old picture Friday and TGIF!

Good morning bloggies!  I am so happy that it is Friday.  My 10 year old came down and had to wake me up this morning, and then informed me that I had turned my alarm off in my sleep, lol!

Today is going to be old pictures of the food I ate yesterday, because my camera battery died and that makes it impossible to post pictures.  So let’s get this party started!

Breakfast Friday am:

chocolate covered raisin oatmeal

oats, unsweetened dark chocolate cocoa powder, Sun Warrior Brown Rice Protein Powder, raisins. YUMMY!

Sun Warrior.

I love this protein powder because it is so clean.  Not 1 bad thing in it!  Highly recommended.

Coffee. Lots of coffee.

Did I mention lots of coffee this morning? LOL!

I went out last night for dinner to a local Chinese restaurant and had sushi that looked something like this:

Sushi.

I say it “looked something like this” because my sushi last night was a bit different.   I had a spicy tuna roll, and it didn’t have cream cheese or anything.  It also had white rice, because they don’t make it with brown.  Accompanying my sushi was miso soup and a house salad with the ginger dressing that I love.   There was some water to drink, also…no drinkies for me last night!

So sorry about the old photos!

I snacked on this before dinner, because we didn’t go out until 7pm:

Just 1 whole egg, no pancake.

and a lowfat cheese stick, which I don’t have a picture of. (Lucky you!).

Lunch was a Gardenburger with leftover roasted broccoli and brown rice:

Except the picture shows cottage cheese, not brown rice:

Brown rice.

Of course I had to have some chocolate:

Decadent raw orange chocolate brownie always tastes good!

As do these cookies:

Kashi

Overall, I feel that I did a fairly good job of eating clean yesterday and had a minimal amount of sugar.

I also got a fantastic workout session in.  (FINALLY!) BodyStep for 1 hour, and then weights.  I had to do the majority of my weights in one day, but I’m happy I finally got them in:

• Bar military press 30 lbs. 3 sets of 12
• Bar upright row 30 lbs. 3 sets of 10
• dumbell front raise 10 lb 2 sets of 12, 12 lb 1 set of 12
• barbell bent over row 30 lbs. 3 sets of 12
• cable seated low row 20 lbs. 3 sets of 12
• dumbbell bicep curl 12.5 lbs 1 set of 12, 15 lbs. 2 sets of 12
• 21′s 15 lbs, 3 sets of 12
• machine tricep extension 80 lbs 3 sets of 8
• seated tricep extension 15 lb 1 set of 12, 20 lbs 2 sets of 8

Today’s plan is to do legs, abs and a short 2-3 mile run @ 10 minute miles or under.

So what’s everyone’s plans for the weekend? I have a busy weekend ahead. Soccer, birthday party sleepover, girls movie and dinner night on Saturday….working out…and 20 loads of laundry!

Hope y’all have a great Friday!

Jessica xoxo

Energizing for the Day

Hello all!  I knew I was going to need energy this morning for my fave class, BodyAttack.  This is a very demanding, very hard, but really fun class that I take 1-3 times per week.  (Gonna get back into it, for sure, now that my Wednesdays are freed up from the “long runs”).  If you want to increase your fitness, take that class.

Knowing that I was going to need to fuel before class, I started my day with this:

Oats!

chocolate covered raisins protein oatmeal.  Did you get all of that? LOL.  In this bowl:  1 serving of oats, 1 scoop of Sun Warrior Chocolate Protein Powder, 1Tb. Hershey’s unsweetened chocolate powder, stevia, and raisins.  Guess what? It carried me through Attack!  The perfect breakfast for a high intensity cardio class!  I would also like to mention that I burned 484 calories @ 24% fat.  It’s not as high as I normally do (around 500-550) but I’ll take it!

I actually had some running around to do today and didn’t get home until noon.  I really wanted to be home an hour earlier than that.  I had to go to the marina, and to Publix…to get the cottage cheese that I wanted yesterday, along with some extras (uh, beer , a yellow pepper, chick peas to make homemade hummus with, yellow rice, and baby bella mushrooms).  HAHA!!!

I was mainly happy about the cottage cheese.  Let me tell you why.  I fell in love with the Friendship low-fat, low sodium cottage cheese.  I like to watch my sodium, and it only has 50 mg.  The regular has 450-500!  WOW!

My fave

I came home and made a quick and yummy lunch:

Marinaded salmon in Wegmans Santa Fe Marinade.  (I sent it home from NY!)  Cottage cheese (of course!) and half a yellow pepper.  I actually put some of Annie’s Goddess Dressing on the cottage cheese and mixed the peppers in, and that really hit the spot.

Side note: I plan on making some homemade hummus tomorrow.  I also plan on making some peanut sauce to eat with stuff.

I got really hungry again about 3pm.  I also craved salt. To stop my craving, I had a plate of broccoli with Braggs Amino’s and real parmesan:

Broccoli. Braggs. Cheese. Foodgasm!

That is honestly a rockin’ snack!

So I worked some and blogged some and facebooked some haha.  Jeremy grilled up some chicken and I roasted about 2 pounds of carrots, resulting in my dinner looking like this:

The rice is Rice-A-Roni, but it is the Nature’s Way, and doesn’t have any yucky stuff in it (and actually tastes really good…my kids love it!)

Jeremy and the kids actually had a pasta version (a la Pasta Roni):

and of course a close-up of the chicken…nothing beats marinaded grilled chicken (subsequently marinated in the same marinade as the salmon, )

Hope y’all have a great hump day!  I know I am!  Things to do today: gym (duh, LOL!) and meeting a friend for coffee.  Oh, and we’re cooking a 22 pound turkey!  Jeremy agreed to put it in if I made homemade mashed potatoes.  I think I’m going to need to get some canning jars, because I plan on lots of soup…and turkey tetrazzini, turkey pot pie, turkey stock, turkey gravy, turkey legs, turkey breast (sliced for sandwiches)….

Question of the day:  Any suggestions for what we can do with the turkey leftovers?  They have to be clean recipes!

Hump Day!

I woke up this morning and it was suddenly Wednesday! Craziness.

I ate some interesting things today! I started the morning with my chocolate covered raisin protein oatmeal:

"Before"

What we have here is chocolate protein powder, unsweetened cocoa powder, stevia, golden raisins.  What the yuminess looked like all mixed up:

"After"

I missed my bloggies yesterday!  Today was another day back to the cancer center, and I wasn’t going to turn down the catered lunch they offer:

Tomato-Basil Soup

Oooh. The soup was really good.  I also had a real roast beef sandwhich:

bad picture. Sandwhich, not so great, either!

Next time, I’ll have the turkey again, which was fantastic.  There was also a salad on the side:

bad picture. Yummy salad!

My picture taking was lacking today.  I think it will get better as we go on, so that’s something to look forward to!

Let’s talk about the salad dressing:

mindboggling.

Why is the dressing so yellow?  I only used maybe a teaspoon.  Oh, that’s Italian dressing, by the way. LOL!

After we got home I did some snow shoveling and then headed to the grocery store (I think I mentioned I’ve been living there?)  Dad wanted to try some sushi, so I got him some with crab meat and avocado:

It was very good, and I think Dad liked it

I got myself another $6 Wegmans Meal for dinner which I thought was fantastic, again!

Garlic parmesan encrusted tilapia, harvest vegetables, butternut squash with spinach and cranberries.  It was so good, I ate the whole thing!

Remember the preservative free cookies I made the other day to take in to the nurses?

They ended up looking like this:

And then I ate one.

Yesterday I ran 3 miles outside and took a snapshot of my Garmin:

Keep in mind I was running in the snow so it was tricky footing.

Have a fantastic rest of the day.  See you tomorrow!

Jessica xoxo

Snow Day Friday ;)

Yes, I live in the Atlanta area.  YES, we got snow.  Now, I have to admit that I am not a fan of snow.  I was born and raised in Rochester, NY and lived in many snowy areas: Burlington, VT, Boston, MA, Buffalo, NY.  So if you ever wonder why…there you have it   It’s nice for the kids, though.  Surprisingly, they haven’t asked to go outside yet!  And I tried to get my dog outside, and she went straight back in and went and sat on the heat vent. LOL!

This morning, in light of the snow and the fact that it is winter, even here in the south, I wanted comfort food.

I am going to call this oatmeal bowl Dark Chocolate Covered Raisins Oatmeal.

Yesterday it snowed.  Did I mention that? LOL!

It was snowing, but you can't see it...

Also, yesterday after I ate the smoked salmon breakfast, I wasn’t hungry for hours and hours. I missed my snack, and finally had lunch at 2:00! The only reason I ate was because I was leaving for the gym at 5.  Lunch was great.  I made another bison burger, but crumbled it and put it in a wrap.  These were clean wraps, and they were really good.  I started with some reduced fat feta and purple onion:

Added some butter lettuce and ground bison:

And wrapped it all up.  Phenomenal!!

Then I hit the gym.  I hit this class so hard I was exhausted at 9pm.  Mysti rocked this class.  Then I did some shoulders (finally) and chest and headed home.  Overall, I burned 584 calories @29% fat in 1:25:40.  This weeks totals so far: 1936 calories in 4:57:55 not including today!!!

I also had some homemade trail mix: golden raisins, raw cashews, raw cacao nibs:

I was ravenous when I got home from the gym.  So while I took a shower, I put a pork loin in the convection oven with carrots and they were ready when I was done:

4 oz. pork loin, 2 carrots, and my fantastic salad that I missed so much because there wasn’t a single dressing I could have with the whole food sensitivity thing going on.  Last night, I had what I wanted.  And it was all clean eats.

The salad was butter lettuce, reduced fat feta, roasted red peppers, and crushed Mary’s Gone Crackers.  Fantastic!!

Have a wonderful day off to my Georgia friends!  To all of the rest of you, TGIF!!!