Morning workout FTW :)  It’s actually not that bad.  We’ll see how long I keep thinking that.  C. wanted to run her trail running loop today so we did that.  She said it was 3.5 miles but I don’t think it was because it took about 36 minutes and since we weren’t running on flat land and we were on trails, it was probably shorter – maybe close to 3 or even a little less.  Gah, I hate those hills.  So freaking hard.  It always sucks while running it.  It sucks quite a bit actually.  I run so slow!

I think running in the trails triggered my allergies because my nose has been running non-stop since this morning and it now freaking hurts.  I’ve blown it so much it’s completely raw.  It’s so annoying and painful.  I have to blow my nose like every 2 minutes.  I took a claritin this morning that didn’t work.  I took an allegra about 1.5 hours ago, seems to be working a tad better but man..a runny nose hinders productivity by so much.

I also didn’t eat very well today.  I’ve been pretty conscious about what I’ve been eating since I’ve been working out and trying to lose weight.  I think today was the worst this whole week.  Funny though because while it seems bad to me today, before, I would totally eat this stuff but more of it and not even think twice.  Breakfast I was just going to have coffee and a banana but my coworker offered me half of his breakfast burrito so I had that and coffee.  For lunch I brought 2 leftover pieces of pizza – but they were so greasy and had so much dough that I barely ate it.  So I tried to eat a chicken caesar salad I bought but the lettuce looked nasty and I’m pretty picky about the way lettuce looks so I just ate the like tiny pieces of chicken and tossed it.  I also had a diet coke with lime – man those are so good.  Still unhealthy but at least its 0 calories.  Then I had some fruit for a snack.  For dinner I had a vietnamese sandwich and two eggrolls.  Dang, that sounds like a lot of food but really its not because I could have easily eaten a whole burrito for breakfast, eaten probably 3-4 slices of pizza for lunch and then eaten the same for dinner.

I’m kinda anxious about weighing in on Saturday!

Trying to lose weight takes a lot of sacrifice and a lot of effort and conscious decisions.  It’s hard work.

The entries in this blog have turned into my workout/running log lately so it must not be that exciting.  However, it’s good for me to keep track just so I can one day come back and read about how I actually exercised.  It’s also nice for me to track my progress.

Anyway, so C. and I decided yesterday that we are going to have a weight loss challenge.  I’ve actually been losing some weight since June and its been great – but I’m still quite a bit away from my ideal weight.  Not all of the details are ironed out yet but at a high level it’s whoever can lose the most weight by the third week of January (I think).  The main goal is 10lbs.  There’s a prize for the winner – paid for by the loser – any ideas?

In my attempts to be fit and lose weight, I’ve definitely been continuing to workout.  Was supposed to workout yesterday but C. was feeling lazy or something so we just threw the ball around and did pushups/situps/plank/burpees.  Now that we’re fighting daylight – the only time to exercise is in the morning and I am really bad at exercising by myself especially if I have to wake up to do it.  So this morning, since C. didn’t have to go to work until later, we went and worked out at 7am.  That was so early, considering I don’t normally wake up til 7:45ish.  I woke up at 6:30am!!  The goal was to go 3 loops around the park but I kinda only made it 2.5 loops before we kinda ran out of time cause I had to go to work and I was dying.  I’ve never gone up the hill 3 times.  Twice is difficult enough – the 3rd time I really struggled.  I wanted to walk so badly.  Man.  That was hard.  Then because we didn’t have that much time.  We had to do our push ups/situps like super fast.  We usually do 3 rounds.  1 round for me is 15 push ups / 30 situps.  Usually there’s more time to rest in between but after that run, then a sprint at the end, then having to do push ups and situps non-stop.  What a killer.  Then I had to hurry and take a shower and go to work.

So weight loss challenge here I come!  Weigh-ins are Saturday mornings.  Now I’m going to have to be more conscious about what I eat.  It’s a lot easier to do that at lunch time than at dinner.  We’ll see.  We’ll see.