Anyway, I’m happy with what I did. Here’s the breakdown of today’s workout.

• Walked 0.25 miles @ 3mph 0% 5:00 mins
• Jogged 0.55 miles @ 4.3 mph 0% 7:40 mins
• Walked 0.87 miles @ 3 mph 0% 17:20 mins
• Walked 0.53 miles @ 3.2 mph 3% 10 mins
• Walked 0.53  miles @ 3.2 mph 5% 10 mins
• Walked 0.53  miles @ 3.2 mph 2% 10 mins
• Walked 0.5 miles @ 3 mph 0% 10 mins
• Tricep extension 15 x 2 @40lbs
• Prone leg curl 10 x 2 @ 50 lbs
• Bicep curl 20 x 2 @ 20 lbs
• Ab crunch machine 10 x 2 @ 40 lbs
• Lat pulldown 10 x 2 @ 40 lbs

Food was good, though what we had for dinner sucked. We tried a lentil casserole and while it was a thousand times better then plain lentils, it still wasn’t very good. I ate it, but I do not want to eat it again if I can help it and Mattie just picked the meat out. Anyway, here’s today’s eats.

And now I’m off to bed!

Anyway, moving on. My mom is trying to learn how to buy things off of ebay. After months, she’s still only half-mastered emails, and I spent ten minutes trying to tell her how to send me the link to the actual auction pages of the items she wants to review them for anything fishy. Then she seemed like she got kind of mad when I told her she’d have to sign up for her own ebay account (no way in hell she is using mine!) and get her own PayPal account, which could take several days to set up she would need to do that first. I know she was groaning when I tried to explain that part, and I didn’t even get to explain how ebay itself works. I did tell her if she gets screwed, good luck getting it made right. While I’ve had hundreds of positive transactions on ebay, I’ve had a few very, very bad ones that were all on high-dollar items which ebay refused to help rectify. That’s why I don’t do business there unless I absolutely cannot find the item elsewhere.

Okay, today’s eats.

And that concludes tonight’s post! See you tomorrow!

The produce box had a nice surprise in it- it had said seasonal fruit, and what we got were strawberries, apricots, and cherries! Yum! The cherries are mostly tart with a little sweetness, and so good!

I was also happy to note the scale was down a bit more today. I’m now only 2.1 pounds away from my lose 30 pounds goal. I cannot wait to step on the scale and see it say 220.5 or less! That will be an exciting day.

Food was good today. I kept fat pretty low and while I pretty much nibbled all day, I nibbled on smart things. We went out to dinner at Red Robin with Mattie’s dad and brother. I researched their menu before we left and gave myself several options for both sandwiches and sides. I ended up having a chicken sandwich and a side of fruit salad. When the food came, Mattie’s dad looked at my food, looked at me, and said “You’re going to eat that healthy?” Um yes I am, thank you. The food was really good though, and in no way did I regret my decision to get what I got.

When we were going to his dad’s to pick him and his brother up, we saw a ton of smoke- the Wendy’s just up the street from us burnt down. According to the brief article we found online, it started in the kitchen as a grease fire. Guess that’s one less fast food place I have to not feel guilty about eating at. There’s one a few miles in another direction, but I don’t like driving where it is.

Anyway, today’s eats.

Tomorrow I’m going to walk my ass off again, and when I’m not doing that, I’ll be reading another story or two in my book, or catching up on my little bit of TV watching. I’m a few weeks behind on both Grimm & New Girl.

I realized too yesterday I forgot to post this week’s dinner menu.

Thursday & Friday are new recipes, and I’m pretty worried that Thursday’s is going to be gross. We tried lentils before but I didn’t really know what to do with them and it was pretty bad. I figure I’ll give them one more shot and hope they redeem themselves. If not, I’ll be cooking dinner twice that night, at least for Mattie. I’ll probably just eat it anyway because its already made and I won’t want to just throw it out.

Today was also grocery shopping day, though I barely needed to pick anything up. I’ve noticed since I’ve been planning out dinners out, I’m doing better on my weekly shopping, and somehow, our freezer is completely stuff full of meat right now.  I bought chicken this week because we’ll be out right before I got shopping next week and I have another chicken meal to make, but otherwise I barely needed anything. Here’s what I got.

• Bottled water (24 pack for $5.18 including CRV)
• Lucky Duck malbec wine ($2.97) – a splurge, though only a small one. I’ll maybe have a small glass and Mattie will drink the rest.
• Milk ($2.80 gallon)
• Chicken Breasts (4.34 lbs for $8.55)
• Bacon (12 Oz for $2.88)

Total $22.38 + $0.26 tax. That leaves me with $17.36 for the rest of the week, and the only thing I know I need to buy is a tomato and some broccoli, if the one I have in the fridge doesn’t survive until Thursday and I don’t get any in tomorrow’s box. There’s supposed to be tomatoes in there though tomorrow, along with a bunch of other good stuff. Seasonal fruit (probably apricots), lettuce, basil, squash, garlic, potatoes, chard, strawberries (Mattie will be happy about these), & tomatoes.

Now, about that taking it easy today. I really meant to. I though hey, I’ll do an hour long yoga session, and call it good. And I did. I did almost an hour of yoga, and then curled up to read for a bit. After I finished the next story in my book, I realized my body felt so much better after all those long stretches and reaches that I really did want to go knock out my 0.55 miles jogging at the gym, so I put my shoes on, and headed over there.

Like last time I jogged, the first 1/4th was super easy. Then the entire middle 1/2 was killer. And at the last 1/4th, everything got easy again and I really wondered how far I could go before I just keeled over and my body flew off the back of the treadmill. Luckily that thought lasted just until I saw the distance hit 0.80 (I started jogging after 5 minutes/0.25 miles) and I slowed back down to a fast walk to finish out the mile. And just by jogging the extra 0.05 miles and upping my walking speed a little, I was able to get in 0.05 miles further in the same time frame as yesterday. Friday I will do it all again.

Food was pretty good today, despite a lot of snacking. I was hungry again after my late breakfast, and then I really didn’t get enough dinner so there was more snacking after that. Still, I managed to stay within a nice place in the numbers. Here’s the damages.

So, that was today. Tomorrow I will be making an extra effort to eat well throughout the day because I have no idea what dinner will bring. Right now though, I’m going to relax and wait a few more minutes for Two & a Half Men and Mike & Molly to come on.