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Day 24 - Enjoying Healthy Food

 So I'm eating a lot of healthy stuff here lately.  Fruits, salad, veggies, beans oatmeal.  I have never had any kind of balance in my diet.  I do usually eat healthy when I'm actually in weight-loss mode, but when I'm not--I eat like a 2-year-old.  Or what a 2-year-old would choose if she were allowed to eat what she wanted.  

But I find that I really enjoy the healthy food.  It feels so good!  And I feel lighter and more energetic.  You would think I would get the message, wouldn't you?  

For dinner, I made a soup with white beans, celery, onions, carrots, spinach, chicken broth and almond milk, seasoned with garlic, salt, pepper, thyme and parsley.  It felt so healthy and nourishing, plus pretty yummy!  Not something I would normally eat, but I was very pleased with the outcome.  

Today, I felt lighter on my feet, especially when I did a 13-minute jog.  That's encouraging.  I'm still running inside, and the wood surface is a bit springy compared to asphalt outside.  I've been checking my heart rate when I jog.  So far, it does not get above 126 bpm.  I'm not sure if that's good or bad.  My regular heart rate is not slow at all, probably faster than average.  I assume it means my leg muscles and lungs are behind my heart rate in conditioning.  Plus, I'm running in fairly tight circles, being inside.  I assume it would be different outside.  At some point, I will hopefully begin to jog outside.  I just want to get smaller and faster before I start outside.  Right now, I'm pretty much doing a shuffle that is as slow as a brisk walk.  

I felt a bit lazy today.  It was too warm to walk outside, but I did manage to finally get in 10,000 steps by 11:00 p.m.  (I jogged 13 minutes for part of the steps.)  I really had to push myself to do it.  There's not much motivation for much else right now, lol.

My food today:  banana and oatmeal, a green salad, peanut butter sandwich, two mandarins, the soup I made for dinner, two pieces of garlic bread with 45-calorie bread and Brummel & Brown Yogurt Spread.  I haven't counted the calories and points yet, but I should be fine with that amount of food. 

That's all I've got. 

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