Hola WEDNESDAY! My crazy overscheduled Monday and Tuesday are over! Ahhh, I can take a deep breath! Good thing I got that yoga in on Monday to give me some extra zen to get through!
Thank you to everyone who commented with their favorite yoga poses yesterday! And if you haven’t yet, please feel free to still comment on that one! Fallon taught me what “Flipping the dog” was – and apparently it’s nothing like “Flipping the bird“! (Good thing!)
Tasty, healthful EATS help too when schedules are crazy! Keep the nutritional stress to a minimum, especially when the mental/physical stress is elevated!
Yesterday just before my early morning client training session, I had half of a Coconut Cream Pie Lärabar. Have I told you today how much I love thee, Coconut Cream Pie? You sure go great with coffee, with oatmeal, with exercise!
Then post-session I had a bowl of old fashioned oats (1/3 cup measured dry), topped with a tablespoon of rice protein powder, cinnamon, almond milk, a few raisins, and a dusting of unsweetened coconut. It looks like it snowed on my breakfast!
One of my clients has been making her green smoothies the night before and then taking them to work the next day. I never let mine sit. They always get slurped through a straw immediately. But I’m trying to get a better routine down for my hectic schedule at the moment so I thought I’d take a cue from her and make my smoothie “to-go”. This one had 8 oz water, one banana, big fist o’ spinach, sprouts, 1/2 peeled cucumber, and 2 celery stalks. I packed it in a Rubbermaid jug to be shaken up in later. I “ate” it around 10:45, about 3 hours after blending and it was still quite tasty!
(It was refrigerated in my lunchbox that whole time in case you were wondering!)
Also packed up my lunch to be assembled later in the day. A large spinach salad with HB egg, sundried tomatoes, dulse, and nutritional yeast. 1/4 of the avocado and half the roma tomato were added at 1:00 when I ate it, along with two spoonfuls of the marinated mushrooms.
And for dessert, an EXTREMELY dark chocolate, which almost tastes like you are eating right out of the unsweetened cocoa powder tin. Yowza!
We had our holiday party at the office from 3:30 on, so my afternoon snack and dinner consisted of pita chips with hummus and two glasses of pinot grigio. When I got home, I had three crackers with some raw goat cheddar. That was it on the eats for the day. I can tell you that I am already hungry for breakfast!! I didn’t eat enough yesterday!
Yesterdays exercise FEAT was not organized exercise per se, but was heavy duty nonetheless. We received two PALLETS of marketing materials that we will be stuffing at work today. In my nice dress and heels, I was moving HEAVY boxes around, getting them sorted and ready to go for today. It was quite a workout! I definitely feel it this morning. And I’m still feeling Monday’s YOGA as well! (And I made sure to NOT wear heels today!)
Well friends, it’s time for breakfast and then out the door! Hope your week is going well so far!
Make it a GREAT day! Did you fit your FIT in yet??
– Shari B. =)











#1 by Joan on December 17, 2009 - 7:17 pm
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I commented before but it didn’t stick…2x. I’m a goof…now what was it? Oh yeah, I remember…could you elaborate on dulse? I dont’ know what that is, nor what are the benefits.
.-= Joan´s last blog ..Bye Bye Birdie…not! =-.
#2 by Shari B. on December 17, 2009 - 8:08 pm
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Hi Joan! Great question! Dulse is dried seaweed. I eat it for the minerals among other things. I’ll have to put a post together that includes dulse as the topic!
Thanks for the suggestion!
#3 by Joan on December 17, 2009 - 7:06 pm
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well I commented yesterday but it didn’t stick for some reason…now I can’t remember what I said? oh well…
.-= Joan´s last blog ..Bye Bye Birdie…not! =-.
#4 by Shari B. on December 17, 2009 - 8:07 pm
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Hi Joan,
Well that’s weird that my blog has done that to both you and Cindy for this particular post. I wonder if it was down again for part of the day! I’m sorry about that! I know that you ladies take a lot of time to write comments, and I’m sad that they are disappearing from WordPress! Sorry about that!
#5 by Cindy on December 16, 2009 - 6:25 pm
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oh I hear you on the totally beat part!
catcha later!
.-= Cindy´s last blog ..Yoga Mishap =-.
#6 by Cindy on December 16, 2009 - 9:09 am
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okay…good…I see it there. it stuck!
#7 by Cindy on December 16, 2009 - 9:09 am
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okay…so I make sure I hit Submit and it sticks today….
I just wanted to say I always make a whole blender full of green smoothie ness and take the rest to work the next day. I haven’t noticed it changes. I just shake it up real good, and keep it cold. I live by preping…I would wake the baby if I ran that thing at 5 in the morning. My problem is when I don’t prep the night before…(like last night) than I am stuck with whatever I can find for eats at the desk the next day.
I did try making chia pudding in a single serving sized tupperware bowl and LOVED IT.
I adore dark dark dark chocolate…even cocoa beans…a la plain.
I like the bitter for some reason.
I am still doing the eagle pose after you mentioned it yesterday…and I am getting my fit in by just some nice yoga podcasts, I did my resistance band stuff for my arms and some planks yeterday (it was yoga for your core)
good stuff!
no jog…I am still exhausted and was falling asleep on the couch at 9:30 laughing because normally I would have to go hit the treadmill.
I remember doing more things in dresses and heels at the job. I think it’s why I don’t anymore. (wear dresses and heals) but it does make for a good work out!
have a great Wednesday!
#8 by Shari B. on December 16, 2009 - 3:53 pm
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HI Cindy! I’m bummed that your other comment disappeared – I always love reading your long comments!
Really dark chocolate controls my cravings better — I can totally overeat lighter chocolates.
You’d think I’d have amazing calves with all the heels I’ve worn over the years PLUS running hills… but not so much! I have the most bizarre places where my body stores fat and CALVES are one of them! So weird!
Have an AWESOME night! I’m headed to grab a snack and just SIT for a minute — I am totally BEAT!
.-= Shari B.´s last blog ..Flipping Dogs and Snowy Oats =-.