WAIW Kale Edition

Happy Wednesday and WAIW. 

 

I managed to get a whole day of eats in pictures...almost, with some of my other favorite meals this week at the end.

Breakfast Smoothie

1/2 cup plain nonfat chobani, 1 banana, 4 frozen strawberries, 1 tbsp PB2, 1 tbsp almond butter, almond milk to get everything moving.

 

Snack:

Almond Flour Muffins! I used this recipe and added some spices, craisins and walnuts. I used egg whites instead of eggs and made them into 6 muffins instead of 4.  I had mine with some pumpkin butter and it was delicious!

 

Lunch:

I've been big on salads lately.  This one was made with spinach, egg whites, black beans, carrots, string beans, avocado and some balsalmic dressing. I also ate half a KIND bar with my lunch.

 

Snack:

unpicuted unsweetened applesauce before my run. easy on the stomach.

 

Run!

5 hot miles!

 

You like my awesome hair??

 

Dinner:

Ham, Sauteed Kale with black beans and some Annie's Mac and Cheese

 

For my late night snack I had some raspberries with cottage cheese and some dark chocolate.

 

I've been loving kale lately and decided to try kale chips last night.  And guess what? Matt actually liked them! I couldn't believe it!

I cooked the kale chips at 350 for 15 minutes and they came out perfectly crispy. I had them with my favorite buffalo pulled chicken. I cook some chicken breasts in the crockpot all day, and then mix it wiht Frank's Red Hotsauce when I get home. Then I made a blue cheese sauce (2 tbsp blue cheese, 3 tbsp plain greek yogurt, 1 tbsp white vinegar) to put on top.

 

Sunday we went out to dinner with my parents for my dad's birthday and the special of the night was seared tuna....umm yes.

This was amazing. I love seared tuna. Whenever I see it on a menu, I order it.

 

 

 

In other news. 2.5 weeks til the big race!!! Let the countdown begin!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



The Missing Sports Bra

My workout today was...interesting. I got to the gym and realized that I forgot a sports bra.  Awesome.  So I had two options. Turn around and go home, or run with my regular bra on.  Regular bra it is!

HOT.  I went with it and finished my five miles in 49.53.  My legs were really sore from my workout on Sunday and my run yesterday.

I ran outside yesterday after work and picked up the pace a bit.

Foodwise, I've been trying to get back on track and trying to eat less sweets. This will always be my weakness, always.  It doesn't help when your birthday is on Friday though.  My fam took me out for dinner last night and surprised me with these:

Yum how could I say no??

My dinner was a turkey burger with steamed veggies.

This burger was giant. I ate it without the top bun and finished about 3/4 of it. It was delicious. Birthdays are definitely for indulging, but today I got back on track.

I whipped up a yummy smoothie for breakfast.

1/2 cup plain nonfat chobani

1 frozen banana

1 scoop almond butter

1 tbsp PB2

lots of cinnamon

almond milk to fill it up!

I think Champ wants some too. 

Lunch was a big salad with a veggie burger on top.

Throughout the day I snacked on lot of fruit and mixed nuts to keep me satisfied.  For dinner I whipped up some chicken fajitas (unpictured...sorry).  I sprad guacamole on mine and cooked peppers and onions to go along with it.

For my snack I had half of a Kashi Brownie with some peanut butter on top

If you haven't tried this I definitely recommend them.  They have very good nutrition stats and are made with sweet potatoes and beans! I also had about a tablespoon of dark chocolate chips.  I will never completely cut out sweets, I just need to learn to limit them a bit or else I start feeling off.  This was a good day of eats and hopefully I can keep on with this even though I have more birthday celebrating coming up!!



Long Time No See

Let's see...where did I leave off??  I actually completed the entire week of my fourth week of training for my half marathong. Last week I had 3, 3, 4, and 8 miles to do.  I was pretty scared to run the 8, but I thought I was ready for the run.  I woke up eraly on Saturday, we are talking like 6:15.  I got to the park by 7 and thought this would help me beat the heat of the impending 90 degree day. Well I guess I was wrong. I felt pretty good the first 5 miles and then I started to crash and burn. I was sweating like wooo and having trouble handling the humidity.  You can really tell from my splits:

Mile 1: 10.27 (warm up)

Mile 2: 9.59

Mile 3: 9.52

Mile 4: 9.1

Mile 5: 9.55

Mile 6: 10.17

Mile 7: 10.11

Mile 8: 10.27 (about to have a nervous breakdown haha)

I have 8 as my long run this week again and am hoping that it goes better than last week.  I took some really awesome pictures of myself after my run, but then Matt and I  went and got new IPHONES!!!! Welcome to 2012

When I got home from my run there was a lot of icing:

A lot of rolling:

My hips were really sore all day and I had issues sitting for long periods of time without getting up to stretch.  My favorite part about the long run was refueling afterwards. Matt and I went to Moe's Southwest Grill to grab a quick dinner before we babysat for our friends.  My meal hit the spot. A giant tofu borrito bowl!!!

AMAZING!!

Sunday I woke up feeling surprisingly good. My hips still hurt a bit, but nothing compared to Saturday.  I did a short strength workout focusing on abs and arms before I ate lunch.  I worked out in my new top from Old Navy.

I love these workout tops! I got two of them on Saturday and am obsessed. So comfy. 

Wow that was a bit of a tangent.  Well....anyways, the rest of the weekend was spent watching the olympics and hanging with friends, and this little man.

He got a flower stuck in his mouth when he was outside and it was cracking me up! Such a cute little man. 

This morning I decided to wake up extra early to get my run out of the way. I got up at 5am to run my quick 3 miles.

It was nice to be able to pick up the pace a bit:

Mile 1: 9.30

Mile 2: 9.27

Mile 3: 9.17

I was so glad that I ran this morning so that I could come home and get some things done around the house.  I did some cleaning, cooking and took champ for a walk.  Just what I needed!



Sweaty Butt 4th of July

Holy hot outside! These past two days have been rediculously hot! I got home from work yesterday and got a quick half hour workout in down in our at home gym aka our basement.  When I was at work I saw this workout online and had to do it:

Complete 3x Through

source

This arm workout was awesome! I woke up this morning with some serious sore tricpes and shoulders.  I didn't want to do any leg work yesterday because I was planning on doing my long run this morning.  I woke up around 7:30am, ate a banana with some peanut butter and headed over to UD campus for my run with Matt.  We both had 5 miles on the menu....and man was it humid.  My first 3 miles were alright, but then the heat was started to get to be too much.  I stopped at miles 2, 3 and 4 to drink water from my sweet water belt.

SOOOO HOTTTT.

I finished my run in 48.25.

Mile 1 (warm up): 9.58

Mile 2: 9.37

Mile 3: 9.31

Mile 4: 9.41

Mile 5: 9.34

When I got home I needed fuel! I ate a greek yogurt with quaker oatmeal squares in it and a protein cookie.

I finally convince Matt to try my yogurt after he realized it had 14g of protein compared to his La Yogurt's 4g.  And....he liked it! I'm going to buy him a couple this week.  Nobody can resist the goodness of greek yogurt! The protein cookies are I made based off of this Peanut Butter and Jelly Protein Cookie Recipe.  They are....alright.  Mine turned out a little dry, so next time I think I might have to add something extra, maybe more jelly. 

After our run we had some friends over for a bbq for the 4th! And yes I'm a nerd and sported my red, white and blue!

And my newly chopped hair. I'm in love with having short hair again!  I will never grow my hair out again....unless I have to get married again hahah. J/k Matt! 

I'm awesome and was so overwhelmed by the people, babies and dogs that I didn't take a single pic except for the above one of me being a nerd in the bathroom.  We did have some good eats though.  My brother and sister in law recently gave me some morningstar veggie burgers to try and I have to say they were really good. I haven't found a strore bought veggie burger that I like until now. I just texted  them to see what flavor they were so I can buy some for myself.  I also snacked on some southwester coleslaw, baked zucchini fries and cheese and crackers.  And of course no 4th of July is complete without drinks!

I found this recipe for a skinny pina colada on Carrots N' Cake.

2 shots Pineapple Juice

2 shots Coconut Water (Vitacoco is my favorite)

1 shot coconut rum

These were so easy and they were a hit!  Everyone left around 4:30 and by that time Matt and I were getting hungry again.  We each whipped up our own dinner of randomness:

Egg white scramble with home grown spinach, chicken sausage and black beans.  Sweet potato wedges and an apple on the side with some almond butter.  PS sweet potatoes and almond butter are really really good together.

This is such a weird week. Back to work tomorrow for 2 days.  I guess I'll take it!