I did not want to post today. Posting would mean acknowledging that even though I have planned for a nice 1300-calorie day yesterday, including a birthday meal for a friend, that my friend got there, and by the time she left at midnight I had consumed an entire bottle of wine. By myself (she drank red, I drank a nice muscato). I had been doing well....last night was a step back.
Part of the problem is a new wine that I have found....Sutter Home muscato. In CA, it's about $4/bottle, it's sweet and it must not have much alcohol because I can drink an entire bottle without so much as a buzz. From that perspective it's a good thing....but it often does not make me realize just how much I am drinking....especially on nights when Richard is refilling my glass. I'm not blaming the wine, mind you, I know I need to learn far more restraint.
I did not weigh myself this morning. I would love to say that it was accidental, but what, precisely, is the point in lying here? I didn't step on the scale because I thought about that bottle of wine and I did not want to face the consequences.
But I flipped over the calendar this morning to October and took it as an opportunity to turn over a new leaf in a nice, fall metaphor. I have input my calories for the day and I am at 1206. I NEED to stick with the plan....even for no other reason than to prove to myself that I CAN.
No more weeknight drinking...and trying to cut down on the weekends since, if I am going to truly train for an Ironman....many early mornings are in my future and those don't happen when I am feeling the dehydration effects of a night filled with alcohol. Maybe I should treat it like being pregnant....the automatic designated driver for the next 10 months until the race. (Well, there's yet another reason for no breeding on my part!)
I have one month before I am signing up for the races...it needs to be a good month of weight loss and trying to find a training plan to follow. I also got some advice to up my weight training now, since it will help when I start going off for longer runs and bikes. That is difficult for me, since I can put on my iPod and do cardio for hours, but weight training just bores me to tears. Just one month....I can do it.
Weight: I cheated and did not look
Exercise: Walked 2 miles to work, will bike home and to the mail, 3 miles total of dog walking, weight workout in the gym.
Calories: 1206 (STICK TO THE PLAN!!!)
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Hang in there! And not weighing yourself isn't cheating ... don't do it if you think it will mentally set you back. I do check my home scale every morning to see which direction I'm going in, but I don't report it or count it ... once or maybe twice at the gym, if the conditions are consistent, is all I can officially take. : )
Also, have you considered using a personal trainer to get that strength training done? I feel the same way you do about it and love my trainers - just half an hour 3x/week, and I feel EVERY workout fer shure! I bought a 3-month package so each session is "only" $25. It's been worth it, to me ... plus I have to decline a lot of happy hours because I have a gym date!
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