It took me a little while this morning to pull myself out of the funk of my choices yesterday, but when your day starts ramping up, there's little time to wallow. I really wanted to put together a crock pot dinner, and was able to put together a chicken/salsa/bean/corn/onion/yellow pepper concoction that was hot and ready by the time we got home. Because I was doing that, though, I had to stop for an egg mcmuffin on my way to work this morning. I'd rather have cooked.
For my morning snack, I ran into a conundrum. I thought I'd left a container of cottage cheese at the work fridge and just needed to bring the grapes. It was the other way around. I had grapes, but no cottage cheese. I ended up eating two pieces of string cheese and only got about a 1/4 cup of grapes in, if that. For lunch, I finished off the last two cups of the bean salad. Good, good stuff. Oh! I almost forgot! The first thing I did when I got to work was get out that tub of red vines that plagued me the last two weeks and marched it into the staff room. It was gone by the end of the day. I don't know why that was huge for me to give up, but it was.
When I got home, I headed straight for the hammock and actually fell asleep for about 45 minutes. When Paul got home, I had a cup and a half of cheerios and a 1/4 cup of raisins. Not my normal snack, but I didn't really think that one through very well. For dinner, I had 4 small tacos on whole corn soft shells filled with the chicken concoction, about a tablespoon of sour cream each, and a dusting of shredded cheese. They were great. Paul had a student pay for the month, so I was able to do some grocery shopping and get ahead of the game a bit. I'm trying to do more crock pot meals, even though the temperatures are up this week.
My knee bothered me all day. In fact, at one point in the morning, it was hurting so much that I thought I'd need to go in and have it looked at after work. However, the day progressed, and I was able to get around on it. Once I got back from grocery shopping in the evening after dinner, I even took Pippin on his long walk. I have a step goal of 10-11 thousand a day, and I wasn't there yet. The walk brought me up to 10,147. I also had 8 glasses of water. Back on track, baby!
Yay for being back on track!! Great job all around! (Have you had that knee x-rayed? That's how I discovered my knee pain last summer was from arthritis. You're too young for that, but just a thought that an x-ray might show what's going on.) Keep up that great work!
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