Unsure about what is going on

So I'll admit I didn't have a very good weekend as far as the diet and exercise went.  I haven't been to the gym since wednesday and I can't let that happen, but I am going to get back on my 5 day a week schedule.  However my body must be doing something very strange.  I ate bad over the weekend and by bad I mean an extra 1000 calories a day so maybe 2800-3200 but somehow from Wednesday when I was at 304 to today, it went up 8 lbs.  I don't know how that is possible, 8 lbs is 28000 calories, I could have understood a pound or even 3 but 8!  So today I'm going to flush with a lot of water and get some extra fiber as I feel like my body is retaining everything.  I think it will help I just hope it helps a lot.  In any case I'm not going to fall off the wagon because I am changing for life and maybe I just delayed how quickly I'll drop weight but it is still going to come off eventually.  I read about people who have cheat days all the time and I never do it, I have a cheap 2 days because friday and saturday were really my only bad days and this happens!! Guess I won't ever that happen again.

Pick me Up

Went to spin class last night and although my plan was to take it a little easier than I did last week, I didn't.  My legs aren't too sore today but every time the instructor would say to do something I would do it.  I got a good workout but it absolutely wiped me out.  Got a good nights sleep from it last night not as well.  Scale is being pretty steady this week which is no fun so might only be a 1-2 lb week.  Hopefully it goes down really all that matters. 

Looking forward to a bar crawl this weekend with friends called the Pub & Putt should be interesting just got to make sure I don't go overboard.

So haven't been doing as much work as I probably should today but I found an article about subconsciously training yourself to get up in the morning that I think I'm going to try.  Apparently you are supposed to practice while you are awake by getting ready for bed set the alarm for a few minutes ahead and then close you eyes while in bed with the lights off.  When the alarm goes off you are to get up turn it off and pretend as if you are getting ready in the morning.  Sounds interesting and I'm going to try it.  I think my association with being tired is that I can never get up until like an hour after my alarm goes off while hitting the snooze a bunch.  This is very annoying and I want to change it.  Plus side would be if I can do this before the weather gets nice, I could train myself to do morning runs which is suppose to help with weight loss.

On another note I'm going to try to get some more followers here as the more I get the more dedicated I feel.  Any suggestions?  Also is the content interesting at all or am I just being boring?  Maybe I need to spice things up, let me know.  Thanks.

Feeling Tired

Yesterday was a simple 3.3 miles around the track.  I ran too fast in the beginning which made it tough to go the whole way so  I walked for about a lap in the middle.  Other than that the scale ticked down a little today but lately I've been feeling very tired and have a hard time getting up in the morning even if I go to sleep early.  When that alarm goes off it is very difficult to get out of bed.  Once I do finally get out its not too bad but I'm definitely in a haze for a while.  Not sure if my CPAP isn't working as well or what but my pressure has been descreasing as I've been exercising.  I have an auto machine and so since January it has gone from 14.0 at night to around a 10 each night which is a significant reduction but now I don't feel like its working as well.  Spin class today YAY, yea not so much!

A little of everything

I've thought about posting a few times just hadn't so let me fill you in.  Saturday I ran on the track for about 20 mins and my achilles was bothering me so I moved to the treadmill for the final 20 mins, it was about 4.2 miles but I'm not going to extend my longest total distance running straight because I switched surfaces.  I have had some tightness in my achilles when I walk and was thinking about skipping yesterday but I went anyways and it felt good while I was running.  I did a little over 2 miles on the track and then the bike for 10 mins and then jumped in the hot tub hoping that would help loosen things up.  It felt good the rest of the night but was tight this morning. 

As for weight loss if you see on my tracker, I had a very good week and that made me very happy to see.  I'm down about 6 lbs for the week and the puts me at 20+ lbs overall.  I'm very happy about this and am hoping for a repeat week.  My goal is to be 30-35 lbs down by the time the 5k comes around which is March 12th so I have a little over 3 weeks to drop another 10-15.

I've been considering doing some swimming for cross training, although I don't really have a swim suit right now.  I might do the spin class again this week and just go easier on myself, we'll see but my legs were very sore after last week and it made my running much harder.  I know, I know its only been one class :P but swimming sounds like it could be fun.  I am very self conscious about my big ass going out to the pool though so who knows.  All I know is riding the bike (outside of spin class) and the elliptical are so dreadfully boring there is no way I'll get a high HR to keep a good workout so I have to find something else.

What a Day

Let me just start by saying that yesterday just absolutely sucked.  I was in a funk from the get go and really couldn't get a positive mood going about anything.  Then I started down the path of wondering if I can do it and I was able to convince myself that I could, but the thought of failing scares me.  I've always been the big guy and I hate it.  And the thought of not succeeding this time scares me not only for my health by just my overall happiness.  But I didn't let that deter me and I went to the gym in a bad mood but I pushed myself and made it for a full 5k in 29:37.  My legs felt like they were going to explode (due I'm guessing to the soreness from the spin class which I may have pushed myself too hard in) but I kept going, didn't walk and did it.  It really didn't help as much as I hoped it would with the attitude but I was down another pound this morning, today is my day off, and I'm not going to let this one day of doubt get me down.  I cannot fail.

Spinning

Short post today, I did a spin class yesterday that lasted about 50 mins to introduce some cross training as I'm worried about running every time 5 days a week.  It was a brutal workout but kept my heart rate between 145-165 the whole time and my legs were burning like crazy so hopefully I'm building some new muscles there.  The gym has this every week on Wednesday nights so I might keep doing this to break up the week into 2 days running, 1 spin class, then 2 more days running.  Scale dropped a little more today just gotta keep this trend going.