Posted on February 25, 2010 - by Ashley Jackson

Stealth Snow

I let myself sleep in today. I stepped outside with Heath at about 7:45AM and there was SNOW. An inch or so of it, all over my steps and the grass! It was the big fluffy stuff that doesn’t stick to the roads, but it sure caused a lot of confusion among drivers by sticking to road signs. I kept getting stuck behind people who didn’t know where they were going because they couldn’t see how to get there.

Which just goes to show–I should’ve gotten up when my alarm went off the first time this morning…

Today was my weigh-in day for my fitness chore chart, and I’m happy to say that I’m down to 151.2 lbs! Last Thursday I was 153.8 lbs, and I feel that number was a little inflated due to my overindulgence during Mardi Gras (when people tend to dump unhealthy food in the office break area). However, this is the lowest number I’ve seen on the scale in a long time, which means I did indeed lose something. Go me!

This week, I’m keeping pretty much the same goals on my fitness chart as last week, with a couple of modifications. I bumped the number of days I’m going to try to ride my recumbent bike down to four, because I only did it three times last week when I was shooting for five days. I upped the number of days I’m going to try to get up the first time my alarm goes off to four days a week, and since I didn’t do that this morning I can’t miss a day now. I combined two of my nutrition goals–packing a healthy lunch for work the evening before and counting calories until 3PM–because on days that I work I don’t eat at home before dinnertime, so it’s much more efficient to just pack everything I’m going to eat before 3PM into my bag and count up the calories then instead of worrying about it as I go. To replace the missing goal, I made a goal to clean my apartment for 15 minutes every day. (Did some heavy duty work on the kitchen tonight–way over 15 minutes! No rolling cleaning minutes, though…).

I had an apple crumble Liberte yogurt this morning for breakfast–I think this might be my new favorite! This isn’t your typical yogurt–it doesn’t have artificial flavoring and HFCS and only kind of taste like the flavor it says it does. This stuff is all natural–it says it’s apple crumble, and it’s got apples and raisins and cinnamon in it to prove it!

Midmorning snack was a lemon Larabar. I had to eat this around 10AM even though I ate my breakfast at 9AM because I was ravenous–I don’t know why I’m suddenly so hungry all the time again now that I’m counting calories. I’m not going to try upping my calories yet, but I am going to experiment with shifting the balance so I’m eating more in the morning to fuel me throughout the day to see if that helps. That’s going to be hard–I hate eating in the mornings…

Went for a walk during lunch. Came back and immediately dug into my lunch, then realized I hadn’t taken a picture of it. It was the leftover half of last night’s chicken and mushrooms and rice.

Before Chinese class I snacked on this…

A sammich made of wheat-free (gluten-free, even) graham-style crackers and all natural chunky peanut butter. These crackers are good.

After Chinese class, I downed some carrots and roasted red pepper hummus.

And after work and some housecleaning, I ate dinner…

Two tomatoes, a broccoli crown sprinkled with garden salad seasoning, and a piece of tuna that I baked covered in a mixture of sour cream, dill, and Ozark seasoning. Super tastiness all around.

Well, I am tired and am going to try to get to work early tomorrow, because I’m leaving at 1PM–Heath has a vet appointment in the afternoon. Won’t that be fun…?