Back home...and back to the gym!!

Today was actually VERY good. This morning, I got up and finished packing up my room to go home! Breakfast was a Luna bar (170 cal), courtesy of my room-mate. YAY! After getting everything in the car, I finished getting ready for commencement. It is so wonderful (and sad!) to see all of the graduates. A plus for the commencement is that it is a small walk to get there. Nothing extraordinarily long, but about 20 minutes. After commencement, I hurried back to campus to get checked out of my room and go home!! Before leaving town, I stopped at Subway and got a foot long oven roasted chicken breast sandwich. Wheat bread, no cheese, no dressings, lettuce, tomato, and sweet peppers. I had half for lunch before leaving town. 310 calories. Wonderful!

The drive was great home. It has been hard lately to get out of town because a key road has been closed for construction. I found out that it was opened! This made my trip out MUCH easier. It cut my driving time by literally half an hour. I was home in around an hour and ten minutes. After getting home, I got another workout by unloading the car and taking all of my stuff upstairs.

Early dinner was the second half of my sandwich. Another 310 yummy delicious calories. After hanging out for a bit, I went to the gym around 6. I had just found out that the Y closes at 7 and I wanted to make sure I got a good workout in.

With only an hour, I wanted to tackle as many areas as I could. I did 30 minutes of weights. However, after a set of reps, if I felt like I could have done more, I raised the weight instead of only doing more reps at the lower amount. I was trying to push myself and see how hard I could go. I also tried holding positions, not just releasing right away. This gave me a burn that I'd never really felt before. I think it was good (?).

After this, I went on the treadmill. With only about 20 minutes left, I really wanted to challenge myself to do the best. Right off the bat I hit with an incline of 7 with a 3.0 speed. I'm still new to the incline, so this really was a challenge for me. After 5 minutes of this, I dropped the incline down to 5 and increased speed to 3.5. After five more minutes, I decided to throw it all out. I left the incline at 5 and increased speed to 5.5. This is the highest speed that I've ever tried to stay consistent at and I was working at it! I held this for 2.5 minutes, and then dropped it down to a cool down. Ended the treadmill and then stretched it out and came home.

Since I had last eaten at 4:30, around 9:30 I was hungry again. So I made the most GORGEOUS salad ever. Romain lettuce, 2 tbs 'Sweet Vidalia Onion dressing', 1 tbs 'Light Ranch', chopped chicken, and grapes. It tasted SO good. A bit later, I loved the taste of grapes so much, that I had a few more : )

And one of the best moments of today!! I was watching the "Biggest Loser" tonight with my sister. She's not the healthiest kid on the planet. After we were done, she asked me if I wanted to go walking with her tomorrow morning! And she said she wants to try and eat healthier : )

And now, church is tomorrow and it is time for bed. Good night!