What's in a Name?

I promised myself that no matter what else happened today I would stick to a topic that had to do with being successful in my new lifestyle. WOW!!! Since I am completely elated about the news of the day this is going to be a hard promise to keep. But I will.

So…I watched that crossover episode of Hawaii 50 and NCIS: Los Angeles last week. I love Hawaii 50! NCIS? Not all that impressed with. What’s that got to do with healthy living? Hold on, it’s coming. The LL Cool J character is getting into the Scott Caan character’s car and asks, “What’s her name?” Dano, being Dano looks at him like he’s nuts and says, “Her name? It’s car.” As the show progresses Sam comes up with a name: Winifred, Winnie for short. So I started thinking, if Sam can name Dano’s car, I can name my elliptical! Great idea huh? Now instead of saying I’m going to go work out on my elliptical, I can say I’m going to go take a ride on…I’ll get to the name. If I don’t feel like exercising and I know I should, it’ll be so much easier to motivate myself to do it! Right?

Well I’ve been toying with a few different ideas. I thought of Bob, because that’s what Kerrie names everything, then I thought of Zanzibar, fans of Terri Farley’s Phantom Stallion books will know why. I had almost decided on Zanzibar but, sorry Terri after the amazing, wonderful, joy filled news today, I knew I had to come up with something that would inspire me to exercise and celebrate this awesome, historic event!

Exercising will be a joy no matter how I’m feeling when I know I’m going to go take a ride on…RAINBOW!

Thank you Mr. President! (hey it’s historic, I can’t just ignore it completely!)

Monday – Exercise – 20 minutes; 1 mile (and I saw it turn to 200 calories burned!)

• Breakfast – An orange, 1 scrambled egg with peppers, onions and avocado (YUM) and 1 cup of iced oolong tea with honey.
• AM Snack – 1/8 of an avocado (it was a pretty big avocado)
• Lunch – rice and fire roasted veggies
• PM Snack – stuffed grape leaf and ½ a ding dong. (3 kids, 2 ding dongs. What was I supposed to do?)  
• Dinner – small salad, rice and veggies and tofu. I discovered something interesting about tofu. I make my own balsamic and oil salad dressing (Pampered Chef, hmmmm yum) I poured a little bit into a pan and cooked the tofu in it. When it was done the tofu had absorbed all the balsamic and garlic and left almost completely clear olive oil in the pan. Pretty cool huh? Makes really yummy tofu too.