{"id":10489,"date":"2010-02-05T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=10489"},"modified":"2010-02-06T01:24:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T05:24:39","slug":"february-4th-2010-preprations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/02\/february-4th-2010-preprations\/","title":{"rendered":"February 4th, 2010: preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Writer&#8217;s Note: This was supposed to go up last night but my picture program wasn&#8217;t working right.\u00a0 So it got posted this morning instead.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hi gang!\u00a0 Sorry for no update yesterday but time got away from me and I was busting it around the house.\u00a0 It was a bit windy Wednesday morning so I stayed inside and did 2 levels of shred and then Gina&#8217;s week 3 of the Winter Shape-Up.\u00a0 I kicked ass and it felt awesome!\u00a0 One thing I love right now about doing the shred is that I&#8217;m actually sweating and to be honest, it&#8217;s one of the things about working out that I love.\u00a0 With it currently being winter, I don&#8217;t really sweat much on my runs outside.\u00a0 Both of my martial arts schools are in warehouse type buildings which means they tend to be on the cold side during winter and that means I&#8217;m not sweating as much.<\/p>\n<p>I love to sweat!\u00a0 I stink like a mofo too when I sweat.\u00a0 I smell like sweat and garlic. Sexay!\u00a0 In the mornings I have the added bonus of morning breath to go with it! :p\u00a0 When I sweat, I feel like my body is working it and all kinds of nasty toxins are being forced out.\u00a0 In the winter when I don&#8217;t sweat as much I don&#8217;t feel as great after a workout.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I still feel good but not fantastic.\u00a0 I like feeling fantastic!\u00a0 Doing shred in the living room helps me crank out a nice sweat.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s lunch was a pick-plate because I wasn&#8217;t super hungry.<a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-03-10_lunch.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10494\" title=\"Smoothie, fruit, veggies \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-03-10_lunch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-03-10_lunch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-03-10_lunch.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smoothie:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>.5C Carrot juice<\/li>\n<li>1.5C Unsweetened cranberry juice<\/li>\n<li>1.5C Soymilk<\/li>\n<li>Spinach<\/li>\n<li>Banana<\/li>\n<li>Frozen blueberries<\/li>\n<li>Frozen peaches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The plate was carrots, cucumber, and a chick&#8217;n patty with BBQ sauce.\u00a0 Fruit in the middle.\u00a0 Mmmm chick&#8217;n patty.<\/p>\n<p>It was dang cold yesterday but Rocks and I cranked out a walk anyway where some high school kid told me my dog was cute.\u00a0 After coming up to me, staring at me and saying, &#8220;HI!&#8221; as I was doing dooty duty.\u00a0 <img src='\/images\/lol.gif' alt=':lol:' \/>\u00a0 It was hilarious!<\/p>\n<p>It took me forever to decide on what to make for dinner and since I had a huge craving for beans I went with that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10493\" title=\"Corn, sweet potato fries, black bean burger \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-03-10_dinner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-03-10_dinner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-03-10_dinner.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had blackbean burgers.\u00a0 This time I ran some oats through the food processor first to break them down, then added:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1can black beans (drained and rinsed)<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 red onion<\/li>\n<li>1 garlic clove<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I pulsed that a bit then added in some salsa and pulsed more.\u00a0 I added some wheat germ and ground flax and mixed.\u00a0 Formed into patties and put in the fridge for half an hour.\u00a0 I sauteed them up in some olive oil on the stove.\u00a0 Topped with some cheddar and then I added some extra salsa for dipping after the picture.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buffalo sweet potato fries on the side:<\/li>\n<li>Buffalo sauce<\/li>\n<li>Olive oil<\/li>\n<li>Garlic powder<\/li>\n<li>Chili powder<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle of salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Baked at 400 for about half an hour.<\/p>\n<p>And I dipped into my summer corn stash and we had that on the side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I woke up early this morning and kicked out 6 miles.\u00a0 It was cold but not terribly cold and no wind.\u00a0 I thought about doing 8 miles but I was a bit hungry and headed inside.\u00a0 Naturally I&#8217;m sort of down on myself for not doing those 8 miles and coming home early.\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting over it though, 6 is better than nothing!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s smoothie was purple glorious!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10499\" title=\"Smoothie \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_smoothie-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_smoothie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_smoothie.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1C Carrot juice<\/li>\n<li>1C Unsweetened cranberry juice<\/li>\n<li>1C Water<\/li>\n<li>Spinach<\/li>\n<li>Frozen blueberries<\/li>\n<li>Frozen mango<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today was actually a glorious day outside.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t too cold and the sun was shining for a while.\u00a0 Too bad the weather is forecasting for us to get a nasty storm tomorrow dropping 6+ inches of snow.\u00a0 MEH.\u00a0 I was cranky about it but then I realized that in the few years that I&#8217;ve lived in Ohio, the norm has been for us to get one last big snowfall before spring arrives.\u00a0 And it always happens in February.\u00a0 Maybe the early part of March but no later than that.\u00a0 February seems to be Winter&#8217;s last hurrah or something.<\/p>\n<p><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Muay Thai'>MT<\/abbr> was rough and totally kicked my butt.\u00a0 WHEW!\u00a0 One of the new guys at the school showed up but didn&#8217;t know it was a conditioning class.\u00a0 Whoops!\u00a0 He said he wondered why there weren&#8217;t very many cars outside.\u00a0 I said, &#8220;Now you know.\u00a0 Welcome to conditioning class, you&#8217;re in for a treat.&#8221;\u00a0 Dude he was spent after class.\u00a0 I wonder if he&#8217;ll be back? <img src='\/images\/lol.gif' alt=':lol:' \/><\/p>\n<p>You know what today is!\u00a0 Give it up for:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_sign.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10498\" title=\"Pizza Day Woots!\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_sign-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_sign-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_sign.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wooots!\u00a0 Message created by Scott.\u00a0 Are we the only dorks who talk to each other with fridge magnets?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_pizza.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10496\" title=\"Pizza \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_pizza-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_pizza-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_pizza.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feta is my new addiction for pizza toppings.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the scoop:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spelt crust<\/li>\n<li>Pizza sauce<\/li>\n<li>Shredded moz<\/li>\n<li>Feta<\/li>\n<li>Red onion<\/li>\n<li>Shredded zucchini<\/li>\n<li>Banana peppers<\/li>\n<li>Ham (Scott&#8217;s side)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_pizza_slice.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10497\" title=\"Pizza \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_pizza_slice-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_pizza_slice-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_pizza_slice.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>YUM!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_dinner.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10495\" title=\"Pizza \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_dinner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_dinner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/OHC-02-04-10_dinner.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I had two huge slices of this perfection.\u00a0 Delish!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions and Answers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest thing that&#8217;s been going around the blogs lately is this anonymous question and answer session.\u00a0 Sorry guys but I won&#8217;t be participating in that.\u00a0 If you have a question just send me an email and ask me.\u00a0 If you have to be anonymous about it, well then what kind of questions are you looking to ask?\u00a0 My stance is, if you have something to say then put your name on it and own it.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t hide behind an anonymous status. As long as the question isn&#8217;t too personal (I would tell you if it was) then I have no problem dropping factoids or answering questions.\u00a0 It could spark discussion which is nice!\u00a0 But if you were looking for me to jump on that train then consider this me bursting your bubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Writer&#8217;s Note: This was supposed to go up last night but my picture program wasn&#8217;t working right.\u00a0 So it got posted this morning instead.] Hi gang!\u00a0 Sorry for no update yesterday but time got away from me and I was busting it around the house.\u00a0 It was a bit windy Wednesday morning so I stayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2Jb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}