Vacations are awesome, but man do I love that feeling of being back in control. Today was a bit tough due to the lack of groceries, but I still rocked it. Day one = success.
For breakie I broke into a new box of cereal. Nature’s Path Heritage O’s served with light vanilla soy milk. Too crunchy and tasteless to be honest. If it wasn’t for the soy milk these would have tasted like nothing (funny enough I think they might be discontinued because I got them on sale and I can’t find them on their website). I’ll have to get creative with the rest of the box…hmmmmm.
It was so nice to get back to my tasty Starbucks coffee today. While on vacay we were drinking whatever the hostess was offering in her carrafe, and let’s just say that I was using extra sugar plus real creamer to make it taste good. Today just a big splash of the light vanilla soy milk topped up my delicious joe in my fun new mug. (haha, my Winnipeg souvenir is a Starbucks mug I could have bought here…but I LURVE IT!)
I forgot to take a photo of lunch. Oops, still getting back into the groove. Trust me, it wasn’t photo worthy anyway…two small ww tortillas spread with a little light cream cheese. One with cucumber and one with tomato. Shockingly both of these veggies lasted the week in the fridge!
After work I had to head out for groceries. Starvation was setting in and I just couldn’t face anything from the pantry or freezer. Fresh food was mandatory! A nice stock up:
including my FREE bottle of POM, which I won from Julie. I forgot to get soda for spritzers though…so I’ll have to grab some this week.
For dinner I made myself a MEGA Greek salad. In the bowl: cukes, toms, red onion, kalamata olives, light feta, chick peas, fresh basil, EVOO, sea salt & pepper.
Piled this on top of a bed of organic baby spinach. Served with a big glop of roasted garlic hummus and some mini Bretons I found in the cupboard (which turned out to be very stale and promptly made their way to the compost bucket).
Salad heaven!
After dinner settled I took myself to the gym. I wanted to go for a solid hour and a half, but things ran late so I only got in about an hour. But I busted my ass the whole time and felt great and tired when I left.
Treadmill: possibly one of my longest continuous runs to date.
- 10 minute incline power walk
- 23 minutes jogging at 5mph (5:1)
- 3 minute walking cooldown
= 400 calories burned, 3 miles travelled, 36 minutes
Strength: found a nice quiet spot in the yoga room all by myself.
- 25 squats
- 50 single leg squats (25 each leg)
- 50 stationary lunges (25 each leg)
- 10 downward dog pushups
- 10 regular pushups (girlie)
- 50 bicycle crunches (25 each leg)
- 25 reverse crunches
- 1 minute plank
Stopped at Sobey’s for some sale berries on my way home (still holding out hope that one of the Halibloggers will take pity on me and bring me a basket of local strawberries from their weekend berry picking adventures!). Raspberries and blackberries will have to do for now.
Mixed some of those fresh berries with a half serving of Coconut Liberte that lasted the week in the fridge, topped with some hulled hemp seeds for protein and chew. Yaaaieeee.
So great to be home!
