A day in my life: Sunday November 29th 2009

Health week 48:

Goal 1 (lose weight every week):
Weight result November 26^th:. : +0.3 kg/+0.6 lbs

 

Goal 2 (eat healthy every day):
Monday: Pink, Tuesday: Purple, Wednesday: Pink, Thursday: Purple, Friday: Orange, Saturday: Purple, Sunday: ?

Pink (my favourite colour) day = good day. I only eat healthy food and exercised.
Purple day = okay day. I did eat healthy but didn’t exercise or I didn’t eat completely healthy but did exercise.
Orange day = I’m in trouble. I didn’t eat healthy and I didn’t exercise.

As soon as I start the new WW program I will change this goal in daily points totals.

 

Goal 3 (work-out 5 times a week):
Monday: Matt Roberts weight loss plan, week 1, training 1
Tuesday: –
Wednesday: Interval training, 4K run
Thursday: –
Friday: –
Saturday: St. Nicolaasloop, 5K
Sunday: –

Goals week 48:
1)       Workout 5 times -> no, 3 times
2)       Get at least 5 pink days -> only 2
3)       Get 7 hours sleep a night -> yes every night

Thoughts:
Cessie about your question if being busy makes me feel if I eat less healthy. The answer is no, I just don’t make the right choices for my dinners. My breakfast and lunches are always healthy. I need to go back to cooking more light dinners than I do now.

Still waiting for the new WW program to be launched online. I’ve read that it’s launched on December 5^th. I’m starting with counting as soon as it’s online. Don’t see much use in working with the present program as it’s changing shortly.

 

Exercise:

St. Nicolaasloop Bunschoten

Yesterday there was this run. Start was at 5 minutes walking from home. When I got up it rained hard. So I’ve waited till 10 am and then the rain radar said it should be dry for at least half the run. So I did sign in at 10 am, went home and put on my running clothes and R. and I went there around 11 am.
Start was 11.10 am so we didn’t have to wait long.

There weren’t many competitors, 248 over 3 distances. It didn’t rain my entire run but there was a very strong wind (what’s new lately). I passed a few right at the beginning and from that moment I didn’t let anybody pass me. There were 3 ladies behind me and after half the run I heard them talking behind me so they were catching up with me. I thought to myself “no way they are going to pass me” so I ran a bit faster and stayed in front of them till the finish. I finished in 35.12 which is a new PR for me at a 5K run. I think I could have finished faster if there hadn’t been so much wind. And ……….. I didn’t finish last this time, there were at least 10 more people behind me.

It was a great run, my legs felt great and I was very happy with my finishing time. At the end we’ve got a can with a spiced cook in it.

As a reward I gave myself today off from working out.

Sinterklaas was the starter of the run:

Zwarte Piet did a run around the track too:

First round around the track, I’m the one with the blue hat:

Almost at the finish line, I always look terrible at the finish line 😆

The gift: a can with the cookie in it. The picture on the can is a picture from a run which is held in May in my village.

 

The Ultimate Diet Log:
Nutrition tip: Most fruit-flavoured yogurts have little or no fruit but plenty of added sugar. Try adding fresh, canned, no-sugar-added fruit to plain yogurt.

Fitness Factoid: Walking can lower your blood pressure and diabetes risk. In an 8-week-study, woman saw their systolic blood pressure (the top number) drop by 7 points and their diastolic (the bottom number) drop by 5 points after boosting their average daily step count from 5, 000 to 9,200.

Quote: “I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet” Erma Bombeck

 

Positive today:
Actually yesterday but still happy about it today: a new PR on my 5K.

 

Daily Tip/Quote:
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana