The Importance Of Planning Ahead

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I know that I can sleep in if I want to now, but I wanted to make sure that I got a workout in today, so I got up at 5 AM with hubby. For breakfast I had 1 cup of cheerios in 1/2 cup of 1% milk and topped with 1/2 cup of strawberries. I also had a glass of Healthy Balance juice all for a total of 4 points.

Yesterday, I noticed that the backs of both of my legs, right above the ankles, is very sore to the touch. They’re not sore when I move, but just when I touch them. Not sure what that means, but I decided to wait another day for my last run of the week. I found a Pilates video on NetFlix and burned 170 calories. I really need to be doing some strength training. I am so wobbly and weak. My hips are very weak and often hurt after running. I could really feel the pain in my hips when I did this workout- a good thing though, because I could really feel my hips being used and stretched. Hopefully I can strengthen them. Overall, I liked the workout and it felt great to stretch my whole body.

After reading blogs, I whipped up an iced coffee for 1.5 points.

For some reason, by 8:00, I was starving. I tried to ignore it because I never eat anything until my first break at work, but when my stomach started growing, I decided I better eat something because I was obviously truly hungry! I had a True Delights Granola bar: dark chocolate raspberry almond, for 3 points. This was my first time trying these. Pretty good, but I don’t like spending that many points on granola bars. It also gave me a weird heart burn feeling. But not bad otherwise!

The morning went by pretty quickly. For my 1st break I cut up 2 small peaches for .5 point.

I had some difficult customers mid morning, so that’s just stressful. I made sure to stay out of the junk food though! For lunch I made little pizzas on Arnold Sandwich Thins: 1/4 cup spaghetti sauce, 1/4 cup cheese, 1/2 cup mushrooms, and 7 mini pepperonis. I also had 1 cup of fresh green beans. Total points= 5.5.

For dessert, I had 1/2 cup of light vanilla yogurt and 1 cup of strawberries for 2 points.

For my last break I wanted something refreshing, so I had a bomb pop, left over from the 4th of July. 1 point.

I also counted out 16 animal crackers to snack on at my desk for 2 points. For some reason I am so hungry today!

This afternoon my boss told me that my grill was in and I could come pick it up. We have competitions for different things at work. My team has won both times! So hubby and I headed up to the office to pick that up once he got home from work.

We decided to eat out while we were in town. It was a spur of the moment thing and I wasn’t able to plan. We went to Fazoli’s. For some reason, I thought I was making a fairly low point choice by ordering the Penne with meat sauce, but when I got home and looked up the points it was 16 points! I also ate 3 breadsticks (only two pictured) for 10 points- wow, did I ever go over my points! But it was the perfect day to use some weeklies since I’ve been so hungry all day.

And a few hours later, I had to have my ice cream for 4 points.

Overall, I used 18.5 weekly points tonight. I guess that’s what can happen when you fail to plan ahead! But I don’t feel bad about it because I enjoyed it and I’m still within plan.

Check out how tall one of our sunflowers is! It’s seriously as tall as our garage.