Last week's weight: 174.5
This week's weight: 176
Change: +1.5 lbs.
Details below.
Another gain. I'm getting really tired of losing the same 2 lbs over and over again, but I should just own this one. I exercised less this week than last (9:25 v. 10:10 last week), and ate more. The more I ate consisted mainly of empty calories and refined sugary goodness. It was not a good food week, and I know it. Therefore, I can grumble about the amount of the gain, but not the gain itself.
Food
Can we just skip right through this part by saying that I met none of my challenge goals? I thought so.
They are the same this week--1700 calories, 3L of water, free-for-all (yet controlled!) Saturday.
Exercise
This week's schedule includes 108 bike miles, 11 walking miles. At an average speed of 14 mph on the bike and 3.5 mph on the walks, that's 10 hours and 51 minutes. I ended up with 90.45 miles on the bike, and 10.25 miles on the track, for a total time of 9:25, give or take a minute or two. There was one walking workout where I didn't wear my HRM, so I don't have the exact number.
Why the discrepancy in bike miles? Well, because I have trouble with wraparound scheduling, apparently. Those 108 miles were Mon-Sun, not Fri-Thurs. Fri-Thurs scheduled miles were actually 90, which I did with a half-mile to spare. I have no excuse for the 3/4-mile shortage in walking miles, though...well, unless you count laziness. I didn't feel like walking the extra mile yesterday, so I didn't.
This week (like, this Fri-Thurs weight-loss week, not this everyone-else-in-the-world week) bike distance should be 112 miles, plus 11 walking miles. Total workout time should be right around 10-11 hours.
Accountability
My training journal is meticulously and lovingly maintained, while my food journal is gathering dust in a corner(or would be, if it was a paper log). Enough said.
So, we're off to Week 8. Who knows...maybe if I do everything right, I'll actually lose a quarter of an ounce or something.
("Bitter"? I don't know what you're talking about.)
Posted by Joy at August 19, 2005 01:12 PM