I have shin splints! We walked for a whole hour today! Now my right shin hurts. They say you have to ease up on workouts to get rid of shin splints but I don't want to do that right now because I feel like I am on such a roll! With the 60 minutes today, I only owe 10 more minutes for the week, so what I think I will do is do some yoga tomorrow and Saturday. That way I will still be exercising but it will be easier on my leg. It is starting to become more natural, I expect that I am going to exercise at some point during the day. I like that, it definitely feels like a mini-sucess!

I ate pretty good today, too, but we went to see a movie and I did eat popcorn with a little butter and drank a big pop. I think I balanced it out with the rest of my day. I had a granola bar, a banana and a cold meat sandwich (yes, ONE sandwich!) and several bottles of water. Oh, and one mini-size Butterfinger bar. It wasn't the best day as far as diet goes, but it certainly wasn't as bad as it usually is! Of course, right now, It is late at night, I am the only one awake, and I am trying to convince my body that no it does NOT need to eat some ice cream! This is my danger zone period of the day. I wonder why? Before when I spoke about this time of day I mentioned loneliness, and I think that is a really big part of it. I wonder if it is also kind of like a survival instinct thing, like I have to eat that ice cream now because it might be gone tomorrow. Hmm, something to think about.

One thing that I want to work on is making time for positive activities that 1) are enjoyable for me but don't include eating, 2) are incompatible with snacking and keep my hands and mind busy, and 3) can be used as rewards for when I don't give in to temptation. Mostly I am talking about the crafting that I like to do. You can't snack and bead or make cards at the same time! The problem is that every time I clear table space to do crafts everyone else piles their stuff there. So frustrating! I wish I had my own space in this testosterone-saturated house so I could work on a scrapbook without having to move baseball gloves and power tools out of the way first! It comes down to this: when you clear away a bad habit, you have to replace it with a good habit, and right now I don't have a consistent space to do that. I guess I need to be more assertive with my family so they can understand the importance of this to me. Or am I being selfish? I don't think I am.

So here's to doing enough to get shin splints, but hopefully getting over them quickly! Glug, glug!