Day 1.

It's really the small victories that matter. I biked into work today, but I left later than I wanted and didn't have time for a run/walk. My first meeting of the day was next to a plate of puppy dog tails from Isles Buns but I grabbed a couple of pieces of fruit instead of one the delicious baked goods. Thankfully that willpower is keeping me in check and I want to keep my healthy eating going for lunch... but I'm starting to get hungry now. This could be a long day.

I need a diet.

I have to say, hanging out in a dance studio with a bunch of 20-year-olds, in spandex, it really does a number on one's self esteem. Since my knee has been so inconsistent, I haven't been working out much, or at all, other than dance rehearsals. Rehearsals aren't as strenuous as my high school ones, so I really haven't been working out at all. I'm also coming off my birthday when I ate a bazillion cupcakes and pretty much anything else that I wanted. And I continued to do that for all of last week. Today, the last thing I wanted to do was watch myself dance in a mirror. I've been saying that I need to workout more and eat better for a couple of weeks now, but today I reached the point where I'm actually going to take action on it. I'm also 47 days from a duathlon that I haven't started training for. It's a 5k, 18 mile bike ride and another 5k. I'm more worried about the 5ks since I haven't been running much. My old me would be able to get there in time, I'm hoping post surgery me can as well. I'm mostly going to need to build up my endurance since I have none at this point. Hopefully I can get there in a coupe weeks. Thankfully the wonderful MN humidity has subsided and I can bike to work tomorrow without the threat of heat exhaustion. Depending on how my knee feels, I'll also be able to do a short run to start working on my endurance and my running. My knee had been feeling great until last night when Adam jaywalked and I ran across the road to catch up with him. I'm going to be very annoyed if my knee pain lingers for a couple of days because of that.

Anyway, here is my public declaration that I need to workout more and eat better. Healthy me, let's do this.

I'm a Lean Cuisine Commercial

Coworker: "What have you got there? It looks good"
Me: "Butternut squash ravioli"
Coworker: "From where?"
Me: "Lean Cuisine... if you put it on a plate it looks better"

Note to self: I should stop reading the box as I microwave my meal... although in this case, their "help suggestion" worked.

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Future post- my theory on why I work in a communications field. (Sudden epiphany happened this morning).