Get the *bleep* out of BED!

This is exactly what I need to do every morning. So last night I made myself a copy of this and taped it onto the ceiling above my side of the bed. I asked the hubs if he wanted one too and he promptly said "no". Lazy ass....Anyway, it worked. This morning, my alarm went off at 5:30 am. I snoozed (oops) and got up at 5:50 - still better than my normal wake up time of 7:20. I got dressed and went downstairs and did my entire TAM workout! I even did the DC - yay me! However, I had to step-touch through all of the moves due to extreme pain in my leg (seriously - this is not an excuse). I always read on the TAM FB page that step-touching the moves will still make you sweat and I never believed them, until this morning. I had so much energy this morning from the workout but still stopped at Starbucks for a Tall Skinny Hazelnut Latte before work because I really wanted one. YUM. The energy has pretty much lasted all day so I think this whole "workout in the morning" routine may stick. 

My food intake has been pretty good today. While I rested my feet after my workout, I made hard-boiled eggs for breakfast. My snack was a banana. I had a side salad and half a chicken salad sandwich for lunch. Not the greatest nutritionally but wanted this so much. To keep me from eating the whole sandwich, I gave half to Joyce (my co-worker) - such a good idea. Half a sandwich is more than enough but I always end up eating the whole thing because I don't want to waste half a sandwich! I drank about 1/4 of my diet coke before chucking it. My afternoon snack was a slice of white whole wheat bread with some organic PB. And how much water are you supposed to consume a day? 8-8 oz glasses? 8-10 oz glasses? 6-8oz glasses? Well either way I think I hit it. I'm on my 5th-16 oz cup of water, not including the water I had after my workout. Woot.

Yesterday the hubs and I did our day 2 of week 2 of the Couch-to-5k training. It was raining yesterday when we both got home from work. I've always wanted to run in the rain - so we did! We probably will not do it again, unless it's just misting. It was invigorating but made it a little hard to run. I kept feeling like I might fall but at the same time I felt like quite the bad-ass for running in the rain. We started with our 5 minute brisk walk then began our run. Guess I did not stretch enough because a few paces in I was getting a shooting pain in my leg. But I kept telling myself "no excuses" so I ran/walked through it. But a mile in, the pain was excruciating. While Jay continued to run, I had to walk it out. By the end of the quarter of the second mile, I felt like I could barely walk. My legs were shaking and I had to hold onto something to keep myself from falling over. We went home after that - which was perfect timing because it was getting super dark and the raining started to come down harder. I took an 800 mg ibuprofen (a regular dose is between 200-400 mg), put Aspercreme all over my legs, and put my feet up. This morning my legs were a lot less stiff than normal. Guess that stuff really works! There's no swelling or bruising but I feel like I should see a doctor for this pain - it's become more frequent.

No pain, no gain.