This morning I enjoyed an amazing 40 minutes on the treadmill. Normally known as the dreadmill by many, on which time crawls, today was unlike any sweat session I’ve experienced before.

It was efficient, effective, and time flew! 

At first I was intimidated by today’s workout plan calling for a 2 mile warm-up, 6 1 minute “up beats” followed by a 2 min jog in between and a cool down.

I should have done this workout last week but I missed it. Therefore, I’m a week behind on speed training and new it was now or never to jump on the band wagon. I was short on time so chose to focus on the warm up versus the cool down since I don’t want to risk injury. The final numbers weren’t too shabby and I was still able to leave feeling accomplished.

The the great thing about having a plan and sticking to it is that each day there is a prescribed workout and a box I can check.

This great workout also left me craving healthy and delicious foods all day!

This morning’s breakfast was a baked protein infused bowl of oats made with 1/2 cup oats, 3/4 cup water, 1/2 scoop vanilla protein, and a banana.

Lunch was a delicious bowl of soup and salad from Pret! I forgot how much I liked their soup and salads!

Doesn’t this look amazing?

But, the best part of my office food was my afternoon snack!  This was the first truly juicy, delicious peach I’ve bought all summer after 7 fruit stand attempts! Each peach I’ve purchased previously was only half worthy; the rest dry or over ripe.

Last, but not least, I wore my favorite summer dress today! I’ve only worn it a few times this summer but each time I wear it I get more compliments than I can imagine! Even better is the fact that my mom and I found it at the Polo Ralph Lauren outlet on the clearance rack when I was home in April!