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Operation Strong Arms

March 23, 2010 16 Comments

Last night we tried some fun new items in our salad thanks to my Fresh and Easy run:

  • Loved the lemon hummus-of course I have not met a hummus I did not like!
  • The Butta :) Beans lived up to their name and were buttery and good.
  • And the tofu burgers tasted homemade not prepackaged like the frozen ones I normally buy.  I know I have to make my own soon ;)

My salad beast:

Well today is an exciting day for me! 

After work Khrystle and I are meeting to start my “training” regime.

Khrystle is a certified personal trainer and life style coach and a good friend ;) .

I will be using her personal training skills to get my upper body in shape and to speed up my running.

  • Tuesdays will be arms.
  • Thursdays will be speed work.

I am very excited to see what she has planned for me this afternoon.

I will definitely be back to let you know how Operation Strong Arms went!

Pepsi just wanted to say “hi”

Enjoy your day friends!

Don’t forget to enter my Giveaway for a super cute Thermal Hoodie.

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Are You Deficient?

March 4, 2010 19 Comments

Yesterday I left work early to head to a doctor’s appointment.

This was my follow-up from my last appointment where I gave blood for a nutritional panel.

My doctor is a Medical Doctor but she tends to lean towards a Holistic approach to medicine-believing that many “aliments” can be caused and therefore treated by deficiencies in your blood specifically vitamin and nutrient deficiencies.

I found out that I am deficient in:

  • magnesium
  • selenium
  • zinc
  • vitamin D

Here is my course of treatment for now:

She also recommended some other things like:

  • eat a bit of protein as soon as you wake up to “break the fast” and then have coffee
  • DRINK MORE WATER-so hard when you are a teacher and can only use the bathroom at certain times!
  • cut back on the refined carbs-duh-I know…..easier said than done

I am a work in progress……  : )

Then I came home to this face:

And had a gorgeous salad beast with my husband.

The star of the show:

Not as good as the last egg white salad.  Probably would not buy this one again.

Good glass of vino:

Watched an episode of Dexter.

Walked Pepsi.

And hit the hay.

Hope you had a great Hump Day!

Do you ever wonder if you are taking vitamins that you do not even need?

Filed Under: Food, Health 19 Comments

My Kind of Taco Salad

February 18, 2010 16 Comments

Thank you for all of the great comments about The China Study!

It was fun to “hear” what others think about this matter. I appreciated all of your honest opinions.

On to dinner time……..

These three items were my inspiration behind my version of Taco Salad:

First I made a fabulous salad with lots of fixins:

There is lots of love in that baby…….

Then I warmed up the beans with the corn in a saucepan.

Microwaved the brown rice.

Chopped up the avocado:

Nothing says, “Taco Salad” more than cheese in my opinion:

I prefer the goat over the yellow kind.

All together now with some hot sauce on top:

Super good!

Happy Thursday………

Any fun weekend plans yet?

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Antioxidants

February 11, 2010 15 Comments

So I have battled the case of the “icks.”  Can’t seem to beat the achy, tired, throat thing.

With that in mind I started my day with a carrot juice inspired smoothie and my favorite Tazo tea:

I also decided to dig into my supplement cabinet for an extra boost:

Has anyone tried these babies?  They give you quite a boost which I needed today!

Had a wonderful salad beast for lunch (inspired by the Ftnessista!):

It was delicious and followed by my home made vegan energy bar:

So in my effort to

  1. welcome in the long weekend
  2. get rid of this cold

I decided to have one of these after work:

You know red wine is supposed to have antioxidants!

I just had to have a glass……or two.

So by the time I got home I was not in the mood to cook for one.

Instead I made a green monster:

And am looking forward to my new reading material:

Tomorrow Pepsi and I are headed to Orange County to meet up with my parents for the day.

We have four glorious days off!

Are you off for the Presidents day holiday?

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