I actually woke up to my alarm this morning and not before like I do often mornings.  I guess I was tired and the fact that I didn’t turn off the TV until 11:00pm.  My husband and I got sucked into watching the show, Intervention on A&E. It’s heartbreaking at times.  Makes me really thankful I had amazing parents and grew up in a stable environment.  I set a new PR last night while running! I finished my first mile in 10:12…I am trying to get to a 10 min mile. I’m sooooo close! I then ran a total of 3.1.  My leg started hurting so I called it a night. I learned my lesson the last time I tried to just “run it off” Ouch!  Any who, today is week 2, Day 2 of my training- back and biceps.  I will have to go to the gym tonight for this workout. I have been thinking about switching back to fitness lady. I hate the hours there but LOVE the fact that’s its all women. I have tried to tell myself to just get over it about lifting weights in from of the guys at Anytime but I can still feel myself getting uncomfortable at times…just because I feel like I have no clue what I am doing..and there are so many dern mirrors!  We'll see, they have an online thing for a free 7 day pass so I may sign up for that to see if I like it. I managed to eat 3 egg whites with a wedge of laughing cow lite cheese and ½ cup oatmeal with almond milk, splenda, and PB2 for breakfast. Snack was my usual carrot protein bar and lunch was ½ grilled chicken breast, and loads of baked veggies that I cooked last night.

(sorry so blurry..don't know what's up with that?)

Carrots, broccoli, and celery.  I usually hate celery but this was actually pretty
good. o yeah, Know what else is awesome!?  I found a recipe on Jamie Eason’s blog for lemon protein bars…I can’t wait to make those! Yum…love, love, love lemon! For supper I had salsa chicken on a whole wheat wrap with spinach, avocado, dab of light sour cream, light cheese, and salsa. I was very good. Then I hit the gym. I ended up doing about 40 min on the elliptical. I was only going to do about 20 since the first phase of the plan doesn't suggest any cardio, but I got sucked into Pandora's wedding on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. 

  I'm off to get some Zzzz and some snuggle time with my baby girl! :)

Monday, Funday!

Another Monday down! Today actually went ok, I was off work last Thursday and worked half a day on Friday so I spent most the day just getting caught up. It was a steady busy...just enough so that the time goes by quickly but not overwhelmingly busy.  Annddd....so far, so good with my clean eating and week 2 day 1 of Jamie Eason's live fit training.  Today was back and triceps. I modified and did my sets at home while Bry was asleep.  I can already tell a when I do the push-ups, I wasn't has dead this week. I might do a little bit of cardio though.  I want to run a 10K on Feb. 11.  For breakfast I had oats soaked overnight in almond milk, some PB2 powder and 1/2 banana.  Snack was carrot protein muffins, supper was spinach salad, with toasted almonds, cranberries, grilled chicken breast, artichoke hearts, and low fat feta cheese, and same balsamic vinaigrette dressing. One of my faves!
          Just because my daughter is so stinkin' cute here is a pic of her as she was trying to wake up...she fell back asleep. I know the feeling alllll too well

And here is one of her and the best dog EVER!  They are best buds!

So silly!!



                                            

Viscious Cycle

It has been a while since I last posted.  The holidays, my two year old, my job, trying to fit in my workouts, has left my time somewhat limited.  But blogging more was one of my goals for this year.  I have started Jamie Eason's Live Fit program. I kinda tweak it for myself however, and shhh...I still do some cardio. No too much, maybe 20-30 min at least 3 times weekly.  I can really tell a MAJOR difference in the way I feel when I eat clean. I have so much more energy, it's amazing. But.. I still want those bad foods sometimes. I think it is something I will always struggle with. I can't make the desire go away. I know it's bad for me, I know I will regret it after I eat it, I know it's not going to do my body good, I know that I would have to do the elliptical for 25 min. to burn of that one bite of junk, but yet I still want to eat the bad stuff!  Why!?!  I have tried to stop and make myself realize the times when I am eating when I am not hungry. Most of the times it is because I am bored, frustrated, or overwhelmed. I can do so good during the week, but the weekends are just horrible, I don't think I have ever had a good weekend of eating clean or dieting. Like today I ate some cheeze-its, then some peanut butter on some animal crackers, and then we went to eat at the Mexican restaurant and I ate chips and queso...gah!  SO now I am sitting here regretting it, thinking it was not worth it. Which makes me just want to eat more because I feel like, well, I've already blown it completely, might as well and make it worth it. It then the cycle just repeats itself I hope that if I blog my daily meals and exercise maybe it will make me more accountable and knowing that I have to report it on here will make be think twice before I put it in my mouth. 
             In other news, my sweet baby girl turned 2 on Jan 4. And we have just overcome out first case of strep. Wednesday night she started running a really high temp. We finally got her fever to go down and they wanted me to bring her right it when I called her doctor's office the next morning.  We had just been there 2 weeks before because she had a virus that was causing her to run fever (although not as high as this episode) and she had to get retested for strep, the flu, and got her finger pricked again.  Today, the highest her temp got was 99.7, so I think we have turned a corner now. 
           I have done absolutely nothing today, which means I will have to really make up for it tomorrow. I plan on getting up early, going for my run (hoping to get around 4.5 miles) doing some laundry, doing the dishes, prepping some food for the week, and planning my meals. I have my oats soaking right now for in the morning. Well, hopefully I will be able to report a good day of eating clean tomorrow night!! night night!