Day 13: Road Trip

Today, I made it on my lunchtime walk, though it wasn't quite as long as I wanted because of an all-hands meeting at work. There are just not enough hours in the day sometimes. I wasn't able to attend my afternoon Zumba class today either, because we drove to my mom's house to go apple picking in the mountains this weekend!

Driving means road food, where it's SUPER hard to be faithful to my restrictions. We went to Chick-Fil-A, and the best I could do was grilled chicken nuggets with a side salad and an unsweetened tea. Of the dressing options, I went with avocado ranch, but only used half the packet (MORE than enough for a side salad), and I admit, I did not resist the BBQ sauce for dipping the nuggets. All in all, it could have been a lot worse (fried chicken sandwich with mayo, waffle fries, sweet tea, and a big old chocolate chip cookie worse), so I am pretty happy with my powers of resistance tonight.

Definitely looking forward to eating an apple again--the lack of fruit is the hardest part of this phase of my nutrition plan. Sunday is my birthday, the end of the first two weeks of the challenge, and eating a big, beautiful, freshly picked, Honey Crisp apple is totally going to be my reward!

Walking up and down my mother's hallway tonight to finish out my 10k steps. Dedication. :-)

Today's Log:

Exercise:

• Lunchtime Walk: 1.65 (very hot) miles
• Day 13 of the 30 Day Abs Challenge (60 sit-ups, 75 crunches, 40 leg raises, 50 second plank)

Nutrition:

• Breakfast: hot tea with 2% milk and 1/2 tsp raw sugar, 2 eggs scrambled with cheese and spinach, 2 slices of Wellshire Farms Canadian bacon, about 1/3 cup of little tomatoes
• Lunch: small baked chicken breast with lemon and thyme, sauteed zucchini with peppers and onions
• Dinner: Road Food - Chick-Fil-A grilled chicken nuggets with BBQ sauce, side salad with avocado ranch dressing, unsweetened iced tea
• Snacks: 24 almonds, 1 Babybel

Stats:

• Steps:10103
• Calories: 1459 consumed, 207 burned
• Weight: 203.5