So Far, So Good. :)

Food:  
Today was a pretty good day food wise and I really tried hard to stay on track. Here's what I had:

• Breakfast: Oatmeal w/brown sugar, 1 1/2 cups of coffee with my coffee-mate creamer (Decreasing this vice will have to come later. :))
• Lunch: One piece of Tilapia w/lemon-pepper seasoning and mixed veggies with a little bit of olive oil
• Dinner: Ronzoni Smart choice(or something like that) pasta (2.5 times fiber of regular pasta), broccoli, with a bit of olive oil and sprinkled parmesean cheese
• Snacks: piece of cracker barrel cheddar cheese, Chobani yogurt, 2 Clementines, Hot cocoa

I also had one very small piece of chocolate to satisfy my craving after lunch and before I went shopping at the supermarket. Thankfully, John was there to "talk me down" LOL because I really wanted something more originally, but I sipped my water instead.  I was also disappointed when I went to have my Yoplait greek peach yogurt, which I bought to try and it was missing from my fridge. I then realized that my mother had eaten that instead of her own yogurts. :( Guess I will have to start putting my name on my things from now on, especially since I am trying to budget.  Oh, well... On to the next category for the day.

Finance:
So, as you can see above, I did go to the supermarket today so that I could get food for the week. Some things are necessary, even with a goal of not spending money. Ha ha ha. So, I was hoping to spend $50 or less and my total was around $53.00. I bought some chicken so that I could make a crock-pot stew from a recipe book for the Paleo diet, which I just received. (I'll talk about that more in a later post). Anyway, I needed a few ingredients for that including diced tomatoes, butternut squash, and of course the chicken, which I will use for other things as well.  I also had to buy garbage bags, which I buy in a larger package because it is more cost-effective. Overall, I consider this a win for me, considering I don't usually budget my groceries and just buy whatever I feel like and usually on a whim. This trip, I actually went in with a list and pretty much stuck to my list.  No other money spent today other than my 30-cent toll on my way home.  Tomorrow I will have to spend money on gas, but I will try to go to Stewart's on Freeman's bridge road, where it is supposed to be cheaper. :)

Fitness:
I did not make it to boot camp this morning at 5:30 am, because I was not near home and because it was my last vacation day to "sleep in."  That being said, I am committed to staying on track with my fitness goals so I made it a point to go to Best Fitness where I currently have a membership. I did some leg machines and then took a yoga class, which qualifies as my strengthen and stretch on today's half-marathon training schedule. Tomorrow calls for a 3-mile run. I was going to do a group run in Scotia but they changed the location and I am afraid that I will get lost somewhere else.  I will however make it a point to run on my own if necessary.