Whoops! Date Correction!

My cousin pointed out to me that yesterday, I posted the wrong dates for the challenge. It did indeed start on Monday. So, the official dates are:

Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 - Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011

Good grief, I hope that's right.

Anyway, people have been posting their food and workouts. It's not too late to hop on board. Why? Because you have a three day window in which to post your food/workouts. So, it's Wednesday, how can you still join? The challenge started Monday, so take Monday and Tuesday as rest days, then workout Wednesday - Sunday to get your 5 workouts in this week. Make sure that on Thursday, you do go back and record your food for Monday - Thursday though.

It's not too late!

Personally, I'm trying to NOT lose weight this week. I know that sounds whack, but I think I have to weigh in for the challenge I'm doing on Monday. I'm seriously considering eating a huge bowl of popcorn on Sunday night so I'm a little bloated and retaining water. Sounds nice doesn't it? I just figure I need to have a few pounds of cushion. The challenge I'm doing requires me to lose 10 lbs. by the end of March.

It's going to be hard. It makes me feel like whining.

So a real quick run down of my day because it's nearly midnight and I've been sitting here trying to upload stuff to Kodak Gallery to take advantage of a sale and it has taken an incredibly long time. My laptop is giving me 3rd degree burns on my legs.

Workout: HIIT 15, Stretch 10. I foolishly was excited about my workout this morning. I thought, "15 minutes? What a breeze!" Holy BLEEP. HIIT stands for high intensity interval training so it was like 15 minutes of wheezing torture. I still get a little queasy thinking about it. It was a 15 minute workout and yet my calorie burn is nearly the same as yesterday when it was a 30 minute workout. That tells me something.

Food
I haven't input my dinner to get calories yet and I likely won't. I have got to get off this computer. Here's the lowdown.

Breakfast: 3 eggs, gluten free toast, orange. Now, why would I eat three eggs? We get these awesome eggs from a farmer. Best. Eggs. Ever. Anyway, I made eggs for the boys this morning and Finn didn't eat all of his. No way could I throw out one of the Awesome Eggs. So I ate the leftovers, which I estimate to be one egg. THEN, after the boys went to school, I made my own breakfast. I was planning to go ski, so I knew I needed to eat hearty. I made another two eggs and ate the toast and orange. I was very full. And then I didn't go skiing. Ah, well.

Snack: Cashews, apple

Lunch: salad greens, fake crab, cukes, tomato, red pepper, olives, avocado, olive oil, low fat feta, lemon juice, Bragg's liquid aminos, 17 Nut-Thins crackers (that's a serving--17 crackers!--love it!)

Dinner: chicken breast and sweet potatoes in the crock pot--cooked in a "sauce" of maple syrup, chicken broth and mustard. I should have used chicken thighs. The breasts were a little dry. Dry breasts are awful.

OK, signing off. Get those workouts in and eat clean for the New Year!