So this past week has been sort of weird. I have been consistent with writing down everything I am eating and drinking, and made time to get 5 hard workouts in, but still came up a little short on the scale this week. I am down 0.8 from last week, which is a tick in the right direction, but with the effort I put in, was hoping for at least 2. Everyday that I walked out of the gym or ran, I truly felt that I gave all I had. One of the days had me still shaking 2 hours later. Though mildly annoyed this morning, I am putting it behind me and looking to a new week. I know that I made some not so smart choices this week, and need to look back on where those were. For starters, I worked overtime last week. Generally, this wouldn't be too big of a deal, but often times at work there is temptation everywhere. I'm pretty certain that all 4 days I was there someone had either brought donuts or cake to the office. I am good at saying no to temptation initially, but when they then sit in front of you for 12 hours and you are tired at the end of the shift, temptation wins. It beat me many of those days. I was able to scale back to "a piece of" as opposed to the whole thing, but over time, I know they add up.
The other struggle this week was that my aunt has come in from Tucson to spend some time with my dad. It has been amazing to get to see her and spend time with her, but of course comes with getting less sleep and taking her places that you cannot find out west...seafood, Richardson's, Tuck's candy shop, "good pizza."
On the plus side, she has been taking care of mom and dad like a champ every day, which has given me some time to focus on me and get in solid workouts. I finally broke my usual 11min/ mile and got in 4 at an average 10:50/ mile pace. I'm hoping I can carry that for the race in a few weeks, though yesterday doing 7 didn't have much luck. I have just under 4 weeks left, so I'll be working towards that. To do so, and get myself a little more on track, I started training again. I've had a couple random sessions since I started at BodyCo, but really do want to work toward some solid goals and feeling like I can keep up in runs and in classes and not being the random girl in the back falling apart. I start tomorrow, so I'm sure I'll have updates soon. :-)
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