14 Day Challenge: Days 5 and 6

Day 5

Considering it's the weekend, I've been doing a pretty good job with food I think!

Friday morning (Day 5 of the challenge), for my morning workout I decided to swim some laps just to switch things up. I wanted to swim for a full 30 minutes, but I was too drained. I made it a little over 20 minutes. I didn't eat anything before I went and I'm wondering if that affected my energy level. I'll try eating next time. I really need to get some goggles because right now I'm keeping my head above water and it messes up my whole form making it harder to swim. I took the laps really slow, but at least I kept my heart rate going.

Breakfast - 1/2 cup egg beaters on 1/2 a double fiber honey wheat English muffin

Snack - High fiber brown sugar oatmeal

Lunch - Turkey burger (no bun because I burned my last one in the toaster at work haha!) with colby jack cheese

Snack - apple

For dinner Nels and I had Thai food. I got some chicken pad thai, which from what nutrition info I could find online, it wasn't too bad. Around 500 calories, 10 grams of fat or so.

Then we headed over to his cousin Heather's house to meet up with her and his cousin Beth who's visiting from Seattle. Forgot my camera this weekend so had to do some Droid pics:

I love his cousins, they are so nice and fun to be around! We were thinking of going out but ended up staying in at Heather's, talking, drinking & playing games. Beth makes really good margaritas : ) . Heather's house is so cute, I loved it. Her husband basically gutted the whole thing and fixed it up himself, he did an amazing job. It was so funny how Heather kept putting food out, it was mostly healthy food though! I had some pretzel sticks with a hummus that I actually liked! Athenos red bell pepper. It tasted like taco dip. Totally buying some of that stuff when I get home! Also liked her basset hound Ozzie, he's a sweetie:

Day 6 - Rest Day

The challenge said to make Sunday the rest day, but I'm swapping it out. Getting 2 workouts in on a Saturday when I'm out of town? Yeah right! I'll go running around Nels' neighborhood tomorrow morning and then do my evening workout at my gym when I get home.

Today is the "Eat what you want in reasonable portions" day. We met his mom and stepdad at Culver's for lunch. Proud of myself because I just had the Flame Roasted Chicken Sandwich, which is only 309 calories and 9 grams of fat. Woo hoo!

After that Nels and I went for some ice cream at Whitey's and I had one scoop of White Tiger Paws - basically cookies and cream with a fudge swirl. Yum! I've drastically cut back on my sweet tooth this week so it was nice to indulge. We had a nice walk around the river in downtown Davenport, IA and are now heading out to dinner with his dad and stepmom. We're going to a Mexican restaurant - yay tacos!