Dec 4 = Day 3

Ahhh...a better morning in deed.
I decided my previous thought about ditching coffee was psychotic, I mean really. I love it so much. It's so warm and comforting and such a wonderful way to start your day! So I had 2 cups with sugar free creamer! Calories 80 and worth EVERY ONE! Bonus? I used it to take my Advocare Catalyst x1

Garron decided he wanted to get up early and ride the bus, I actually woke up early like normal so I had my coffee...alone...in the dark...in the quiet...I'm still reminiscing because I love it so much! LOL
Drank my Advocare Fiber Drink (Peaches and Cream)  Calories 70
He got off to school, I got the babies up, I got us all ready and early to work I went this morning!!!

Banana for breakfast Calories 105
INSERT SPARK!!!! Calories 45

One bottle O'water it was another tiny one 11oz

Lunch - left over Chicken "not really fried" Rice. As predicted, it certainly made an appearance in a future blog. Calories 243ish (it was a substantially smaller portion than the original) Waste not, want not ...I'll just let you guess who I got that old chestnut from!
add in another tiny water bottle 
Yes I could just go out to my car and get a full 16.5oz bottle of water because yes I carry them around in my trunk (usually) HOWEVER who would watch my library desk? I mean that would be very irresponsible of me to leave it unmanned.  It is after all finals week and the printing that is going on in here is way more than normal. At .5 cents per page I wouldn't want the college to miss out on any prints because I wasn't here to collect the money. It's been so crazy in here I'm like a cheap toll booth...I've got nickels flying at me from every direction! *please note, the previous story is slightly (but not much) exaggerated because I think it's funnier that way.

Today is the day I realize the paper I printed to track my workout was only set for Monday Wednesday and Friday. Arms on Monday Friday and Legs on Wednesday. Next week switched Legs 2 days etc. So now I know why there are all these post on Facebook for "leg day"...umm it was supposed to be today. It's fine though I'll do cardio today and tomorrow and back to arms on Friday. This is all probably for the better, I mean how much talking can you do while doing cardio anyway...NOT MUCH...I mean it sounds more like sputters and sentence fragments in between deep gasping breaths. Yes, it was better that I did legs with my friend and cardio by myself. The only thing that would make it better would be if everyone would quietly excuse themselves from the gym while I'm "fast walking" on the treadmill ... that would be fantastic! The more of me that is jiggling at a fast  faster than normal pace the less people I would like to be around to accidentally see it.

Once in the car I drank a full size water as I headed to the gym but guess what? NO GYM SHOES!!! So I race through the catalog of my mind searching every page to figure out where they could be and why would they not be in my gym bag? And then my brain came to a screeching halt when I landed on the memory of an itty bitty 2 year old tromping around in pink and gray Nikes (unless you are from the UK in which case they were pink and grey). I specifically remember how funny he thought it was and how he wanted me to look at him as he walked out onto the porch. I even told him to be careful. Unfortunately there is no page in my memory catalog that has me following up with where he left those shoes, this is due to the fact that it never happened...there was no page of me saying, let me put those back in my bag, there is no clue as to where he left them.Now I'm only left with a new page that says:
NO SHIRT, NO SHOES, NO GYM WORKOUT!!!
hmmmph

This left me wondering if I should Sharpie on some shoe laces on my feet and see if they will pass for flesh colored "toe shoes".

So I head home with the idea in mind that if I can find my shoes (which were behind the couch, just in case you were wondering), change into my gym clothes and get out the door in enough time I might still get a workout in. -seems like there should be some witty pun inserted here in reference to workout/in. But there isn't.

Unfortunately that gym trip didn't happen. So I have another plan! I'll go get the babies from daycare slap them in the double stroller and take a brisk walk several times around the neighborhood. Yes! this is a good plan in deed!!!!  After I stopped by the store, loaded up the kids from daycare, got home, started picking up the house, answered some text, made a few phone calls, put in a load of laundry and put dinner on...well you can see where this is going...I completely forgot about my plan. No gym, no walk, no goal met today.

Dinner was really not that great of a success either. Calories wise it was totally great, taste wise...well not so much. We had spaghetti (wheat pasta of course!) Calories 180 Spaghetti Sauce, Light No Sugar Added Tomato & Basil Pasta Sauce (Ragu) Calories 50 with 97% Fat Free Ground White Turkey Calories 140...somewhere in the last two ingredients lies the problem. I just don't know what of these two exactly made this a nasty little meal. I usually make my own spaghetti sauce but this one was LIGHT and NO SUGAR ADDED!! And I'm an adventurous soul....so I thought yeah! Why NOT??? This will be much easier for me. But I am not entirely convince it was solely the fault of the sauce..no ...I'm sure the turkey was a large contributing factor. Normally I would use a ground beef that is only 7% fat (because the calories are practically the same as turkey) or if I due have ground turkey I will mix it with the ground beef for this exact reason, it's just not that good. We will just call a "redo" on this meal and move on. There was a bonus, you don't eat as much when it doesn't taste good. That is a FREE TIP! Advocare OmegaPlex x2 was taken with this meal.
Due to the totally UN-fantastic meal a Key Lime flavored Greek yogurt was a serious MUST. 160 Calories

This evening my little guy was rummaging around in the DVDs trying to find a cartoon. He pulls out a DVD with cute little dolphins on the front and asks what's this? I say Oh, that is actually momma swimming with the dolphins in Cancun. This is from a vacation several years ago. So of course in it goes. Garron my oldest son is 11. He is engrossed in some electronic at this point...when he finally looks up to see what Preston is watching he says, "Oh MY GOSH mom you were really fat!" ...well Garron tell me how you really feel! That's not rude at all. Then he immediately saves himself by saying, "not now mom, now you're perfect". And with that...

Per my routine I drank one bottle of water with dinner and one at bedtime while taking my last Catalyst x1 and my Advocare Herbal Cleanse caplets x3



GOAL RECAP

My 24 Day Challenge Goal is to lose 10lbs. - REMAINS TO BE SEEN
Strength Training Goals - Lift more than I can now! - No Strength Training was intended for this day so NA
Calorie Goal – 1500 = DAY THREE 1080 - GOAL MET!
Workout Goal – 5 days per week = DAY THREE - EPIC FAIL
Cardio Goal – 45 minutes = DAY THREE- SEE ABOVE
Blogging Goal – Daily! = DAY THREE - MET!
Water Goal – 84 oz Daily = DAY THREE 71.5 - GOAL not met!
ULTIMATE GOAL - Lose a higher percentage of weight than my little brother! = TBD

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Throwback Picture from the Cancun trip...surely you didn't want me to add the whole swimming with dolphins video!!