Beck80’s Journey to Better Health

Once again a slow week workout wise. I did run on the treadmill Tuesday for 20 minutes, so that was good.That was the only thing I did. But I did watch my diet. Had 2 migraines yesterday and 1 today. Plus I am coming down with a cold. I am happy to say that I have been drinking a lot of water and have maintained my wieght.
Our L.A. trip is 9 weeks out (plus or minus a few days) and I have found a 5k race in the valley scheduled for May 10 (we leave May 28). So training for that will take care of my cardio and I am planning on doing a full body workout I found in an old Oxygen mag. 3 days a week. I found another 5k in August so that I will continue training and not just stop in May. I am hoping to add the 3 day split I was wanting to do when we get back from L.A. Anyway…

Our L.A. trip is comingup fast and I’ve been fairly stagnant the last several weeks. I have been going to my friends house and using her elliptical machine about 5 days a week, but lifting hasn’t really happened. It’s a time management issue and i know it. Still trying to work on it. I’m using fitday.com to log my food. It’s a lot easier since I don’t have to try to add calories and macros plus it gives me what percent of my daily total my macros fell in. I am aiming for 30% protein, 30% fat and 40% carbs. I had a bad migraine on Monday, so didn’t workout. Yesterday i was babysitting and looking for vacation rentals around L.A. and my head was still bugging me, so again didn’t workout. I am aiming for this afternoon after one of the kids has a dr. app. to head over and do the elliptical. Tomorrow and Saturday I am going to try to get up with my sister and go for a run in the morning. Somehow i will get in a strength workout too. I think I will have to do a full body workout. Then next week try a 3 day split.

Yesterday was a ROUGH day! I was so glad when JOhn got home so I could head out to the gym and let him deal with the kids!! I love them, but not every day is a great day and yesterday was sure one of them. So I did a back workout:

Barbell deadlift  100×10,90×12,90×12,80×15,70×20
Straight arm lat pulldown 50×12,50×11,40×15,40×12
Decline Pullover 30×15,25×15,20×20,15×20
Lat pulldown 70×10,60×12,50×15,40×20

After I was done, I thought I might have gone a little high on deadlift, but I feel fine this morning, so it was okay. My shoulders are a little sore/stiff this morning though. When John and I got up I had a migraine (though I suspect it was more of a tension headache now) so I took one of my pills and settled into the recliner. Couldn’t get comfy, so went back to bed and had the heating pad on my shoulders. That helped at lot. Now I have to figure out when I can workout today.

I kept track of my diet yesterday and here it is:

Coconut protein shake, 1 cup of cheerios with 1/2 cup of fat free milk
360 cal. 1.8g fat  46g carbs 41.5g protein

Lemon protein bar
160 cal. 3g fat 24g carbs 14g protein

Escalloped chicken & noodles
450 cal. 22g fat 43g carb 19g protein

Chocolate pudding, 1 medium banana
228 cal. 4g fat 48g carb 3g protein

turkey tetrazzini
450 cal 23g fat 38g carb 23 g protein

post-workout/pre-bed protein shake
320 cal. .6g fat 20g carb 59g protein

Totals:
1968 cal. 54.5g fat (yikes!) 219g carbs 159.5g protein

92oz. water and I took my vitamins

Obviously I can do better (like not having 2 frozen dinners in one day), but i am not going to beat myself up over going over a little. I’m just going to promise myself to do better today. Okay, now I need to go get an XS so I can wake up more! Those migraine pills make me feel super drained!