Sweatastic Morning

I was still pretty sore from the am workout that I didn't go back to the gym for my RIPPED class that I love so much. I was also so extremely tired from going to bed waaay past my bed time on Sunday night and still getting up at 4 on Monday morning. I know my body needs sleep in order to function (plus I can get pretty mean when I don't get enough rest), so I took last night off.

When I got home, I was starving. So I made myself a nice, cool salad. I had bought a bag of pre-chopped salad fixings. So, I through that in a bowl and added some croutons and non fat ranch dressing and called it a salad.


I was still a little hungry after the salad, so I fixed a piece of toast with a little butter and some cinnamon. That hit the spot!

Look how happy I am when my belly is full, I'm not lined with a thin layer of sweat and I'm resting!

In my house, I always have to have some sort of dessert. I remember when you guys laughed when I had carrots one night for my dessert. This time, you guys will be proud! Jason & I shared the last bit of ice cream.

Since there really wasn't enough for 2, we needed to make it bigger. So, I added a cherry, chocolate chips, almonds, a little banana and PB. It was a great way to finish off the ice cream!

I was back at the gym before the crack of dawn (seriously, you can't see light in the sky until at least 5:15). I decided to push myself a little harder today, because I didn't go to last night's class. I ran a hard, but great 6 miles. It felt really good to push myself that hard.

After the tm, I headed over to my boyfriend, the stairs. They have been great to me. I can't believe how much sweat cam off of me. This morning was such a great sweatastic workout. I can't wait to go back tomorrow!!

Do you have any off things you eat for dessert, that many people wouldn't consider dessert?

Sans Garmin

Another bright and early Sunday morning. I woke up at 7:30 am and had a small bowl of my multi grain cereal and started to get ready for my run. I went to put on my Garmin, and noticed it was dead. I couldn't believe it, I had to run outdoors sans Garmin. I haven't done that since I got the Garmin. Oh well. I wasn't going to wait a 1/2 hour until it was barely charged enough to go. It was already starting to get warm. I went on with my run. I timed myself the old fashion way, by a standard watch. It was an average run, until I was heading back and came up and over the freeway and my MP3 player died. I forgot to change the batteries! It was a morning that was telling me not to run. At least I ran without injury. My knee never even bothered me.

This was also a day without the camera/phone. Barely any photos, sorry about that. I refueled post run with 1/2 a small Gatorade, the rest of my cereal and a cup of coffee. I'm glad I went running when I did, it was hotter today than it was yesterday (at least it felt that way). Once I got cleaned up, and cooled down, I was still hungry (a few hours later). I wanted to cool off with my favorite summer time snack, the fruit salad. Yummy-ness!!



I must have really worked up a hunger, because several hours later, I was starving. I decided to eat something I knew was going to fill me up...PB on toasted wheat bread and a bottle of water. I drink a lot of water, and it really quenches my thirst.

For lunch, I had left over pizza from Friday (one slice left). I had dinner plans to go to my parents to visit out of town family. My mom made her great pasta salad (kind of like my potato salad, just with small shelled pasta), hot dogs, veggie with dip and olives. More yummy-ness in my tummy!

Dessert was great, I wish I would have taken a picture. I was a small piece of chocolate cake and 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream. It was so nice to eat outside, in the shade. Perfect summer time dessert.

I'm home now, and I think I will cool off with some ice cold water and a cool shower. Bye for now!