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Today, I was completely off-track. No exercise – too many meetings. Plus lunch & dinner were way over calories. I don’t really have a lot to say today, again too many meetings. Tonight, I am watching Bones on Fox Online. I love this online tv show business. I do wish I had figured out how to get my wireless to work so I could watch this in my recliner. I also wish that they would do this with limited commercial interruptions like ABC does with Samantha Who, but I’m really not complaining.
There I journaled today. 
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I just changed our theme in honor of the great weather we’ve been having – it’ll probably snow now.
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The sparkpeople program has you journal daily, as you can see I haven’t been very good at that. Right now, I am very tired and ready to hit the sack. This is going to be a short one.
Things are going well with my efforts at more healthy living. My food habits haven’t been great but I am making great efforts at getting veg’s in my diet and eating less fat.
Today’s walk went well, 2.8 miles I made pretty good time. I’m not sure of the exact time because I stopped to talk to a neighbor around the corner for quite some time. I did find myself slowing down at the end but on the whole I kept a good pace.
I had a great dinner! I made a chicken foil packet, I found the directions at about.com. I googled chicken foil packets and got a lot of results. So if you are looking for something to put in your foil packet there are lots of good ideas out there. I started with their basic idea – meaning the foil, the chicken breast, the cooking spay & olive oil. Then on my chicken breast I put about fajitas seasoning, sea salt, 3/4 of a chopped tomato, about 1/3 of a chopped yellow/orange pepper, a chopped green onion, and a bunch of minced garlic, wrapped it all in foil, 450 degrees 30 minutes (my oven cooks slow, they said 20 minutes). Moist and yummy. It looked smelled and tasted delicious, next time I will take a picture. I also had some pasta and broccoli. I couldn’t finish my dinner (but later I was hungry so definitely some bad food planning).
I read that while eventually exercise will help you have more energy and need less sleep up front, it’ll actually make you more tired. I am still in the more tired stage. So it is off to bed for me! I hope everyone had a great weekend!
I’d love to hear how you guys are doing on squeezing good workouts into your busy lives.
Well, I’m back. SnarkyChic, CraZ, & I have all been going through/dealing with big changes in our various lives. I am trying to find a job in another state. (in my experience, job hunting does little for one’s self-confidence, I am just thankful for having great friends like these guys and the rest of you!)
I still don’t have a job in that other state yet. But I am still working on it and have a few leads. I will let you know when I get one!
In the meantime, I have been not doing very well on my healthy lifestyle efforts; I fell off the C25k wagon. I am going to get back on the wagon though!
Yesterday was the first time in a long time that I stayed within my calorie goals. Right now, I am using sparkpeople.com instead of weightwatchers. But you can use it with WW. I love it. It is similar to WW online but free and I think it might have more content but I’m not sure. I think that both WW online and this system are great because they provide you with so much information and support. Like I said yesterday was Day 1. Today is Day 2. Tomorrow I will be able to report that I stayed within my goals again today. If I can do Day 1 I can Day 100, Day 200, and Day 365.
Sparkpeople tells me that I should reach my goal weight in a year. Of course, I want to reach it this month but that is not reasonable, one year probably is.
It is pretty close to the end of day 2 and it looks like it will be a great day 2! I have had plenty of water, exercised, stretched, and stayed within my calorie guidelines. I am pretty tired though.
This afternoon I found a fun way to both nerd out and get some exercise motivation. On sparkpeople there are different groups one of them is called the Eowyn Challenge. In the movie version of the Lord of the Rings, Eowyn walked with her people from their main city/keep to a fortress refuge. It was a long walk. When the LOR movies where coming out, some women started the Eowyn Challenge – to walk as far as she did. It has become a challege to walk the paths of the various characters of the books. SnarkyChic & I are walking from Bag End in Hobbiton to Rivendell – 458 miles. Tonight I logged my first 1.8. Only 456.2 to go! Woo hoo! I am still hoping to finish the C25K program this summer after the move, in the meantime, I am getting stronger and building endurance.
