RR Log 01.15.10

Breakfast:
-1 egg scrambled with red pepper, red onion, & zucchini on top of sweet potatoes and black beans

Lunch:
-Leftovers mish-mash! Quinoa salad (from like, last week...) with wilted spinach, sweet potatoes and a Nature's Bakery veggie burger. Microwaved that mess and mashed it up in a bowl. Not the best but economical it is indeed.

Dinner:
We went out to eat at Urban Belly.
-Rice cake with chicken and mango
-1 lamb & brandy dumpling (steamed)
-1 duck with pho spices dumpling (fried)
-about 9 pieces of steamed edamame that came with the dumplings

Drinks:
-2 cups black tea
-1 glass white wine
-1 tequila with soda water

Snacks:
-handful of dried cranberries & 1 tbsp. peanut butter (before workout, see notes!)
-nonfat Greek-style yogurt with fresh strawberries and lavender honey
-1 banana
-handful of chips & salsa

Exercise: 45 minutes on the treadmill. Except for my warm-up and cool-down, I kept my heart rate at 150-170 by doing intervals of running like a freak, walking fast on an incline (when I set the incline to 3 and the speed to 4 I found my heart rate stayed constant at 150) with a few periods of 'rest.' I made sure to do a thorough cool-down. I honestly have never been much of a runner, and it felt really good today. I am hoping that I can get into good shape by the time it thaws out there so I can run outside (maybe??). I have cold-weather aggravated asthma so I avoid sporting outdoors with all my power these days.

Notes: AH HA!!! I followed DB's trainer's lead and tried dried cranberries and a spoonful of peanut butter before my workout this morning, and it worked great! I had the energy to really sweat it out on the treadmill, without feeling too empty or too full. Yay! We have friends in town and it is my boyfriend's birthday, so we are celebrating this weekend. Hence the rich dinner and tequila drink. I have been so good for so long I have no remorse about my dining out, it helps that I went to the gym yesterday too.