A Typical Day of Food & Exercise

I wake up around 5:00 and obsessively read stuff online until it’s my actual get up time of about 6:00. Really, though, that is just finally when I feel like its ok to wake up my darling dear husband with snuggle time so I ignore that time and wait until 7:00 after two little kids have joined us and its a big ole cuddle fest until when it’s 7:15 and I’ll have to rush around all in a panic. I just really like my bed!
But this isn’t really going to be a play by play of my whole day! I was just going to write down a few sample days of what I eat and how much I work out.
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Tuesday:
Breakfast- one Morningstar sausage patty, one slice of Dave’s Killer Bread, smart balance light buttery spread, chai coffee with half and half and real sugar, supplements (magnesium, B, ginkgo, C, COQ10)
Lunch: raspberry choibani Greek yogurt, 3/4 cup crunchy stuff (raw oatmeal, coconut, walnuts, cashews, sesame seeds, chia seed, peanut butter chips), tablespoon of natural peanut butter, 3 strawberries, 1/2 cup pineapple
Dinner: pomegranate choibani greek yogurt, celery with peanut butter and raisins
Dessert: ice cream 🙂
Ran 2.7 miles at 10:56 pace for 30 minutes
This day was after we had gone to the store, found yogurt on sale and we needed to try them all to see which ones we wanted more of. I liked them both. 🙂
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Wednesday:
Breakfast- one Morningstar sausage patty, one slice of Dave’s Killer Bread, smart balance light buttery spread, chai coffee with half and half and real sugar, supplements (magnesium, B, ginkgo, C, COQ10)- I pretty much eat the exact same thing every day for breakfast and have for years.
Lunch: 1/4 of a Taco Time Taco Salad, the nonfat Taco Time taco, 6 mexi nuggets & diet coke (my boys brought me a rare lunch!)
Dinner: Boca Burger on a whole wheat bun with mayo, ketchup, cheese, lettuce and tomato, 100 calorie pop chips serving
Ran 2.7 miles at 10:45 pace for 30 minutes
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Every day when I get home around 4:15, I shuck my day clothes, puton work out clothes and I go for a run or use the elliptical. I typically exercise 5-6 days per week. I try to get 30 minutes of cardio in and 20 minutes of weights per day. I have not been good at weights for about two weeks now, though. I need to re-integrate them but where is the time? 🙂

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I rarely see things like this that are so true about me. I love this about myself and assume everyone else does this too but will never talk about it. I have found myself, lately, sharing some of my silly, inner dialogue with Bradley. It thrills me to no end when he remembers one of my self made inside jokes with myself and uses it on me. It is with disbelief and absolute pleasure through moments like these when I realize how much I love that man.

Destroy My Sweater

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I decided to retire this sweater tunic thingy. Last year I bought it at Ross for 3.99. At the time, it seemed like an autumnal addition to my closet as well as a quick Velma outfit were I ever needed to be a part of an ensemble Scooby Doo cast at the last minute. I have the sweater with the giant turtleneck and I can knock the lenses outta some glasses at a moment’s notice! But no longer. Today I was asked, “What is this? What is it?” The ‘this’ in question was my tummy, as this child pressed into it over and over..
So I told this very sweet child, who has some developmental delays, “That’s my tummy.”
He pealed out with giggles and retorted that, “It is a fat tummy!”
Other kids saw what was happening, and one child joined in, “You look like you’re pregnant!”
I returned that, “A gentleman never tells a woman she looks pregnant until he knows for sure that she is pregnant. And I am not pregnant,” followed by me, very nicely, telling the children that I was finished discussing the state of my tummy with them. I walked to my desk, kind of shaken, kind of sad and feeling really weird. No one was trying to be mean, it was just observational by children, but it was hard to hear such an honest assessment of my body.

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The irony is this: I pretty much met my goal of losing that five pounds before Thanksgiving. Hello 220! Guess the spa is mine… But that goal was intended to keep my hand out of the candy bowl this Halloween, so maybe I’ll buy a body scrub treatment or something if I continue to lose weight until then.

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Gorgeous Girl and I went for a run today. I arrived home to a slumping, exhausted husband who couldn’t take a step out the door. I asked Gigi if she was up for a run and she ran off to get ready! She was a little disappointed that I didn’t run in just my sports bra and running pants. I had to let her know that Mama might never run down the street in just a sports bra and running pants. Ever. We ran 1.8 miles at a 10:45 mile. My times are getting faster and faster lately and I’m feeling really good about that. This includes the time we stopped to tie a shoe, to rescue a runaway dog and the stitch-in-the-side walking times. I feel really proud of that!