Sunday, May 13, 2012

60 day b'day challenge

I write this on May 13, exactly 61 days out from my 30thbirthday.  I’ve been contemplating doing a challenge.  Would it be possible for me to reach my goal weight #1 in 60 days? Just a short while ago I was doing so well on the Paleo challenge.  While I lost quite a bit of weight on this challenge, I knew that this was not the ultimate style of eating I wanted to pursue….Juicing, heavy plant –centric diet was my goal with little to no processed foods.
Diving into this head first, along with being in the final days before the big marathon combined with 3 weeks worth of travel for business, spelled a recipe for disaster…may not have been that way for others but it certainly was that way for me.  Switching from Paleo, to plant based made me wonder if I was getting enough ‘energy’ to sustain me for the marathon…I started doubting myself and carb loaded like mad before the race and after….and then it just never seemed to end from that point….I had inadvertently reentered the junk food cycle again. Carbs, processed food and sugar, craves more carbs, processed foods and sugar and before you know it…you’ve gained 10lbs back in the blink of an eye. 
So here I am, back at 166lbs(THERE! I said it!) and feeling like my life is in shambles....with a goal of reaching 140lbs by 7/14/2012.
This is not a list of complaints but  a list of the challenges I’m facing and need to think through on how to overcome…
I’m working these CRAZY hours daily and I feel like that has affected so many things in my life.
I’ve not been back to my fitness boutique in ~2months!!
My running is down to 0-1X a week vs 3X a week
I’m eating more processed foods
I’m cooking less often
Hubby and I are BOTH gaining weight
Hubby and I are caught up in the processed food/fast food/ junk food cycle again!! Ahhh!
House is NOT clean enough for my tastes…
Have mercy!!! I need to get out of this fog, get out of this rut and FAST!!!  But how??  It sounds like the answer to my problems is simply working less hours.  Not so fast, I have so many roles within my job that it’s just not humanly possible to get it all done and stay on point within the 8 hour work day…until I can offload some of those tasks/roles, perhaps what I can do is reduce my late night/extra hours to 2-3 evenings a week and commit to 4-8hrs during the weekend.  So how would that look schedule wise??? here's a tentative one based on what I need to get back on track...let's see if this works. 
M-6am workout,12pm run, 8-5pm work, 6-9pm dinner, eat, make brkfst/lunch for next day, prep dinner for next day
T-6am-5pm work, nap until 7pm, dinn, work from 8-10pm
W-6am workout, 12pm run, 8-5pm work, 6-9pm dinner, eat, make brkfst/lunch for next day, prep dinner for next day
Th-6am workout, 12pm run, 8-5pm work, 6-9pm dinner, eat, make brkfst/lunch for next day, prep dinner for next day
F-6am-5pm work, nap until 7pm, dinn, work from 8-10pm
S-7am Run with Galloway

2 comments:

  1. wishing you luck on this new challenge. =) as for the clean house tell Iz to get off his butt and pick up after himself, and possibly do a load of laundry a day. Rofl, dont know how well it will work but who knows.

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    1. lol, he does...just not as thoroughly or as often as I'd like. : )

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