41 days...

Time is ticking away...41 days until the Chicago Half Marathon!

Training is slow, but I'm working on it. I'm still babying this ol' knee of mine, but I will make it. 

I decided to do a bake sale to help boost my fundraising efforts. Of course, due to the nature of the cookies, I had to limit it to my local area only. To date, I have made 6 dozen chocolate chip cookies and 3 dozen cinnamon raisin cookies. A quick shout out to those who have supported my bake sale: Julie, Kim, Kimmie, Juan, Candace, and Enid! Thank you so much! If you're wondering what kind of cookies, they are based on the Giant Vanilla Bean Chocolate Chunk Cookie by paleOMG.com. I use Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips instead of the chunks in the chocolate chip cookies. For the cinnamon raisin, I use almond butter instead of sunflower seed butter, raisins instead of chocolate chips and add a little extra cinnamon. I like to think of it as a pseudo-oatmeal raisin cookie.

In case any of my local peeps are reading this, you have until August 3rd to request cookies...

In other news, I managed to go to Texas Roadhouse and not eat one of their rolls that they bring out when they sit you at the table. Gasp! I know, I don't know how I did it either. I had just had a cheat meal two nights earlier, so I guess the bread craving just wasn't there. At any rate, I was very pleased with myself. It was probably due to the fact I was explaining my eating habits to my friend that I was having dinner with, as I had yet to eat a meal with said friend. You can't really say "I eat Paleo" and then pick up a grain based roll and slather it with cinnamon sugar butter, can you? I try to eat clean/Paleo, whatever you want to call it, 80-90% of the time, but once a week I still feel I need a treat. If I allow myself more than one treat/cheat meal a week, I fall off the wagon and it is ugly. I have such a love-hate relationship with food. One day at a time... Wondering what I did eat for dinner? I had the 6 oz sirloin-medium rare, with steamed vegetables and a plain sweet potato. YUM!

Also, special thanks to my friends and family for your generous contributions! Hugs and love to you all!

Before I really start rambling about nothing, I will close for today. Thanks for reading!