Traveling and staying focused!

Lately, I have been doing a bit of weekend traveling. One weekend in Las Vegas, another long holiday weekend in San Clemente. It gets tough to stay "good" while away from home with many temptations, but I am pretty proud of what I have continued to accomplish!

For my Couch to 5K programs, I still surpassed the total number of training minutes. Week 3 I was to have walked a minimum of 70 minutes, I walked about 240 total minutes. I think that this is actually understated, but we were walking the beach and not truly keeping track of time. Plus...beach walking is INSANE...a much tougher workout than my usual walking!

In Week 4, the total goal minutes were 80, and I clocked in at 270 minutes. Again, I believe slightly understated as the better part of one afternoon in Las Vegas was spent walking up the strip. Granted, there were a few stops in between (wow, O'Shea's is a very, very interesting place...and the Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace provided some distractions!) but over all, it was a lot of walking!

Eating away from home gets tough, but making good choices is getting easier and easier in many restaurants. I tend to stick to proteins, and stay away from bread baskets, pastas and...of course...desserts. Fisherman's in San Clemente tends to have some really good options, you just cannot go wrong with ordering a great salad or fish entree!

While staying at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, we had an AMAZING dinner at China Grill. We chose the chef's tasting menu, and had truly amazing appetizers, salads and entrees that tasted fresh, were perfect portion sizes, and were high on the protein scale, low on the carbs scale! Now...I cannot say that the Lobster Mashed Potatoes totally fit that bill, however, I let my fiance dig into those while I just had more of the Kobe Beef!

This week starts some of the jogging, and I have to say that I am really excited about that. I tend to lose weight very quickly once I pick up the pace, so I am looking forward to seeing some serious results this month! I think it will be about time to update with some progress photos, so I would love to get a week or two of some jogging in before those pics are taken!!!