6/14: 175.7
6/23: 174.6
6/30: 174.9
7/5: 175.1
7/12: 174.8
7/19: 174.0
7/26: 172.8
8/2: 171.6
8/9: 170.6
Feeling very good about this weigh-in. First, I was able to drop caffeine last week. I'm sitting at about 7 1/2 days (yes, still thinking half days at this point
) without giving in and having a Coke. Headaches seem to have faded into the background somewhere between the 5th/6th day. So major win there.
Also got really good sleep this week, which I don't think was directly related to the caffeine. More about letting myself go to sleep earlier at night, as I start training myself to do morning runs. I'm definitely a night person, but I'm trying to become more of a morning person. And with 5AM wake-ups for running, it isn't helping my weight loss to stay up until 11:30 or later. This week I fell asleep before 10PM a couple of nights and I think that helped out with the weight loss.
I have slacked on a couple of things that I meant to do for August from a fitness perspective. First, I never did find a push-up challenge that was interesting for me. I put in a half-hearted effort one day with Internet searches and couldn't find something that seemed appropriate for someone who can knock off a set of 20-30 pushups as a starting point. There were plenty of options for more aggressive challenges, and a couple that seemed geared towards someone who has never done a pushup in their life, but nothing that seemed like a good fit. Perish the thought that I should actually come up with my own program ... anyway, I've slacked on this front.
Additionally, I haven't done the biking that I wanted to do. Part of the "good sleep" I mentioned above was sleeping in later on Monday and Thursday of this week. Which meant that I was able to hold my running schedule, but not getting in any bike rides. That should definitely change next week. I'm certainly not dialed into biking the same way that I am running, but I do want to have some level of cross-training this month and biking was the plan. So I can't treat it as a second-class fitness citizen.
Final note - signed up for my next 5k race. I've got about 5 weeks to get ready for this one. I think having that carrot out there to train for contributed to a really good run yesterday on my interval runs, which are normally my most dreaded running workout. I'm definitely more motivated for running performance when I've got a race in sight, as opposed to just putting in the miles.