Day 225 Unfinished business.

A week off from working out and you would think that I could just fall right back into the swing of things…nope – I didn’t get that lucky. Last night the girls and I went to the school and walked/ran 4 miles. Holy hell my calves were hurting only a ½ mile into our run! I literally had to stop and stretch them in fear of my skin ripping open and exploding! Then I had this whole “smokers” sound coming from my voice and coughs! I would cough so bad after I stopped running (or during my run, so I would have to stop) that I scarred myself with the sound! Ughhh – Ewwww!


I made it though and the girls did great too! Kitty ran most of the time and Kiki skated. Speaking of Kiki, the night before when I told her to “let the dogs girls in” she came running into my room yelling “mom, it snowed!” I looked at her in a strange way because it was 78 degrees earlier!

Me: “Are you sure? It was HOT today!”

Kiki: “Yes! It snowed outside! Come look!”

Me: “Kiki, that looks like dead grass to me…hmmm.”

Kiki: “No it’s NOT! It is white – get the flashlight!”

Me: (holding the flashlight out the back door) “Um yeah Kiki, I’m pretty sure that is dead grass…goofy!”

Kiki: “Oh, well it looked like snow!”

Me: “Yeah okay – whatever genius!”

‘Gotta love children…

This morning had the most beautiful sunrise that I have seen in a long time. The blues, purples and oranges were so mesmerizing, the girls even commented on the sunrise.

On another note: here is a picture of my finest china (portion plate) with my home cooked roast from Monday night. I forgot to post this picture yesterday, so this was just some unfinished business…

The spinach salad had 1 roasted corn, pecans and light watermelon vinaigrette dressing.

Last night I made tacos. This picture makes them look HUGE because they were placed on one of my other 6” fine china patterns.

96% lean hamburger meat with Rotel (1tbsp in each wrap)

Low fat Mexican Blend cheese

Fresh onions and cilantro and avocado

Lettuce wraps

They were delicious!

Instead of giving you another screenshot of my food/calories (what I’m saying here is that I really don’t have time to search and enter in everyday my food on another website.) I will just list my food log at the bottom of every post. Mmmkay?

Breakfast: PB&J on 100% Whole Wheat (275) + 1 can of Coke Cola (140)

Lunch: Turkey & Pepper Jack on Wheat w/onions (354) + 8 BBQ Pringles (75)

Snack: Nothing, Nada , Zip, Zilch (I got busy and forgot – I’m working on the whole snacking thing…) (0)

Dinner: Two Lettuce Wrapped Tacos (387) Glass of wine (73)

Total Calories: 1,304 calories! Yay – I made it fewer than 1,500!

I am getting my caloric information off of thedailyplate.com if any of you want to calculate your own calories or double check mine. Counting calories is hard work! But, I think it is going to be worth it when I show off my six-pack abs sometime this year!

Oh yeah baby!

On a completely separate note:


Thank you for sticking with me through my temper tantrum yesterday. I can’t promise it won’t happen again, but I do have some really exciting news! (chill bumps!) When I left work yesterday I drove by the most perfect – vacant – location for my studio! YAY! I immediately emailed the realtor and asked if that location is available for lease! I haven’t heard back yet, but I’m sure I will send another (20) emails her way before the day ends…you know my patience for waiting…


After seeing this particular location my frustrations eased up some. Then I ran 4 miles and they eased up a little more and finally Mr. Strong eased the rest of my frustrations last night. (Thank youuuuuu Mr. Strong….)


Needless to say…I woke up in a GREAT mood! ;-)


I’m sending positive energy to every one of you too! I hope something you have wanted for a really long time manifest its way into your life very soon!