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Hmm…

So, today has gone relatively well so far. For breakfast I had a banana and a peanut butter granola bar. For lunch I had ¾ of a chipotle veggie burrito and a nonfat latte from Starbucks. For dinner I’m going out with a friend – she’s not too adventurous so I’ll probably be able to get a salad wherever we go.

This morning I wanted to make some hot chocolate SO BAD…but I figured that that would be an enormous waste of sugar/calories. So I didn’t. But trust me…the little packets were definitely calling.

My bike got a flat tire this morning, so I had to drive to work instead of ride. But that also means that I’ll hopefully get home relatively early, and maybe I can start my running program. Maybe a year and a half ago I started some personal training lessons at our local gym for softball, and she started me on a running program that got me to run/jog in at least a couple 5ks. She also set up other cardio options and a strength training routine as well. I think I’ll try to do the cardio program again. It wasn’t too painful and in the past I stuck with it for a decent amount of time.

Plus, the running program starts off really slow…only like five minutes at a time, which seems doable right now as opposed to a half an hour. The hope is that I can persuade myself to do five minutes now, and build a habit before I have to schedule larger amounts of time.

Of course, the real problem is that I truly despise exercise. Not even joking. And I’ve tried everything: reading, listening to music, watching TV. Regardless of what I do, I’m still counting down the minutes. Literally. I’ve even tried putting post-it notes over the clock so I can’t pay attention to the time. But that still doesn’t really help. I just can’t imagine ever enjoying exercise/its cathartic benefits when I’m constantly focused on the time. Blech.

In other news, the writing project that I’m working on finally got a decent start yesterday. Starting is definitely the hardest part of writing for me. With proper effort and revision I feel like my stuff can turn out pretty well, but it’s always that ideas that never seem good enough to me. Once I develop a decent outline though, I’ll be ready to rock and roll…that outline is giving me a bit of trouble, though.

Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Word.