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Camey Yeh

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Working from home today to write a million pages of reports. It feels so good to be in my pajamas! During my lunch break I watched Emily in Paris and made a crock pot chicken stew for dinner and bruschetta for lunch. Yum! Bringing me back to my distance learning days last year! This show is soooo cringey but I have low standards for TV.

I'm trying a method of working 45 minutes at a time then taking a movement break where I do some chores. But now I'm all caught up watching TV!

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Walked home from work today! 4 miles! I wanted to run, but I had my laptop and glass Tupperware in my backpack, and I couldn't get it on in a comfy way. I would love to walk home a couple times a week. I know it sounds weird to most of the people I work with because it's really across town, but it's a really beautiful walk full of orchards, birds, wonderful smells, and familiar roads I've run miles and miles on. What a lovely ritual it could be. I just have to have my husband take my backpack home next time!

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In the last two weeks, I've simplified my diet, run a mile twice, completed 10 workout classes on Openfit, gone on a bunch of walks, packed lunch and eaten breakfast every work day, tracked my calories most days, and done lots of other things I didn't think of just now. All of that after months of being sedentary and eating to the point of discomfort nightly. I'm making great progress and can keep it up.

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Two days of way too much dinner and dessert and no strength training. Darn. I'm annoyed at myself, but I'm also forgiving. I had two hard days at work, and I dealt with them the way my brain is used to. It's so much easier to choose bingeing snacks than it is to read/do yoga/go for a run/etc. because my brain and body have spent three years bingeing to deal with stress. I can't change all my habits immediately.

Successes Monday and Tuesday

Eating healthy and low calorie but filling breakfast and lunch both days

Drinking so much water

Only one coffee per day

Went for a 40 minute walk Monday even though we weren't going to

Went to bed and woke up at good times

Took a shower

Did an awesome job at work and had a lot of fun with my students

Wore clothes I wasn't feeling comfortable in two weeks ago and felt good about them

Cleaned the house lots

Said no to a social event I didn't want to go to

Tested negative for covid 😋 (I didn't have any symptoms, and I'm triple vaxxed, but I was sort of exposed at work although we had masks on and it wasn't a long exposure) (still feels so great!)

These pictures are from a particularly joyful and peaceful walk I took in September for motivation.

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I ran another mile!

I am in shock with myself and my abilities! I went for a 4 mile walk. About half a mile in I thought, I'm just going to try it again and see if I can do a mile like yesterday. I considered just doing a half mile but didn't really let myself think of that as an option. I put on a nice, long song, and committed to running to three songs before I checked my tracker. After "Leave the Door Open", "Count on Me", and "Take a Walk" I checked my phone and I had run .89 miles. So I played one more song "Arms" and checked my phone every few seconds. I stopped right at a mile because it was an intersection anyway, added up the three songs and the 1:22 from the last song, and found out I'd run a mile in 13:05, a minute faster than yesterday!

The weather is perfect. Every plant smells amazing. I feel good about what I can do with my body. My feet hurt a little so I'm going to use my ice pack.

Now it's time for a shower, grocery shopping (instacart because covid is craaaazy in my town right now), maybe some reading, and an early night in bed.

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I ran a mile today!

I wasn't expecting to run a mile today, but I did! We went on a little hike, just a mile on the mountain, and it was SO beautiful. The trail was all bumpy and tough because the mud dried full of footprints after the big rain storms last week. The cover of the trees made it extra chilly, and there was finally water in the creek! We heard frogs and saw birds pecking in the trees. It smelled amazing and fresh. We also had a delicious lunch from a Greek deli and walked down by the ocean. Then on the drive home I was feeling really eager to get a longer walk in before it got dark, and it was so perfect outside, so I had my husband drop me off on the way home at one of my walking spots. I didn't have headphones on me, and I had set a goal to run a half mile today without walking, so I decided I'd try to sing two full songs in my head and then check my tracker to see if it had been a half mile. That was really hard because I kept starting new songs in my head! So I picked a landmark of a tree I usually stand under for a shade break when it's sunny out and ran to that. I checked my phone as I approached the tree, and my tracker said .65 mile! So I picked another landmark, a stoplight at the bottom of a slight downhill, and when I got there I'd gone 1.04 miles in 14 minutes! Yes! I walked another 1.5 miles home, in disbelief and full of pride the whole time. It felt hard at first, and I felt slow, but by the last third I could feel myself getting into my old groove. Now I'm ready to run another one, and faster!

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Bichi.mao on instagram

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Took yesterday off of exercise. I'm figuring out the balance between rest and work and exercise. I thought I could workout every day after school, but it's winter and cold and dark when I get home, so getting out for a walk is harder than I thought! But I will take advantage of my weekends and use them for big walks and runs!

Today we're going to go to a local deli for lunch, buy a pack for my husband at REI, and then go for an hour long hike!

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What energizes me: being creative, making things for others, making things I'll use in my home

What I'm grateful for: my husband, my cats, my community, and my job

What's not working: Trying to workout before work in the morning, gossiping

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Officially totally wiped! My job is hard, and I miss last week when my job was just working out and dieting!!

Today when we got home I walked about 40 minutes and did a 10 minute upper body strength video. I ran once during the walk for about 2 minutes. I wanted to do more but I'll have to save it for tomorrow because it was already getting dark when we got home.

I'm very excited to say I finally weigh under 210! Today's weigh in was 209.8. Not much under 210, but still it's a big deal! If I keep losing at this rate, I'd be losing about 2 pounds per week.

I'm so torn between getting caught up in the numbers and trying to focus on just feeling the difference in my body. I know myself though, and I'm a numbers person. Pounds per week, calories per day, minutes per mile, miles per week. I feel a lot of satisfaction with numbers.

Thus, I'm daydreaming about how I've lost 3.6 pounds in 12 days, so if I keep up that rate of losing .3 pounds per day I could weigh under 200 pounds in 33 days, which is February 8, which happens to be the day after my big work project is due. I haven't been under 200 pounds since pre-pandemmy-times. It would be so super amazing to have my project and my big weight goal align!

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Today was a total rest day.

I mean, I got 10,000 steps at work 😂, but once I got home I decided my body needs a day off after the last week of working out. I also decided to get a burger and fries for dinner. I tracked my calories, and I'm still under 1500 for today even with the big dinner. I think having a day like today is exactly what my body needed.

My food has been really satisfying this week, but today's lunch wasn't filling enough. Here's what I've been eating:

Breakfast everyday: Overnight oats with almond milk, a banana, and pumpkin pie spice, coffee with half and half

Lunches:

Monday: pb&j sandwich and baby carrots

Tuesday: vanilla yogurt with strawberries, blueberries, and granola

Wednesday: caesar salad, half an apple

Dinners:

Monday: Annie's white cheddar and shells mac and cheese with peas

Tuesday: frozen pepperoni pizza and caesar salad

Wednesday: burger and fries

For tomorrow I planned overnight oats, pb&j, and for dinner I'm not sure yet.

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Made plans for this weekend to hike with my family. I don't think we'll do a very long one, but we're going to do one with some steep hills. Then we'll go out to a nice dinner!

It would be nice to do lots of hikes on the weekends. It always feels magical in the nature around where I live. I usually walk around my neighborhood, but sometimes we go to the ocean or mountains for a change of pace.

I know the journey is the most important thing and that when I get really fast results I usually don't maintain my weight loss, but dang do I wish I were losing weight super fast. I wish I could see big changes really quickly. I know I have to hold on and keep up all my great work and I'll get there.

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Got home around 5:00 and walked until 6:15 then immediately did my strength workout, 20 minute lower body. I wanted to get up and do it before work this morning but I simply needed more sleep! I'm very proud of myself for making it happen this evening. There's a tiny moon in that third picture!

I ran three times during my walk. Once for the length of We Are Never Getting Back Together, about three minutes, and twice for about a minute each. Again, I'm feeling good about this method of working running into the mix! My walk was 3.75 miles total.

I can tell my butt and calves will be sore tomorrow from this workout I just did!

Time for a shower, frozen pizza, caesar salad, and a documentary on Zoom with friends and cats!

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When I ran my first and only half marathon so far, I weighed about 145 pounds. Right now I weigh 211 pounds. That's 66 more pounds I'm carrying with every step.

Running will help me lose weight, but losing weight will also help me run.

My strategy for weight loss right now is:

Eat 1300-1500 calories per day

Five days of strength training videos per week (20-40 minutes)

Walk 30-60 minutes per day

Rest one day per week

On a few walks a week, run for one song at a time to build up endurance

One long walk per week (add a half mile each week, working toward a 13 mile walk in a few months)

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I'm looking forward to the way my clothes will feel looser when I lose some weight. I can't wait for my shirts to be a little less fitted on my tummy and to pull some of my old clothes out of the closet. I'm looking forward to being more comfortable physically in my day-to-day life.

I'm excited for the feeling of running further and further each time I run. I can't wait to cross the finish line of a 10k or half marathon or marathon. Mostly I'm excited for the training though. Each week adding a half a mile, those long runs on Saturday or Sunday morning. The satisfaction of drinking a big glass of cold water after a sweaty run.

I feel really optimistic about running because the greatest female runners right now are older than me. The only way to go is up right now.