They are #1: I don’t pay attention to portion sizes.  If I did, I may break free of this 122lb plateau I’ve been at practically the entire time.  But I like being “full”. And I am hungry, a lot.

#2 I don’t do strength training on calves! I can’t! My calves are already ENORMOUS!  And its mostly muscle, so don’t tell me strength training is going to make them smaller.  They just keep getting bigger.  I’ve never worn capri’s, and I have never been able to wear zip up boots… so I just don’t work them out.

Anyway.  Here are yesterday’s meals  (after lower body strength (minus calves) and 40 minutes on treadmill.

That’s cottage cheese in there.

All the rest, I brought to school and either ate in school, or in the car.

Off to study… Catch you tomorrow!

Sorry about the title, but that is the ONLY thing on my mind right now.  Cell membrane structure, active transport, Kreb Cycle, carbohydrate metabolism… But in 8 days it will finally be over.  I’m quite thrilled over it.

Mostly good day, despite a handful of these:  

But the rest of the day- 4 mile run, with 4 high points. I really took those high points to exhaustion. I felt great about it.

Then I got home and had MORE EGGS.  I am not sick of these. I love eggs!!  This time I put them in a whole wheat tortilla.

The a quick snack before a church meeting.

I had another one of these bars, but they aren’t very filling.

For lunch, some leftover roast on whole wheat bread and strawberries.

Late snack

And then some chicken, potatoes and carrots

That’s about it!

Body for Life, day Who knows what….

Looks like I’ll be adding Almonds to my list of foods I can not keep in the pantry.  Too bad, because Almonds are so healthy.  But I completely lack self control around these things. I have no idea how many I actually ate.  I’m making my husband take the rest to work today.

Here is my list of foods I can not buy for the same reason:

• Trailmix (the one with the M&M’s)
• animal crackers
• vanilla wafers
• Resees Puffs cereal
• Ritz Crackers
• any box of cookies
• And now… Almonds.

So, for Monday- I started off well.  I had a 30 minute run on the treadmill (although it’s gorgeous outside… but I was meeting a friend at the gym). Then we did our upper body weights.

I got home, and around 7:00 ate egg whites, mushrooms and toast

I’m trying to space things every 2.5 hours rather than 2.  So at 9:30, I ate a whole wheat chicken wrap with avocado and tomato, and some fat free cream cheese.

Then, at noon, I whipped up some cottage cheese pancakes.  I would like to make them with a scoop of protein powder, but I’m too scared.  I’m been disgusted by protein powder in so many ways, that I’m afraid to add it to yummy pancakes.

Then, at 2:30- I was in class , so I slowly ate  a bar:

Then at 5, I ate this great dinner.  Some local beef, a potato, and green beans.

And then ALL DAY, I ate these almonds. And I mean ALL day! I have no idea how many I ended up with!  ARGHHHH.

On a side note, I am completely inspired by this awesome lady. http://www.transformation.com/ttv-hd/leslie/.  This video is awesome.  I couldn’t find the embed code, so you’ll have to click over.

My plan was to go into the weekend without slipping up, or having a free meal. It didn’t exactly work out that way.  I sort of overdid it on Saturday.  I had a baby shower, and went to the Food Bloggers Bake sale.  If I thought I could withstand both events without enjoying the food, I was really wrong. Plus, at the baby shower, a girl brought some chocolate cake that she won $10,000 in a recipe contest for!! I had to try that! 

I am still sore from lower body Friday workout.  Any time I do walking lunges with weights, I DEFINITELY feel it for DAYS.  Here is a bit of the food I ate. (the good stuff only)

I have got to break this plateau. I feel like I haven’t improved in like 4 weeks.  This week, due to time constraints and trying to get through this plateau, I’m probably going to eat the same thing every day!   BOORRRING!   Not only boring for me, but makes for really boring blogging!!!  Sorry