You know that Ice Cube song, Today was a Good Day? That was one of my favorite songs when I was younger (I was probably to young to understand what all the lyrics meant, but it had a chill vibe to it that I liked). Anyway. Today was a Bad Day, unfortunately. Or at least so far, it's not even noon.
I woke up too late to make myself the breakfast sandwich that I was SO looking forward to and in fact, I barely had time to throw my lunch in a bag before running out the door. No smoothie, no nothin'. So instead I had some apple slices with peanut butter - I hope that's an OK choice. It's just regular old Kroger peanut butter, but it actually doesn't seem to have too much sugar in it (3g per serving). I hate, hate, hate starting my day off behind the eight ball and frazzled like that. EURGH I hate it. To make things worse I forced myself to get on the scale for the first time in a month and that's just never a happy experience. I know I'm well within normal limits but I've put on about 10 pounds in like, a month. I tend to bounce back and forth within the same ten or fifteen pound range, which is just enough to make finding pants that fit an annoyance every morning.
Anyhoo, I'm kinda of puzzling over my evening schedule right now. Typically I like to go to the gym right after work, but then I usually don't get home until 8 PM or so. I don't think I can really bring lunch AND dinner with me to work without feeling like I really have no life (and lugging a giant sack with me every day), so I'm not sure what to do about that. I thought about maybe eating both my snacks at 5 PM and seeing if that would get me through a workout. But does that mean I'm going to be eating dinner too late at 8 or 8:30 PM? Hrmmm. Tonight I'm going to try to stay on the menu plan's schedule for a 6:30 dinner, and then maybe work out afterwards. We'll see how that goes.
By the way, for those of you who have never done body fat testing, you're really missing out. After pinching the crap out of me in various tender locations, my trainer told me I'm about 23.5% fat. She said that's pretty good, and since she had trouble pinching fat off of me, I should be happy. I'll take her word for it. I wasn't about to disagree with anything she said while she had those skin pincher things handy, anyway. Just kidding. She was a really nice lady named Kathi who works at the Northshore YMCA (highly recommended - really nice facilities).
I'm not going to set a weight loss goal or anything like that right now, because that's not so much my priority. I'd love to shave off some fat, for sure, but I'm more concerned with FEELING better - having more energy, seeing improvements in my skin and nail quality, being less hungry, etc. I'll address progress in these areas as I move forward.
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Re: gaining 10 pounds in one month and skin/hair quality -- how is your water intake? I find that makes a huge difference for me. I normally get around 100 oz. of water a day and if I drop much below that, my skin feels hideous and I get water bloat/retention. Fun feeling, that.
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