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I was able to run on Monday in the crazy Florida heat and humidity. I am a California girl so this humidity kills me. I love the heat, but southern California is a desert so I am used to dry heat.After that hot run I made a smoothie for breakfast. I randomly threw things we had in the kitchen in the ... Read More about Florida Mondaily

I know this is after the fact, but I do want to recap my meals for my vacation to see how I eat when I am off my schedule.Dinner was chicken, a roll and some mashed potatoes with a big salad with a bunch of good stuff including, mushrooms, tomatoes and cottage cheese. We celebrated the BF's mom's ... Read More about Sunday Recap

I thought it would be a good idea to start my bikini wearing vacation by eating a Cinnabon. Luckily, I had the BF with me and was in a sleepy stupor so I just ate about 1/4 of it. Damage: 1 million calories. (I will look it up tomorrow.) The BF got some croissant sandwiches and I had a couple of ... Read More about Florida Friday!!!

Shnacks!!! A Kashi waffle with PB. Estimate: 200 More shnacks! Some Kashi crackers with a little PB. Estimate 150 Dinner was Pad-Si-Yew (?) with tofu and extra veggies. Plus some bites of BF's curry. Estimate: 800 I tried one of these even though I bought them for the BF because I have no ... Read More about Thursday – Take off

Sorry everyone. I am trying to post, but the computer/internet/tiny people in my laptop are not letting me add pics. Give me a minute to figure this out. ... Read More about What the heck

Recently, I commented on Roni's blog when she was looking for new breakfast ideas. I went through them hoping someone mentioned they eat chocolate chip cookies for breakfast and have lost a ton of weight, but most commenters(?) are pretty healthy. Boo.Well, I guess it's back to cereal with milk or ... Read More about Duh!

I had a yogurt with cereal mixed in for a snack. I would say about a cup or so because I kept adding more as I ate it. Estimate: 300 calories.Then, I snacked on this stuff while cooking dinner. The whole baggie of watermelon and a couple of handfuls of the other stuff. Estimate: 150For dinner I made ... Read More about Rest of Monday

Even in this short amount of time I have learned so much from this blog. I am completely honest about what I eat because I want to learn what habits I need to change and why I am doing things that are keeping my from my goals. Sometimes this means posting things I am embarrassed about. This is not ... Read More about How NOT to lose 10 pounds

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Sunday was very "snacky" for me. I didn't eat a real lunch, so I felt unsatisfied all day.Since I did a long run yesterday it was just a 45 minute walk with the dogs this morning.I made a breakfast burrito with egg beaters and a ww tortilla - topped with Tapatio and ketchup and a little bit of ... Read More about Snacky Sunday

I wanted something sweet after dinner so I had one of these Swirl Stix. They are only 57 calories each! But, my sweet tooth was not satisfied so I started picking at the candy in the candy bowl (at my mom's). These are my candy tracks. Boo. Damage: minis of a 3 Musketeers, PB kiss, dark chocolate ... Read More about Saturday Night Recap

I had a great run this morning, did about 11. I felt good the whole time and even finished strong and considered doing more. I need to pin down a training plan so I have more direction and purpose to my runs. Whenever I have a good run I look to what I ate from the night before. That Chinese food ... Read More about Today I love … everything

So, I failed. I was one of the last ones in the office and it was just me and the brownies. Apparently the brownie explosion party was an ice cream and brownie sundae feast. Luckily, I avoided most of it, but I did end up having a brownie and an oreo. Boo. It wasn't that good either (no offense to ... Read More about Friday Failure

We are celebrating all the May birthdays at work today with a "Brownie Explosion" Party. Everyone is in there right now laughing and eating brownies. I don't even want to go near it, but we'll see how I hold up. I started lunch with a big salad topped with light balsamic. I thought I'd get my ... Read More about Avoid the conference room!!!