Day 179 - Thursday

Morning workout - 8:00am
Indoor bike 8.5 miles

Breakfast - 11:15am
1/2 cup cooked rolled oatmeal w/ wheatberries, tropical nut mix, pepitas and PB

Midday workout - 12:00pm
Cardio - elliptical 30 mins
Some strength training

Lunch - 2:00pm
1/2 curry wrap w/ turkey, hummus, tomato and lettuce.
2 pieces of sliced pineapple, 1 cantaloup and 1 watermelon

Snack - 4:00pm
1.5 cups sliced fruit same as above
1 cup hot green tea

Evening workout - 5:30pm
Weights and jumping ropes

Dinner - 7:00pm

Note: I ate so much yesterday. I must control my appetite. I've been doing more cardio to lose fat but eating that much just defeats the purpose. Will do better today.

Note 2: so I decided to go back to my 2 workouts a day routine except I am going to try to get in 2 cardio session each day. I will stick with the 1 session on my run practice days...so mainly just going to run practice. I noticed that I am competitive and tend to run too fast during run practice so that I would make it back to the starting point before other people did. I am always sore the next day which is how I know I am over doing it a bit. I am trying to lose 5-6 lbs before the Nautica. I just run so much better with less weight. So hopefully these double cardio session will help me get there.

Day 178 - Wednesday

Breakfast - 9:00am
1/2 cup cooked rolled oatmeal w/ wheatberries, tropical nut mix, roasted pepitas and PB
1/2 orange

Midday workout - 12:00pm
Elliptical for 30 mins
Weights

Lunch - 3:00pm
Spanish rice and black beans w/ mango salsa (leftover from the other night)
1/2 orange

Snack - 4:00pm
1 orange
9 mini ricecake cheddar crisp

Snack - 5:00pm
Simple Harvest bar

Dinner 1 - 6:30pm
1 multi-grain blueberry pancake, 1 bite of scrambled chived eggs and 1 small sausage.

Dinner 2 - 9:00pm - Thai-something
Tom yum noodle soup
Couple bites of chicken fried rice

Note:

Day 177 - Tuesday

Breakfast - 9:30am
1/2 cup cooked rolled oatmeal w/ wheatberries, tropical nut mix, pepitas and PB.
1 cup hot green tea

Midday workout - 12:00pm
Indoor bike for 9 miles & minor weights

Snack - 1:30pm
1 white peach w/ a bit of Tajin

Lunch - 2:00pm
1/2 spinach wrap w/ turkey, hummus, tomato and lettuce.

Snack - 5:00pm
1 iced grande soy cafe latte
1 Simple Harvest bar

Run Practice - 6:30pm
Run 6.5 miles

Snack - 7:30pm
1 Gotein drink mixed w/ water

Dinner - 9:00pm - Takate Ya
1 bowl of shoyu ramen

Note:

Day 176 - Monday

Morning workout - 7:30am
Run 5 miles

Snack - 8:30am
1 Gotein drink mix w/ water

Breakfast - 10:30am
1/2 cup cooked rolled oatmeal w/ wheatberries, tropical nut, pepitas mix and PB.

Midday workout - 12:00pm
Weights - uppers and lowers

Lunch - 2:00pm
1/2 spinach turkey, tomato, hummus and lettuce wrap

Snack - 4:00pm
1 white peach

Dinner - 7:00pm - Baja Fresh
1 shrimp, 1 grilled mahi mahi and 1 fried mahi mahi baja style tacos
Spanish rice and beans (tomorrow night's dinner...yum!)

Note: I am really proud of myself for waking up this morning at 6:30am and going to workout in the gym. I've messed up my sleeping pattern when the times changed and also when I got sick and stayed up really late every night since I didn't have to go to work the next day. It was really hard to get out of bed this morning but I think it will only get better. It is always hardest the first day but I made it to the gym and even though I didn't get in all the 6 miles, I did crank out 5 so I am happy with that for now. I am going back into the gym at lunchtime today to do some strength training and maybe some HIIT. We will see how I feel. Trying to build up my strength again as I've gotten really weak. I am still on medication but am feeling pretty good overall. I have a bit over a month to get ready for the Nautica tri and about 2 months to get ready for LB Marathon.

Craft

Sometimes when I am not running, at work or eating, I like to make crafts. I've always loved crafts since I was a little girl. I've been into everything from drawing, watercoloring, scrapbooking, knitting, crocheting, sewing, cross stitching, paper crafting and origami making. The creative side of my brain has always been more active than my analytical side. I solve a lot of my day-to-day problems by being creative. I will upload photos of stuff I've worked on over the years but I am having some trouble finding all the photos of things that I've made. I will load as I find them.

Day 175 - Sunday

Breakfast - 8:30am
1 piece of home pizza (supreme)

Lunch - 11:30am
Beef stew w/ potato and carrots, french bread
jackfruit, palm rings and yellow jelly drink

Snack - 3:00pm

Dinner - 5:30pm
Rice & accompaniments

Note:

Day 174 - Saturday

Run Practice - 7:00am
Run 9.5 miles

Snack - 9:00am
1 Gotein drink mixed w/ water
1/3 small Gatorade
1 Clif orange shot blok

Brunch - 11:00am
Homemade Multi-grain blueberry pancakes w/ maple syrup, chive scrambled eggs and 1 sausage link
Limade and OJ mix

Dinner - 5:30pm
Rice and accompaniments

Snack - 7:30pm
some seafood noodles
1 chrysantum honey boba iced tea
some kettle popcorn

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