I started my Tuesday with a green Granny Smith apple and reduced fat peanut butter. I am probably one of the few food bloggers that loves peanut butter but doesn’t eat it much. When calorie counting, I have such a hard time understanding and accepting that it’s okay to eat. I know that there are a lot of positives to peanut butter, but the calorie and fat content is just too high for me. I love it though, I wish it was lower in cals/fat. I could eat it straight out of the jar every day! I decided to splurge today and have some on my apple. Yum – I wish I had more of that in my life!
For lunch I decided to not eat out or go shopping, but go home and make a healthy meal since I spent about $100 at the grocery store on Monday. I have no clue how my bill always gets so high at the grocery store! It always gets me.
I made a fruit salad with lettuce, apple, grapes, strawberries, fat-free french dressing and cracked up some Special K wheat crackers to top it off. It was really good and only totaled 215 calories!
Afterwards I wasn’t full so I had some more Special K Whole Wheat crackers and tried a Jell-O Mousse Temptation.
It was pretty tasty. I have never had mousse before, so the texture was very unique. It’s like a mixture between pudding and whipped cream. It was a caramel/chocolate flavor and satisfied my hunger and sweet tooth for only 60 calories. Even my boyfriend really liked it, and he doesn’t like much of the low-calorie stuff I buy. This makes me wonder if I can make my own mousse recipe for a desert? Does anyone have any recipes?
I was starving right when I got home from work and I wanted to try to make a sweet potato. I’ve only tried to cook a sweet potato on my own one time before, so this was new to me. One half I threw in the microwave and put butter and a little salt on it. It was pretty delicious.
With the other half, I wanted to try to make sweet potato fries. I ended up using garlic, brown sugar and cinnamon to bake them in. They turned out great. Maybe a little burnt..but great for the first time making them!
Finally, I wanted something cold so I made some cereal. How could I leave out breakfast at night? This has been a Breakfast in the P.M. themed week for me. At the store I bought some Almond Breeze Milk. I really liked it and think I’ll add it to my normal grocery list. It’s only 20 calories per half cup (however a little more fat then reduced fat milk). The Kashi 7 Grain Whole Grain cereal was also very light and yummy. I’m a fan.
As for my fitness, I went on a run outside yesterday because it was nice again. No more rain. I ran around our neighborhood for 2.43 miles at a 8:30 pace according to my Nike Plus. Ran for 21 minutes and burned 250 calories. Nice!
I became bored and nothing on TV was entertaining me. I really could care less about American Idol this season. I only like that one guy who plays guitar and has longer blonde hair… and Big Mike of course. Anyways, I decided to go waste time and money at Target. I bought some really cute cardigans that were on sale. I always wear them to work and wanted some fun spring colors so I got purple, white and a brown. You can wear these with everything. LOVE TARGET!!
I came home from The Best Store In The World and decided to try out The Shred Level 2. WHEEWWWWWW Jillian kicked my butt and I was sweating an insane amount! I hated it while I was doing it, but now I kind of want to do it again.
On a great note, I’m back on track with my weight loss. I’m back to 10.4 lbs lost after my insanely fatty weekend 🙂
Happy Hump Day everyone!!
I miss Jillian’s workouts! I haven’t done it in over a week! Damn leg…
And just wait for Level 3… oh my goodness…. :p
ah LOVE Target! The clothes suck me in every time 🙂
Happy wednesday!
xo-Molly
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Jillian Michael’s really knows how to give a good workout huh! Glad to see I’m not the only person that loves her! Congrat’s on your weightloss! Good Luck on your goal!
apples and peanut butter are one of my all time favorite snacks! It looks so good 🙂
I use a heart rate monitor and it is linked to my polar watch. http://www.amazon.com/Polar-Womens-Heart-Monitor-Watch/dp/B000F6DV4G/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1269450511&sr=8-4. It was the best investment I have ever made!