Happy Monday everyone!
Thanks for all of your comments on North America’s Healthiest Cities post this morning! I must say I have a huge desire to visit Victoria and Ann Arbor now! :D
My gosh I have been so busy the past while! Not that I am complaining, but I can hardly keep up!!! Yesterday I put in a 15 hour day on Glo Bakery and OSG- baking orders, paperwork, and preparing Summer Glow Boot Camp for its’ launch on Wednesday!! Exciting stuff :D Today I have another busy day. I have already done 2 orders and I have a bunch more on the docket for the next few days!
Yesterday’s workout was AWESOME!!!!
I turned on the TV and Perfect Stranger with Halle Berry was on, so I decided to watch that. Here I was thinking that I was going to watch a ‘light romance’ movie- boy was I wrong!!! lol. That movie was messed up! I guess it didn’t help that I started watching it half way through. :) The good news is that it was so suspenseful that it made my workout FLY by. I had only planned on doing 30 mins or so but it quickly turned into 1 hour so I could finish the movie!
The workout:
- Duration: 60 mins
- Treadmill hill walking: First 15 mins at 4.1 mph, incline 15%, 40 mins at 4.2 mph, incline 15%, and the last 5 mins was at speed 3.5 mph incline 15%
- Max heart rate: 166 bpm
- Avg heart rate: 151 bpm
- Distance: 4.11 miles
After every 10 minutes I did CORE work!!
Here I am doing my favourite waist whittler!!! Twisting Advanced side planks!!! I can actually feel my ab muscles ‘crunching’ as I do this workout. It sorta feels like someone if wringing your waist like a wash cloth…LOL…but that is the beauty of it- it is SO effective. I have noticed a huge improvement in my middle since doing this move! My middle has toned up even more since the end of the BBBC!
I did about 3 sets of 1 min each per side. I also did some scissor ab moves (1 set).
Here I am just covered in sweat!
The whittler…
My arms are really sore today from these side planks!
Not sure what is on the workout agenda for today. It might be an off day since I am so busy and we are having a BBQ party with about 6 other friends tonight!
I am still considering running in a 5k race on Wednesday morning! :)
Last night Eric and I tried out the new SOL veggie burgers!!!
I don’t know why, but I thought that these were going to taste horrible!!
Each burger has about 15 grams of protein in it and just over 100 calories! Not too shabby!
I added some healthy fats to my meal by adding 1/2 avocado and 1 huge scoop of my favourite hummus:
My dinner:
Along with some frozen veggies that I steamed. I included some PC frozen Edamame beans! This was the first time I have ever tried these beans before! They were yummy!
1 cup has 17 grams of protein and 8 grams of fibre!
My burger was nothing short of mind-blowing delicious!!!
I was very impressed with these SOL burgers! They had a nice texture too! And guess what? Eric DEVOURED his! He liked them better than the Money’s Veggie Burgers (although he loves those too!).
My new Twenty Valley Wine Glass from the 10k race!
Dessert was a cup full of delicious blueberries!
Here are some pictures of some of the delicious baking I did yesterday!
I was successful in making gluten-free brownies!!! It was my first attempt ever at making something gluten-free and I was so scared. It wasn’t so bad though! Nothing a little gluten-free flour and xanthum gum couldn’t fix! ;) I was impressed with the flour I bought…it didn’t have an overly ‘beany’ taste like some of the bean flours do.
‘One Glo-ing Bite’ Walnut and Chocolate Chip Gluten-free brownies:
Today was all about my On The Glo II bars!!! I have a ton of orders for these this week. Don’t forget they are 25% today!!
1. I still can’t sleep longer than 7 hours! What the heck!
2. Check out the renos Eric did on the house this weekend over at Soup Up My House!
3. Summer Glow Boot Camp is COMING!!! Wednesday July 1, 2009!! You won’t believe the awesome prizes we have up for grabs!!! Over $1000 worth of prizes to be won!
Today’s Clue:
Do you like to plan in advance? Well, this challenge is for you- mark your ‘calendars’!
4. You can follow me all day on Twitter to see what I am up to!! Expect lots of Twit-pics! ;)
5. I was scoping out the Lululemon website this morning trying to find the name of my shorts for a reader. I came across their new ‘Running Dress’:
This is what they say about it:
“Sassy and sporty…the perfect technical combo!
Run, play tennis, hit the gym — there’s nothing you can’t do in this dress”
Now I am sure we have all seen how crazy popular running skirts are nowadays! But I have never heard of a running dress before! What do you think of this? Do you think it will catch on?
Personally I can’t see myself wearing one!! But I guess I shouldn’t knock it til I try it! ;)
What do you think? Would you wear it?? Would you wear it to a gym??
those twisting side planks are a killer! I can’t WAIT for the summer glow camp :)
I don’t know about the dress – I wonder how comfortable it would be since it’s 1 piece.
I have two tennis dresses that look like that.. you wear spandex under them so you don’t have to worry about your booty hanging out.. I wouldn’t wear it for running though, just bc id feel wierd I spose
i would wear that, for sure! i think it is definitely better for tennis, running….i’m not sure about yoga? i’m def more apt to wear leggings while yoga-ing it out. :] either way, lululemon has bamf things and i would wear everything they sell!
I can’t see myself in a dress (or skirt) while working out!
SOL burgers are my favourite ever! And the edamame rock, too.
Congratulations Angie on the GF brownies. They look wonderful and delicious!
Happy running,
Pam
www.alovefornewrecipes.blogspot.com
(a gluten free blog)
I would definitely wear it playing tennis. As for the gym, I don’t think I would be comfortable wearing it. That goes for running too. I do, however, love running skirts!
I don’t think I would wear it, just because I am super disproportionate, so it would like absurd on me. I have tons of running skirts though, and love them. I was actually planning on shopping for more while my kiddo is napping today. Thanks for the reminder!
Oh, and to the Amy, who said she doesn’t know of any professional or elite runners who run in skirts, in 2004 Nicole DeBoom won Ironman Wisconsin in a skirt. It doesn’t get much more elite than that!
A great article called The Rise of Skirt Culture:
http://health.msn.com/fitness/running/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100212356>1=31030
Can’t wait for boot camp!
Yay, I’m glad you like the Sol burgers! They have a permanent spot in my freezer now :)
Umm…I’m divided on the dress. I think it would be awesome for outdoor sports (tennis, soccer, etc) but I wouldn’t be caught dead in one of those things at the gym :P I’ve been debating a running skirt for a while though. From what I’ve heard, they don’t hike up like some shorts do.
I would probably try the dress for running – not sure about the gym though! I’ve never even worn a running skirt though, so what do I know? ;)
your burger looks mind blowing.
YUMMM!
OH I need to find those burgers!!! My hubby would love (the gluten free part)!
Way to go on the GF brownies too!
As for the dress… hmmm I’m not sure! I’d try it once I guess ;)
A running dress. Sounds weird to me. . . but I am a firm believer in whatever works. If some woman puts that on and feels like a million bucks, then that’s the way to go. Whatever helps you on your run. ;)
By the way, I didn’t participate in the last challenge, but I am *very* excited about this one coming up. Thank you for putting another one together. I’m particularly interested to see what other readers contribute (I hope you got some interesting moves from other OSG readers!).
Maybe it’s just that print, but that running dress just looks sort of “old folk-y.”
I love me some running skirts, but I think the dress looks pretty tacky, so I wouldn’t wear it to the gym. However, if they’re just as comfy as running skirts, I’d probably end up wearing it around the house, haha.
I hope you do your 5k! I bet it would be easy breezy for you at this point. There’s a military base around here that does them every wednesday in the summer and I wanna do one in preps for my 10k in October.
OOH! I tell you what… I have a DARE for you. If you run your 5k that’s coming up and you finish in less than 32 minutes (my painfully slow record for a 5k) I will donate $20 US to a charity of your choice. :-D
Thanks Jenn! I stand corrected. She does look badass in that skirt! :) But I still don’t think I could wear the dress, lol :)
Are those burgers available in the US? I’ve never seen them before!
Edamame is soo good and a great protein source! I like the dried version too!
Amy, I say whatever you feel badass in, run in that.
Looking forward to the Summer Glow Bootcamp!!
No,to the running dress…..it looks wrong….
I’m loving hearing about all your cooking adventures! Congrats on the successful brownies and those cookies look SOOOO good! :)
Wow, I have to say that I would never wear a dress working out. I’m not much of a dress/skirt girl to begin with, and I think that would seem pretty awkward to wear one working out.
xxoo
Heather