The Last Straw

***For the person looking for the mousse recipe, it is on page 22 of the September issue of Prevention. Hope this helps!

I made it through the evening yesterday without eating more. So I got what I wanted today. I got to wake up this morning with no regrets and no self-loathing. And in addition to that, I know that what ever I do well today is actual progress, not being absorbed by some other day’s mess ups. Yesterday I knew that no matter how well I did, I was basically making up for the day before. But today I get to feel like I might be burning fat cells again. So I think I am moving past the binge urges. The idea of the ten day thing I think is helping. I really want to see what ten solid days of doing all the right things will actually do. So no snacking, no extra bites of leftovers while I am cleaning the kitchen, no skipping the weighing/measuring of food. I am also trying to get a handle on weight fluctuations and understand them better. So I will probably weigh a couple of times a day and put that on my ten day page.

Since I started running 3 miles, I have just been running every other day. At first I had some knee issues and those are seemingly getting better, so I decided that I would go ahead and run today. My time was worse than yesterday though. :roll:  I plan to lift weights later today.

Breakfast was normal as will be lunch. Fruit of the day: blueberries. Dinner will be roasted chicken that I sprinkle with a spice mixture that my family has been using my whole life. It always smells so yummy while it is cooking.  ***It is after dinner now and oh. my. gosh. Total comfort food. In addition to having the chicken that I always had growing up, I made tomato dumplings. I about wept tears of joy while they were cooking, I haven’t had them in so long.

Here is the link to the chain of stores that is having the running training program. The link is to their store locations so that anyone interested can see if there is one in your city. The chain itself refers to a program called “No Boundaries” which they do in the spring. Our local store is doing the fall program in addition to that.