I have grand plans for cooking tomorrow, but was not feeling like stepping into the kitchen to make dinner tonight. I considered forcing myself to make something, but I have been craving Thai Spice since we got back to Orange County. Aaaand I really wanted a food reward for my long run and hard week, so we went for it……
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Life Lessons from a Long Run
My 20 mile long run this morning was rough 🙁 I had to pee at mile 6… my stomach started hurting around mile 8… the “random” on my phone is not random at all and played Incubus so many times I finally stopped running dug my phone out and deleted the song all together… I picked a bad route and…
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It’s Not Fair
It’s not fair that I get to go to two different fairs this year – The O.C. Fair (that I attended last month) and the L.A. County Fair that I went to today 🙂 My mom, little brother and I hit the fair this afternoon. My mom read about a special deal where if you bring 5 cans of food…
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Finally Friday and A Weigh In
Whew! I made it. Just barely, but I did make it to Friday. This week was rough, but I’m glad it’s over 🙂 I think all the stress has accumulated on my body though because I woke up with my eye twitching 😉 <- No, I’m not winking at you. My eye is twitching. I have been avoiding the scale…
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Banana Peanut Flour Muffins
RER Pop Quiz: What do you get when you combine ripe bananas… and Peanut Flour? Answer: Happiness, that’s what. Or you could call it Banana Peanut Flour Muffins, it’s up to you. Recipe: 1 c. Whole wheat flour 1c. Peanut Flour 1/2 tsp. salt 3/4 tsp. baking soda 1/2c brown sugar 1/2 Greek yogurt 2 eggs or 1/2c egg beaters…
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Confession Thursday – Coming Clean
I love confession Thursday because it gives me a chance to Come Clean… Confession #1: I know I said Thursday is a Rest Day, but instead of complete rest I did Level 1 of the 30 Day Shred. It felt good 🙂 After the Shred I made a yogurt bowl with greek yogurt, stevia, cereals, banana, chia seeds and peanut…
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Hit The Mother-load
I hit the Mother’s Load! For various reasons I’ve had a very stressful week. Today after school I picked up Ben from work (carpooling). It was almost 7pm at that point. I had no desire to cook dinner (even though I had tofu squeezing all day). And Ben said he was starving. I talked him out of a burger joint…
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Waffle Wednesday with Pumpkin Creme
Hello and Happy Wednesday 🙂 I started my day with a 6 mile run. I don’t think I gave myself enough recovery time after this weekend’s long run because I can’t seem to shake the soreness in my quads. Tomorrow is a rest day. Deal. In honor of Waffle Wednesday I made Waffles topped with Pumpkin Crème. Pumpkin Crème Recipe:…
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Crash Diets and Crack Almond Butter
After work I called a friend who is on a diet for some infomercial (ah, good ol’ Hollywood). We chatted about what she’s eating – or rather not eating, and how much weight she’s lost. Let me be open and honest (as always), I am definitely jealous of her weight loss and would LOVE to lose 6 pounds too. But,…
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