Manic Monday

Today I'm participating in Manic Monday :)




Basically on Monday you take pics of the things you do throughout the day and then blog about it at the end of the day!

So, today I started my morning with a walk. Since I am now post weight loss surgery, I have been walking almost every day for the past two weeks, increasing my time and/or distance whenever I can. I wanted to join my friend this coming weekend on a walk for epilepsy (her son has it) and she said it is a 5K (aka 3.2 miles)... which sounded like a lot and I wasn't sure I could do it. So I needed to see how far I am normally walking right now so I could get an idea of if I'd be able to do it or not. I got this app on my phone called walkmeter so I tried it out on my walk today.

Whoo hoo! I walked 2.48 miles which means yes I CAN do the 5K this weekend :) I felt proud. If you want to see more about this app, I went into detail about it here on my health blog.

My friend Taryn accompanied me on the walk today and by the way, it was HOT out. Much too hot for me at 80 degrees at 9:30 in the morning. The sun was baking us so we decided to go through the sprinklers in the park.

After I rested a while after my walk, I took a little trip to Target. My grocery trips are pretty small these days, but I did need a couple of things.

Besides my groceries I also found a cheap tank top (for walking in) and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 was on sale for $5! I really like that movie because of the location - I loved my trip to Greece and I get to relive it a little when I watch this movie :)


Because of surgery, I haven't been to Starbucks in a while, at least not for coffee. But I HAVE been enjoying this frosty treat...

Yep, water. Exciting, isn't it? Would you laugh if I told you it actually is? :) hehe. Since there is a Starbucks in Target I usually get a free ice water to drink while I'm shopping, or to take home with me. It was 95 degrees when I left Target, so this went down reaaaallly nicely.

OK next, this picture is not FROM today, but I received it today so it is going to make an appearance. This is me and Brandy (the one I'll be doing the 5K with this weekend) at her birthday party on New Year's Eve. She just now got these photos from a friend who took them at the party, and she passed this on to me. I love it :)

Tonight was also Ian's first time going for a walk post-op. I went with him so I got in a second walk for today! He was able to go for 30 mins and quite a bit faster than I was able to do my first time out. I'm so proud of him!

It was really nice walking in the evening with no sun beating down on me, but all the bugs everywhere wanting to fly into my mouth made it a little less pleasant lol. All in all it's been a really nice day!