Day 94 - Pizza Day

So today kind of ended up as pizza day.  Wasn't really intentional but I ended up with pizza for lunch and dinner.  We had a going away party at work for lunch.  Someone brought in some pizza for that so I had a slice and a couple cookies at lunch.  Then dinner was pizza with friends as well as some chips.  Neither meal was really unhealthy exactly (lunch was kept intentionally smaller than it could have been) but neither meal was the best choice either.  In that regard it was probably a minor mistake to eat as much of it as I did on the day.  One day by itself doesn't really ruin the diet but I'm just about to get back to training (and I'm seriously looking at training for the full marathon) so I can't really afford to fall off the wagon right now.

As for the last important piece of info: I have to pick a full marathon to run.  It would probably be sometime this fall or winter (November to January-ish) which means a local one is out.  Anyone have suggestions for a full marathon to run?

Food today:  egg and cheese (300 calories), pizza and cookies (500 calories), pizza and chips (1200 calories).  No exercise.

Daily Point Total:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 1000
Total Points Earned:  149470
Points to go:  50530

Day 92 and 93 - Getting Back On Track

So the last two days have been moderately back on the plan.  I'm still giving myself a few more days before I start back with running, but otherwise I ate reasonably healthy and went for a walk at lunch each day.  Even mostly avoided unhealthy snacks.  It's not exactly a recipe for losing weight but it should keep me from regaining any more.  Otherwise things have mostly settled back into the routine. I did have a bit of a craving for eating out tonight but I kept it under control.  I'm figuring I'll be back to kickboxing on Thursday and start running again this weekend.

Food today (also yesterday):  egg and cheese for breakfast (300 calories), turkey sandwich for lunch (500 calories), dinner was lasagna with garlic toast (1000 calories), snacks on the day were a handful of pretzels (100 calories).  Exercise was a lunch time walk (100 calories).

Daily Point Total:
Daily Food Total: 1900 and 1900
Exercise: 100 and 100
Points Earned: 1200 and 1200
Total Points Earned:  148470
Points to go:  51530

Day 88 to 91 - Cheat Week

So from a couple days before the half-marathon through yesterday I was really living the Cheat Week.  I ate too much and exercised too little.  Oh I had "reasons" for it, but they weren't good ones.  Even worse, for the last couple days I had even lost track of what I was eating and as a result ate too much.  So I'm uncertain of my calorie counts for the last few days (though I'm getting back on track today).  So since I lost track I awarded no points and also gave myself a 2000 point penalty.  It's possible if I had been tracking it the penalty would actually have been worse, but this is probably bad enough.

As I've said many times "cheating" on a diet isn't terrible as long as it doesn't become a habit.  This week was starting to become a habit.

So was there any positive this week (other than the half-marathon which went great)?  I did give in and have some caffeinated soda this week and discovered that I don't even enjoy it all that much anymore.  Plus I had clearly "gotten clean" as just a couple glasses of soda was enough to keep me up more than 5 hours later.  So while I decided to "cheat" on that goal as well, it's much easier to go back to cutting caffeine out.

Today's food:  left-pizza for breakfast (500 calories), and chicken tenders and fries for dinner (1500 calories).  No exercise though.

Daily Point Total:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 0
Points Earned: 1000
Total Points Earned:  146070
Points to go:  53930

Day 86 and 87 - Continued Bad Days

So yesterday I was mostly back on track, though I ended up eating a bit more snacks at work than necessary.  Today though I decided to grab food from the last of my main sources of unhealthy eating (a local Italian place called Angelo's).  My knee feels a lot better by this point though, so I'm hoping to get back to the habits that had been active up until the middle of last week.

I have also pretty much decided to start training for a full marathon.  I'm still not sure I really want to do it, but after breaking the two hour mark in the half I don't think I can say I can't do it anymore.  It's kind of late and I'm tired so that's all I've got for the moment.

Daily Point Total:
Daily Food Total: 1900 and 2500
Exercise: 100 and 0
Points Earned: 1200 and 500
Total Points Earned:  147070
Points to go:  52930

Day 84 and 85 - Half-Marathon and Junk Food Weekend

That's me with the Camelbak at around mile 4 or so.

So this weekend ending up being both significantly healthy and unhealthy at the same time.  First things first, I completed my half-marathon on Sunday in less than 2 hours.  That's both a major accomplishment all on it's own and a 27 minute improvement on my PR.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/308089819

The negative for the weekend (continuing into Monday) was my continued consumption of junk food.  After the race on Sunday I decided to treat myself one more time to 5 Guys before getting back to the diet.  Probably a mistake at the time (it left me uncomfortably full), but I convinced myself I'd just get back to eating healthy today.

So this morning I woke up with m knee feeling extremely sore (I'm guessing it's more likely my IT band that's hurting, but it feels like the knee anyway).  As it hurt to even walk around the house I decided to take the day off and rest and ice it for another day.  This wouldn't have been bad either, except I took advantage of the "weekday off" to feed one more of my junk food cravings.  The Pizza Hut buffet was a place I used to eat at weekly (sometimes more often) when I used to have weekdays off.  I haven't eaten there much in the last three years but it's still on my list.  Today was a chance to go and eat too much food again.  The only real positive to take from the day as far as my goals go is that at least I didn't give in on my caffeine/soda ban.  I was severely tempted when I got there (traditionally I'd down a bunch of mountain dew with the pizza), but stuck to some lemonade instead.

Going forward I don't have a choice, I've got to get back on the healthy eating track as I'm sure the weekend's junk food has probably cost me a couple pounds worth of weight gain.  Luckily I have sufficient groceries in the house.  Shouldn't be too hard to get back to it.  Just can't be careless.

Daily Point Total:
Daily Food Total: 2500 and 2300
Exercise: 1977 and 0
Points Earned: 2477 and 700
Total Points Earned:  145370
Points to go:  54630