French fries and bumble bees

Lucky for you, I'm not dead inside. I'm alive and well. As bad as I was last night, I dragged myself to the gym tonight. It takes a lot to work out on a Sunday, but it takes even more to do it on Sunday night. I just knew, before I even walked in the door, that there would only be a big girl or two in there. Probably vowing to never eat another piece of chocolate after a night of binging on valentines candy. Sure enough, I was right. It was just the three of us treading away on the mills.

So, let's get to last night's damage. I had a few drinks (beer and vodka and diet coke). I ate a bbq chicken sandwich and a side ceasar salad (sooo not healthy. tons of dressing, so I didn't eat it all). The bartender, being the asshole that he is, gave us a basket of fries. Rude!! And this was just after I was talking about how proud I was of myself for not ordering the chicken fingers and fries (By the way, I looooove fries. They are a huge food weakness.) The fries were so freaking good. Tossed in a ranch seasoning. Yum. And yep, I ate almost the entire basket. By myself.

Here's what I ate today:

Lunch: (woke up late, so no bfast):

-Lean pocket
- apple
- 1/2 banana with 4 wasa crackers and pbutter (the crackers are 20 cal each, and the pb is low fat)

Dinner:

- 2 bowls of Cheerios with skim milk (about 300 cal) .. I even measured out the serving size, 3/4 cup.
- 100 cal mini bag of popcorn and a pickle.

Ha, what a random, non-dinner.

Before I ate, I went to the gym. Usually, the hardest part about the going to the gym is the going part, but I'm slowing getting over that and just doing it. Today, it was a little bit harder than just going. As soon as I got on the treadmill I wanted to leave. I think it was harder bc I was super lazy all day and my bones and muscles were like, "Katie, but us back on the fucking couch and go back to playing silly kitty videos on youtube," but I did it. And I told myself that I would do an acceptable 30 mins but when I got closed to 30, I said, what's another 10, and changed the time to 40. Then I did that again when I was nearing 40. So I did 3.5miles at 50 mins and burned 413 calories.

So there Kate. I did 3 miles too!! And yes, I suck for last night, but I already accepted that earlier in the week. I think at the end of each week we should write whether or not we met our food and exercise goals and what we can do better.

Goals met?
We decided we would aim for 4 days of working out, but that 3 was okay. I did 3.5, bc Friday I only did 20 mins. I would say no to this question, bc I didn't do a full four days.

As for food, the words on this blog can speak for me. I obviously had many slip-ups.. We can all be as strong as you are Kate! -----But our lungs can!!!!!!!

Next week, I'm going to work on the sweets. I think a friendly little cardboard bee is going to bee a big help. Cheerios gives me the sweet fix and they can help lower cholesterol.. what am I, a fucking spokesperson?? Anyway, high cholesterol runs in my family and, the last time I checked, mine was a little high. (I just spell checked to see how to spell cholestreol. I was so way off)

For the healthy eating goals, I feel a little bad about what I ate. I only really feel good about what I listed today. And that sucks. I just have to do better. But this is helping, and so are you Kate! You really are inspiring, but mostly I just want to beat you.. like, win beat you, not like slam your head into something hard beat you.

Goodnight!
-Katie