Fitness Friday

    I officially started Operation Skinny on Monday and I am happy to report that this week has been a success.  I have been eating healthy and working out daily.  I have not had a cheat meal yet, I am saving that for my Panda Express date on Sunday with two of my favorite ladies.

    I spent a couple hours on Sunday purging my house of junk food, making healthy meals, chopping up fruit and vegetables and separating them into "servings."  This made my week so much easier and I plan to continue to do this to help keep me on track.

    Every morning for breakfast I have the same thing, a smoothie.  I look forward to it every single day.  I change it up every morning but it almost always contains a banana and spinach (I promise you can't even taste it). I change up the fruit, sometimes I had a scoop of protein, sometimes PB, sometimes pureed pumpkin, you just never know what's going to end up in my smoothie.

    This morning, I wanted to pretend I was on a tropical island and far away from the clouds and rain we've had all week so I made a tropicalish smoothie containing strawberries, pineapples, banana, Greek yogurt, vanilla protein and pineapple orange banana juice. I forgot my spinach!

    I went to Barnes and Nobles this week and purchased two running books. I want to make sure I am training properly.  More specifically, I want to read up about fueling for long runs. I am no where near a long run yet but I like to be prepared.

  I picked up "The Runner's World Big Book of Marathon and Half Marathon Training" and "Kara Goucher's Running for Women." Kara Goucher became an instant idol for me when I watched her run the Boston Marathon just a few short weeks ago so when I saw her book, I knew I'd love it.  I am enjoying both books and am learning a lot of great information from each of them.

    In addition to reading, I have been keeping track of my runs in a notebook.  I include the distance I ran, the time it took me to complete the run and a short tidbit of how I felt.  I want to start keeping track of how many miles I run weekly and monthly.  This will be beneficial once I  start running longer distances and start training for another half marathon.  I plan on taking things slow and not rushing into anything. There are no plans for another half marathon until possibly the Fall depending on our family expansion progress.  

    Now time for the part that every woman hates, the weigh in.  I weighed myself on Sunday and took some "before" pictures to get a baseline.  Since Monday, I have lost 5lbs! That's just crazy! I'm sure 4 of that was water weight but its amazing what just a few days of eating lots of fruits, veggies and proteins (vs. the eating out daily and alcohol consumption that occurred the prior week and a half) and working out out can do for you.

    I'm off to get a quick run in before Stanley Steemer's arrives to clean my disgusting carpets.  Exciting, I know!

Have you been eating healthy this week?

What's your favorite healthy snack?