Speaking of the calorie counting, I have been shocked by how much food I am able to eat with the higher calorie target! Last year when I was counting calories, my daily target was 1200, and if I 'earned extra calories' by exercising I didn't use them except for maybe 100-200 extra on long run days. Now my base calorie target is 1610 and I'm allowing myself to each more based on how much I burn when running. It's like I can eat all day on run days and still not hit my calorie max, which is awesome! It is also because I am eating smaller meals and healthy snacks (I could kill 1600 cals of cookies in no time!), but its nice to feel like I can have a snack whenever I want.
For example, here's my food long from yesterday. Have I mentioned how much I love the My Fitness Pal app?
You can't see all of the dinner ingredients, but the total was 534, which is a pretty large meal for me (Chicken Parmesan + a salad) and I had 715 calories of snacks throughout the day and I still had 275 calories I didn't even use! It's just crazy after being used only 1200 when I'm counting calories. I'm not super proud of my breakfast choice with the Peanut Butter Crunch, but I have a weakness for that stuff. It definitely does not keep me full though, so I've mostly been doing greek yogurt + a banana.
On a side note, I know I'm late to the party but greek yogurt is awesome. People always told me how much they liked it and then conditioned it with "but its kind of thick" and "you have to get used to it" etc. etc. And so I thought why would I want to try that? I liked my regular yogurt perfectly fine. But they were handing out free 6oz containers at the expo for the race in Dallas and I discovered that it's only slightly thicker than regular yogurt and basically wasn't an adjustment at all haha. And it comes in awesome flavors. So if you've been scared of greek yogurt because of all the conditions on the recommendations, don't be! Side note finished.
Anyway, my 8 mile run did not go as planned tonight. As in, it was only a 3 mile run. For some reason I just did not feel right - the first two miles were great and then all of a sudden my legs felt like jello and I felt slightly dizzy and completely out of energy. So I just went home. It's not very often at all that I feel that bad on a run and it just wasn't worth it to me to keep going. I'm not sure what went wrong, if I was just to cold (it was chilly out and I probably could have dressed warmer) or if my lunch was too big or too small or what. But I'm learning to be better about listening to my body - sometimes there are aches and pains but usually I still feel strong and today was not like that at all! Plus the most important thing is that I get my long run in this weekend so I don't mind a little setback this week. So I guess my last mid-week 8 miler was last week, who knew? I just hope I'm not getting sick with all of this flu mess going around.
Oh and speaking of bright running clothes from this post, today's outfit definitely fit the bill. Too bad I didn't get enough miles in to blind half of Beaumont with my neon shirt. Better safe than sorry!
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| It's wayyy brighter in person, I promise :) |
Also, I apparently need to stop putting my hair behind my ear only on one side - my hair cut looks so lopsided in that picture! Haha oh well. Anyway, I'm off to stretch and then do something mindless before bed!
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