I must admit, I think I did pretty well on holiday. I gained 2 pounds... so that's OK. But the MRI results have curtailed alot.... and for me, that's not a good thing. I'll be hopping on the bike this weekend, but let's face it, one or two days a week isn't going to cut it. I did the LiveStrong Challenge 5K and then did the Silent 5K (or 4 miles... ) just a few days later. Since the scolding from someone who went to school for a very long time and seeing the MRI. Nada.
I have the IronGirl 10K in September around Greenlake, the Leavenworth Half Marathon in October and the family reunion... errrr ... the Las Vegas Half Marathon in December. Gotta get some cardio going and SOON. I had to relinquish the windtrainer back to its rightful owner, and I'm a little bummed about that. But I'll look on Craigslist and see if someone is tired of theirs. :)
Ultimately, I need to eat better. Overall, it's not T E R R I B L E ... but it definitely has opportunity for improvement. And the extra
10 pounds I'm carrying isn't helping anything to heal and certainly not improving my self confidence.
I found a book today that I'll be picking up this weekend: In Defense of Food, An Eater's Manifesto.
Here's what caught my eye "Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?
Because most of what we're consuming today is not food, and how we're consuming it -- in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone -- is not really eating. Instead of food, we're consuming "edible foodlike substances" -- no longer the products of nature but of food science. Many of them come packaged with health claims that should be our first clue they are anything but healthy. In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become.
But if real food -- the sort of food our great grandmothers would recognize as food -- stands in need of defense, from whom does it need defending? From the food industry on one side and nutritional science on the other. Both stand to gain much from widespread confusion about what to eat, a question that for most of human history people have been able to answer without expert help. Yet the professionalization of eating has failed to make Americans healthier. Thirty years of official nutritional advice has only made us sicker and fatter while ruining countless numbers of meals."
Interesting stuff huh ? I'll let you know how the read is...
The other book I wanna scope out is by Bethenny Frankel called "Naturally Thin". I thumbed through it at Borders the other day and should have bought it.
After reading reviews, it sounds like there are some great tips - 10 rules - to follow and basically portion control.
"If you have to rely on a regimen, a menu, strict rules, or even a book to tell you what to do and what to eat, you aren't going to stick with it. You don't need something to control your life. You just need some tools that will help you regain control. After all, it's your body. You can change it if you want to change it.
Notice that I don't say you are going to need willpower. I say control because that's exactly what I mean. You are your own person. You are in control of what you do. You have the power. It's your body, your life, your mind, your food. You have control over what you choose to do and how you choose to act. The problem with diets is that they give you the idea that someone else is controlling you: a famous guy tells a famous girl what to eat; or a diet plan somebody wrote for you tells you how many cups of this and how many tablespoons of that you can eat.I talk about a lot of things, from what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner to handling special occasions, travel, and cooking at home. What do you do when faced with a gigantic muffin at Starbucks? What do you do when you have to find a meal at a convenience store? How do you handle a breakfast buffet without panicking or gaining ten pounds in one sitting? What do you do about happy hour? It's all covered here.
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