Observations from today:
I woke up and did something for myself. I went and walked on the beach between Belmont Shore and Long Beach. So that makes the "bars, bars, bars" even more confusing and by bars I mean 12 of them. Ugh and whatever. I've been here before. I keep coming back. It's so stupid.
I took a 2 hour nap since I only slept from midnight until 4:50 or so. Therefore I'm wide awake. I was going to go get a sink plunger from Target since the standing water is looking kind of gross in my kitchen but it sounds like it's raining. I may go out anyways.
My brain won't slow down long enough to have one normal thought. It's jumping all around and I'm left just doing nothing...well, that's not true...I eat.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Day 75
This was looking a lot like a self-destruct day. I ate a ton of "bars" and not a lot of "real" food. The only good thing is that the bar eating was really spread out so not really an eating spree but not something I can really be happy about either.
I don't know what happens. School stress is a major part and then things go almost too well at the gym and I don't want to look too good for some dumb reason...and that makes it sound like I think I look good and I don't think that so it's bizarre.
I ended up rowing 9500m tonight so I don't have to row tomorrow. It took 47 or so minutes. I listened to Tchakovsky's, I don't care about spelling now, entire piano concerto as I rowed. That was a nice change.
I'm tired. This morning I woke up at 4am and went back to sleep until 5. Maybe tomorrow I'll sleep til 5. Crossing my fingers.
Oh, and I've made it to 503,000m rowed since Nov. 14th. A million here I come.
I don't know what happens. School stress is a major part and then things go almost too well at the gym and I don't want to look too good for some dumb reason...and that makes it sound like I think I look good and I don't think that so it's bizarre.
I ended up rowing 9500m tonight so I don't have to row tomorrow. It took 47 or so minutes. I listened to Tchakovsky's, I don't care about spelling now, entire piano concerto as I rowed. That was a nice change.
I'm tired. This morning I woke up at 4am and went back to sleep until 5. Maybe tomorrow I'll sleep til 5. Crossing my fingers.
Oh, and I've made it to 503,000m rowed since Nov. 14th. A million here I come.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Day 74
I slipped back into eating "bars" a bit this week...on Monday I had 2 and today I had 4 but it was 2 and 2 and it was 3 hours apart. Ugh...I'm trying to eat "real" food but sometimes the convenience of a kind bar or pure bar or think thin bar is too much to resist...and they taste good.
I didn't row today but I did "move" 5000lbs as fast as possible...meaning pick a weight and then do enough power clean and jerks (ground to overhead) to get to 5000lbs total. So I chose 95lbs which means I needed to do 53 reps. I did this workout on March 18th of last year at 75lbs and 67 reps in just under 12 minutes. So today it took 9:47 to get done. I was happy with that. It's nice to know that I'm stronger than I was a year ago. And I think that was why I was extra hungry this evening and the bars came a'callin.
I woke up at 4am this morning. :( I want to sleep well again soon. Tomorrow is a complete rest day. Please let it be good.
I didn't row today but I did "move" 5000lbs as fast as possible...meaning pick a weight and then do enough power clean and jerks (ground to overhead) to get to 5000lbs total. So I chose 95lbs which means I needed to do 53 reps. I did this workout on March 18th of last year at 75lbs and 67 reps in just under 12 minutes. So today it took 9:47 to get done. I was happy with that. It's nice to know that I'm stronger than I was a year ago. And I think that was why I was extra hungry this evening and the bars came a'callin.
I woke up at 4am this morning. :( I want to sleep well again soon. Tomorrow is a complete rest day. Please let it be good.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Day 73
I woke up at about 4:50am and decided to go row at 24. This is my last rowing day of the week. I went 8000m again and it took 39:36 so a little faster than yesterday.
I think today was pretty stressful at school. There were 4 types of problems to show the geometry kids how to do in 45 minutes. Ugh. Too much information for some of their brains. I did front squats at the gym this afternoon and that went well. Then I went to Downtown Disney to kill some time until I met a friend to hang out. Well that's when things started to get bad. I decided to get a Jamba Juice and that ended up ok because it didn't spin out of control but for about 10 minutes it really felt like it could. I end up in situations and I'm asking myself, What are you doing? It's not good. So that's when I feel like I want to eat myself out of the bad situation. But that never works. It's a terrible plan. So I need to practice not getting into "bad" situations. It's sooo difficult.
I slept through the night last night. Yay. I know it's too early for me to sleep but if I stay up I'm still going to want to eat for some reason. Crazy.
I think today was pretty stressful at school. There were 4 types of problems to show the geometry kids how to do in 45 minutes. Ugh. Too much information for some of their brains. I did front squats at the gym this afternoon and that went well. Then I went to Downtown Disney to kill some time until I met a friend to hang out. Well that's when things started to get bad. I decided to get a Jamba Juice and that ended up ok because it didn't spin out of control but for about 10 minutes it really felt like it could. I end up in situations and I'm asking myself, What are you doing? It's not good. So that's when I feel like I want to eat myself out of the bad situation. But that never works. It's a terrible plan. So I need to practice not getting into "bad" situations. It's sooo difficult.
I slept through the night last night. Yay. I know it's too early for me to sleep but if I stay up I'm still going to want to eat for some reason. Crazy.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Day 72
I rowed 8000m today at the gym after doing power cleans and burpee box jumps. I rowed slowly and took breaks to get the sweat off my hands. TMI, I know. The 8000m took 41:16, way slower than when I don't take any breaks.
I ate alright today. I had a brief fleeting thought to buy and then gobble a bunch of food down. I'm not entirely sure why I had that feeling but I didn't give in to it. I'm trying to go 30 days without an eating spree. I don't mind eating less than ideal food...and as I write that I'm thinking who are you kidding, yeah you do. I can't do it because then my mind deems the day a "fail" and it gives me license to screw up even more. I physically feel bad after that and I feel even worse mentally. So yeah, no straying too far from the "eating plan", as my brother calls it, for me for the next few weeks. The good news is that today is day 10. Gotta keep on going.
Didn't sleep through the night last night. Tonight I try again. But not until I input Geometry quiz scores. Yay...I think.
I ate alright today. I had a brief fleeting thought to buy and then gobble a bunch of food down. I'm not entirely sure why I had that feeling but I didn't give in to it. I'm trying to go 30 days without an eating spree. I don't mind eating less than ideal food...and as I write that I'm thinking who are you kidding, yeah you do. I can't do it because then my mind deems the day a "fail" and it gives me license to screw up even more. I physically feel bad after that and I feel even worse mentally. So yeah, no straying too far from the "eating plan", as my brother calls it, for me for the next few weeks. The good news is that today is day 10. Gotta keep on going.
Didn't sleep through the night last night. Tonight I try again. But not until I input Geometry quiz scores. Yay...I think.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Day 71
I was stressed out about how today would go and it was fine. I work at a great school and I'm happy. I did get an unlisted number trying to call me at about 8:50pm and that was slightly unnerving since they didn't leave a message but I'm not going to worry too much about it.
Today was an off day from the gym and it turned out fine. No eating crazy. It was a productive afternoon on all levels. I haven't been up this late in awhile and I'm pretty tired. Hopefully tonight I can sleep all the way through.
Today was an off day from the gym and it turned out fine. No eating crazy. It was a productive afternoon on all levels. I haven't been up this late in awhile and I'm pretty tired. Hopefully tonight I can sleep all the way through.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Day 70
I rowed this morning. I did not play my flute at church. There was too much going on in my brain...and I had a backed up sink to worry about.
The rowing is an interesting experience. I know I rowed 4 sets of 800m with 2 minutes rest about a month ago but I didn't look at any of my times until I got home this afternoon. So this morning I rowed 3:16, 3:07, 3:05, and 3:04 at the end. Huh, so this rowing plan "works" I guess because a month ago my fastest time was 3:07. After the second round this morning I didn't think I could go any faster and I definitely didn't think the last 800m would be the fastest. I've said it before but I think I'll say it again so my brain can keep remembering...our bodies will do way more than we think they are capable of. But I still think it's crazy every single time it happens.
I'm taking tomorrow off from the gym instead of Tuesday so we'll see how that works. Oh and I'm thinking about "running" in the catalina marathon in November. It's dumb but I think I want to do a marathon purely to say that I did. I'm really not that kind of person so I dunno. I figure if I'm going to "run" 26.2 miles that it should be on trails mostly. They have an 8 hour limit. I'm thinking I'll walk a bunch of it. But I still don't know. We'll see.
The rowing is an interesting experience. I know I rowed 4 sets of 800m with 2 minutes rest about a month ago but I didn't look at any of my times until I got home this afternoon. So this morning I rowed 3:16, 3:07, 3:05, and 3:04 at the end. Huh, so this rowing plan "works" I guess because a month ago my fastest time was 3:07. After the second round this morning I didn't think I could go any faster and I definitely didn't think the last 800m would be the fastest. I've said it before but I think I'll say it again so my brain can keep remembering...our bodies will do way more than we think they are capable of. But I still think it's crazy every single time it happens.
I'm taking tomorrow off from the gym instead of Tuesday so we'll see how that works. Oh and I'm thinking about "running" in the catalina marathon in November. It's dumb but I think I want to do a marathon purely to say that I did. I'm really not that kind of person so I dunno. I figure if I'm going to "run" 26.2 miles that it should be on trails mostly. They have an 8 hour limit. I'm thinking I'll walk a bunch of it. But I still don't know. We'll see.
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