Yummy Diet Food - Bring on the Weekend!

Tuesday night's diet food was de-lish. Lean beef stuffed bell peppers with fat free cheese and cucumber salad with Italian dressing. Yum. My work out was odd but still satisfying, not like Jillian but it did make me sweat and cuss. Then I took the dogs on a little jog. I found out yesterday that Brian had already taken Cap once, so he got two workouts. It's cool though because he needs to shed some lbs too.

Last night I ran with Cap and Emma for about 3.5 miles in our neighborhood and then did like 5 minutes of arm workouts. I should have done a full video but I needed to shower really bad and wanted to go to Mom's and work on the wedding timeline/music. I weighed 144 yesterday which felt great. I can sort of tell on my body. My legs don't rub together at the tops as bad. I'll be so glad when I can start to see differences in my upper body because it is where I am most insecure. I told Leah last night that I MUST tone my arms and upper back before July. I should have done it before this Sunday, but that was my bad life choice/procrastination. As long as I work out very, very hard Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning, I'll be okay for the pix. More importantly, I must remember my diet.

I ate at the Brick Oven yesterday for Administrative Professionals Day. It was hard not to order pasta with tons of cheese, but I was strong. I ordered a Turkey sandwich and asked for the dressing on the side. I ordered the half sandwich and a salad with cucumber and balsamic vinaigrette dressing on the side. My "half" sandwich was huge and they put dressing on it so I was a little discouraged. I must admit it made the lunch very very tasty. I felt so guilty for eating the whole thing (with dressing) that I didn't have a huge meal for dinner. I did snack out too much though. I had: 2 100 calorie snacks, some mini pickles, 1/2 a piece of sugar free candy, 2 turkey and cheese roll ups and a strawberry fruit bar. Yikes, seeing it all typed out makes it look like even more. Not good. I guess it amounts to about 450 calories.

This morning I had a piece of reduced-fat peanut butter on whole wheat toast. I packed a whole wheat pita with turkey, lettuce and cheese with grapes for lunch. I think I'll go tanning on my lunch break. A good tan really does make me look thinner and more healthy. Any time I pay attention to my body in some way I feel more healthy. I work at CL tonight so I made sure to bring my gum to fight off terrible croutons/ice cream. I did well last week. I plan to eat turkey and salad again. Wish me luck!

And this weekend, I'm going to do my first 5K in a while. It's the MADD walk. I hope I don't have to go alone but I'm pumped about getting back into the public exercise scene. It's exciting watching other people get out in the sun and run with you. I don't know if I'll bring the kids this time though because I'm getting my hair colored at 10 am and may not have time to drop them off. Hmmm.