Getting Bored and Day 4

As I mentioned in my first blog, the Take Shape For Life (TSFL) is a healthy lifestyle program that I use before and saw some success.  I eventually let myself give up and I went off the program.  It involves eating 5 replacement meals a day and one "Lean and Green" meal which is a serving of a lean(ish) protein and 3 servings of low to lower carb veggies.  It can be a pretty decent meal.  Yet, one thing I've noticed is that I easily get in to routines with food prep.  In other words, most of my lean and green meals were consisting of Chicken or Salmon.  I liked the things that I made, but it got boring pretty quickly which made it harder to stay on the program.

So this time around I've made a decision to change how I do things.  I don't want to have the same protein two days in a row, just to help me switch things up and keep it a bit more exciting.  I'm also using the cookbook that I got from TSFL that has meals and recipes in it.  So, I've started looking through the book in the morning to decide what I'll have that night for dinner.  Yesterday it yielded zucchini fritters and today it has brought me this:

Asparagus Salad with fresh tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, fresh basil, fresh ground pepper, and lite balsamic dressing, with a side of sugar-free orange jell-o.  It was pretty amazing.

This morning I continued my C25K.  Week 1 Day 2 was a lot easier than W1D1.  Part of that was probably because I wasn't by myself when I did it.  Having someone to workout with helps a lot.  I did the workout today with my sister, Sue.  I'm not sure that it was really a workout for her (she was able to talk in a normal voice after the running part and I was gasping for air to respond), but it really helped me.  Somehow I didn't end the workout on my RunKeeper app until I had driven home, so I had to delete it so it wouldn't mess up my numbers, but we did end up going about 2.5 miles.