day three

After eating that guilt cookie last night before bed, this morning I got a fantastic surprise on the scale -- I had gone down about 2.2 lbs!  I know this is not something to expect on a regular basis, but I feel like I've started enough (usually failing) diets to know that the first few days for me I usually drop a couple of pounds (water weight?) pretty quickly.

So I decided to spoil that completely by making belgian waffles for breakfast -- mostly because it seemed like a nice breakfast to make for Mike's family, and also a little bit because I wanted to try out the new Mickey Mouse waffle maker that Hannah got me for Christmas!  I had 1 1/2 waffles with bananas, blackberries, maple syrup and powdered sugar and made that my breakfast and most of my lunch.

Mike and I hit the gym for a little over an hour...one ab circuit, the 30-minute express workout, and some free weights (mostly) for arm day.  I was actually super-excited to go to the gym, and even felt so good when I was leaving that it actually made me feel suspicious and guilty, like I hadn't worked hard enough.  We took Mookie for a lap around the dog park, and once we got home and sat down for a bit, then the sore muscles started to kick in, haha.

The thing with eating less is that there are a lot of leftovers, so we had shredded salsa chicken burritos with rice, green peppers, and marble cheese for dinner before we headed to indoor baseball for a playoff game.  A pretty active day overall.  My muscles are sore, but I am still looking forward to the gym tomorrow, and feel pretty positive overall...minus a bit of guilt over (the last!) chocolate chocolate chip cookie that I ate for dessert with my cup of grapes.