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Running in the Rain

June 28, 2010 1 Comment

I started this lovely Monday morning off with Day #2, Week #2 of interval training. It looked pretty grey outside, but after consulting the local radar on my weather channel app, I determined I could definitely get 30 minutes in before any rain approached.

Whelp, I was about 15 minutes off on my calculation… Half way through my normal route, a torrential downpour started to erupt from the sky! Running in the rain is actually pretty fun, and I would have kept right on going had I not JUST got a new iPhone to replace the iPhone that suffered water damage last week. So, I threw my iphone in my sports bra to keep it dry and took shelter under a nearby tree for about 15 minutes until the rain let up. Standing under the tree in the rain was actually pretty peaceful and relaxing! I’m sure I looked like a creeper though 🙂

Breakfast #1

I’m really loving the grilled fruit and nut butter wraps I’ve been making for breakfast. Today, I made one with half of a banana and Smucker’s Organic Peanut Butter atop a Mama Lupe’s low carb tortilla. I wrapped everything up and threw it on the george foreman for about 5 minutes.

(I’ll have to post the pic later.. left the stinkin cord for my old camera at home!)

Soooo delicious!

Stats on B#1: 218 calories, 23g carbs, 11g fat, 10g protein, 7 g fiber

Breakfast #2

I was still pretty hungry after B#1, so I decided to overload my overnight oats. Last night, I put 1/2 cup quick oats, 1/2 cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze Almond milk, 1 tsp brown sugar, and some cinnamon in a bowl in the fridge. This morning, I overloaded the oats with blueberries, strawberries, the other 1/2 of my breakfast banana, and some Barbara’s Bakery Peanut Butter Puffins for crunch.

Yum-o.

Stats on B#2: 308 calories, 61g carbs (hello excessive carbs), 6g fat, 8g protein, 10g fiber

Lunch

After all the carbs at breakfast, I was glad I packed a salad for lunch! Today’s salad consisted of romaine lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber, a sliced up Trader Joe’s Spinach Fontina Roasted Garlic Chicken Sausage, with 2tbsp Hidden Valley fat free ranch dressing.

Couldn’t get the flash to go off for the life of me… haha… need to spend some time playing with the camera! 🙂 I’m really liking the Trader Joe’s sausage! I wish I would have picked up more than one kind… oh well, guess I’ll have to go back 😉

Stats on Lunch: 239 calories, 22g carbs, 8g fat, 19g protein, 6g fiber

Fitness, Ramblings

Busy Bee & I miss running

June 17, 2010 17 Comments

Tonight has been one of those nights where I haven’t stopped moving since the moment I got off work. Walked in the park with my sister, grocery shopping, mowed the lawn, laundry… and it’s after 9 and I’m pooped!

Tomorrow I am volunteering with the United Way of Summit County for the Day of Action. I decided I’d try and pack some healthy snacks to take along since I know they will be providing us with some unhealthy temptations. (I’m sure I’ll succumb to at least one 😉 )

Walking in the metro parks this afternoon really got my desire to start running churning again. I would consider myself an active person since I’ve played soccer since elementary school, and I just generally enjoy being outside and moving around. A few months back I decided to start running and I loved it! I felt like I had found a new passion. Running first thing in the morning really energized me for my day, and I felt absolutely great. But unfortunately I injured my knee. Still not entirely sure what happened there. The doctor tells me “some knees just aren’t made for running.” I’m not ready to accept that. I hate doctors. But that’s a different blog for a different day.

I stumbled upon this website which gives a plan for building yourself up from walking to running. Stamina is not my issue — I can run 5K no problem (well before the knee issues began that is). I think what I need to focus on is not stamina but strength.

The Plan (3o minutes per day, 3 days per week):

Week #1: Two minutes running/four minutes walking
Week #2: Three minutes running/three minutes walking
Week #3: Four minutes running/two minutes walking
Week #4: Five minutes running/three minutes walking
Week #5: Seven minutes running/three minutes walking
Week #6: Eight minutes running/two minutes walking
Week #7: Nine minutes running/one minute walking
Week #8: Thirteen minutes running/two minutes walking
Week #9: Fourteen minutes running/one minute walking
Week #10: Run the whole time!

I guess the worst that could happen is my knee will hurt, and I’ll have to stop. I think I’m going to give it a shot! I’m just hoping the knee can handle it. Also, how the heck do I keep track of my time in 2 minute intervals? Maybe there’s an iphone app…. Haha.. of course there’s an app 😉

As of yet, no big plans for the weekend and no new recipes scheduled for experimentation. But I did find this little message in a treat I had earlier this week:

Now I have to do something new! I’m really funny about messages like this, or even messages that come in fortune cookies. I often carry them around in my wallet as a reminder to think positively and enjoy everyday. Somtimes you just need a visual.

Fitness, Ramblings

Busy Bee & I miss running

June 17, 2010 12 Comments

Tonight has been one of those nights where I haven’t stopped moving since the moment I got off work. Walked in the park with my sister, grocery shopping, mowed the lawn, laundry… and it’s after 9 and I’m pooped!

Tomorrow I am volunteering with the United Way of Summit County for the Day of Action. I decided I’d try and pack some healthy snacks to take along since I know they will be providing us with some unhealthy temptations. (I’m sure I’ll succumb to at least one 😉 )

Walking in the metro parks this afternoon really got my desire to start running churning again. I would consider myself an active person since I’ve played soccer since elementary school, and I just generally enjoy being outside and moving around. A few months back I decided to start running and I loved it! I felt like I had found a new passion. Running first thing in the morning really energized me for my day, and I felt absolutely great. But unfortunately I injured my knee. Still not entirely sure what happened there. The doctor tells me “some knees just aren’t made for running.” I’m not ready to accept that. I hate doctors. But that’s a different blog for a different day.

I stumbled upon this website which gives a plan for building yourself up from walking to running. Stamina is not my issue — I can run 5K no problem (well before the knee issues began that is). I think what I need to focus on is not stamina but strength.

The Plan (3o minutes per day, 3 days per week):

Week #1: Two minutes running/four minutes walking
Week #2: Three minutes running/three minutes walking
Week #3: Four minutes running/two minutes walking
Week #4: Five minutes running/three minutes walking
Week #5: Seven minutes running/three minutes walking
Week #6: Eight minutes running/two minutes walking
Week #7: Nine minutes running/one minute walking
Week #8: Thirteen minutes running/two minutes walking
Week #9: Fourteen minutes running/one minute walking
Week #10: Run the whole time!

I guess the worst that could happen is my knee will hurt, and I’ll have to stop. I think I’m going to give it a shot! I’m just hoping the knee can handle it. Also, how the heck do I keep track of my time in 2 minute intervals? Maybe there’s an iphone app…. Haha.. of course there’s an app 😉

As of yet, no big plans for the weekend and no new recipes scheduled for experimentation. But I did find this little message in a treat I had earlier this week:

Now I have to do something new! I’m really funny about messages like this, or even messages that come in fortune cookies. I often carry them around in my wallet as a reminder to think positively and enjoy everyday. Somtimes you just need a visual.

Fitness, Ramblings

My take on healthy living.

May 1, 2010 No Comments

With all this EATING going on, here’s my take on healthy living (AKA the obligatory blog back story):

Since January 2010, I’ve been on a mission to healthify my life. For many years, I thought I was being “healthy” by eating minimal food throughout the day so that I could engorge at dinner. I also jumped on the frozen-entrees-that-leave-you-feeling-hungry-20-minutes-later bandwagon. I’ve never really been grossly overweight (thank the genes for that), but my eating habits were far from healthy. Blood sugar issues seem to run in my family, and I frequently felt tired, run down, and like I was burning the candle from both ends of the stick.

I’ve always been a big eater. I just love food. Period.

My personal challenge is juggling my love of food with my desire to live a heathful life. I tend to follow the “all things in moderation” way of thinking. I work to eat healthful nutritional meals, but I also love (LOVE I SAY!) to go out to eat and experience new delicious foods.

It’s all about balance.

One big step in the right direction I made is making an effort to plan my meals out in advance so that I’m sure I’m giving my body the fuel it needs to chug along throughout the day. I try as hard as I can to not over do it at any one sitting. I HATE that sickly full feeling you get when you overeat. Yuck. So what if my coworkers call me the Tupperware Lady because of the crap load of food I bring to work everyday 🙂

Healthifying my life goes deeper than just the calories I’m consuming or the exercise I’m getting in. It’s also about my PMA (positive mental attitude). I believe mental health is just as important as physical health. My goal is to learn to live each day to the fullest, not take things for granted, and to not let others take me or my talents for granted either! Honestly, this is HARDER than talking myself out of eating that second Christmas cookie, or that steaming salty batch of fries, or sticking my hand in that delicious basket of buttery rolls on the table… mmmmmm freeeeeee breadddddddddddd….

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