Small Bites!

While I've been a bad girl for not blogging my activities as much as I'd like, I am still adhering to a few simple rules:

1. 2 hours of FREE activity during the day (dancing while cleaning, crunches while watching tv, freeweights in bed, bi/tri curling while on phone etc).

2. timed eating bouts (830 breakfast, 1000 snack, 1230 lunch, 1430 snack,1830 dinner, 2000 snack)

3. Minimal 8 glasses of water ( I drink more because I do the sauna at the gym)

4. 1 alternating class a week (Yoga seems the flavor lately)


Now i've added a new partner to the trend. For every bite of food I eat (except for breads and BADFORME foods- i'll explain in a bit), I chew a maximum of fifty times before I swallow. Breads are broken down by salivary enzymes so it's impossible to chew it 50 times so for bread I go to 25.

The BADFORME foods tend to break down just like bread- right in the mouth. I'm talking about cakes, cookies, and chips- after about 10 chews they become a watery mush of what once looked and smelled appetizing. It would seem that this new habit might solve the problem of why I was so big in the first place. Patience is key here - so far I'm in day 4 of this new habit- and the scale seems pretty happy with my decision.

Since today is Sunday, I'm gonna go ahead and buy more foods that I can add to my fifty chew list- foods that won't break down as fast and requires me to chew and chew until i've had my fill.

Try it- you'll thank me later!

DOMS (Rest day)

Despite the horrific ice snow fiasco, I was able to crawl to work with alot of DOMS from the leg workout. Who'd have thought that after running so many races that I would experience this especially in my legs? Just goes to show you that running engages specific muscles that if left untrained could cause this world of hurt!

Today is my rest day- tomorrow is another story altogether!

Leg Explosion

Worked legs to failure for MLK day :

Incline leg press: 3/20/200
Leg raise 3/15/50
alt raise 3/15/50
abductor 3/20/70
adductor 3/20/70

3 mile easy jog/powerwalk on tmill

still stiff from Saturday's back and chest workout ; hopefully tuesday's yoga will help with it a bit. Getting back to strength training is always hard but worth it in the end :)

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And so my week begins!

Last night I dabbled with the Nike Training Iphone App and sweated to 30 mins of cardio drilling. Today I'll be working my lower body, running a 4 mile easy on the tmill, and eating this lovely bar:







Since i'm such a chocoholic, my goal is to eat one bar a day and increase this chocolate intake to three bars a day for maximum productivity.

I just had a nice potassium/carb rich breakfast with my daughter and i'm ready to get training started!

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Sunday morning.

I like to wake up super early to reflect on the comings and goings of the day. I got to spend all day with my family in Queens - much needed! Yesterday's workout sesh was minimal but here's the breakdown of what I did:

0900-0945: 2 mile walk/run out in 26 degree cold with icy snow patches and partially cleared sidewalks. I'd gone out onto the shore to check if a path was cleared- NOT.

10:00-10:45: 10 minute sauna/yoga stretch
15 minute stationary bike jaunt : 4.07 miles
Chest Press/ Rows circuit set (25/25)

Nutrition wasn't the best but I got plenty of water in:

gullet topper (foods as i remember them lol)

AM-mid afternoon:
chicken caesar wrap
blueberry muffin
2 mozzarella sticks
Nature valley granola oats n honey bar
Doritos chips and Ruffles chips

afternoon-dinner:
Pasta with meat sauce
chocolate birthday cake
popcorn
chocolate cherry ice cream
butter pecan ice cream

Wow it sounds pretty harsh. Perhaps I should start measuring my portions lol.


Today I plan on working out while watching the football games but before that I'll put in my 4 miles on the treadmill to get mileage started for this week.

Run?

Do I run? No. I consider my pace a quickened slow crawl- a turtle's journey towards the elusive hare speed. I run because I can. I run because there is no physical reason for me NOT to run. I run because it clears my mind and filters negative emotion from the positive. I will never force anyone to run but rather ask them to join me in celebrating the power of being and enjoying what is while it's at our grasp.

That being said- I tossed my cap in for the 2011 ING New York City Marathon.

And got accepted.

This blog will serve as my daily accountability- training log, eating log, being log, emotional log from now (January 15th) until that fateful cold day in November when I face my ultimate challenge- to run 26.22 miles and cross all five boroughs of my home state- and smile.

And cry tears of joy.

The part I enjoy most about this experience is that it will give me a chance to see exactly what i've been doing and i'll have it all logged so that I can modify it on the spot. I know i've been a bad eater - I know i don't get enough fluids in and it causes imbalances on longer than 10 mile runs - and more importantly, I KNOW i need core exercise.

That being said, I'm off to the gym- to start day one.