I Am An Old Lady!

Well, first off I gotta say I feel very OLD this week!  I’ve been going back to the gym a little bit and I’ve loved it!  It’s felt so good mentally to be there, but my body is dying.  I feel like an old lady!

I went to the gym on Monday and I felt very “wuss-like.”  I worked hard, but I had to hold back a little bit.  I think I was still recovering from my mega gargantuan cold.

So, on Tuesday I was changing the sheets on my son’s bed and I totally tweaked my back!!  I could barely walk the rest of the day and it started giving me headaches and things.  I self-diagnosed it as a pinched nerve.  Hello???!  Is my body falling apart???  I think so.

Thankfully, it was quite a bit better yesterday and then it was pretty much back to normal today.  So, I decided to go to the gym again tonight.  I felt better than I did on Monday, but my muscles were very rusty.  In fact, my quads are freaking out right now.  I’m a little concerned about being able to walk tomorrow.  Seriously.

Ya know, with the way my body has been acting, you’d think I hadn’t exercised in like 3 years!!  I only took off about a week and a half at the gym!  I’m so shocked at how weak my body has felt!  Psycho.  I’m hoping to return to normal soon.

Sooooooooo, after all of that…..I feel officially old.  My birthday is next week too.  Yay, but sad.  I would just like to stay 35 forever.  That would be nice.

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Anyway, on to other things….

I started off today with a great breakfast.  I’ve said before that I kind of go in spurts with my breakfasts.  I find something I like and then just have the same thing for breakfast day after day until I get sick of it.  Well, this is my current fav…

 

Oatmeal with a side of egg whites!  Yum!

I mix 1/2 C. Oatmeal with 1/2 chopped apple, cover it with water and nuke it in the microwave for 2-2 1/2 minutes.  When it comes out, I mix in 1 T. flaxseed and 1/2 scoop protein powder.  It’s very yummy and very filling.  I serve it with 3 scrambled egg whites topped with a little low sugar ketchup.  This breakfast takes me about 5 minutes to make and it’s very satisfying.  Yay.

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After breakfast, I went shopping with my two littlest kids.  I ran over to the Nike outlet and bought a couple pair of shorts that I LOVE!!!  Yay!  They are the Nike Phantom shorts and they are so awesome.  My sister had some that I borrowed a while back and I’ve wanted to buy some ever since.  I was so happy when I walked in the store and saw them for 40% off the already sale price!!  Yahoo!  They retail for $35.00 and I got them for $11.99.  Score.

I think they are the perfect length and they come with built in biker shorts underneath!  Perfect for the gym.  Love them.

Here I am getting ready to head to the gym tonight with my new little shorts.  I’m lifting the side up so you can see the bikers underneath.  Kev thought it was weird that the shorts and the bikers were two different colors of pink.  I thought it was cute.  🙂  I bought some turquoise ones with yellow bikers underneath as well.

 

Oh, and in case you want to buy some, I checked online and the best deal I could find was $14.99 from 6pm.com.  They have a ton of cute colors.  Here’s the link if you’re interested.

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On the way to the gym, I had a very yummy protein shake!

It really tasted just like a chocolate shake.  It was 1 C. Almond Milk, 1 Scoop Chocolate Protein Powder, 1 T. Cocoa, 1 T. flaxseed, a little bit of almond extract and vanilla extract and ice!  Yum!

Anyway, that’s the latest.  I hope I get over my little “old lady” spell soon!

Random Healthy Food

I’m so sorry to report that I am still a very sick lady. 😦  I was doing a little better for a couple days and then I went downhill in a hurry.  I suspected I might have a sinus infection, so last night I dragged myself over to the Instacare and left with some antibiotics.  SoOoOoOoooo, I better get better soon!  I’m am not very good at being patient.

I gotta say I feel a little bit like a hypocrite writing on my “Healthy Happy Mel” blog.  Lately I’ve been more like “Deathly Ill, Mostly Miserable Mel”, but I am still trying to live a healthy lifestyle through it all.  Amazingly enough, there is some good that has come out of my little sick spell.

First off, I’ve decided that when I am well I WILL NOT take my health for granted.  I will remember that being able to exercise is a privilege and I will enjoy it even more!

I must also say that I’ve eaten pretty well this past week, but I have allowed myself a little more carbs than usual (I’ve needed the comfort food).  However, I just haven’t eaten a lot of food.  I’ve been mostly “out of it” and sometimes fixing food seems like too much work so I’ve just had a light breakfast, light lunch, light dinner and sometimes a small snack and that’s it.  I’ve lost 2 pounds this week!  Wa hoo!  2 pounds might not sound like much, but I’m trying to lose my last and final 10 pounds, so 2 is huge for me!  Yay!

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I had a very interesting breakfast today.  I was just going to have a bowl of oatmeal, but when I looked in my cupboard, I saw this gem:

Rokit Fuel!  I got this in a swag bag at one of my races and I’ve just hung onto it.  It’s meant to be used during a run to help to refuel (kind of like Gu gel).  You’re supposed to add a little water and then slurp it up.  But, the thought of eating/drinking/slurping this up during a run makes me want to hurl.  However, the ingredients are so amazingly awesome that I knew I needed to use it somehow.  So, this morning I decided to use it as my “oatmeal” and it was awesome.

First off, check out the ingredients in this baby:

Everything in there is real and awesome.  There is some pure cane brown sugar in there, which I wasn’t happy about (I would rather sweeten it myself), but overall it’s not bad.

So, I threw this in a bowl, added half of a chopped up apple and some water and nuked it for 2 minutes.

 

I served it alongside 3 egg whites topped with a little low sugar ketchup.

It was yummy and very filling.  Oh, and on the front of this Rokit Fuel pack it says, “Not for Wussies.  *Wussie (noun) A person whose pursuit of excellence is eclipsed by a total lack of discipline and drive.”  Love that!  I had to laugh.

I had an awesome lunch today too (had the same thing yesterday too!).

I made a couple lettuce boats; Romaine lettuce filled with deli turkey meat, tomato, avocado, olives and a little mustard!  Yum!  I served it alongside some Raspberry Chobani yogurt!  Delish!

I gotta say I’m not a giant yogurt fan.  I like it okay, but I don’t love it.  I know that Greek Yogurt is killer in the protein department though.  I’ve tried a few brands and liked them okay.  I kept hearing about how good Chobani was, so I decided to give it a try!  Holy YUM!  I think I found a new favorite food!  It was so thick and creamy and almost tasted like a treat! Chobani is a wonderful company too and they only put real ingredients in their yogurts!  Love!

Well, I’m off to get my hair done.  Yay!  I hope it turns out cute….I’m in desperate need of cute hair!

Hope you are all happy!