As part of my maintenance routine I continued entering all my food in thedailyplate.com. I put that to rest but wasn't totally comfortable with not tracking the food I ate, so I quickly replaced thedailyplate with a personal food log. I would document everything I put in my mouth along with the actual or estimated calories.
About 2 months ago, I put the food log to rest as well. Thankfully, I have stayed within a 5 lb range and hope I can continue.
Recently, I realized that when I stray too far from my personal eating guidelines and still maintain my exercise routine that I will surely suffer the consequences. The past two weeks I gave myself a little too much slack then did a "long run." A day or two after the run my body and emotions gave me a rude awakening. I was extremely fatigued and emotional. Not good. So, I will be keeping an eye on that!
Chooo chooooo
In some ways it seems like our bodies are actually more sensitive now because they have learned how to run on premium fuel and definitely know when they've been given 87 octane fuel instead of 93 (of course, keeping in theme with the whole engine theme.)! It is very interesting to see how your body reacted in this circumstance and how you've received a very specific message based on what your body feels it needs/requires. In a good way, you do operate a fine tuned machine now and it's great you can recognize when things are awry unlike the old days when we sorta felt that way all the time!! Keep up the awesome work Trina - you are most certainly an awesome inspiration to me and many many people out there.
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