{"id":3837,"date":"2011-10-04T07:02:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T11:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2011-10-04T07:02:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T11:02:50","slug":"the-final-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3837","title":{"rendered":"The Final Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wlWriterHeaderFooter\" style=\"float:none; margin:0px; padding:4px 0px 4px 0px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/widgets\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3837\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; width:450px; height:80px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Race day is less than 2 weeks away.&#160; It is more important now, than ever, to eat right, sleep right &amp; stay away from sick people.&#160; If you are sick &amp; around me, please don\u2019t be offended if I run the other way.&#160; Eating right should be a no-brainer, but that isn\u2019t always the case.&#160; I know how to eat healthy, gluten-free, but knowing &amp; doing aren\u2019t always the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>As a recovering anorexic I have to be careful with any changes that I make to my diet and\/or exercise plan.&#160; There have been times that I find myself rationalizing that something I am doing is okay, when in actuality, it isn\u2019t.&#160; I have a habit of weighing myself daily.&#160; Some people think this is a bad idea, my therapist and I felt it was a good thing for me.&#160; By weighing myself daily I was learning to trust myself &amp; my eating patterns again.&#160; That was all well &amp; good up until the past few weeks.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Half marathon training &amp; strength training can cause weight gain.&#160; This isn\u2019t a bad thing \u2013 this means that I am getting stronger.&#160; However, my brain sees it differently.&#160; In order to thwart any action (conscious or subconscious) on my part, I have asked Aaron to hide our scale.&#160; He giggled at first, and then I asked him to trust me.&#160; When I weighed myself yesterday I was up 4-5 pounds total over the past few weeks.&#160; I know that rationally there are all kinds of reasons for this, hence the reason I asked Aaron to hide our scale.&#160; If I don\u2019t know, I can\u2019t obsess.&#160; If I don\u2019t know, I can\u2019t act.&#160; Restricting food intake or calories at this point in my training would be detrimental to my body.&#160; Tapering is the point in training where your body repairs itself in preparation for race day and I need to let my body do what it needs to do.&#160; I need to trust.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I am focusing on whole, gluten-free foods.&#160; Lean proteins, brown rice, quinoa, veggies &amp; fruits.&#160; For bread-y carbs \u2013 brown rice tortillas, Food for Life English Muffins or <a href=\"http:\/\/udisglutenfree.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Udi\u2019s gluten-free<\/a> millet chia bread.&#160; Oh, can\u2019t forget the chocolate &amp; jelly beans (I really need to hit up Jelly Beans Anonymous).&#160; 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