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Day 28

I did some awesome planning today, which made no difference!  None at all!  I took my workout gear, and my healthy lunch and breakfast with me, then got sidetracked by crazy people doing crazy things.
Truth.
I did manage to drink 4 glasses of water at work, and I finally got around to eating about 3ish, when I had 3 ounces of ham and a cup of watermelon.  Around 6ish I had a tablespoon of chocolate chips.  My healthy salad and weird little cheese stayed in the fridge because I was so stressed that I wasn't hungry.


By the time I got home, I was majorly hungry, and I didn't feel like cooking.  So we went to the Mexican place by our house.  I had 2 more glasses of water, as well as chips (whole grains), guacamole and salsa (veggies), and shrimp (Andrew--protein!) with black beans (Andrew--protein!), pineapple (fruit), and rice (I'm only human).  Then Chris and I split a small piece of tres leches cake, which I thought was a nice alternative to drinking a pitcher of sangria and downing a gallon of ice cream.  I was still bursting with Mexican goodness though.


This is how I felt.
Then I came back home and did MOAR WORK (sob), and put away all my clean laundry, because for some reason, the leather chair piled full of clean clothes wasn't working for Chris.  And I knew I should do cardio, but I didn't.  So I promise that I will do some at work tomorrow, or my work peeps can shame me!  Funsies!


Now I feel all gross and stuff.  I don't think I ate horribly, I just think that eating all the food at once probably wasn't the best plan.  And I need to have more water to balance out all the salt in tonight's dinner.  Overall, salt isn't a concern for me--in fact, my doctor says I can have as much as I want due to the anemia/low blood pressure.  So you can hate me for that the next time your sprinkling some Mrs. Dash on your baked potato.
I'ma get my sodium on!
In conclusion...
Do All the Cardio? Not unless you count moving my office, which actually was a lot of walking up and down the hall all day.
Blog All the Food? Yes.  And I had 4 tootsie rolls too.
Measure All the Things? I measured all my breakfast and lunch stuff.  I could have been better about counting the number of tortilla chips I had.  Wait, did someone say tortilla chips?!

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