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My How You’ve Grown!

Jan 14

Posted by Shari B. in Keeping Fit | 5 Comments

Good mornin’ FitFeat friends!  Happy Thursday!  Check out how well my little AeroGarden is growing!

I wonder how tall they’ll get!  I love having something grow, even if all I had to do was add water and a tablet.  Still makes me feel like my thumb at least has a ‘hint’ of green to it.  Probably lime green, but that’s OK by me!

I really enjoyed the comments on my earlier post about Reducing & Reusing.  Everyone had great comments and ideas.  Joan from I’m In The Garden Today talked about reusing paper from finicky printers.  Cindy from A Sparkle A Day mentioned purchasing things in bulk and then transferring to jars at home.  Which prompted me to do that with mine too!  While my leftover almond butter jars were sitting neatly next to my drinking glasses in the cabinet, my adzuki beans and quinoa where in the plastic bulk bags I’d brought them home in, complete with twist-ties!  My good are movin’ on up like George and Weezy to their new dee-luxe digs:

This is one of the things I absolutely love about having started this blog.  I LOVE that we all trade ideas and share experiences.  Thank you all for the participation in this FitFeat community.  To this day, I still get so excited when I receive an email alert that I’ve got a comment on a blog post.  LOVE getting comments, so please keep ‘em coming!  And if you’re a lurker, that’s ok too.  I still love that you are here reading!

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Here are a few highlights from yesterday’s healthy eats.  Another jumbo green smoothie to start my day. This one contained the following:

  • 9 oz water
  • 1/2 banana
  • 2 clementines
  • medium handful of clover sprouts
  • 1/2 of a very large cucumber
  • 2 tbsp pepitas (raw pumpkin kernels)
  • 1/2 tbsp white chia seeds
  • 1 stalk celery
  • large handful of baby spinach
  • 1.5 tbsp hemp protein powder

I know a few of you are green smoothie drinkers.  If you’re not, what’s holding you back? Is it how they look?  I know they are scary LOOKING, but they do taste fantastic.  Especially if you start with more fruit than greens, and then work your way to less fruit as you go along.

Lunch was a veggie wrap at my desk (and this time I actually took my camera to work so no BLURRY iPHONE pic here!)

  • Whole wheat tortilla
  • Smear of Tofutti (the UNcheese cream cheese)
  • Shiitake mushrooms
  • Tomato slices
  • Baby spinach
  • Clover sprouts
  • Sprinkle of sea salt

It’s been a while since I’ve made a wrap – that was one of my “go to” lunches over the summer.  I think I’d forgotten how lip-smacking awesome they were, so now I’ll probably be stuck in another wrap rut again.

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Well friends, I’m off to get my lunch packed and scoot on out the door.  Have a TOTALLY TERRIFIC THURSDAY!

– Shari B. =)

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Remembering to REDUCE and REUSE

Jan 11

Posted by Shari B. in Keeping Fit | 13 Comments

Hello there blog buds!

Today is the first day of Cindy’s 30 Day Core Challenge so head on over to her blog today to check it out if you are interested.  I’ll be ‘watching’ this challenge from the sidelines only because I started the Physique 57 ‘program’ to review and as such, have more challenge to my core than I can handle already!  :)

Cindy, I’m thinking I’ll schedule the next Flex It Friday at the end of your challenge (making this one for ABS) so you can show off all of your hard work!  Whaddya think??? Are you game?

I hope you all had a marvelous weekend!  Mine flew by too quickly as usual.  As I mentioned in my Sunday morning post, we were planning an outdoor run since the weather was warming up somewhat.  We did get out for a run at 7:30 a.m. but apparently “Mr. Warm Up” was sleeping in.  It was 28 degrees, but WINDY so it felt bitter cold.  But it was still AMAZING!  I just love running outside.  The sun was shining and the sky was blue.  Idyllic. We just did a leisurely 3.5 miles and then spent a good 15 minutes stretching really well afterward.

It was fan-tabulous!

You know what makes beautiful runs even better?  Getting to have your ‘post-workout’ drink at Starbucks!!  I met up with another of my best friends for some chat time after the run and had a delicious grande decaf soy no-foam latte. And the cutest miniature donut you’ve ever seen!  It was too adorable to resist.  I am a sucker for miniature things. Maybe that explains why Rascal has me wrapped around his paw… he IS a MINIATURE Pinscher!

Could you resist this little face??

Didn’t think so!  ;)

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Switching gears:  I was thinking over the weekend about another part of The Kind Diet that really resonated with me but that I didn’t include as a part of the review.  It has to do with the phrase “REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE”.

I feel good about the amount of recycling we do in our household (vs. throwing things in the trash).  We are very lucky that our waste management company (Eagle Waste) includes recycling FOR FREE when you use them for your trash pickup.  You just have to have some marked bins.  What Alicia reminded me of after reading her book is that while recycling is great, you still want to focus on REDUCING and REUSING before you even go that next step of recycling.

I’d gotten so used to recycling that I confess I had kind of forgotten about the other two.  When I would rinse a glass jar that maybe had spaghetti sauce in it, I’d have normally placed that right into the recycle bin and felt that I was doing a good thing by recycling it.

Well, sort of.

Yes, it’s 100% better than choosing the trash bin.  But this weekend it occurred to me that there was NO REASON to recycle those glass jars when I could absolutely REUSE them. I can take my lunch in one so that I have something of glass to microwave my food in (since I do NOT like to heat my food anywhere near plastic if I can help it.)  Or I can store leftover veggie broth.  Or drink a cup of coffee out of one (or WINE!)

So yesterday when I did my weekly fridge organizing to make room for the groceries, I kept ALL of the glass containers out of the recycle bin, washed them and put them in my cabinet next to our drinking glasses.  I did the same with my Tokyo Joe’s plastic ‘take-out’ containers.  They are just as good as the GladWare that I have picked up once or twice at the store (the thin kind that is considered ‘disposable’ but that I use just like Tupperware.)

Now I know this is a health & fitness blog, but I feel that the health of the Earth qualifies for inclusion here every once in a while.  :)   Because the healthier Mother Earth is, the healthier WE can be too! And I figured if I needed a nudge to ‘remember’ to REUSE before I recycle, then maybe you might like a nudge too!

Are you a big recycler?  How do you REDUCE and REUSE? Please feel free to share any tips that YOU use for reducing and reusing in the comments section so that we can all learn and be kind to our environment!

Have a beautiful evening friends!

– Shari B. =)

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