Hi, ready to start the new year! Well, now I am. Got up later than I should have this morning and so been playing catch up all day. Most likely will not make kettleball class today. So today we'll have to get in a 1/2 hour run with Fells.

On Saturday I made soup; a lot of soup. My slow cooker did a potato, carrot, celery, onion, mushroom, pea, diced tomato, tomato paste, and a bit of dark meat chicken soup. My stew pot on the stove did the same soup except that potato was replaced by while bean and the dark meat chicken was replaced by even less chicken breast meat. I put two cups of the soup(s) into individual containers. Now my small freezer is half full of soup with the other half full of everything else. I probably should have put in more chicken as what I added probably won't even be noticeably in the bowl, but I figure I'll just know to add protein with the soup. During the summer I like to get fresh veggies and eat them raw, especially tomatoes. But during the winter I don't like either the price or the look of most vegetables, so my daily vegetable ration always goes down, except through soups or V8. Commercial soups and V8, however, are very salty, which is not so good for me. This is my attempt to up the amount of vegetables I eat in the winter without upping my sodium at the same time.
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Great thread starter! And Valma I see on my newsfeed you were able to get out for a walk today. Hope that felt okay!

Yesterday was a rest day. I did some low back homework, but otherwise was extra lazy.

Back to work & routine today. I was ready after 5 days of my own company. I have a lot of extra projects to do at work end/beginning of year so the workday flew by.

Did 15 minutes on the AMT when I got to the gym, then worked out with Jason, then did Week 1 / Day 3 of Couch to 5K. Jason had told me he read it wasn't a bad idea to switch up running shoes so I decided I would run in my Karhu trainers today. I didn't have them with me but I had time so I made a quick stop at home to pick them up. Did a couple things while I was here, ran back out the door, got to the gym & realized I did not remember to actually grab the Karhu. I had my new Asics with me so those were fine.

April you can't stay focused 24/7. Well not forever. The longer you can keep yourself focused though, and as you pick out the areas where you can find some balance, the easier it gets.