Day 361 - Swim, Walk, no work

Well I did getup and swim this morning with the wonderful help of TH, and then I came home and walked with J, with no help at all.  But just getting started up the hill was hard.

To go or not to go to GV that is the question.  I really do need to work one of these days, or  else I am going to be in big trouble, but if I stay here am I going to work?

I am always gung ho when I start something new, and this is new.  But I can't keep spending the whole day around my exercise.  I am going to have to find a way to do both the exercise and the work.  Somehow - oh yea and my poor dog is being totally neglected.  It is no longer T&T's adventures, just T's.  I am going to have to remedy that as well.

Well it is 4:00 I suppose I can get an hour in.

Day 360 - No swim - no work - no diet

Well - best laid plans of mice and men.  I woke up early to go swimming, but then I fell back asleep.  I really did intend to go, but my nerves just got the best of me.  So I decided to go to Rossmoor and swim.  Called Big D, and asked if she was up to company, and after a lot of coaxing she agreed.  I got to the pool and - yikes it was closed due to mechanical problems (?) so off we went to the indoor pool.  We got there and found it closed for cleaning - I guess it just isn't my day to swim.

So instead we went out to lunch (Cheesecake Factory) and I got one of there 590 calories lunches.  I know, I know...So after eating all the calories for the day I went home to walk with L.  We walked, but honestly I was feeling lazy.  Still.   I have been feeling lazy for the last two weeks.  Got home had dinner (yes I still had dinner) and I am now settling in to watch the XFactor.

I should have had Dim Sum.

Day 359 - Tuesday - walk and weigh in with a little work thrown in

So it feels like a scramble every Tuesday to lose the needed weight to make me want to keep on working on this whole losing weight bit.  But it is hard, and for whatever reason, I am feeling very sluggish all around.

And on top of all that swimming is getting very difficult.  I want to go hard, but I find that I just get too tired, and then  I give up.   If you haven't been aerobic then you can't just say I am going to be aerobic today.  It isn't just a physical thing it is a mental thing too.  How much pain can you dish out?  How much can you take.  Out of the water I think I can take a lot, but in the water - hmm not so much.

It easy sitting in my chair saying tomorrow I will push myself and it will hurt, but I will continue to push, until what I have a heart attack?  Okay, my heart is good shape, but being out of breath is one thing being out of breath in the water is another.  Controlled breathing and all that, all that training, but I haven't trained like that for 37 years - I don't have controlled breathing, I feel the lactic building up in my legs, and I just know I am going to not be able to pull my arm up one more time.

So she timed my hundred.  Very slow, but it is a starting point - she said it was 2:02.  So now I need it to be 2:02 going slow and 1:52 going fast - that is this weeks goal.  I will let you know if I make it.

Day 358 - Boo Hoo

Well I am not going to make my year goal.  I guess I haven't been doing as well as I should have been, so I get what I deserve.

However, with that said, it is hard to eat 1200 calories and exercise 1000 calories away.  Whether or not you have hunger signals, your body wants to eat.  If I could manage to just eat what was delivered, I don't think there would be a problem losing the weight, but I go into food overdrive and can't seem to stop.

So instead of 1200 calories I am eating more like 1400-1600, which is not going to make the weight come flying off.  Oh well.

Then this week I was going to be good, but I am having Dim Sum on Thursday, and I just don't know how that is going to be on my diet.  I think Dim Sum is really caloric.  Maybe I will bag out.

Dang.

Day 357 - The little engine that could

Yesterday J and I did Montara again (no not to the top, but it was all up hill on the way up) and within the first 10 minutes I was soaked.  Someday's it is easier then others, and yesterday was particularly hard.  It could have been the pace we were going up hill, or it could have just been a low biorhythm day or both.  But the bottom line was my tootsies hurt when I got home, which is never good.

According to my pedometer I did burn off 964 calories, so I didn't do any more exercise for the day.  Maybe I should have -  doesn't matter I was tired.

I am dragging my feet on this next goal.  It doesn't look like it is going to happen by the 12.  I had six pound sat the beginning of the week and I have six pounds now.  Soo...

But again I woke up a pound heavier then I went to bed.  I get so excited when I weigh in at night thinking I will be two pounds lighter by the time I get up in the morning and instead I am a pound heavier.  This has been going on now for a bout a week or two.  Well the good thing then is I am lighter in the evening when I get weighed in - right.

I am going to have to research this and get back to you.  Why do I gain weight at night?

Day 356 - Stronger?

Can you actually get stronger in  two weeks?  I didn't think it was possible, but I think I am.  Yesterday I actually was able to pull myself out of the pool.  Something that never took any thought when I was younger, but I guess you need some arm strength to do it.  Obviously not much, but still.

I should start timing, but I can't see the clock, so when I am working hard I pop up to see how fast I went and it is a guess.  I did a hundred free and thought jeez that was fast for how out of shape I am in, then realized I probably should add a minute, but I wasn't sure.  So LZ says she wears contacts, I don't have contacts, but it might be a reason to get them.  I do have prescription goggles, but they don't seem to be holding up that well.  They are leaking more and more, and they are not sealing as well as they did in the beginning.  I do have a pair of goggles that I do like, but they are not prescription and I am pretty near sighted, so there would be no way I would be able to see the clock.

And then again I went to bed weighing lighter then when I woke up.  What is up with that?  How can you gain weight during the night?  Maybe I am sleep walking and raiding the fridge in the middle of the night?  It isn't completely unheard of.  Except I don't sleep walk (well not that I am aware of .)

Oh well, enough whining (as TH quotes no whine before its time.)

Day 355 - To much work

My office is a serious health violation now, and the work just keeps piling up while I keep trying to catch up, next week I start another audit and I have three going right now.  Just chain me to my desk.

It is correct that I really shouldn't be leaving this room for any reason (swimming walking nothing) and I am not going to be able to work until I clean it up, so I guess the first thing for me to do is clean it up then work.  ACK!!!

Well enough of this fun and to work I go.