Finding Fit at 30

Workout Song Wednesday May 20, 2009

Happy Hump Day to most everyone. It’s the beginning of my week so it’s Monday, blah. For the workout song this week, I’m not exactly posting a song I work out to although they’ve got some good work out tunes. The band is Everclear, anyone remember them? They’re coming to Oma-hell (to this bar) this weekend on Sunday and I bought tickets to go see them. I forgot how much I used to like them! Their songs take me back to the high school days – I graduated in ’97, I know, I’m old. In fact, the song “Everything” came out in 1997. I wanted to post a video of theirs on here but youtube has the embed function disabled which blows, but here’s links to a couple of their songs I’m jammin’ to now:

“Santa Monica”
“I Will Buy You a New Life”
“Father of Mine”

Let the summer concert series begin! I love live music and have seen tons of concerts. Here’s some of them:

Vanilla Ice (don’t laugh, I was in 6th grade)
Aerosmith – twice
Metallica
Kiss
New Kids on the Block – just last year, it was great!
Godsmack – 3 times. They’re my fave!
Breaking Benjamin – twice
Nickelback
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – twice
John Butler Trio
Leann Rimes
Stone Temple Pilots
Foo Fighters
Ratt – at a strip bar no less!
Brett Michaels
Matchbox Twenty – twice. Great band live
Nine Inch Nails – twice
Cher – hey, I took my mom
Tesla
Prince
The Samples
Cake
Blue October
Doobie Brothers
Chris Cornell

I know there are more but I drink a lot and can’t remember things Anyway, on to food…

Breakfast was a smoothie, surprise, surprise! It included:
*Pineapple
*Mango
*Spinach
*Blueberry juice
*Banana
*Flax
*Perfect Food



Oh, and this tomato…a little weird for breakfast I know, but I couldn’t fit the whole thing in for my salad I got ready for lunch.



Midmorning snack wasn’t the healthiest but eh, you win some, you lose some:
A handful of yummy jalapeno cheddar soynuts:



And a little bit of popcorn:



Lunch was the leftover curry rice from Thai Spice…sooo good even the next day. There wasn’t much green in it though so I added a salad of spinach, tomato, green onion, feta cheese and a little bit of pumpkin seeds covered up in some Annie’s Red Pepper Dressing, yum!



After work I had to go visit my dad and then off to the gym. It was a cross training day today so 20 minutes on the elliptical and just 10 on the stairstepper with some weights. That stairstepper thing kicks my ass and I sweat all over the place, it’s disgusting really. No, on second thought, what’s disgusting is the way the gym smelled today. Seriously, it’s pretty humid around here and I know stores sell deodorant in this town. The smell was so bad in one spot, my eyes watered, I swear. After walking through that funk, I go into the locker room and apparently someone had died in there too as it smelled like an outhouse. I mean really. The locker room isn’t super tiny and the toilets are far from the door. It smelled like someone doodied on the floor. Not only were my eyeballs about to pop out, then all my nose hair gets burned off from that smell. Ugh I don’t like the gym when it’s nice out!

So, after the stinky gym, I was STARVING (I know, how can I be hungry after the horrid smells, really nothing kills my appetite!). I came home and need to get through some more veggies so I made a sweet potato, of course with Earth Balance buttah, and some cucumbers and radishes on the side. Oh and hummus, can’t eat those veggies plain!





Time for bed, I have a 9-mile run scheduled tomorrow and it’s Taco Thursday!