Blogging emergency and Mini-goal #2

Date: 2010.08.18 | Category: miscellaneous, Uncategorized | Tags: cooking,running,weight loss

Happy hump day

I’m experiencing my first blogging emergency.  My camera charger is DEAD, and I think I left my charger in Nebraska the last time I was there!  I can’t find it.  Right before my camera battery died last night, I was able to take some pictures of my dinner.  (Which I didn’t put up yesterday because I guess I got lazy!)  Beef & veggie stirfry:

What I did was really simple, and SO FAST.  I heated a tablespoon or so of sesame oil in two pots.  In one, I dumped the thawed beef.  In the other, I dumped the frozen mixed veggies.  Then, after giving the veggies a stir, I put the lid on and let it do its thing, occasionally checking on it and giving it a stir.  With the beef, all I did was add ground ginger and soy sauce.  I was pretty generous with both and let me tell you, it was a fantastic combo.  I wanted to lick the pan!  After 10 minutes, both components were finished and I mixed them together in the beef pan for that awesome sauce.

Mark told me I had to give him credit for this photo.  Pretty good for a point & shoot, right?

We could have added rice and added more sauce but I didn’t have the patience for that because I was pretty hungry.  Instead, we had a side of honeydew.  Random.

Yesterday I did this workout:

What that means is that I did 10 minutes of warmup running, 1 kilometer at 7:55/mile pace, 2 kilometers at 8:00/mile pace, 1 kilometer at 7:55/mile pace, and another kilometer at 7:55 pace with 400 meters of recovery in between each, followed by 10 minutes of cool down.

I have a love/hate relationship with interval workouts.  Too much math, too much mile/kilometer conversion, for running.  What I love is how I feel afterwards.  Fast.  Good. Exhilarated. For anyone that’s never had a runner’s high, I would suggest speed intervals.  I rarely get the “high” from a longer run, but I do get it pretty often with speedwork!

Last week I talked about my mini-goal #1 – to just track my food intake.  Well, it turns out, that’s not really hard.  All I wanted to do was track my intake, with no regard as to whether I went over or not. I have no problem doing that if I’m totally accepting of the fact that I may go over – and oh, I did, every day.    My problem is that I don’t track well when I know I’m supposed to be eating a certain amount.  When I know I’ve gone over, I stop tracking – so that I can pretend it didn’t happen.  Alternatively, I don’t track, knowing that my day will be challenging and I end up overeating because, once again, my head is in the sand.  There’s no evidence, so it never happened – how lawyerly of me.  So my mini-goal # 2 is to stay within my points.  This is a much harder goal to achieve, but it’s vital that I do it if I’m going to be successful.  It’s pretty much the cornerstone of the program.  I’ll need to continue to work on tracking no matter what as well.

Well, I’ve got to get off to Best Buy to see if they have the right charger.  Pray for me that they do!  Today I haven’t had the best luck.  I better not have just jinxed myself!