My husband and I spent almost 6 hours at the mall yesterday! 
It’s not even like we bought a lot of stuff, but it takes quite a bit of time walking around, carrying bags and most of all: standing in line checking out. OMG, every checkout counter seemed to take 15-20 minutes with only 1 or 2 people ahead of us. By the time they scan every item, take the little security tags off, and blah blah blah. *sigh*
I burned almost an entire pound worth of calories and took thousands and thousands of steps. I don’t know how long my stride is, but going by 10,000 steps = 5 miles; we walked nearly 10 miles total, including our walk in the morning before we went out.
My BodyBugg results for 8/30/08:
Went to sleep at 9:30PM
BodyBugg reset at 12:00AM
Woke up at 7:30AM
10:40AM: 1347 calories burned
2:18PM: 1710 calories burned
10:39PM: 3323 calories burned
End of day: 3462 calories burned
I ate horribly and still broke even lol. I had a cheeseburger, Starbucks iced vanilla latte, half of an espresso brownie from Starbucks, pizza, soda, part of an ICEE, and… I don’t even know what else! LOL We were soooooo tired when we got home that my mother unloaded the car for us. Now, if I could just burn that many calories everyday for the rest of my life. hahaha Nice dream. 
Anyway, cardio isn’t really where it’s at. Walking is great for you but strength training is what keeps us young and our metabolism stoked. I have heard several great reviews of this book on forums lately, so I just had to get a copy:
I hear it’s a good read. Can’t wait to delve into it! Obviously I’m not going to follow the “diet” part of it, but I love learning new things, especially in relation to diet, health and fitness. I’ll post my review when I finish it — time willing! 
On Friday I got my delivery from my favorite low-sodium online store: http://www.healthyheartmarket.com
Lindsay low-sodium black olives: 5 calories each, 40mg sodium for 5 of them
Mr. Spice Indian Curry sauce: 15 cal per TBSP, 0mg sodium
Mr. Spice Sweet and Sour sauce: 45 cal for 2 TBSP, 0mg sodium
Eden organic brown rice & beans: 110 cal per ½ cup serving, 135mg sodium
Ener-G sodium free baking soda: 0mg sodium, 0mg potassium, 0 calories
I’m excited to try the sodium free baking soda in baked goods! I’ve tried several Mr. Spice sauces and dressings and they are all fabulous, so I”m really looking forward to trying to curry sauce. Yay!
At the other mall we went to a Chinese store and on the opposite end was a Japenese store. In the Chinese store I picked up this adorable tea set:
I love, love, LOVE teapots and tea sets!!! I sing “I’m a little teapot” pretty well, too! LOL I loooooooved the Japanese store; they were having a “buy one, get one free” for everything in the store, so the girl there let me mix and match similar priced items. So, I got more tea sets and a Sake set:
They had SO MUCH ‘Hello Kitty’ stuff in there, I made out like a bandit! I got a HUGE shopping bag full of stuff for just $77 bucks, including sales tax. That place was awesome, I can’t wait to go back! 
I haven’t cooked anything in 2 days or so, but it’s still our holiday off from everything. I’m staying active and look forward to getting back to “normal” on Thursday. We have plans everyday this week; lunch with my cousin as a Greek restaurant on Monday, miscellaneous appointments and errands on Tuesday, and then we’re going to White Plains (Whole Foods) on Wednesday. Thankfully we finally finished up the last of our business at the DMV thanks to 2 very helpful employees that are hard to come by. I guess my husband and I are just too pathetic and needy to not help sometimes LOL. We even had to get the help of the state trooper on duty to come out to the parking lot with us to verify the VIN# on our Jeep. We were there for 3 hours straight! What a nightmare, but thank the powers that be that it’s over. *huge sigh of relief*
We’re going out shopping again right now, so I’ll probably do an update later today. We took a walk earlier this morning and our town looks like a ghost town already!! YIPPY!!!! lol 
Well, off to get a new graphics card and curtains. It’s harder than it sounds, I swear!
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