Day Two: Report

Despite all good intentions, today didn't start out at smoothly as it could have. I was planning to go for a walk early this morning, but I woke up with a raging headache instead. This happens to me sometimes, so I need to be flexible I guess. I took some drugs and slept another 45 minutes instead of walking. Luckily, today wasn't as scorchingly hot as it's been lately, and the predicted rain held off, so I was able to go for a walk at lunch. I'm trying to do little things to help with my step count, like parking at the far end of the parking lot, taking the stairs (I am considering the elevator off limits for the next 90 days), walking the perimeter of the building every time I take a break; I am hoping that little things will add up into big things.

Today's Log:

Exercise: 

• Lunchtime walk, 2.12 miles
• Day 2 of the 30 Day Abs Challenge (20 sit-ups, 8 crunches, 8 leg raises, 12 second plank)
• Short evening walk, 1.22 miles

Nutrition:

• Breakfast: spinach mushroom frittata, fresh garden tomatoes, hot tea with 2% milk and 1/2 tsp raw sugar 
• Lunch:salad with green leaf lettuce, cucumbers, yellow peppers, and little red tomatoes, baked chicken breast, champagne caper vinaigrette
• Dinner: pan seared tilapia with tomatoes and basil , french green beans with olive oil and wild porcini salt (Note: In the tilapia recipe, I used olive oil instead of butter and dry vermouth instead of white wine. I also added more tomatoes, as our garden is overflowing with them. This lovely summer dinner is pictured below.)
• Snacks: big hot tea (2 bags) with 2% milk and 1 tsp raw sugar, raw almonds, 1 babybel cheese

Stats:

• Steps:11634
• Calories: 1263 consumed, 442 burned
• Weight: 210 (home scale - doesn't quite match the gym scale)
• A note on this: Yesterday, at my official weigh-in, it was 9:40am, and I had eaten breakfast and drank a bunch of water. This morning, I stepped on the scale at 6:45am before I had eaten anything. I think that's pretty much accounting for the difference seen here--in no way have I lost 4.3 pounds in one day. If only, right? :-) 

Pan seared tilapia with tomatoes and
basil, French green beans with olive oil
and wild porcini salt