woah. last week was rough. I ate pretty well, but I only exercised twice. For shame. I also notice that I allow myself too many excuses for not working out. If I prioritized working out at the same level as keeping my job, I wouldn't skip it because I had a rough's night sleep or stayed out too late or whatever. I was up till 2am last night because I couldn't sleep and when my alarm went off at 7:30am, I bailed.

Anyway, this week the sun is shining and I am going to continue my healthy habits. I am going to Ecuador in Sept and we had a mission mtg at church on Sunday  - they told us we needed to start walking every day because the altitude will get to us if we don't have good lung capacity. Oh boy. I like walking on my road, I just don't do it enough, so this is good incentive.

Today I had a soy, blueberry, yogurt and oatmeal smoothie (SOOOO good) for breakfast. I am trying to get nutrients for breakfast without eating. Odd I know.

For lunch I had a ham and provolone sandwich with a few crackers and some hummus along with a bottle 10 calorie vitamin water.

I plan on eating a baked sweet potato for dinner or a frozen dinner.

Also, I'm trying to be more frugal with my food purchases - I bought lunch for 2 weeks, all healthy, for $55. YAY!

did ok mon and tues eating wise, but today coulda been better. it was very stressful at work with my coworker being out of the office an my boss being semi-crazed the last 2 days. I had a jamba juice soy blueberry smoothie for breakfast followed by coffee, organic vegetarian beans and whole grain rice with seasonings and a little mozz. cheese for lunch, a smoothie for snack...then I started screwing up. I had a chicken fajita pita from JBox at 5pm, I went home and had dinner with the fam, which was beans and chicken sausage. being that it was my best friends birthday, we had ice cream and coffee after dinner. So I definitely made some less than stellar choices today. I slept poorly last night and was up at 5:30am for prayer. I need to be extra vigilant because I find I'm more prone to overeat when I'm tired which is a known fact.

tomorrow i need to be up early in order to go the grocery store and get more healthy lunch items before i go to work. fail to plan, plan to fail.

I'm for sure going to Ecuador on a mission trip in Sept. I would really like to weigh much less by then. mission trips, especially jungle trips, can be very taxing physically. i would like be slimmer, but more than that, physically fitter than i am at present.

I've been considering quitting curves and joining 24 hr fitness. curves is convenient because it's close and has multiple locations. it's nice because it's women only. but they are NEVER open. 8am - 7pm ...REALLY? because the only people who can come during those hours are retired old ladies, housewives and schoolteachers and that is exactly the clientele they cater to. it sucks. i understand they have overhead and it costs to be open during times when people don't come, but seriously ...try harder. 30 minutes either way would be so much better.

24 hr fitness is nice because I'm a night owl. i can go ANYTIME. what a luxury. it's also got some AMAZING machines, a pool, sauna and other awesome things that put curves to shame. curves feels like exercise kindergarten and 24 hr fitness is like high school.

but it's 20 minutes away. ugh. i don't need another excuse not to go.

i just need to be more disciplined - get up early and make exercise a daily priority. it isn't and it shows.

alright. rambling diet entry - done.