Friday's Food Journal
Breakfast: Kashi Go Lean Crunch with frozen blueberries and almond milk. Coffee with Cinnabon creamer (so good!)
Lunch: 1 piece of homemade poppy seed bread, a handful of blackberries, and we took our soon-to-be FITT-RX staff out for lunch to get to know each other. What a great crew! I enjoyed a chopped chicken cobb salad and ice tea.
Dinner: 1 piece of Wonder Smart White bread topped with sloppy joe's. This was a bit of a free for all at our house, so with that sloppy joe, I had a few handfuls of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Dinner of champions for sure! Not my most proud-of dinner:)
Evening snack: Leine's summer shandy and some popcorn
Exercise:
I did not get my long run in this weekend. I sent my hubby off to the studio to install his amazing custom-made desk. Him, and my partner's husband, or as we like to call them our Chief Marketing Officers, did an amazing job getting it all together. Wow, I can't wait to work behind it! Anyway, because of that, I was carting children off to several sporting events. The following day, we again drove to a sporting event and I got to load up my car with about 900 lbs. of equipment. If you see a SUV looking like it's ass is sagging, it's me:) Tomorrow, it'll all be delivered!!!!!
OK, back to exercise. I polished off 8 miles lickety split. Seriously, these runs have been amazing this time around. I truly owe it to HIIT Training and Tabatas. Wow! My endurance levels have soared and I'm so happy about that.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
I BECAME A CHEATER!
Back to some journaling. Thank goodness I enjoyed it, otherwise, I'd be in deep doodoo. Wait...I was in deep doodoo this morning. First poopy toilet overflow all over the bathroom floor. Nice. And no, I won't share who the culprit was.
Let me just start off by saying, I've kept MOST of my habits intact since I stopped blogging to the world my list of foods consumed. No diet coke (many, many, many countless thanks to Dr. Kelly at Tree of Life!), artificial sweetener, and food scheduling. However...what I have started doing again is snacking while making dinner around 5:00pm. So, no more! Oh yeah, I've also started sneaking in chocolate and some sugary foods a few times too. I blame the Easter Bunny.
Saturday, April 21st
I woke up at 6am to get my run in for the day. I signed up for the Chicago Women's Half-Marathon on June 24th. This is my 3rd week of training, and I am enjoying the runs. It's been since November since I ran my last half in Savannah, GA, so getting back to a running routine has been nice. Ran 8 miles.
Breakfast:
After I returned from my run, I consumed a bowl of Special K Red Berries Cereal with a banana, frozen wild blueberries, and almond milk. Big surprise! I had a 12oz. mug of a Chai Latte to top off my breakfast.
Lunch:
GREEN MONSTER!
Snack:
Lemon Bar Larabar - yums!
Dinner:
Yes, this is where I become a CHEATER! While the turkey burgers are on the grill and sweet potato fries are baking, I consume Simply Naked Pita Chips topped with Classic Olive Muffalata both from Costco. Sidebar: Today I checked out the grade these chips get on my fooducate app. and they received a D+. Tossed the rest of the bag in the garbage. Kept the Muffalata though. There's a lot of uses for that stuff. It's good!
OK, dinner: Turkey burger on a bun, sweet potato fries, spinach salad topped with sweet peppers and creamy balsamic dressing.
I went to a concert this evening and while there, I drank 2-10oz glasses of Miller Lite. There's no way those glasses were more than 10oz. and at $7 a pop! Seriously?
Evening Snack: When I got home from the concert, I had a Mini Babybell Light cheese round. These are really good, and they're the light variety. Sometimes, light cheese tastes funky. These don't. I buy them at Costco.
It's good to be back! Studio's coming along very well, and today I wrote my last Elmhurst Boot Camp newsletter. Looking forward to trudging along to things I love...
Let me just start off by saying, I've kept MOST of my habits intact since I stopped blogging to the world my list of foods consumed. No diet coke (many, many, many countless thanks to Dr. Kelly at Tree of Life!), artificial sweetener, and food scheduling. However...what I have started doing again is snacking while making dinner around 5:00pm. So, no more! Oh yeah, I've also started sneaking in chocolate and some sugary foods a few times too. I blame the Easter Bunny.
Saturday, April 21st
I woke up at 6am to get my run in for the day. I signed up for the Chicago Women's Half-Marathon on June 24th. This is my 3rd week of training, and I am enjoying the runs. It's been since November since I ran my last half in Savannah, GA, so getting back to a running routine has been nice. Ran 8 miles.
Breakfast:
After I returned from my run, I consumed a bowl of Special K Red Berries Cereal with a banana, frozen wild blueberries, and almond milk. Big surprise! I had a 12oz. mug of a Chai Latte to top off my breakfast.
Lunch:
GREEN MONSTER!
Snack:
Lemon Bar Larabar - yums!
Dinner:
Yes, this is where I become a CHEATER! While the turkey burgers are on the grill and sweet potato fries are baking, I consume Simply Naked Pita Chips topped with Classic Olive Muffalata both from Costco. Sidebar: Today I checked out the grade these chips get on my fooducate app. and they received a D+. Tossed the rest of the bag in the garbage. Kept the Muffalata though. There's a lot of uses for that stuff. It's good!
OK, dinner: Turkey burger on a bun, sweet potato fries, spinach salad topped with sweet peppers and creamy balsamic dressing.
I went to a concert this evening and while there, I drank 2-10oz glasses of Miller Lite. There's no way those glasses were more than 10oz. and at $7 a pop! Seriously?
Evening Snack: When I got home from the concert, I had a Mini Babybell Light cheese round. These are really good, and they're the light variety. Sometimes, light cheese tastes funky. These don't. I buy them at Costco.
It's good to be back! Studio's coming along very well, and today I wrote my last Elmhurst Boot Camp newsletter. Looking forward to trudging along to things I love...
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Is it going to easy? Maybe not. Worth it? Absoflippinlutely!
Last week, I was on the treadmill at the gym watching the highlights of the Master's tournament. Bubba Watson was being interviewed, and I couldn't help but bring a tear to my eye. Seriously, this guy is awesome! Winning the Master's is a dream come true to many young golfers all over the world, and his emotional interviews encompassed what this truly meant to him.
Hours on the driving range. Hours on the putting green. Hours on the course. All added up to reaching his lifelong dream.
So, I put this into perspective for me. I run. I don't LOVE running, but I LOVE reaching goals. A couple times a year, I make a goal to run 2 half marathons. I enjoy the training, but NOTHING compares to crossing that finish line after weeks of long, hard work. Think about it...why train for something if it was easy. It's not...at least for me. And then I think about a quote I came across on Pinterest. It read...
GOALS - He had goals.
Hours on the driving range. Hours on the putting green. Hours on the course. All added up to reaching his lifelong dream.
So, I put this into perspective for me. I run. I don't LOVE running, but I LOVE reaching goals. A couple times a year, I make a goal to run 2 half marathons. I enjoy the training, but NOTHING compares to crossing that finish line after weeks of long, hard work. Think about it...why train for something if it was easy. It's not...at least for me. And then I think about a quote I came across on Pinterest. It read...
"I'm not telling you it's going to be easy. I'm telling you it's going to be worth it."
This is my go-to quote for those I work with. I'm there for them 110%. I'll help them reach their goals. BUT - I'll tell ya, you have to work for what you get. You work hard, and I guarantee, the prize in the end will all be worth it!
Go, BUBBA! Thanks for showing the world whatcha got! You definitely inspired this girl!
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Large Reeses' Peanut Butter Eggs are in da house!!!!
Tomorrow starts a new day. After a fabulous Easter weekend with my family, I get to jump right back into my mindful eating bandwagon. Ham, potatoes, corn, appetizers (yep, I was full before dinner!), Summer Shandy, wine, apple pie, cherry pie, my mom's amazingly decorated sugar cookies, and yes, my mom's amazing cinnamon rolls with her scrumptious frosting, Whoppers Easter eggs, salads, marinated cucumbers (to die for!), beef sandwiches, chips, french onion dip, and an accidental sip of my husband's diet coke! I thought it was my ice tea. Blech!!!
Not to mention my children's eyes when they saw that Easter morning arrived along with Roller Blades, chocolate, coloring books, crayons, etc... And yes, the Easter Bunny should've brought things he didn't like, however, he brought things he LOVED! How long are those large Reeses' Peanut Butter Eggs going to stay in the package? Will power is going to prevail...I hope:)
Like I said, tomorrow starts a new day. That sentence is HUGE! Just because someone has a bad day, week, month, year, doesn't mean that they can't jump back into healthy, mindful eating again.
Week 2 of half-marathon training starts tomorrow! What's your week 2 going to look like?
Not to mention my children's eyes when they saw that Easter morning arrived along with Roller Blades, chocolate, coloring books, crayons, etc... And yes, the Easter Bunny should've brought things he didn't like, however, he brought things he LOVED! How long are those large Reeses' Peanut Butter Eggs going to stay in the package? Will power is going to prevail...I hope:)
Like I said, tomorrow starts a new day. That sentence is HUGE! Just because someone has a bad day, week, month, year, doesn't mean that they can't jump back into healthy, mindful eating again.
Week 2 of half-marathon training starts tomorrow! What's your week 2 going to look like?
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