Hi y'all,
Another week in marathon training has passed and this week I skipped one training..OMG YES I DID. Last friday I was supposed to run an 8km easy run when my sister in law appeared to be at Schiphol Airport and rang if we were home for coffee. Well...she and her kids live all the way over in Friesland so I skipped training figuring I would do it next morning.
Waking up on Saturday and way after breakfast I discovered that all my running outfits, literally all of them, were in the laundry and too dirty to wear them just that one more time. Oh come on we have all done that. After washing them, doing the weekly groceries and cleaning up the kitchen my energy just tumbled all the way down and I was actually too tired to do anything. So I just decided that I would sleep. Highly recommended work-out nowadays. Sunday I did go for my long run and even though the tiredness turned into a cold and got me sneezing and coughing, the run was fun! I ran 14km which is 1/3 of a marathon and I found out that if I can keep up that pace for the entire marathon that I am actually doing allright and I should finish faster than I anticipated....but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
So how am I doing? Well...this week I had two hard days within the new system designed by Glinda the Great. It is working like magic. What is the system? Well I can't get into the specifics with you but yes you do get to eat everything from carbs to proteins and even sugar.
It just takes a little creativity on your part to come up with awesome recipes and sometimes you have to really think through menu of the day especially on those looooong workdays ending at the gym. So how do I do it? I sit down once a week and think of a dinner plan for that week. Based on dinner I design the rest of the meals throughout that week. Yes it takes some careful planning and that takes time BUT...and these are huge pro's for me:
1. I do not have to think about my food the rest of the entire week
2. I get to eat everything I like
3, It does not have to be expensive.
4. We buy less produce and therefore we have reduced the amount of food we throw away.
What do I eat? Well I have made pizza, pasta, burrito's, salads, classical dutch recipes such as sticky cabbage, potatoes, hamburgers, shrimps....you name it and I've had it. Than did you lose weight? Yeah I did! Within a healthy limit and doing what is right for me: not fuzzing over food. Not making the weightloss thing the focus of my life. Because it really isn't about that! I need to get stronger and in order to do that I need to drop a few kilo's but I am not trying to be skinny and I don't want food to get back inside my head and become my nemesis again.
Are there any downsides here? Well...not really...I just had two bad days. The first bad day was a day when I hadn't eaten enough for an hour of hard strength training at the gym after a long day at work and I just nearly puked & fainted. The second bad day? Well I am a woman and we do have some days that we get a little hormonal. Trying to soothe the aches, pains and discomfort that come with it is usually done with chocolate. Now I can't have that but I can have chocolate tea which is a herbal concoction without any actual chocolate. However...that day was just hard. Food and energy-wise this was a bit of a hard week. On the bright side: I did get out there 3 times for a run and even did strength training so it's not all bad. And best thing of all?? I got yet another donation on my fundraiser page. So cool! Marathon training this week? Not too shabby.
That's it for now, until we read again,
As always, Love Marlies
Another week in marathon training has passed and this week I skipped one training..OMG YES I DID. Last friday I was supposed to run an 8km easy run when my sister in law appeared to be at Schiphol Airport and rang if we were home for coffee. Well...she and her kids live all the way over in Friesland so I skipped training figuring I would do it next morning.
Waking up on Saturday and way after breakfast I discovered that all my running outfits, literally all of them, were in the laundry and too dirty to wear them just that one more time. Oh come on we have all done that. After washing them, doing the weekly groceries and cleaning up the kitchen my energy just tumbled all the way down and I was actually too tired to do anything. So I just decided that I would sleep. Highly recommended work-out nowadays. Sunday I did go for my long run and even though the tiredness turned into a cold and got me sneezing and coughing, the run was fun! I ran 14km which is 1/3 of a marathon and I found out that if I can keep up that pace for the entire marathon that I am actually doing allright and I should finish faster than I anticipated....but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.
So how am I doing? Well...this week I had two hard days within the new system designed by Glinda the Great. It is working like magic. What is the system? Well I can't get into the specifics with you but yes you do get to eat everything from carbs to proteins and even sugar.
It just takes a little creativity on your part to come up with awesome recipes and sometimes you have to really think through menu of the day especially on those looooong workdays ending at the gym. So how do I do it? I sit down once a week and think of a dinner plan for that week. Based on dinner I design the rest of the meals throughout that week. Yes it takes some careful planning and that takes time BUT...and these are huge pro's for me:
1. I do not have to think about my food the rest of the entire week
2. I get to eat everything I like
3, It does not have to be expensive.
4. We buy less produce and therefore we have reduced the amount of food we throw away.
What do I eat? Well I have made pizza, pasta, burrito's, salads, classical dutch recipes such as sticky cabbage, potatoes, hamburgers, shrimps....you name it and I've had it. Than did you lose weight? Yeah I did! Within a healthy limit and doing what is right for me: not fuzzing over food. Not making the weightloss thing the focus of my life. Because it really isn't about that! I need to get stronger and in order to do that I need to drop a few kilo's but I am not trying to be skinny and I don't want food to get back inside my head and become my nemesis again.
Are there any downsides here? Well...not really...I just had two bad days. The first bad day was a day when I hadn't eaten enough for an hour of hard strength training at the gym after a long day at work and I just nearly puked & fainted. The second bad day? Well I am a woman and we do have some days that we get a little hormonal. Trying to soothe the aches, pains and discomfort that come with it is usually done with chocolate. Now I can't have that but I can have chocolate tea which is a herbal concoction without any actual chocolate. However...that day was just hard. Food and energy-wise this was a bit of a hard week. On the bright side: I did get out there 3 times for a run and even did strength training so it's not all bad. And best thing of all?? I got yet another donation on my fundraiser page. So cool! Marathon training this week? Not too shabby.
That's it for now, until we read again,
As always, Love Marlies
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