Sausage Phyllo Rolls & Treadmill Runs

Sausage Phyllo Rolls are a great, quick and easy dinner or snack. Jason loves these!

Instead of phyllo dough, I used puff pastry. I made these for dinner yesterday and I loved it! After my ripped class, I just wanted to shower and relax. These are such an easy item to make and while they were baking, I showered.

Ripped class last night was painful. My thighs hurt from the squats, my arms hurts from the weights and push ups and my core hurts from the last minute core work before the class was over. Since I've been upping my weight, it's going to hurt until I get use to them (then, I'll just up them again). I ran another 5k on the tm. I'm finding out that when the tms die (at the gym), they exchange them for new ones (which are the ones I hate). There are only 4 tms that I like at the gym. I hope these 4 last a while.

Do you hate certain type of tms? Do you have a love or hate relationship with the tm?

Too Fast for the Treadmill

The other night, I started watching the movie Prefontaine.  He was such an inspiring man. He got me inspired to work on my speed. I haven't been doing any speed work. I know you need speed work in order to get faster. That just makes sense. But, since I haven't been training for anything, I haven't had that on my mind. Since watching the movie, I've had the urge to do so. 

I got on my handy dandy treadmill at the gym (old photo), I was running sprints at 9.5 (not that fast, but super speedy for me) and I had planned to run at least 4 miles, hopefully 6. At about mile 3.25, the tm stops working and starts making this really loud squealing noise. I broke the tm. The digital part went crazy and showed a bunch of 8's. I guess I was too fast for it!

After breaking the machine, I worked my legs and arms with some weights for about 1/2 hour, before my 60 minute spin class. 

When I got home, I told Jason what happened and he asked me to show him how I was running. So, he had me do some sprints in the backyard. It was a little difficult, because we still have some rocks back there, but no major damage was done. 

I can't wait to work on more speed out in the "real world" tomorrow!!

 Please tell me I'm not the only one that has done this. Have you ever broken an exercise machine before? Was it yours? What happened?

Cry all day long...

Work was normal and I headed off to the gym. I wanted to spend some time trying to work up a nice sweat. I started off by running sprints and hills on the treadmill for 3 miles. Afterwards, I worked on my abs for 20 minutes and then started working on my arms for about 35 minutes. I wasn't feeling like I worked up a sweat as much as I wanted. I then decided to work on the stair master for 15 minutes. That did the trick!

When I got home, I was starving. I looked at my recipe to see how long dinner was going to take. I took about 1 hour to prepare and everything. I made Linguine with Chicken Thighs. One of the items I had to chop were some onions. I hate chopping onions! They always make me cry. I ball tears for 1/2 hour afterwards. I've tried so many little things (ie: cutting under water, with a candle near by, and some others). Nothing is working to not make me cry. Do you guys have any suggestions?

Here is the onions and garlic cooking.

The tomatoes have been added.

Added chicken after the first 15 minutes.

Everything put together. Yummy!!

I usually try to stay away from chicken thighs, just because they are so high in fat and oily. They do provide so much flavor, though. These worked well with this meal. I don't think breasts would have worked. I think I will eat a banana for dessert.

Just Another Thursday

I woke up and ate my standard breakfast this morning. I went to work and started my crazy 8 hours. Another busy day. I love how busy it's been. I like not staring at the clock as the time slowing clicks by with each second. Today, it felt like an hour went by, and actually 6 went by. How awesome is that!

This morning I brought one of my Javaccino coffees to work. I knew it was going to be a crazy day and I was going to need some caffeine. Jason at Javaccino was so kind to send these to me. When he found out one of the bottles broke in shipping, he quickly offered to send some more. How sweet are they at Javaccino?

The coffee was nice and clean tasting (if that's possible) I loved the flavor (mocha, my favorite) and the best thing, no gritty after taste. I just kept it in the fridge until I was ready to open it! I can't wait to have another soon!


I think my work is really trying to make me fat. I love all the treats they're bringing in, and I can't turn anything down. I keep weighting myself to make sure nothing bad is happening. The scale seems to be my friend, right now. I think it's all the running that I've been doing. I never want to stop running, I'll be use to eating anything, Ill gain so much weight.

This morning, my boss brought in bagels from one of their favorite places. I had the cranberry walnut with fluffy plain cream cheese. That was the best bagel I've ever tasted. Too bad the shop is about 1 hour away. I guess it's actually a good thing, I won't be buying them.

My lunch was the rest of my lunch from yesterday. I was extremely full, I didn't even have a bar (or 1/2) before my workout.

When I left work, I drove as fast as I could to get to the gym. For some reason, I was so excited to go run 4 1/2 miles. I don't know why. I didn't have any extra energy or anything. Very strange. Sometimes I get excited about the smallest things. So, I did end up running 4 1/2 miles (with a quick bathroom break about 2 1/2 miles into it). It was a good run! I'm so happy I went!

When I got home, I was pretty hungry. I fixed myself another monstrous salad. I put the same stuff inside, except I added some cooked chicken. This time, I cooked the chicken in Homemade Dressings Napa seasoning. It was soooo good! It added so much flavor to the salad.

I'm still pretty full, so IF I get hungry, I'll just have a banana. They're at the prefect ripeness Right now. They just turned away from green.

I was so tired last night, I crashed so hard, I didn't even heard my hubby come home. I'm feeling pretty lazy right now, so I better go make my lunch for tomorrow. Don't forget my giveaway. Monday is the last day to enter.

Do you like bananas? If so, what ripeness do you prefer to eat them?

Hilly Wednesday

This morning was a nice morning. I got up, fed the dog, ate my normal breakfast and headed out to work. When my boss arrived, he had a surprise for us. He made another batch of blackberry cobbler. He changed a few things up, but it tasted great! I was strong and didn't eat the entire dish. About 1pm, I had my banana for my 2nd snack.

After eating my standard whole wheat lunch, I went back to work. About 1/2 hour before I left, I enjoyed 1/2 bar of my Luna bar. This flavor was my all time favorite. It was Nutz Over Chocolate. It was so good, I could have eaten 10 of these bars. Candy bar for a snack!

The gym was pretty laid back. I ran hills today on the treadmill. I ran 3 miles at 6 incline for 34:28 minutes. Afterwards, I headed straight to my spin class. We had the new guy again. He was pretty good, I got a good sweat going during class. I think I wasn't into the music, or something. For some reason, I kept looking at the clock. Time did not fly by. I was probably in one of "those" moods where I didn't want to be there, but I forced myself anyways. I'm estimating that I burned about 500-600 calories at the gym today. It was a good day. I needed to burn off some of that cobbler.

Tonight's dinner was left over spaghetti with yummy veggies. It was just as good the second day as the first. I started getting caught up on my DVR. I think that if I didn't have the DVR, I wouldn't watch nearly as many shows as I do. Oh well, I do love TV.

Right now, I'm finishing up 1/2 of a strawberry Greek yogurt with fresh blackberries. I love this combo...so good!

I feel the need to bake, so this weekend will be a baking frenzy!! I can't wait until I decide what I want to bake. I'm seeing chocolate PB biscotti in my Saturday morning coffee. I can't wait to get back to my 9am Saturday spin class. I love that class. I think I love the fact that I get to go home and relax ALL DAY LONG and not watch the time. I love the weekends. This weekend will be great because we don't have a single plan (beside the normal working out).

What is your favorite Saturday morning activity (after your workout)? I love sitting outside enjoying with a warm cup of coffee and watching the leaves blow off the tree (of course more in the fall time). It's so relaxing outside at that time, when no one else is up, yet.