Beautiful Weather!

The weather here has been BEAUTIFUL. From 100+ to cool low 80's!!!! Love it!  We went for a great walk yesterday evening. We even saw a bunny! I stumbled upon Dailymile.com and registered. Hopefully a great way to track my walking miles.

It's official (almost), the decision has been made its now time to pay up! I am walking the Susan G Komen - Race for the Cure on October 1st! Fully inspired by some of my blog favs, I mentioned to my friend I wanted to work up to running a 5K. She is registering with her job, invitedd me, and I am in!!! We are going with the walking group until we work our way up to running one! I am beyond excited! i am nervous, wish me luck!

What goes better with this cool weather than yummy creamy chicken noodle soup!?! Nothing! I measured 8 ounces from the extremely, can literally cause 3rd degree burns,  hot water that comes out of the coffee maker and then placed it in the microwave for less than a minute. It came out super creamy! Love the texture!!!

Can't say the same for the styrofoam but it helped out!

Ever feel like you just don't have enough energy in the morning?!? Of course you do! Of course, I did, this morning! And like magic, a skinny vanilla latte with soy milk found its way to my office! yay!!! I ordered a tall, yet still have problems getting through it! Is there a kiddie size, for next time? LOL

And lunchtime wouldn't be complete without catching up with my fav bloggers. I heart them! They are so inspirational and give me that extra push to make healthier choices every.single.day!

Complexity Salad!

Say hello to my new friends! Todays salad had, romaine hearts, veggie shreds, sunflower seeds, artichoke hearts and cherry tomatoes. The combination of them is AMAZING! New to the mix is the bag of “fake cheese” as everyone in my family calls them, artichoke hearts and Tuscany Italian Dressing.  I love my fake cheese so much, its a keeper!

 

Layered them all to make this beautiful salad.

 

Added my lean amount of chicken on the side, and dinner was complete. Lately I have been getting full really fast! I take a few bites of my medifast bar and before I realize it, its half an hour later with half a bar remaining. Same goes for the lean and green, I couldn’t even finish the entire salad of my green a few nights back! Hopefully, things can settle down and everything gets back on track!

Regarding exercise, we had been getting into a pretty solid walking routine. Unfortunately, my daughter got a very mild case of the flu/cold virus, no fever, but she was very uncomfortable.  The first attempt at a walk was a success, the second was a complete disaster. She cried in the stroller and I had to walk the 7 blocks home with her in one arm while pushing the stroller with the other. I kept switching her weight from left to right after just half a block towards the end, yet both of my arms were so sore. So no more exercise for the rest of last week. Good news is that I lost 2.5lbs this week.