veggies and hummus

I didn’t really want left overs for lunch today, but I really didn’t have much to choose from. So I packed the leftover curried sweet potatoes, spinach, and chickpeas along with some veggies and hummus.

After eating this I was still a bit hungry so I had some pretzels that I had packed as well. Then I went on my normal walk around the office park… I’m such a dork- I even bring my sneakers to change into during lunch. You should have seen how great they looked with my outfit today. I should probably take pictures of myself before walking so everyone can get a good laugh in for the day. I’m sure the people in my complex get a kick out of it. Oh well, I don’t really care because I am stuck at a desk for 8 hours a day with 1 hour of lunch so I need to get out of office and move a little bit.

So after my 20 minute walk, I walked up an appetite for something else to eat. and I ate a clif-z bar. About 2 hours later, I was hungry again. I probably wasn’t really hungry, I just packed too many things for lunch today (I pretty much always eat everything I pack because I know it’s there) and I knew I had this sitting in the fridge 2 steps away. So I ate it, with some TJ’s morning lite cereal mixed in.

It was the first time I had this kind and it was good, but I like the maple kind better. Now it’s pouring the rain outside and I have to walk to my car.. GOSH!

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I’ve eaten the same breakfast for 3 days straight and now for dinner I am eating something very similar to last nights dinner. Lucky for you all, It won’t be 3 days of veggie burgers because I ate the last one tonight. With Brittany’s Blend (made for me… ) of veggies from Trader Joe’s mixed with the left over peas from last night. Along with some veggies and hummus.

So funny thing about the gym today. I am not a competitive person at the gym, at least I don’t feel I am. I can walk at 4.5 on the treadmill with the person next me running at 10.0 and feel fine about myself. Maybe it would be better if I were more competitive because today it paid off. The lady next to me kept looking at the treadmill, so much so that it was really noticeable. I was walking, incline at 1, speed 4.5, and reading the new Health Magazine. She was doing running intervals, I don’t know if it is because she was getting tired and needed to walk between running or if she was doing a timing thing. But anyhow after 10 minutes of walking I thought I would run a bit. So I turned it up a notch and started running at 6.5. I didn’t even notice what speed she was at, until I saw that she kept looking at my machine. I looked over and noticed she was at 6.5. I few minutes later she was at 6.8. This bugged me, that she purposefully was trying to show me up, sooo I upped the anty quite a bit and started doing 7.6. She looked over and I strategically flipped a page in my magazine like I was simply reading leisurely on the beach. She quickly upped hers to 7.0. After about 2 minutes I started running at 8.0 for 1 minute intervals. She seriously looked at me with a grimace. After receiving that look, I felt really proud when she got off the treadmill soon after. Which was also good because I was quite tired of running between 7.5-8.0. I went back to 6.5 once I was sure she was out of sight. It was an interesting thing for me because I haven’t had a treadmill competition with anyone before. But man did it feel good today! So I guess the healthy competition is a good for me, otherwise I probably would have kept running at 6.5 with no speed increases. Thanks lady.