Cleaning Out

Happy almost Friday! I went missing again yesterday, huh? Once dinner was done I got into my book out on the porch and before I knew it SYTYCD was on. That happens, no? Something I wanted to mention was that I decided last Friday to skip my usual grocery run because after looking into the freezer and pantry I realized that we have a lot of food to use. All I bought was fresh produce at the market on Saturday. So, you might see some odd combinations popping up in the next few posts! Moving on…

Yesterday, breakfast started out looking like this:

But turned into this!

I just could NOT get into those overnight oats. Not sure what I did wrong, but they tasted like ass. After a few bites I’d had enough and went for a bowl of Nature’s Path optimum cranberry ginger cereal with a sprinkle of All Bran buds. Much, much better!

Morning snack was one of 4 bars sent to me for review:

I’ll do a full review once I eat all 4, but let’s just say that we’re off to a very good start!

I hopped on the treadmill for a sweaty incline walk at lunch. I bumped the incline to 8% and the speed to 4.2mph.

• Time: 35 minutes
• Avg Hr: 162
• Max Hr: 178
• Calories Torched: 358
• Distance: 2.5 miles

Lunch was a great salad with red leaf lettuce (from my garden), fresh peas, tomatoes, leftover steamed veggies, feta and roasted red pepper dressing!

Later on I broke into my fruit which was 2 plums, sliced strawberries and grapes:

Unfortunately for me, the only tasty fruit in there was the grapes! The rest was a little too far gone. I made it up to my belly with some almonds!

Dinner was fab! I made some chicken burgers with lean ground chicken breast, scallions, nooch, and some other seasonings. My hubby grilled them on the BBQ along with some zuke’s from my parents garden. On my burger thin was hummus, a LC cheese wedge, pickles, roasted red pepper and lettuce.

Dessert was the last vegan cookie; a triple chocolate one to boot!

Entering reading, taking KC for a 45 minute walk, SYTYCD and bed. Ahhh….

After my 6:30am wake up call and a shower, I set out to make myself some pancakes. It’s my go-to Hungry Girl recipe that I jazzed up with a packet of Amazing Grass powder:

This turned my flap jacks green!

Those are pecans pieces and blueberries that were tossed in the hot pan with some coconut butter. I also drizzled some agave on top.

A great way to start my day! I noshed on a dark chocolate coconut Kashi bar before the gym,

I brought my laptop to shred again and had one of the ladies from Tuesday join in. The other was off today, but my gym/payroll buddy decided to do it so there was 3 of us again! Gym buddy thought it was a great workout, I think she was pretty skeptical at first. Having some people do the disc with me is seriously motivating. I just love the company! :)

• Time: 30 minutes
• Avg Hr: 141
• Max Hr: 174
• Calories Torched: 230

Lunch was somewhat different for me lately, but awesome none the less! I brought an Ezekiel muffin and spread one side with PB and honey, the other with cream cheese and blueberry jam:

This was the perfect meal to accompany the work I had to do this aft which required me to be pretty hands on. I also ate a mix of grape tomatoes and cherries later on.

Dinner turned out fabulous considering I had NO idea what I was gonna make when I got home! I forgot to pull something out of the freezer this morning so I had to wing it. I went with a shrimp and chicken stir fry that used the last of my scallions, celery and carrots, not to mention the shrimp! I added a tbsp of hot sauce and stir fry sauce that I I saved and froze from our last Chinese take out meal. Some brown rice served as the base.

For being random, this ROCKED! There’s none left so I guess everyone liked it. Nice. I ate 2 Skinny Cow fudgecicles for dessert but didn’t take a picture. There was also some random kettle corn snacking that escaped the camera!

We just got back from soccer about a 1/2 hour ago and it just started to pour. We’re under another thunderstorm warning and my satellite is currently going on the fritz. Bummer! I hope I can still tune into the SYTYCD elimination show in 10!!!

Bye for now!