Training update

(Missy here)

I can’t believe it’s been almost a week since we did an update. Here’s a little bit about what we’ve been doing (or as much as we can remember).

Wednesday: We can’t remember. Which means we don’t think we did anything. My sister was in town and so we had to go out to eat with her and my brother and were forced into not exercising. Really.

Thursday: I did the 30 Day Shred in the morning. Pat biked to and from work.

Friday: I did the 30 Day Shred in the evening.  I introduced my mom to Jillian on Friday night too. (You can do it mom! Dad, I dare you to beat me in the 5K!)

Saturday: I did the 30 Day Shred in the morning (level 2! YA!) and Pat and I played tennis in the evening.

Sunday: We had our work party at a water park.  I held 30 pounds of child and did squats in the wave pool for an insane amount of time. That’s gotta count for something.  We also did the batting catches. That level of humiliation has got to count for something too.

Today: I did the 30 Day Shred and Pat went on a bike ride when he got home from work.

We’ve been doing really good on our eating. Not snacking as much and when we do snack we’ve been choosing a healthy snack instead of a bag of chocolate or chips.  And most of the time no seconds at meals.

Unfortunately though I did awful today.  It was a really stressful day at work and I am a complete emotional eater. There were leftover cookies from Friday and leftover pop from our summer work party this weekend and since I had no will power today I had both. Actualy 2 cookies since we’re being so honest.

One thing that helped me kick this whole exercise, eating healy attitude into gear is that I started focusing on the fact that my overeating (and yes I overeat) was mainly becuase I’m an emotional eater. I would eat extra when Pat and I were fighting or when I was stressed at work.  So when I focused on the “why” of my eating, I could calm  myself down, pray and ask God for strength to get through the stressful time (without food) and remind myself that I wasn’t hungry. It’s been working great. Until today.

But tomorrow’s a new day.  And I worked extra hard when I did 30 Day Shred tonight. Ouch.

Friday is payday and we’ll be registering for the 5K that’s on September 12th. Then there’s no turning back.  We haven’t done our 1.2 mile loop in over a week, since I’ve been doing the 30 Day Shred each day. I’m anxious to see how it goes.  And of course, we’ll keep you posted.