Last week I found out that there is nothing broken in my ankle, just good old fashioned tendinitis! I always thought that was some BS condition that people used as an excuse. Well, if so, it’s a good one to use, because it hurts like hell. 

This injury has totally derailed my fitness program, and I was doing so good! I have made up my mind to get back on the wagon tomorrow morning. Going back to counting my calories, and getting some exercise every day. I’m going to lift weights, ride a bike, walk/hike and use my new fitness ball to try and keep losing weight, get my mind right and feel better.

Here it is, Sunday night, and I’ve officially over-indulged the entire weekend. Too many beers, too much junk food :-(  I’m going to pay for this when I run in the morning and when I weigh in on Wednesday! I’m going to have to be extra good this week!

Who else went off the plan this weekend?

Too many of these for sure!

Since I started running and watching what I eat about 7 weeks ago, I have been making a fruit & veggie smoothie just about every day. I have a Vitamix blender that I use that does a great job, no small bits of anything left after I blend it.

Here is what I put in today’s breakfast/mid morning snack;

• Dole - Frozen Blueberries, 0.5 cup
• Michigan Apples - 1 Large Fuji Apple 
• Carrot - Large - Raw***, 1 large
• Pineapple - Raw, all varieties, 1 cup, diced 
• Spinach - Raw, 1 cup
• Dannon - Light & Fit, Non Fat, Vanilla Yogurt, 4 oz
• Tropicana - Orange Juice, Some Pulp, 6 fl oz

This was calculated by MyFitness at 412 calories, which is not bad since this is breakfast and mid-morning snack for me. Very filling and introducing the fruit and vegetables has really made me feel better in several ways.  It’s an easy way to get vegetables and fruit that I wouldn’t normally eat.

This is not today’s smoothie, but a recent one.

Did my weekly weigh in and am down another 1.5 pounds!! The running and watching calorie intake is working!  

I recently payed for an Elite membership at RunKeeper and for the $20 it is a good value. Keeping track of my routes, distance, time, etc and being able to see the progress is helping to keep me movtivated!

Weighed in today and see a 5lb loss since I started the C25K program and watching what I eat and drink!! Not as good as I’d like, but considering that we just came through the holiday season I’ll take it as a win!