Rate My Week! April 19-25 and Enough With the Oreos and 100 Pushups!

How's that for a super long, yet meaningless blog post title?!?!

First, Rate My Week - last week wasn't super duper as far as exercise and eating went. But (and this is BIG!), I went to Ohio to meet up with some of the PSF's (I had never met any of them in person - just online)!

I got in two good runs. Matt and I got up at o'dark thirty (okay, not that early) and ran on Thursday morning. Who doesn't love a 5:00 a.m. run?!? It was so nice to get back out in the morning. Running in the early a.m. is great for us because we can get our runs in and not have to worry about trying to schedule it later in the day. Also, on Saturday, Laura and I (I LOVE Laura - she is just AWESOME!) went for a great walk/run in the park near Pam's house. It was a really, really nice park and I had a great chat with Laura.

As far as eating went, I did okay - did fine on my veggies and kept the Oreos to a minimum, so that was good.

I'm rating my week of April 19 to 25 as an 8.

Next, Enough with the damn Oreos already! I have quit eating chocolate (chocolate candy: little morsels of heaven wrapped in foil). I stopped eating candy about a month and a half ago. But, in its place, I've taken a serious liking to Golden Oreos with Chocolate Cream Filling. Yum! I try to keep that dirty little habit in check, but sometimes . . . I have never looked at the calorie count for those little devils. Frankly, I didn't want to know. But, yesterday I looked! I shouldn't have. It was not good. 3 of those little cookies = 170 calories. As Alie would say "What a rip off!" or "That's cheap!". She'd definitely be right in this case.

So, I will hence begin rationing the Oreos. I'm going to buy some (no, I cannot go cold turkey) and put 3 cookies in a zip bag as my DOA (that's Daily Oreo Allowance, hopefully not Dead on Arrival). I am also thinking (but, I'll have to do this when Matt isn't around - he'd think I'm even more of a loon than he thinks I am already) about cutting each cookie into quarters.

Lastly, 100 Pushups!

I found this site: www.hundredpushups.com and decided to take up the challenge. It's only 6 weeks! I thought it would be fun for me and Matt to try it together, but I think he's gonna bail, so I'm in it alone. That's okay. I can certainly use some upper body strength and this is not a time consuming challenge. I'll take the baseline test this weekend and hit the floor on Monday!

Hoping to report good progress on the DOA and the 100 Pushups next week!