B-fast and lunch

I worked until 2 today so it was a bit weird having a lunch so late. I didn't want to spoil my appetite for dinner so I had a small snack type lunch.

An apple sandwich, and a Little Health Monster Skintastic Smoothie

Two apple slices with almond and sunflower butter in between!

Spinach, avocado, peaches, organic banana, almond milk, ginger, lemon, parsley

I'm going to take a quick power nap, then bring the fur faces for a nice long walk. I hope to get in a quick 3 mile run and a 30 day shred in there.

I wanted to thank Coconut Bliss for commenting on my blog for the review I did on their ice cream. I will definitely be trying all of their other flavours and letting you guys know how they are! This gives me a great excuse to eat even more of it! Hehehe!

Day 5

Today is day 5 of the 30 day shred. I decided to do level 2 today and I totally got my butt kicked. A twenty minute workout and my heart rate was never below 150, and I burnt 327 calories!

It must have felt a bit harder for me too because I did a hard tempo run at the gym, and a little bit of strength training. For my run I did 4.25 miles in 40 minutes. I did 3 minutes at 10 min/mile, and then 1.5 minutes at 8 min/mile. It was a great run and I was sweating buckets.

Calories: 449
Average HR: 160
Max HR: 172

I came home feeling drained and exhausted. So I made myself a little pick me up!

1 avocado, 1 banana, 3 handfuls spinach, 1/2 cup almond milk, ice, 1 teaspoon wheatgrass powder

And this was breakfast this morning:

Overnight oats with chia seeds, strawberries, and almond buttah!

Now it's time for some good ol' R&R

By the way: saw the movie Date Night---> HILARIOUS!

Little Health Monster Skintastic Smoothie!

Ingredients of this Monster: 1 ripe avocado, 2 cups baby spinach, 1 tablespoon chia and flax powder, 1 cup homemade almond milk, 1 organic banana, 1 teaspoon organic wheatgrass powder. I recommend using a blender, because I used a food processor and it didn't sound very good. I really have to buy a blender.

Today, after my extremely hard spin class, I stopped at a little fruit and vegetable store and picked up this baby!

A sweet dumpling squash!

I plan to bake it with a bit of sea salt and oil! Can't wait! Now, about this spin class. Once the warm up started I knew I wasn't really feeling it. I've been pushing myself hard these past few days, and I could really feel it during this ride. I kept telling myself that after the next song I could quit. But after the song passed, I kept saying "just one more" and soon enough there were only 3 songs left; so I couldn't quit. The teacher was really good for getting me to keep going though, she'd say "you've worked this hard already, you can't give it up now, talk to your body, its going to want to quit, but you're stronger than that." She should be a motivational speaker. I didn't have my Garmin with me, Ryan was using it on an outdoor bikeride, but I'm positive I burned between the 600-700 range of calories.

I made some great granola last night. Just the usual pumpkin granola with no oil. I added a bit more agave becuase Ryan wanted it sweeter this time.

I was so excited to eat it with my homemade almond milk that I didn't even wait for it to cool down.

Now, for this sweet dumpling!