Another bad Monday night – drank most of a bottle of wine, binged on ice cream and candy, purged. Surprisingly today I don’t feel too bad, I think because I drank a lot of water before bed, and it wsn’t an entire bottle. Weight this morning was 140.0lbs; did not work out. Planning some yoga over noon hour.

Today’s mini-workout goal:  100 squats, 12 good pushups. Done so far: 15 squats, 3 pushups. (I usually perform the mini-workouts in the restroom, lol. Hey, its something)

11:55am 30 squats, 6 push-ups

1:56pm Did the Lunchtime Flow #1 from YogaDownload.com. I really enjoyed it – nice combination of intensity and relaxation, and Dawnelle (the instructor) didn’t waste any time. Had chicken stir-fry with sauteed cabbage for lunch, and an orange I picked up at the gym (sometimes they have treats sitting out) – it was full of seeds but really juicy and tasty.

2:12pm 50 squats, 9 push-ups

3:28pm 70 squats, 9 push-ups

4:45pm 80 squats, 9 push-ups

Feeling rather blah and down today, not really sure why. The weekend was long and busy – we hosted a gaming party – had 8 people stay over Friday night and 6 on Saturday. I spent most of the day Saturday cooking and cleaning up. It was a lot of fun. But it was a bad weekend as far as food – there were all sorts of snacks around all weekend and I indulged way too much.

I did get in a good run on Saturday – I was motivated by the fact that I ate too much at breakfast and that I binge/purged the night before – I blame the alcohol – I drank too much too fast.

This morning did yoga/run combo – yoga for runners (I really love that session) followed by about a 25 min run – not really sure because cardio trainer would not work for me, and I didn’t do my full loop (it was getting late). I fell early in the run – slipped on ice when turning a corner, landed hard on my right hip and hand, fortunately I was wearing gloves so I didn’t get scraped. Picked myself up, brushed off and continued on, it wasn’t too bad of a fall – but such a Monday thing.

I am really not feeling like doing much today, ugh, and I don’t have a work project to keep me occupied. Going to lift at lunch today, not sure yet what I will do, I suppose I could look for a program to do. Just made a cup of chai with almond milk, maybe that will help.

1:21pm Well, did a strength training session over the noon hour. Didn’t follow a specific plan, it was about all I could do to just get there. It wasn’t a bad workout, I hit all the major muscles and worked up a fairly good sweat, but it didn’t really help improve my mood much. But it didn’t make things worse, if fact I feel a little better, so I am glad I went (I always am). Lunch was a chicken stir-fry with cabbage that I made last week (still yummy) and a small Clementine. There is chocolate cake in the break room, I had a tiny sample, but not tempted to have more. Time for tea…

4:19pm Stomach is really hurting and I don’t know why. After taking dog for a short walk I at: smoothie I made this morning (yogurt, protein powder, ¼ small banana, frozen spinach, chia seeds, flax seed, and a couple walnuts), half  of an apple with Laughing Cow cheese wedge, a few pieces fake crab meat and 2 pretzels with peanut butter (that is a lot of food – oh my). So I don’t know what the offending food was, or if it was something else. I hope it wasn’t the yogurt in the smoothie – I made that yogurt in the crockpot last week.

Forgot to record my weight yesterday, but it was the same as today: 136.8lbs. Did the yoga/run combo again this morning (I think I love it): did most of Morning Flow #1 20 minutes followed by running 3.54 miles in 30 minutes. The yoga was good – since it is a morning flow it has lots of back bends. I think for pre-run yoga I like the ones that focus on legs the most, Yoga for Runners and Yoga for Buns, and the Vinyasa flows.

Run felt good – last night I indulged in half a bottle of wine, along with 1 vodka soda and 12 wings at Famous Dave’s happy hour, and some cheese and crackers at home. So I needed to make amends .

10:28am Snack update: 1 of the tasty Costco chocolate chunk cookies remains in the break room. Surprised they lasted a full day. I was snacky so I am having some trail mix – almonds, peanuts, cashews, raisins and M&Ms. Really shouldn’t be eating the M&Ms, I might pick them out (not because they are chocolate, but because they are processed crap full of artificial chemicals).

11:03am Cookies gone, woot! I ended up eating about 6 of the M&Ms. Making chai now, with almond milk. Trying to decide when I will be able to work-out today – I need to run to Target, so I think I will do that and walk the dog over noon hour, then try to go to the gym around 3pm, hope that works out.

10:12am Finally at work – busy morning. Getting our pool table delivered today! So spent some more time getting the family room ready for pool table. Last night we painted, although I think we will have to do some more painting as the color is dark blue, and while we have 2 gallons of the original paint the paint on the walls seems to have faded, so the new paint looks a bit darker. The former owners did such a terrible job painting, we had to pull out and scrape base boards and trim. I will spend some time over lunch looking for pool table room accessories: high top table, stools and maybe some artwork.

This morning’s workout: Power Vinyasa #4 (love that one – it really gets you moving) followed by a 20 minute run. Could have run longer but time was slipping away, and I knew I had a lot to do. Last night I made a beef roast and yogurt – this morning had to strain the yogurt. It turned out good! Used to make a smoothie with some of the yogurt – blended it with steamed spinach, frozen berries, protein powder, chia seeds, flax, wheat germ, and almond milk – yum! But was still hungry, so I had a piece of Ezekiel toast with almond and apple butters, mmm.

Someone at work made a Costco run, now the break room at work is filled with snacks, some tempting than others. There is a big bin of tootsie rolls – I used to love tootsie rolls, but I think I can resist. There are also pretzels – those are lower on the temptation list. And there is trail mix; I think that is my biggest weakness of what is in there. Oh, and there is a package of Costco cookies – those things are amazing, fortunately they will disappear fast, maybe I can avoid them all together.

11:08am Well, I was hungry, so I went into the break room and looked at the cookies. Decided eating one would make me feel like crap, so instead I had my almonds and cranberries. Felt so virtuos I then at half of a chocolate Larabar. Oh well, I think I still came out ahead.

2:17pm 3 of the chocolate chunk Costco cookies remain – I almost took one on 2 different occasions, but I have resisted so far. After lunch (pulled pork on pita with spinach and cauliflower) I was tempted to have a cookie instead of my orange, but the orange triumphed! I decided both would satisfy the need for something sweet, but the orange has more nutrition, fiber and less calories. Yay for oranges! Still, I am hoping they disappear soon.

3:16pm Just returned from walking the dog (37° outside – nice!) and saw there are 2 chocolate chunk cookies left. Not too tempting, I am going to have my yogurt snack soon, and lunch was rather filling.