Hey, friends! I hope you are having a fantastic start to the weekend! My apologies for no blog post yesterday. My husband came back early from a biz trip to New Jersey, and we had a little dinner date. He must be having sympathy pregnancy fatigue, because we were both out cold by 8:30! Ha!

I did get up yesterday morning and worked out (yay!) but this morning, my body said absolutely not. I guess old habits are hard to break, and I have NEVER been a morning person. But I’m working on it! Even though I was ready for a nap when I got home from work, I thought we should take advantage of the warmer weather and lingering daylight and get the pooch out for a walk. And, I wanted to break in my new comfy pants JD bought me in Princeton. Don’t you love travel presents?

(I put on a hoodie too — it’s not that warm outside!)

Tex was so excited to go for a walk! That is, until we put his harness on him. He hates it, but it’s a lot easier to lead him that way than with a regular collar.

He wouldn’t even look at the camera because he was so mad. Ha Ha!

A little prewalk pic of me and JD for kicks — so happy together. ♥

We went our usual 2 miles around the neighborhood, which took about 40 minutes. That included three bathroom breaks for the dog, and stopping to say hello to one of our new neighbors and her pup. I walked at a pretty good pace, and I could feel little tingles in my legs when we were done. Do you get those when you exercise? I love that feeling!

Shockingly, I wanted to keep working out. Hello, old me! Where the heck have you been?! So, I put in my new Denise Austin Fit & Firm Pregnancy DVD, and did a 20-minute strength training session. It definitely wasn’t anywhere near as challenging as The Shred, but it felt good to pump a little iron and make the old muscles burn. I’m actually feeling some soreness in my legs, so hopefully that means I got a good workout. I’m proud of doing almost an hour of exercise! If I keep it up Saturday and Sunday, I’ll have my 5 workouts in for the week. I better start thinking about a reward, because I’m going to do it!

I was on the right track with meals today…well, minus lunch. I have been craving Chinese food for weeks now, and today, I had to have some. So Lori, Jessica and I went to a little hole in the wall place we love called Jade Palace Express. You can walk in, get a box, and get anything off the buffet you want for $6. I think I did pretty well with portion control, but being Chinese food, it was still high in calories. I got a cup of hot & sour soup (my absolute fav), 2 pieces each of honey, sesame and General Tso chicken, a spoon of pepper steak, a spoon of fried rice, a big spoon of mixed vegetables and an egg roll. I don’t have a picture, and that’s mainly because I wolfed it down in 2.5 seconds. All while mmmm’ing and exclaiming more than once, “This is the best meal I’ve ever had.” It seriously was heaven in a box. I rarely ever eat Chinese food, so I didn’t feel too guilty about my splurge. And I tracked the calories as best I could, so that’s that.

The rest of my meals today were more healthy girl friendly:

Breakfast: Blueberry Chobani yogurt plus pumpkin muffin

Mid-morning snack: Lopsided apple and a small handful of pistachios

Dinner: Big salad from Jason’s Deli with a spoon of low-sodium, low-fat ranch dressing and a few sunflower seeds.

AND

Cup of tomato bisque soup — I get this every time we go to Jason’s. It is so delicious and filling!

I was really surprised I wanted a salad. And that it actually tasted really good to me. I’ve had such a hard time with vegetables since finding out I was pregnant. Maybe my old self is coming out in my food choices too?

So today wasn’t a perfect example of  healthy living, but I think I did pretty good for the most part. Thank goodness Jade Palace is across town! Ha ha!

I hope you all have a fun weekend ahead! We don’t have any definite plans to do anything, other than a haircut for me, and that’s just the way I like it sometimes. Nothing like a relaxing weekend and going out to do things on a whim.

For now…goodnight!

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