Marathon Training – 6 miles with hills

The Runner’s World Training Program describes Hill Days like this:

Run the mileage for the day on the hilliest course you can find. This will build a base of strength in the first seven weeks.

The path nearby my new place has a gradual incline the whole way out, so I basically did 3 miles slightly up hill out and slight downhill on the way back.

Food Budget - The move and my new job mean a different financial situation for Ben and I.  We now need to stick to a budget. This is the first time that I’ve ever had to stick to a specific food budget. So, I have decided I need to start planning my meals for a few reasons:

- It will help save money, I’m planning on making a shopping list each week – Last minute trips to the store really add up!

- It will ensure no wasted food if I meal plan around what we need to use

- It will help stop random snacking in the kitchen while I figure out what to eat

- I’m buying food for two now

This  is a really good way to be aware of what we’re eating and the costs of our staple foods in order to make smarter decisions. Ben and I just moved in together last week. I am not used to buying food for two people. His eating habits are pretty different from mine so I have a lot to learn in food budgeting. I’ll keep you posted on this progress since it seems times are tight for so many right now

Last night I decided I haven’t had oats in a while so that was the plan for today…but I put too much almond milk in so they were very watery. I had to add Banana Cheerios and raisins to soak up the water!

It’s a short week! We are almost to “Friday”!

If you know me at all then you could have predicted that I would choose the Whole Foods salad bar for lunch! It’s my favorite restaurant after all

I couldn’t decide between the hot food or cold food so I got a small container of each. In the hot container – 2 raviolis, fried vegetable rice (with brown rice) and sweet and sour tempeh. The tempeh wasn’t good, I guess I’m not a sweet and sour girl.

In the cold container -  my usual = veggies on the bottom and small scoops of salads on top At the end I added a little bit of Vegetarian Pad Thai & it ended up covered my masterpiece.

My peep brought by some Pirate’s Booty that I couldn’t turn down…

My afternoon snacks were an apple and yogurt.

The yogurt was actually one of those new Better Whey yogurts. I was sent some coupons to review it for the blog a while back, but wedding stuff made me push that back! I’ll give a full review after I try another flavor or two…

I also had a small cup of cereal with almond milk – I just really wanted something sweet, but I wasn’t hungry.

This is my favorite WF salad bar item = Israeli Couscous with eggplant and stuff…I added the garbanzos for protein

I bought it from the deli section because it lists the ingredients. I am so going to recreate this at home now!!!!

I had a few bites while making dinner.

Dinner was pita pizzas

We have to eat outside since we still don’t have a dining room table (and aren’t getting one until after the move).

Dessert! I have been craving a good chocolate cookie for the longest time so I finally broke down and bought some ready made dough at TJ’s. Excellent!

I may or may not have had a few bites of the dough too…

Tomorrow is another crazy day in the life of R.E.R. I’ve got to start packing for a little drive across the U.S.

Intuitive Eating – It’s been a while since I’ve talked about I.E. mostly because it has been very hard for me to follow I.E. when I’ve been so busy/stressed. The R.D. basically said I should focus on treating myself well and worry about my eating when everything calms down. I have been listening to the Intuitive Eating CDs and I love them.

I also got a notebook that I’m starting to write in. I was really against tracking until now because it’s something I was obsessed with when I had disordered eating – I wrote down everything I ate – binge or restrictive days alike. I found a lot of these notebooks last week as I was moving out of my mom’s to Ben’s. It’s really sad how messed up my outlook was. I guess I should just be happy I’m on the right track even if I’m going super slow…

This notebook is going to track my runs – for training purposes & track my eats – for training/health purposes. I’m not going to judge myself, I’m just trying to use it to observe my habits. I.E. is super big on not judging yourself, just observing. It’s helpful.