Fitness, Food and Fun in Our Forties
This morning I whipped up a delicious smoothie.
I made it a bit different than normal because I am out of my fav Amazing Grass.
I used Tempt Hemp Milk, Living Harvest Hemp Protein, Trader Joe’s organic cocoa powder, almond butter, frozen berries, and POM juice:
It was so good!
Delicious!
I am looking forward to making one tomorrow morning for Smoothie Friday!
This Sunday, I am doing an 8K trail race 
The last 10K I did I relived my breakfast the whole time I was running. It was not very pleasant.
This morning I decided to try out a new breakfast in hopes that it would not upset my stomach like before.
Instead of cereal or oatmeal I decided to give these a shot:
I toasted a bagel up and put almond butter, 1/2 banana, and some honey on it:
Two hours later I headed out on a 4 mile run.
My experiment was succesful! I had no stomach distress, did not feel hungry or full. It seemed to work just fine.
After my run, I made up a green monster with rice milk, spinach, banana, and frozen berries. It was so refreshing!
A few hours later, I met Debby and Ruth for lunch.
Ruth and Debby
Teachers love to go to lunch when we are off because we can never take an appropriate lunch when we are working.
We sat outside and enjoyed the gorgeous weather we are having. It was so much fun and relaxing.
We started with some drinks:
Chardonnay for Debby and I, soda for Ruth
Then shared some sweet potato fries:
I had the BBQ chicken salad:
It was quite good.
We have plans to meet up with Trevor and Khrystle tonight for tacos.
Have a great night friends and Happy Good Friday!
So far today has been just the kind of day I needed.
Started with a good cup of joe with some soy creamer:
Caught up on some blog reading
Did a couple loads of laundry.
And then had all intentions to go for a run but it was SO windy and I felt so achy and tight from this weeks workouts.
If there is one thing I have learned from years of working out, when you feel tight and achy-practice yoga.
Welcome to my Yoga Studio
I did a 45 minute Solar Vinyasa Flow class from Yoga Download.
My body was thanking me the whole time. By the time I got to Savasana, I felt like I had a massage. Love that!
After yoga, I got to have Oats in a Jar!
I never get to make this because it seems I never have an almost empty jar of almond butter:
This made me very happy.
Perfection.
Bill just got home from a VERY long ride and we had some pizza for lunch.
Never tried this and loved it! Definitely a keeper for the frozen and healthy pizza category:
My plate with a slice of pizza topped off with avocado and some carrots and radishes on the side:
I just whipped up these little gems from this recipe:
Bill says, “Delicious!”
Well I am off to the bike shop to pick up some new running socks. I had Trevor order me my favs.
Then Bill and I are gonna watch, Julie and Julia can’t wait!
Hope you are having a great Saturday as well
As soon as I saw this recipe on Kris’ I Heart Wellness blog I knew I had to try it:
Of course I made some changes. I subbed out raisins for cranberries, and mixed the almond butter with some cashew butter. I also had to add some applesauce in because the mix seemed a bit too thick.
Maybe I need MEASURE my ingredients next time! I am the queen of the “eyeball method.”
Here are the wet ingredients:
Banana, butters, vanilla, and coconut oil
With the added dry ingredients:
Oats, coconut, cranberries, chocolate chips, and a bit of applesauce
And yes I was too lazy to make cookies so in the pan they go:
Voila!
I Heart Wellness Healthy Bars!
They are cooking right now and smell divine
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