How YOU doin? With the holidays coming I am starting to fall apart here and there. I did not log my food in everyday and calculate how I was doing. I am looking forward to a new approach using excell to set up a week's worth of meal planning ahead of time. This will make it much easier to plan, follow and share. There were also a few in the presence of so much good home made food and sweets. That being said I still feel very positive. I am eating a much higher volume of vegetables and am making sure I am getting a balance of protein. On the new food front, I must say kale is awesome. I love it raw or cooked. Its sweet and the tips of the raw leaves feel really neat in your hands. I'll admit it I tend to eat my salad with my hands. Avacados are very interesting. I like it and can see how it would make a great garnish. I need to find a no sour cream guacamole recipe. The mango I tried was funky. I don't think it was ripe and smelled kind of piney. I'll have to consult with someone who has actually eaten one. My next plan is to stock my freezer with more frozen vegetables and maybe a couple frozen berry treats. This will allow me to make up a meat and vegetable lunch the night before. A little weekend or night before prep sure goes a long way (i.e boil up a dozen eggs and cook a few chicken breasts on Sunday).
Workouts went good this week. I think I missed 2 (split jerk and 800 meter runs). Things feel great. Tonight, after two days straight of snow blowing and shovelling I blasted out a personal record on a pullup/pushup/squat routine out in the cold on an icy bar, wearing an extra 10lbs or so of boots and sweaters and hats, and the pullups were uphill too, both ways. It felt awesome to just fall back into a foot of snow and rest there for 20 minutes!
Still trying to figure out what format my goals will take, and what I'll put in my December final reflection.
On a side note I think I'd like to learn a little more about the symbol that we used on the upper corners of the blog post. Its a tree of some sort and probably recognizable to many. I think there must be some really cool stories of hope that would go along with it. I have an idea what this research would entail and its kind of a big project for someone of my reading capability. I don't know, I'll think about it. Time to hit the hay.
Happy Holidays to all!!
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Happy Holidays! I hope the Spellmans are chillin!
I drafted the Spirit portion of Jan challenge on my journal blog. Take a look and deliver some feedback
just pokin around the hope challenge blogs & thought I'd mention that most guac doesn't have sour cream in it :-) - take a fork & mash some ripe avocados with a good dollop of minced garlic, a few squeezes of lime juice, & some salt & pepper. if you're so inclined you can add some cilantro. Also, i have actually eaten a mango before & "piney" is not a word I would use lol - something funky going on there. I do find them the most difficult fruit to cut up though. There must be a secret to it. I prefer to buy them already cut up, fresh or frozen. lil Q loves em.
This is great! I think I'll try to make some for a sandwich spread in place of cheese. I like all of those things you mentioned. I haven't seen any cut up mango yet. How long should a mango take to ripen?
have no idea about the ripen time for a mango. they shouldn't be hard tho - should give a little. Dole makes a bag of frozen cut up mango - great for smoothies. mmm...mango raspberry smoothie... sometimes I can get it for Taran cut up in the produce section, often mixed in with some melons, so you don't really know it's mango in the bowl too.
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