Exercise Blues

It is now officially Weekend Time for me! Long weekends are the best!!

Today I had school until 3:30, and then the plan was to come home, have a snack, and hits the streets for a run. Well, that is unfortunately not exactly what happened. I did, of course, have my snack…but the running part was not a success. I was feeling worn out and just not focused on what was important or what I “needed” to do. I hate when I lose focus like that because I always regret it later.

But, today is history and tomorrow is a brand new start and the perfect opportunity to get back on track with my training schedule for this week. I WILL get my run in tomorrow morning and I know I will feel much better. I really love exercise, running especially…but sometimes it is just hard to work up the energy to do it after a long day. This is something I want to work on. I am making a new goal to make exercise a more important priority in my life (while not letting it consume my life at the same time!).

For breakfast this morning, I had a bangin’ bowl of blueberry coconut oats:

This mixture contained:

• 1/2 cup oatbran
• 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup skim milk
• a couple scoops of cottage cheese
• tbsp flax
• a huge handful of frozen blueberries
• pinch of salt, lots of cinnamon
• topped with a sprinkle of unsweetened shredded coconut

Lunch was at the school cafeteria, where I had a sandwich with turkey, cheese, tomato, pickles, and mustard. I also had celery with peanut butter, and a carton of 1% milk

And then here was my afternoon snack:

A cracker platter (Triscuit thin crisps and Kashi original 7 grain) with a tbsp of Kroger natural peanut butter

Dinner was pretty simple..and I was actually not feeling very hungry, which resulted in this:

Baked tofu and cheesy steamed broccoli

It was simple and delish.

I also found this little guy:

A ricotta chocolate chip cookie! The perfect way to finish off a meal. :)

So thinking back to my new exercise goal, here is a question for you:

How do you motivate yourself to exercise?

Trapped inside

Hello!

I am sorry I have been gone for a little while but I have been trying to change up some things on the blog, working with different templates, etc. instead of posting. I know, bad blogger! I wanted more of a Spring-ish, Summer-ish feel to it…and I am still considering other ideas and getting some help from other bloggers so who knows what my blog will look like tomorrow! ;)

So now I have a good reason for wanting to make my blog more summer-ish and warm…Today I have had plenty of time to play around in Blogger World because I am currently SNOWED IN. Yep, that’s right…it is SPRING and we have gotten more snow yesterday and today than we have all winter long. Craziness!! So ever since yesterday, we have been watching movies (Helllllo Twilight), reading, blog reading, and drinking and eating all kinds of hot stuff to warm up. I think we are past the worst of it. It has stopped snowing so now I must wait until it all melts away…and then MAYBE I can get some nice weather coming this way! And so as you could imagine, I was in desperate need of making my blog remind me that Summer will soon be on it’s way.

Now, onto my eats for lunch:

A lovely combo of baked tofu, a hummus wrap on a whole wheat tortilla, carrots and sugar snap peas.

Now I am ready for my afternoon snack, so I am off! Bye!