Today, I didn’t make it to the gym. I did however, clean my house for two hours and was incredibly sore from yesterday’s workout with my trainer. Tomorrow, I’ll hit up the treadmill and do some arm work.
Eating wise, I did much, much better. That is, if you don’t count my Cap’n Crunch in the morning for breakfast. I figure, skim milk, not so great cereal, hell, at least I’m EATING breakfast right? Right.
I did however, do better at eating the suggested 4-6 meals my trainer suggested.
I had a clementine around noon for my mid-am snack (what breakfast was at 10am).
For lunch I made tuna fish sandwiches with low fat mayo on wheat with lettuce. I also brought us each two clementines and a handful of celery sticks and carrot sticks with some low-fat creamy peanut butter. At least I think it was low fat.
For dinner, we had slow cooker turkey chili that I really have to add was DELICIOUS! (recipe below). I always put my chili over brown rice, I think it adds a certain heartiness to it (and it was a go to meal in college because of the simplicity, granted then I was eating cans of chili not the homemade stuff). After dinner, I allowed myself ONE woodchuck amber cider (i’m seriously trying to cut back my midweek drinking so i figured ONE was okay). Then for dessert I had a chocolate/banana milk shake made of about 1 1/2 c. chocolate/vanilla ice cream with 2 bananas. Tasty goodness is what that is my friends. Tasty. Goodness.
Laura’s Quick Slow Cooker Turkey Chili
INGREDIENTS:
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 pound ground turkey
2 (10.75 ounce) cans low sodium tomato
soup
2 (15 ounce) cans kidney beans, drained
1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained
1/2 medium onion, chopped
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1/2 tablespoon garlic powder
1/2 tablespoon ground cumin
1 pinch ground black pepper
1 pinch ground allspice
salt to taste
DIRECTIONS:
1. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Place turkey in the skillet, and cook until evenly brown; drain.
2. Coat the inside of a slow cooker with cooking spray, and mix in turkey, tomato soup, kidney beans, black beans and onion. Season with chili powder, red pepper flakes, garlic powder, cumin, black pepper, allspice and salt.
3. Cover, and cook 8 hours on Low or 4 hours on High.
Bon appetite! Happy friday! Tomorrow calls for a 3-4 mi run, not sure if i’ll add some weights in there, I guess it depends on how sore I still am, either way, my goal of shooting for 3 days at the gym this week = win!
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Kashi makes a cereal, I think it’s called Honey Sunshine, that tastes kind of like Cap’n Crunch. It’s not nearly as sweet, but once you get used to it, it’s really good.