Just keep swimming

You would think it was Christmas morning since I woke up early.  I was so excited to weigh in. I got on the scale and couldn't believe the number I saw.  I got off the scale, weighed in and got the same result.

This week I had a gain of .2 pounds.  Sigh...

I am so freaking disappointed.  I thought that I did everything right.  I worked out, I tracked my food and drank a lot of water.  But it wasn't enough this week.  I was feeling deflated because I truly did work hard this week.  

Could it be too much sodium in my diet this week?

Am I building muscles?  

Is my scale broken?  

These are just some of the things I've been thinking about all day.  I looked at my WW tracker and while I did track all my food & didn't go over my daily points value, some of my choices were high in points which meant that I wasn't eating much during the day and I had a large meal at dinner time.  I did that twice this week.  I normally eat about 5 small meals/snacks a day.  Perhaps the richer food and not enough fruit & veggies are a result of this gain.  

But if I am going to let a number dictate how I feel for the rest of the week, it won't be what the scale showed.  Instead, I am going to focus on the following numbers:

As of January 15, I have worked out a total of 625 minutes (1,000 is my monthly goal) and I have walked 44.41 miles (50 miles is my monthly goal).  Pretty awesome right?

I am going to move on from this disappointing weigh in and this week focus on my nutrition.   This week's Do Life Challenge is a scavenger hunt which looks like a lot of fun & I will try to accomplish as many as I can.  However, nutrition will be my focus.   I've also modified my training guide because I think that for me it would be more doable this way. Originally it was a 12 week guide but I've modified it to 18 weeks. The whole purpose of it was to get endurance and gain speed to be able to complete Bay to Breakers (12k) in May in under two hours.  For the next eight weeks, I will walk at least 5K 4 times a week and on the weekend increase my mileage.

• Week 9 - 6 miles (brisk)
• Week 10 - 9 miles  (easy)
• Week 11 - 7 miles (brisk)*
• Week 12 - 10 miles (easy)
• Week 13 -  8 miles (brisk)
• Week 14 - 11 easy (easy)
• Week 15 - 9 miles (brisk)
• Week 16 - 12 miles (easy)
• Week 17 - 10 miles (brisk)
• Week 18 - half marathon 

* Week 11 I will only be doing 6.2 miles since that Sunday I have my first 10k race.  

At the end of this training guide, besides the mileage on Runkeeper, I would like to have something to show for it.  I am seriously thinking of entering the Lucky Run half marathon on St Patrick's Day.  The course cut off is 4 hours & I may sound optimistic but I think I may be able to complete it in that time if I keep training.

In the meantime, just keep swimming....