Run, Eat, Date, Sleep

So I followed the advice of a few of my lovely, loyal commentors and went to the gym for a date with Tread for a speed workout. I’m sure my version of a speed workout is drastically different than those of “real” marathoners or whatever, but it works for me. I did 30 minutes of 2/1 intervals of run/walk. For the running parts, I started at 6.0, and then for each new interval, I bumped it up another 0.1 until it got to 6.5, and then I started over again. To me, that’s speedy since I normally run at 5.4-5.6 on the treadmill. I finished 2.68 miles in 30 minutes, and 11:11 pace. I felt pretty great! I worked up quite a sweat, and my shoes didn’t bother me at all. Well, I do have a pretty new blister on one of my toes, but it happens.

On to intuitive eating… I did really well today listening to my hunger. I found that I ate pretty often throughout the day, which I can only assume means that my metabolism is working faster, which is a good thing! I consumed 1667 calories and burned 336. Feels like a good day to me!

My mom surprised me today with this note…

My mom and I work together, and she knows I’ve been leaving Operation Beautiful notes around, so she left me one on a file she wanted me to review. How sweet is she?!

When I was done changing in to my running clothes in the gym locker room, I left a note for someone to find

I got another compliment at the gym. I was approached by a guy at the gym a few months ago and he said in passing “getting skinny, huh?” But tonight, he said he could tell I’ve lost more weight, and he asked how I had been doing it. So sweet. Made my night!

Time to do my 15 minutes of cleaning and watch some AI. Night night!

9 days until I leave for Disney World!

“I run because it’s so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can’t. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you’re capable of so much more than you thought.” –Arthur Blank

I’m really glad I posted last night about Intuitive Eating. It’s really changed my attitude towards what I’m eating, when I’m eating, and how much I’m eating. I’ve tried really hard today to listed to what my body needed. I usually get a hunger pain around noon, and I usually put it off because I’m so slammed with work that I don’t want to put the work aside to focus on me. But I felt hungry today at noon, and I put eveything aside to go make myself a veggie burger sandwich on a bagel thin. It totally hit the spot.

However, just 5 minutes ago, I remembered there were Reese’s cups in the office somewhere, and for a minute, I thought about finding them. But then I thought “is my body telling me that’s what it needs right now?” And you all know the answer was “no”, so I went back to my office and started back to work. I looked at my water bottle and told myself I would have to drink 2 of my water bottles before I let myself indulge in a sweet. Well, I probably won’t even be in the office when I’m done with my second bottle of water, and I won’t be tempted anymore.

Well, there’s more snow on the way. Joy! Do you hear the sarcasm in my typing? I hope you do. As of right now, we’re expected to get 4 inches of snow, but who knows if we’ll get more. I was hoping to go to the grocery store tonight to pick up a few things, but now I’m not looking forward to it because of all of the crazies who need to stock up on everything before a snowstorm.

I plan on going to the gym tonight to either ride the stationary bike or do a speed workout on Tread. Do you think I should do a speed workout during my taper?