My stomach is screwed

I'll spare the details.

Still feeling shitty.

Running a race on Saturday is looking really unlikely.

Balls balls balls

FML

Etc

My dog is a little legend

He somehow opened my bedroom door early this morning and has been cuddling with me ever since. 

I can't really ask for anything more when I'm not feeling well. 

I love you, little Mer. 

Urgh

I feel terrible today.

I have a headache and I feel sick and hot.

Slept most of yesterday so I didn't run.

Today I've eaten half a sandwich and a medium mocha (that I nursed for the whole morning).

Great times.

5k on Saturday. I really wanted to cut 5 mins from my time but I feel like that's impossible right now :(

Fastest run ever

But also the shortest. Lol. 

No energy in the tank. 

Might take Merlin out later for a proper walk. 

Weigh-in #4 - 2014

This week I stayed the same. 

Cool. 

Not terrible, but not excellent. Obviously I need to up my game and pay more attention to Le diet. 

Life learning is haaaaard. 

Weight lost 2014: 3.75 lbs
Loss from HW: 28.75 lbs

Went to sleep at 5

That was awesome. Not. 

Been cleaning since 10. About to go for a short run. 

Planning on going tomorrow too so I don't wanna kill myself too much today. Also, tired. 

I ate a treacle and oat biscuit about an hour ago to give me some energy. 

Last night we had chicken breast with a red pepper and cream sauce, crushed carrots with coriander and potatoes cooked in stock and onions (I forget the French name for it). 

I'm probably gonna eat Chinese takeaway for dinner. Not even ashamed. Well, kinda. Haters gon' hate

Just watched Legally Blonde

I have such a cool life.

I watched The Beach before that. I'd never seen it before and I thought it was pretty good.

It's 4am.

This not sleeping is really trying to screw up my running plans.

Not impressed.

Can't sleep

Recurring theme, isn't it?

That, not running as much as I should, and being exhausted.

Welcome to my life.

Cheeseburger for lunch

Not too bad, right? Meat, cheese and bread?

No?

Okay.

#fatty

Treated myself

To a mocha for breakfast. 

Omg, so yum. Haven't had one in a while. 

I reckon it has about a days worth of sugar in it. Oh well. 

Yesterday I had a latte, 3 boiled eggs, 2 crispbreads with peanut butter, an apple with a cube of cheese and chicken breast with salad and mint yogurt sauce. 

Family ordered fish and chips, I had the chicken and salad. Weird. I love fish and chips but I wasn't feeling anything greasy. 

My dinner was lush though. 

Anyway, off to enjoy my coffee and do some work. 

Happy Friday!

I ran, finally

A ridiculously slow 2.68 miles. 

Seriously. 

My pace was at 14:54/mile. Nearly 2 min/mile slower than my pace on Sunday and only 0.68 mile further. 

Whaaaaaat is going on?! 

Glad I hauled my ass out, though. 

Not glad that after approximately 1.5 miles I started to need the toilet. By the time 2 miles came around I was doing the butt clench jog. 

I was going to try 4 miles today, but that happened, so yeah. 

STOP EVADING ME, 4. I WILL COME FOR YOU. 

Now to bath and de-sweatify myself.

Food yesterday

Things wot I ate.

Breakfast - Latte, not pictured.

Lunch - Sushi, edamame, soup. Epic yum. 

Snack - Apple & cheese

 

Dinner - Gammon with orange & veg

Didn't run. Haven't run since Sunday.

This is bad.

I've been so tired the last few days, sleeping like crazy and feel like I'm getting a cold. No energy. Blah.

Must try harder.

Forgetting things

Forgot to blog, forgot to log my runs on Jantastic.

Good job, me.

Still eating healthy food. Just haven't been bothered to take pics or write about it the last 2 days.

Will resume shortly, never fear.

The one time I was really geared up for body pump

And I leave work too late to go. 

Bahhhhhhh. So annoyed.

I really didn't feel like running today

I managed to haul my ass out with some words of encouragement from friends in WhatsApp. So much love for those guys.

I thought I'd just do a mile and see how I felt. Ended up doing two miles. Got a new PB on time for it. Slowly getting fasterrrrrrrrr..

It was hard for me, not gonna lie. I still haven't run for 3 miles straight since the first time. 4 miles is even more elusive. Oh well, I'll get there eventually. 

Now I'm going to relax in my bubble bath. 

Shiiiiiit dude

I just realised that my next 5k is 2 weeks away and I've not really improved in speed for that distance at all. I've only improved in that I can actually jog it all (on a good day), but it's slow.

Damnit, February was so far away in December!

Must get a decent run in tomorrow.  I've wanted to do get a 4 mile in since the day I did 3 without stopping. Today is definitely not that day, but tomorrow might be.

Crapcrapcrap.

2 weeks.

Maybe the race adrenaline will make me faster.

Need to get all my runs in next week for sure. This week has been terrible, I only ran once.

Blah.

Weigh-in #3 - 2014

Loss this week: 2.5lbs

Yay!

Very happy with this, although I'm concerned that I might be slightly dehydrated from last night and that is skewing the results.

Oh well.

Weight lost 2014: 3.75 lbs
Loss from HW: 28.75 lbs
Inches lost 2014: 2.5


Seeing the word 'lost' so much looks funny. As in, weight 'lost' makes me think of something you want to find.

It should definitely be something like "weight disposed of" instead.

Tired ramblings...

Friday

Friday started with a coffee. Croissants and cakes were had in the office, but I didn't have any.

Win.

For lunch, we had Italian. It was excellent. I had veal in breadcrumbs with zucchini and it was DELICIOUS.

But then I felt sick for the rest of the afternoon. And tired. Always tired.

Friday night, I went out for my friends' birthday. I was so not in the mood (tired, menstruating, nauseous...) but I went anyway. I had about 3 drinks the whole evening (didn't wanna drink because I wanted to run today), so that was good.

Didn't get home till 4.20am though, so I've pretty much been asleep the whole day. I haven't run today and it's likely that I won't, unless I get a random burst of energy in an hour.

Today I've eaten a cheese sandwich, a packet of pom bears and 3 quality street. I also had a cheese sandwich when I got home this morning. Clearly, I like cheese sandwiches...

I'm going to have steak and chips for dinner tonight. Wooooo. Love steak.

And maybe some ice cream.

So tired (again)

Yesterday was very uneventful. Didn't run (boooooo, fail).

Can't go today because I'm going out tonight.

Hopefully I'll get at least a mile done on both Saturday and Sunday.

Yesterday breakfast was a latte, lunch was leftover thai curry and dinner was a chicken shish kebab with a naan bread & a small handful of chips.

Not too bad, not great.

Breakfast today is a latte again.

Too many lattes...

So tired!

Blah. 

Nothing too exciting happened yesterday.

Food was pretty good. 

Breakfast - 1/2 of a 4 egg omelette with onion, chorizo and ham & a vitamin water (only because I really wanted some kind of juice and this had the least sugar) 

Lunch - bbq pork and sweet potato mash, it was pretty yummy and filling (though the sweet potato mash was only 33% sweet potato and 67% normal potato...) 

Dinner -  Thai curry and rice. You can't really see, but I had the tiniest amount of rice! Also, this rice had more fibre than the brown rice I was going to buy. Awesome. 

Snacks (no pic) - 2 satsumas 

The end. Must go to work now.

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Food (again)

I think I need to stop posting pics of my food for a while. It's kind of boring, no?

Anyway, since I have them, here are the pics from today.

Breakfast - leftover chicken/pork made into a patty with 2 scrambled eggs (please ignore the dirty cooker, thanks)

Lunch - Ham with tomatoes and lettuce, small slice of wholemeal bread and dairylea (not pictured)

Dinner - balsamic fig stuffed pork with buttered spring greens

Snack -  a banana (not pictured)


Dinner was especially yummy. Lunch was pretty boring.

Oh well.

I have the blogger app on my new phone and it works finally, hooray! Points for letting me write posts on the go and upload pics from my phone instead of having to email them to myself EVERY TIME, minus points for not being able to arrange the photos within the text.

Here's a picture of my adorable phone case:

The only downside is that when I take pictures with flash, the white of the case near the camera reflects so the photos aren't clear. Hm.

Anyway, goodnight!

Very slow 3.3 miles done

Urghhh. So slow! 

My ankles started acting up about 10 minutes in. I really wanted to get 4 miles done tonight. 

Oh well, at least I got out. That's the main thing, right? 

I'm currently in the bath. Gonna cook dinner when I'm done. My life is so exciting!

Owwww

Sometimes I suck at life

Definitely didn't make it to the gym tonight.

I gave myself a headache because I was stressing over my phone (which was fixed in the end) and I was pissed and grumpy and I think I needed a snack because I felt a liiiiittle nauseous. I'm also ridic tired from not sleeping till past 2am last night, so there's that.

Fun Monday.

Set my alarm early in an attempt to run in the morning. If I don't make it then I'll get out in the evening.

Wish there were showers at work, I'd totally do my run on lunch.

So today I ate...

Breakfast - large latte (coffee cup not pictured)

Lunch - salmon with watercress, spinach and rocket (no dressing)

Dinner - courgette 'pasta' (just thinly sliced courgette, but it was a pretty good substitute) and turkey/pork meatballs (I lost the other pack of turkey, dunno how, so I used the pork mince instead)

I also had a biscuit.

So there we go. Food, done.

Things that are not cool

When you're eating salmon and there's a bone.

Gag.

Sunday foodings & Monday musings

Late post, couldn't be bothered last night. Sorryyyyyyy.

Here's what I ate.

Brunch - halloumi, bacon, avocado, tomato & basil on durum wheat toast.

Dinner - short rib & ox cheek stew with cabbage & mashed potato

Dessert - strawberry & lychee gateau, mince pie.

 Snacks - an orange & 5 quality street.

Didn't get up early enough to make breakfast since I didn't go to sleep till after 2am (surprise). Merlin also decided to start whining at 6am. Cool.

Got a latte for breakfast. Not winning.

Need to run today since I missed yesterday. This week is a bit annoying because I'm going out Friday for a friend's birthday so I need to fit all my runs in a shorter space of time. I'm gonna try not to drink. Hm.

The gym is booked up for the classes I want. Body Pump has space for tonight (but I need to run tonight) and it's fully booked for Thursday. Annoying. Come March they'll probably have space again.

Maybe I should do Pump tonight and run Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday and Friday so I'll at least get 3 runs in (my exercise week runs Sunday - Saturday, bizarre I know). Definitely not gonna make a Saturday run if I go out on Friday night, regardless of alcohol consumption.  Although me getting up on Friday morning to run is questionable so I might have to suck it up and go on Saturday anyway if I miss Friday.

Scheduling is funnnnnn.

Can't wait till I can actually haul my ass out of bed and run in the mornings again. I miss that.

No run today

Blah, lazy.

I was so tired that I napped away the afternoon.

I think I might be fighting off a cold because this morning I had a random craving for orange juice (I pretty much never drink orange juice) and when I woke up from my nap I inhaled an orange.

Weird.

Oh well, maybe tomorrow. Got 10 miles done this week, which is more than I've done in a while so I'm pretty happy.

Saturdays are my favourite

Apart from the fact that I didn't get to sleep till 4.30am. That's definitely not my favourite.

This morning I weighed in, then cleaned the house with mum before dropping Merlin off (late, eep!) at the groomer. Then we went to get groceries. Eating healthier is definitely cheaper, the shopping bill was about £50 than Mum's usual. Cool times.

I didn't eat until 2pm. I had 2 bridge rolls with ham and cheese (pictured next to my Dad's rolls for size comparison haha) and an almond croissant.

Then, even though I was hella tired, I hauled my ass out to run. With my sweatband. I look like a dick (pictured below for your viewing pleasure). So much pink.

It was shorter than my last, but a lot faster (just over 1min/mile!). I did 2.5 miles total but walked the rest of the way home with a couple of mega short (i.e. 5 - 10 second) sprints.

My overall pace adjusted to the same as my last run so I'm quite pleased (stopped my Garmin after the running part but carried on GPS tracking with the ZR app). I'm sure this means that I'm getting faster.

Even though I'm still slow.

Whateverrrrrrr.

My sweatband was awesome and my face remained nice and dry! Lets see how it holds up for a longer run.

I picked up some steaks for me and my grandma to have for dinner. They were beautiful.

Sexy, sexy steaks

I made a steak sandwich with caramelised onions, ketchup (obv) and homemade oven chips. It was pretty phenomenal.

And now, I'm going to munch on this before I sleep.

Yep, I drink my milk with ice. What?

I sort of feel like I've eaten the worlds supply of sugar today...

And carbs.

But believe it or not, this is much less than I have on the weekends usually. Normally lunch on Saturday is lots of bread and some cake and dinner is usually a takeaway.

Doing better, but there is definitely room for improvement.

Baby steps, baby steps.

Good night, internet. 

Weigh in #2 - 2014

Loss: 1.25 lbs

Wooo, win!

Sucks that it isn't more, but slow and steady wins the race, I guess.

Looking forward to next week!

Loss since 2014 start: 1.25 lbs
Loss from HW: 26.25 lbs

TGIF

I love Fridays. Best weekday.

Today started with large coffees all round

 Lunch was the aforementioned Chinese/Thai food. It was deeeeelicious.

Dinner was plaice with lemon & parsley crumb and vegetables. I also had some challah bread (not pictured) with butter. The fish looks huuuuuuuge. It kinda was.

Some of the things I ordered from Amazon came. Wicked. The foam roller I bought is massive.

I also bought a sweatband. Gonna rock an 80s look with this for sure. I'm gonna be the coolest runner in Watford. Yeahhhhhh buddy.

Gonna watch Supernatural for a bit and try to sleep. I was nearly asleep earlier but then my grandma made a buttload of noise slamming doors and shit (thanks, really).

Plans for the weekend:

Weigh-in (not convinced about this, think I've eaten too much & have salt bloat from the takeout today)
Run (twice, hopefully)
Grocery shop
Take Merlin to the groomer
Clean (ugh)
Bubble bath
Relax
Sleep lots
Not eat crappy food

My life is hella exciting.

Oh, I'm still on my e-cig too. Haven't had a cigarette in ages now. Winnerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

First Fat Friday of 2014...

Food from the Chinese / Thai place was decided upon.

I'm opting for Bangkok chicken (cooked with lemongrass, lime leaf, chilli and a dash of coconut milk) and stir fried mixed vegetables. Seems like the healthiest option aside from the steamed sea bass (but we're having fish tonight so maybe next time).

I reeeeeaaaaally want my usual noodles & ribs. But no. The ribs are deep fried and have a sweet sauce on them, so lots of sugar, lots of bad fat & the noodle portions are massive so hi loads of carbs. It's bloody delicious though.

I'll probably eat that once every month or two cause I can't not eat it ever again...

But today is not that day.

Step 1 for life - learning how to pick the healthy options when a takeaway is being ordered.

Can't sleep

Really, insomnia? Now?

This is very annoying. Maybe I have too much energy after running in the evening?

I ate lots today

Breakfast was a large latte. No picture today.

Lunch was 2 salmon fillets with salad. I had two because one would definitely not have filled me up & I'd have probably snacked on whatever was in the office (mini chocolate bars...)! I had 1.5 at lunch and the other half later in the afternoon.

Dinner was honey mustard chicken thighs with carrot & coriander and sweetcorn fritters. Indulgggggeeent. So delicious. Not terribly unhealthy, only a bit of oil was used in frying the fritters (we had next to none left to begin with...)

There we have it. My day in food.

Friday tomorrow. Woooooooo!!

GUESS WHO JUST DID A 3 MILE JOG WITHOUT STOPPING?!

Yeaaaaah buddy!

Yep, I'm naked & in the bath. Haters gon' hate...

I'm so happy about this, especially considering the catastrophe that was Tuesday's run. I think I could have gone for at least another mile if I'd had something to eat beforehand.

I did stop to walk for max 20 seconds to de-steam my glasses before crossing a road, but I'm totally not counting that as a walk break.

I think today's run was better because I had a half decent stretch before I left the house and set off slowly which gave my legs time to warm up. Gonna do that more often.

I feel like a 10k in May is well within my grasp now!

I'm still very slow, but glad I've got this distance down. Speed will come later with more training.

I just realised

That I'm actually on the waiting list for Body Pump.

Might be running after all this evening...

Yesterday

I was so tired, I couldn't be bothered to blog. Sorry.

I didn't wake up early enough this morning to run. I'm going to do Body Pump tonight instead and either run tomorrow & Sunday or Saturday & Sunday as planned.

I also didn't wake up early enough to make breakfast, so I'm currently nursing a large latte.

Here's what I ate yesterday:


Breakfast - ham & onion omelette. I used 7 eggs in total and gave a slightly bigger plate to my dad. It made tons! Using a wider pan for omelettes is the way forward.

Lunch - a chicken breast with avocado. Simple, but delicious.

Dinner - gammon shank, apple sauce, cabbage & leeks
 

But then.

Then.

Snacks happened.

I had 15 mini breadsticks (6kcal each, 1g carb each) with 1 tbsp Philadelphia.

Not too bad, so far...

Then I had some pom bears and 3 quality street.

Whoooooooops.

Oh well.

Today is a new day.

Foodfoodfood

This is what I ate today. How exciting for you.


Breakfast - apple & sweet potato sausage burger thingies with scrambled eggs

Lunch - leftover chicken with carrots

Pre-shitty run snack - banana and cashews

Dinner - turkey burgers, raw courgette, carrot fries & homemade aioli (I ate most of it and my Dad finished what I'd left haha)

 Bonus - Merlin sitting in a terribly odd position on the stairs

Me pulling a beautiful face in a onesie

Now, I sleep.

Terrible run. GAH.

Seeeeriously.

I was excited to try out my Garmin for the first time today.

I was going to go out for an hour, but decided on 30 min once I actually got home because I wasn't feeling it. Was going to try and run for the whole 30 minutes and beat my previous 27 minute record as well as the previous 1.95 mile run record.

Did not happen in the slightest. Not even nearly.

First walk break after 6 minutes at 0.46 miles. Did a total of 3.94 km in 32 minutes (last 2 minutes I walked fairly slowly as I'd turned my garmin off). Mostly walking, interspersed with bursts of jogging and one burst of acutal running.

My sprint pace is literally other people's regular running pace. Good times for me.

My legs were so heavy today and I couldn't get my breathing right at all. It just felt really hard. Horrible.

Hoping the next run is a better one. I know there are good and bad days, but that doesn't make the bad ones suck any less!

Love my Garmin, though. It's awesome and pink.

Had a hot bubble bath and now I'm gonna cook some healthy food to cheer myself up.

Not the best Monday ever

But not the worst (typed 'worse' before I proofread...) either, I suppose.

I'm so exhausted, I only got one or two hours of sleep last night. My plan to make breakfast was thrown in the bin as well as body pump this evening.

It's annoying when things don't go to plan, but life happens. Booked pump for Thursday instead. Really want to get some classes in before my surgery. It's not going to do loads for me since I only have a few weeks, but since I won't be able to do it for a while after, I may as well do it now.

I had a latte for breakfast instead (extra shot, hollaaaa) which kept me alive and functioning for the most part. Was going to limit these bad boys to once a week on a Friday, but sleep deprivation meant that I needed a morning pick me up.

Whateverrrrr. 340 calories of latte vs the 320 calories of eggs I'd have eaten. I know, I know, eggs are better. Shut up. Coffee won.

  

Lunch was a can of tuna with tomatoes, it was yummy.

Dinner was a chicken breast stuffed with cream cheese, topped with 2 rashers of bacon, asaparagus, pak choi & a few steamed new potatoes. Frigging delicious dude. Protip - take some of the cream cheese out of the chicken and mash it into the potatoes. Ohhhhhh yeaaaaaaaah.

 

Aaaaaand there was leftover chicken from dinner, so I'm having that tomorrow for lunch (I'm so tired that I typed 'tomato' first) with the carrots & celery from the soup my mum made for her dinner.

 

 

Yummy food, not terrible on the healthiness front (apart from the bacon, perhaps). Oh, I also had about 1/4 cucumber and 2 tbsp hummus this afternoon cause I was hung-to the-ry.

Run time tomorrow. I'm excited to start the full version of the Zombies, Run! app. My legs are very slightly sore from running yesterday. I put this down to not sleeping. Who knows.