Running in the Snow and Rain

Ahhhh…the weekend is just about over. It’s 8:30 on Sunday evening and just about to go to bed before starting a new work day tomorrow.

Here’s a quick recap of my weekend.

Saturday started with Oatmeal. In the pot: 2/3 cup of oats, 2 tbsp of flaxmeal, 1 1/2 c of UCAB (Unsweetened Chocolate Almond Breeze), and 2 tsp of vanilla extract. This served two.

Topped with 1/2 a banana, a spash of UCAB and a scoop of white chocolate wonderful pb.

After breakfast I did a little running around by myself trying to find some of Prairie Natural Lean Whey. I checked Planet Organic, GNC and The Healthy Bug. All listed on their website saying that they carry their products. They all do just not the lean whey. Very frustrating. I am looking for something that is low in calories but high in protein. After I checked Halifax I picked up Matt and we had some errands to do across the bridge at Mic Mac so I decided to check GNC there too. No luck. There’s a store in Bedford that lists their products so I’m going to check them out this week. Maybe I’ll luck out.

We also grabbed lunch at the mall too. We decided to try to do as healthy a lunch as you can get in the food court and went with Jugo Juice. I got the Greek Veggie Wrap: hummus, zucchini, green peppers and red onion all in a whole wheat wrap.

 

Along with a mini smoothie: Mini Mango – mango, OJ and tropical nector.

I’m very proud of this meal for two reasons. First, I wanted chinese as soon as we walked in but I opted for the healthy choice and second I am not usually up to trying new things. I’d never had hummus in a wrap or a wrap/sandwich without meat and I really enjoyed it. Yay!

After lunch Matt and I got some groceries and then I dropped him off back at home and I decided to do some shopping. I picked up two dresses for the summer. I can’t wait until it gets nicer out so I’m able to wear some of them. I’ll post pics this week.

By the time I got home I was tired and hungry so we grabbed some pizza and sat on the couch and wached the first movie and a half of Lord of the Rings – Matt just bought them on Blue Ray and he couldn’t want to see how good they looked.

Breakfast this morning was whole wheat French Toast – 2 eggs, 1 c of UVAB (unsweetened vanilla almond breeze) and 1 tbsp of cinnamon. Topped with peaches and maple syrup.

Since we got up so late we didn’t eat breakfast until about 11:30. I spend most of the rest of the early afternoon catching up on Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl. Around 2 I was hungry again. I boiled some progries and served with carrots and cucumber. Since I am out of greek yogurt I had some light caesar dressing for dipping.

After lunch I was getting restless and although it looked like this outside…

I talked Matt into going for a run with me. We did Week 3 of C25K. Run for 90 secs, walk for 90 sec, run for 3 mins, walk for 3 mins – times two. By the time we got back we were freezing and wet but I felt great.

That’s water from the rain on Matt’s shirt and my pants. I’m so glad we got out even if it was a little nuts. After my shower I had a green smoothie to tide me over until dinner. In the blender: 2 huge handful of organic spinach, 1 organic banana, 2 tbsp of flaxmeal, 1 c of UVAB and ice. Yum!

I also snacked on some of Stacy’s Pita Chips.

I did a little cleaning and made some more granola bars. I used my recipe from before except I used syrup instead of honey (I find they hold together better that way.

In the pan to head into the freezer

Dinner was a variation on a picture I found on Heather’s (Hungry Pants) blog the other day: Choices.

Chicken Teriyaki Bowl:

• 3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• broccoli
• pineapple
• brown rice
• teriyaki sauce

Cut the chicken into small pieces and cook in wok.

Add broccoli and cook for 3-4 mins and then add pineapple and cook for another 1 min. Then add rice and sauce and cook for 3-5 mins until everything is mixed well.

 

Serve in bowl with nice cold glass of milk.

Yummy and easy.

Now I’m going to enjoy my evening with my husband and relax.

Night all!

~ Katie :)

Weekend Highlights

What a great weekend!

One of my best friends in the world was down and I got to spend some quality time with her. It was wonderful. I didn’t get any food blogging done but over all I actually ate pretty well.

Keri and I spend the day Saturday chatting and my place and then we finally decided to head out and grab a Starbucks. I finally caved and got the new Dark Cherry Chocolate Mocha. I’ve been dying to try this but been putting it off. It was pretty good. A little sweet for my liking. I think all I needed was a tall but it was a nice treat from my usual Vanilla Latte.

After we finished at Starbucks we both headed home for dinner and then Keri came back over. We had an evening of wine drinking and Wii playing planned but it ended up being more like pita chip/hummus snacking and chatting for us. Since she was here so late she ended up crashing on our couch and in the morning Matt got up and made us pancakes with fresh fruit and maple syrup for breakfast.

It was so nice catching up. She is leaving at the end of this week so I’m hoping to get together one more time before she leaves.

Since I didn’t take many pictures here a just a few of my weekend highlights:

Getting groceries I picked up some new tea: Yogi Organic Goji Berry Green Tea…

As well as some Pom Wonderful Pomegranate Juice…

I also had a delicious dinner Saturday night.  I was actually really impressed. We ended up eating really late because I had be out and usually we would just grab something easy but without even thinking about it we whipped up an easy and delicious dinner. BBQ ribs, roasted potatoes and roasted asparagus.

I also made one of the most delicious snacks on Sunday afternoon. I am so in love with this: Chocolate Vitamuffin Top, Greek Yogurt and some thawed frozen berries.

Sunday wasn’t too bad either. We were heading to my dad’s for a late birthday celebration for both my sister and myself as well as a late Easter celebration.

We had cheese and crackers for apps. Dinner was lots of salad, one Flaxseed Roll (my step-mother makes the best flaxseed rolls – she is finding the recipe for me and I will share them with all of you when I get it – yum), BBQ Chicken, BBQ Ribs (I know more ribs – I only had 2 last night) and carrots. Dessert was a small cupcake and some jello with strawberries. Overall, it was pretty healthy for a birthday/Easter celebration.

I also got in two great workouts over the weekend.

Friday morning was C25K week three. Run 90 sec, walk 90 sec, run 3 mins, walk 3 mins – times 2. Because it was cold and damp we decided to run on the treadmill. It was harder then I was expecting and I felt great after a quick 20 min run.

Saturday morning Matt and I got up bright and early and headed to the gym. I did Week 3 of Gina’s Winter Shape Up. I followed the exact same workout from the previous time. Afterwards, I headed to the Women’s gym to meet Jaime for yoga. It was a great way to start the weekend.

Today I started the morning with greek yogurt with a little peach/mango Liberte yogurt mixed in, granola and dried cranberries (no pic – sorry).

Snack was cheese string and Dark Chocolate Coconut Kashi Bar…

Lunch was Stacy’s Pita Chips, pb, apple, the last of my organic carrots and yogurt cup…

After work I needed to make a quick stop at the grocery store before picking up Matt. I was hungry and these where on sale…

 

If you’ve never had a Luna bar before they are almost like a rice crispy square with some chocolate on the bottom. This one had while chocolate on the bottom and a lemon flavour throughout. It was pretty good.

After I picked up Matt he wanted to chat about a few things so we headed downtown to try out a new restaurant: Gullabull’s Bar and Grill. For those of you in Halifax, it’s on Spring Garden Road where the old Ryan Duffy’s use to be.

We started with some Calamari…

Since we had something greasy for an appetizer I wanted something healthy for dinner. I opted for the Sunshine Shrimp Salad.

“House mix greens, tossed with mandarin oranges, golden raisins, shredded coconut, crumbled goat cheese, marinated grilled shrimp skewer. Topped with low fat honey yogurt mint dressing.

It was so good. I left feeling full but not bloated and disgusting.

I was actually really proud of myself for two reasons tonight. First, whenever we go out for dinner I always want to order more then just a salad. Second, I have never tried goat cheese and I never get salad’s with dressing so I was happy that I went outside my comfort zone and got something different, healthy and delicious.

I’m not sure what’s my plan for the rest of the evening. But I’m thinking maybe a Vitamuffin top might be dessert later.

Link Love:

• If you didn’t catch my post on the weekend on Teaching Operation Beautiful please check it out. I really appreciate all the lovely comments from everyone. You were all so sweet.
• Lynn at Life, Health and Fitness is hosting an awesome giveaway for some Prairie Natural’s Protein Powder. She has been saying wonderful things about this so I really want to give this protein powder a try. Check out the link here: http://lifehealthfit.blogspot.com/2010/04/prairie-naturals-review-giveaway.html

~ Katie :)

Report Card Morning

This morning started early even though I was off again today.

It’s the last day of Easter weekend but Matt had to work I agreed to get up early and go for a run with him. Today we did Week 2, Day 2 of C25K. Run for 1.5 mins, walk for 2 mins – 6 times (for a total for 21mins). We ran just over 2 km total. This was the best run so far. I actually didn’t feel like I was dying by the end of it. I actually enjoyed the run (don’t tell Matt though :P).

Breakfast was piece of toast with pb, banana and a glass of milk…

After breakfast I drove Matt to work and stopped at Starbucks on the way home.

Venti Non-Fat Vanilla Latte…

And I spoiled myself with a piece of banana loaf as well…

I spend the morning finishing my report cards and I took a quick nap. I was able to finish them by noon and now I’m all done.

No more stress!

Lunch was six perogies, a ton of veggies (red, green, yellow peppers, cucumbers, and broccoli) and some Greek yogurt mixed with a little light ceaser dressing (for added taste) for dipping…

Yummy! A large sippy cup of water as well…

Now I’m going to do some other marking and laundry and later I have to pick up Matt and we need to head to the grocery store to pick up groceries. I love grocery day!

Not sure what is in store for supper tonight but I’ll try to blog later to let you all know.

~ Katie :)

The Post That Almost Didn’t Happen

More that later…

Last night Matt and I had another early morning run planned. We knew the it was going to rain today but he was convinced that it wouldn’t be that bad so we’d be able to run outside. When we woke up I was excited that the rain hadn’t started. I was even more excited when I looked at the weather and it was plus 8 already. I figured it was going to be a great morning to run. All I can say is weather network fail! They said it there was no wind chill and man were they wrong. It was freezing!

Putting that aside we actually had a great run. We did week 2, day 1 of C25K. This consisted of 1.5 min run then 2 min walk. We did is six times and ran/walked a little over 2km in 20 mins. Even though it was chilly it was a great way to start the morning.

After the run I had a glass of oj and 1/5 a bagel with some pb…

My morning snack was a dark chocolate cherry kashi bar and a cheese string. (unpictured)

Lunch was the last of the leftover pasta and some kashi crackers…

Along with a yogurt – peach…

After work I had to run home to change and grab a few things before I picked up Matt so I grabbed a couple of spoonfuls of Coconut Liberte and a coconut kasha bar (I’m making my own Thursday – I’m getting tired of the pre-made ones).

When we got home I was tired and honestly a little cranky. It was a mentally exhausting day and I just wasn’t in the mood to cook. So my wonderful husband volunteered to go to subway to pick me us up subs for supper. He knew I wanted something healthy. Best.Husband.Ever.

I got a turkey sub on the cheesy bread. I haven’t had this bread in a while…so yummy!

I paired it was a glass of chocolate milk…

Dessert was coconut yogurt with a little extra unsweetened coconut added in along with granola and a spoonful of chocolate chips.

After dinner I sat down on the laptop to see if I could do a little work I needed to get done. One thing required filling out a form online and then printing it off. I spend about 30 mins filling out the form only to realize that I was on my laptop and I can’t actually print from here. I wouldn’t have to start all over again on the other computer. CRAP!

That just put me in a bad mood. I just didn’t want to do it again and really I just didn’t want to do anything (including blog) so I laid on the couch and took a nap. After I woke up I felt a little better but still wasn’t in the mood for blogging. I felt that my food just wasn’t all the interesting today so why bother. This is why I say “The Post that Almost Didn’t Happen”. After thinking about it for a few mins I realized that I actually might feel better after sitting down to write a blog post so here I am…finishing it up and I will say I do actually feel better. I’m really glad I wrote it.

So now I only have one more work day until my 5 day weekend. I took Thursday off to do some report cards but I think I might try to blog twice. I’m home alone why not?

Actually, I’m hoping to get in my ‘why I blog/my story’ post this weekend so that might be a great time to do it. Stay tuned….

~ Katie :)