Day 3 - Chugging Along... slowly

So, I didn’t do so well in the last 24 hours. This morning was a bust. I had forgotten that I had promised Greg we would go to breakfast. You see, at 3:00 today, I jet out of work early and hop into my car, which I will spend 6 hours in on my way to St. Louis to meet a friend. We’re having an impromptu weekend (okay, so we planned it a month ago – that’s still pretty impromptu for me) to see each other after 4 years. St. Louis is our halfway.

Last night, I did go to the gym and do Body Pump. I packed, and bustled around the house as much as I could, only sitting down for dinner and then laying down on the couch with Greg around 8:30 for a cuddle and some TV. I suppose that’s not too shabby, right? I drank water all afternoon and a glass after I got home, too (a rarity for me).

But I did not get up at 5:30, nor did I try. I did not get out for a walk this morning, nor did I try. I kept trying to psych myself up before bed, thinking “Hey, if I go do this tomorrow morning, Saturday I can be okay with the fact that I won’t get any formal exercise!” But, even that didn’t convince me. I wound up waking at 6:30, and rushing around to get myself ready to go to work and to grab all those last-minute things you remember the morning of your trip.

So, no official exercise today. But tomorrow, with any luck, I’ll be hiking around St. Louis, and running myself ragged. Maybe I’ll even use the stairs at the hotel. But I’ve got to think about today, and not tomorrow. So here are my goals:

1. Drink water all day long.
2. Every trip to the bathroom will include 5-10 “countertop pushups” before I wash my hands. (With about 5-10 trips to the bathroom a day when I’m drinking water like crazy results in a hell of a lot of those.)
3. Lunch will be meager, and very calculated. No huge taco salads. No greasy sandwiches. Fresh foods, or vegetable soup ONLY.
4. Buy healthy snacks to have along journey – nuts, dried fruit, vegetable juice and other things.
5. Rise early in the morning and take a stroll around the hotel, or go for a swim in the pool to get the heart rate up ever so slightly.