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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 
I did the random number generator and the winner of 3 bars for my pantry collection is……
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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
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!
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)
Macaroon mix ready to be put in the dehydrator:
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
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:
Covered in Texas Pete:
I packed up a Larabar, carrots and H2O to take with me:
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:
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
(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:
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"
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 Maybe s’mores are in my future??
Have a SAFE and very Happy Halloween!
xoxo,
G
Hi, I'm Gina. Welcome to The Fitnessista! I love blogging about my adventures as a new mom, military wife and fitness instructor, as well as sharing new workouts and recipes. Check out the About page for more info - thanks for stopping by!
Raw vegan banana ice cream?? Oh my gosh that sounds amazing! Have a great Halloween Gina!
Oh my, ALLLL those eats… yum.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN, GIRL!!!!!! :0)
Awesome food
I want to start doing more raw “cooking”. I bet those macaroons are scrumptious.
“Raw vegan banana ice cream with almond butter cups” oh boy that sure does sound super! I’ve never had anything “raw” or “vegan” before (although I eat raw food… you know what I mean) but that sounds enticing!
Hope you have a fun bonfire!
Hi Gina -
I’m one of those infamous “lurkers” on your site. Can you please tell me how you make this breakfast cookie? I’ve seen you make it quite a bit and I’ve always wondered what your recipe is. Thanks!
cute dishes so festive!!! Love your bfast I need to try that, have a great night!
All the Halloween decoration is so cute!!! And all your eats are delicious!
Happy Halloween!
omg ice cream!!!
have a happy halloween!
owwww smores! I=super jealous! That banana ice cream sounds fab! I need to find more vegan places around our new house! Hope you have fun tonight
I love all of your halloween themed dishes!
I would ADORE a Sunday breakfast meet-up! Unfortunately, I’ll be working all day!
However, may I recommend the Ethos Vegan Kitchen’s Sunday brunch?? Soooooo yummy!!
Have fun in O-town!!
~Erin
All of your food today looks delicious. I can’t wait to try the breakfast cookie but I still don’t have the chocolate protein powder. One day soon
Have a great time tonight! Happy Halloween.
Angie
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PS. I’m using my blogger account to sign in here today. If you would like to check out my personal blog, you can see the costume my hubby made for himself for work. He was Dopey from the Seven Dwarfs. Cute
Not that I’m counting. Ha!
I saw a quinoa breakfast in Oxygen’s nutrition special this month. Would you ever consider trying again? I can scan it for you if you want!
Enjoy the s’mores!
I am lovin’ the Halloween graphic
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Raw vegan banana ice cream plus all those other goodies?! Can I please come over for a visit on one of your baking days? Pretty please!?
Ooh yummy s’mores in your future! I hope you had a lovely evening! I am STUFFED with candy and chocolate currently, haha!
Oh, and even though your de-lurking competition is over, I’d still like to say hi…HI!!! My favorite bar is the Clif Chocolate Brownie ZBaR, no doubt!!
Have a GREAT weekend!!
Happy Halloween! I sincerely hope you get to have smores because they are pretty much the best campfire snack ever invented. Although, I could honestly just eat a ton of the toasted marshmellows and forget the graham crackers and chocolate.
The vegan banana ice cream sounds great. What goes into it – just bananas?
Of course you need to taste what you made!
Hope you and your friends had a super night, Gina!
hi amisha! here’s the recipe for the b-fast cooki:
oatmeal raisin b-fast cookie:
1/4 cup oats (or you can use 1/2 to make a bigger cookie and use more milk)
1 tbs peanut butter
cinnamon
1/8 cup raisins
1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder
a little Stevia (or sweetener of your choice: agave, sucanat, real sugar, whatever you feel like)
1/8 cup fat free milk
- Mix the oats, cinnamon, protein powder and sweetener in a bowl until the peanut butter is crumbly. Add in the raisins. Add the milk and stir to combine. Press the mixture down on a small plate, making it even and round. Leave in the fridge overnight. The next morning, grab a spoon and enjoy
for the “monkey version” skip out on the raisins, use chocolate protein powder instead of vanilla and after combining all ingredients (including milk) add 1/2 mashed banana (if it’s a small banana, if it’s a large sized one, use 1/3 banana) and then press the mixture onto the plate and leave in the fridge overnight.
erin- i would love to see that recipe! thank you!!! maybe this quinoa breakfast won’t be such a disaster….
jenn- of course you can come over on a baking day!
hey brittany- it’s made with coconut meat, coconut water, agave nectar, banana, cashews, almond butter and cacao beans! it was INCREDIBLE
Hanging out and grilling sounds like an awesome idea! Hope you guys had fun last night
alas I TUTU’D alone last night…well not ALONE but sans you.
and I gave away all the rest of the candy this morning
Miz.
Love the spicy oatmeal combo!
I’ve never thought of adding laughing cow! 
Haha- I was about to ask for the bfast cookie recipe also but am glad I scrolled to look at the comments first!
Your commitment to health and staying active/busy are Really impressive. I know what it’s like to have someone you love far away (best to keep busy, I’ve found!) In fact, that’s part of the reason I started a blog- I just wanted to make sure it was alright that I added you to my ‘blogroll’ (Please don’t feel obligated to do the same, I just wanted to put up some ladies I go to for constant inspiration
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Have an amazing november!
-jess
Hmmm….tutu wearing or smores eating?? Hello, smores!
I love all of your holiday dishes. I totally used to make fun of my mom (behind her back) for those when I was younger, now I want all of hers.
glad you made sure everything was safe