Well I accomplished my last mission: finishing a full marathon.  My next mission will be to lose the weight I gained while acheiving my previous mission. 

I started out this morning by running 2.5 miles on the treadmill.  It felt good to get back to running.  My raw heels and black toe didn’t bother me as much as I thought they would.  Tomorrow I will conquer my first FIRM workout in probably 2 months.  It is going to be fun. 

After my workout this morning I planned my food for the remainder of the day.  I’ve stayed on track so far.  One thing that is helping is not keeping money on me that would eventually be donated to the snack machine in exchange for some extra weight around the stomach. 

Yesterday my eating was so bad.  I am taking today to detoxify and get back to normal.  I was on the elevator leaving after a 2 hour meeting and people on the elevator were talking about people jumping from buildings.  I didn’t think anything of it.  I was paying more attention to the wonderful smell wafting from the Domino’s pizza box the delivery guy next to me was holding.  I got off the elevator now craving pizza and headed to the car.  I made it about 2 blocks from my office building when I saw a body lying in the street.  It was covered with a sheet, but you could still see blood and still tell that it was a person.  Emergency vehicles were everywhere.  Now I understood why the people on the elevator were having such a morbid conversation.  So now I had pizza cravings and an image in my head I was having trouble shaking.

Got home and decided to spice up some rice instead of order pizza, but it didn’t hit the craving.  I kept searching for something that would and there was nothing to be found.  I should have bit the bullet and gotten a slice of pizza and a salad instead of trying to find something else to fight the craving with.  *smacks hand*  Another “lesson” for the books.  Moving on.

Reporting in with 2 miles done today…again on the treadmill.  The weather hopefully will be better for running outside in the next week or so.  Tomorrow might end up being a rest day because I have a concert I am going to in the evening.   I am thinking of moving my cross training to Saturday and doing Jiggle Free Arms from the FIRM along with my 1 mile run.

Finally returned to weight training after my back injury today.  Felt good to pick up some weights but I am now very aware of how week I have become.  Decided to start off with Tracie Long Training Endurance for Movement.  One of my favorites.  I can tell my abs and glutes are going to be sore tomorrow.

Morning
Kashi Blueberry Cluster cereal and 8th Continent Light Vanilla Soy Milk 3.5 pts
Stonyfield Plain No Fat Yogurt and 1/3 cp Cherries 1.5 pts
Kashi Trail Mix granola bar 2 pts
Afternoon
Salad with Newman’s Own Low Fat Sesame Ginger Dressing 1 pt
Turkey Sandwich 3.5 pts
Sargento Reduced Fat Mozzarella Cheese Stick 1 pt
1 cp grapes 1 pt
Sugar Free Hot Chocolate 1 pt
3 cps air popped popcorn 1 pt
Evening
Chicken Breast 3 pts
Green peppers grilled in olive oil 1 pt
11 oz Sweet Potato 4.5 pts
Steamed Asparagus 1 pt
13 M&Ms 1 pt
Marshmellow peep 1 pt
Snack
Smoothie 3 pts