Freaky Friday - Dawn Up At Dawn?? (Day 8)

For some reason, I woke up early (for me) about 6:15 am, so I decided to get moving early. After climbing stairs for 20 grueling minutes last night, my chubby, weak little knees were not happy with me, so I decided a simple walk was in order, and I grabbed the dog, and off we went.

We walked to the pier and back and it took us 42 minutes. The village was just starting to wake up. This is a side of Placencia I don't usually see, since I'm not much of an early morning person, and it was quite lovely. And, I bumped into a friend half-way, so we walked the rest of the way together. That was was a nice surprise and made it seem to go faster too-WIN!


Confession time: Late last evening, I stumbled across a "Grandama's" peanut butter cookie (my favorite). I had tucked it in the fridge a day before I started my "New Dawn" project. My hands snatched it and stuffed the whole thing in my mouth before my brain even registered the event. Then the guilt and self-recrimination set in. At least there was only one left in the package-I guess it could have been worse, right?

As a reward for getting my dreaded EOD (exercise of the day) out of the way early, I decided to head to the sea for a beach day. Sadly, none of my regular beach crew was out, so I spent quite a bit of time paddling around by myself in the beautiful turquoise water, challenging myself to see how long I could swim without putting my feet down. As a result, I probably got at least another 30-45 minutes of activity in today. BIG WIN!

It was a pretty boring food day, and I know I need to plan better when it comes to meals. I knew there were leftovers in the fridge for dear hubby's dinner, and I just wanted something easy for myself too, so didn't plan or prepare a "meal," which is something that probably hinders my progress as well. I need to stop being so uninspired and lazy about my food planning, but it's just not "fun" for me. I truly hate it. I still have all the veggies I bought yesterday and I need to figure out what I want to do with them all. Cook them, you say? Arrggh. Yes I know, but how? And serve them with what? I guess it's time to hit the web and search for recipes that sound good. And EASY. But damn I hate cooking and preparing meals. I would give anything for my own personal chef a couple days a week. Or some really easy recipes. Anyone? 

Oh, I almost forgot today's scale shot. Staying steady, I'll take that, because as we know, tomorrow's another day! See you then…...