Thursday

194.4 this morning.  I was 193.2 yesterday after almost a week solid at 195.4, so I'm doing OK.  Not great.  Not bad.

I'm in a training class this week.  Thankfully, no donuts in the mornings, but we are getting lunch every day, which has been a challenge.  Monday was Panera box lunches.  I skipped the chips but ate the sandwich and the cookie.  Entering the calories later, I was depressed to realize that I'd eaten 1000 calories for lunch.  Tuesday was lasagna and caesar salad (and italian confections for dessert)- I had a leeetle bit (and one confection). Yesterday was wrap sandwiches, salad and sugar cookies.  I had a lot of salad with no dressing, half a sandwich and one cookie.  I have no idea what today's lunch is, but I'll try to minimize the damage - while still participating.  Yeah, I don't need the desserts.  Can't make any excuses so they're OK to have.

I've been trying to get 200-300 calories-worth of exercise every day to balance out the iffy food.  I'm doing semi-OK there - jogging at lunch Monday, lunchtime weights Tuesday, jogging in the morning with Dude yesterday and maybe lunchtime jog today.  I'm working on weaning myself off the treadmill in favor of running outside.  Problem is, running outside is much harder! It's also more interesting, and since hard is good in the workout world, I'm doing good. 

I have a hard time believing MFP that the elliptical burns more calories than jogging, so I'm giving them both the same burn, 10 calories per minute = 20-30 minutes needed.

Running outside was killing my knees, so I got fancy running shoes a few weeks ago at a store where they watch you run and you try on a bunch of shoes  The shoes feel great, and my knees feel - a little better.  Or not as bad.  I'm beginning to think that I'm having a flare-up of my Lyme disease, which I got last summer. The major symptoms then were utter exhaustion and joint pain, especially my knees.  I'm not exhausted now, but I'll have to live with these flareups, I guess, for the rest of my life.  Wonderful.

So - no big news.  Trucking along, doing good on some things, and just OK on others.  No real disasters, which I'm OK with right now.

Peace y'all!  Hope you're having a great week!