Get Fit: Week 10

Exercise: This week was so much better than I expected!  I was able to go to yoga Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.  I also walked more than 10 miles by walking over my lunch break with some friends at work, and then I walked another 4 miles with some friends over the weekend. AND on Tuesday night, I did 2.2 miles AND RAN 6/10ths of a mile to get home faster! A huge accomplishment for me. I can't say I enjoyed it or will be repeating it, but I did do it.

Diet: Another great week for the diet, though I did indulge in this pink lemonade sorbet at Coldstone this afternoon:

It looks huge, but this is actually the small one, and I only ate about half of it.  The other half went to Lucy or melted - it was hot outside.

It's been pretty easy to keep myself on track since I've been at school.  I've done a good job with food prep and planning AND I've added a few new recipes!

• Greek Salad - we used to eat this all the time with friends in Lawrence and I've forgotten about it until recently.  I wasn't a huge fan back then because I hated tomatoes, but this time around, I am making myself eat tomatoes in the hopes that I will learn to like them.  So far, it is working.  All I did was chop up two tomatoes, one large peeled cucumber (seeds in), and half of a vidalia onion.  I mixed it up and topped with oil, balsamic, and a small bit of dijon-style mustard and feta, and voila! DELICIOUS!
• Cucumber Salad - Lindsey sent me this recipe and I made it thinking I would freeze it for future lunches.  I stuck a spoon in just to see and OH MY GOODNESS!  It was so good.  I'm not even a huge fan of cucumbers and I loved it.  I think the avacado is what kicked in that extra, delicious flavor.  Yum!

Week 10 Goal Review:

• Yoga 4 times. Woot woot!
• Walk 8 miles. More than double that - 18.4!
• Drink. More. Water. I have had more water than usual, but I know I still need to be drinking more.  I tried flavoring my water with veggies and fruit this week.  A few weeks ago I had a cucumber that was about to go bad, so I chopped it up and stuck it in the freezer, wondering what I would ever do with it.  So I stuck a few in my water one morning like they do with lemons and drank cucumber water! I tried strawberries too.  It was cool...but I really do love the taste of straight water.
• Don't stress out if I have to take things a little easier this week. Definitely did, but I ended up exceeding my goals, so this must be key...

Breakthroughs:

• I started back at work this week and it was really nice to hear all the compliments :)
• Weigh in: 150.0 (SOOO close to the 140s!)
• Total weight loss so far:  35.5
• Just 5 lbs to go!

Week 10 Goals:  

• Yoga 4 times.
• Walk 10 miles.
• Keep up the water-drinking.
• Have a GREAT first week of school.

:)