I had a pretty good day today. I worked the lunch shift, so I set my alarm to get up and run beforehand. It didn't happen. I'm always so tired in the morning! However, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I came home from work, ate "lunch" (if you can call it that at 5:30), and then went to work out. I'm not sure what it was exactly, but as soon as I stepped outside I just felt great. I waited until the sun was just going down, so the weather was fairly cool and the light outside was beautiful. I just felt like the atmosphere of the city was so calming and I just took off running straight from my apartment door. I ended up running the first 3.8 miles straight! I just felt awesome and I didn't really get tired. I'm not sure what exactly triggered it, and it's hard to explain, but as soon as I stepped outside I felt like myself for the first time in a long time. Probably the first time since I've been here. It was awesome. So I've decided I really like running at night. I may try to start doing that more on nights I don't have to work. The only reason I'm reluctant is because a lot of times I tend to slack off if I don't get my work out done early. Usually when I get home from work I just want to chill out for the rest of the day/night. But we'll see...maybe I'll be more motivated now that I've realized how much I like it. I guess I've never really worked out outside at night before, only at the gym.
So it was a good day for working out. It was a pretty good day in general. I was at work most of the time and we were crazy busy, but I made some decent money, so that's always good. After work I couldn't think of any food I had at home that I wanted to make for lunch. I walked through the food court at the mall where my job is, deciding I might see if there were any healthy options. There weren't. I considered going to Fuddruckers and getting a burger. It wasn't a "binging" type of thing, I just kind of wanted something like that and I figured I could eat extra healthy for dinner. But I thought better of it.... I remembered there is a Subway on the bottom floor, so I went there. I was actually planning to get a sub that's not particularly healthy there and probably some chips, too, but I didn't. Right before I told the woman what I wanted, I changed my mind and ordered a healthy sandwich on wheat bread with no chips. Yay for me! I kind of felt like I immediately got rewarded for my decision - at least in some sense. When I walked out of Subway (which is in a part of the mall I don't regularly go through), I walked past a clothes store that had some dresses in the window. There was this super cute feathery white mini cocktail-type dress. I am in love with it! It would be perfect for going to a nice bar/club or a holiday party or something. It's not the kind of dress that would hide a lot of flaws, so it just reminded me of the reason why I'm doing this. And I was really happy I made a healthy choice.
Once I get to my goal weight, before I go home for Christmas, I'm planning to go on a mini shopping spree as my reward. So I'm definitely going to go check out that store! It's probably too expensive, but maybe I'll get lucky and they'll have a sale or something.
Anyway, food for today was: an orange for breakfast (I woke up way later than I should have today, so I was rushed!), roast beef sandwich on wheat from Subway. I ended up getting a foot long and eating the whole thing...I figured it was ok because I didn't really eat anything for breakfast. Then I had an orange after my workout. And for dinner I made spaghetti squash with tomato sauce and chicken. If you haven't ever tried spaghetti squash as a pasta substitute, I highly recommend it. For the tomato sauce, I spent about 15 minutes in the grocery store looking for one that was basically unprocessed, low calorie, and didn't have tons of sodium. It's not easy! I ended up getting the supermarket brand canned tomato sauce. It had all natural ingredients, and not many of them. And only 20 calories for 1/4 cup. I added some fresh basil and garlic to it. It turned out great! I'll probably have some fruit as a dessert before I go to bed.
The title of my post refers to the dry erase board on my bedroom door. Yesterday I made a chart of the week and wrote down running and weight training with a space for check marks on each day. I figure that since my roommate's can see it, I'll feel worse about not running and having to mark that I didn't do it. And it feels great to put a check mark on the board at the end of my run!
So things are looking up. I forgot to mention yesterday that I weighed myself and I gained 4 pounds from my stupid binging episodes. Pretty bad....but I'll try to be optimistic and note that I'm still down a total of 3 pounds, so I guess it could be worse. And hopefully after this week I'll be back down to where I was, or at least close. It's all about staying the course and sticking with this, so I'll keep going!
Good night.
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