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Food Indiscretions

I’ll just come out and say it … I didn’t make the best decisions this weekend in terms of food. Part of it was me giving into temptations and part of it was me being very tired. I also blame the fact that we didn’t shop for groceries until Sunday which meant the entire meal schedule for Saturday was made on the fly which historically I’ve a bad track record with. Sorry, I’m full of excuses right?

Well to start I had a great lower body workout on Saturday and followed it up with a tasty new Full Strength chocolate shake blended with some natural peanut butter. After that I made the bad food choices that while not horrendous certainly weren’t ideal. It started with a chopped pasta salad from Corner Bakery for lunch (~900 calories) and was followed with a Hobo Skillet (3 cheeses, scrambled eggs, hash browns, and sausage in a skillet @ ~1100 calories) for dinner. For some reason I was really craving breakfast for dinner so we all went to a local restaurant and that was what I gave into.

My total for the day was ~2800 calories which combined with the ~800 calories for my workout brought me to just a hair under my 2000 budget. While I was under budget I certainly failed my goal of eating solid all weekend and trying to make up my free meal calorie overage from Friday night.

Running Pain

On Sunday I got up early and knocked out my 2.5 mile goal for the Weekend Warrior Challenge. The running felt great but my feet were feeling a bit sore toward the end. I think part of it was running further than ever before and part of it was me still training my feet to run in these Vibram Five Fingers.

I followed the running with 10 minutes on the stationary bike and followed that up with some elliptical trainer. About 2 minutes into the elliptical I had to stop as my left foot was really seriously hurting. Turns out I has a nice size blister and a bruise on the bottom of my left foot … yikes!

I spent most of the rest of day limping around when I wasn’t wearing shoes. It actually felt better to wear shoes, believe it or not, because they were padded. After groceries, house cleaning, baby shopping, and cooking I finally called it a day.

While Sunday was much better than Saturday in terms of meals (we made some great healthy Spaghetti & Meatballs) I can’t help feeling like I failed my first challenge weekend. I did hit my running goal but it wasn’t without incident. This is two weekends in a row that my feet are hurting the day after running. I may just have to walk it for a while or maybe do intervals until I drop some more weight.

Anyhow, as for the scale goal I came in at 312.0 which is 0.6 pounds over my weight from last Wednesday. I don’t have my Saturday morning weight because it’s the morning after my free meal and it usually shoots up like 3-4 pounds all of which is usually gone by Monday. Friday morning my weight was around 312 as well. So in all my weight is about where I expected it though a bit high as Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are usually the days I see the scale go down each week.

Summing up my first challenge

In short I won’t call the weekend a failure as I did hit my running goal and my weight wasn’t way out of line. I do have regrets but that’s the point of the challenge isn’t it? To keep us accountable and striving to do better each and every weekend. The weekend is always a difficult time filled with temptations and speed bumps that constantly test our resolve. Ideally we’d all hit our goals but part of goal setting is failing and learning from those failures to set better goals and push yourself to new heights in the future.

I hope you had a better inaugural Warriors Weekend than I did, see you next weekend! Mine looks to be quite interesting with my daughters second birthday followed by a Monday delivery of my second child, *gulp*.

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