Day 4 on my 45 lb journey and I'm feeling good.  My hips are a bit sore from the treadmill walking workout yesterday but aside from that I feel refreshed, and most importantly, I fell great about myself.

Yesterday was another successful day in my eyes.  I did my treadmill workout, did an arm workout and walked the dogs.  I also vacuumed all three floors in the house and did some dusting.  I ate well with healthy snacks and meals, no junk!

Today I am starting the morning refreshed and not tired which is SO nice!  That is one thing that regular exercise will do for a person.  I am drinking a cup of hot water with lemon in it to start the day and then I'll make myself a mango/pineapple juice.  My plan for exercise today is to do a 30 minute run on the treadmill.  I started on the treadmill back in the fall and have slowly worked up my endurance.  I was using an app called "Get Running" which I found extremely helpful.  It starts you out in walking/running intervals and you slowly increase your running time.  I stopped using it back at the end of January and I was up to 20 minutes running straight.  I'm going to start where I left off from which means I'll be running for 5 minutes, walking for 3, running for 8 minutes, walking for 3, running for 5 minutes.  It also starts you off and ends with a 5 minute walking warm up and cool down.  It works out to 34 minutes, 18 running.  If I stick to it, I should be running for 30 minutes straight the second week of April.

On of the things I want to do this summer is to run a 5km race.  I'm going to look for one her in Ottawa and I'll let you know what I find in case you're inspired to run one too :)

I didn't get to painting today so I will definitely be doing that today.  I'm going to walk the dogs later on with my hubby after he home from work.

As for food, I made Thai Chicken Pies last night so I would have something to send for lunch for my kid, so I'll be having them too.   For supper it'll be Avocado Egg Salad Wraps. I recently heard that brazil nuts are super healthy for you and help assist in weight lose so I think I'll go pick some up today when I go grocery shopping.

I was going to have Friday as my weight in day, but I decided that a Monday would make more sense.  If I do a weigh in on Friday and lose weight, I might be tempted to "celebrate" on the weekend and gain back all that I've lost.  So, for extra motivation to continue eating well and exercising on the weekend I'm doing my weigh in on Monday.  Tomorrow we're headed to Mont Tremblant.  My hubby and kid ski, but I do not.  Because I won't be able to get in a real workout, I'm going to wear a pedometer to see how much I walk tomorrow.  I'll be walking all around the ski hill and want to walk into the town so I should get in about 3-4 hours of walking.  Any guesses on how many steps I'll take?