This will be a long one!
Reading healthy living blogs changed saved my life. I started to not only eat healthier but to actually enjoy doing so. I’ve always been a fan of nutrition and exercise but always saw it as an obligation. The blogs of the women I follow are so inspiring and honest. I will be giving them credit throughout this first post. I may leave some out only to mention them in the future. I started the Couch to 5K program because of Melissa and Jen. Jen started a program called Motivational Mentors. She paired me with Melissa who did the C25K and encouraged me to do it as well. I’ve completed my first week! I know I would never have been able to do so without the inspirational blogs that I am so loyal to. I used Caitlin’s mantra to get me through the first day, “Pain is temporary, quitting is forever.”
So here is a recap of my weekend eats:
Friday night when I got home from work I made a salad and heated up some soup:
Arugula from a local farm, red onion, yellow bell pepper, goat gouda, flax oil and rice vinegar.
LOVE this roasted red pepper tomato soup from Pacific. Would prefer the low sodium one but Costco offers a 6 pack of this stuff for super cheap.
Then I cuddled with my kitty, Jake. She’s a girl but the original owners thought she was a boy.
Saturday morning I had a two-part breakfast. First I had some cereal with ground flax added on top:
The cereal has whole flax seeds in it but I found out after I bought it that you only get the benefit of flax if it is ground. I wonder how Nu Val (Tina’s employer) would rate this cereal. Hmmmm.
Second part of breakfast:
I had a two-egg omelet with arugula, goat gouda, peppadews and red onion. I had a date for dessert. The Medjool dates from Costco rock!
Then I went for a wog.
That’s a walk/jog. I’m training for a 5K and just finished week 1 of the Couch to 5k. During the first week you jog for 1 min and walk for 1.5. Repeat for 20 minutes. The weather was gorgeous and my neighborhood is great for outdoor exercise. I will be taking advantage of that fact as much as possible. I don’t mind the gym. It’s just a pain to keep changing the speed on the treadmill. I think I’m going to save the program to my jump drive and see how that works.
Post workout I had almond butter on toast and a kombucha:
I took a shower and went to the store to get groceries for Saturday and Sunday night dinners. Saturday night I made a recipe I found in the November 2009 issue of Women’s Health.
It turned out amazing! I didn’t do the beans or tortillas though.
We also had some vino:
Dessert was a couple of squares of this:
So unbelievably delicious. That’s mango & cayenne. I got it at a Lindt outlet. I haven’t see any of these HOT flavors in the stores.
Sunday morning I had an inside-out omelet with almond butter toast:
I threw some arugula (the last of the locally grown stuff –will have to go back to the Geneva Green Market for some more!), red onion, asiago chunks and peppidews in a mini food processor then put it on the raw side of the eggs. I flipped it, cooked it for 30 seconds then flipped back the topping side. So pretty!
It’s been a very lazy day. I did laundry, caught up on the DVR, taught myself how to blog (LOVE Windows Live Writer-shout out to Kath), watched some football and a Mad Max marathon and put together this:
It’s an original Fitnessista recipe! It was soooo good! The key is to squirt lime juice on it after you put some in a bowl. We threw some shrimp in it as well. I just put the cooked shrimp in the bottom of the bowl before adding the Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili. You can find the recipe here. Thanks, Gina! We loved it!
Afternoon snacks (didn’t really have a lunch):
Amazing Grass with some OJ (Jenna would be proud), apple with cheddar, and frozen yogurt.
So now we’re just watching the Bears and relaxing. It’s been such a hard day. 