226 this morning when I got up and 228 after my evening run
This post will be a bit of a recap of the past week – I have gotten several runs in but haven’t had a chance to get any posts up on the blog due to work on the yard and other time conflicts.
July 18th – 223 when I woke up – this was a huge surprise and a nice one at that – did not run today but took the afternoon off of work to move 3 cubic yards of quarter down limestone for the yard
July 19th – 222.5 when I woke up…whooohooo. Moved 10 cubic yards of top soil today via wheelbarrow – after the rock and quarter down it was like moving a cloud. No run.
July 2oth – 223 when I woke up and 222.5 after a 4.5 mile run in 41 minutes outside. Run felt nice and easy with lots of energy. Put in 160 square yards of sod today by hand.
July 21st – 223.5 when woke up – had 3 celebratory beers the previous night what with the last of the heavy yard work done. Was 222 after 9 mile run outside in 1 hr 27.5 minutes – not hugely fast but felt pretty good and could have kept going but wanted to end so that I could work with the neighbor to get the fence back up between our yards. Dug out 2 fence post holes and re-installed 2 6 foot fence panels. Then built our 10 foot front fence again after a quick redesign to move the gate location.
July 22nd – 224 when woke – had too much coke yesterday while finishing the fence work up (over compensating for the weekend I think). Finished yard clean up today and moved around 1 last cubic yard of quarter down limestone (grand total of 9 cubic yards of limestone, 10 of 1.5 inch river wash rock and 10 of topsoil all done by wheelbarrow and shovel) – had a couple more celebratory beers.
July 23rd – 223 when I woke up in the morning. 223.5 after 3.91 mile run in 30 minutes on the treadmill (1 min walk, 9 min at 8 mph, 1 min at 6 mph, 9 min at 8 mph, 1 min at 6 mph, 6 min at 8 mph, 2 min at 8.5 mph and 1 min at 9 mph). Run was hard and fast and felt good. I had Wendys for lunch since I ran out of time to make something in the morning (also did not get the eggs in for breakfast). My wife had our daughter out for a baseball game so my son and I ended up at Boston Pizza for a late supper and I had a quesadilla hoping that it wouldn’t sabotage my weight loss.
July 24th – 226 when I woke up – apparently something I ate did sabotage my weight loss pretty heavily. Did approx 3.6 miles on the treadmill (don’t have an exact number since the breaker for the treadmill tripped near the end of the run) in 30 minutes – did a 2 min stretch at 9 mph and 2 and a half more 1 minute stretches at 9 mph as well – it was during the last of the 9 mph stretches that the breaker tripped. During the run things just did not feel right – I couldn’t get a rhythm and my legs just felt thick and bloated (as did most of the rest of me). After the run I weighed in at 228 which makes no sense – I ate healthy through the day with eggs for breakfast, apple and turkey wrap for lunch, an apple for a snack and a turkey sandwich for supper – only 2 things out of the ordinary today were that I was feeling hungrier than usual through the afternoon so I ate a protein bar I had in my desk and I had more milk than normal this evening with supper. I don’t think the milk will have caused it so the protein bar may be the culprit – and I realize as I am typing this I had one in the afternoon yesterday as well which could have contributed to the issue of my weight jumping over night as well last night.
This will have to be something I watch pretty closely – it was a huge moral boost to see the weight come down and to see the speed I could manage on the treadmill when I focused so to have the weigh jump so quickly and to have issues on the treadmill at the same time it was kind of disheartening. I suspect that the weight jump and issues on the treadmill are related and temporary but I will have to keep an eye out to make sure I don’t repeat whatever mistake triggered the issues in the first place.
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