+.4 and holding

I waddled in to weigh- in again yesterday. I spoke with the leader about my endurance sport weight loss concerns. She said exactly what everyone else said—don’t worry about trying to loose weight right now, but focus on not gaining. In August post triathlon, focus on loosening the extra lbs. Phew—I was a little worried about what she would say.
I was also encouraged to realize that my healthy weight range (who determines that by the way?) is a lot closer than I had originally thought. So perhaps there is a change that I can be in that range prior to my b-day.

For the moment I’m putting the weight loss topic on hold, dear bloggers I'll find other things to say. But I will return to that topic post triathlon. Again, I am really enjoying training, and finding it far more enjoyable than the marathon (which I found healing and I also enjoyed).

This weekend’s open water swim is at some small man-made lake near Wisconsin. Hopefully it will be cleaner and warmer than the Great Lake in my front yard.

Happy Weekend!

Gotta stop blogging or I’ll talk my self out of it. . .

Super pumped— until I see what I signed up for.

So I’m single this weekend, I have a date on Friday and Saturday (with Andrew, and Shelley respectively).
On going journey of waking-up-earlier-on-the-weekend-than-I-would-dream-of-waking-on- weekdays, today I signed my Saturday morning away for an one mile open water swim, followed by a five-k run. It’s an event called the Splish Splash Dash at Lake in the Hills, IL (Hi, Tim!).

Note: I don’t have my wet suit yet, so this swim I’m doing with a Speedo and some skin (brr). I’m hoping the goose bumps will keep me going after that first half mile.

Also, I haven’t done a ‘real’ open water swim in about 8 or so-years (Hello college --remember when I used to lifeguard for Delaware Dam? Yeah, it’s been that long.) Wooo HOOO~!

Sure, I’ve been swimming with TNT, we did ½ mile last week. umm...

I think that this is some kind of sickness—seriously, even though I have plans to hang out with great folks all weekend, I can’t wait to swim, and I’m interested to see how a 5 K will feel afterward. This really is becoming my idea of a really good time.

Snack Attack (+1 lbs)

Okay, so at weigh in on Thursday I was up another pound! The first five pounds I lost I swear melted off, getting to ten has been one uphill climb. Plus so many of the Team in Training coaches and staff LOVE to remind us that when training for an endurance event, it’s not a great time to loose weight; one, because muscle weighs more than fat, two, because you need to eat more to fuel your body for the exercise. So I’m proving all of my coaches’ right, I really can’t seem to loose weight right now.

A good pal recommended taking measurements and monitoring those rather than using a scale—good idea! I just need to find that darn tape. But it was exciting to try on clothes one size smaller this weekend.

I have made a few changes – not only am I packing my lunch everyday, now I’m packing my snacks too. My office snacking is way out of control, so I needed to address it and use those snacks as ways to get more fruit and veggies. So I’ve started combining things like soy cheese sticks with apples, crackers with grapes, a 100-calorie bag of microwave popcorn with pears, my cup of coffee with one measured serving of a high fiber cereal.

Here’s my diet question this week, how do you handle office snack attacks?

In other non-diet related news, Matt is at ASP this week. Lucky for me, old and new friends have gathered around to keep me busy.