day 5: housekeeping (lit'rally)

today was rainy and gross, then breathtakingly beautiful, then rainy and gross again. yay weather sampler.

i had plans for the day but actually decided to cancel and spend the day at home cleaning (how matronly am i). i started at 9 and worked until....4:30. with about a ten minute break, maybe. but damn the apartment looks good. also, i calculated what seven hours of "light household cleaning" would burn and it's somewhere around 1,200 calories. not all of the cleaning i did was "light." but i've decided to not add "real," utilitarian exercise into this blog. i want to incorporate it into my life a lot more (which i already will because of the OUTSIDE BEAUTY), but for the sake of calorie counting i sort of just want to count running and maybe substantial bike riding. i think that makes sense, right?

sundays are long run days. my run today wasn't that bad, even after being slightly tired and semi-dehydrated from that cleaning thing, but it wasn't easy. i ran about 4.3 miles, which once upon a time was easy for me, but it's struggle again now. it's always hard to get back in shape. but that's okay, it's totally worth it.

here's another thing i'm wrestling with: should i increase my calorie intake to always be hitting a net of at least 1,200? i'm just going to kind of leave things how they are and see what happens. i feel pretty great, minus this sicky thing. and i am, once again, addicted to reading up on nutrition and calculating calories for my favorite recipes etc. etc. etc. it's nice to be back here again. thanks for being here with me.

food
daily needs:
calories - 1500
protein - 73
fiber - 25 

granola (breakfast and snack) with soymilk: 478c, 10p, 8f
leftover veggie pizza: 320c, 16p, 4f
avocado and tomato sandwich: 544c, 10.75p, 8.5f
three triscuits: 60c, 1.5p, 1.5f
one ounce pepperjack: 110c, 7p, 0f
three tortilla chips: 45c, 0p, 0f

totals: 1557c, 45.25p, 21.5f
need: -57c, 27.25, 3.5f

exercise
running: 40 min. at about 6.5mph = 518c
 
net:  1039