Sacrifice starts with tofu "pudding"

Today was a good food day. Sucky on the water, but food was pretty good. Quiznos is my new favorite place to eat. The traditional on wheat with red wine vinaigrette instead of ranch. But I think I will change it to turkey on wheat with tomatoes, lettuce, salt, pepper and that vinaigrette dressing. It's the dressing that has me coming back! I seriously want to eat it on everything.

So...my workout today. Run (and walk against the wind) 1 mile, slowly, to warm up for Crossfit. Do the "300" workout: 50 pullups, 50 box jumps, 50 clean and press (with kettlebell), 50 floor wipers (don't ask--but I LOVE them!), 50 ring dips(for god's sake these are EXCRUCIATING!!) and 50 deadlifts. (Took my 19 minutes and I scaled the pull ups).THEN we did the front squat thruster workout, warmup with light weights for 10-5-5-3-3 reps with varying weights. THEN we go into MAX weight for one rep, 5 times. I got up to 95 pounds, but my squat was a little shallow. Pat helped me with my breathing and focusing.......that word makes me laugh....focus? Me?

So then I went to Safeway, got a carb bar (who cares what it is--it's carbs, right? Triathletes eat from four food groups--carbs, protein, fat and "whatever in the F I want if I'm training 10-20 hours a week!". I am not in the last group, unfortunately! Everything I eat still settles on my ass. Oh, and pencils. I was determined to stay on the bike at the gym. So I did sudoku for 37 minutes straight. I kept my heartrate around 134-135, with the occasional sprint thrown in to get the blood flow back to my legs. My ass only went numb towards the end.

I followed the bike up with a 12 min/mile jog for half a mile. Of course stretching is the key to being able to walk after this, so I did lots of it.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS STORY!!! TOFU PUDDING!!!! I'm on a mission to lose 25 pounds that I gained back from when I was a rocking size 4 and I LOVED it!! I love food but dislike cooking. So...I was looking for simple recipes that I could cook so I could stomach healthy food again. I found the zone book, with recipes. One of the recipes was for Creamy Orange Dessert, or something deceiving like that. Unflavored gelatin (you wouldn't believe the protein is this!), fat free plain yogurt, TOFU (gross)--and extra firm (isn't that how we rate boobs?), orange extract and peeled mandarin oranges. Long story short--the "pudding" turned out, is tolerable, and I will eat it in place of OREOS if it means I will drop weight to run, bike and swim faster. The sacrificing has begun--with tofu.

Oh, the most important part of my day--the back doctor!! After getting my SI joint shot up with Cortisone to determine if my SI joint is being a huge pain in the ass, literally, the doctor confirmed tonight that he thinks it's the SI joint. So guess what? MORE FREAKING PT for me. I see my PT more than my husband almost. Good thing she's wonderful!

Good night.