This morning, that is. If you heard something that sounded like a girl, an angry girl, yelling at a bathroom scale in the wee hours of this Wednesday morning, it was just me. There might have also been something along the lines of “well, I guess this is not Super Wednesday, now IS IT?!” and, possibly, there was some murmuring like “This cannot be the product of an extra tablespoon of peanut butter!” Because I am super rational at 4:00 a.m.
The reality is, I’ve put in more running miles in the last nine days than I had in the previous fourteen. In my mind, that should not equal numbers moving up. It should mean good things, or what I consider to be good, anyway. It takes me a minute, though, to figure out things like this. For all the years I’ve been running and training I still haven’t learned. It seems as though all logic and memory escapes me and I think, crap, I am never going to win this battle.
What I know, though, is that with increased training, weight often increases. There are a lot of reasons for this, the first being when you begin demanding more of your body, it instinctively holds on to all the energy it can. In my case, that energy translates to COMPLETE FAT ASS. Oh, wait, excuse me! I just drifted back to 4:00 a.m. for a second. Anyway, the other reasons vary from water retention to, gasp, hormones. Yes, this is more true for women than men but even so, the extra effort we expend on increasing miles directly effects the chemistry in our bodies and how we feel. In other words, this is an adjustment period.
You have to give your body time to catch up with your mind. You have to give it time to get a handle on the work load, the demand, and the routine. When I remember this, I’m fine. When I remember this, I know that it’s actually healthy. It’s not bad. And, to get even a little poetic about the human body, my human body, I might even say that it’s an amazing thing. Our bodies will do what we ask of them, we just have to be reasonable. We just have to give it some time. Meanwhile, don’t worry so much about the peanut butter toast and, for goodness sake, put the scale away for a week.
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