The Return of Yoga

No blogging yesterday but I did have lots yummy eats and of course “The Return of Yoga”.

I woke up a little late yesterday so I didn’t want too much for breakfast since I was meeting the husband for an early lunch. While getting ready I had a piece of ancient grain toast topped with a slice of laughing cow cheese.

I was heading downtown to meet Matt for an early lunch but ended up arriving a little earlier then expected so I spent some time wondering around and looking in a few shops. I haven’t spend too much time in downtown since arriving in Calgary. I’ve driven down a few times to pick up Matt but not walking around. It was nice to get out and see some places.

After I met up with Matt for lunch we headed to the food court near his building. I wanted something relatively healthy in the mass of fast food joints so I choose Extreme Pita. I went with a grilled chicken pita with lettuce, cucumber, pineapple and cheese. It was delicious! I also got a drink from Jugo Juice. I went with Summer Strawberry. This has strawberries, peaches, apple juice and cranberry juice. All in all, it was a healthy, tasty lunch for a food court lunch.

After Matt headed back to work I got in the car and did a little exploring of the city. It was fun to see different parts of the city that I haven’t seen before. Then I headed home to get ready for yoga.

Since moving to Calgary I haven’t done any yoga. There are so yoga studios here that I want to try. Most of them offer an introductory week offer to try the studio out. First up: Try-Yoga Calgary.

According to their website: Try-Yoga Calgary is a hot yoga studio that offers hot yoga, yoga-core, advanced yoga, karma classes, family yoga, pre and post natal yoga and much more.

After browsing their website I found out that they have both hot and regular yoga and many other classes as well. They also offer great rates and a great introductory offer of two week of unlimited yoga for 30 dollars. They are also located 5 mins from my place.

My first class was going to be a Tri-Hot class: The beautiful class is practiced in a heated room allowing students to work with their flexibility, strength and balance, while the heat warms the muscles and helps to flush toxins from the body.

The class was awesome! Our instructor pushed us but also gave lots of alternatives to make it easier or more difficult so that no matter what level your at you would be able to participate. The room was also hot but not so hot that you couldn’t actually enjoy your practice. I can’t wait to go back today to try another class.

Before heading to yoga I wanted something light so I snacked on a banana with some dark chocolate dreams pb.

After yoga I went to pick Matt up from the office. I drank some coconut water while driving.

Once I got home it was time for dinner. Dinner started with a huge salad with lots of veggies: spinach, red, green and yellow peppers, cucumber, carrots, broccoli and snow peas along with some blueberries on top.

I topped the salad with some chicken and pineapple that I had set to marinate earlier in the day (marinade: soy sauce, honey, rice vinegar and fresh ginger). I cooked the chicken in the oven for 20 mins then topped the salad with a couple of pieces.

Finally I served some roasted baby potatoes along side it (red, yellow and purple potatoes cooked in the oven for 30 mins with garlic powder, onion salt, rosemary, basil and thyme).

Served together.

The salad was huge. I was able to finish mine along with a little of the husbands. I also finished most of the potatoes but just couldn’t finish the chicken.

Job Update: So I was suppose to hear this morning if I got the job I had been worried about during the last post. It’s now 11:35 and I still haven’t heard anything yet so I guess all the stress I was causing myself was for nothing. Now it’s time to wait and move on to the next job and hopefully I’ll hear something soon from one of the other two school boards that I’m still waiting to hear from.

Finally, Happy September 1st Everyone! Can you believe it’s September already? This summer was crazy, moving, job hunting and everything else but I love fall so I’m ready to bring out the sweaters and enjoy the cool crisp air.

~ Katie :)

A Family Affair

I am exhausted from a crazy busy weekend so between that and the fact that I was not a very good blogger this weekend and didn’t take any pictures this is going to be a very short post.

I’d like to start the post off by saying I did a great job on with my detox but really that would be a lie. I had some awesome meals and followed my rules but I also have some ‘not so awesome’ meals and didn’t do such a great job following my rules so I’d say it was about a 50/50 weekend.

Saturday morning I was running a little late. I had a hair appointment and grabbed 1/2 a grapefruit for breakfast as I was leaving. This wasn’t so good. I was starving by the time I sat down in the chair.

After spending 2 hours getting my hair all pretty again I headed over to drop some books off to Jaime and to say good-bye. If you read her blog you know she is moving across the country next weekend and since I’ll be in Calgary during her going away pub night and brunch I wanted to stay good-bye before she leaves. It was sad saying good-bye to a new friend but since blogging and twitter keeps us all in touch it’s not so bad.

We chatted for a hour before I realized I’d better get going and left to pick up Matt.

We headed to the mall to pick up a few things before we leave and we grabbed some lunch while we were there. Instead of heading to Subway as originally planned I ended up caving and getting mall chinese food. I went with rice, chicken balls and a chicken egg roll. I don’t know what made me make this decision. I regretted it as soon as I sat down and didn’t even really enjoy it. Oh well – live in learn right :P

Dinner was at the in-laws to celebrate Father’s Day and luckily it was right up my ally – huge salad and lean chicken burgers on the bbq.

The one picture I took on the weekend was of the pheasant in the in-laws back yard. They live in the suburbs not the country so it was a little strange seeing a pheasant there in the middle of the afternoon.

Today I had a bowl of cereal (raisin bran) for breakfast then headed out again early for our school’s high school graduation at a fancy hotel downtown.

Lunch was included and to try to stay on the healthy side I choose the veggie soup that had lots of beans and veggies in it along with a side on fruit including: grapes, pineapple, blackberries, watermelon and strawberries. It was actually very tasty and the healthiest option I could have.

After the graduation I picked up Matt we did a little grocery shopping and then headed to my dad’s for Father’s Day. Dinner here was turkey, potatoes, beets, carrots, beans and a roll. Over all pretty healthy except for the gravy I put on the turkey and the real butter I added to my roll.

The weekend was crazy and I’m not sure if I’d ready to go back to work or not already especially since this week is going to be super busy as well but I’ll do my best to keep you updated.

~ Katie :)