Journey to a Healthier Me

What a week, I'm so thankful it was a short one. It was a stressful week at work, my life this week kept challenging me to deviate from my plan. I am happy to say I did not deviate and feel great as a result! I ate well, had good snack choices at my desk to keep me energized and made time for fun!
Wednesday I went to the Market for lunch and had a tuna salad sandwich  on multigrain bread.  Strolling through the Market is a nice escape in the middle of the day, smelling fruit, browsing the vendors - it's like a little holiday over the noon hour. My afternoon was busy at work. I had planned to leave a bit early so I would not be rushed for my 6:30 jumpboard/reformer class with Megan at Create Balance. At 4 :30 and employee asked to talk, which ended up making me much later than I planned. We did not get home until 5:45, barely enough time to eat. The good news, I was not as hungry as usual so I made myself a shake and drank as I got ready to go. Made it to the class on time and really enjoyed it. My body is in worse shape than I had thought - I found the workout more challenging than I expected, but I did it!!
Thursday was a travel day - visiting 2 of our branches. My purse was full of snacks and I stopped for lunch at Milestones. Normally I would have had fast food. It felt nice to stop and take the time to eat a good lunch - I had the California salad with chicken and dressing on the side. It would have been better if the wait staff had not made such a big deal about me eating by myself. Then for dinner Troy and I walked to Dolcetto http://dolcettoristo.com/, split a bottle of wine and vented about the week we were having. It was such a beautiful night. At 9:00 the temp was still in the 20's. After diner we came back home and went for another walk with the dog and our youngest. 
Friday - Reformer class with Renee, she kicked our butts and my ab's are feeling it! I took the day off to get some running around done. It was much more leisurely than I had planned. Troy had to deal with work all day so I planned to take care of diner  - BBQ'd chicken, roasted potatoes and salad. Right now we only have the charcoal BBQ so you have to be prepared and start the charcoal about 20 min's before you're ready to start cooking. I was so proud, I got the charcoal going in plenty of time, had a snuggle with my girls and heard about their day's, boiled the potatoes and prepped everything while the coals heated up. I'm feeling good - I'm BBQ'ing and letting my hubby relax, a regular 1950's wifey. I pour out the coal into the bottom of the webber, spreading it around just like Troy does, only I had left it in the chimney for more than 20 mins and some of the coals had already turned to ash so I had to push all the active coals into a small area. Long story short I did not have enough coal so I had to crowd all the food in a small area, and ended up burning some of the chicken and drying it out. Diner was edible - but not my best work. I'm no 1950's wifey - and I'm ok with that!