June 15, 2010 at 7:55 pm | Posted in Dinner, Lunch, Workouts | Leave a comment
Tags: Salad, Tea
Waking up at 4 am to go to the airport is never fun. It is especially difficult when you haven’t had any coffee!! After dropping Kevin off at the airport I had to made a drive all the way up to Greeley for work today. I almost fell asleep like 10 times driving there! So dangerous! As I was driving, I was searching for a small commercial area that would sell coffee. I knew I was addicted as I was slightly crazy driving around trying to spot signs of the a nice hot cup. Finally there was a Starbucks sign!! After searching for several miles (I was already late) I gave up and went into a gas station for a cup. Clearly a 14 oz hot coffee wasn’t going to be enough so I grabbed a cold Frapuccino Starbucks drink from the cold section and literally chugged the bottle!
Sick, I know. Also on the ride, I had a Special K protein bar, an apple, and a plum. Mid morning I had my first lunch of a PBJ on a sandwich thin. Yes, I was craving coffee already, but I held back.
My second lunch was a massive salad!
Honestly, I had a second bowl of this with dinner along with a ton of tuna salad and a bowl of carrot ginger soup. I was so starved I ate it all before taking any pics. You can blame Brooke for the insane hunger. She took me to a Bar Method class tonight. It was amazing! Extremely hard and it completely fatigued my muscles to the point of shaking. After you workout a muscle, you stretch it out. Lessons learned today: need to lift more or tone more and need to stretch more (and a lesson revisited- there is a thing as too much spandex!!) We ran into whole foods, grabbed dinners, and raced home to inhale. 
I’ve stuffed myself silly and about to start doing some more stinky work while sipping some tea. It’s a berry zinger by Celestial Seasonings. We still have tons of boxes.
Oh yea, I made a bowl of tabouleh again today. This was a new mix (pretty standard) and I added 1 large chopped tomato to it along w/ some olive oil. How can you resist eating something just after you’ve made it?! I certainly can’t. Um, my other confession is that I made an iced coffee this afternoon and had it with 3 squares of chocolate w/ almonds and sea salt. 
A Healthy Start
June 14, 2010 at 11:39 pm | Posted in Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Workouts | Leave a commentTags: Blueberries, Granola, Salad, Tea
Kodiak Cakes were on the menu for breakfast today! Yesterday, Joel found this box at the grocery store and I was soo excited to try them. I’ve heard many good things in the blog world about this mix so I had to make them right away! The mix is whole wheat, oat and honey. I had about 1/3 cup of the mix which made two pancakes at 130 cals, 4 grams fiber, and 7 grams of protein. I covered mine in Justin’s peanut butter and dipped them in blueberry syrup.
1 cup mix + 1 cup water + extra cinnamon!
Kevin’s had blueberry pancakes with blueberry syrup.
I would say 2/3 of these blueberries got added to the 2/3 of batter Kev got. He says that pancake batter is just a carrier for blueberries.
Lunch was leftover salad from last night with baby carrots added, an apple, a packet of Justin’s organic peanut butter, and when I got home a bowl of vanilla yogurt with granola and sliced almonds.
I’m about to get into some more work and have a cup of tea. Today’s tea choice is Celestial Seasoning’s Honey Lemon Ginseng Green Tea. Just read the box and found out their boxes are made with 100% recycled paper, the teas are 100% natural, and CS has been working to establish sustainable harvests and fair wages (for 30 years!!) soooooo I’m feeling extra good about my cup of tea this afternoon.
My legs and abs are burning today! The lunges, crunches, and plank really really tired me out! Early evening time, I went on a bike ride from my house all the way up to 9th St. which is really far! It was about an hour round trip. The hill was killer on the legs and the lungs. I need a bike of my own…borrowing one is great, but I need to get on that. Who lives in Boulder without a bike!?
Dinner was super boring- leftover spaghetti and garlic toast. During kickball I had a beerskie and maybe a mozz stick or two or three after….. Um, so we won our game! We are officially the winners of the bottom half! Wooooo!!!!
Crazy Times
April 25, 2010 at 1:08 pm | Posted in Lunch, Workouts | Leave a commentTags: Granola, Smoothie, Spinach, Tea
Ok, so the flood has finally stopped! A few days ago I was so excited to have rain to fall asleep to. I’ve changed my mind. After hours of sweeping out water, trying to dry things out (fans going nonstop for 30 hours- not looking forward to the energy bill next month), and cleaning up, I am exhausted!
Here’s a peak into the disaster area:
As soon as the water started to go down in the sump pump, I headed out on a hike! We stopped at Rush and grabbed a acai smoothie and another bowl. SO GOOD! The bowls are the equivalent of a meal. The thick smoothies are topped with hemp granola and a bit of honey. The only thing in the smoothies are fruit juices and fruit. You can buy some with other things like soy or dairy, but I wanted one with mostly fruit. I love that everything they use is all natural or organic. I was absolutely starved and these hit the spot and gave me enough energy to hike up Mt. Sanitas.
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Today I had an outdoor soccer game at 11 (went on an empty stomach). By the time I got home, I was so hungry, anything would have tasted amazing. I decided on a pizza! A week or so ago I bought an herb crust from the store and it def needed to be used.
Step 1- Add pizza sauce to the crust (I just used a marinara sauce I had on hand)
Step 2- layer on chopped spinach (this is from the local farmer’s market and is the best spinach ever!)
Step 3- Add slices of fresh mozzarella and thinly sliced yellow bell peppers
Step 4- Top with a sprinkling of garlic and Italian herbs (oregano and basil type herbs)
Step 5- Bake at 425 for about 10 min until ooey and gooey
Step 6- Pray that this stays down in soccer game #2 that starts at 3! :)
I had this with a cup of tea that my dad sent me in a care package a few months ago.
CHECK OUT THE PLANTS! THEY ARE GETTING SOOO BIG!
The only ones that haven’t grown yet are the peppers. Maybe those are harder to grow or take longer to start coming up. Ah well. I love that these are getting bigger every day! It’s fun to come home and check in on them.
Ok, time to get ready for the second game! Thankfully this one is indoor and is only 45 min total.
Thirds
April 20, 2010 at 5:51 am | Posted in Breakfast | Leave a commentTags: Flax, Oatmeal, Tea
Good Morning! I finally have a day with enough time for oatmeal! This is probably one of the best bowls of oatmeal I have ever made! This bowl was made with 1/3 cup organic oats, 1/3 cup water, 1/3 cup organic 1% milk, 1/3 fuji apple, 1/3 T flax seeds, 1/3 T brown sugar, 2/3 T Justin’s Organic Peanut Butter, and tons of Savory’s Cinnamon!
YUM!
Alongside another cup of Cranberry Apple Zinger by Celestial Seasonings.
This was right before the PB melted.
Last night my quads were a little tight so right before bed I stretched and stuff. I was kind of excited to wake up and actually be sore (I know, sick) but I’m not! Not sure if it was the stretching or maybe I still didn’t push myself hard enough at spin. Regardless, a great class! Have a Happy T.Tuesday!
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