Day Fifteen: Time Flies When You're Having Fun! :)

I know I've skipped a few days of posting stats, but I've been pretty busy. That being said, I haven't slacked on my exercising and eating schedule habits, au contraire! I have held to my promise of not eating fast food, skipping sodas, and working out every day. (I have yet to fit in TWO workouts a day, but I at least have fit in one a day).

Day Fifteen Stats:

Wake Up: 9 AM
Breakfast: cup of strawberry milk and yogurt
Lunch: ham sandwich on wheat bread with provolone cheese, mustard, lettuce, and tomato with black grapes and one mini bag of Cheez-itz
Snack: Special K Nutty Delight Bar (MY NEW OBSESSION. They are so good!)
Exercise: 30 mins elliptical, 2.4 miles, 315 calories burned
Dinner: Progresso chicken noodle soup, Quakers Rice Cakes (sweet chili flavor), applesauce

I haven't weighed myself since Day Ten, and I don't plan on doing so until the end of the week. I find that weighing myself TOO often gets very discouraging very quickly. I can feel my clothes becoming more loose on my frame, I can tell my muscles feel tighter, I don't NEED to step on a scale to know I'm still making progress. As an impatient human being, I know that the pounds refusing to melt away day after day will make me want to give up. And I just can't let that happen, not this time. So I'm staying off the scale, perhaps measuring myself every week or every other week.

Also, as a side note, I have discovered a fantastic podcast to work out to: We're Alive. It's a podcast chronicling the survival stories of a group of people suddenly thrust into a zombie apocalypse, centering around a young Army Sergeant. It's fantastically written, fantastically acted, and the quality of the sound effects and editing is sublime. I found my feet pounding along on the elliptical as if the zombies in my ears were coming out to get me! It was a fun way to work out and it kept my eyes away from the clock and the time on the elliptical just flew by, before I knew it, the machine was signalling time for my cooldown and I hadn't had time to sigh heavily and wonder when was this little slice of hell going to end!? So I highly recommend this podcast for any horror/zombie/apocalypse fans, and especially for those fans who also need some fuel for their workouts. This podcast will make any time on the treadmill, elliptical, bike, or road highly tolerable and even enjoyable... you'll want to keep running so you can start the next episode and find out what happens next! :)