balls to the wall

I mentioned before that I hate strength training. And I do. But I know I should do it, because muscles are awesome. Today I switched to a different set of exercises that all involve a stablity ball. I love my stability ball. Okay, I wish it was a different color (it's boring and white), but it's the right size (55 cm, I think - I'm only 5' tall so the standard 65cm is too big) and it makes ab exercises much less painful. When I do them on the ground it hurts my back and I tend to strain my neck a lot, but on the ball? No problems. Actually, I'd go so far as to say that every exercise is better with a ball, at least for me. Plus they're super fun to just roll around on.

So stability balls = awesome. If you don't have one, get one.

As far as eating goes, I haven't had much yet today. I went to bed late and woke up even later, despite setting alarms all over the place. So at 6 pm my grand total for the day is a few grapes, a rice cake, and a bowl of black bean soup with a piece of whole-grain bread from Panera. I'll probably have whole-wheat pasta with broccoli and peanut sauce for dinner in a while, and then much later I'm supposed to go out for drinks with some friends. I'm going to show some restraint this time, though. I'm not up for a booze-fueled repeat of As The World Turns.