Happy Birthday to Me!

Today I am officially 47, but the cool part, I don't feel it. Even though I have really just started my workouts to make a healthier me, I am already seeing the benefits.

1. More energy - About 3 or 4 in the afternoon I would just get very tired and want to take a nap or even want to nap after eating dinner.

2. Being able to breath - OK, most of you might think that is an odd thing to say, but since 2006 I was diagnosed with asthma after spending 5 days in the hospital. Since then I have been on asthma medicine 24/7/365. Over the past month I have stopped taking my daily medicine and have only had to use my fast acting inhaler 6 times over 3 days when the air quality got really bad here.

3. Sleeping better - Since I changed my workout time from the middle of the day to after dinner I have been getting a solid night of sleep without waking up several times or waking up feeling exhausted.

Last night my hubby had a Knights of Columbus meeting so we didn't do the salmon for dinner, I will make that tonight. So I had some leftover homemade pasta sauce and some capellini (like angel hair). It was very good and I didn't eat my after dinner cereal.

Today, my hubby splurged (probably not a good thing, but since we won't be eating brithday cake...) and bought donuts this morning from The Jelly Donut. I had my favorite a cake donut with maple frosting and nuts (been eating these since high school!) and a buttermilk donut. This afternoon we will go out for lunch to celebrate rather than dinner for sushi at a new restaurant called Suisha House over in Koll Center, for those of you that live in Pleasanton. We went there last month for Sara's graduation dinner and it was really good.

Don't know what else we will do today other than watch the fireworks at the Alameda County Fair tonight. It will be the first time in 11 years that the fireworks are being done even close to the 4th as there was a shooting in 1998 that stopped the fireworks from being displayed here. Since then the fireworks display was done on the opening day of the fair. I haven't seen fireworks on my birthday since I had sparklers on my cake for I think my 10th birthday! LOL

I will be working out tonight, just because it is my birthday doesn't mean I get to stop working out!

“I have the strength for everything through him who empowers me.”
~Phil 4:13