Greetings all!  Today I weighed myself and saw that I am seem to be stuck in a plateau without an end in sight.  I considered my options.  The first option that occurred to me was of course to give up.  Why am I doing this?  I am not willing to eat less than 800 calories daily, because this mission revolves around my health and happiness.  It seems as though this is where my body wants to be…so be it! 

Then I came to my senses and came up with a second alternative.   I need to switch things up in my diet!  So I decided I would turn my diet upside down like an hour glass and hopefully reverse the direction of momentum.  In short, I will have my smoothie in the evening for dinner instead of for breakfast and include a more filling breakfast and lunch.  I think it was a great idea, we will see if it brings results.  It may be hard to tell right away because I am pretty sure tomorrow I am going to eat at a Mexican restaurant as my only meal for the day.   It will probably be about 1,000 calories. 

Additionally, I was able to get a second run in this week so far.  Wednesday was my first run since November, so yesterday and today I was pretty sore.  However, today after my one mile recovery run I treated myself to a wonderful hot bath with Epsom salt.  It really helped with the sore muscles!

I almost don’t want to post my calorie intake today but I vowed to be honest along this journey.  I did not try to cut down like this and I do not condone a diet for an adult less than 800 calories per day.  It was probably because I was busy and also satiated by my large lunch.  Also I did not realize how little calories my breakfast had because it seemed like a lot compared to just a smoothie.  Altogether my calories were about 760 and here they are:

Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snacks
¼ cup oatmeal sweetened with brown sugar on top of a ½ piece of toast with butter	1 large burrito (whole wheat tortilla, about ¾ cup I think of refried beans, tomato, onion, olives, spinach, & hot sauce) ¼ cup green grapes	Smoothie w/ almond milk, ½ T honey, 2 cups spinach, ½ banana & ½ cup blueberries *This time I added some fresh grated ginger to my smoothie. YUM!	None