Friday, February 21, 2014

100 mile mark!

Today, I got to my first 100 miles! I'm really happy with all the effort I'm putting in, especially with calorie counting. I have SO MUCH Valentine's Day candy that sounds so delicious, but when I indulge, I only have a serving size. All I want to do is get under the covers with a bowl of cookie dough (which I also have in my fridge) and watch Netflix in between naps. But, no, I am in my work out clothes pedaling away.

I'm not seeing the kind of body progress I want, so I am going to be doing crunches again. I'm planning on doing those either right when I wake up or right before I go to bed. For today, I'm thinking before bed because I LOVE being in bed and that will motivate me to actually take the 5 minutes it'll take do do the 100 sit ups.

Getting really annoyed with working out and dieting, but it will all be worth it when I fit into my wedding dress for my 2 year anniversary!

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Got back on my bike and did another 5 miles. It only takes 20-25 minutes, such a short amount of time for such a positive change. I also did my sit ups plus 25 cross crunches to work on my obliques.

I'm getting just a little obsessive and I'm thinking, When I go back to work, I can bike to work and go 10 miles a week that way, then bike for an hour when I get home so that's 90 miles so that'd be 100 miles a week. Then, I could do 100 sit ups and increase it by 50 every two weeks plus do Tae Bo for a half hour after I get home. Then I'll eat really, really healthy and be skinny and gorgeous again.

This is where my brain goes when I don't see results fast enough and I am trying so hard. I've decided to only weigh myself once a month. To this end, I've asked my husband to hide the scale and only let me use it on the first of every month. So, I'll be 171 to the best of my knowledge until the end of the month.

I made the mistake of looking through my blog. I started it when I was 163 and that was the highest I'd ever been. 163 would feel like a victory now. I'm just bummed by it. In the interim, I've really built up my thighs, so I know some of the weight is muscle, but then I look at the pictures and see the spare tire I have going on around my hips and i hate it. I just want to be healthy, and skinny, and happy, and beautiful.

I do hope to go 5-15 more miles this weekend to try to get on track for this month. I've noticed that my endurance has really improved. I used to huff and puff by 5 minutes, now I'm going until 25 minutes and stopping because I want to. I am looking forward to when I get the "umph" to ride for an hour again just to see how far I can go this time. I may go on a real bike ride tomorrow just to get out in the sun and for the sake of variety. My stationary bike odometer says 95 miles, and I've gone 10 on my real bike, so I feel a little like a liar when I say I've gone 105 miles when I can only prove 95 since my real bike odometer isn't working.

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