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Day 3 and Lower Fix day is not my favorite

So this is day 3, and welcome to day 3.  Today was a good day.  I always find when I'm at work it's easier to stay on course with my healthy eating plan.   The day is more structured and I pretty much have 5-6 small meals in the day.   I work 12 hour days from 6 am to 6 pm.   I work in a dispatch centre and we are not allowed to leave the building.  I pretty much only have what I brought to eat.  There are some days when the guys arrange to have have a big meal or a special meal, but since I work with fire fighters they are pretty health conscious most of the time.  I just have to watch my portion sizes.  

Today I am counting as a small victory that fact that one of my co-workers brought in cookies and I didn't have a single one.   Normally I would have had at least 2......or maybe 3, but I would have snuck 2 of them when I thought no one was looking.  Today I managed to stay clear.  Even when the 3 o'clock munchies kicked in.   I had my hard boiled eggs, a big drink of water and I was good.  Yay me!!!!

Work out wise today was Lower Fix aka Leg day.   I am not a fan of leg day.  It was tough, good tough, but tough.  There were a couple of times I had to modify the modifier exercises.   I have discovered that my balance, although pretty good, is not great.   Add to that the fact that every once in a while my right knee gives out, it created a bit of a challenge.   What I did was pull a dining room chair close by, (turned it backwards ) and when I needed to balance I placed my hand gently on the chair back.  I didn't rest heavily on the chair, but it was just enough for me to keep my balance and not crash to the floor.   I still did all the exercises but did not bend as deeply as the girl doing the modified exercises, but I did them as best as I could and finished each rep.  Hopefully in no time I will be able to everything the way the modified exercises are supposed to be done, then on to the full blown exercise.   Even though I had to alter things a bit, I still managed to feel the burning muscle feeling and worked up a sweat.   Yay for me again!

One thing that I have noticed, is that with 3 of us in my house eating healthier, I'm finding it hard to keep the fruits and veggies in the house.   I don't want to buy too many because I don't want it going bad by the end of the week and then going to waste, but I also don't want to be grocery shopping twice a week.  I'm sure I'll get better at is as we go along and will figure things out.  

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