Saturday, March 11, 2017

healthyish, vol. 11

This was the first week where I was considering not writing one of these. I've been down in Alabama visiting my mom, and we've been having a great time. We went on lots of walks, ate lots of homemade food, and had a really good week. But I didn't have as many traditional work outs as I typically have been doing, and I had a lot more sugar that I usually do too. But then I reminded myself that a week of not sticking to my typical plan doesn't mean I didn't do things to work towards my goals this week, so here we are!

exercise: 

  • Sunday: 1 hour spin class
  • Tuesday: 5.2 mile walk
  • Wednesday: 5.3 mile walk
  • Thursday: 4.1 mile walk
  • Friday: 4.0 mile walk

diet:
This week was full of my mom's delicious food. My mom eats a lot more fruit and grains than I typically do, so it was nice to indulge a bit more! We had great breakfasts of eggs, fruit, and toast, lunches of salads, thin crush pizzas, and veggies, and dinners of brats and sauerkraut, chicken and rice, and sushi. I made a few meals of butternut squash noodles and chicken meatballs before I left as well (I love butternut squash noodles!)...I really need to figure out how to cook a butternut squash instead of paying for the pre-spiralized versions at the grocery store. 

goals:

Last week's goals:
  • Walk 5 miles a day for 4 days : basically done! One day we went a little shorter because the sun was beating down, but it averaged out to around 4.5 miles every day!
  • Choose healthier alternatives while traveling: done! No fast food burgers for me :)
  • Do 20 push ups a day: Oops. This did not happen. To be honest, I completely forgot I even made this a goal. 

Next week's goals: 
  • Take 2 group weight classes at my gym (I already signed up!...now I just have to go)
  • Cut back on sugar this week - no sneaking a few chocolates throughout the day
  • Don't emotional eat this week. It could be the most stressful of my life, or the best...we'll see

treats:

Depending on what we find out about the match on Monday, we are either celebrating or emotional eating. Fingers crossed it's a big celebration full of pastas and tiramisu and wine. 

weigh in: 

No idea! I think I'm going to take a few weeks off from weighing myself just because I don't want to live and die by what the scale says. We'll see how I'm feeling...