I had set my alarm for 6:30 this morning, since I got to bed late last night. Got up around 6:00 a.m. (before the alarm). After yesterday evening's fiasco with getting home late, I didn't want to trudge through the snow to the gym.

Morning training:
Spent a half-hour or so doing yoga, mostly sun salutations and standing poses.
Spent another 20 minutes or so doing core work: crunches, reverse crunches, bicycle crunches, oblique crunches, planks.

9:00 a.m. - banana date smoothie (6.5 medium bananas, 8 medjool dates). 5 more medjool dates.
2:45 - a few chunks pineapple. 1 ugli fruit (!). 1 pound grape tomatoes. some plum tomatoes (maybe 8?)
3:30 - 1 pound grape tomatoes. lots and lots of baby bok choy. 1 small haas avocado.
6:30 - 3 navel oranges

Lip balm makes a good anti-chafing agent...

...ah, the things you learn when you just moved into a new apartment and can't find the bodyglide. ;)

Woke up early, around 4 a.m. Lay in bed until 4:45 or so. Realized that I didn't know where the bodyglide was, and I wanted to run today. Got up and spent a little too much time looking for it.

Ever notice how you get used to how you look in one mirror, but when you look in a different mirror, you are surprised by what you see? I've noticed that in my new apartment, I look like I'm getting some results! My upper body is definitely more built up than it was! My chest, shoulders, back, arms, and hips definitely look sexier ;). Very cool. Especially since the scale still remains stuck =P.

Morning training:
Walked to gym.
Speed day on the treadmill (1.0 incline, of course)!:
10 minutes warm up (jog 5.0 mph).
Ran 6 one-minute sprints (7.8 mph) with 3 minutes jogging in between.
Jogged/walked 10 minutes to recover.
Ran 4 more sprints, with longer periods of jogging/walking to recover in between.
That made for 60 minutes, total. Walked to cool down for five minutes.
Then, hit the hardwood floors for some yoga stretches. Stretched for 15 or 20 minutes. That felt REALLY good.
Walked home.

I'm definitely beat =).

Breakfast (8:40 a.m.)- 5 HUGE bananas. Perfectly ripe. Yum.
Lunch (11:00 a.m.) - 6 fuyu persimmons.
Lunch II (1:00 p.m.) - 15 oz. baby spinach, 2.5 lbs grape tomatoes.
Lunch III 3:45 p.m. - 5 fuyu persimmons

Bed around 6:15.

Resolutions in Action!

Today I put my new years goal of exercising before the first meal of the day into action! I went to bed last night at 9 pm. Should have gone to bed earlier, as I really wasn't doing anything important. Woke up this morning tired, went back to bed until 6:00 a.m., then got up. Did yoga from 6:30 - 7:25 a.m. - sort of an abbreviated ashtanga half-primary series (skipped some of the jump through/vinyasas). Felt very nice.

Breakfast - 5 cara cara oranges. it was my first time trying these. Wow, are they good!

Walked to grocery store before lunch (about 25 minutes), and back (about 25 minutes, with about 30 pounds groceries - organic valencia oranges are on sale!)

Lunch - 12 small bananas, blended into a smoothie. 5 medjool dates.

Felt sleepy in the afternoon.

Tried a bellydance class this evening. This was hard, coordination-wise. I'm not used to moving this way!

Dinner - lots of valencia oranges. 3 large tomatoes.

Later - 5 bell peppers. a few bites celery. 1 spoonful tahini, 2 spoonfuls mac nut butter

Busy weekend...

It was a busy weekend, without much training:

Friday - Run (including one sub-9 minute mile, but I was too tired to crank out another one. The rest was just running and walkng). Some pull-up practice at the playground. I can pull myself up an inch or two or three! Before, I couldn't pull myself up at all!

Sunday - a bit of "casual" ashtanga yoga...

Monday - Needed sleep....got some sleep...

Back to training on Tuesday...

Ate tons and tons of veggies this weekend, it seems...
Still had no desire for overt fats...

Weekend of catch-up

This is a weekend of my body catching up on all the junk I gave it to deal with over the past few weeks.

Felt really tired and had achy joints and slept a lot this weekend. Fruits only to eat - no overt fats. Went to an ashtanga class on Saturday, but didn't make it all the way through.

Finally starting to feel better on Sunday morning. By the afternoon, felt fabulous. Still a little tired, but fabulous in mood and clarity.

Breakfast - 1 pineapple, a few persimmons
Lunch - lots of banana smoothie
Dinner - 1 large papaya, 1 head romaine lettuce, 4 pints grape tomatoes.

Hope to be back up and running tomorrow! =)