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Monday & My New New Favorite Dessert

July 28, 2015 by Running on Peanut Butter 4 Comments

Some weeks the Monday God just doesn’t want you to have a rockin’ fabulous day. While I got amazing sleep Sunday into Monday, I woke up with dead legs, which I will not complain about because that means my leg workout on Saturday was awesome. I did wake up feeling rather blah and woof. I had originally planned on a 30 minute shake-out run, which I would use as my weekly 30 minutes of steady-state cardio per my coach, along with a chest workout.

I knew right away that 30 minutes wasn’t going to happen, so I told myself to just jog until I knew my limit was reached. After 20 minutes of a jog at a pace even slower than my typical warm-up pace, I knew that I was only going to make my legs feel worse. I walked for another 20 minutes, and then decided to go back to my apartment. I looked at this day as an active rest day, figuring light activity was better than nothing, and what better day to take it easy than on a day full of cramps.

Had I done a full workout and showered at work, I would have been miserable in skinny jeans and a tight shirt, but the benefits of showering at my apartment meant I could look through my dresses so that I could be comfortable all day!

Breakfast was protein pancakes that I made on Sunday. Lemon cake flavored. THE best! So many pancakes!

These held me over until about 11:30a, when I broke into a mid-day snack. 1 lavish bread with 2 tbsp of peanut butter inside. I usually use lavish bread for tuna wraps, but I’ve been loving tuna salads lately, which was my lunch at 2p. I clearly do not believe in normal meal times ha.

After work I plopped myself on the couch and watched an episode of White Collar before digging into dinner, which was grilled chicken and roasted sweet potatoes.

Sweet relish with my chicken because I’m on such a relish kick lately!

I was looking forward to dessert all day long!

1 cup of vanilla greek yogurt mixed with 17 grams of Oreo pudding mix. You can alter the amounts of both depending on your preference or leftover macros. I based mine off of the macros I had left for the night.

So good! If you freeze it for just a few minutes it gets even better! Side note: obviously you stir the mix in with the yogurt.. this picture just looked better than the mixed version. 🙂

I then prepped pancakes for today, read a bit of my book, and was asleep by 8:30!

What was the high and low of your Monday?

The College Reunion Continues!

September 17, 2012 by Allie Leave a Comment

Mondays are always hard, but a Monday after a vacation? Well that’s simply pure hell. Not only is it difficult to get back into the swing of things, but being back only makes me wish I was still in New York City. I will admit that I was looking forward to getting back into my workout routine. While I managed to stay very active in New York, I missed working with weights and mixing up my cardio workouts.

My run this morning was very promising, and I was glad that my plank motivation came back to me. For some reason, I never feel like doing planks on Saturday and Sundays. I think it’s because during the week I’m pressed for time during my workouts so I bust those suckers out since it’s quick and effective and during the weekends I have the mindset that I’ll do planks “later.” Later never happens.

Morning Workout

3.7 mile run
1 minute plank hold
50 crunches and 50 side-to-side crunches
2 sets of 20 mountain climbers
100 jump rope and 50 jumping jacks — it went like this: 50 jump rope, 25 jumping jacks, 25 JR, 25 JJ, 25 JR
Stretching

One of my favorite things about Monday is that I have my 4:30 pm spinning class with Eve, my favorite instructor. I work across the street until 5, so usually every other week I’ll take Eve’s spinning class and forego my lunch for the day and buzz out at 4 so I can grab my bike and warm up. I’d take the class every Monday but I really don’t want to take advantage at work, even though my boss has absolutely no issue with the set-up.

Today just so happens to be my spinning Monday, so there is no lunchtime workout, even though I’m really craving a good sweat session. I’m thinking the sauna has my name allllll over it post-spin class. That sucker is my new best friend!

I knew I needed fuel for spinning, so last night before heading to bed, I whipped up a mean egg and cheese sandwich, which I just wolfed down.

You don’t need to tell me that I’m a Goddess in the kitchen, I already know. It was so cheesy and eggy and doughy and heavenly. Rejoice bitches!

Remember how I mentioned that this weekend was practically an unplanned college reunion with Toto, Pepa, and of course my brother and Chelsey? Well the college reunion continues! As I was posting my weekend pictures to Facebook last night, Ryan, my college friend that lived with Joe Becker (my brother, Chelsey and Pepa’s racquetball teammate–seriously, it’s 1 degree of separation) got in touch with me. We’ve been catching up since last night and I couldn’t be happier to hear from him. Ryan is currently serving in Afghanistan and comes home in early December. I’m truly hoping we manage to meet up as we always seem to be ships in the night when he’s in the area.

Here’s to a happy Monday!

Flowers, Peanut Butter and Jackson Hurst. What a Sunday Funday!

September 10, 2012 by Allie 1 Comment

Yesterday I had a nice date, which started with a surprise of flowers! It was the first time a guy has ever bought me flowers, so I was pretty blown away by that gesture. While I was waiting for Andrew to arrive, I was standing outside the parking garage, and this lady saw me and just smiled. At first I felt awkward, since I thought she was giving me a pity smile. “Oh look at that girl all alone, she probably got stood up.” I didn’t know what to do so I gave her a quarter nervous “why are you smiling at me” smile. Then I felt a tap on my shoulder, turned around, and there was Andrew with the flowers. So THAT’s why she was smiling!

They smelled sweet too! 🙂 Our date took place in downtown Portsmouth, which is one of my favorite areas in New Hampshire. There are so many cute shops, restaurants and cafes to pop in and out of, so we did that for about an hour before grabbing a late lunch at the Portsmouth Brewery. I opted for a Grilled Pear and Pumpkin Seed Salad, which was just alright. There was barely any pears, and they didn’t even taste like pears, and the dressing wasn’t up my alley. It was still a good light meal to tide me over for the date. After lunch, we watched a bike race that cut through downtown, and then headed over to the water and meandered throughout the garden.

When I made it home, I was rather hungry and I knew exactly what I wanted. Peanut butter!

I went a semi-healthy route and dipped carrots in the peanut butter.

Then things got VERY SERIOUS and I started double fisting with my beloved peanut butter.

For some odd reason, whenever I only have about a tablespoon or two left in a jar, I won’t finish the jar but will open a new jar, hence the two jars of peanut butter. I finally decided enough was enough and cleared out the pantry by finally putting an end to the old pb. Anyone else have the same problem? I cannot be in the minority here.

Last night was the season finale of my summer show Drop Dead Diva! I was a rebel and stayed up to watch it. Usually I record it and will watch it Monday night, but I JUST had to watch it and didn’t want Twitter to ruin the ending for me. Any Diva fans out there?! I LOVED the ending, it was such an unexpected ending, and for once, it was an ending I was thrilled about. I might have even screamed from excitement.

SPOILER ALERT!

Right before this, Grayson planted a kiss on Jane!!

Way to go Grayson, it only took ya 4 long ass seasons to man up! Also, how stunning does he look in that light grey suit! Wowza, HUNK ALERT! <3 Side note: My car is named after Grayson, played by Jackson Hurst, since Jackson and my car are incredibly sexy. Jackson’s Twitter handle is @JaxHurst, resulting in my car being named Jax. Perfect fit! One day the real Jax will tweet be back. It’s my dying wish.

This morning I woke up feeling refreshed and ready to tackle my Monday. After 2 puffs from my inhaler and a fist pump, I owned my 4 mile run.

Morning Workout

4 mile run
3 sets of 45 second plank holds
50 crunches and 50 side-to-side crunches
25 reverse crunches
15 push-ups
1 set of 13 side-to-side weight dumbbell standing crunches
2 sets of 13 dumbbell skiing squats

The skiing squats is one of my favorite exercises, and I completely forgot about it until I stumbled upon the workout on a page ripped from Women’s Health that was buried under a pile on my desk. Who doesn’t love a great find, although finding money would have been a better surprise. 😉

Hope you all are having a great start to your Monday!