Day 76

Have I mentioned how much fun I am having with gardening lately? I think I may have but I felt it was worth mentioning again. It's mostly vegetables that I am growing right now because it seems more rewarding to have an end product that you can do something with after all your hard work. I cannot wait until I get to taste my first tomato! I've got 1 Roma tomato already starting to turn red. I'm not really sure how long they take to ripen. I need to find a good book about growing your own vegetables. More specifically I want one especially for my Zone, which is 8. I found out today that it's not too late to plant pumpkin seeds. I'm excited to try my hand at that. How fun would it be to say that I grew the pumpkin that I carved at Halloween! Or maybe I'll grow some smaller ones and make pumpkin pie with them for Thanksgiving! I can't describe how rewarding this is to me! I only wish I had more space to grow more things. Well, I should say, I wish I had my own home to grow my own things. One day, one day....

Ok, back to reality. I did my workout today and pushed a little harder to try and make up for yesterday. I only burned an extra 22 calories for my effort though. :/ I went just over 4 miles, burned 822 calories and 101 grams of carbs. I had dinner at my brother-in-law & sister-in-law's house tonight and we were going to do Just Dance 2 after dinner but it never happened. Oh well, I worked out hard enough for one day! I think in observance of Mother's Day tomorrow I am going to take the day off. I'm going to brunch with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law and I think I just might have to cheat a little bit. The place we're going to has lots of different eggs Benedict on their menu and after all, what's a Benedict without an English muffin? Can't wait...should be tasty!

Here's what I had today:

BREAKFAST:
-apple slices w/peanut butter

LUNCH:
-s.f. lemonade
-lo-carb wrap w/ham, Swiss cheese, mayo & Dijon mustard

DINNER:
-smoked pork
-carrots w/mandarin oranges
-tomato stuffed w/spinach
-grilled onion
-small amount of mushroom rice
-1/2 cheesy biscuit
-1/4 slice pound cake w/small scoop vanilla ice cream & strawberries