Weekly Wrap-Up: Restarting

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My restart week is officially here!

It’s been a good two and a half week break, but I’m ready to get back on it!

I planned to step on the scale as soon as I woke up this morning and give you my current weight, but our scale has decided to enter a loop of constant error messages, so I won’t be able to list a starting weight today.

I officially lost 17.4 pounds before I left for Australia, so I feel like my last round of effort was pretty solid. While on vacation, I’m sure I gained weight. I have only run three times during the time off but we walked a lot!

So, here is my plan for moving forward.

1. Start logging my food again. I really fell out of this habit in the last month before Australia. I was busy and I just didn’t place as much emphasis on it as I should have.
2. Keep running 4 days/week and walking on work from home days. My current running schedule is Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. I plan to stick with that, but I’ll start increasing my mileage for my Monday and Wednesday runs just slightly as I go through this next phase.
3. Strength training twice a week. I toyed with switching this up a little, but following two workouts a week from the Bikini Body Mommy Challenge worked well in the previous 90 days, so I’m going to stick with it. The workouts are just slightly short of the 30 minute workouts I want to do, so I’ll continue to use a YouTube 10 minute cardio workout for an extended warm-up prior to starting strength.

My next goal is to get to my pre-pregnancy weight of 155 over the 90 day period. I’ll find out how many pounds I have to lose when I buy a replacement scale. I still won’t be at my ideal weight, but after this 90 day period, I’ll be training to run a half-marathon, so I’ll be revamping again and hopefully losing a little more at that point.

Now, for the past week in review.

Jet lag has been a huge battle since we returned from Australia. Coming back from a 14 hour time difference has just been hard and there have been a lot of nights of lying in the bed wide awake for 2-3 hours. Compound that with a two-year-old who has been doing the same thing and it’s just a hot mess. We finally seem to be wrapping that up, as the last couple of nights we’ve all been awake for less time. Hopefully, that means we’ll all be sleeping through the night soon.

With that complicating things, I just haven’t been able to get up and do my early morning runs. On Friday, I finally made it out to run with some friends for about 3 miles and then I did my long run on Sunday. I planned to run 6, but after not running much for the last two weeks, I decided I was done at 5.25 and walked it in. However, I got to run with friends again, one of whom is running Marine Corps in a couple of weeks, so was grateful for some easy miles. That was super awesome because I don’t often have company!

On Saturday we usually walk before breakfast, but our usual breakfast spot was closed due to a hurricane-induced power outage (yes, another hurricane), so we went to a different spot and decided to wait and walk later in the day. That later in the day ended up being after my little one woke up from her nap. We ended up walking a total of over 4 miles to get to the grocery store and back to pick up a few things for dinner.

So, it’s been a relaxing couple of weeks in terms of workouts and eating, but it’s time to get back on track. I’m excited!

Be sure to check out more Weekly Wraps with Wendy and Hoho to see how others have done over the last week!