Get to work Maria

Forcing yourself to do something productive becomes difficult when your “job” consists mostly of housewife chores 3 days a week. Oh, there’s workouts and occasional lesson planning for work, but there’s plenty of free time for me to waste, too.

This morning I chose to burn some of that time by going back to bed after breakfast. My muscles and body have felt a bit worn down in the past few days and needed the extra rest, I reasoned.

The morning called for a yogurt mess. Complete with plain yogurt, a banana, a tbsp of peanut butter, and a half cup of Kashi Go Lean Crunch. I really liked the way this combination tasted—very delicious—but I don’t think it held me over long enough.

I woke up from my nap ready to gnaw my arm off. Instead, I settled for a handful of raw almonds.

Very tasty. Their flavor reminds me of something I’ve ate before, but I can’t for the life of me remember what it is!

After hanging out with Jillian, and doing Level 2 of The Shred, I felt like dying. I had conveniently forgotten how much I hate the second level. There’s a lot of exercises/moves with lunges or other knee-straining activities. Not my favorite level, for sure, but I did it.

Enjoyed my Green Monster afterwards as an early lunch (and in my favorite cup!). Today I added dried blueberries and cinnamon in with the usual frozen banana, water, milk, and spinach. If you’ve never kicked it up a notch with cinnamon, I’m telling you right now to go try it. It was such a good flavor.

Now it’s time to actually get to work and plan a lesson before heading out the door for Market Trip Tuesday.

If you participated in my weekly weigh-in dare, how did it go?

(Stay tuned… new dare coming soon!)