So last night I was up on the internet looking at a bunch of cool new blogs I have stumbled upon. I was reading this cool fitness blog, and I decided that I would try a GREEN MONSTER today. Unfortunatley, I forgot to take a picture but it was super yummy! I was pleasantly surprised. I used the following combo:
- 1 humongous handful of spinach – not the baby kind
- a 3 -4 second pouring of lactose-free milk (~1/2 cup)
- a shake of wheat germ & ground flaxseed
- 1 tbsp peanut butter
- 1 scoop of American Sports Nutrition protein powder
- 4-5 frozen strawberries
I blended it all together and yum! It was soooo tasty. I couldn’t believe it. I choose to believe my Green Monster helped me combat the following problems I faced over the next 5 minutes:
- The fat-free cottage cheese I picked up from Wal-Mart yesterday was ALREADY OPEN? Seriously Wal-Mart? That’s why I hate shopping there – and the fact that they treat their workers like crap. I’m back to EarthFare and the Farmer’s Market. At least someone hasn’t been eating my cottage cheese before it gets home.
- I walked to my car and my jaw immediately dropped: I left both my windows half way down overnight. The weather channel reports that we had about 0.8 inches of rain last night. Now imagine that sitting in my seats and floormats of my car. I was super pissed. However, I just took a sip of my green monster and carried on with my day. I pulled a towel out of my gym bag and put it on my seat, and got in the car to whisk myself away to school – 2 hours late – with the puddles in the floor.
I got to school super late, and I wasn’t even in the mood for lunch. However, two of my friends tricked into feeling bad for missing my birthday went to lunch with me. Yes, I am admitting that I tricked them – I went as far as leaving notes on one of their cars. We had lunch at NOSH, and I had a grilled cheese… meh. But I’m not hungry right now or even craving anything.
Behold the power of GREEN!
FEEL THE BURN!
Well, I’ve somewhat fallen off of my workout bandwagon. Last week I was able to get to yoga 4 times, and that’s pretty good for me! I thought about joining LA Boxing, but that’s just silly. I cannot even finish the Yoga Challenge before I am off to the next thing. I need to stick to this and just do my best. I have the Susan Komen 5K this weekend. Too bad I haven’t started preparing at all. I’m all the way slacking. I know these 3 miles are going to kick my butt. It’s probably in my best interest to try and bang out a mile or two tonight at the gym. I know I won’t make it to yoga, so I should try to at least get some type of workout in.
So my girlfriends and I just started a group on GoogleGroups. We’re posting about our eating habits and new workout routines.
So far 2/4 of us worked out today. That’d be me and LanaBana. I’m waiting on everyone else to get all the way involved.
The week of the 17th (May), I was doing so good. I did yoga 3x that week. Today I went in for a new class being offered, Tiger’s Eye. Let me tell you, it was brutal! I felt like I pulled ALL my muscles. It was a combination of train like a fighter and fluid yoga poses. So we warmed up in the yoga room, went to the training room for two rounds of ~15 activities, then back to the yoga room for lots of warrior poses and downward dogs. Many people couldn’t go for the second round of circuit exercises. I did both rounds the best I could. I choose to believe that my Muscle Milk I drank before class gave me the power to do that. Well, I must’ve used it all up before we got to the yoga part because by that time, I was dead. My hair was soaking wet. My tank top and pants were soaking wet – and that’s saying a lot considering EVERYTHING I had on was Dri-Fit.
There is a 30 Day Challenge at the Yoga Studio. The director is challenging everyone to come to one yoga class each day for 30 days. So if you miss a day, you have to make it up by doing 2 sessions. It’s a tough decision because my unlimited pass expires on June 17. The challenge is June 3 – July 2 (I think). A 10-class pass is $105. An unlimited pass for a month is $110. My birthday is Saturday. Feel free to donate towards my unlimited pass, which I obviously need. In order to complete the challenege, I’d practically need 2 of the 10-class passes. No bueno, no bueno las amigas. <–I don’t know any Spanish.
Long story short: someone please buy me a YOGA PASS!?!?
Tomorrow: I’ll let you guys know whether I decided to take the Yoga 30 Day Challenge.
Lately, I’ve been having some separation anxiety.
Enter, my new boo:
My Baby is Green
Thursday, I thought I lost my baby. I was downright frantic and breaking out in a nervous sweat. I was back to carrying plastic water bottles and dirtying the Earth. Where was the Camelbak?! Keep Reading…
I joined the 50 Million Pound Challenge. My team is Sweet Potato Pie Divas. Obviously, I can’t get in shape on my own, and since I don’t like letting people down – maybe I’ll do it for complete strangers. Considering I didn’t have a Valentine’s Day evening activity planned, after some retail therapy I forced myself to go to the gym and do one mile. That’s all I would torture myself with and then I could go home.
One Mile? Completed. Check the link to my Nike+… apparently it won’t work on wordpress. Wompwomp.
I also weighed myself at the gym. 178. That’s fatty – 2! I would like to believe this is because I’ve been drinking ~1/2 gallon of water a day along with this Yogi Tea Peach detox blend. I love that stuff! Dr. Ian’s meal plan? Way too much for me. How the heck am I supposed to eat 2 cups of cereal with milk + 1 cup of fruit + 1 boiled egg? Plus I gotta have my water, coffee, and orange juice *morning ritual*. All that food is just not happening.
I’m seriously thinking of getting back on the Warp Speed Fat Loss plan. But I can’t fathom eating all that flax meal, cottage cheese, and protein powder. I can’t afford any more of that expensive stuff. Speaking of… I went to GNC today and purchased some chocolate whey powder (store brand). Yuck! Now usually I can mix my current vanilla powder (I can’t remember the brand) with water in my whisk blender cup and go on about my way – yum. The chocolate stuff? I was immediatley disgusted. That will be going back to the store.
I’ll keep you all posted on my progress.
Yesterday was Day 1 of my workout plan. Allow me to say that I wanted to promptly kill myself when I woke up this morning. I reached for my cell phone with my eyes closed for my daily morning chat with my Dad. Only this time, there was a big problem. My arm felt like it was being removed from my shoulder…. Not a good feeling.
My cousin has taken over as my trainer and decided I needed to go full throttle into this thing. Let’s hope I have enough arm strength to get through the day. I’ll keep everyone posted.
Sheesh!
