A Look at the Good

This is for you my beautiful friends who are currently stranded in your homes, buried in snow and waiting for everything to melt…I want to send you some of my heat (it’s in the 50’s! What what?!) but in reality, I’m greedy and want the heat for myself. I like wearing t-shirts and capris with flip flops out in the field!

Desert scenery for ya…there used to be white there last week, so I feel your pain.  Not fun at all.

Seeing as how this weekend is going to be spent prepping for a half marathon in another state, I am on a mission to clean out my fridge of all my leftover foods.  I opened a Strawberry Chobani last week and mixed 1/2 of it with some plain TJ’s Greek Yogurt so had some leftover in the fridge waiting to be used…btw, did you know that TJ’s Greek Yogurt tops fit perfectly over Chobani individual yogurts?!  Oh yeah!

I took the last of that Strawberry Chobani and mixed it with some strawberries and blueberries then topped it off with some Kashi H2H, TJ’s Fiber O’s and TJ’s Lower Fat Vanilla Granola.  Great mix if you ask me!

Being out in the field was AMAZING today.  Even though I’ve been bummed out about my blistered feet and possibly having a problem running the 1/2 marathon this weekend, I took in the sun and heat and relished in the environment I got to be in.  Of course I felt like I was helping the environment even more when I busted out my lunch in my reusable lunch bags!

I might have slept in a little later than I should have this morning, so I was in a rush to get out the door….hence the AB and apple sandwich…with leftover apple pieces on the side.

Glory glory glorious sun…

All while eating a nice organic orange and a clif zbar.  I was pretty hungry after that lunch…just wasn’t filling enough.

Upon visiting a friend after work and returning home in anticipation of my counseling session this evening, hunger struck again so I snacked on some Locally Grown Pistacios and an Asian Pear.  Helped set me over for a while!

I’ll get to my counseling session in a minute, so after returning home and not being able to get a workout at the gym I decided to try a bootcamp of some sort to get my heart pumping.  I’ve done several of Bobbi’s bootcamps before, which are really awesome, but wanted to try something new so I turned to YouTube videos by SparkPeople!  I did days 1-7 of their Swimsuit Bootcamp along with their 15 minute abs video and man was I hurt’n and sweat’n by the end!  I may or may not have added my 5lb weights to lots of the moves that didn’t require weights but could use them…and it hurt.  Yowzers!

By the time I was finished with that and reading about the flooding in Queensland, Australia where I’m wishing the best for all my friends I’ve made over there I finally cleaned up and got ready for a quick leftovers dinner.

(Please keep Australia in your hearts as they struggle through these horrendous floods…)

I started off with the last of my strawberries which were on their last legs and made the main attraction leftover soup from last night with some leftover potato chunks added in from last weekend.  Yep, a night of leftovers.

Time to chill out and catch up on blogs!  I’m so behind!  Need to catch up before my busy weekend!

[[Side Notes: A Look at the Good

It has been three weeks since my last appointment with my counselor and to be honest, I believed I was in a rocky place.  I felt defeated in several ways and didn’t know how I was going to escape it.  But it’s funny what happens when you talk to someone who asks you how you’ve been…and gears the conversation towards the negative.

So I believed I hadn’t done anything miraculous or on the move towards recovery in the past three weeks until we started going over some things I’d done…

-I cleaned out my closet of everything that no longer fits…and hasn’t fit for the past three years…except for my favorite pants which I discovered this weekend are not longer…comfortable to wear.  Bottom Line: I got rid of my trigger clothes.

-I bought three dresses this weekend….THREE!!!  And I paid FULL PRICE for two of them…seriously, something I would never do…but I did.  My mother is currently ashamed of me (haha, I kid…or not). Bottom Line: I’m letting go and showing the girl in me.

-Not only did I buy three, but two of thos dresses were picked out by Whit….and I also let him see them on me after I tried them on.  Bottom Line: A trust about how I look is being formed…and it’s not like the kind you get when you go out dress shopping with a girlfriend.  Cause he even told me he didn’t like one of the dresses!

-I’m about to run my 4th official half marathon this weekend.  I wanted to try and run it again under 2 hours but that may not happen if these blisters don’t heal over well enough before Sunday.  If that’s the case, I’ll run it slower or at a different pace and stay with friends to help with encouragement as they run their first official half marathon!  Bottom Line: I’m learning to adjust and treat my body well.

-Christmas and New Years no longer caused a serious amount of anxiety when it came to food…and I focused on family.  Bottom Line: I’m moving away from food obsession.

I have been a pessimist for so long that I’ve forgotten to see the good in things I’ve been doing the past three weeks.  My counselor talked about how I looked like I was radiating happiness and smiling more than she’d ever seen me do before.  Talk about looking at the good things eh?

What good things have you realized lately?  If you can’t think of something…look at something simple…did you make a new dish for dinner?  Did you run a new mileage?  Did you help bring a smile to someone’s face?  Let’s make this a positive comments section! ]]