Fancy

Yesterday, I had a good run at the Y.  I had posted about feeling frustrated with my runs, and I decided to back down to a run 5 minutes / walk 2 minutes cycle, which I successfully repeated 4 times.  This was perfect for me yesterday.  I felt like I had gotten a good workout, but I wasn’t going to die.  I’m still anxious for the day that I can just run…

I also finished up yesterday with a reception for my Husband’s work, where I had two glasses of red wine and a few hors d’ouvres.  I wish I had stuck to just one glass, but oh well.  For the food, I had a teeny twice-stuffed potato – the size of a walnut, but yummy enough – and then a few shrimp with cocktail sauce.  Then, I saw this whole nice little assortment of fresh asian rolls with veggies in them, so I grabbed one of those with peanut sauce as well.  After the red wine, which makes me munchy, I went back for a fried potsticker, which my body did not thank me for.  I had eaten a very light 5:00 snack – the other half of a veggie wrap that I started at lunch – so this was a snack/dinner for me.

I had quite the time getting dressed up, though.  As a teacher, I literally wear jeans every day to work. “Casual” at work to me means jeans and sneakers instead of cute flats.  I wish I could say I like getting dressed up, but I really don’t.  The only thing I like is pointy high heels, and the novelty of those wear off fast.  Anyway, I couldn’t find anything I felt comfortable in, in part because I’ve had a pretty bad body image lately.  But as I said yesterday, I am going to try to stick to honoring my body and hope that everything else flows along after – could stand to have a little less “mush” on me.

That said, this morning I had about a serving and a half of Shredded Spoonfuls and a juicy, delicious pear.  Obviously that wasn’t a very big breakfast, so I am starving already at 10:30 – meaning I am going to break into my caramel Oikos and maybe pop a dried fig or two before lunch rolls around.

I’m going to the gym this afternoon and I fully plan to thank my body for everything it does for me – learn to run, for instance.  Wish me luck!

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