet, we drove down to the mailboxes and walked 5km on the road. I certainly need to keep up with the walking, given how out-of-breath I am when walking up the main hill here, and also just how much my calves hurt when walking up or down it. The latter is a bit odd since I don’t remember them hurting before, and my calves are some of the best-defined muscles I have. Today, though, it was the outside of my shins that hurt, a lot, to the point where I had to stop a few times. I think it’s how I was walking, and the speed, so while 4 of my 5 kms were around 10min 30 sec, my 4th one was 11min 45sec because I purposely slowed down to try to minimize the significant pain. It was pain that went away quickly (within 10 seconds) if I stopped walking.
Anyway, another thing that happened this week is that my yoga mat arrived, so I’m hoping that that impediment to doing some core exercises is going to be gone. We have hard tile floors or berber carpet as the two options on which to exercise, neither of which is conducive to low-pain. So, we’re going to try to do that tonight.
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