Yeah! Spring is officially here. For me, the unofficial start of Spring is the beginning of daylight savings time; but now it’s official. It’s been a cold, gray winter and so far a cool, gray spring. I’m ready for some sunshine! I’m ready for warm weather, green grass, and open windows.
My local community center has decided to do a spring Couch to 5K program. This is an abbreviated version where we’ll be meeting twice a week for eight weeks. This means we’ll have one day a week where we’ll need to do the program on our own. You’d think that I’d eventually graduate from this program, but I haven’t yet. I don’t know why on rough days it’s easy to text your friends and tell them that you’re not going to make it for your scheduled run, but if I’m signed up for a program like Couch to 5K, there’s nothing that will keep me from showing up.
For now I’m still planning on keeping up with my other runs as well as the Couch to 5K. We’ll play it by ear and see how it goes. Four nights a week is a lot to commit to and may not be very realistic once the distances increase with the Couch to 5K program.
We’ve all heard the debate about whether or not to weigh every day. I’ve weighed myself every day (or at least most days) for quite some time. I’ve continued to do it because I’ve read over and over that people that weigh every day lose more weight. Since the scales haven’t been moving in the direction I would like I decided to take a break from weighing myself every day. When I stepped back on the scale for the first time in several days, I did not like what I saw. It was ugly. So, I’ve gone back to weighing every day. It certainly seems to help keep me on track.
As I wrote in a previous post, I unintentionally took some time off from juicing. In February I tried Jason Vale’s Super Blend Me! program for 10 days. It was ok, but for me it definitely is not a substitute for juicing. For a few weeks, I made some juice and had a juice a day. I’ve decided for at least the rest of this month to go back to the 5:2 plan. Five days of eating and two days of juicing. The 5:2 plan keeps me feeling my best.
During the summer and warmer months, I naturally get thirsty and drinking plenty of water is not a problem. In the winter and cooler months it is difficult for me to drink the proper amount of water. I came up with the simple solution of setting alarms on my Fitbit to remind me to drink water. My Fitbit is always on my wrist and vibrates for each alarm. The alarms are virtually impossible to ignore yet won’t bother other people. My first alarm goes off at 8:00 am, and the following alarms are set to go off every two hours until 10:00 pm. At every alarm, I drink a 16 ounce glass of water.
If I drink a glass of water at every alarm, it comes to 128 ounces or 1 gallon of water a day. However, there are times that I’m not home or in the car driving and know it’s not going to be a good time to be drinking a lot of water that’s going to cause me to go looking for a restroom. So, I’ve set more alarms than necessary so that I will drink water at most of them and be properly hydrated. This has been working great, and I know I’m drinking a lot more water than I would otherwise.
Do you have difficulty drinking enough water on a daily basis? What is your trick to keeping properly hydrated?
Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14.
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I have a tendency to forget to drink when I’m absorbed in doing something and the time passed by without me realising. Or if I do think about it, I don’t want to dosturb myself and make a trip to the kitchen. So the best way for me is to set myself up with a (glass) bottle of water wherever it is I’ve settled and then I remember to drink. Good luck with the new program, I too wish it would warm up a bit!
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