Run Eat Repeat

Frustration or Acceptance

runeatrepeat — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Happy Weekend time!

Let’s do a quick recap of yesterday first…

I ate this thinkThin bar the company sent me (giveaway coming next week), um it’s delicious.

And a salad, but sometimes you hafta do dessert first

Then, I met up SkinnyRunner for a top secret meeting.

She jammed out of there super fast because my cold is disgusting. Luckily we were right next door to Mother’s Market so I go a Cold Buster drink with carrot juice, ginger, garlic and cayenne. It was surprisingly good!

This drink is the real reason I have orange hair

Finally after blowing my nose 892 times I headed to my brother’s science fair.

He won first place!

Ben showed up too!

Since we were in the area we grabbed Chinese take out with my family. I got the chicken soup, but stole a bunch of Ben’s combo.

Okay, this morning I woke up feeling better, but not 100%. I also did a big ol’ weird dream that my friend Lisa and I were in Vegas – Lisa, up for it?

Anyways, Saturday is my Long Run day. I look forward to this day all week. It’s my special quiet time and I feel super for the rest of the day. I really wanted to get out and do 12 today so I did my pre-run rituals and headed out the door.

A mile in I knew today was not my day. I ran out 3 miles to see if I started to feel better, but decided not to frustrate myself for 2 hours and turn back. I ran 3, walked 3 and went home to eat.

I could have tried to push through and ended up huffing and puffing and cussing at myself for 12 miles, but I knew that today was not going to be a pleasant run and I should try again when I feel better. I’m “babying” myself today and we’ll see how I feel tomorrow.

It’s never easy to turn back home early after you’ve set out for a long run, but sometimes it’s the smart thing to do.

Question: When you’re sick do you “power through” or give yourself time to rest?

Friday Fun But Not When You’re Sick

runeatrepeat — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:12:00 +0000

No, it’s just beginning…

I felt sick most of yesterday and woke up with a super bad head cold. Bah. I ate a few bites of Ben’s Chili Killers while letting the Day Quill kick in.

Finally I decided to go for a run/walk to see how I felt. Nope. My body didn’t feel like running so I did a 3 mile mostly walk – run. Then ate cereal for breakfast.

Okay, I’m trying to keep this Friday Fun despite feeling like a big booger head.

So here are my Fun Friday picks for the day…

Favorite Picture: I kinda hope Ben does this to me every time I weigh myself and suddenly stops one day…(image source)

Favorite Food I want to eat this weekend – mint n’ chip cone from Rite Aide. I saw someone eating a double decker Rite Aide ice cream the other day and can’t get it out of my mind!! When I was a kid I would always get a 2 scoop with either Coconut Pineapple or Chocolate Malted Crunch and Mint N Chip. (image source)

Favorite Work stuff: Last night was slow at the gym so Shelby modeled a hair scarf and someone put up this cute sign.

Favorite Hair Style – braiding my hair because I’m too lazy to dry it and then unbraiding it the next day and pretending I’m fancy.

Question: What’s your favorite Friday thing?

I have a lot of emails to catch up on then I’m headed to my little brother’s science experiment display at his school See ya later!

Ask a Monican #28

runeatrepeat — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:33:16 +0000

Monica from Run Eat Repeat answers:
1. How do you deal with family criticizing you about things you post on social media sites?
2. What training plan do you use for a half marathon? Sports bra recommendations?
3. What brand of Running Capris do you like??

Things I talked about…

Half Marathon Training programs:

Jeff Galloway Half Marathon Training

Hal Higdon Half Marathon Training

Dressing for Cold Weather Running

Orville Redenbacher Giveaway!!!

Got a question for me about anything under the sun?

Email me at runeatrepeat at gmail dot com or leave a comment. Your question will be anonymous unless you specify that you are okay sharing your name.

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Biggest Loser’s Bernie Salazar Interview

runeatrepeat — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:57:06 +0000

Through my partnership with Orville Redenbacher I asked you for some questions for the Biggest Loser’s Bernie Salazar. I tried to get him to go to each of your homes and answer in person, but his reps refused. Something about me being a creepy stalker, I forget. Anyways, here he is with the answers!

Bernie Salazar from the Biggest Loser

And Orville is giving one RER reader Bernie gift wrapped for Valentine’s Day this awesome prize pack (that I really want too):

·Two (2) boxes of Orville Redenbacher’s SmartPop! Pop Up Bowl Butter

· Lululemon gift card ($75) for fitness apparel

· CamelBak 1 liter water bottle

· Resistance band

· Moleskin wellness journal

· Garmin heart rate monitor

To Enter: Leave a comment with the snacks you ate today (or are going to eat).

Yes, I’ve been talking about snacks all month, but it’s part of my Smart Snacking Challenge to stay inspired and healthy! At least it’s an easy question right? And don’t say “an apple” when it was really “an apple flavored jolly rancher” – honor system!

Contest closes 2/3/12 at 11am EST. Open to US residents only. I was compensated by Orville for this series. All opinions on RER are the God’s honest truth my own.

Jan Review, Feb Goals and Confession Thursday

runeatrepeat — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:47:09 +0000

My brain is broken all over the place this morning. I thought about chopping this up into several posts, but I have a fun giveaway coming up this afternoon so all this junk is posted together.

I woke up this morning after a bad dream that I fell asleep during boot camp! Luckily, today is the last day of this session and I’ll be able to catch up on sleep next week. Let’s start my confessions here…

1. The last two Saturdays I’ve been so tired I’ve resorted to drinking low carb Rock Star energy drinks. This is totally not my style normally, but I honestly feel like crap and am desperate for a pick me up.

2. I have been sweating in my sleep and wore my new wick-wear shirt to sleep last night. Genius. I’m sure Ben appreciates this new form of lingerie.

3. I’ve decided a perfect day of food includes pancakes for breakfast and an egg sandwich for dinner. I’ve also decided I cannot make pancakes without getting flour all over myself.

4. I have been phoning my workouts in all week. I’m frustrated because I’m tired, but not because of exercise.

5. I gained 7 pounds between October (end of marathon training) and New Year’s this year. I’d been hoping it would just disappear, but that’s why I keep talking about getting back on track.

6. Sometimes I use my sleeve to wipe my nose. Okay, all the time.

January in Review:

Favorite Run: Tinker Bell Half Marathon

Favorite Eat: Anyone one of the ridiculous salads I ate in Florida

Favorite post I’d like to Repeat: Beginner HITT workout (because my BFF should be doing this 2 times a week so we can get her Bridal Boot Camp started soon!).

February 2012 Goals:

1. Track like a little chu-chu train. Don’t eat junk.

2. Create a workout plan with 1 speed session, 1 tempo, 1 LR and one Yoga class week.

3. Finalize Race and Travel schedule for the year (because it already seems super crazy in June and not spread out evenly)

Question: What are your Feb goals?

Weight Loss Wednesday– Bad Tips

runeatrepeat — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:36:46 +0000

Hello! This morning I stopped at the health food store for a few new protein powder options. I am still super in love with my favorite Spirutein Cherries Jubilee powder, but it has soy protein. I’m trying to cut back on soy since I found out I have a low T-3 thyroid (supposedly it might contribute).

So I picked up a few individual packets to try out before committing to an entire (very expensive) can. Jay Robb is the Brad Pitt Matt Damon of the blog world so I figured I should give him a whirl first.

Unfortunately, I got a little crazy with the ice and water and it was super watered down. I think if I made it with better measurements it would be good. But let’s face it, anything’s good with cereal on top.

Today I have some Weight Loss Wednesday Tips for you. Some are good, some are bad. Figure out which is which if you want the scale to go down…

Quick Weight loss tips:

1. Choose foods that are really hard to open like tight little pistachios or anything in one of those plastic shell containers that slice your finger bad enough to require stiches.

2. EAT your food. Duh, right? I mean – eat your calories don’t drink them. I feel like I’m eating a smoothie when I put it in a bowl and scoop it up (with a Yogurtland spoon).

3. If you have a tempting food in the house – like cereal or candy, eat it all so it’s gone and can’t tempt you any longer.

4. Plan a beach vacation… it’s easier to stay on track with a deadline, right?

And maybe buy a “goal” bathing suit and try it on after a really big meal and proceed to take pics of yourself in bad lighting?

5. Pretend like your food is really really delicious so people try to steal it.

6. Get enough sleep.

At all costs.

7. Paint your nails your favorite fro-yo flavor (TARO!) instead of eating it. Bonus points if this keeps you from biting your nails (it doesn’t work on me though).

8. Ignore the signs at the zoo and feed the monkeys. Better them than me…

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Ever gotten a really bad weight loss or diet tip? What was it?

Wishes on a Wednesday

runeatrepeat — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:48:50 +0000

*I started to write a Confession Thursday post before realizing it’s Wed. I wish I can get it together soon…

I woke up this morning with a scratchy throat. It might be just because I haven’t been getting enough sleep, but I drank an Emergen-C on the way to work just in case. I ~~hope~~ wish I’m not getting sick.

Breakfast was a risk (for me). I covet my neighbor’s oatmeal when I see it on other blogs, but it never keeps me full. Instead of eating eggs and oatmeal separate like on Monday I cooked the eggs right into the oats. It was really fluffy! And it kept me full until 10:45am (I looked at the clock).

I wish topping a carb with a carb was more ~~socially~~ personal trainer-ly acceptable.

Truthfully it wasn’t that carb heavy since I mixed in 1/4c egg whites and 1/4c cottage cheese.

After training a new client I hung around at the gym and did a quick strength workout (push pull style).

My lunch looked disgusting, leftovers on a salad.

But my fruit looked beautiful and I’m equal opportunity so I must show both.

I was talking to one of my clients this morning about how I have been wishing for charcoal boots. Well, I came home to a massive box on my doorstep…

I totally forgot Earthies was going to send me a pair of their boots to try!

I’m the Team Refuel Athlete of the Month!!! I wish it comes with a month’s supply of free chocolate milk You can check out Team Refuel’s FB page here and my lil’ Facebook here.

You can also check out our last video from RnR Las Vegas here!

Question: If you could wish for one thing to show up on your doorstep tomorrow (not money) – what would it be?

Lazy Casserole Recipe

runeatrepeat — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:08:54 +0000

I’m a mess. Yes, that’s the norm around here. But, I’m a bigger mess these days because of the super early boot camp and random afternoon schedule at the gym. I haven’t been able to get into a routine and I’m exhausted all the time.

I knew I was going to work until 7:30p tonight so I made a super easy casserole before I went to work. Like most of my recipes the directions are:

Throw everything together in a bowl. Top with cheese. Cook.

I used shredded chicken, broccoli, microwave brown rice and cream of mushroom soup.

Mixed and seasoned with garlic powder and pepper.

Top with cheese ~~just like my jokes~~. Bake at 350 until heated through.

It was surprisingly good!

And it’ll be even better tomorrow topped with an egg. Yeah I do.

Reader Request:

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If you can answer yes to the next 4 questions, please help her out (she is donating $1 to charity for every completed survey, you can also enter a drawing for 1 of 10 gift cards – one $100 and nine $25)!

*Are you at least 18 years of age?

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Brightroom Released the pictures from the Tinker Bell Half Marathon!

Confession: I always hope for bad race pics so I don’t have to mortgage my house to buy one 8×10

I never take the post-race picture, but SR made me.

But I don’t need their million dollar action shots…

Because reader and runner Kristine’s dad got a few running shots of me and SR!

Not-ella Spread Recipe

runeatrepeat — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:49:11 +0000

Let me tell you a little story…

Once upon a time in a land far far away Southern California, a blogger who shall remain anonymous to protect the innocent bought a massive jar of Nutella from Costco.

She thought it was good great idea at the time. She figured her husband would eat most of it and she would only take a small taste here and there. She obviously was unaware of Nutella’s Siren Song or, more likely, she was in denial…

I gained 6 pounds that month.

Crap. Guess my cover is blown!

Anyways, since that time I’ve tried to avoid buying HUGE jars of the stuff. So when a craving for Nutella hit today I decided to improvise…

I mixed up: 1 Tb nut butter (creamy works best), 1/2 tsp. cocoa powder and a squirt of honey (agave or syrup work too).

Spread on a piece of bread or eat it straight from the bowl. And try remember about this snack the next time you find yourself in the Costco checkout line with 3 gallons of Nutella in your cart.

Old business: If you want to see RER in it’s normal website form on your phone, like so:

Scroll all the way to the bottom and choose Mobile Theme “Off”

And yes, there may be some Not-ella smudges on my phone. Don’t judge.

Winner of the Garden Lites: Jen

Forever and always: apple with natural peanut butter! That snack helped me lose my 110 pounds and I still eat it most days

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My Bread and Butta

runeatrepeat — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:55:01 +0000

Happy Tuesday! It was rough waking up this morning because I just had to stay up and watch the RHWOBH Reunion – anyone else?

After teaching boot camp I decided to head home for breakfast before running. At this point I’m playing it by ~~ear~~ stomach and deciding day by day.

Chilly Mornings + Not enough Sleep = Ear Covers and Lots o’ iced coffee!

On the way home from camp I decided I wanted more cinnamon raisin toast for breakfast. I cannot get enough! I decided to stop on the way home for a loaf of Bagel Thins.

But, this got me thinking… When I hung out with my friend Susan recently we stopped at the grocery store for a snack she said she never has bread at home.

I thought this was so weird since I ALWAYS have bread and eat it sometimes 2-3 times day. I’ve let myself run out of bread once since then and didn’t die (it was pretty close though). And that little experiment made me realize how much bread I eat! I eat PB&J toast before runs, bread with breakfast, egg sandwiches, garlic cheese bread…you get the idea.

I’m not trying to cut out bread because I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. Like my favorite Sh!t People tell their trainers video said, “People have been eating bread for centuries!” But I am going to try and opt for a bigger variety of whole grains for carb-age.Woman cannot live on bread alone, right?

I used my Cinnamon Bagels to make french toast. Dip it in some egg whites, dust with cinnamon and chia seeds, cook. Topped with PB & syrup.

Okay, I should get in a quick run because I have a pile ‘o emails and clients this afternoon.

Vote for your fave carb: Bread, Rice, Pasta, Cereal, Oatmeal, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Tortillas, Pitas?