Round 2

I was so excited to go pick up my food after work on Tuesday, I couldn't get out of the office building fast enough. The woman at Rainbow Blossom handed me my bag of food, and it was much more than I had expected. I couldn't wait to get home to open my bag of goodies.

I walked through the door of my house, and promptly headed to the kitchen to put all of my food on display. Spinach salad, pork tenderloins, southwest turkey salad, English muffins and eggs, granola and yogurt, lasagna. I had quite the spread. I began to separate the food out by day and thought that something was missing from Wednesday's dinner selection. All I had was a serving of scrumptious-looking lasagna. I thought surely something was missing from this equation. Nope. That's my dinner. Just lasagna.

I talked myself through this apparent digestive dilemma and reasoned that lasagna was a pretty heavy food. If I ate in small enough bites and savored it, I could make this dinner last. Wednesday night hasn't rolled around yet, so I'll let you know how that goes in a future post. The serving sizes are pretty generous (besides that lasagna), given that I'm only eating 1,200 calories a day.

I ate my breakfast at 9:00 this morning (eggs, an English muffin, and a cup of fruit) and wasn't hungry until after 12:30! I couldn't tell you the last time I sailed through three hours without thinking about what I'm going to eat next. I could definitely get used to this. Kudos to Mae at Home Cuisine (http://www.homecuisineonline.com/) for making such filling yet healthy meals!

The next hurdle I'll be clearing is my second personal training session at 5:30 this evening. I am not nearly as sore as I expected to be, since I have been religiously keeping up with doses of Aleve and taking Epsom salt baths. I'm a little scared to get back on this horse since I felt so sick on Monday, but I've heard from so many sources that once I power through this and I gain just a little more strength, I'll be good to go. Let's hope you're right, people.

P.S. - I received an encouragement email from a colleague over in Belgium! How cool is that?! I am officially overwhelmed - I have people cheering for me in other countries! Woo hoo!