Breakfast:
1/2C (dry) oatmeal, salt, cinnamon. 1/2 banana, 2 strawberries, milk.


Lunch:
Was all over the place... kinda because I couldn't make up my mind as to when I was going to work out... So I decided I needed to eat this to stop the snacking. (honey wheat pretzel braids, string cheese, pistachios). Which it did. Yams do that... Yam w/ spray butter, course salt and pepper, sugar snap peas, apple.


Dinner:
Tofu veggie stir fry w/ couscous. (onion, bell pepper, carrots, mexican squash, sugar snap peas, spinach) Strawberries. I was gonna 'whip' up some heavy creme, but was too lazy and hungry.


Workout:
30 min. treadmill.
Hill setting level 11, speed 6.5. This pretty much did me in. It got me thinking about running and training and finding "your pace" for peak performance...and wondering how athletes do it. -Yesterday doing the hill setting for 15 min. longer, at the same level, but at 6.2 pace -it seemed I had so much more energy. Tonight's workout was much more challenging and it was shorter. ?

Weights:
-(20) wall balls w/ 10.8lb medicine ball
-(20) jumping lunges
-(24) walking lunges w/ 15lb. ea arm
-(20) (?) -It's where your forearms are resting on these 'pads' and your legs are hanging. Bring your knees to your chest to work the abs.
-(15) push-ups, feet on exercise ball
REPEAT

So. While working out, I was studying my reflection. Why were my thighs looking so b i g? This has been bothering me for the last little bit. (It probably didn't help that I was wearing high-water exercise pants -I accidentally grabbed the 'petite' so they are short on me. grrr) Somehow my already small boobs seem to have headed south to my dairy aire & legs. What the? Why? It seriously is almost amusing. Almost. I have been checking out women's legs lately at the gym - mostly I guess because I like my legs the least. hmm. It is interesting - the self-loathing of a perfectly healthy body. The vanity. I have to keep reminding myself what it is I am working for or towards. I have to dismiss the ideas of wanting to be a certain size or certain weight -because when/if I get 'there' I know exactly what's going to happen (only because it has before) -I will get complacent, start to eat more, workout less and start to feel pretty crummy, and think "what happened?". So, again, I have to remind myself what it is I am working for/towards. I no longer have an ending date (my b-day) or a goal weight, because I want this to be a lifestyle... I always want to feel good from the inside out -like my body is functioning the best it can. I want to feel strong, and I want to eat to live. As long as those things are present in my life it really doesn't matter what the scale says or the dress size...That all will work itself out. I'm no longer going to be wishing for faster results...I realize now that this whole thing is going to be a l o n g process. :)
Whew. That was a doozie!