24 | March | 2010 | healthy laps

i love juice!

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Jen

Happy Humpday! So glad that we are halfway to the weekend again. 🙂 Sorry, long post alert!

I made a HUGE glass of fresh squeezed juice this morning with breakfast. I have been craving it ever since my One Lucky Duck stop over the weekend in NYC. I tried to re-create the juice that I got there (carrot, apple, ginger), and added a few other simple ingredients as well.

In the mix:

4 carrots
3 celery stalks
2 apples
1/2 lemon
ginger

I love the addition on ginger to my juice. It gives it just the right amount of spice and kick – I just need to make sure I don’t add to much! This mix made a huge glass of juice plus more. I loved it. Paired with slice of When Pig’s Fly Toast with almond butter, it was a wonderful breakfast.

Since I got in so much fruit for breakfast, I made sure to make my lunch veggie packed. Whole wheat mini pita with hummus, cucumber and lettuce with a side of kale chips. I’m loving these kale chips.

Along with yogurt, flax seed and Mainly Maine Maple Granola.

My stomach has been giving me issues with yogurt lately, so I put this down after eating about half. I need to go back to making my own yogurt – maybe this weekend!

Before hitting up the gym this afternoon, I snacked on a Banana with PB for protein, carbs and fat to power me through the workout – delicious combo.

At the gym, I ran for a bit on the treadmill. I felt awesome for just having run my best half marathon yet! I completed 4 miles in 38 minutes – not bad for a recovery day. I made sure to spend a good 10 minutes of stretching afterward so that my hips don’t tighten up again. Doing some yoga moves the past few days made me feel awesome – I need to get yoga back into my life again. I love to run, but maybe I need to change things up a bit for at least the next few weeks. I think that it is important to change up your workouts to keep yourself fresh, and to trick your body into burning more calories and getting stronger. Here I come swimming, and yoga, and spinning! 🙂

Speaking of swimming, after my run tonight, my husband met me at the gym to swim! It was awesome. I haven’t been in the pool for at least 3-4 months. I took is easy today and just swam laps for 30 minutes. No sprinting, no nothing.

I was desperate for dinner while swimming, so I snacked on an Apple Heart Thrive in the locker room. I loved this flavor! I have only tried the Lemon Poppyseed and Apple so far. The apple was moist with big chunks of apple in there. Yummy.

We kept dinner simple. Pasta with peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, basil and sauteed rainbow chard. I have never used chard before, but I loved the colors! I cut off the stems and used it just like I would have used spinach. It was delicious.

I made a sauce out of 1 small can tomato paste, 4 garlic & herb laughing cow wedges, salt, pepper and basil. It surprisingly came out great – almost like a vodka pasta sauce, but much healthier.