And now for a message from the librarian part of this blog

There is NOTHING like a good audiobook to keep you moving. 11/22/63 is doing that for me right now. I don't want to stop listening. So I keep walking. I would have walked farther this morning but I had to get ready for work. But I got in a good 45-50 minutes of walking this morning, and of course needed to continue the story at lunch so walked about 30 more minutes at Carl Sandburg. All while listening to an awesome book. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books also did that for me.

I'm going to need to build up my store of books so I always have something that will make me want to get up early in the morning for to walk. Especially this summer when I will be coming into work 2 hours earlier (and getting Fridays off).

Mark it, dude.

I am going to do pilates when I get home. I am going to do pilates when I get home. I am going to do pilates when I get home.

Lather, rinse, repeat. I WILL get that shit done! No more fucking around! (That was for you, Edward, who wants more f-bombs in my blog ;)

Had Zaxby's for lunch, but I'm going to have a banana for dinner, so that will hopefully balance things out. Also read an interesting article on NPR about eating meat:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/03/12/148457233/death-by-bacon-study-finds-eating-meat-is-risky

Pretty sure Zaxby's chicken fingers count as "processed" ;)

Anyways, it's a new week, which means new beginning! Did well last week, FAIL for the weekend, so I can only hope to be somewhat good this week. Party this weekend, so it naturally won't count.

Still truckin'

Pilates again this morning! Vigorous walk yesterday! Bag of m&m's today! But that's okay. I had oatmeal for breakfast and my lentil thing for lunch. Will do my best to have a healthy dinner, so the candy won't matter in the grand scheme of things. Probably gonna have sushi tomorrow, which is still quite good for you (especially if I get it with brown rice, which I definitely won't).

Also, I'm making paella for date night tomorrow, which I've decided we should do more eating-in for date night. It's gonna be legen (wait for it) dary!

Back to it - update

Ah, so my lentils came out delici-oso, I did Pilates this morning and walked at lunch. I'm still pretty full from those beans, and so I might just eat an apple and maybe some cucumber for dinner. Today was a huge WIN for me getting back on track!

I did consider going to the vending machine for some chocolate, but, luckily for my body, I didn't have any cash. And the craving passed. Yay me!

And I'm getting back

This is the base to my lunches for the rest of the week: onions, carrots, celery, bok choy and garlic. Gonna add a bag of lentils and vegetable broth to it. Yum!!! Maybe that pizza really did do something positive for me! Might post another pic when it's done if it still looks yummy, but lentils usually don't :)

Ready, set, ohhh. . .

I'm ready to get going again. What's that, pizza for lunch? Le sigh. Tomorrow is a new day. And I know I'm not the only one. But I have felt disgusting since lunch, so I think that may have been the catalyst needed to get me back on track. Or, something. Sounds good, right?!

I said "somewhat" for a reason. . .

Yes, I am trying to be healthy. Yes, I am trying to eat nutrient-dense food and exercise regularly. But clearly, I'm not going to be uppity about it because right now, all I want to do is go buy a pack of m&m's from the vending machine. Apparently I've become addicted. Usually I crave chips or other salty snacks. The last 2 weeks it's been m&m's.

Being healthy is hard. This is my journey.