Still dropping this morning…down to 141.0 even. I’d really like to be in the 139-140 range legitimately by Saturday’s 5k, but I think it’s just a matter of getting in my workouts, eating clean, and chugging water to remove the last vestiges of TTOM water weight.
I had to nix my 30 minute run this morning because my lower back just wasn’t up for it. I went outside for the run, started walking to warm up, and was feeling so many iffy twinges in my lower right lumbar spine from just strolling along that I opted to go back inside and do Yoga X with Chris to try to loosen up. 
I did get in 30 minutes of very tough ashtanga style power yoga, but it wasn’t much in the way of aerobic exercise. Over breakfast I brought up the possible need for a FIRMER mattress ASAP, because I never got lower back pain sleeping on my wonderfully firm full size mattress before Chris and I consolidated households and my futon and mattress were donated to my parents’ guest room.
I’m also seriously looking into trying Grrlathlete.com’s Shapeshift workout following the 2 miler on 10/21 instead of returning to the 4-day body part split I was using on Kim’s program, primarily because Shapeshift places a strong emphasis on training the posterior chain (back, glutes, hamstrings) and core stabilization, areas that I do need to improve upon now before I relapse into the chronic back pain I had in my early 20s.
I am working late again tonight (until 10 pm), so I will try to fit in some extra walking or other exercise as I can during the day. I know myself well enough to gauge the likelihood of an 11 pm after work exercise session at only 10%, LOL. I certainly won’t be running at that hour–the gym is closed, and I don’t do twilight trots around my neighborhood. The old biddies would call the cops and tell them that there was a suspicious person wandering the neighborhood around midnight. YF Cardio will be my substitution if anything.
Food was on plan yesterday though I did have a work-provided dinner–Chipotle’s barbacoa beef salad with Romaine lettuce, black beans, and hot salsa. The salsa and beef had so much flavor that I didn’t need the provided dressing. If you skip the unnecessary rice and tortilla, places like Chipotle and Moe’s aren’t that bad. It’s when you go whole hog and have what amounts to a quadruple or quintuple serving of dense, starchy, and processed carbs between the white rice, giant white flour tortilla, tortilla chips, and beans that the calories go out of control.
I’m good on M1-M2 so far and have already drunk 7 cups of water today. I have M3-M6 with me at work due to the late quitting time. It looks like I’ll be pulling a late Friday night as well, and I also have to come in for a half day at least on Saturday (I may end up going directly from the 5k to work, blech…). It’s crunch times like these when I make the best progress, oddly enough, because when I’m physically at work for almost all of my meals, all I have time to do when I am at home is workout, shower, have breakfast, prep food, and sleep.
I’m thinking that I will not get to karaoke night tomorrow because I want to be well-rested for my 5k on Saturday.
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WORKOUT
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- Yoga X (30 min)
- Walk (15 min)
- YF Cardio (30 min) - Planned
