A Weekend Of Food Wars
This past weekend was a painful battle of food vs exercise. It really started on Thursday evening with some ice cream cravings that I succumbed to. I beat myself up a bit online about it but my Tweet friends helped me see the light of day there. Strike one in the food salvos …
On Friday morning rather than have a free dinner we decided to do a nice free breakfast since it’s been a while and we wanted some yummy pancakes. So after that I went to work and ate soundly until the evening when I fell out and had ice cream again. Strike two …
On Saturday I had a great first half of the day but then we ate out for dinner and had Stir Crazy. That isn’t itself as bad as it could have been but not controlling all that starch they put on those dishes (what else do they spray in there) and not really knowing the exact calories always makes me feel like I failed. Strike three …
Finally for dinner last night we had everyone over for a simple Mothers Day dinner and everyone wanted pizza and sundaes. I didn’t go absolutely nuts but I won’t lie and say I didn’t partake either. I regret it some but I’d also be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it. Strike four …
Battles are not Wars
The salvos were fired, they were all direct hits, and I lost the weekend battle over food. I did have some small victories in my workouts in that I did them, both of them, and burned a ton of calories on the ARC trainer (see below). I also had some small victories in all of the other meals throughout each day, it’s not like I ate complete garbage all weekend, just select meals each day.
While the battle was lost the war will be won by the other days I eat and live well. I’m on track today, my motivation has not waned, and I’m working hard to see a loss on Wednesday if at all possible. I’ll take anything this week and be thankful for it.
Traditionally after a free meal I’m up ~ 3 lbs of water the following morning. After several bad meals in a weekend I can be up 5, 6, 7+ lbs of water which is crazy. I was fortunate this morning though that I was only up ~3.5 lbs of water … it could have easily been worse. I think if I kick it when I kick it over the next three days I can turn that gain into a small loss.
Weekly Workouts Recap
Here’s a recap of my workouts for this past week.
- Monday, Morning (20 min)
- 2 min warmup, 18 min circuit training using 30 Day Shred by Jillian Michaels. I did Level 1, not because I’m on level 1 but because I like to change it up. I was also short on time this evening with the kids being rough.
- Tuesday, Evening (20 min)
- More shred, mostly due to time constraints. Rather than miss a workout I’d rather get 20 minutes in of something.
- Wednesday, Morning (45 min)
- Another circuit training DVD from Jillian, No More Trouble Zones. I love sweating during these DVD’s, circuits really kick my butt and make my body feel like its growing in so many ways.
- Thursday, Day Off
- Today was an off day.
- Friday, Workout Failure
- Nothing today either … it took forever to put my daughter down and she was up late. I hate when I fall asleep putting her to sleep but it happens. We decided to party hard and went to bed really early as well so we got some much needed sleep. I know, excuses excuses.
- Saturday, Morning (60 min)
- I went to the gym and got a really solid workout in on the ARC trainer. I set it at 35-40% resistance and went for an hour even. The machine said 1500+ calories, not to shabby.
- Sunday, Morning (50 min)
- More ARC training fun … I’m trying to burn off a lot of the calories I’m eating this weekend. Figured I’d optimize the burn with a machine that burns a lot.
This Weeks Battles
My goal this week is to work out every day, no off days, no excuses. I’d also like to get 2-3 workouts in with my wife. Now that she’s back on program and ramping up her workouts it’d be nice to get that extra boost of motivation that we always give each other with a good workout.
Finally I’d like to get the bike (and maybe running shoes) out again this coming weekend. I’ve got 73+ mile still in my May workout goals and I’ve got the itch for some high cadence riding.
Did you win your battles this weekend?
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My battle for the weekend was my lack of motivation on Saturday. I really didn’t feel like doing anything productive. Luckily I won the battle and got my butt off the couch and got some things accomplished in the afternoon.
Oh by the way I love using those Jillian workouts too. She has talent for getting me nice and sweaty and stronger.
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Yea she really does a great job making me sweat, I love circuit training. I can’t wait to get to a level where I can elevate it to P90X circuit training.
I’m glad you realize that you had a few small setbacks but the war is not even close to being over! And so you had some ice cream. But you enjoyed it and spent some time with family. It was a worthy sacrifice (if you even want to call it that. I call it pleasure).
Keep it up with the awesome workouts! I wish we had an arc trainer at my gym but alas, we don’t.
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It’s hard right after I eat it not feeling guilty, I’ve trained myself to feel bad. It’ll take time before I don’t have those self destructive thoughts but with friends like you guys it’ll all be good.
My time with the ARC trainer is limited with the new gym membership coming up here in 3 weeks and the old one expiring at the same time. They’re going to have something similar at the new place but since the equipment isn’t in place yet I don’t know what it’ll be. I hope it’s just and challenging and calorie burning.
I hear you on the food front. I don’t talk a lot about my food intake but this past week has been borderline compliance at best and a lot more salt than usual. Then I completed it with 3 slices of pizza last night…right before my weigh in…I was up 3+lbs from that one meal! Oh well like you back at it this week hardcore is my plan. Got to be nice to have someone else to work out with. Though a friend was going to start TRI training with me but after the first week he hasn’t done squat. Back to being my own whipmaster I guess
Salt is by far the worst in processed or restaurant foods and I’m guilty of those bad choices the night before weigh-ins as well. Back on track doing the right thing and kicking butt!
It is nice having a workout partner … I’ve had a few over the years and it’s hard finding one that stays as motivated as I want to be or is really there when your down and out to get you back up. Speaking or TRI partner, I need to find someone to train with in the spring.
Sounds like we both had pretty similar weekends
My debauchery with food was pretty much limited to just Sunday, but I definitely overdid it. We had everyone over to our house for lunch on Mother’s Day, and I’ll just say that my wife doesn’t under-do anything. We had tons of wonderful food, and I ate way too much of it.
Even after coming as far as we have, it’s all too easy to slip back into old habits. But as long as we’re able to bounce back and have this be just a small speed bump in our journey, instead of completely derailing us, then I think we’ll do just fine.
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