Finding Fit at 30

Workout Song Wednesday June 3, 2009

Wow! I haven’t posted in FIVE days! I’ve just been that busy…training for the HALF MARATHON I just signed up for this evening! I’ve been talking about it, but now it’s real. I paid 60 bucks and everything so there is no backing out. Oh, I’m scared for sure! I do think it will be neat to participate in the first ever organized race like this in Council Bluffs. There are over 500 people signed up for the half so hopefully I’m not in last place!

For breakfast this morning, no smoothie I grabbed an EAS shake out of the fridge on my way out the door. With that and a banana, I was actually good to go until lunchtime which was at eleven.

Lunch today was leftovers but OMG it’s my new favorite thing to make! Coconut Crusted Salmon with Salsa is sooo emmer effing good you’ll want to slap your mama. And it’s so easy! For someone like me, that is a definite bonus! And I love salmon and coconut, I never thought to add the two together. Go check out the website where I found it, Mr. Zesty Cook can put together some food fo sho! I had this over brown rice but I usually like to put it over quinoa.

Sorry for the blurry pic as I still use my phone most of the time. I still haven’t mustered up the ballz to whip out my camera at work and restaurants and with the iphone, I can load my pics directly to photobucket which is how I get pics on here. I’m sure there is an easier way to load pics to wordpress, but I’ve yet to take a couple hours and really acquaint myself with this blogging thing yet. So until then…

I also had some melon:

The afternoon involved more than one snack, unfortunately, I fell off the wagon today and let the sweet tooth take over! Someone retired at work today so of course there was cake:

And I had to eat this yogurt before I let it sit in the fridge any longer and expire. I think I’ve found my new favorite yogurt! I’ve been searching for one that isn’t a yoplait or dannon and I’ve found it! Behold the Wallaby Orange Passionfruit (not made with real wallaby, gross). It’s not too thick and doesn’t have any funky curdled chunks in it like some other yogurts I’ve tried. It’s really good!

Oh yeah, and I had this but it’s not really a snack right? I shall consider it a supplement:

On a crappy note, my moms is in the hospital. She’s got some problems with her circulation and blood flow to the lower half of her body. They’ve run a bunch of tests and she should be released tomorrow. So, after visiting her today, I ran home and did yard work. Our yard looked like Costa Rica, seriously. Jungleland! I was expecting a monkey to come flying at me! The days it works out to mow the grass it rains! On the nice days, there just hasn’t been time and husband has been slackin’ (OK, he’s been working on the kitchen, pics of the remodel to come) but anyway, neither one of us has made the time to do it. After cutting my way through the grass and cursing the husband for slacking on his husbandly duties, I went for a 3 mile run. By this time it’s 8:30 and I’m starving. So, for something quick, I made pizza. The pizza included:

• Pesto
• Tomato sauce (good ‘ol Ragu)
• Mushrooms – baby bella
• Banana peppers
• Greek olives
• Mustard greens
• Garbanzo beans
• Green onions
• Cheese, of course

Here it is pre-cooked:

I’d never put garbanzo beans on a pizza before but I had some in the fridge to use up. It’s a win/win situation, they were really good on the pizza and I got to use up some beans!

Here it is after baking for 7 minutes:



Oh yeah, and a glass of milk…I know, my Shrek glasses rock.



And since I hadn’t had much of anything for veggies, I had a carrot and a piece of celery dipped in something almost better than chocolate. Well, I don’t dip veggies in chocolate, but I could eat a whole container of hummus like I could a whole bag of snickers!



Since this post isn’t long enough and I wouldn’t want to leave anything out, I finished off the last piece of Todd’s grandma’s chocolate cake. Really, one piece of cake today just wasn’t enough. Grandma’s cake is the bomb diggity though, the woman is like a keebler elf, baking up magic in her kitchen. This pic does it no justice, this is my favorite chocolate cake in the entire world!



Ok, almost done here…how about a workout song? It is workout song Wednesday. I’ve had this on my ipod for forevah and it never gets cut when I add and delete music from my little workout nano. It’s just got a great beat for running.