Sunday kinda sucked (though it wasn’t a slide backwards), while Monday was great except for the aftermath. So, let’s go through it …
Sunday afternoon, I had looked at my meal tracker and I saw I had a lot of calories open, so I offered to make the bf and I a milkshake, or “thick shake” in some countries: It’s milk, cream, ice, sugar, and flavoring, as opposed to ice cream and milk. Since we had all that chocolate I noted from last week, I suggested we try putting in some of the peanut butter chocolates and see what that was like. It wasn’t great, and then I did the calories, and … wow. That sucker was 600 cals for a glass, with more than 70% of my fat for the day and a third of my carbs. So, that wasn’t good. But, I managed to actually not snack beyond that and so, while calories were a bit up, it wasn’t crazy. Because of all the protein in the stir fry leftovers, I didn’t need to do a protein shake to get to my protein goals.
Same was true on Monday, along with all the chicken I put into my jambalaya. So, I managed to do extremely well on calories and macros on Monday, despite some rampant snacking (and tracking!!) after the exercise.
So, let’s talk about exercise. Sunday was crap, the third day in several weeks where I did nothing (March 29, April 5 were the other two days since March 13). Not bad as a trend, but I had to lower the goals to meet my rings … I again don’t really consider that cheating (well, it is if “cheating” is a binary thing) this time because of the crazy-amount of exercise from Saturday doing most of The Loop.
Coming off of that on Saturday, I decided to do it yet again on Monday afternoon: A front had come in, it was partly cloudy, in the 50°s, and the UV index was <5. I reminded the bf several times not to forget to come get me so I didn’t have to do the last 2 km and walk uphill 500 ft. So, of course, when I got to the meeting point, he wasn’t there. We have no cell service in the area, so I thought maybe he was at the mailboxes. Walked the extra ≈1 km there, nothing, but 1 bar of cell service. Called multiple times, nothing. Started to walk back, thinking I could just take that hill slowly. Met him half-way back, chewed him out, we walked to the mailboxes together, then to the car, and he walked up the hill back to the house (his choice).
That extra back-and-forth meant that I did the longest single walk I have ever done (or recorded?), at 10.11 km (6.28 miles), and just barely a new record with calories (1,002; last record was 996). Yes, I walked around the car once or twice to get over 1000 calories.
So, when I got back to the house, I was pretty dehydrated, drinking a lot and eating a fair bit of grapes while I made dinner. My VO2 max was down during the walk, but I think that’s because even though I felt okay, I hadn’t actually recovered from the Saturday walk, the first main hill feeling more brutal than I had remembered, though I eeked it to the top in 4 seconds less than Saturday, and I was consistent in making it to the next check point in 4 seconds less than Sunday, too.
But, I’m suffering now from dehydration, waking up today (Tuesday) with a massive headache, so I’m trying to drink a lot more and earlier in the day than I usually do (I typically don’t eat breakfast, and I don’t drink anything ’til lunch). I’m also disappointed with my weight not really going down as I would hope given a 1,000-calorie walk, but I still feel accomplished at doing The (almost) Loop twice in three days.
As a consequence, I also filled my April 2022 Apple Watch challenge of ≥11 workouts of ≥15 minutes, and while brushing my teeth for bed, I got a doubling of my move goal award, too.
As an aside, I’ve also been getting re-organized so’s to get back to being productive with work. Cleaning off my desk (2 hours) helped quite a bit with that, on Sunday.
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