The Bodice Challenge Day 2

     Since I want other elements to be incorporated into these next 5 weeks (and beyond) besides diet and exercise, I've decided to rename my personal efforts *The Bodice Challenge* rather than The Bodice *Diet*,  the word diet always conjures images of deprivation for me, and I want my life choices to be about celebration :)
Again, not a bad day. Farmer's Market days are hard because we inevitably come home with delicious baked goods, so rather than completely deprive myself and not have any, I let myself have a reasonable sized portion of them :)

Breakfast: one small cinnamon roll from the Farmer's Market, and one bowl of Rice Chex with Skim Milk
Lunch: MuMu Muesli with plain lowfat yogurt and a bowl of fresh cherries
Dinner: Grilled chicken with boiled salt potatoes(2) and a small slice of butter, salt and pepper, with a side of sugar snap peas sauteed in Extra Virgin Olive Oil with salt, pepper and garlic , with three small slices of fresh Italian bread each with a light swipe of butter
Dessert: A few sips of a failed attempt at a smoothie. The smoothie had Ovaltine, skim milk, ice and fat free caramel yogurt in it. The caramel yogurt gave the smoothie a *chemical* sweet taste, so next time I'll just use plain yogurt.....

The only beverage I consumed today was water.


Exercise: 1. Helped to open the pool today which entailed carrying things up from the basement, dragging things into the backyard from the garage, lifting off the cover and skimming the pool.
 2. Walked to Wegmans, 12 minutes each way, for a total of 24 minutes, with an honorary minute spent walking around the store for 25 minutes :)

Blood Pressure: 124/81, pulse 86 (I didn't find my blood pressure cuff until the evening, but I'll try to record a morning reading tomorrow) 

Creativity: Sitting down with some new food magazines and planning some future food blog posts :)

I'm getting in the swing, excited for tomorrow :)
Love,
Lynn

Bibliophile Challenge, or Ten Minutes, Ten Books :)

Hey There :)
So I was presented with this book-related question/challenge and was unable to resist. It's called  *Ten minutes, Ten Books*. In other words, if you could only keep ten books out of your entire library and only had ten minutes to decide, which ten books would you choose? Sort of a *Desert Island List*, if you will.  Those of you that know me personally know that my book collection is beyond massive. I love my books, and getting me to part with them is like getting me to part with my limbs. However, I do love a challenge :) So, here we go:

Notes: - You get a free pass on books you own but have not read yet (whew!)
           - Anthologies/Collected Works are allowed.
           - You may NOT look at your bookshelf, choose by memory recall ONLY.

10 minutes on the clock aaaaaand GO!!!

1. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

2. Proof by David Auburn

3. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

4. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

5. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

6. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

7. How to be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson

8. The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Allison Weir

9.  Williams-Sonoma Tools and Techniques by the Williams-Sonoma Collective

10. An anthology of the complete Harry Potter series bound into one large volume (I don't know if a such a thing exists yet, but for the sake of the challenge, let's say it does :)

(Note: Right as ten minutes was up, I thought of three children's books that I would add. The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Technically I thought of them after the ten minutes had expired, but only just, and they really are as important to me as the above selections, so you can either include them in the above, making this my "Baker's Dozen List" or consider them a subcategory or the start of another list :)

Wow, so this was both easy and difficult, some were no-brainers, others required thought, or, as much deep thought as you can squeeze into ten minutes. And now, my fellow book lovers, it's your turn, I'm very excited to see what you come up with :)

Love,
Lynn