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I will try to keep my eyelids open for a very tired recap of my day!
I knew I would not work out after my first day, so I bravely woke up 45 minutes early for my first day of this new job to run 4 miles on the treadmill in 57 minutes, broken up as follows:
- .25 mile warm-up
- .75 miles at 5 mph
- 4 x 440 at 5.5 mph with 2 min walk between each interval
- 2 x 880 at 5.2 mph, which was going to be 3 x 880 until I messed up and ran an entire mile between the first and second intervals (which is what happens when I am sleeping while running), with some slow walking in-between each interval
- .15 mile cool-down
I made what I thought would be yummy, creamy overnight hot cereal by soaking some gluten-free hot cereal in water in the fridge. Guess what? It didn’t work. Do not try this at home. It was sludgy, sandy, and awful. I will spare you a photo. It’s for your own good. I will be recycling this into tomorrow’s breakfast, forces willing.
So, I ate my backup breakfast: a very basic green monster and .5 cup Leapin Lemurs with almond milk. Since I ate this standing up, while straightening my hair and putting on my shoes, I did not photograph anything.
Work was …fun? I enjoyed meeting all my new teammates and getting my desk set up (though I still have some cleaning to do – my desk was strangely grimy). Ten of us went for lunch, where I had this lovely salad:
Tomatoes, mesclun mix and romaine, blue cheese, candied walnuts, avocado, and a creamy dressing. I ate about half of this (no nuts – I was not in the mood…must have been one of those “sometimes you don’t” days). If I had realized the salad would arrive half-drowned, I would have been one of those prissy girls who orders dressing on the side. Live and learn 
Also, the off-kilter picture was taken covertly while I pretended to text WB…I didn’t want to “come out” as a blogger to my co-workers just yet. Admitting that I’m a vegetarian was tough enough for this crowd!
I was starving and exhausted around 3 when I pulled out this Chia Razz bar. I was really excited to get back on my snack schedule!
Except, wait, I just had an allergic reaction to raspberries a few days ago.
So I brought that bar back home for WB and munched on a small handful of almonds at work to (barely) tide me over until dinner. Somehow, the rest of the day passed and I took the right bus home (a challenge, since I had never taken this bus before).
And why aren’t there photos of dinner, you might ask?
Because no one wants to look at three day-old P. F. Chang’s leftovers. They were tasty, and now they are gone.
I did a brief and exhausted upper body workout while dinner was reheating – flies, tricep extensions, and 21 curls. No abs, because I would never be able to do them the right way right now.
I’m looking forward to tomorrow:
- yoga class
- starting a real project at work (and revealing that I finished something before it was even assigned to me)
- tasty home-cooked lunch
- pretty new dress
and, most importantly, to what lies between now and tomorrow: sleep. Thanks again for hanging with me during this transition! The laughs you’ll get out of my crazy over-planning will be sooo worth it.