Well, I did work out again, but it was quite shortened.  My knee is popping like mad.  I’ve always had bad knees, since I was a kid, but I was never active enough to really make them bad enough to do something about, lol.  Anyway, they don’t bother me often, but since I started to do so much walking so fast, I think it’s getting to them.  They weren’t really hurting, but had I done much more, they would have been, so I stopped at 25 minutes and 200 calories, which is still something.  I plan to work out again tomorrow and Monday, even if I only get 25 minutes or so in.  It will still help.

Also, I have dodged another eating bullet– I was supposed to go out tonight with a friend from class to Red Seven, which is either a bar or a restaurant, I don’t know, but the other girls cancelled, so now I don’t have to go!  I was a bit worried because I was sure there would be something there that I shouldn’t eat/drink, and I don’t know the other girls at all and would rather not announce I’m on a diet.  Still, now that that’s out of the way and there’s just the chinese left tomorrow, I do feel a bit better about the whole situation. 

My muscles are pretty sore today as well.  I’m not dying or anything, but I can definitely tell if I try to lift my legs.  So, I guess that means I am doing something.  I’m looking forward to Christmas break when I can recommit to an exercise program– a serious program like I started a couple summers ago when I was on WW.  For that one month where I went 5 days a week, I was losing about 3 lbs. per week on WW– that’s a lot for me on WW.  That summer I lost 20 lbs. or so, but then I of course put it right back on, hence the situation in which I now find myself.  Even now I’m much smaller than  I was then.  I never broke 200 on WW.  Still, if exercise helped that much on WW, it will on this diet, too, I’m sure.  So, that should help counteract the holidays as well as make up for any slower progress as I get closer to my goal. 

 

Breakfast: cheese toast, 1 egg white, HNS

Lunch:  spinach and chicken salad (2 oz. chicken, 1 oz. parmesan) with spray dressing, HNS (just realized I forgot my applesauce– darn!)

Dinner: cheese toast, 2 oz. chicken, applesauce, HNS

exercise: fast walking, 25 minutes, 200 calories

weight at home: 178– down another pound from yesterday!