Faster!

Top of the mornin! Well, sort of J

Cheese and rice, I am sore today! It took a little more coaxing to get my body out of bed this morning and get to the gym but damnit, I did it!

Today was an easier day, here’s what I did:

Thursday
Situps     50
Run 1 mile
Situps     50
TIME:	14:30

I don’t know if you remember from Tuesday, but that time is 3 minutes 40 seconds faster! J Needless to say, I’m very pleased!

I’ll be doing this workout every Tuesday and Thursday for the next 4 weeks, so hopefully by the end I’ll be much faster! I like doing recurring things like this so I can see the progress J

For dinner last night, my mom was kind enough to give me a big container of leftover ratatouille so I heated that with some brown rice (leftover) in a skillet and it was yummy(and couldn’t have been easierJ)!

Food Today:

Breakfast:

Strawberry Protein Shake

Snack:

Oatmeal w/ raisins and cinnamon

Lunch:

Thai Butternut Squash soup over brown rice and edamame w/ a few whole wheat pita chips

Snack:

Grilled Veggies – leftover, I didn’t eat them yesterday

Snack:

Grapes

Dinner:

Probably more ratatouille over rice!

So the weather is feeling/looking very fall right now and I have had a serious fall food/drink craving… pumpkin bread, mulled cider, wine, apple fritters - all of it! So far I’ve been good and haven’t given in to my cravings… I’m in search of a healthy vegan pumpkin bread recipe as we speak… hopefully I can find something! It has definitely been a good test for my will-power J

Yesterday I was eating my lunch and as I took a bite of my soup I said to myself ‘Ya know what? This needs pita chips.’ So I put my spoon down, left my lunch on my desk and went to Kroger. I ended up buying 2 bags of whole wheat pita chips (on sale) and a bag of organic spicy blue corn tortilla chips. I also found an all-natural artichoke garlic salsa that is absolutely delicious! I love finding healthy new snacks!

I was thinking as I was packing my lunch this morning that I haven’t done any nutritional fact tallying since I cut meat out of my diet… and I think it’s time to do so. That being said, here’s my intake for the day(pre-dinner):

Calories: 667

Fat: 12

Carbs: 131

Sugar: 31 (Majority of the sugar is from raisins in my oatmeal!)

Protein: 38.4

Not too shabby J Although, I’m sure if I share this with my husband he’ll give me a blast for not eating enough while I’m doing these hard workouts… but I think with the amount of carbs that I’m getting, I’ll be just fine.

NOW – if someone could please abbracadabbra my legs into feeling less sore so I can walk normal again, I’d greatly appreciate it J

I suppose that’s all I have for the day! Until tomorrow…