Hungry as a Horse
I couldn’t help myself today. I was at work, and even after a good meal I was still starving. I ended up just eating out of boredom. It was alright at first, I had some peas and carrots and a nice piece of pork. After that tho I just ate whatever was handy, chips, cookies, peache cups. I just didnt feel full or satisfied. So I finally got put on something to do and I stopped eating. But then for breakfast, rather than my normal smart start cereal and couple pieces of ham or what not, I had total raisin bran, coco puffs, a banana nut muffin, english mussin with ham, just random ass stuff. To top it all off I was drinking water like I had been treking through the desert for days. Well I thought that when I got to the gym I was going to weigh in to account for it, but to my suprise I was only 177. Which isn’t bad at all. I have gradually been losing and its awesome. I have 2 more pounds to lose by the 31st to reach my goal. I think it may be safe to say that I’ll make it. I may possibly set my goal to 170 and use that as a moderate weight level. Who knows.
As for today’s training, I ran 4 miles. The first half mile or so I had a slow jog, just going through the motion mentality going on. I was just going to do 3 miles to warm up before the gym, but it’s always about this point in my run that my breathing regulates and my stride evens out. Then I just push it. I got to that mile and a half turn around point and decided to just keep on going, I had a great sweat going, and I didn’t want to stop. I ran to the 2 mile mark and turned around. This was about 15 minutes. So I did what anyone would do, I raced myself back. I crossed the finish at 28′ 35". so basically I smoke checked myself by 1′ 25". Not too bad for it being the second leg of the 4 miler. However I do have to account for the sand bagging that I did for that first half mile. I don’t really think it was but 30 seconds worth, but it’s accountable.
After that I went to the gym for my normal ab routine, which involved as much, if not more, sweating as the run. I was hurtin. I love getting to that point in a workout where you can just see the pain in the persons face. And boy was I there a few times. I’m definately feeling tighter abs tho. Any recommendations for really making the abs "pop" tho. That’s definately what I want. It’s only been about 7-8 weeks of really training, and maybe 5-6 of doing my focusing on my abs, I know it takes time. I just like to know what works for other people.
It’s definately bed time tho. The alarm sounds in about 6 hours for work. ouch.
December 8, 2007 at 5:32 am
Glad to hear somebody else has days like this. There are some days, especially after a few weeks of hard workouts, that I am so hungry that I eat anything I can get my hands on all day long. It’s more likely happen if I either am not getting enough sleep or if I drink alcohol. To avoid blowing my form away on days like this, I try not to keep any empty carbs or high-fat foods in my house.