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Breakfast & Lunch

This morning I woke up, packed my food, drove in to work, started up my computer, got to my daily Shannonigans, looked at the clock and realized it was nearly 11 a.m. and I was still not hungry for breakfast.  It's such a weird feeling to not have your day follow your stomach around.  My itinerary was guided by the clock instead of my appetite.  I thought that this may just be a just woke up in the morning thing, but then after I ate my breakfast, I continued on with my day and looked at the clock and to my surprise it was 2 p.m.!  Still not hungry but knowing that I should eat, I did.  And I've had about 3 glasses of water and I'm going back for more!  This is that feeling that I love so much.  Making good choices and reaping the benefits.

For breakfast today, I had a whole wheat english muffin, scrambled eggs with a Laughing Cow Lite triangle blended in, and a banana.  For lunch, a whole wheat english muffin bun with a veggie chicken pattie and dijon mustard, and a can of Healthy Request Savory Vegetable Soup.  Delish!

Excercise!!

Tonight after work I ventured down to our gym at the apartment and it was nicer than 24 hour fitness!  I can't believe that it's been there this whole time and I only just went for the first time tonight.  I did a half an hour on the elliptical and half an hour on the treadmill --all while watching Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, talk about inspiration to keep moving.  Seeing him in his boxers was enough to motivate me to do a whole hour as opposed to the original half that I intended to do.  I had a banana too when I got back, but another one's already been captured above.

Dinner

My mom made dinner last night.  We had pork chops, baked potatoes, caesar salad, apple sauce and biscuits.  She was so thoughtful and did such a great job.  I shouldn't have had Caesar salad or the biscuit but I let myself splurge a little since I worked out first.

After dinner we went and saw Avatar again.  I had about 1/4 of a big ass Diet Coke.  I had originally tried to get a tea but their machine was broken!!  :-/  Oh well!

Today I'm happy because I worked out for an hour and didn't make perfect choices for food but ones that I can live with.