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I said BRRRRR it's cold in here.

Holy crappers.

Last night I recall a friend posting "10 + today. Tomorrow - 7 Yep. That's Canada". And I thought about this before bed AND was thinking about it this morning and yet I still put on my flats. Dumb move on my part - like what was I thinking? Mush for brains today, I tell you.

Fourth day in a row where I didn't wake up at 4:30 am and get my butt to the gym. So today I punished myself and will continue to punish myself. I got off the bus (3) stops too early and walked in the blistering cold - only wearing thin socks, flats, 1 pair of skin tight leggings, dri fit tank, sweater and winter jacket. No hat. No scarf. No gloves. BRRRRRRR. On a good note, I'm already almost at 3,000 steps!

Let's recap yesterday:

Breakfast: Protein shake (chocolate vegan shakeo + almond milk + water
Snack: Leftover protein bowl (chocolate vegan shakeo + plain greek yogurt + frozen mixed berries)
Lunch: Vegetable stew
Snack: baby carrots, chocolate chip cookie dough protein bar, 1/2 protein shake
Dinner: 1/2 protein shake, (3) chicken spring rolls (dipped in plum sauce), skinless boneless chicken breast, baked potato seasoned with salt / pepper, butter, sour cream w/ chives, multigrain roll (added butter and dipped in chalet sauce)

I told my boyfriend if he got dessert I would get dessert too. As luck would have it, once I ordered the cheesecake (and couldn't make up my mind between strawberries or chocolate sauce) the waitress walked away - giving Jack no time to order even if he wanted! .. but that's okay - we were meant to split my dessert anyways. The picture made the cheesecake look huge. When we got it it was 6 bites worth. Even though I semi cheated, I feel pretty good about what I ate yesterday.

1) All carbs were consumed directly after a killer workout
2) I still made healthy choices (swiss chalet fries are TOOOO good to not order).

Exercise/workout: Upper body + double cardio.
Lunch break I looped around a nearby park 3x with Kristina - came back a sweaty mess
After work I did a circuit of upper body machines after 30 minutes cardio on the treadmill:

Lat pulldown: 1 set at 55 lb, 3 sets at 40 lb
Chest press: 20 lb
Tricep extensions: 25 lb
Bicep curl: 3 set at 30 lb, 1 set at 25 lb
Pectoral fly: 2 set at 20 lb, 2 set at 25 lb
Deltoid fly: 25 lb
Seated row: 2 set at 25 lb, 2 set at 30 lb
4 sets of 8 each.
+ 10 minutes include 6 at 3.3 speed on treadmill.

Today here's the plan:
Breakfast: protein shake + an apple 
Snack: carrots + veggie burger (plain) + 1 packet ketchup
Lunch: kale chips + veggie burger
* For lunch I had an apple, protein shake, roasted seeds, veggie crackers (mini rounds - about 7)
Snack: apple + protein shake
Didn't have a snack but will probably finish the kale chips
Dinner: mashed veggie burger with tomato sauce, mom's pasta salad with a light vinaigrette, cheese, celery, pickles  (no idea what else is in it)

Strike out words will indicated I did not eat it and ate something else
Underlined meals will mean I went through with it. Hopefully I can stick with it! Stay tuned.

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