Schmear it with AB
Hiiiiiiii guys 🙂 How’s your Friday going?? Hope it’s been bueno- I’ve been a busy bee today 😀
This morning, I woke up before the sun to meet my Lifestyle Challenge group.
Munched a nanner on the way:
Today we talked about Exercise Myths and why they’re false, including:
1. Restricting calories is the way to lose fat (Quite the contrary, it elicits an “I’m starving!!!” response and causes the body to hold onto fat, in case it needs it for the winter. Your body is an engine that needs FUEL to do its thang!)
2. Crunches will give you a six pack (Nope. That’s why Joe, who does 500 crunches a day and doesn’t eat well or do cardio doesn’t have a six pack. You need a combo of healthy eats, cardio and minimal toning work for lovely abbies)
3. You can make fat cells disappear (While you can reduce the size of fat cells, they never actually go away)
4. All you really need to focus on is cardio (It’s all about balance. The best fitness plans combine resistance training, cardio, flexibility and REST. I really consider rest to be the most important- at least one day a week should be for active recovery to refresh, let your muscles repair and prevent overtraining)
I seriously love meeting with my group – they ask awesome questions and we have a blasty. Then my friend Tracy (another trainer) kicked their booties in a bootcamp-style workout. I hopped on the elliptical and read Oprah 🙂
After work, I took the pilot some pancakes (and traded him for a Larabar that he had in his flight bag, haha) and then came back to the casa to answer emails.
I may have had a roon:
What makes a ridiculously delicious macaroon even better? An almond butter hat 🙂
Next, I hit up “The Barrel” to get a book on CD for the drive to Orlando.
(I couldn’t help but think of my “izzle”-quoting, fitness-teaching, soulmate blog boy buddy)
It’s not Edward and Bella, but it will have to do 😉
Any good?
I also picked up this little beauty, per your recommendations.
I’m so excited to read it!
Since I was, umm, in the area… I had to get a smoothie from my favorite place 😀
Tropical Superfood with extra spinach.
Ahhhhmazing.
The pilot is home early from work (yeahhhhh!) so we’re going to walk these funny little things.
Peeeeeeace 🙂
xoxo
G$
Today’s tip: As pool weather is quickly approaching, remember to slather on some SPF if you’re going to be poolside and re-apply as necessary. I wear at least SPF 30 on a daily basis, but when I’m at the pool, it’s SPF 70. Show your skin some lurve <3
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great tips Gina! and that ‘roon’s almond butter hat is so cute 🙂 hope your trip to orlando goes well! travel carefully!
Thanks for the SPF tip – I’m constantly harping on my friends from under my sun hat & tossing bottles of 50+ their way. I hope they listen to you 🙂
Oh how I love spreading nut butter all over delicious foods. I just might have to go out and get a banana right now for an afternoon snack with a schmear of peanut butter. Love your tips, they’re great!
Loved The Host! Just don’t go into it expecting Edward and Bella… It’s completely different! Drive safe!
It always surprises me how many people don’t know #2! Have fun on your walk 🙂
oooh i always get lost in the cracker barrel store!! it’s so cute! my familia always would take road trips from NYC to Fla in the summer and we’d always stop at the barrel for bfast (oooooof!). and i always bought like 29382982929 of those candy cane-ish things. made for very hyperactive car rides haha
Excellent tips Gina – especially like that you mention wearing sunscreen! I was once a culprit in the whole tanning thang, but I’m a huge proponent of sunscreen and cute floppy summer hats now. Don’t want to look 44 when I’m only 24!
Love your tips, girl! Have a nice night with the Pilot. 🙂
I’ve so been craving a green smoothie. I’ll make one tomorrow 😀
I LOVED The Help. I passed it off to my mother, who passed it to my sister. Now that’s the mark of a good read!
Have a great weekend 🙂
OMG GINA. I looooooooved The Host. Loved it. I hope you do too! You will. 🙂
Great post, ma dear!!! Wonderful and true tips 🙂 Glad you are feeling better today and back to your upbeat Fitnessista-self! 😉
Have a great weekend!!! <3
xx,
Lauren
Thanks for the SPF reminder. I am headed to Mexico in a week and need to stock up!
My hubbie is coming home early today too yipppeeee! In case I don’t have the chance to say it- Happy Easter!
OMG your post made me so excited when I saw your reading list!! I loved BOTH books immensely! The Host was a little hard to get into at first, but I started it as soon as shutting the hard cover of Breaking Dawn. It paid off to finish it though, excellent! The Help, was another one of my favorites!!
Let me recommend another book you should definalty read. “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein will hold a special place with me for a long, long time!
Enjoy and have a great weekend!
Oh man- sunscreen… Hubby and I went to Jamaica a couple years back and I didn’t wear it one time and never got burned the whole week there. Fast forward 2 years- we went to Cancun and I thought it would be the same (don’t know what I was thinking). I got so burned I ruined our whole week. One day of jumping waves in the ocean and I looked like a complete lobster. So out the door went our plans for parasailing and jetskiing. From now on I use 50+ and if I ever find my way back to Mexico again it will be 100SPF.
The Host is soooo good. When you first start listening to it, it’s a little weird, but stick with it because it is such a GREAT story. I can’t wait for the sequel!! Enjoy!
I wonder how The Host will be on audiotape! For me, it was a good read but I didn’t start getting into it until it was about halfway over. Hopefully the audio will make it more intriguing 🙂
Love your ‘roon smeared with AB!
Gahhhhh your pups are so cute!
sunscreen is something i’m terrible about. but it’s one of my 2010 goals to do more! i read the host last summer and found it “eh”. it was a decent read but i never found myself not wanting to put it down. my sister, though, freaking LOVED it.
I’m reading The Host right now!! It was a slow start but now I’m really into it!
Personally I loved the host. I recommend giving it a little time to warm up and by the end you won’t be able to put it down!
Love that you covered the restricting calories myth. I think it’s a biggie as far as things people need to remember when dieting/trying to lose weight/trying to maintain weight/etc., because it seems SO counterintuitive.
I like the six pack myth, too. Also the opposite of what one would think at first.
Have fun in Orlandy! 🙂
Enjoy your weekend! We’re at the inlaws for easter supper tonight. Going to behave as much as possible with my food choices ha. lots of chocolate sitting around already, so it will be quite hard I think. But I am taking pills that are supposed to help my sugar cravings, soo i might just do ALRIGHT. ha
take care
Hoppy Easter from Food For Healing
The Host is a weird book, but AMAZING. It’s nothing compared to the Edward and Bella saga’s, but it is really good.
I loved The Help! Enjoy it!
Off topic here – I can’t believe you got grief for your pulled pork sandwich! Loved the post and love you!
Seems like everyone has the same opinion about the host……It took me a few chapters to get into it. It seemed like such a strange story but I ended up loving it……Not quite as much as Twilight though.
Those tips are bueno! And helping me out today:)
You’ll like the help. I couldve loaned it to you. I enjoyed the pilots post- awesomeness!
Post what you think of The Help!!! It took me a little while to get into it, but by the middle and through the end I was LOVING it!!
I really liked The Host. It has a similar plot to the Twilight series, but it was fun.
Guess what I just rented. New Moon! Am I the last one to see it??
O–M–G! I love The Host!! It is one of my favorite books. I hope you like it. I will have to invest in The Help though 😉 Have a great trip!
My spoons often wear peanut butter hats 😉 But not for long!
LOVE the tips you gave your lifestyle group!!! Fabulous
Sara
I used to work for a major skin products company and I talked to the product scientists once — anything above 30 SPF is pure marketing BS. The $ you’re paying is just mark-up.
really? i read that it was above spf 50… either way, i just play it safe. most of the spf’s on there now are crazy high numbers anyway (like 100! what?!)
There is a difference between 30 and 50 but I’m not sure over 50. I used to do melanoma research and we would use varying concentrations from 4 to 45 and there was a difference. Either way, better safe than sorry 🙂
I liked The Host! I’m into the sci fi alien thing though.
I enjoyed that book, ‘the host’, I read a lot, and like a good variety of books, but I really don’t like it when people ‘Over Kill’ the books. (read The Edward Craze). I hope you enjoy this book too 🙂
P.S. I Love Sunscreen!! 🙂
That book is SOOOO good! What’s even more fun is driving down those streets (yep, I live there) and wondering which house Hilly lived in and where Abilene was. I drive down Woodrow Wilson daily!
Claire, how funny! I live in Jackson too and I did the same thing! It also talked about State St (I think it’s the part about Medgar Evers)and I drive down State to work every day (work at UMC) and I look around and try and guess where ’bouts she was talking about. Small world!!
I love ANYTHING with almond butter. I love your blog!!! I usually go straight to the jar with a spoon….I just cant help myself!!!
Your roon’s Almond Butter hat looks delish!!! I’ve just recently started listening to books on CD, and I love it! It makes the ride go so much faster. However, sometimes I don’t want to get out of the car 😉
The Host was a bit bizarre and took me a while to get into it. However, The Help was one of the best books I’ve read in a while. I think you’ll love it. 🙂
Question–how long did you spend on the ET? Do you do core/abs/stretching w/ it or simply cardio days=cardio only?
that day i did 50 minutes, easy and no strength training that day. i usually do, but didn’t feel like it 😉
THE HOST! =] =] =] Once I saw the picture I had to run down to comment. Don’t worry, I’ll finish reading the post after, haha.
I’ll have to admit, The Host was REALLY hard to get into (think 150 ish pages to get into it), but don’t get discouraged! It really picks up and once you get into it, it’s EXCELLENT. Don’t go into it thinking Edward and Bella at all. It’s competely different! You won’t be able to put it down. I’ve read it twice since! Please let me know what you think about it after you’ve finished!
Almond butter makes anything taste so much more awesome! I like mixing it with jelly to avoid that tact-like feeling on the roof of my mouth.
Cracker Barrel… oh my goodness
The Host is awesome — like others have said, it takes a while to get rolling, though. I tore through the last part of the book!
I’ve read BOTH of those books and they are BOTH really good. The Host is nothing like the Twilight series, actually it’s MUCH better. Take a little while to get into but it’s worth it. The Help was fantastic!!!
I loved The Help!! I read it back in January and have been meaning to put up a review of it since then – I think you’ve inspired me for what I’m going to do today 🙂
I read The Help and it’s an amazing book. Seriously one of the best I’ve read in a very long time.