After a week of emotional eating, Smarties for breakfast, and absolutely zero exercise, I'm back and am more determined than ever. Eating chocolate dainties and drinking my body weight in beer and wine (which, naturally, lead to BK yesterday) won't make me feel better. It won't make me feel better about having to come back. In fact, eating like crap makes me feel like crap. For a few years I self-diagnosed myself with IBS. Every time I ate, I needed to use the bathroom immediately after. Two years ago as of Feb. 14 I stopped eating crap, started exercising, lost 40 pounds, and realized I didn't have a disease -- terrible food was the disease!! I'm not saying I'm going to stop eating everything bad for me (where's the fun in that?) but I want to make conscious decisions to put premium fuel in my tank. Eating well makes me feel good, end of story.
So on that note, here's what's hittin the palate today. I had to wing breakfast and lunch, and will hit up the grocery store after work.
Breakfast: Pink lady apple (my faves!) and a Nature Valley chocolate chip granola bar thing. (Def. not worth the five points, but I forgot to make overnight oats last night, and was in a hurry this am. Was only going to have 1 of the 2 bars that come in the pack, but changed my mind.
Workout: Snuck out of work at 11 and came home to do a 40 minute wog on the treadmill whilst watching Dragon's Den. 5 minute warm-up then alternating 90 seconds jogging with 2 mins walking.
Lunch: Protein shake (1 cup skim milk, 1 scoop Vanilla Whey Gourmet protein powder. Tuna salad (1 can of tuna, coleslaw dressing bc I don't like mayo, celery, relish, onion salt, garlic powder) on a few romaine lettuce leaves.) I might have an orange or something too.
Not sure what my snack will be. Potentially nothing today.
Supper is Homestyle Chicken and Biscuits. If it tastes good, I'll try to remember to post the recipe tomorrow.
I'm hoping to shovel some snow after work (after groceries...ugh) because we're going to have a swimming pool in the basement come spring. Not convinced this will happen today.
What's ahead on Pennie's Lane?
I had a discussion with D's sister-in-law (my sister-in-law-in-law?) Saturday night. She's a marathoner and runs all the time. We've decided to register for 2 races together. I'm pretty sure I'm freakin NUTS! The first race is Melissa's and is in Banff. The race isn't until the fall, but registration is sometime in Feb, and if you don't register the first day, you don't get in. Did I mention this is a 10k? Yes, 10k. That's 5 more km than Preston's Road Race, and 4 more than the MS Walk (yes, WALK).
The second is a whole year from now. It's the Disney Princess Half-marathon. First half in Disney World dressed like a Princess? Why not! We figure the four of us can take a trip that just happens to land right smack in the middle of the race.
I've got oodles of time to train for both of these, and I figure why not. Ten km is essentially about an hour. I can do anything for an hour. And if I can't, I can do anything for ten minutes 6 times. I've never done a race before, just fun-runs. I figure registering for these will keep me committed to losing weight and learning to run.
Right now I plan to continue the Couch to 5K plan. I was doing really well with it until winter came. I'm scared of breaking my leg outside. I'm still scared, so the treadmill will have to do for a month or two more.
Phew! Lots to say today!
Pennie Lane
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