day off

So finally at 11am I decided my food was digested enough to go for a run. So I geared up and set out to run the same route as yesterday. Except today, my LEGS were cramping (and not my sides). I ran the same path but walked the last .2 mile instead of running it. I seriously got inside and thought my legs were injured or something. I limped upstairs and decided to take a steaming hot bubble bath. I massaged my legs, put on a face masque, and read a few pages of my book. My legs were feeling MUCH better and I realized it could not possibly be anything worse than my legs being tired and me needing to rest them. I am definitely not running tomorrow. Jeff just called (as I was typing this) to inform me he’s getting me into spin tonight so I’m actually kind of glad that I didn’t run too much. I’ll spin tonight and then tomorrow at the gym I’ll probably walk on the treadmill and do the elliptical to keep my legs going but not overtrain before my race Saturday (over which I am FREAKING OUT!)

For lunch I heated up the last of the ratatouille and mixed in 1/4 cup of cooked quinoa. I ate a wedge of goat camembert while it rotated in the microwave and then I found these individual servings of whole wheat melba toast in the pantry (the little packet in the picture). They were pretty good! For the packet it is 60/0/4. Nice find!

Lunch:
1 cup ratatouille
1/4 cup cooked quinoa
1 packet melba toast
1 wedge goat camembert (not pictured)

Off to walk the dog, run an errand (FINALLY taking my camera to be repaired so you aren’t always subjected to cell phone pictures), and probably nap before spin since I was up so early for yoga.

Go and sweat today!

first!

Well hello world!

I am Meredith, a (very) recent college graduate in the midst of embarking on a new lifestyle. In the past year I have lost 60 lbs and I’m still going (I still have a while to go). I have been keeping a private blog through the WW server (I started using WW online in August to supplement my weight loss efforts) and was inspired by other blogs I read to move mine into the public.

Today I had a realization during a not-so-good run. Why am I setting goals like “today I want to run ____ miles!” and then getting upset and down on myself when I can’t complete them? How is that productive? So today I make an improved fitness goal: to sweat every day. Unless I am physically incapable of exercise (like in bed sick or in Antarctica) I will do something that contributes to my personal fitness. I know that rest is a part of a fitness routine, so even if my sweat-inducing activity of the day is a brisk walk with the puppy or 20 minutes of flow yoga, it is something to bring oxygen to all my parts and to bring clarity to my brain.

I will share with you my fitness and my food. I think food is a big part of fitness and over the years I had developed a bad relationship with food. Now that I’m changing my lifestyle, I am changing my relationship with food. Some days I eat wonderful, filling, healthy food. And some days I give into my weaknesses and eat too much pizza and beer with friends. But you will see it all. And putting it out in public like this really makes me accountable to myself and to you readers (are you out there?). I will probably double-post a lot of stuff with WW, so if you follow that blog too there won’t be much new information on this one. But I can post more than one picture per post on this server so they may be more combined posts and not a separate one for each meal.