Helllloooooooo FitFeat Friends!  Welcome to the second-best day of the week!  (with the first being Saturday – just my opinion!  You may disagree…!) :)

As usual I am excited for the weekend.  But especially this weekend because I have some family coming to visit!  Growing up as an only child (until I was 11, at least) two of my cousins were like a brother and a sister to me.  I would spend a few weeks with them each summer, we spent holidays together.  Now we are all grown up and scattered across the country.  One lives in Ohio, one in California and then I’m smack in the middle here in Colorado.   They are both flying in tomorrow!  It’s going to be a great time – I’m so looking forward to it!

So yesterday I had a total food hangover from my “Lazy Bones and TWIX-fest Day” Thursday.  As I suspected, I had an unhappy belly most of the day.  :(   The older I get, the more sensitive my system gets (not to mention the healthier I eat, the more it freaks out when I eat fake or processed stuff.) 

Do any of you ever experience Food Hangovers? 

I remember my very first one vividly, back in ’99 when I had just started Body for Life.  I didn’t take the “Free Day” for the first month I was on BFL, and when I did finally decide to have some sugary food it was on a camping trip and we had s’mores.  Oh boy.  Upset-system City!  And while camping in the mountains … with MSP… while we were NEWLY dating!  (Can you say EMBARRASSING???)  I think that’s the evil goal of Bill Phillips when it comes to the free day … you eat yourself silly one day a week and learn how terrible you can feel afterward.   :)  

Despite the sad tummy yesterday, I did follow through with my commitment on the yoga!  In fact, the minute I posted the blog I was like, “I better just go get it done RIGHT NOW or I’ll be eating my words tomorrow!”  I chose Iron Yoga which I’ve had forever and have watched once but never actually ‘performed’.   They have you hold little dumbbells for most of the moves.  For example, while balancing on one leg in eagle pose, you are doing S-L-O-W upper body movements like tricep extensions, shoulder raises, etc.  Oh. My.  Burn.   I did it for 45 minutes… and there was still more to do.  I’m saving it for next time.  ;)

Today, my traps and delts are so SORE!  That is the thing I always love about yoga when I finally get around to doing it each time … you find out what muscles are really weak.  I know my traps are weak – I have the posture to prove it!  And they are reminding me today for sure!

I will DEFINITELY do this DVD again very soon!

As for the rest of the day…

My meal consumed at 5:45 AM prior to my personal training client at 6:15 … a Chocolate Coconut Chew brownie Larabar:

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After yoga, I was craving some greens to make up for the previous day’s LACK thereof.  This green smoothie was darn near the size of my head:

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Lunch was at Rubio’s as I was meeting a dear friend on her break from work.  We try to get together once a month no matter what life throws our way.  We each had their Langostino Lobster taco on a small corn tortilla with a side salad.  This image is from their website and I assure it looked NOTHING like this.  I’m actually pretty sure that we got about two tiny bites of lobster in our tacos.  But it tasted really good anyway!

Lobster taco(Photo Source)

A couple of clementines for my afternoon snack plus half of the best Larabar flavor known to humankind:  Tropical Fruit Tart.  mmmm…

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It must be time to get back into my “wrap wrut” again :)   because I made a special trip to the store for some whole wheat tortillas!  This was SUCH a yummy dinner.  MSP had a leftover peppered eye of round with wild rice and green beans … mine was better-looking:

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I smeared half of the tortilla with some of the Navy Bean Dip I’d made Thursday, popped it in the microwave to heat ever so slightly, then smeared the other half with Tofutti.  Toppings included pepitas, sprouts, tomato, spinach, and coarse ground pepper with a side of corn, fresh from the cob!  So yummy.

A Nana’s NO’s mini-cookie served as a sufficient dessert.

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Many thanks again to all of you who participated in the giveaway and congrats to Cindy for winning!   I’m off to get the guest room ready, do some house-cleaning, then some grocery shopping for my guests!  And maybe some more trap-killing yoga! 

Drop a comment about your food hangover experiences!! 

Have a FAB Friday!  I’ll see ya next time!

–Shari B. =_

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