“This blog is being brought to you live from …
under my heating blanket…!!!”
I’m FUH-REE-ZING this morning. It’s not even that cold outside. I got chilled first thing during a client session and have not been able to warm up since. So I undocked the laptop and now the puppies have turned it into a slumber party while I blog.
Riley’s head is blurry because as I was taking the picture she was trying to worm her head under MY blanket.
What I’m craving right now is some Bikram’s Yoga. Mostly just the 100 degree room… 
What I’m NOT craving at the moment is a frozen sludge, like yesterday’s breakfast. Unless I can figure out how to make it warm like cocoa.
Yesterday’s green smoothie turned out a little on the ugly side. It started out green with cucumber, celery, spinach, and cantaloupe.
But then I added one of these:
A single serve Acai Smoothie Pack from the freezer. It was a fruity-licious brown smoothie!
Mid-morning snack attack was answered with a toasted piece of Ezekial with almond butter and raw honey drizzle.
It looks like the AB is really thick, but in actuality it’s only about a tablespoon (in case any of you were wondering for portion sizes).
Lunch was a Shari SUPER-Sized Salad in my one-foot bowl:
In this bowl:
- layer of spinach
- nutritional yeast
- dulse
- pepitas
- layer of torn romaine leaves
- leftover marinated mushrooms
- kalamata olives
- 1/2 avocado
- 1 tsp Annie’s Goddess dressing
- 1 tsp hemp oil
- zucchini ribbons
- sea salt
- pepper
- sun dried tomatoes
- red pepper slices
- HB egg
It was HUGE and DEE-LISH. Not to mention super filling. I think it almost took longer to build than it did to eat!
In the afternoon I was in a GREEN mood so I had a cup of green tea with a Pistachio Larabar.
Dinner was fun. It was Monday Night Football time, since the Broncos were playing. I made MSP some “Beer Mustard Chicken” on the George Foreman grill and some roasted potatoes:
And I had half of an Original-flavored Sunshine burger in a pita with hummus, avocado, leftover roasted mushrooms/tomatoes, cucumber with carrot sticks and a few roasted taters on the side.
Here is why I prefer the Sunshine brand of vegetarian burgers (well besides the fact that they are named for my favorite thing ever, sunshine!):
Look at the lack of garbage in that ingredient list. It is simply brown rice, sunflower seeds, carrots, herbs and sea salt. That’s IT!!
Compared to another brand of veggie burger, whose ingredient list reads:
Ingredients:
ORGANIC TEXTURED SOY PROTEIN WITH WATER, ORGANIC WHEAT GLUTEN WITH WATER, EGG WHITES, EXPELLER PRESSED SUNFLOWER OIL, CORNSTARCH, NATURAL FLAVORS FROM VEGETABLE SOURCES, CONTAINS TWO PERCENT OR LESS OF ONION POWDER, MINCED ONION (DRIED), MALT POWDER, SEA SALT, KONJAC FLOUR, SPICES, NATIVE TAPIOCA STARCH, GARLIC POWDER, GUM ARABIC, YEAST, EVAPORATED CANE JUICE, TORULA YEAST, YEAST EXTRACT, EXPELLER PRESSED CANOLA OIL, LACTIC ACID, NONFAT DRY MILK.
- TM Warmup 5 minutes
- DB Press/Fly Combo 4 minutes
- Seated Row 4 minutes
- Side Lateral Raises 4 minutes
- DB Bicep Curls 4 minutes
- Tricep Kickbacks 4 minutes
