Day 8 - What happened to my sunshine?

Denver had the perfect spring weather yesterday, 60 degrees and sunny.  We played outside most of the day.  Well that perfect weather came to a screeching halt today when the clouds full of rain and snow drifted in from Utah (yes, I’m blaming Utah.)  Needless to say the weather put a bit of a damper on our plans to go walking along the trails today.  Lucky for us we had a backup plan in case of bad weather. 

We packed up the kid and headed out to REI and then to the mall.  My wife wanted to get a pedometer so she could track her activity throughout the day, hence the stop at REI.  We quickly made our purchase and drove across the street to Park Meadows to be mall walker commandos.  Our plan would have worked out perfectly if it wasn’t for our little one having plans of her own.  We barely made one lap around the mall before she started throwing one of her little fits.  She didn’t want to sit in the stroller.  She didn’t want to walk while holding our hand.  She wanted to run (away from us).  When we caught up to her, she through herself and the ground and started screaming.  I love the terrible twos!  Anyhow, thanks to the fits being thrown, we had to cut our walking activity a bit short. 

Now that I’m adjusting my diet, we needed to go grocery shopping again.  We are trying to change our diet to minimize processed foods, sugar, enriched white flour products and cholesterol.   Have you ever tried to buy food without this crap in Safeway?  It’s a near impossible task.  It looks like we will shopping more at Sprouts, Sunflower and Vitamin Cottage in the future.

Breakfast

Whole wheat pancake with blueberries

Apple juice

Lunch

Rotisserie chicken breast

Dinner

Left over spaghetti from last night (whole wheat pasta)

Glass of red wine

Sugar free Jell-O cup

Activity

While walking through the mall and chasing after a 2 year old (almost 2), we walked about 1.5 miles.  I really need to step it up for this race in May.  To help, I’m going to bring our elliptical machine up from the disaster zone I call a man cave and put it in our bedroom.  With it being more accessible, I hope to use it more, especially on cold days like today.