Time to get in shape. No, really, I have a cruise in 3.5 months!

Back to being good. For real this time! I know everyone feels the same way, so I don't feel bad. We all make resolutions to eat right and exercise and are awesome for a while, then start to slack off. I am the queen of this, as evidenced by my previous posts! But I started back on the couch to 5k program today and am going to have a running buddy through the magic of technology in the form of my friend Katy. We're totally going to virtually kick each others asses and publicly mock each other on facebook if we don't run. Okay, maybe not but I think this will help. Also, I'm back to eating well during the week, and my husband and I have made a pact to only eat out once every 2 weeks. We'll see how long that lasts...

Grrr

Despite my best efforts, I've eaten like shit the last few weeks. Okay, so they were clearly not my best efforts. But here's the thing. When you live with someone who doesn't eat the same way as you, it's very hard to maintain a healthy lifestyle. John and I both eat pretty good during the week because we go our separate ways food wise, but when the weekend hits, we're tired, we haven't really seen each other all week, and we just wanna eat some fucking crap (another fbomb for edward).
However, I do seem to be maintaining my weight somewhat because during the week I lose whatever I've gained on the weekend. And then I go to a conference where I blow it again with some delicious cookies and other crap. Oh well. It's a journey without end.

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 :)