This morning I woke up bright and early to try and pick up on my interval running (even though I had already decided to take a week off of high-impact excercise)… I was able to get 1.5 intervals in before my knee started hurting 🙁 Looks like I’m going to be in the walking group at the Healthy Living Summit.
Breakfast of champions
After my disappointing run, I wanted a delicious breakfast to perk me up. I cooked up 1 egg sunny side up, and had a piece of Country Hearth 12 Grain bread with sunflowers and a half a cup of oven baked potatoes:
Why are egg yolks SOOOO delicious tasting? I find them oddly decadent!
Stats: 250 calories, 37g carbs, 7g fat, 12g protein, 2g fiber
Soon after downing this delicious breakfast, I was already feeling hungry and decided to make a fruit smoothie.
I threw the following into the blender:
- 1 container Yoplait Strawberry Greek Yogurt
- 1/2 cup Almond Breeze unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
- 1/4 cup fresh blueberries
- 6 medium strawberries
- 1 cup fresh spinach
- 1/2 cup ice
This puppy definitely filled my belly up!
Stats on my smoothie: 199 calories, 32g carbs, 2g fat, 14g protein, 4g fiber
After watching me down my smoothie, Jarrod got jealous and decided he wanted a smoothie too. So we threw the following into the blender:
- 1 scoop optimum nutrition whey chocolate protein
- 1/2 cup frozen sliced bananas
- 1 tbsp JIF peanut butter
- 1/4 cup ground-up quick oats
- 1/2 cup Almond Breeze unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
- 1/2 cup ice
This doesn’t look like much, but I tried a sip and it was AMAZING:
Tasted like a shake you’d get at a hamburger stand. I’m going to try and make a lower-calorie version sometime!
Stats on Jarrod’s chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie: 377 calories, 39g carbs, 12g fat, 33g protein, 6g fiber
Lunch
A little before lunch, I headed over to my mom’s house for some quality time with the fam. Just as I was about to leave, I locked my keys in my trunk… 😯 What am I, 16 again? When I was younger, I had the joy of consistently locking my keys in my car. Actually, the day I first got my license I locked my keys in my trunk and had to have my dad come rescue me…. Oh joy….
Once I got the key situation all worked out, I headed home to make a tuna wrap for lunch. Here’s what went into the tuna salad:
- 1 can chunk light tuna in water, drained
- 1/4 cup red onion
- 1/2 a chopped roma tomato
- 1 tbsp Ken’s Steakhouse Lite Creamy Ceaser Dressing
- S&P
Then I added a few slices of a ginormous banana pepper I grew in my backyard garden:
I put the tuna salad atop a Light Flat-out Italian wrap with 1 cup of spinach:
Then I wrapped everything up burrito-style and grilled on the george foreman grill for about 5 minutes:
DELICIOUS.
Stats on the tuna wrap: 282 calories, 28g carbs, 9g fat, 32g protein, 12g fiber
I’m hoping to try out a new recipe for dinner tonight.. I have a few ideas in mind. Maybe a nap will help things come to fruition 🙂