Michelle, you're too funny - and so upbeat and positive, a real boon to our challenges! I'm so glad you're with us. I think that you wear the crown of Exercise Queen this week! I'm exhausted just reading your post!
Good for you for whomping your own butt, though - I bet it feels great! Don't feel too bad about taking today off from exercise; if your body's telling you "no," then you're doing a good thing by listening to it.
That's one thing I've improved on these past few months since I've embarked on my new life journey... I've really learned how to listen to my body. All the cues are there, for all of us - we just need to learn what they mean and use our body's signals to help us live healthier. Amazing what a little reading and research can do for our health once you sift away all the gimmicky fad diets!
Welcome to all our new folks - glad to have you here, and please stick around! Such a great gang of ladies here! (We
are all ladies, right? Are there any roosters in the henhouse?)
I've been thinking about RockinRobin's comment about healthy recipes and the lack thereof. After turning it around in my mind, I've been considering starting a healthy recipe website. I suppose we could start a thread somewhere in 3FC, but it would be very difficult to use because you'd have to go through pages and pages of posts to find something... but it occurred to me that I have a friend whose family runs a terrific recipe archival site that's completely searchable and very easy to use. If there is a genuine interest, let me know and I will create a site for us! Since there is a strict policy about posting links here, once the site is created, PM me if you want the link and I'll forward it to you. Likewise, if you want to post recipes to the site, you can PM those to me, too, and I will get them up. I don't mind the extra work, and I'd love to volunteer myself for that. I'm a recipe-hound, anyway!
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Yesterday was great - kicked my own butt royally at the gym, and plan to do the same tonight. Also had asparagus-mushroom omelette with light dusting of parmesian-reggiano cheese (the healthiest of the aged cheeses, and very flavorful!) for dinner last night - tasty! I'm not a breakfast eater, but since Jeni reminded me of how important breakfast is (and it IS), I forced myself to eat breakfast this morning, which was a serving - one cup - of Special K Red Berries with a cup of 1% milk. Got my Lean Cuisine for lunch, and I have chicken breasts that I need to figure out what to do with for dinner. Maybe grilled, on a salad?
Have a wonderful, healthy, happy day full of good choices, everyone!