Tonight I got home and poached three chicken breasts. I've never poached chicken before, but it turned out great. Very moist. This was immediately shredded and some of it was put on top of cheese pizza I had in the oven. MMmmm... good stuff. I'll use the rest in chicken salad and possibly chicken tacos/burritos.

I have also started walking to and from work. It's a good 30 minute walk one way, which means if I walk both to and from work, I get an hour's worth of exercise. The people at my job act like this is a horrible thing. "Well, Tsaiko says her commute is walkable..." And it is walkable.The scenery is pleasant, I'm on a trail that's offset from the road, and I pass the grocery store/bank/drug store on the way meaning if I leave work a little I can do some shopping on the way home. They keep telling me to just wait till it's raining, but really, they have an invention called umbrellas for a reason.

With the eating in and exercising, maybe I can actually lose some of the weight I gained why frantically trying to finish my thesis.

I'm up to 40 crunches in my ever other day exercise routine. I'm going to 45 come February.

My abdominal muscles hate me.

I've also started doing weights again, though I decided to go back to my 5lb weights and am currently at 15 reps. I'll increase that monthly or bi-monthly depending on how things go. I'm still working up to my goal of doing 20 reps with the 10lb weights.

Baby steps to getting back into a routine.