Is There Such a Thing at as Too Spicy?

OMG…YES!!!

So I haven’t been around much. The past two days have been busy and I haven’t got too much done. Haven’t been to the gym, yoga or really been eating too healthy. Overall, not a really good couple of days.

Haven’t had my camera on me either so it hasn’t been great overall.

Here are a few pics that I have taken over the past two days…

Other then that, yesterday when I picked up Matt from work he hadn’t had the best day and really just wanted to go out, sit down and talk. I agreed and we ended up at Your Father’s Moustache downtown. Since I had been craving Fish and Chips for a few days now I figured this would be a great time to get them. I will say now, I love the Moustache’s wings and some of their other food but their fish and chips were nothing but grease. I must say I just wasn’t impressed. I would definitely not order them again.

I woke up this morning with great plans to get another run in this morning, healthy eating today and yoga tonight. The healthy eating went ok but exercise not so much.

I set the alarm this morning to get up to run and after I woke up I realized that my gym clothes were in the washing machine soaking wet!!! CRAP!!!! So no run for me :(

My eating went pretty well. Breakfast – Greek yogurt, granola and dried cranberries. Lunch – random: apple, pb, carrots, kashi bar and yogurt cup.

Dinner tonight was going to be Jaime’s Coconut Shrimp. I had ever intention of following the recipe except use EVOO instead of Coconut Oil and I didn’t want to use the flour. As I was getting the ingredients out I didn’t have any paprika – I swear I thought I had some. This was the first of my many problems tonight. I subbed the paprika for red pepper flakes and continued on.

I started mixing everything up and since Jaime didn’t put down how much paprika and cayenne she used I figured 2 tsps were enough of each for 3 people. I also used two eggs not egg whites – mostly because I such at separating eggs and I got the yoke in the bowl as well so I just figured I’d go with it. 

Then the husband got involved with the cooking. He got me to coat the shrimp while he cooked them. He decided that he should just stir fry them in the wok so he just poured them all in and started mixing them around. While doing them the coconut mixture started to fall off. I’m not sure if it’s because the lack on the flour or the fact that he was mixing them up or a bit of both but most of the mixture fell off during the cooking process. I figured – no big deal just serve on top and should still be good.

Served dinner with roasted asparagus and some brown rice…

 

Looked pretty good right, wrong? Way too SPICY!

I was actually only able to eat about 6 of my 9 shrimp. Way too much cayenne. I guess I need to learn a little more about how much spice should go in a meal. Practice makes perfect right?. I’m not going to say dinner was a complete fail but it definitely didn’t go as planned.

Since dinner took a while I missed yoga tonight as well. I missed yoga on Monday too. Apparently, I’m not a very good yoga buddy to Jaime. I’m hoping to hit up a class on Saturday so I can keep up my goal of getting to at least one yoga class a week.

I do have some good new to leave you with. One of my best friends in the whole world is coming home for a week and a half tomorrow. She lives in Connecticut and I only see her once or twice a year. I’m so excited and she made my day yesterday when she told me.

~ 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 :)

Easter Weekend

Hey Everyone! I hope you’re all enjoying the long weekend. I’ve been slacking on the blogging this weekend but it’s a holiday so it all good :P

I’ve also been slacking on the healthy eating this weekend too. My breakfasts and lunches have been great but then dinner rolls around…

Friday

Hubby ordered us Chinese as our Easter celebration. We try not to do much because we don’t want all the chocolate kicking around the house. Plus I’m not a big chocolate eater (I like it just not in large quantities so Matt will just end up eating most of it and so we just avoid buying it all today).

We ordered Egg Rolls, Fried Rice, Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls, Pineapples Chicken and Ginger Beef. I meant to take a picture of our spread but totally forgot (sorry). Not the healthiest meal but it was definitely yummy.

Saturday

We started with oatmeal. I wanted to introduce Matt to the wonderful world of oatmeal with toppings so in the pot: oats, UVAB, flaxmeal and vanilla extract. I just doubled my usual recipe. Toppings were the same as Thursday: 1/2 banana, splash of UCAB, a scoop of White Chocolate Wonderful Peanut Butter and and added a little coconut this time.

Matt really enjoyed it. I’m going to have to try new toppings with him soon. The coconut was a little unnecessary as you couldn’t really taste it and it just added calories.

Afterwards we decided to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather we were having (plus 18 in Halifax yesterday) and go for a walk downtown. If you know Halifax, we started just past the superstore and walked down past Pier 21, through the dockyards, up and around Point Pleasant Park and back. Overall, we figured it was about 6 km.

We also stopped at the park to take a few pictures and look at the old canon (I swear I have been living in this city my entire life and didn’t know it was there – how sad).

Matt and the Canon…

The beautiful view…

Us…

After we got home I made myself a green smoothie. In the blender: 2 huge handfuls of spinach, 1 banana, 2 tsp of chia seeds, 1 cup of UVAB and ice.

Oh, green monsters how I have missed you!!! I haven’t had a green smoothie in a while and I love them when they are bright green! They give me so much energy.

For dinner we heading over the Matt’s parents to celebrate my birthday (it was a few weeks late but we haven’t been able to get there yet).

I had a bunch of veggies (carrots, broccoli, snow peas and cucumber), two slices of pizza and a piece of birthday cake. I probably would have been ok until the cake. It was full of icing and very sugary and it just kinda made me sick afterwards. I really need to stop eating store bought birthday cake. It has been having this effect on my lately and I don’t know why I continue to eat it.

Today

Breakfast: 2 eggs with some cheese, red pepper flakes, and fresh ground pepper, along with 1/2 a red pear and a few strawberries.

Then we went for another walk (plus 20 today). This time just around our area. It equalled out to about 4.5 km.

After we got back I had to run to shoppers to pick up my sister a birthday card so I also stopped at subway and starbucks.

Subway – usual turkey on cheesy bread…

Starbucks – Passion Ice-Tea Lemonade…

We are now heading to my mom’s for my sister’s birthday/Easter celebration. We’re having ham, potatoes, salad and some kind of veggies. My goal for tonight is to eat lots of salad/veggies and a little ham/potato and avoid birthday cake. I felt gross yesterday so I’m not going to put myself through that again.

I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter.

~ Katie :)

Update: I’m home from Easter Dinner and I think I did pretty well. I filled up on pre-dinner veggies and had lots of salad and a little ham/potatoes. I did have very small slice of cake though. My sister and mom would have been very upset if not. Feeling good about my dinner choices.

Out for a Walk

Happy Good Friday Everyone. I hope all the Canadians are enjoying their long weekend.

I had a pretty relaxing day today. Slept in a bit, did some reading on photography, when for a long walk with my camera and took some pictures and then came home and played Super Mario Wii with the husband.

I wanted to share some photos with you guys but first I thought I’d share my morning eats with you guys.

I wanted something light for breakfast. Greek Yogurt mixed with a little Orange/Mango Liberte yogurt, granola and dried cranberries…

Topped with lots of blueberries…

Lunch was the second half of my lunch from yesterday.

Yesterday’s lunch started with this…

And included a bunch of this…

Leftovers…

I ate about half before my walk and the other half after I got back with lots of H2O.

I’m now snacking on some Sabra Roasted Garlic Hummus and Tostitos. I understand why people are raving about this stuff. It’s so creamy. It’s definitely not going to last very long in this house.

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So I went for about a 2 hour walk this afternoon to try some other pictures on my camera. I only have the Canon 1200 point-and-shoot but I’ve always loved looking/learning about photography and would love to take a course on it but never really had a good enough camera to take good pictures on my own. I know that this camera isn’t the best for photography but you’d got to start somewhere right.

Here are a few of my favourites…

 

 

Let me know what you think and have a great evening.

~ Katie :)

Giveaway Prize

Hey Everyone!

This post is going to be short and sweet.

Look what arrived today…

And this is what was inside…

That’s right it was my giveaway prize from Jessica over at Dairy Free Betty.

Coconut Peanut Butter. Nom!

I can’t wait to try it. I’m already dreaming about coconut peanut butter oats.

And just look at the ingredients list…

Just two ingredients. It can’t get much better then that.

She also included a note…

She’s so sweet…

Thanks Jess!

I hope all fellow Canadian’s enjoy their long weekend and I’ll be back tomorrow with my “Why I Blog/My Story” post.

~ Katie :)

Does anyone have any other great ideas for my coconut peanut butter if so I’d love to here about them.

Eats, Yoga and Month End Summary

Sorry for the lack of blogging last night. I didn’t get much of a chance and since I knew I’d be off today I just figured I try to blog twice today. This might be a long one so bear with me please.

Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s food:

Lunch was leftover salad…

I have no idea how I ended up with such a crappy picture (apparently I just wasn’t paying attention).

Some Kashi crackers and pb…

And of course the standard yogurt cup…

Last night Jaime and I went to my first yoga class at Breathing Space. Long Slow Deep. It was fantastic. I really like the atmosphere, instructor and the class size. There was only 7 of us in the class which meant that the instructor could go around give each person some individual attention. It was hard, sweaty and gave me a great stretch. I woke up feeling sore this morning which I think is a sign of a great class. I’m trying now to convince Matt to attend the class with me next week. He’s never done yoga in a class before (just at home with me) so we’ll see :)

On my way home I stopped at subway and picked up a sub. Turkey on cheesy bread again. Since Matt had a work dinner last night and I was still thinking about my sub from the day before I figured it would be a perfect time to grab another one.

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Even though I was off this today I volunteered to drive Matt to work so I could run a couple of errands and hit the gym later.

The morning started with this…

I also did some banking and stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few things. They included:

Vitamuffins…

Sabra Hummus…

The blog world has been raving about this lately so I can’t wait to crack it open and give it a try.

And Orange Mango Liberte Yogurt…

I haven’t tried this flavour yet so I’m really looking forward to it.

And some Bert’s Bees Lip Balm…

I haven’t tried this kind yet but I love bees wax lip balm so I’ll see how much I like it.

After I got home and decided to make some oats. I followed the same recipe from last time and this time my toppings were 1/2 a banana (since I forgot to add it into the pot), a splash of UCAB and a scoopful of White Chocolate Wonderful pb.

This combo was fantastic. I’m already thinking about other combinations I can make while I’m off.

I was suppose to spend the morning finished any last minute marking and started report cards but I ended up working on a couple of other things that needed to get done. This probably means that I won’t make it to the gym later but last least I got quite a bit accomplished today.

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Month End Summary

So when Jaime posted last month about her activity calendar I knew I wanted to start something similar. The difference is that I also wanted to see how my healthy eating was going compared to unhealthy eating.

Here are my results…

Breakdown:

• Apples are for healthy eating days at home
• Hearts are for healthy eating (not at home)
• Ice-cream is for unhealthy eating
• Bees are exercise stickers

Results:

• 9 out of 31 days were unhealthy dinners
• 20 out of 31 days I was able to get in some exercise

Conclusion:

• Overall I think I did pretty well. I’d like to only have about half that much of unhealthy eat days – average once a week instead of twice.
• I think I did pretty well on the exercise. I averaged 5 days/week so I guess I can’t complain about that.
• I think there are quite a few days that were just yoga so I’d like to have a more regular schedule for weights and cardio

Goals:

• To decrease my unhealthy eating down to just once a week
• To continue with C25K (3 times a week)
• Weight lift 3 times per week
• Try to get a little other cardio in a week (twice maybe?)
• Get to yoga at least once a week (maybe twice)

I know those are pretty hefty goals but we’ll see how it goes for this month and re-evaluate again at the end of April.

I know this was a really long post and thanks for reading. I promise to keep it short and sweet tonight.

~ Katie :)