TCTBTF: Week 14 – Healthy Breakfast and Hoop Dancing

Nina you should try low fat vanilla yogurt with grape nuts sprinkled on top for breakfast... YUM!!!

Your motivating me to start my routine back up. I always burn myself out. Now I'm trying to decide if I can actually get in shape without going to the gym (the only way I know how). So treadmill or eliptical...which one should I buy?!?!

I finally came back and watched the link. That made me miss dancing so much. It also inspired me. I need some more of that kind of movement in my life. I have been feeling like I am in a grind for the last four years.

I used to be so good at hula hoop. You know, like twenty years ago. Just writing that 'twenty years ago' really drives home the age thing...

I need to do more fitness things that are fun. Really, I just want to be surfing again.

But, I did my first official weights session on Friday, going back today for more. Left me feeling like a skin sack of torn muscle fibers but a happy, "I am going to be strong again" skin sack.

I've also started using my kids for weight lifting exercises again...which has become an entirely new game now that Sol is about 30 pounds and Zaviera 20 plus. But still I manage to swing them up over my head for at least a few reps.

Breakfast idea, this may make you cringe but it is yummy and good for you on multiple levels, not to mention it will keep you regular as father time.

Soak: flaxseed, almonds, sunflower seeds (about 2 T flax, 1 T for the other two...or a little more if you want it thicker) overnight

In the morning put the soaked seeds, a half cup of yogurt, some berries/banana and vanilla protein powder and milk if you need it, and blend.

Super smoothie!

Milo has been nursing less, so I have started gaining weight - slowly. I have to either eat less or burn more to be bikini-ready!

Now that the weather is more cooperative, I'm going to bust out the jogging stroller and take Milo out for a run. On bad weather days, I'll ride my spin bike while he naps. I swear I will!!! (I've been saying this for weeks...)

Healthy breakfast ideas?
Poached egg on an english muffin with sauteed spinach.
Warmed mueslix (1/2 cup) with low-fat milk or rice milk, drizzle of honey.
High fiber multi-grain toast with Smart Beat margarine, small orange juice (I dilute my juice)

My new favorite:

Take a peeled and diced sweet potato, handful of chopped red and yellow bell peppers, 3 slices green onions, olive oil, and 1/2 tsp salt plus pepper to taste - and toss in a baking dish with plenty of olive oil. Top with 5 slices turkey bacon (use the nitrate-free good stuff, like from Applegate Farms).
Bake at 425 for 35 minutes - until top is crispy and potatoes are soft.
Serve with a sunny-side up fried egg.

WAY DELICIOUS! It's good with plain potatoes, too. I had it for brinner, with a simple baby spinach and arugula salad. YUMMY!

Some Breakfast suggestions:

When I was doing the healthy food thing I would eat fresh fruit for breakfast. One of my favorites was a fruit salad (I'd just cut up fresh fruit and put it in a bowl). It would consist of pineapple, grapes, melon, and cantalope.

Also, when making pancakes I'd mixed cinnamon and sugar into the batter instead of using syrup and butter. Homemade biscuits with only jelly.

Could think of many breakfast ideas though I love breakfast but I like a hot, fattening breakfast.

"Woot!"

I said that just for you, Nina ;) It's the very first, and probably last, time I ever will. I don't think I pulled it off.

Like you, I've had some stops and starts and have tried not to be down on myself for not doing better. This week, and last, have been good and I'm down 5 pounds (in 8 weeks). I bet I'll have that last 5 off before I need to be seen in public in shorts.

That is so awesome. Both the dancing and your weight loss. I would absolutely love to do that, unfortunately I don't even know where to start with the hula hoop.

I would totally do that... if I weren't so clumsy.

I'd really be interested in that interview... I hope you hear back from her...

True Story:
I was at the local laundry mat which has a connecting Nail Salon.
I will repeat: I was at the local laundry mat which has a connecting Nail Salon. There is a window between the 2 businesses and one of the women in the nail salon was bored so she broke out the fitness hula hoop. The multicolored weighted hoop. http://www.fitnessports.com/ I had been looking at them for months. She was about 5' and 100lbs or less and whipped that 10 lb hoop around like it was a damn toy. THAT makes me want to get my core correct, although I was running the other day and I was minimally breathless which made me feel good because I just knew I was WAYYYYY out of shape.

And a couple people asked me if I lost weight this week (i haven't but I must have lost inches because some stuff is extra loosey goosey.)

Okay I need to stop writing since this isn't my blog.