10 | March | 2010 | healthy laps

simple supper

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Jen

By the time I got home from the gym tonight, I was starving! I was shaky and dizzy and needed food asap. I whipped all of this up pretty quickly – I love when I can do that with healthy food.

While I was putting together this delicious and healthy meal, I munched on some hummus and crackers.

It held me over for about 10 minutes until my dinner plate was full of food. Last week when I made my Black Bean Burgers, I put one in the freezer to save for when I needed a quick meal. Today was the day! I popped the burger in the microwave for 1 minute to heat it up and toasted a whole wheat sandwich thin. While those were heating up, I made a quick salad with romaine, sliced almonds, raisins and apricot stilton. Then, I spread my sandwich thin with a laughing cow wedge and added the veggie burger. I served the burger and salad along with some veggie chips.

This was a great healthy and quick meal – I’m stuffed!

Backing up to the gym. I did a quick 45 minute easy 5 mile run when I got there, then hit up the weights. The treadmill was torture! I am so ready to run outside in warm weather again. But, I made it. For my weight session, I used circuit training and tried to hit the major muscles without overdoing it, since I haven’t lifted weights in about a week!

Circuit Weight Session

Bicep Curls
Overhead press with squat
Bicycles
Lunge with alternating front and side raises
Tricep kickback
V-ups
Hammer curls
Upright row with deadlift
Fly’s and tricep row
Situps

This workout felt great. I plan to do one more weight session this week and then take next week off while I taper for my half marathon!!

I updated my Running Laps page with some running and workout tips, which I plan to update often! Check it out here.

I also added some Weight Loss & Healthy Living Tips to my About me page! Be sure to check them out. I use a lot of these tips now, even though i’m not trying to lose weight. They are good healthy living and maintenance tips as well.

Have a great night blog friends!

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spinach overload

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Jen

What a gorgeous day! I woke up early to get some stuff done before work, and loved the sun shining in while I worked. 🙂

I was starving, so I immediately put on the kettle for tea and toasted my last slice of Millet bread. I sipped on some english breakfast tea with a splash of almond milk and munched on my toast which I spread a thin layer of peanut butter and blueberry jam on.

After I got ready for work, I was still starving. So, I whipped up another delicious Cherry Chocolate Bomb from Kristen. Love these!

I guess I used a little more spinach today, since my smoothie was a lot greener than yesterday. The only substitution I made was to use 1 cup of strawberries since I was out of everything else. I can’t wait to try this with the frozen cherries it calls for. (Side note: I just ordered some glass straws since I am finally out of these plastic ones that will kill the environment!)

Then, it went downhill – my stomach was killing me. Not sure was happened. A spinach overload?? I hope not.

A few hours later, I finally felt some relief and even a little bit hungry, so I snacked on a Haute Diggity Date Granola Bar that I received from 18 Rabbits.

18 Rabbits uses all natural and organic foods in their granola and granola bars. They produce 2 types of granola and use one of those as a base to each bar. This bar contained their Gracious Granola with organic dates, golden sultanas and oats.

This bar was delicious! It tasted like I was eating whole ingredients, which is not true of all granola bars. They sent me one other bar to sample, but I will definitely be trying each of their flavors.

Lunch contained leftover salad with rice from last night, which were still delicious.