Day 3 and Still Doin It! :)

OK - So it's only day 3, but I am doing what I need to do so far. I have even been tracking my food and exercise using the website http://www.myfitnesspal.com/. Check it out! It logs your food and calculates the calories. I make sure to put EVERYTHING that I eat so that I am not cheating. I started it on the 2nd and so far I have been under my calories each day. Yay! I want to stay right within the range and don't want to go too low of course, because that's not helpful either. OK, so here are the three F's for today:

Food:

• Breakfast: Banana w/2 TB of peanut butter, coffee with creamer
• Lunch: Salad w/mushrooms, tomatoes, and cracker barrel cheese, Italian dressing
• Dinner: Chicken w/lemon-pepper seasoning, Ronzoni smart choice pasta, brocolli, glass of milk
• Snacks: Applesauce, 2 Clementines

Fitness:

My marathon training schedule called for a 3-mile run and I did it! Even though it was bitter cold outside, I made myself go out and did 3.2 miles. I didn't run the entire way and did do some walking, but I completed it nonetheless. Tomorrow is boot camp at 5:30 a.m.  I am tired already. LOL. The difficult thing for tomorrow and Thursday is going to be fitting in a run with it being so cold out. Tonight was brutal! I may have to do my running indoors at the gym on the treadmill. Tomorrow calls for 30-minute tempo run. Here's the description taken from the Hal Higdon website:

Tempo Runs: This is a continuous run with a buildup in the middle to near 10-K race pace. A Tempo Run of 30 to 45 minutes would begin with 10-15 minutes easy running, build to 15-20 minutes near the middle, then 5-10 minutes easy toward the end. The pace buildup should be gradual, not sudden, with peak speed coming about two-thirds into the workout. Hold that peak only for a minute or two. I consider Tempo Runs to be the "Thinking Runner's Workout." A Tempo Run can be as hard or easy as you want to make it, and it has nothing to do with how long (in time) you run or how far. In fact, the times prescribed for Tempo Runs serve mainly as rough guidelines. Feel free to improvise. Improvisation is the heart of doing a Tempo Run correctly. Here's a link to that site if anyone is interested: http://www.halhigdon.com/

Finances:

Not too much to report here. I packed my lunch today, so I didn't spend any money on food today. I did have to put gas in my car, but I actually found some money in two different pockets and was able to use it for gas. I had about $22 and spent $20 for gas. The good news is that there was no unnecessary spending. :)