What to do if you are gaining weight after a hard training cycle?

As a dietitian I held my breath to see how you would answer your own question. And like usual you nailed it! I like to say: your weight isn’t wrong, your pants are wrong.
Also Beck’s haircut is too cute!

Highlight from my weekend: played hooky at work to get the first ski day of the season and lucked out with an amazing between-storm window and zero crowds. Best day! Love to see Beck in the front carrier – there’s no better way to have a family day in nature.

Great advice on buying bigger pants too. I have a few sizes of my favorites for that very reason!

Ah – yes.. the buy bigger pants… I am so glad as a society we are adopting this way of thinking and no longer trying to shrink ourselves into our clothes! Clothes are meant to fit us, not the other way around! :)
My parents came to visit from CA, so we did an early Christmas for the littles. A couple highlights – our son got an electric scooter/motorcycle that HE LOVES and has been zooming around all over the neighborhood. Then we found out of the boys down the road has a dirt bike so they raced up and down the streets which was lots of fun. I got my nails done in a funky red tip with the ring finger as a checkerboard this weekend with my mom!
I am currently entering the halfway point of half marathon training and wiggin out on if I will actually meet my goals and PR or if I should just hope to finish the race – haha! Balancing full time work, motherhood , running .. family in town… all of it is HARD WORK! Trying to take it one day at a time.

THANK YOU FOR THE REMINDER. OMG. As women such a huge struggle for us on gaining weight. I never weigh myself either because it was determining my mood too much in the past. I am running for fun right now. I will start training again more in February? I have a 15k scheduled for April and Grandma’s marathon 1/2 (Gary Bjorklund) scheduled for June – so will have to get more serious in the Spring! I barely was able to run last week due to some slips on the ice (how!?)…so decided an easy rest week, walks, and extra sleep were in order!

Best part of this weekend was a Christmas Concert at church where my dad was in the choir. The singers are all amazing -they have a full orchestra…just puts you in the mood to celebrate Christmas!!

I hope you have the best week, Janae!

I’m 20 days from becoming unable to sing a certain Beatle song ever again…….am not happy about it.

Hi Janae! Great post today! I realized recently it’s hard for me to focus on multiple things at once- basically if I’m working hard on my job or prepay for interviews it’s hard for me to also focus on training hard for a race! So the weight does slide around especially because I comfort eat. But I think it’s ok, the people most important to me love me no matter what size I am.
That ski day looks awesome! Wishing you many more!

Hi Janae :)
thank you for reminding us… we are more than our bodies! They allow us to do magical things (like watch a winter sunrise in freezing temps while running).
I love winter running (but then I love all seasons..). I am not training for anything right now, but I also really struggle in winter because I get sick a lot. (I don’t know how you never get sick with 4 kids in the house?!) I start sniffing every 5 weeks from october to april which makes it hard to train for spring races :/
I will try next year though. I am tryining to decide between to half marathons (23 & 30 of april). My period app says the first would be my late luteal phase, the second on the third day of my cycle… Ha, it’s way too far in advance but I might choose the later. When you did the same for Boston next year I had to laugh out loud because I totally do that too.
Have a lovely day!

So glad Beck finally gets to join in the skiing fun!

Highlight from my weekend = driving to Fresno to spend time with family. My great nephew turned 10 months today and he is such a doll. This visit he reached for me to pick him up several times and that just made my heart explode!

Totally running for fun these days and getting on the trails as much as possible.

I am just in “recovery” mode right now, ha! I had a big trip to Texas the week before Thanksgiving, and had a stellar half marathon performance in Shiner, TX after a week of partying and staying up late. It was raining, 40 degrees, and gusty winds, but I managed to be less than 2 min from a PR! I was so proud of myself, and since then I have been only running about 3 days a week. I got a big promotion and new title at work right before my trip/race, so coming back to Thanksgiving, a new job, and Christmas is enough big stuff, so I am letting running be what it is, with shorter distances for now. I have a race in March & April, so I will start training the week after Christmas. I debated a new year’s day race, and I still am, but we’ll see. Just riding that race high right now:)

What a fun weekend! And a gorgeous sunrise!

We went to Disneyland to celebrate my birthday this weekend with our kids and it was sooo fun!

Right now is just fun running. I’m debating on a spring marathon, I’ve never done one before. My running partner is running Boston so I thought I would just train with her, but she’s currently dealing with an injury so we will see what she’s able to do.

Thank you for this reminder. I haven’t been able to run in over a year or ride a bike in the past 5 months due to declining medical status. I have a wonderful medical team trying to figure out what exactly is wrong. But I struggle with the fact that I have gained some weight during all of this. My husband’s response is to buy bigger pants. Can’t be restricting and so hard on myself. This is my “off season” eventually I’ll be back. :)