January 11, 2012

So proud of myself that I got up and got my ass to the gym . . . two days in a row!  I am a cardio queen, so I knew it was time to get my strength training on.  I ended up doing 30 minutes of lower body strength training and 10 minutes of abs on 4 different machines – this ab crunch machine...

I don’t like that its dark out when I leave to go to the gym.  Or that my bed is toasty under our down comforter.  When my alarm went off it felt like I just fell asleep.  I ended up snoozing in for 15 more minutes, but got my butt out of bed at 6:30.  I was at the gym by 6:50 – I didn’t have...

I was flipping through the Jan/Feb issue of Cooking Light, I came across a recipe for Mini Bacon Egg Tarts (page 169) in their budget cooking section. I have the Heatlhy Life 35 calorie bread so I made my own version – perfect to make up a batch of these on a Sunday for a quick reheat in the toaster oven for later in the...

When I was cleaning out my refrigerator I forgot I had so much Chobani yogurt to eat up!  I do have a secret about Greek yogurt – I always add 1/4 cup of sugar free pancake syrup to the large container – gives it just enough sweet, but you can still taste the tanginess of the Greek yogurt. I made yet another pumpkin granola, based...

Since I only cooked half of my cube steak for dinner the night before last, I decided to chop it up and add it to my morning hash – 4 ounces potato, 3 ounces cube steak, baby spinach, 1/2 cup egg whites and 1/2 ounce of cheese.  I only cooked the steak half way at home though so when I warmed it up at work...

I didn’t know about pinterest until I found people pinning my food.  While I don’t tweet, and I am just starting to figure out facebook, pinterest seemed a bit daunting to me, but I know a lot of you use it. Want the breakdown?  Janetha from Meals & Moves has a pinterest 101 – I could easily find myself pinning a million recipes!  You can...

It still amazes me that up until about 8 years ago, the only vegetables I ate were cucumbers and carrots.  No joke.  Just the thought of spinach, butternut squash, and zucchini occupying space in my fridge would have made me thow up in my mouth. Now I love so many veggies!  The latest one being sweet potato.  Here’s the deal with me and sweet potatoes...

The only thing worse than having to set my alarm yesterday was getting out of my toasty bed and discovering that its 9 degrees outside, and with the windchill it was -1!  Definitely the coldest we’ve been in a long time. I made these waffles over the weekend, had every intention of making another batch for my breakfast, but just simply ran out of time...

I forgot to buy coffee the day before yesterday, but then remembered that my brother had given me pumpkin spice coffee – yum!  Thanks for all my Christmas loot Charlie and Laura! 😀  (BTW, click on Charlie’s name – he’s leaving the blog world for a while 🙁 ) No matter what time of year it is, I almost always have an iced coffee when...

I got an email from wordpress.com giving me my 2011 year in blogging stats. Crunchy numbers London Olympic Stadium holds 80,000 people.  This blog was viewed about 307,000 times in 2011. If it were competing at London Olympic Stadium, it would take about 4 sold-out events for that many people to see it. In 2011, there were 298 new posts, growing the total archive of...