Okay so I hate to bring religion into this again now that Passover is finished, but it seems really relevant to my experience on Monday. So my rabbi was talking about the laws of keeping kosher, which I don't do, mostly because pork tastes waaaay too good. One of his points about the section on keeping kosher was that in today's modern world we should look at it more as a lesson in being mindful of what we eat and that we shouldn't just blindly shovel food into our mouths. Well naturally I went off and instantly assumed that that didn't apply to me. I then proceeded to have pizza for dinner.
Lesson number two that I haven't fully learned is stretching well before my run/walk days. I can get away with not stretching much on the "off" days because I'm not exerting myself quite as much. But when it's a run/walk it is more important.
So with both of those ignored I started my workout. From the beginning I could tell something was off. I just felt sluggish from the very first step and my whole body felt tight the whole time I was going. And to make matters worse I was trying to build off the great workout I had on Saturday and pushed myself too hard right from the start instead of easing into it as I should have. Long story short it was a bad workout. I still ran a bit, but not as much as I should have and I did complete my 30 minutes, but I felt like I took a step backwards.
It's amazing how when your hubris levels get way too high, life has a way of bitch slapping you back to reality. Needless to say I will will heed those lessons now more than ever.
On a positive note my weigh in on Monday has me down to 270 which is a drop of about 2 pounds. Not quite the loss I wanted, but I think my food choices had something to do with that. Either way it's still going in the right direction.
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