August 31, 2008

Workouts:
-- Muscle Mile (15 Minutes with 2 lb weights)
-- One Mile Walk (16 minutes, from the WaH website, some with weights)
-- Evening Mile (20 minutes with 2 lb handweights)

so far its 3 miles or 51 minutes! awesome! maybe I will sneak in another easy walk before bed... walking helps me sleep. or maybe I will leave it at 3 miles and start back full-swing (or is it "full-sweat"!!) tomorrow!



Breakfast: FiberOne bar + small apple

Lunch: homemade curry chicken wrap (fat free curry chicken, lettuce, ranch dressing

Dinner: homemade mexican pizza! includes: chopped tomato, mild salsa, a few sliced black olives, a tad of queso, some fat free plain yoghurt (just a dollop, tastes like sour cream!), and a few bits of curry chicken, and a smidge of mexican blend shredded cheese over the top... all atop a 60-calorie whole wheat pita!

Dessert/snacks:
- tasted the brownie batter a bit
- small, 8oz strawberry daiquiri my sister made (Bacardi Mixers, 120 calories each)
- one Anytime brownie (208 calories)
- one Jello S.F. pudding cup (70 calories)

Water: so far so good...


OTHER NEWS
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Well, the blurb for the walking group at church looked really good today. i expect to be met with many obstacles in starting this. i imagine if I have even just one person working out, besides myself, that is amazing and i am grateful for it!! making these healthy changes is marvelous and will bring many benefits to those who have the guts to do it. but there are a lot of excuses being made... even some people that I look up to a lot spiritually came back with many an excuse, the same ones everyone uses who doesnt want to exercise: I have a full time job and kids. that does not mean you dont need to exercise. you dont get as much exercise with those kids as you think, and low carb dieting isnt going to help you in the long run if you have to keep doing it over and over again, yo-yoing.


Here's my recipe from the brownies I made... theyre definitely not Duncan Hines or Betty Crocker brownies, but they taste great IMO, you can tell theyre healthy and heck, I bet they'd even taste good for breakfast! you get a pretty generously sized brownie and it costs only 208 cals. all kinds of nutrients packed in there, too. i was happy.

Anytime Brownies

2 3/4 cups quick oatmeal
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3 6oz containers FF plain yogurt
1 cup applesauce
2 Tbsp canola oil
1.4 oz SF/FF instant chocolate pudding

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and mist an 8x8 dish with cooking spray.
2. In a bowl, combine oatmeal, cocoa, baking powder and salt
3. In separate larger bowl, mix together yogurt, applesauce, oil and pudding mix.
4. Add the dry ingredients to the yogurt concoction, mix well. Spread batter gently into prepared pan and bake for 35 - 30 minutes. Cool brownies before cutting into 9 squares.

Each brownie: Abut 208 cal, 8g protein, 7g fat, 5g fiber.