Eating A lot Early On...

I woke up ravenous (shocker...IDK what is my problem lately) and ate a handful of cashews (100 cals) and grabbed a handful of cereal from trail mix (50 cals). Next, I made 2 pieces of veggie bacon (60 cals) on a brown rice, sodium-free rice cake (35 cals) with 1/4 cup shredded low fat cheese (45 cals). I put all in the micro for ten seconds (after I already cooked the bacon for 1.5 minutes in microwave alone. Yummy yum yum GOODNESS! Bacon does make everything better--even FAKEn'. =TOTAL 290, BREAKFAST

Then, once at work, I had a Venti black iced coffee from Bucky's. I also had a baggie of Kashi maize cereal  (150) and half a banana (50 cals). =TOTAL 200, SNACK

I had a meeting during lunch, so on the way back I stopped and got a bag of 100 cal serving size pop chips (salt-n-pepper) and a Coke Zero at CVS. When I got back to the office, I ate the salad I made last night which consisted of:

Grape Tomatoes
1 Whole Cucumber Sliced (30 cal.)
Baby Spinach, Raw (15 cal.)
1/4 c. Reduced Fat Shredded Mexican Blend Cheese from Whole Foods (45 cal.)
1 Shredded Ezekiel brand wrap (80 cal).
chipa (100 cal.)

=TOTAL 270, LUNCH

I sprinkled the pop chips into the salad (told you I love 'crunch') and enjoyed!

For dessert I had a Greek Yogurt, Vanilla Flavored (110 cal.) with half a choco/ob/coconut kashi bar in it(100 cal.).=210 TOTAL, DESSERT

That puts me at 970 for the day. After work I am going to the gym to run and do weights (3 mi is on the schedule today) and also grab a salad or a sushi roll fromn Whole Foods. This is higher than I wanted to be at for today but oh well, like I said, it's been an off week for me :(

Waking Up...Not Just Hard To Do--It Plain Old SUCKS.

So, starting at 5 am this lovely Tuesday morning, my alarm started going off. Snooze, snooze, snooze until 5:30. Then I finally convinced myself it would feel better overall if I bit the bullet and went for a run before work. Thank GOD I laid out my clothes the night before, everything down to the socks and iPod arm band....makes it so much simpler to not make excuses with yourself.

Today's training called for 3 miles, so 3 miles is what I did (3.07 to be exact). I have been using the Map My Run app because I haven't bought, or should I say decided upon, a running watch yet. My total run took 25:17, a time I feel really proud of and makes me even more motivated to get up early tomorrow :)

I am going to have to go to Whole Food tonight because my breakfast was a mish mash of things in the house. That's always what gets you, lack of preparedness leads to nibbling on things you don't even want!

I started pre run with a handful of cashews, whole non salted from Whole Foods. Post run I made a bowl of oatmeal with just water (140 calories). However, an hour later I felt hungry...probably a combo of my fast run and also my late night Yoga Sculpting before bed...so I cut an Ezekiel wrap in half and put natural Earth Balance brand peanut butter on it...nom  nom nom.

When I got to work I had a hot coffee with half a creamer (we went through McDonald's drive thru this AM and they don't have skim milk--however, if you really don't want cream, you can buy a kids sized 2 percent milk chug and add it to your coffee--I usually do this but I was getting a ride with friends and wanted to minimize difficulties). I also had a Kashi coconut and chocolate bar (130 cals).

I always need a little something "indulgent" with my coffee.

All in all, a good morning. My jeans should feel like they did in no time...I hope :) PS..If you are looking for a jam to get you running faster, "Trip to Your Heart" off of Britney's latest CD is great...I just let my whole Britney playlist go this morning and look at that time :)