October 2008

Trick or Treat!

by Fitnessista on October 31, 2008

in Uncategorized

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Hi friends!

Thank you so much to all of you who stepped out of lurkdom — lurkdom doesn’t sound very pretty, how about the land of not commenting?- to say hello and tell me what your favorite bar is! It was so nice to see some new "faces" on here and I hope you know how much I appreciate you reading!! I hope to see you around here more often :D

I did the random number generator and the winner of 3 bars for my pantry collection is……

True Random Number Service

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

97

Timestamp: 2008-10-31 19:04:38 UTC

COMMENT #97!!!

Army Wife, shoot me an email at Fitnessista @ gmail dot com and I’ll get your bars on the way!! I know I’ve got some Z-bars in there :D

 

So yesterday I started the morning with a full-sized breakfast cookie with golden raisins– using a 1/2 cup instead of 1/4 makes this a very satisfying breakfast!

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I made some of the goodies to send out to the BSI winners from last week:

Banana bread (I had to taste it, to make sure it came out ok, haha)

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Macaroon mix ready to be put in the dehydrator:

 

 

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Megan brought me the best morning snack I could ever wish for:

Raw vegan banana ice cream with almond butter cups

If you could put heaven in a custard cup, this would be it

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I took Bella to the vet, to Petsmart, then hit up the gym for a light leg day since my leggies were SORE from Wednesday night’s Zumba and Spin


Warm up 15 minutes at 4.0 with 2.5% incline
Leg extension 35 lbs, 3 sets of 12
Seated calf raise +20 lbs, 3 sets of 12
Plie squat 12 lb kettleball, 3 sets of 10
Abductor/adductor machine 35 lbs adduction, 50 lbs abduction, 3 sets of 12 of each
Total time: 35 minutes  

 

I heated one of these beauties up for lunch while I choreographed for step:

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Covered in Texas Pete:

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I packed up a Larabar, carrots and H2O to take with me:

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I taught step, which went EXTREMELY WELL because they fixed my mic!!!! I thought I was never going to have one again!!

School was laaaaaame (I used to love Finance and now I feel discouraged and dread going to that class), then I came home to watch some Grey’s and chill.

I started off this lovely Halloween morning with a TREAT:

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I <3 raw vegan macaroons!!!!

Deciding to use every pumpkin dish I now own, I had coffee and the best savory oats I’ve had so far

-1/2 cup oats with Laughing Cow melted in and 2 soysage links crumbled and stirred in- seasoned with salt, pepper and Texas Pete

-1 "pop" egg on top

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(and Mr. Pumpkinhead filled with Vanilla Biscotti coffee)

The b-fast was delish, but almost a little too much for me! Next time I’m going to use 1/4 cup oats… this meal was about 100 cals more than my usual breakfasts (not that I’m counting or anything.. yikes!), and I could feel it. The bonus is that it kept me full for longer and I only needed a tiny mid-morning snack.

Carrots and PB:

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I ran some errands and went to Best Buy to get my laptop and they don’t have the one I want. So I’m either going to have to wait until they get it online and order it from the store, or go through Dell’s website. Bah. The good news is that Vieja Computadora is behaving rather well today.. knock on wood…

I met Jeni at Firehouse Subs and got my usual medium veggie sub on wheat. It was funny because I usually ask for sliced egg on it and the guy making the sandwiches was like "No eggs today?" and I explained to him I already had one for breakfast, but I was surprised he remembered my "usual" :D

I just munched another slice of my latest banana bread (to make sure it’s safe again.. hahah) and I’m about to hit the gym for upper body and meet Renee for a run.

Looks like I’m not going to wear either tutu tonight! My friends and I decided to get together and grill and we’re going to make a bonfire :D Maybe s’mores are in my future??

 

Have a SAFE and very Happy Halloween!

xoxo,

G

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On its last limb

by Fitnessista on October 30, 2008

in slacker mcslakerson

My laptop.

It’s been there for me through a lot since I got it for high school graduation! But it is slowly dying…

Every day it freezes at least 5 times and I have to shut it off and turn it back on!! It took me an hour to make an aerobics CD yesterday! We have a desktop upstairs, but its burner is broken.. and it’s a desktop :/

So I must bid it adieu to the old computadora and replace it with a newer, pink model. I’ve been given pilot approval to get a new computer, which is going to be a little project for tomorrow :D

So until then, I’m not going to load any new pics (posting last night’s blog was a little rough), and decided to copy, errr, follow the genius examples of Meghann and Erin (and whoever else has done this) in asking all of the lurkers to step out into the comment light.

Hello, lurkers!

I’ve got a question for you: what is your favorite bar??

If you don’t like bars, you can just say "I don’t like bars"

Mine is Peanut Marshmallow Eclipse Pure Protein :D

I just want to see how many new "faces" are out there! And another thing: you can win a lil prize!

*Just leave a comment below with your favorite bar and I’ll use the random integer generator to pick a winner, reach into the pantry stash of bars (I’ve got a ton in there), pick 3 different ones and send them your way!!!

All for a comment?! Yep :D

This should be fun… I’m anxious to see if there are any pilot lurkers out there.

See ya tomorrow on a brand spankin’ new computer,

G

 

Baby Viesa:

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An Overdue Thank YOU

October 28, 2008

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A Halloween Dilemma

October 28, 2008

Hey everyone! Normal blogging and commenting will resume tonight, after we turn in our project and after the return of my sanity. I’ve been lurking but haven’t had time to comment– I can’t wait to catch up on all the blog happenings I was thinking about Halloween –I’m not sure what I’m doing yet– and [...]

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BSI: Round ‘em up!

October 27, 2008

Thank you so mucho to Shannon for choosing me to do this week’s BSI! It was such a pleasure to receive a beautiful array of recipes and a lot of fun! (Photo from: http://www.kitchenproject.com/…/cranberries.jpg) Here are the cranberry BSI submissions: Lindsay from For the Love of Oats: Cranberry Blueberry Pancakes and Cranberry Pumpkin Pie Bites [...]

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Management ate my day

October 26, 2008

Hi everyone! Happy Sunday! I don’t have too much to post about because a large majority of my day was spent doing a management project, which is totally cool with me since I had so much fun this weekend It was kind of an unconventional eating day, since a lot of it was spent at [...]

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