This morning I did something that was incredibly difficult on my part. I woke up at 5:25 and was in the gym at 5:30. For those of you who know me, that will make sense. For those of you who don’t, I can only say that saying I wasn’t a “morning person” would be one of the biggest understatements you’d ever make.
The fact that it’s cold here only makes things worse. I’m not a “cold” person either. So hauling my butt out of my cozy bed where my radiator dog is curled up next to me at an ungodly hour of the morning to go down to the gym and sweat and feel my legs go dead is not my idea of a party.
But I need to lose the 10 pounds I gained back when I was trying to be vague, and then, I’d be happy if I could lose the 20 pounds I’ve gained since High school. So to the Gym I must make my pilgrimage.
I gave Earl implicit instructions to not let me roll over and say “10 more minutes” because, before you know it my entire work out would consist of sleeper-cise. Maybe I should make some strange contraption that can be sold at one in the morning to the unsuspecting insomniacs…
Needless to say, I did get up and put on my gym clothes, and then I got in the elevator and went to the bottom floor of the building where the gym is located. And there, I jogged. It was not fun. But I felt better for it afterward.
Also on the list of things to do is to change my eating habits.
I cut out soda last week, and with the exception of yesterday – when at the movie theater, my mind entirely spaced the no soda rule – I haven’t had a drop.
I’m paying strict attention to what I eat, so that a) I eat enough. I have a horrible habit of forgetting to eat – yesterday was a good example of that.
We went to the movie and I having forgotten to eat breakfast, substituted a small popcorn (not the best choice… but it was that or a box of bunch-a-crunch. I think I made the better choice.).
When we got home from the movie we immediately headed out to do a smidge of shopping (The anchor blue in one of the many Malls here is going out of business and I scored on some pretty inexpensive jeans.) On our way home from the final store (the grocery store) I realized I’d not yet eaten Lunch – evident by the mild headache that was slowly blossoming throughout my grey matter – It was 3:00pm. Our friends in the building brought up Bavarian Pretzels and Borscht they’d made and that ended up being my lunch.
At 8pm we finally got around to eating dinner. A homemade BBQ Pizza (the only thing I ate yesterday that was portion controlled.)
And this is why I need to schedule my eating… It’s no good.
Today I’ve done better so far:
Breakfast consisted of: A whole wheat Bagel with a smidge of strawberry preserves. A cup of Cottage Cheese (oddly made with 1 & 1/2 % milk) and a glass of orange juice.
Lunch is left over BBQ Pizza
And for dinner, since Earl didn’t have to work today, he’s making me a low fat version of Lasagna that’s done on the stove top. This should be interesting!
Anyone else changing up their work out schedule/eating routine this year?
As I told you this morning, my day started off early with us working out (bringing back the Jillian). Jesse and I discovered that we are no good at working out at night. We either have too much to do or I'm completely exhausted. On the eating front things have been going really well. I spend an uncanny amount of time buying vegetables which NEVER used to happen. All in all I think that's a good sign.
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