Sistah Pat

Okay, I’ve got to get back on track. Going for a perfect week, starting with TODAY! I’ve been running wild for a week and it’s time to come back. I was being a total slob last night, propped up in front of the TV eating ice cream when it occured to me that the ice cream was not really that tasty. I was sitting there thinking that it wasn’t really what I wanted while I continued to eat it. I’ve had that feeling several times in the last week. Eating something junky, not really wanting it, and still eating it. I think it finally sunk in. I got up and threw out the ice cream and went to bed.

This weekend, I’ve got to kickstart myself again. Isn’t it funny how easy it is to get off track? I gave myself permission to splurge over the four day weekend with Rick and Pam last week, then I kind of piddled around the rest of the week because, having gotten off track, it’s real easy to stay there. I’m really sick of seeing 165. I’ve done the mid 160s to death! I was losing pretty good in the beginning of this journey and I’ve got to think about what I need to do to get back to losing. I know I have a very low metabolism. Several doctors have told me and the heart monitor has shown me. I know 1,000 calories a day is low for most women. Is it too low? Maybe not for me. Maybe I can’t lose on 1,200 calories a day. At least, not without working out like crazy. I’m going to be really tough on myself this week. One week to get things moving again. So…here’s my plan for the week:

Saturday - Weigh, eat 1,000 calories, one full workout, two short workouts

Sunday - Weigh, eat 1,000 calories, one full workout, two short workouts

Monday - Weigh, eat 1,000 calories, at least three short workouts.

Tuesday - Friday - ditto Monday

Joy, you were writing about trying to find the spark again. My favorite motto is the Nike one, “JUST DO IT!” Just one perfect day, followed by another, followed by another…I don’t think we can always find the fire. Sometimes, we’re just staring at the ashes. I think it’s pretty easy to do what we have to do when we have the fire burning hot. The tough part is continueing to do it when the fire just isn’t there. We’ve all proven that we’re powerful women with the strength to do what needs to be done. Sometimes it isn’t easy and there’s no motivation to do it but we have to keep pushing. I guess you could call it Tough Love…for ourselves…and that’s not always easy.

Me, I’m gonna love myself today. I’m going to end this day with a glow of satisfaction that I’ve done what I need to do. Just for today…

Sistah Pat’s Guide to a Perfect Day:

9:30 - Weigh in - 166.5 - Put on HR monitor - 5 minute calorie burn = 14: burning 2.8 calories per minute while getting dressed to workout.

11:15 - Did a 70 minute workout. Burned 569 calories so that got me up to 8.12 calories per minute. I did 40 minutes of high intensity aerobics with 1 1/2 pound wrist weights and then did week 2 of C25K. I don’t think I’m going to be able to keep doing C25K. It really bothered my left ankle. The right one (that’s had a kazillion surgeries) held up great but I had to take the walking intervals on C25K and get off the treadmill to do aerobics to ease the left ankle. Doesn’t bode well for the jogging bit. Still, I think I’m going to keep going with it until I’m ready to accept that it’s not going to work. I’m really not that upset about it since I discovered that I burn more with aerobics than jogging anyway.

4:50 - Did a little shopping. Picked up some stuff for a wedge salad for dinner. Someone brought one to the potluck Thursday and everyone seemed to know what it was except me. Anyway, it was good and relatively healthy so I picked up stuff so we could have it with dinner.

Heart rate is down to 1.8 calories per minute so I’m going to do a quick 15 minute workout.

5:15 - Did 15 minutes of high intensity aerobics. Managed to get the old heart up to 80%. HR monitor shows that I burned 117 calories in the last 15 minutes so that breaks down to 7.8 calories per minute. Only one more short workout to do today!