8/29/08

Happy Friday!  This morning I tweeted “It’s a beautiful Friday in the Queen City – what are you going to do with it?”  And I realized that we really do get to decide how we spend each and every day! And I am doing several things with my day:

1. Planning a healthy and inexpensive lunch with a friend – then time to go to Wal Mart and figure out a new iPod carrying plan for working out!

2. Walking again!

3. Planning menus and grocery list for next week

4. Working – listening to music, moving forward with what I need to accomplish!

So…to fuel all that…

Breakfast:

whole wheat english muffin, egg, lowfat cheese, mandarin orange fruit cup (juice drained – ugh! I hate the juice in fruit cups!)

Lunch:

lean cuisine, veggies

Dinner:

Not sure yet – we are probably going out.  Maybe Mexican!

Exercise: Walk 1 – 1/2 hours!!

And….my facial is tomorrow~ my first one ever~ my first reward for 10 pounds lost!!

Water Baby

I am such a water baby – I went to the Y to swim today, trying to rest/strengthen ye olde knee, and it was WONDERFUL!

I can’t swim like I am supposed to, and I am looking for some adult swimming lessons, but the point is that I was in the water moving and my heart rate was up for 45 minutes. And as I was kicking ass in the backstroke, I heard and felt something in my knee POP and I think it was something popping back into place, since now it feels sore instead of EXCRUCIATING FREAKING PAIN every time I take at step.  So. YAY!

Eating:

Breakfast – Panera. I gotta say, they give the impression of being a healthy place to eat, but their lack of healthy – whole grain, lean protein choices for breakfast makes me think twice. I ended up with a sauage and potato egg souffle and a fruit cup.  I probably should have had a half whole wheat bagel and peanut butter.   I had a small coffee with splenda and skim.  But I do have to say that this was healthier than my typical Panera brekfast – cinnamon crunch bagel and egg souffle and large coffee with half and half!

Lunch – ham and tukey on whole wheat

Dinner – (Tukey) Italian sausage and peppers, whole wheat pasta and salad.

I went to TJ’s today (Trader Joes!) and got some whole wheat tortillas to make wraps with for lunch!

Here’s an interesting article…