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Core Updates

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 Well it’s the end of the first month.  Did you see that on the calendar too?  I only made one goal this year and that was to do my core workouts.  I don’t deny I’ve nearly fallen off my personal bandwagon several times.  But I’ve still managed to do 50 crunches every day or some sort of core workout if I’m more overzealous.   

So long story short…have I made my New Year’s Resolution for January?

Yes.

Was it like pulling C’s in college?

With a few B’s in there too.  A couple guess induced A’s if I’m lucky but C average.

This month with settling in, I hope I’ll be able to do some more stronger core workouts.  Plus my strength training has begun so I’m able to do core and strength together meaning I don’t wait until last minute before bed. Extremely short post from me today.

Question for you:

Have you been making your New Year’s Resolution?  (Though I know most people didn’t make them.).

What is your favorite core workout? 

December Running Goals (?)

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December already?  Well now isn’t that fun?  Every month I say…X month already…where did time go?  Wasn’t it just July and I was celebrating my 22st birthday?  Or last December when I was celebrating finishing my first semester as a health major?  Anyways-December 2012…goals…

I’m literally typing this post on the go because I just found out where and what I’ll be doing. (More on that later but I’m staying in Upstate until June!).  So this makes it extremely easy (minus injuries) to kind of schedule some December goals.  I’ll be home December 12-January 20th.  I plan to take some of my graduation money and go for a personal vacation to Seattle in that time.  (My oldest brother just have a child with his wife so I want to visit!).

Here are the races I tentatively have for December.  I’m focusing on 5ks, I wanted to do the Surf N Santa back home but sadly I can’t leave Upstate in time.

December 15: Santa Run 5k in Binghampton, NY

December 22: Dad and I are going to spectate a 50k and possibly do a longer run.

December 31: Beat the Ball 5k (The race starts at 11:35pm and you try and run a sub 25 minute 5k to beat the ball drop).  (Norfolk, VA)  Last year at this race was the first time I ever ran a sub 6 minute mile!  

My goals for December are easy enough I suppose.  I want to continue getting back into running, possibly log some above 60 mile weeks (?) and just keep on keeping on. Doing a few races I think will be beneficial to see where my speed is at, without actually doing any speed work.  I want to get back into weights but I’ve lacked zero motivation for that and zero motivation to be outdoors in the cold.   Which is hard getting back into running during the winter time but whatever.

I guess I don’t really know what I’m saying for this month.  Really, I just want to get back into running high mileage again and this was a roundabout way for me to realize that.   I’ll do another post about the next 6 months about my future soon but as for now, I’ll be in VA in December and most of January and start my job back in Upstate in late January.

Questions for you:  Have you ever been in limbo of life?  What are your goals for the month?  Anyone racing?

Revisiting Goals

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Okay after last night’s episode which involved lots of crying, wailing, thinking and going to a movie (YAY Harry Potter)?  I have come up with an outlined plan for going back to school on Monday.  I have been whining and complaining about the weight I have gained.  But in all honesty, I have been eating like a madwoman.  I could blame it on my exercising but how does eating 20 cookies make a better runner ha.  I have constantly said oh yes-I’ll change and stop eating them and has it happened?

No, no it hasn’t.  I sound like a smoker that just can’t quit.  To think I always thought it would be so easy.  Go cold turkey and you won’t miss it.  Well-I enjoy cold Thanksgiving turkey for one and two I need to let go.  Food shouldn’t control your life, it should make you happy without worry.  Here are my goals revisited:

1.      I will weigh myself every day.  For now this is what will get me back on track.  Having 10 pounds glaring at me (just like when I was running and my legs were rubbing together.)

2.      I will try something new at least 3 times a week.  Experiment-live a little, new recipe new something.

3.      I will have a different breakfast once a week that does not include French toast, waffles or PANCAKES.  I will not have any of them for lunch or dinner either.  I really do need to learn my life will go on if I don’t have the food at all during the day.  I will name it weird Wednesdays.  Which brings me to my next objective, please share your favorite breakfast recipe.  Advertise it here and I promise you, I will try it.

4.      I will also stop complaining like it’s my job.  There is no one to blame and make excuses for.  And who enjoys complaining blogs?  Not I.

Goal time: January 1st.  I leave for Puerto Rico with swim team.  We go on a yearly training trip and will be in a bathing suit all day everyday for 7 days.  I will be confident enough to rock it.  Since I have gained this weight, I have been stressed and not confident in myself and I have been having low self esteem.

It isn’t because of the actual weight that I put on but more of how fast It happened and how I did it.

But that isn’t the only reason believe me.  Feeling very full all the time isn’t the most pleasant feeling in the world.  So I have changed my time frame to lead into January 1st.

Day 1:

So I thought I was doong well by going to the pool…I wish I had actually looked at the practice beforehand.

1000 warmup

4X200Kick-Swim-Drill-Swim

800 Pull

2X1000 Free Interval (12 minutes)

(400-300-200-100 IM)

400 Cooldown

Those timed 1000s actually weren’t as bad I thought.  We hadn’t done any the entire season so I knew it was a matter of time.  Now just weight for the 2 mile swim we will have sometime this year.

 

Anywho-I’m up on the eastern shore of VA at my parent’s other house.  My mom is doing a craft show so we decided to haul our butts up with her and visit the other house.  I shall post a blog tomorrow or sometime soon of all my delicious eats up here.  I love love love seafood and the Eastern Shore of Va/Maryland has some of the best Seafood in my opinion/.

 

What is your favorite type of seafood?

I like salmon, flounder, crab and scallops.  I also really enjoy imitation crab at Chinese Buffets which really bothers Aram.  I find it delicious.

Today I have done really well and avoiding any situations that have put me in danger of binging.  I also been out of the house for a good portion of the day though.  J

Goal Setting

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This is my 101 post. Can you believe it?

Thank-you for everyone for your kind words in the my last blog about my eating. It truly means a lot that there are so many people willing to listen to me. Sometimes that is all you need-someone talk too, vent too and to understand what it is exactly you are going through.

I couldn’t have posted that blog at a better time because in sports psychology the hour after I posted it, we learned about goal setting and how to follow through with goals. I love sports psychology because we learn so much information that can be in any other aspect of your life (such as now).

So here is what I learned. In order to succeed and achieve goals, you need to set three different types of goals.

1. An outcome goal-This could be something such as winning a race or a long term goal like living binge free.
2. Performance goals-This is a goal that you either do or you don’t. You either break twenty minutes running a 5k or you don’t. For my purposes this is going to be avoiding binging for the next month. It will either happen or it won’t.
3. Process goals- These are individual aspects of your performance. In swimming a good process goal for me would be to hold my streamlines longer, in running to always look up. (I look at my feet too much)
For this purpose though, I will have two process goals. My first process goal is to be more active when I get an urge to just keep eating and remove myself from the situation. My other performance goal is too not eat the same things every single day. To not make pancakes every day of my life, to not have a Panini for lunch and then go crazy at dinner.

We also learned about common problems of goal setting such as not providing follow-up, failing to set specific goals and setting too many goals too soon. A major problem I have is the all of nothing technique where I set too many goals too soon. It is unrealistic for me to say-no eating sweets, not eating at the dining hall, no going out to eat, only eat this and that because quite frankly I’ll be overwhelmed with one of the goals. That is why I am taking the slow and steady wins the race.

The meet this weekend-I didn’t eat at the dining hall on Friday or Saturday which was good for me.


What are your goals in swimming, running, eating, working out, life in general?

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Eats:

Yesterday Aram suggested we go try that diner that I was not a fan of a while ago. I must search around for the post but anyways-long story short we went and they were out of pancakes. Then there were out of steak…and so I had a not tasty chicken parmesan.

Today we went for breakfast and I had oatmeal pancakes. They came with seriously a half cup of butter on top. I am not a fan of that much or really any butter on my pancakes so I pushed it away. The texture of butter reminds me of mayonnaise and I just cannot eat it. Don’t ask me how I put two and two together.

They were pretty good-not my favorite but not awful by any stretch. I think I have honestly become a bit biased and just love my Foxy Roxy diner and judge everything based on them. It is kind of like that boyfriend you had that judge everyone else on. What a bad idea. Anywho-they were good so don’t let me convince you otherwise. I would recommend going for breakfast but nothing else ha. They made me wonder why I haven’t cooked oatmeal pancakes in a while.

I also went to the gym (but it was only because Aram guilted me into going…) I needed to run, I did, but it was so chilly out I wasn’t in the mood to leave my house. I am glad he decided to go and I ended up running for 7 miles on the treadmill and doing some core exercises.

We went to the dining hall right after. Today, they had (of course) my two favorite foods…besides pancakes. Steak and gnocchi. I had two bowls of gnocchi and two pieces of steak. As much as that sounds like, it is an improvement for me. I would normally just keep eating the gnocchi and steak until my belly was completely full and uncomfortable and then go for dessert (which they had about 10 different types of yummy looking pie). But I avoided the dessert all together. So I consider it a success.

Questions for you.

What is your favorite Thanksgiving recipe and tell me your goals!