9/10/20

The first week has passed in the 10/10/20 challenge, hence the title "9"/10/20. Now you may be thinking well, if she changed the weeks why didn't she change the weight - good question. The answer is because I didn't lose any weight.


I am disappointed and a little frustrated. But I also know that the scale is a piece of crap that should be ignored and outlawed, and that by doing a challenge that seemingly the entire outcome of success will be derived from whether or not I lose 10 pounds, I'm asking for nothing but heartache.


What I do know is that I worked my ass of this week, workout-wise, and I have nothing to regret in that regard. I worked out 6 days this week. I did miss yoga this week, but replaced it with cardio since it was just a timing issue that I couldn't make the class. I ran a total of 5 miles this week, which I haven't run that much in longer than I care to recall. I ran my fastest ever mile. And I burned just over 2400 calories. Nothing here to be ashamed of at all.

I also know that my food was cleaner than it's been in recent history as well. Which could have something to do with why I didn't gain any weight. I was shooting for 90% or better compliance with food and workouts. Workouts was 100%, but Food came in at 88%. Not too shabby, but not 90% or better. Out of 26 mealtimes I had this week. I had 5 non-compliant meals that shook out like this:

4/15 # 2 - Cookie after Tokyo Joe's
4/16 #5 -1/4 Quesadilla at Chili's (salad had over 2000 mg of sodium!!!)
4/17 #3 - Noodles Mac & Cheese @ Playdate w/ piece of zucchini bread
4/18 #5 -Spaghetti w/ Salad and lots of breadsticks *tasted good, weather terrible, driving and out all day
4/19 #6 -Popcorn at the movies


So it's pretty easy for me to see here that I do fine, until I go out to eat. Tokyo Joe's is very healthy Japanese place only here in the Denver area - but after my yummy Nikko salad Megan's cookie from her kids meal was sitting there next to me half-eaten and I ate it. We went to Chili's one night after the gym in the pouring rain and I ordered the Quesadilla Explosion Salad, all the dressings on the side. I ate only half the salad, I only ate 1 piece of the Quesadilla on the side (which was gross) and the next morning I felt dehydrated and gross. I looked online and that damn salad had over 2000 mg of sodium - I don't know how much of that was the Quesadilla I didn't really eat or the dressing that I only had part of the vinaigrette - but yuck! Then there was Megan's leftover Mac & Cheese from Noodles when we were at a playdate that was just easier to eat than my own lunch. Followed that night by binging on Pillsbury breadsticks at dinner. Then there was popcorn at the movies - I need to just learn it's possible to go to the movies and not eat popcorn. I do get no butter, but I love the seasonings they have now and I know that's terrible sodium as well!


So I see some room for improvement on the food, which I will definitely work at this week. But all in all I feel good about my week because I know I'm headed in the right direction and making positive changes.