Monday, May 6, 2013

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

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