Day Fifty-Nine: SUN! and an Official Weigh-In

I'd love to tell you that I hopped out of bed at 5am this morning feeling energized and ready to go, but the truth is that I dragged my sorry self out of the bed with a lot of mental ranting about the early hour, the warm bed, the cuddly cat on my feet, and the gigantic temptation to stay put till about Thursday. But I made it to my barbell strength class for the first time in weeks, and I am so glad I did! If I had given into the temptation to snuggle in, I would have regretted it and spent the day feeling like I had let myself down. Since I didn't wimp out, I walked outside at 5:25am and was rewarded with a gorgeous navy blue sky filled with stars, a crescent moon, and two super-bright planets floating overhead--so lovely and so VERY welcome after all the nasty weather over the last couple of weeks!

Going to the gym this morning means I actually officially weighed in for the first time in a month. Their scale doesn't agree with mine of course (mine is better), but it's still showing a net loss, which is what counts!

I was so excited to go for a walk at lunch, and my friend Lisa even came with me. I could have walked for hours, it was so beautiful outside! But it was Lisa's first day walking with me, and she's kind of easing in. Tomorrow is supposed to be even better weather than today,  so hopefully I can go farther.

At knitting tonight, I was trying to resist a serious chocolate craving, which actually doesn't happen to me all that often. I had talked myself out of the cookie that I wanted, and I just ordered a cup of tea. And then, damn if they didn't give me the cookie for free! I used 100% of my willpower to cut it in half and give half of it away, but it was STILL more calories than that cookie deserved. At 440 a pop, I will not be getting another one of those for a while.

After knitting, it was too late, and I was too tired to do an evening walk, so I didn't quite finish my steps. However, I am still calling this a decent exercise day, however: my legs are so sore from all the split squats I did in class this morning that I almost can't walk up a flight of stairs.

Tomorrow: Zumba! Yay!

Log:

Exercise:

• Barbell Strength class at the Apex gym with Tracy (who may or may not be trying to kill me)
• Lunchtime walk:1.66 miles (with Lisa!)

Nutrition:

• Breakfast: steel cut oatmeal with brown sugar, cinnamon, chopped pecans, and half a banana
• Lunch: baked chicken breast, a big salad with Briana's honey dijon dressing, and half a honeycrisp apple
• Dinner: stir fried skirt steak with ginger, tatsoi, and shitake mushrooms, jasmine rice
• Snacks: half a Panera chocolate duet cookie (220 calories! for half!) and a big cup of tea at knitting

Stats:

• Steps: 8851
• Calories: 1607 consumed, 479 burned
• Weight: 196 on the home scale, 201.9 on the gym scale (I sure like mine better!)