MMMmm Almond Butter!

I have come to the conclusion that... when the highlight of your day is the two tablespoons of almond butter with your last meal, that one, you have been dieting for too long and two, you need to get some new hobbies! Lol I lOOOOOOVVVVVEEE my almond butter at the end of the day and I find myself savoring every drop! The past couple days have been tough but heck this week is flying by! We are already to Wednesday and in just a couple more, the weekend will be here. Oh how I love the weekend! I went to the doctor on Monday (after calling every doctors office in the county!) and much to my surprise...It is ("best educated guess") a sports hernia. So that means my lifting has to change and cardio might have to change in order to push through the next 3 weeks until I can take a little time off. It will be lots of icing (no not the kind I love to spoon off my carrot cake), heat, Advil, and rest (well fake rest) because I told the doc I couldn't rest yet and he said, "Well you better bear through it then." So bearing through it I am, well that and this cold weather! This morning on the way to the gym, it was 22 degrees out and I thought I had frost bite on my fingers because I could not feel them so picture this.... I was running on the treadmill in a thermal, a zip-up and my mittens. Pretty sure if an Eskimo can run when its cold, I can too even if I look like a dork doing so.

School is going well and I am still able to manage the 3 workouts a day, food prep, homework, teaching, and everything in between minus a lot of social time with the other students but that will change soon. I have a test tomorrow in Biostatistics and all I can say is.. Hallelujah it is not a low carb day and I have a modified cheat meal tonight because otherwise we might have a brain malfunction and I cant really explain to my professor that I am just depleted and actually very intelligent when I am loaded up on carbs. He would just look at me and probably think I was worse off for trying to explain myself. Soo here is to it being halfway through my first quarter of grad school, 45 minutes of cardio, and lots of frosting (if you know how I like my carrot cake)! Happy Wednesday!

Ciao for now,   J