Still Off the Beaten Track

Based on the title of this post you can assume two things: 1) I haven’t been running and 2) I haven’t been tracking my points. 

Running

Last week I was all talk about getting up on Saturday and running w/ the Kingstown Striders. But alas, I had a late night Friday and slept in on Saturday. I really hope no one was waiting for me to show up.  Tomorrow morning I will definitely get up and run even if it kills me. Because I felt like such a blog last Saturday. I get like that when I miss a workout. Working out and exercising is something that I really enjoy and I’m a mess when I don’t get in a good workout. So right now I really need to focus on running. If you remember my goal is to run the entire Army 10 Miler w/o stopping. But at this point I haven’t ran 3 miles w/o stopping. So, I need to really work on that.

Dieting

In the food and weight loss arena I’m doing OK. I had really good results on the scale this past Sunday. I was down 2.2lbs. But when I hopped on the scale the past two days, things haven’t been looking so good. My excuse (we love excuses) is that it’s girly time. So, my weight is up a little. But the truth is that I’ve been lazy about tracking. I don’t think my eating has gone overboard. But I did make this dish from Weight Watchers recipes, which was so good that I ate more than a serving on two nights. On Wednesday, I also ate 3 butter sugar cookies. This was really stupid because it’s practically there on the label, “Butter Sugar Cookies”. It might as well have read, “Bigger Stomach Cookies” because that what they were. Why do we (I mean women) feel a stronger urge to eat sweets and snacks during this time of the month? I don’t understand what’s wrong with me. If I had tracked points on Wednesday and Thursday I would probably cry. 

Books

Jillian Michaels once said “In order to be successful at weight loss, you must become an expert at it”. So, how do you do that? You start a blog and read a lot of diet books. So, I just downloaded The Spark by Chris Downie to my eReader because it got a lot of great reviews and it’s only $1.99 at the BN.com store. I’ve barely started it. I’m still on chapter one titled “My Story”, where the author describes how he got into the health and fitness business. So far it’s OK. But I’ll give you my review once I’m done. 

I also have the New Abs Diet for Women by David Zinczencko which I picked up from the library. The title “Abs Diet” is a pneumonic device for the best foods to eat to lose weight.  I read the old Abs Diet, so I’m curious what’s new about this one. It’s hard to get into it because so far a lot of the information is the same.

I’m also interested in reading the Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf, which I believe talks about eating only foods found in caveman days. This diet is getting a lot of buzz, but I’m guessing it’s Atkins in disguise. I’m also interested in the No S Diet by Reinhard Engles, which I heard is like the common sense approach to weight loss.  If you’ve read any of these books or have any other recommendations please let me know.

This it for now. I need to go grocery shopping. Not sure what I’m doing for dinner. But I’ll come up with something. So until next time, stay focused.