Day 22

Did I mention that my boyfriend was complaining that there were no sweets in the house so I made him a batch of peanut butter cup cookies? I didn’t have any of the batter and I haven’t had a cookie. But I watch him eat one every day. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. But to be honest if I was going to cheat, I could come up with something better than that. Somehow, that makes it all ok.

The bruises on my arm and hand are starting to subside from whipping myself with the jump rope. SCORE! The bad news is it still takes me 30 minutes to do all the jumps. What’s up with that? I have never done this much physical activity in my entire life though, so I am happy with myself just doing it. But MAN what a time saver it would be to only be outside for half the time in the morning. It is bad enough I am already late for work some days. When the jumps get more intense (like at the end of this week) I will have to split my work out into two parts, doing strength after work. There are not enough hours in the day!! My social life is through from here on out. But you know what? In the end I am sure it is worth it. I am in “training” as Patrick says, and when training I need to sacrifice some things. I am very proud of myself for not missing a single day of workouts and for sticking to the diet.

On the food end I have gotten really creative in some of the ways to flavor my food. No! I refuse that food will just be bad tasting. It honestly does not need to be that way. Yes I am treating it more like fuel lately, but I am still going to enjoy it. And I have been enjoying it! The down side is I have been making things a tad too spicy and giving myself heart burn. A little more tweaking and I think it should be perfect.

Its only Tuesday but I can hardly wait for the weekend. I am excited to do some diving (maybe) and then spend a day just sitting on my butt. Of course there will be cleaning and errands and I probably will not have time to do nothing, but the thought gets me through the week or grueling workouts, long days in the office and watching my Boyfriend eat peanut butter cup cookies.

Hope my team and all the other PCPers are having a great week!! It is odd being in such a different time zone, I feel a little off reading your posts while you are just getting ready for bed and writing mine while your mid sleep on a day in the future! Hey Patrick, any chance we can get the menus two days earlier so I can prep lunches on my day off instead of scrambling on a week night??

Cheers all!!