Reflection on Week 12 of 52

Sunday Weigh In: 211.6

Wow, what a day, what a weekend. I am so physically tired, my body is aching. My mind is the opposite of my body, it is strong and I am feeling good. This weekend was a sort of cleansing, a preparation for moving onto my next phase this year. First let me reflect on last week.

I did great in my exercise, I skipped Friday, but made up for it on Saturday by running a 10K. I ran 6.5 miles in 85 minutes. Around mile three though I had to walk at a 3.5 because my right knee was on fire, I literally buckled on the treadmill and had to pause for a moment in order to stretch. It was so weird. I hate having this knee pain. I just told myself, two more miles, one more mile, next weekend you can heal at the hot springs. The 6.5 miles was great, it was something I have been looking forward too, despite the knee pain. I know I can work through this. I took some meds, did a self massage, and rubbed on arnica gel. It feels good now, but hurt a little bit today while I was playing tennis. We rode our bikes around town today, played tennis for about 30 minutes, and took a 30 minute walk. It was a great fun day. I also cleaned the house, which took all day, blah! I took a two hour break though to do those aforementioned fun things.

I would like to say that my core exercises were awesome this week. I also upped the weight on my free weights from 5 lbs to 8lbs for my arms. It felt great to go up three pounds, a better work out. Even though I felt totally on target this week, I gained three pounds. It's understandable though due to last week's party extravagenaza and then last past Friday we ordered in lunch at work, plus I had some drinks and snacks this week. No problem, exercise was awesome, I just didn't do to well on food. These next three weeks will be very hard too. Next weekend, we are going to Pagosa Hot Springs for three nights for our anniversary. Of course there will be lots of wine and lots of chocolate, amongst other indulgent yummy foods. I will try to restrain myself. Then my mom is coming in the weekend after that, we usually go out to eat a lot, but I will try to keep on track. If I keep the exercise going, I should be fine.

Like I mentioned, I think I am moving into a new phase. I feel like in my day to day food selection, I am making better choices and I am also understanding nutrition. I am enjoying this process in seeing what works for me and what doesn't. More on my next phase later. On to next week's plan.