A Trip to the Vet and Misc.

5 AM always comes so early! The last couple of nights I’ve gotten really good sleep—98% and 99% efficiency according to my FitBit.

I think it’s weird how I can see when I wake up before the alarm, I have the pink lines, but when the alarm wakes me up, I’m in the middle of my sleep cycle. Interesting!

For breakfast, I ate an egg, a banana muffin, 1/2 banana, and skim milk.

I had just a little bit of time before I had to take the cats to the vet. Not enough time to exercise though. So I had to plan it for later in the afternoon. The cats were pretty upset as soon as I set the carrier outside of the door. Daisy just howled and howled the whole way to the vet.

They needed to get up to date on their shots and Dudley needed some grooming. We have a problem with his hair matting because he is long haired.

On my drive there, I drank my coffee with FF creamer.

Once I got back home, I had to sign in to work for a friend today.

For a snack, I ate pecans and almonds.

And a light string cheese:

I got one short break in that time, so I ate a quick sandwich with turkey, Swiss, spinach and tomato.

I also ate a Reese’s PB egg.

After I got done working, I had to wait for the vet to call to say that I could pick up the cats. They told me they’d call around noon, but even by 3:00 they hadn’t called…so I waited and waited. I finally called and it sounded like they just forgot to call me…

But in the mean time, I was really hungry, so I ate some Jolly Time Healthy Pop.

And then I was off to pick up the cats. $175 later, they were home. Really nice vet though. He even carried the cats out to the car for me and acted like he felt bad for taking all of my money. lol. I had $120 cash thinking that would cover it based on our initial conversation on the phone, so I counted out my money and he goes… “Oh, I don’t want to take all of your cash…” looking at me with concern. lol He even offered suggestions on how to treat the cats without paying extra money for any products that he might sell. I like that!

Before:

After:

Now that we have a vet close to home, we are probably just going to pay to have him groomed once a month so he doesn’t have to get this hideous lion cut. But it seems like every couple of years he gets really bad and we have to have this done! It’s embarrassing as the owners…makes us feel like we don’t take proper care of him or something! Ugh, never get a long haired cat.

For supper, I made spaghetti squash topped with sauce and ground beef, along with broccoli and garlic toast.

I’m a HUGE fan of pasta, and I think it’s just because of the spaghetti sauce. This was just as satisfying as the real thing!! Yum!

I finished it up with FF/SF vanilla pudding.

After supper, hubby and I headed out for a 1.6 mile walk in 30 minutes. I burned 207 calories. It felt great to get out there!

I’m taking a day off of my training schedule so that I can have my longer runs on Saturdays at the end of the week instead.

When we got home, I tried Skype with my parents. How fun! It seems like they’re right there in the room!

If you’re looking for a good blog to read. I highly recommend Crys at Bigger Than My Body. This girl makes me laugh. I love her writing style and her matter of fact way about her. This post had me laughing out loud.

I received this badge today on Lose It and it made me proud. “Congratulations, You have earned the Exercise Hound badge! You have exercised 3 times a week for at least 4 weeks.”

Tomorrow is Friday!!