37. Mystery Pumpkins

Somebody left three pumpkins on my porch yesterday. Score! I'm fully intending on eating these bad boys, but I'm not sure I'm ready for roasty toasty fall food yet. I'm still stuck on salads and smoothies (although without the banana the dinner smoothie doesn't work so well). It seems like I might be the only one who's enjoying the fruit dinner, which I definitely am. I really do feel lighter and happier with just the apple, milk and egg. I'm even glad the banana is gone, because it just felt like too much. It's almost like my entire metabolism shifted or something, because before the fruit dinner, the regular dinner was way too much and now sometimes it seems like a struggle to eat my veggie snack at the end of the the day.

So the diet is still good. And even the socializing thing is going well. I'm getting comfortable at ordering soda water at bars and resisting the munchies. I haven't been to a potluck, which might prove to be my downfall, but I did successfully resist donuts, coffee cake, pie, and candy bars at work yesterday and supposedly there were donuts today too. I didn't even bother to go look. Usually I would have told myself that I didn't want/need any of whatever it was and then gone over to check it out anyways and end up walking away with a little something, but I didn't even go over to look. Progress!

Workouts are good, except for the leg exercises, they're killing my knee. Yesterday, the pain after one of the frog jumps was so intense it took my breath away. I gave up after that one and sat for a while to regain my composure and then pressed on. My arms and back are getting so strong. I haven't tried a real pull-up because I don't have a bar yet (fragile old doorframes don't like pull-up bars) but I think (hope) that maybe I'm getting close to being able to do one.