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Day 53

Monday featured 3 bouts of exercise!  Special thanks to coworkers Beckie and Linzi, who both went on walks with me--one walk was 35 minutes and one was 20 minutes.  I also did 90 minutes of yoga.  We got all three torturous poses in--frog, deer, and pigeon.  Or, as I like to call them: mildly awkward, mildly uncomfortable, and I-want-to-die-you-stupid-pigeons.
Hatechu, pigeons!
I did awesome with the eating.  Breakfast was 2 tangerines.  Lunch was 3 ounces of chicken (Andrew--protein), a half cup of tomato rice, and a healthy salad of lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, mushrooms, beets and feta cheese (more protein)!  Dessert was a mini-cupcake and a few chocolate chips.  Dinner was homemade pizza on whole wheat crust, courtesy of Chris, plus another salad.  Dessert was a 100 calorie pack of cookies.  Clearly, yesterday's efforts deserve a round of applause from Kate.
Since Canadian Beckie was one of my exercise buddies yesterday, I picked this Kate picture from her visit to Canadia.
Speaking of our Nothern Neighbor, today I am thankful for Canada, for so many reasons!  First, they have the better part of Niagara Falls.  Second, they have really good ice wine.  Third, Queen Elizabeth II is their head of state.  Fourth, they invented kerosense, the electron microscope, insulin, IMAX, and the electric cooking range (even though I prefer gas). 
Oh, Canada.

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