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7/29-8/4

Another “bad” week of hardly any exercise. I only went to kettlebell on Wednesday, this week. I didn’t run; I didn’t bike. I did go to Fort Fun all day with the kids, where I walked around almost the whole time, so at least I wasn’t sitting on my butt all day.

I’m pretty frustrated right now. The weight isn’t really moving (up and down in a pound range), but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t know why. I have some pretty strong suspicions. Aside from my irregular exercising, my eating hasn’t been managed well. I’ve been doing great for the last two weeks, during the week, but by the time the weekend comes, I lose control. I’m not gorging on junk food or anything, but even though I have taken the time to portion out my daily meals for the whole week, I haven’t really been eating it on the weekend. It’s been a great help to making my lunch for work – it’s all done so I can just grab the containers, stick it in my lunch box, and I’m set. I just don’t feel like eating on the weekends. I get a little hungry and have something, then I’m not hungry again for 6 or 7 hours. Not exactly helpful for my 6 times a day meal plan. My calories have been too low and my sodium too high. Bad combination apparently - It seems to negate everything I’ve done right all week.

On top of that my sleep has been suffering, too. For whatever reason, I can’t seem to get to bed until 11 or 1130 at night. If I do go to bed earlier, I can’t fall asleep until then. Of course, then I’m too tired to get up early so that I can bike to work, so I’ve only been dragging myself out of bed in time to drive. Overall, I just feel like I hardly have any energy to do any exercising. I keep telling myself that if I force myself to do the exercising then my energy levels will come back up, but I’m just not feeling it.

My motivation has been sucked dry. I’m kicking myself for not running again this week. There’s no reason for it except that lack of energy and desire to get my butt out there. I really need to figure it out, or force myself or something. I have 7 weeks to go until this half marathon and I’m starting to wonder why I actually signed up for it. But I am signed up for it, and I’m not going to throw away that $90 registration so will do the race. But if I don’t train, I’m facing a whole different frustration – aside from the race being that much harder from not training, the course is time limited to 3 hours, 15 minutes. That means that if I don’t want to get kicked off the course, I have to finish 4 minutes faster than my first half back in June. I’ve never had to deal course time issues before, and I’m not about to run out of time before I finish a race, either. So why don’t I have the motivation to make sure I have the training in place?

Ok, vent session over. On a positive note, I’m trying out something new. My sister had a Body Media arm band that she was no longer using so now I’m trying it out. My mom’s been using hers for months now, and likes it. It tracks my steps like a pedometer, but it also calculated calories burned. I guess it’s basing its calculation on my body temperature and heart rate, and the manual claims pretty accurate results. I’m not totally sure what I expect to learn or gain from the information, but I thought it was interesting and wouldn’t hurt to see if it gave me anything helpful.

0 Miles Run, 0 Miles Biked; +2 Lbs