On Tuesday morning at the gym, I tried a treadmill variation from Tina’s blog at Carrots n’ Cake . I actually like the treadmill (controlled temperature, I can watch TV, good people watching of what new Lululemon outfits I want), but it’s good to change up a long run or a standard walk.
I did the walk option of this workout, and it was very steep and very tough! I ended up going 2.73 miles in 45 minutes. I don’t think I have ever done a level 10 incline on the treadmill before, but it was nice to have a change every few minutes and really focus on hills. If you do this, challenge yourself to not hold on! I stuck with the inclines the whole time, but didn’t do the speeds as written for the post 4.0 mph.
I was also very happy with food I packed for breakfast, lunch, and my snack on Tuesday.
Breakfast:
2 hard boiled egg whites, homemade blueberry banana muffin (frozen from pre-blogging days, recipe to come next time I make them), 1/2 banana
Lunch:
This is where I have been getting creative in changing it up, and this lunch was one of my best lately. It was a turkey sandwich with fruit, but even simple things can be tasteless or boring.
Turkey Sandwich–1 Oroweat Sandwich Thin (half spread with hummus, half with 1/4 avocado), Spinach, 1 small tomato, Turkey breast
On the side I had some extra vegetables–rest of a tomato not in sandwich, carrot sticks, and a few cut up green beans from Sunday’s dinner.
And on the side of that, I had a cup of fruit–cherries, mango chunks, blueberries.
It was so colorful together. Remember how we’re supposed to eat the rainbow?
Snack:
Cup of Oikos Vanilla yogurt with Kashi Go Lean Crunch
Marci’s Dinner:
A quick mix of roasted brussels sprouts, red and orange pepper, small sweet potato, and vegetarian baked beans. This is a great almost no-cook dinner of things you can buy and keep for a few days.
Jeffrey’s Dinner:
Nothing in the above picture would go down Jeffrey’s mouth, so he made an egg scramble of 2 eggs + 1 egg white, red onion, yellow pepper, basil, salt and pepper. With bacon and a bagel and cream cheese. Two separate dinners for two people who don’t eat the same makes for a happy marriage!
Dessert:
Why didn’t I think of this before? Celery sticks with Chocolate Peanut Butter! Mmmm. I think there were two servings of this. How bad can celery be?
On Tuesday morning at the gym, I tried a treadmill variation from Tina’s blog at Carrots n’ Cake . I actually like the treadmill (controlled temperature, I can watch TV, good people watching of what new Lululemon outfits I want), but it’s good to change up a long run or a standard walk.
I did the walk option of this workout, and it was very steep and very tough! I ended up going 2.73 miles in 45 minutes. I don’t think I have ever done a level 10 incline on the treadmill before, but it was nice to have a change every few minutes and really focus on hills. If you do this, challenge yourself to not hold on! I stuck with the inclines the whole time, but didn’t do the speeds as written for the post 4.0 mph.
I was also very happy with food I packed for breakfast, lunch, and my snack on Tuesday.
Breakfast:
2 hard boiled egg whites, homemade blueberry banana muffin (frozen from pre-blogging days, recipe to come next time I make them), 1/2 banana
Lunch:
This is where I have been getting creative in changing it up, and this lunch was one of my best lately. It was a turkey sandwich with fruit, but even simple things can be tasteless or boring.
Turkey Sandwich–1 Oroweat Sandwich Thin (half spread with hummus, half with 1/4 avocado), Spinach, 1 small tomato, Turkey breast
On the side I had some extra vegetables–rest of a tomato not in sandwich, carrot sticks, and a few cut up green beans from Sunday’s dinner.
And on the side of that, I had a cup of fruit–cherries, mango chunks, blueberries.
It was so colorful together. Remember how we’re supposed to eat the rainbow?
Snack:
Cup of Oikos Vanilla yogurt with Kashi Go Lean Crunch
Marci’s Dinner:
A quick mix of roasted brussels sprouts, red and orange pepper, small sweet potato, and vegetarian baked beans. This is a great almost no-cook dinner of things you can buy and keep for a few days.
Dessert:
Why didn’t I think of this before? Celery sticks with Chocolate Peanut Butter! Mmmm. I think there were two servings of this. How bad can celery be?