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OCB Week 5 Recap
June 26, 2005 by Renee @ 10:42 AM
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Daily Notes:
Sun - Non challenge day.
Mon - Confession is good for the soul. Not hungry this pm, the ½ serving of nuts mid day seems to be tiding me over till din din. No thoughts of ice cream today. Get outta my head already. Back still feeling a bit strained, especially when I sit too long, but doing lower body today didn't feel weird.
Tues - Sat - Sucked, and recording it only adds salt to the wound.
Week 6 Goals:
Here's what I'm aiming for:
625 minutes broken down by:
450 mins cardio
135 mins weights
40 mins stretch
21 miles:
3.5 miles - 6 days
770 oz water:
120 oz - 6 days @ least 50 oz one weekend day
End Notes:
To say I am bummed is an understatement. I had such big plans to end this 6 week challenge w/a bang but am now feeling it'll end w/a whimper. It is ending and I made it thru, for the most part, always a good sign, but now I'm a bit disgusted w/missing last week so there's a bitter taste in my mouth and a "I can't wait till this week is over" feeling.
I was wondering yesterday why did taking a week off, even in order to rest my back, stress me. The same way I was stressed when I got sick earlier in the spring and had to take about 5 days off. The reason is, despite being willing to wake up @ an insane hour and be drenched in sweat, it's not easy. It takes a lot of mental prodding to get my ass outta bed. During week 4, the week of only 2 
's every single day was a battle. So last week w/the convenient, albeit painful excuse of back aches, I didn't have to fight myself and found it much easier to just not do anything. And it becomes a domino.
Well if I'm not working out, no need to drink water. May as well have a candy bar or two. Why go to bed early? May as well catch Letterman.
Next thing I know I'm feeling myself heading down a dangerous road. I went to fill up my water bottle and as I ran down the stairs felt my belly jiggle. I'm pretty sure it didn't just start jiggling but when I'm working out, I feel like the jiggle is on it's way out. Today it felt like it's making a return (permanent?) visit.
But I made it this far, week 6, and chucking it was never a consideration. Shure I'm less than enthused, feeling like week 5 and a few rest days early in the challenge, will net me zero results, but whatever. I reworded my daily breakdown. Rather than list I want to do xdays and x minutes per day, I just posted it for the week. I know how I'm going to approach it but for some reason unexpectedly getting sidelined has me a bit gun-shy about making specific plans on paper.
Ok no more dwelling on the past, what's done is done. And in a few days/weeks/months, last week will be a distant memory. They always are. I look forward to tallying my stats next weekend and rolling out some new features. I also sketched out my workout plan for the next 6 months and have my next two 6 week challenges laid out. This week I'll put the finishing touches on them so I'll be ready to post them next weekend.
I'm fairly shure my funk will vanish once I get in the gym tomorrow AM. For one the endorphins will return and two, it'll mark and official end to the day after day after day of no working out, putting me back on the day after day after day of actually working out.
OCB Week 4 Recap
June 19, 2005 by Renee @ 10:08 AM
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Daily Notes:
Sun - Non challenge day.
Mon - Got really queasy ½ mile into run. Had to stop. Did bike for 30 mins. Will make up the miles on Sat. STRONG urge for something sweet post lunch, thoughts of ice cream later has kept me in check. *whew*
Tues - Hadda to hit snooze this AM, my head was killing me. I tossed and turned for about 20 mins and got on up. Close call mid afternoon, felt snacky. Ate 1/2 serving of nuts and made up the calories by eating 1/2 an english muffin.
Wed - Rough afternoon. Had an afternoon meeting which usually makes me anxious. I quell it w/a vending machine run. Plus in that area lunches were smelling good. I succumbed to neither, just drank water and tried to keep my eyez on the prize.
Thurs - Woke up hungry this morning. Ate a larger serving of Fiber one and extra milk. Running low on food stuff, stretching out what's left till Sat. Ate nuts a bit earlier than planned, but had so much brocolli for lunch I'm still full 4 hours later.
Fri - Feeling blah today, typical end of the week schtick. Had to push myself to get up and workout and driving home in the head, I wanted to just get in bed pop in a movie and veg out, while eating fast food. *sigh*
Speaking of food w/my supplies running low I had a close call in the calorie dept. No pm yogurt. Yesterday I had some slices of turkey and dipped into my NutriSystem stash. Same thing today, no turkey though. I'll have a 190 cal NutriSystem lunch so I can keep the cals under 1550 and still have ice cream. 94 degrees today. Must. Have. Ice. Cream.
Man it's 8:15 and I feel like crashing and burning. I would but I'm not trying wake up super early tomorrow, just insanely early as per usual. Odd, since all week I haven't felt sleepy in the least.
Sat - Well I was going to the movies today but honesly after the engagement announcement, that was the final straw. I'm now sick to death of all these stories that happen to come out 2 weeks before a movie. What they don't have a life the other 50 weeks of the year?!?
Week 5 Goals:
Only 1 increase this week, an extra ab/back session.
Here's what I'm aiming for:
528 minutes broken down by:
60 min cardio 6 days - 360
20 min weights 5 days - 100
7 mins abs/back 4 days - 28
20 mins stretch 2 days - 40
21 miles:
3.5 miles - 6 days
770 oz water:
120 oz - 6 days @ least 50 oz one weekend day
End Notes:
7 days of spot on eats & working out...to say I'm tempted to visit the scale is a MASSIVE understatement. But I won't. Besides, I already ate breakfast.
What's most interesting to me is that I got only 2 's w/o even trying. The first was the day I had the headache, yesterday's was b/c I woke up kinda pooped but some noisy @sses in the hall kept me from falling back to sleep. After about a ½ hour of trying I just got up and worked out anyway. I meant to make up the missed run from Monday, but my legs felt a bit tired, so I walked and rode the bike to make up the rest of the hour. I have a theory on why the week turned out the way it did, but I'll hold onto that for a little while longer to see if what I suspect pans out.
I wanted to work out today so I could have Saturday off to rest up for Hell Week (details next Sunday), but sleeping in felt mucho better. I'll do a very light 60 min workout on Saturday.
OCB Week 3 Recap
June 12, 2005 by Renee @ 11:03 AM
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Daily Notes:
The lack of blank spaces are where 's should be but I simply lost track most of the week so I'm not bothering to fill it in. Plus it'd be so many it'd depress me.
Sun - Non challenge day.
Mon - Finished off the first bag of Oreo cookies did a ½ assed abs workout so I'm not counting todays attempt towards the 3 sessions goal.
Tues - Very very blah today. Started w/preset treadmill pgm @ a high level but I kept dropping both incline and speed. Didn't have the oomph to run so I biked it for another 30 mins to make my hour. Not adding those 7 miles to my 750 miles goal. Ate a lot of Oreo cookies (bag #2). Didn't do pm upper body weights.
Wed - Today I completely winged it. Didn't feel like following a set pgm, so I worked out as I felt. Did 20 mins HIIT and was supposed to run but didn't feel it, so I did 20 mins preset treadmill pgm and still needed 10 mins to make my hour and the urge to run returned.
Thurs, Fri, Sat - not good, not good, even more not good.
Week 4 Goals
Everything increases this week. One more day of cardio, one more stretching session and 20 more oz of water.
Here's what I'm aiming for this week:
521 minutes broken down by:
60 min cardio 6 days - 360
20 min weights 5 days - 100
7 mins abs/back 3 days - 21
20 mins stretch 2 days - 40
21 miles:
3.5 miles - 6 days
770 oz water:
120 oz - 6 days @ least 50 oz one weekend day
End Notes:
Considering how sucky last week was there's no way to go but up this week. One of the things I noticed last week is while one ½ of my brain processed stress the other part didn't want to feel regimented. Following my routine to a tee would've felt like punishment on top of everything else, so I just did what I felt like for most of the week. I'm looking forward to getting back to my daily grind this week.
OCB Week 2 Recap
June 05, 2005 by Renee @ 09:02 AM
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Daily Notes:
Sun - Non challenge day
Mon - Not only didn't I hit snooze, I didn't hear the alarm clock go off. Pfft! Luckily it was a holiday so I ended up hitting the gym 2 hours later than usual.
Tues - Stress week hits peak. Had a filet of fish w/apple pie in the PM. Did 20 mins AM yoga. I liked it. That'll be my new stretching.
Wed - Had a snack pack of oreos
Thurs - Had a snack pack of oreos & some yogurt trail mix.
Fri - Had 2 snack packs of oreos.
Sat - Bought my own damn bag of Oreos so I could stop doing battle w/the vending machine each week.
The main reason I left water @ 90 on the 2 days I didn't hit 100, despite drinking over 100 oz of water every other day is, I don't make up water. Unlike the missed lower body workout on Tuesday I made up on Saturday, I give myself a 24 hour period to drink and once it's gone, it's gone. But b/c I unofficially drink about 120oz per day I ended up drinking over 650 oz for the week.
Challenge Changes
I'm still waking up way before the alarm, so I'm pushing bed back to 10pm. I reworded no eating past 6 to no eating 3 hours before bed. After reading the runners diet article, I'm going to follow their rule of thumb of calories I need to lose weight. My current weight times 13 = what my body needs - 500 calories. For me thats:
172 x 13 = 2236 - 500 = 1736 calories.
Week 3 Goals
Everything stays the same as week 2 except for stretch. I've replaced it w/20 mins of yoga. Ideally I'd like to do it every morning, but will start by aiming for ocne a week. I'm also going to sample 1 Pilates session a week, but for now won't include it in my weeking minutes goal.
Here's what I'm aiming for this week:
441 minutes broken down by:
60 mins cardio - 5 days
20 mins weights - 5 days
7 mins back & abs - 3 days
20 mins yoga - 1 day
18 miles:
3 miles - 5 days
650 oz water:
100 oz - 6 days @ least 50 oz one weekend day
Heh last week I did in fact get 8 's as predicted. Let's shoot for 7 or less this week. 
OCB Week 1 Recap
May 29, 2005 by Renee @ 08:55 AM
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Notes:
The 2 days I hit snooze, I ended up getting up and working out anyway. The days I didn't hit snooze, I didn't exactly bound out of bed, just laid there for about 5 mins trying to focus.
The 3 days I ate past 6, I ended up snacking on something sweet around 7.
Didn't do daily affirmation yesterday since I made my miles & minutes goal and took Saturday off. I really took it off b/c I woke up @ 3 am and could not go back to sleep so when the alarm really went off I was exhausted.
The two days of 1600+ calories are not accurate. I was too lazy to log the nutritional value of my squash in Fitday and used their default amount which is higher than my brand. I'm fairly certain I went over calorie goal on Saturday. I was out and ate out for most of the day and also explains why I ate past 6. Pretty sure I didn't make the fiber gms goal either.
I'm working on doing full body pushups so each upper body day I try to do 1 w/perfect form. I had two upper body sessions and did 2 full body pushups. After the 1st attempy my armpits were mighty sore. I don't exactly do one up/down in one shot. Who knew my entire body would feel so heavy, when I picture doing it in my head it seems easy. When I plant myself on the floor, it's all I can do not to flop flat on my face.
By the skin of my teeth I met the last workout goal, 15 mins stretch. Resisted doing it w/all my might but I needed 12 more minutes to reach my weekly goal. I felt so blissed out when I was done, you'd think I'd leap @ a chance to do this every day. Um. NOT!
Week 2 Goals
After yesterday I'm now leaning to giving myself 1 day a week to relax on eating to compensate for the day I end up being outdoors. I'll still try my best to eat w/my overall goal in mind, but rather than say every single day I'll aim for 25gms of fiber, I'll just leave it @ 6 out of 7 days. I've also made one weekend days water goal to be 50oz, likely the same day I'm running the streets and access to restrooms are scant.
This week minutes, miles & water increase. Here's what I'm aiming for:
436 minutes broken down by:
60 mins cardio - 5 days
20 mins weights - 5 days
7 mins back & abs - 3 days
15 mins stretch - 1 day
18 miles:
3 miles - 5 days
650 oz water:
100 oz - 6 days @ least 50 oz one weekend day
I got 9 's last week, let's see if I can get 8 or less this week.
Operation Crease Begone
May 23, 2005 by Renee @ 10:51 AMOh and kudos to Nneka & Nicole both starting their own challenges/contracts where weight and the scale are on the backburner. wÒÓ†!
Operation Crease Begone gets it's name from my desire to be well...crease free. The duration is for 6 weeks, starting today, ending on 7/2. I like 6 weeks. 90 days & 12 weeks feel too laborious and never ending to me. 3 weeks is a tad too short. Plus w/6 weeks I can easily divide it in ½ and up the intensity by week 4.
This challenge incorporates all my current workout plans while rounding it out w/food and health goals. It ties everything together in a neat little package by giving me goals to shoot for so I can take my mind off the freakin' scale which by the way was up ½ lb on Friday (then back down again on Saturday). ::grits teeth::
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