Nutrition: an inconvenient inconvenience

I have come to the conclusion that Wogging alone is not going to get me to my goals. I am going to have eat healthier as well. I knew it would come to this, but I was hoping I could avoid it. See the problem is I really like to eat. In fact, I have Man Vs. Food on while I am writing this, making a mental list of places to go eat four pound sandwiches.

Dinner tonight was a cheese pizza from Dominoes. It was supposed to be a pepperoni pizza but that is the topic for a "Why I try not to eat Dominoes" blog. So why Dominoes? Well we are in San Antonio for a little vacation at Sea World and after 10 hours at the park we were too tired to go out so we ordered in. Makes sense right? But there is a larger lesson here. Eating healthy requires a little forethought in this country. Maybe it requires it in other countries as well but I don't have major international traveling experience. So I can only tell you what it's like here. But it seems like Europe, Asia, Australia eats better than us.

Ok, let me get back to my point. I need to reduce my calories. There are lots of diets out there but at the end of the day, everything I have read says if you want to lose weight you need to burn more calories than you consume. But if you find yourself needing to grab something quick, this is not going to happen.

Everyone wants to pick on McDonalds but really I think the problem is greater than them. It is a problem of lifestyle. If we don't set something out in the morning to thaw or forget to plan out dinner we have a tendency to just "pick something up" and we all know what that means. Fattening food. Sure, there may be some exceptions here and there but for the most part the USA makes it difficult to eat healthy when you are in a hurry or have not planned anything in advance.

So what I am realizing is that Wogging is more than something more than just something to do. It is going to need to be a change in the way I approach life. Which will be good, but it not going to be easy. It means that even on those days when I come home so tired all I want to do just order a pizza or eat some processed food, I am going to have to stay the course and eat something healthy. Dammit.

And we won't even talk about my wife taking a pic of me not eating a cookie.

Failure Apparently Is an Option

So things did not go well this week with training. The only positive is that the Patented Wogger’s World 10-Week Plan to do a Half Marathon (that I stole from Runner’s World) is being implemented when I am more than 10 weeks away from D-Day: San Antonio Rock-n-Roll Marathon, ½ Marathon on November 13.

As you may recall, last week I said I would do 3 miles on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and 5 miles on Sunday. This is Week 1 of the Patented Wogger’s World 10-Week Plan to do a Half Marathon (herein know as The Plan). And to paraphrase Michael Scott from The Office “I am screwed people.”

Tuesday I did 2 miles. Ok, fine. First day exercising in a while but I broke a good sweat. I’ve got a cushion built in on the time frame. Thursday:  1.65 miles on the treadmill. Oh no! I’m running (wogging) backwards. But this is not even where the real problem lies. My real problems came with the weekend.

Saturday. Saturday was a day of ups and downs. We had a garage sale Saturday morning. Let me state in no uncertain terms: I hate having garage sales. I don’t like getting rid of my stuff. I don’t like being hot. I don’t like all the traffic it causes on my street. But we had one nonetheless. And actually we made more money by far than we have even made before. So that was good. And then we took all our crap hidden treasures that had not sold to Northwest Area Ministries resale shop. Ok, so far not so bad. I’m hot but we made some money and cleared out some space. We eat lunch at Sweet Tomatoes (see how healthy that is) and then my wife and I decide to go look at cars.

As my Facebook followers know, her car died a while ago and so we needed to buy one. We’ve been doing all this research and had narrowed it down to a few different choices. So we decided to go test-driving. To make a long story short, we leave around 4 p.m. and test drive 4 cars at three different dealerships. The upside is we have joined the cult know as Subaru owners. The downside is we were roasted in 100 degree heat while shopping and got home exhausted at 10:00 that night. Ergo, no Saturday workout.

Fine. I can make up for it Sunday. Right? Wrong. I don’t know what happened on Sunday. I just could not get my fat, avocado-shaped ass into workout clothes. I have no elaborate “See, it’s not my fault” story like I do for Saturday. I just didn’t have it in me. On a side note, I had intended to include a picture of me working out this week. Here is the only action shot I have from the weekend exercise routine:

So while Week 1 may have been a failure in the short-term, the good news is I will not be daunted by this setback. I will try to follow Week 1 of The Plan again this week. Even if I don’t follow it properly, I am on the right path. And I did probably sweat out a good 10 pounds on Saturday between the garage sale and the walking around the car lots. So don’t give up on  me fellow Woggers. I WILL be a lean(er) mean (gentle) running (wogging) machine come November.

I will see you all on Thursday for an update. My post may be a little late. Me and the family are going to Sea World in San Antonio Tuesday and Wednesday. So have a wonderful week and remember; It’s a Wogger’s World out there.