Today was my third attempt at ten miles. last week my family was too busy (and that was pre-treadmill) and yesterday my husband was gone most of the day so today I started out the day by running two miles before taking my oldest to a dentists appointment. After the dentist I got back on the treadmill and jumped off again a few miles later to make the boys lunch and get them ready for their nap. My oldest went down quickly, actually they both did! But the baby woke up coughing and ended up actually puking a few times, poor kid, he doesnt deal with mucus well. So the baby was up and running, he wasnt into the nap thing today, thankfully my husband had some things to do outside and took the baby with him! YAY! So I jumped back on the treadmill to finish my run. My last 10 mile run was 2 months ago when I was training for the Las Vegas half marathon. I beat my time by 26 minutes! That was a huge surprise! I am hoping this helps to jump start weight loss for me, Ive been stuck here at 160lbs forever it seems. I want to get back into the 150’s! I REALLY want to be 155 or lighter for my half marathon at the end of March.

I snacked a lot today, it was a hungry day but I kept almost everything under 20%, actually most of what I ate today was under 10%. I made pancakes for the family this morning with lite syrup, some dried pineapple for snack (I snacked on these a lot today) lunch was a whole grain bagel with pastrami, cucumbers and tomatoes with skim milk. Snacked on some more pineapple and I made enchiladas for dinner. I tried to do a low fat and meat free version for myself and a cheesey beefy goodness for the rest of the family. Mine turned out very well. I cooked some brown rice up added some black beans, corn, diced tomatoes and taco seasoning. For the family I browned some super lean ground beef and seasoned that with taco seasoning. I made some red enchilada sauce and put everything together and put cheese on top of everyones enchiladas but mine since I didnt have any low fat cheese. Once it was all cooked up I brought out the fat free sour cream and yum! It was great!  I also decided to take a tip from Susan Powter and stick the left over rice in a freezer zip lock bag and stick it in the freezer. I hate making brown rice because it takes at least 45 minutes so today I made the entire bag in one shot. That should help me work brown rice into our diet more often.

Tomorrow is a rest day from working out, but I need to work on toning up my arms so Ill be doing that!

Posted by Shelley in Whatever on February 26th, 2007 |