Day 3 What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger

Day 3 is in the books. I went for a walk tonight. I put on some workout station on Pandora and got to it. I was feeling pretty good and then the ultimate song came on. Kanye West's Stronger. I never in a million years thought I'd find myself jammin' to Kanye, but today I was wrong. I was about half way through my first lap when I had a burst of energy. I got through lap 1 and headed right into my second one for the day. I walked 1.5 miles today. The second lap wasn't nearly as hard as the first.

It may have helped that some Uptown Funk made its way onto my play list. I found myself walking to the beat of the music. In my head I looked like the Bee Gees in their Stayin' Alive video, but in reality I'm sure I just looked like chubby girl walking :)

The weather wasn't nearly as hot today, so the walking was a lot more bearable than it was yesterday. Since it was my day off I decided to give a YouTube workout a try. Just 10 minutes, I didn't want to overwhelm myself.

The Fitness Marshall takes today's music and does quick and fun workouts to them. Two of them and I was sweating pretty good and my legs were burning, but I felt so good afterwards. I didn't even regret not taking an afternoon nap today!

My water intake was much better today, I think I logged in about 32 oz. Food is where I am struggling the most. Mostly because I know I am going to need more variety. Peanut butter toast and vanilla coffee for breakfast was a much better option than my Cheerios yesterday. I felt fuller longer and I enjoyed the taste better too. I actually had the same for lunch because, well, slim pickins' around here until grocery day. I had some cheese cubes and pretzels as a snack, one serving of each and it was more filling than the yogurt yesterday too.

I was feeling pretty tired today, and I almost decided against my walk since I had that quick work out this morning, but I pushed through. I'm feeling amazing, even though my legs are so sore.

Goals for the rest of this week are to maintain the 1.5 mile walks in the evening and just continue to make better food choices. I've stayed under my calorie count these last few days and I hope to maintain that as well.