Well, today went fairly well, except for an unexpected chocolate square that fell into my possession.  I figured it was fate, so I ate it.  It was a dark chocolate square by hersheys– not sure of the calories, but can’t be that high.

Other than that, things went well, and I had a killer workout tonight.  I was so proud of myself for running a mile on Tuesday that I decided to see what I could do tonight, so here’s what I did:

5 min– walk at 4 mph to warm up

10 min– run at 6.2 mph (ran just a hair over a mile)

5 min– walk at 4 mph

10 min– run at 6.2 mph

5 min– walk at 3.8 mph

5 min– run at 6.3 mph

4 min– walk at 3.something to cool down.  I kept lowering it

All in all, I burned about 430 calories and went 3.75 miles– not too shabby for just starting out, and I’m definitely proud on my running time.  In total, I actually ran for 2.5 miles, and just accomplishing the mile straight twice is a huge milestone for me.  I’m going to check out the C25K online after this and see what week this puts me in.  I am on the treadmill for about 45 minutes instead of the 30 they recommend, though, so it’s hard to tell. 

My legs are killing me.  I did some pretty heavy lifting yesterday, and they were already sore from that, so adding the running on top of that spells trouble for tomorrow.  I plan to run tomorrow, too, to make it the third running this week, but after the lunges (tomorrow is my hardest lifting workout of all) and wall sits, I’m not sure I’ll be able to, so I may end up doing the elliptical instead.  We’ll see.  I’m not going to beat myself up about it, though.  After all, it’s still exercise, and I actually tend to burn more calories in a shorter ammount of time on the elliptical than on the treadmill.  I wonder if that’s accurate.

Breakfast:  shake, HNS

snack:  one square of hershey’s special dark with cranberries, blueberries, and almonds (weird, but not bad)

Lunch:  bar, HNS

snack:  few protein soy pretzels (kind of gross, but I was hungry– probably 30 calories)

Dinner:  1/2 chicken and pepperjack sandwich, applesauce, HNS

snack:  4 red. fat crackers with .5 oz. cream cheese, hot cocoa HNS, about 1/4 bar

Now, the key will be not eating anything else before bed.  I genuinely am hungry, so it makes it a bit difficult, especially if I don’t go straight to bed.  Tomorrow is WI, so hopefully that goes okay.  I’ll let you know.

weight at home:  164– this is up, but it shouldn’t be since I’ve been pretty good.  Who knows.  I just know that I could really use a good WI day for some motivation.