I hopped on the scale this morning. 131.2. And morning is when I'm at my lightest. Sigh. Instead of getting better about what I'm eating, I had deep fried sweet potato fries, rice, beans, tamales, orange soda, cookies, frosted flakes, etc. Nice, huh?
Several months ago I was able to eat like a horse and still lose weight. So what's up with now? Well, I still eat like a horse. I'm just not exercising as much.
Now this is where it (i.e. me) gets ridiculous. This is roughly my training schedule:
Monday - 45 minutes weights, easy run (4-6 miles)
Tuesday - 45 minute weights, cross-train (usually pilates)
Wednesday - hard run (3-4 miles speedwork)
Thursday - 45 minutes weights, easy run (4-6 miles)
Friday - cross-train (usually pilates)
Saturday - long run
Sunday - rest
Plenty of exercise, right? Well, in order for me to lose weight I either need to watch my food intake or exercise more. And I know I can't stop eating sweets. So it looks like I need to tack on more exercise.
I was flipping through an old Runner's World magazine earlier today and glanced over a marathon training plan for a newbie marathoner. The weekly mileages from the get go were a lot more than the weekly mileages in my plan. Not couning cut-back weeks, my mileages have been in the 20-25 range, and I'm already in Week 8 of my training. The Runner's World plan starts off the first week of training at 25 miles.
Looks like I might need to revise my training.
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