Drinking, Running, and Cookies
Two times a mile tonight. That’s 2 x 1600 meters for those of you who have joined the 21st century and are hip to the latest distances. First one was in 6:31 and the second was 6:37. My plan was to run the first one close to 7 minutes and the second one under 6:30. That obviously didn’t happen. Actually had a little hard time breathing on the second one - I was nervous for some silly reason, thinking that I might not be able to run the second interval as fast or faster than the first. Look what happened. Oh well.
Today is the second day I have weighed 183 pounds. I think the weekend cookie bing has kicked in. Seems I have a weakness for chocolate chip cookies. The best way I can think to fix this problem is to not have cookies in the house. Only one problem with that, I have a family.
I guess I am going to have to suck it up and realize that the world just doesn’t revolve around me. It would so much easier to not pig out if I didn’t have the opportunity. Put that’s not how it works, I have a family that likes chocolate cookies and can control their eating. I’m going to have to leave the cookies alone. Don’t touch the cookies. Still, what can I do to tame the beast inside me that decides to wolf down the cookies when they sit there on the counter oh so innocently?
Enough cookie talk, lets get back to the water issue. 64 ounces of water - in addition to whatever I drink - is a lot of drinking. I think I need to pace myself a little better, I start off with a bang in the morning trying to “bank” some water early so I can slow down later in the day. I pay the price. By the time late afternoon rolls around, I am not over productive, got to visit the restroom frequently. And the drive home - don’t get me started.
A better approach for drinking water to lose weight is to have a nice steady drinking pace throughout most of the day with a strong finish before the thirty minute drive home. If I can fill up with water on the ride home, dinner won’t be such a big event. By big event, I mean I won’t feel like stuffing myself. That’s the current drinking theory anyway.
That’s enough talking for one day. Eat less, drink more.
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Two times a mile tonight. That’s 2 x 1600 meters for those of you who have joined the 21st century and are hip to the latest distances. First one was in 6:31 and the second was 6:37. My plan was to run the first one close to 7 minutes and the second one under 6:30. That obviously didn’t happen. Actually had a little hard time breathing on the second one - I was nervous for some silly reason, thinking that I might not be able to run the second interval as fast or faster than the first. Look what happened. Oh well.
Today is the second day I have weighed 183 pounds. I think the weekend cookie bing has kicked in. Seems I have a weakness for chocolate chip cookies. The best way I can think to fix this problem is to not have cookies in the house. Only one problem with that, I have a family.
I guess I am going to have to suck it up and realize that the world just doesn’t revolve around me. It would so much easier to not pig out if I didn’t have the opportunity. Put that’s not how it works, I have a family that likes chocolate cookies and can control their eating. I’m going to have to leave the cookies alone. Don’t touch the cookies. Still, what can I do to tame the beast inside me that decides to wolf down the cookies when they sit there on the counter oh so innocently?
Enough cookie talk, lets get back to the water issue. 64 ounces of water - in addition to whatever I drink - is a lot of drinking. I think I need to pace myself a little better, I start off with a bang in the morning trying to “bank” some water early so I can slow down later in the day. I pay the price. By the time late afternoon rolls around, I am not over productive, got to visit the restroom frequently. And the drive home - don’t get me started.
A better approach for drinking water to lose weight is to have a nice steady drinking pace throughout most of the day with a strong finish before the thirty minute drive home. If I can fill up with water on the ride home, dinner won’t be such a big event. By big event, I mean I won’t feel like stuffing myself. That’s the current drinking theory anyway.
That’s enough talking for one day. Eat less, drink more.
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