La Vida Fresca

Well, I was going to get my run/walk in (trying to get back on the new training schedule that I fell off of last week) but alas it was just too dang hot after work and I was way too tired. I hoped for rain or at least a little bit of cloud cover but got nothing and as tired as I was I just dragged my running gear home with me unused. I’m also not as motivated to go out for a run/walk as I would be a normal run. I was MIA from the Internets last night because of a long lasting migraine, so I didn’t get to eat or sleep much. Boo.

I did get to eat today though.

Some fruit …

tuna boats (Romaine lettuce with tuna, light ranch dressing, vinegar, and salt and pepper)

a banana with peanut butter

lots and lots of dates with almond butter

and a simple salad with olive oil and vinegar (minus the tomatoes for me, blech).

We also got a couple of McDonald’s vanilla cones after dinner when we were out.

I hope everyone is having a great week — only one more day ’til the weekend! Peace out!

It’s Monday! Not that you needed any reminding.

Unfortunately the old headache got worse before it got better but the good news is I’m almost all better now. I actually stayed home from work today which I rarely do but sometimes it’s necessary. Today wasn’t the best of days but by about 4:00 this afternoon I felt good enough to hit the gym for a seriously slow, easy first day of my new training plan.

I was feeling okay by then and (surprisingly) just wanted to do a hard run and very nearly ditched the plan to do just what I wanted, but I held back and did the 10-minute walk, five-minute run, five-minute walk, and five-minute run. Only 10 minutes of running total. That was hard. I do not enjoy just walking on the treadmill because it’s so boring to me.  For some reason, running isn’t and I usually can just zone out and have fun.

Well, after that 25 minutes was over I thought I’d do 15 minutes to a half hour of walking on a steep incline, just so I would feel like I actually did something today. But alas, a lady who must’ve been marinating in her perfume all afternoon hopped on the treadmill next to me and I thought for sure I was going to get a killer headache just from that. I only made it five minutes on the incline walk and had to bail. Seriously, why do people think they need to bathe in this stuff? I wasn’t planning on doing anything else in the gym today, but on my way to the locker room I hopped on the pull-up bar and did 10 negative pull-ups (five with palms facing in, five out) just because I felt like it.

Now for today’s eats. Salad with Greek olive hummus and carrots and then a bowl of puffins with milk and strawberries.

Dinner was a fish “fry”- catfish dipped in egg, coated with breadcrumbs, and baked. Eating catfish any other way than fried in large amounts of oil is, well, sacrilege in these parts. We ate this in secret with the shades down and the lights dimmed. Hopefully no one finds out and schedules us for a public stoning.

Served with corn on the cob, salad with feta, walnuts, craisins and raspberry vinaigrette, and a big hunk of watermelon.

Not shown were our last remaining semi-sweet chocolate chips, a banana with rather generous amounts of peanut butter and almond butter, and some granola.

Well, that’s enough excitement for one day. Auf Wiedersehen!