Here is the blog entry I put in over there today...
I'm still getting used to logging in all my meals. I just found the closest thing to the lunch I had today since it was catered at work. It is really neat how it breaks down all your food choices for the day. I'm overdoing my sodium intake which isn't good for my high blood pressure. I'm under in my fats, but I am worried about getting them in and then overdoing my calories for the day. I am also under on my protein... maybe some peanut butter, but I'm not sure how that will help out my salt intake. I don't know, it's a work in progress to find that happy medium and it's only day 2.
I am also very low on my potassium for the day. My snack for next week will be bananas, maybe that will help. If not, I think I have a potassium supplement around the house somewhere and I can add that to my multi vitamin. I did remember to take my vitamins today so that helped me increase some things I was lacking in day 1. I'm still trying to get all 8 glasses of water in, that is proving to be a bit difficult right now. I know I will get there.
I wasn't able to complete my goal of walking the dog once a day. When I got my son to sleep i was going to slip out and walk up and down the driveway, but no such luck. It is 30 degrees outside (which didn't stop me last night) and it is raining (which does stop me tonight).
Tomorrow is a rest day for me as far as workouts go. Yay!!! I've finished my 4 EA Sports Active workouts for the week! It's all rest here on out through the weekend. I've got my strength training routine all ready to go for tomorrow morning and I am looking forward to not having to kill myself with cardio. The Sports Active workout this morning kicked my butt! It was all about stride jumps, foot fires, and skipping, 3 sets of each. But I did it! Every time i saw them come around i said to myself "I can do this!" I don't know if I truly believed it or not, but I made it through. It felt like I was giving minimal effort, but I was just plum tired. I am looking forward to getting to bed at a reasonable time tonight, but here I am typing... again!
I noticed along with being tired that I had a very short fuse today. I don't know if it is being tired with the addition of my girl time of the month, or just tired. I snapped at my son as soon as I walked in the door when he didn't do what I asked him to do the first time I asked him. I realized I was snappy and tried to tone it down a bit, but I just had no tolerance for procrastination and dawdling (my fav word for what he does when he gets easily distracted from the thing I asked him to do). All in all it was a good day. Stayed on track with a killer catered lunch! I let myself have the chocolate chip cookies the other ladies denied themselves, I guess that's why I'm so pleasantly plump :) HA!
Then 330 came around and we had a birthday in the office so they had cake. I refrained from the cake and left the celebration as soon as everyone started eating it. It wasn't so hard to do being that the last time we had that cake it wasn't very good.
I read a lot of interesting blogs on sparkpeople today that made me laugh and I learned some new things. One of the ones I really liked mentioned feeling hungry when you are dieting. They broke it down basically into a bodily craving because you are trying to change your habits. Sort of like quitting smoking and having cravings, something I have become all too familiar with lately. So when my body starts to tell me it's hungry I need to remember that it is rebelling to me changing my habits. As long as I get my calories in for the day i will be OK and don't really need more to fill the hungry void. I should just stop and realize what my body is doing and smile about it because I am making the necessary changes to live a happier life. Same thing I should do when I get a craving for a cigarette.
I sure hope I remember to do that the next time it happens.
Good night everyone!
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