Ups and Downs of Training

I managed to pull off all of my workouts last week and over the weekend, despite an insane schedule.  The fueling strategy...well, it wasn't my worst weekend but it certainly wasn't my best.  I'm back on track today and eating sensibly while allowing myself some treats as well.  It's not that I am worried about the calories or anything, it's completely that I eat WAY too much straight up sugar.  It's just not healthy.  Case in point...yesterday, I got busy at work and didn't eat all day.  By the time I got into town after work to grab a few things from the store I was crashing hard.  I hit the store and grabbed my favorite candy (Cherryheads)...and immediately ate 4 boxes of them.  That's 360 calories of straight sugar at once without having fueled with REAL food.  Of course that led to a sugar rush and subsequent crash, which leaves me feeling nauseous and not wanting real food.  I managed to eat a little leftover Japanese (let's fight the sugar OD with a salt OD) for dinner.  But eventually just gave up and figured I'd start fresh today. 

So far today I've run 3 miles of hills and I have to hit the gym for back, bis, and shoulders this afternoon, then knock out some abs this evening (I skipped yesterday's workouts due to my lack of fueling).  Today's workout is actually the 3 mile run I did this morning and legs - which I may squeeze in tonight if I'm able to continue fueling properly, otherwise I may let it slide until tomorrow morning.  Tomorrow is a run and stretching.  As for fueling today, I started the day off with steel cut oats, protein powder, and blackberries.  For lunch I had a salad with red wine vinegar, a whole wheat english muffin with chicken salad (made with chicken breast, walnuts, dried cranberries, and plain greek yogurt), and a quarter of an apple.  I've also snacked on a boiled egg with a cup of fresh pineapple.  At 4:15 I intend to have a half cup of greek yogurt (1/4 cup of plain and 1/4 cup of vanilla mixed) with 1/2 cup of blackberries.  That'll give me a half an hour before my workout.  I plan to knock out my upper body work, refuel with 8oz of low fat chocolate milk, wait a  half an hour, then hit my leg workout!  This weekend starts my second set of back to back doubles, I do well with my eating and training for a bit then get slack/lazy, but overall I'm keeping up with it pretty well and with the doubles around the corner, I gotta stick with it!!