Morning guys! I went to bed early (10pm!!) and I overslept this morning. :o I don’t know what happened but my alarm didn’t wake me up. It was set and I checked it before bed but heard nothing. I even had to turn it off this morning so I have no idea what happened there. I got up at 7:10, so not terribly late but later than I wanted.

It was cool this morning because it had rained during the night. Not cool enough that I needed my little blue shirt though for my run. I ran a different route this morning and I also incorporated some sprints. Well not full out running as fast as I can sprints, but picking up my speed for a distance and then going back to a pace run and alternating like that the entire time. I think I did five total “sprints” bumping my HR up to the 170s. I don’t know the total distance I ran this morning but was out for about 20 minutes and my total cals burned during this run are my most yet, 253! Wooo! I was getting grumpy and complaining about Google maps not having the roads listed that I’m running on and Scott said we could drive it so I would know the total milage. :p I’m thinking this might be a good reason to the get the Nike+iPod thingie. Would you agree? I thought so. ;)

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Hey guys! I am worn out! PT today totally kicked my ass! I did arms, Biceps and triceps and a little abs at the end. I was wrecked but in a good way. :p I was starving for lunch afterwards. I had plans on making big salads for us but then I heard a commercial advertising breakfast and knew that’s what I wanted instead. Since we didn’t have Sunday Breakfast I was missing it!

Mmmmm breakfast…..

I didn’t even shower first, I went straight for food! I scrambled up three eggs and took 1/3 and gave Scott the rest. Along with two Morningstar sausage patties and 1 1/2 slices of health nut bread with some butter. This was the first time I had those sausage patties and they were okay. Not bad for an alternative to real sausage. I was curious to see what they would taste like because I lurves me some sausage. My only suggestion would be for them to use a little more seasonings and bump up the garlic factor. Aside from that they get a thumbs up from me and I’ll pick them up again. Oh and I had some OJ!

Read more on September 29th, 2008: Lunch and dinner…

Morning guys! I went to bed at a decent hour last night, 10:30. Wooo! I was wiped out. I thought about reading for a bit but just decided to hit the hay. This was after we watched a movie, a movie that we were both really looking forward to seeing. The Fall, have any of you seen it? If you watch Pushing Daisies, the lead in this movie is Ned. The visuals and the costumes in this movie are amazing. I haven’t seen something that has impressed me visual-wise in quite some time. However the story? Sweet jeebus but the story is awful, bad, and horrific. I was so so bored during this movie despite how visually pleasing it was. Rent at your own risk.

On to breakfast! I have PT this morning and wanted something like but filling.

Boo!

I had a sliced banana with 1/4 cup of Bare Naked granola, 8 chocolate chips, and 3 scoops of yogurt. Mmm! I decided to throw the choco chips in there just because it was a Monday and I could use a little more pick-me-up. I had that along side my morning coffee + creamer.

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Hi guys! Another day in review because I was a slacker today and just wanted to veg out. I did some cooking and the experiments didn’t turn out. Boo! I want to start making my own bread but the thought of kneading and all that doesn’t sound too appealing. I have a bread machine so I busted that out today and my bread was a hard little rock. Oh well, I’ll get it right somehow. On to my day!

Well we have to recap the rest of last night. That consisted of me laying on the couch drinking some wine. I had another glass of red and one glass of white. I also had a small bowl of pumpkin latte! Wooo!

Pumpkin Latte

Two little scoops of coffee and two little scoops of pumpkin ice cream. I bumped it up with some bare naked granola to give it a little more nutrition value and to help fill me up a bit as I was a little hungry. The granola tasted the best on the coffee side. Like a mocha latte. ;) I watched some TV and stayed up too late which seems to be a trend this weekend. Once I hit the bed though I was out cold.

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Hi guys! Wow what a jam packed busy day today was! I’m so ready to crash and relax. Starting where we left off…

Popcorn debate

Last night I had some popcorn and a Summer Ale. Scott and I split that bowl while we watched the debates which I thought were boring as hell. I’ve seen much better debates. After that was over we moved on to some shows we taped. I was so sleepy but had another beer.

#2

The pumpkin beer was what I really wanted and should have started off with that. I didn’t need two beers especially since it was so late (to me!) already but I had it because that’s what I originally wanted. I went to bed waaaayyy too late, 11:30. Ugh! And I didn’t sleep well at all. I was preoccupied with other things and that spilled over into my dreams and then I kept waking up during the night. Meh. I was dragging this morning when I got up with Rocky who only let me sleep in till 7:45.

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Hi guys!  I have a really busy day today so I will post a full day recap later.    I’m already looking forward to being home and relaxing with a glass of red!   See you soon!

Hi guys! My Friday was a little meh today so I’m trying to end it with a little more spark. Since I didn’t get my veggie overload last night with dinner I decided I need to make sure I did that today for lunch.

Veggie overload

I pulled out stuff from the fridge and sauteed it up in some olive oil. There’s some shredded cabbage, red onion, green pepper, yellow squash, carrots, and some sugar peas. I tossed the in the leftover apple spice chick sausage too. I seasoned it with some S&P, garlic powder, and chili powder and added in some soy sauce and a little bit of chick broth for some extra flavor. Yum! We both had two big bowls (Scott’s bigger of course ;) ).

Cantaloupe

I needed some fruit since it was lunchtime, so I pulled out the cantaloupe. I didn’t even give us bowls, we just ate out of the container. :p The two of us almost polished off that whole thing!

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Morning Sky

Hi guys! I am having one of those days where I just want to stay in my jammies and do nothing. :p We are having a very chilly day today, the coldest yet it seems. I so did not want to get out of bed but I made myself. I wanted to see the sky and wanted to run early not later. It was cold and very hard to leave the nice warm bed and husband. I did a short turn today, my old route. Even though my shins are a bit sore ( I had Scott rub them while we watched TV last night. I love having my shins rubbed. Weird? I dunno but it feels awesome) I was going to try and run faster today keeping my HR way up to see what kind of exercise that would turn out to be. Well it figures that my HRM decided to be a dinkus and not work right this morning. *grumble* I had a HR of 76 and 60 today. I burned 41 calories it said. This happened on the last really cold day too, so I’m assuming I need to make sure I super wet the band on colder days. Otherwise it can’t pick up the signal it seems.

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Sorry this didn’t get up yesterday guys, I was pooooped. I’m still pooped. :p

While I wasn’t too terribly hungry yesterday afternoon, I needed to give myself a little something in order to fuel me during MT conditioning class. I decided to try a new bar.

First taste

I tried this Luna Bar Chai Tea for the first time yesterday. The first bite I thought was a little odd and had a very chalky aftertaste and texture to it. I appreicated the great ginger and nutmeg seasonings enough to give it another go. I ate another bite and it was all I could do to swallow it. Ugh. This bar was so disgusting. I asked Scott if he wanted to try it (because you know I hate throwing food away) and he said it was fine and he would eat it. Yeah, well after a couple of bites even he couldn’t finish the bar and we did end up tossing it. Never again! I have one more Luna bar left in PB cookie flavor but truth be told, I’m not sure I want to even try it.

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