I Did It! Water, you're going down.

Oh yes, I'm the winner. I've been sucking down that water all day like it's ....well... water. :) I'm at 60oz already and still going. And I'm totally in a hot tea kind of mood tonight. I think I'll curl up with some tea after I get back from yoga.

I totally started the day off just right. After squeezing every little drop of sleep out of the night, I got up and made my lunch, got ready for work, and headed out the door. I'm the type that has more than enough entertainment in my head so I typically drive to work in silence. I don't play any music or talk radio most of the time. Every once in a while I will but for the most part it's silent. Lately, I've been wasting my silent me time. Not today. Today, I spent my entire drive to work saying Thank You. I even put my whole heart into my thank yous. So much so, that I almost got a tear a couple times just realizing how much I appreciate all the wonderful things and people in my life. It was a perfect way to start the day and I felt great all day long.

Let's see, what else.... ah yes, the calories. I ate 1,400 calories today, three meals and a snack, no more no less. It wasn't the neatest way to go about it though. I didn't have time to prep the Jillian Michael's Master your Metabolism menu today because I was too busy squeezing that sleep as mentioned above. But, I did have tons of healthy left overs in the fridge so I just threw something together and did a pretty damn good job if I say so myself. I also already went to the gym today. I did interval training on the treadmill. First, warm up a bit then run to get the heart rate up in the high 160s or low 170s and hold it for a couple minutes then recover for a couple minutes letting my heart rate fall to 125-130 and doing it over and over again. I ended up with an average heart rate of 140 for 55 minutes. Nice! I'm going to the yoga class I love tonight too so that'll make it a perfect day for calories in and out not to mention all the wonderful self care stuff that I said I wanted to start doing.

I haven't meditated yet today but...does yoga count? I haven't practiced my guitar yet either. I'm going to do that the moment I'm done with this post. :) Took the vitamins and tracked my progress. I also found a new book that I want to read. It's called Shrink Yourself and it's all about why people tend to emotionally eat and how to stop the vicious cycle (sound familiar?). There's actually a web site dedicated to it and I checked it out. Unfortunately though, it's a program. I'm not much of a "pay a fee and follow our program" kinda gal though so I'm not interested in that but I know tons of people are. I did however order the book from my book club membership and I can't wait to read it. I checked out the first couple pages on Amazon and am already hooked. It asked a few questions to help determine if you happen to be an emotional eater and guess what....I AM. Shocker.

Great day! I feel awesome! I'm happy, I'm as peaceful as I think I know how to be, and I'm actively participating in making my dreams come true instead of white knuckling everything I don't have any control over. It's amazing. :)

Here is the website for the program if you're interested: http://www.shrinkyourself.com/

Here is the book.