Simple and Healthy Eats

Evening All!

This morning started bright and early at 5:15. When I got to the gym I did a 5 min run on the treadmill to warm-up then started Gina’s Summer Shape Up Week 1. Her workout’s are different this time. Instead of just strength training she included a combination of strength, flexibility and speed training. I’m going to follow it as much as possible as long as it fits into my workout schedule.

Today was strength training. I did the following workout in circuit-style (one of each exercise right after another with a 1-2 min rest at the end of each set and then repeat 3 times). Here’s a breakdown of my workout this morning:

Bend-Over Fly	15lbs	12 reps
Side Lying Lateral Raise	5lbs	12 reps per side
Ultimate Toe Touch		10 reps per side
Incline Bicep Curl (on Stability Ball)	15lbs	12 reps
Bend-Over Row	15lbs	12 reps
Reverse Crunch		15 reps
Stability Ball Back Extension		15 reps
Weighted Ball Crunch	10lbs	12 reps
Plie Squats	20lbs	15 reps
Chest Press on Stability Ball	20 lbs	12 reps

Overall it was a pretty good workout. Not my favourite but I got a great sweat in and felt pretty good afterwards. I did find the workout took a little longer then usual since I’m not use to some of the exercises. As well, I think I might need to push myself a little more with some of the weights. I will be doing this workout again on Friday so I’ll give it another try and let you all know how it goes then.

After my workout breakfast was a piece of flax toast and a protein green smoothie. In the blender: 2 large handfuls of organic spinach, 1 organic banana, 1 tbsp of flaxmeal, 1 scoop of lean whey and 1 cup of UVAB. Another great combo.

Lunch was a turkey sammie on an English muffin. Sliced turkey, mozza, spinach all on a whole wheat English muffin along with a yogurt cup and baby carrots.

After work I met a friend for a coffee date at Starbucks. I had skinny cinnamon dolce latte…

 

And one of these babies…

Lemon Coconut Bar. Not the healthiest but definitely delicious.

Dinner was simple but healthy.

BBQ Chicken…

Roasted baby potatoes with thyme, rosemary, oregano and a little parmesan cheese. I read this combo on someone's blog on the weekend. I have not idea who’s it was so if I got the idea from you please let me know. I’d love to give you credit for it.

Yummy! What a great idea.

Served with some bbq’d asparagus with a little salt and ground pepper…

All together…

Easy. Healthy. Yummy. I actually only ate two pieces of the chicken but all the potatoes and asparagus. The picture doesn’t give credit to how much asparagus was actually on my plate and how big the asparagus actually was. So filling.

Dessert was Skinny Cow Ice-Cream Sandwich. What a great sweet treat for only 130 calories.

I’d better go. The hockey game is going to start in about 15 mins.

Go Hawks Go!

~ Katie :)

Not my Favourite Yoga Class

So before I start on today’s food I thought I’d share with you my yummy snack from last night. I actually can’t take the credit for this. I read it on Sammie’s blog the other day and when I saw mini angel food cakes at the grocery store I couldn’t resist.

Mini Angel food cake with fat free vanilla yogurt and berries.

So good.

Today was an interesting day. I really wasn’t feeling well most of the day so I didn’t actually eat too much. Breakfast was a cheese string and an apple on the go. By lunch I was not feeling well at all. I nibbled on leftovers from last nights Chicken Teriyaki dinner, some yogurt and a Kashi bar. After work I was feeling like complete crap but I wasn’t sure if it was the lack of food or I was actually getting sick so I stopped at home to grab another cheese string and a homemade granola bar before picking up Matt from work.

I felt a little better but not 100% so I just wanted something light for dinner.

A bowl of Low Fat, Low Sodium Cream of Mushroom Soup…

Grilled Cheese on flax seed bread with a mix of mozza and cheddar…

A glass of Pom Wonderful…

And lots of H2O…

After dinner I took a 30 min nap before deciding if I was up for yoga or not. After my nap I felt better and headed to yoga at Nubody’s.  I must say I’ve gone to this class a couple of times and enjoyed but tonight was different. I just didn’t enjoy it that much. It was about 90% stretching and 10% yoga. I was looking for something that would push me a little more. I much say tonight’s yoga was a fail. I think I’ll give the class at least one more try before I completely give up on it but I definitely like a class that pushes me a little more.

Sorry for the short post going to hang out with my husband before bed. Night.

~ Katie :)