3 main ingredient tarte

Good Monday Morning!! I want to give a big "THANKS"  to all my wonderful comments that I have received.

It was a beautiful weekend. This week looks awesome as well. Here's a little glimpse of our weekend.

We started our spring clean up. Preparing my herb garden. Photo above was our dessert. Totally vegan:)

Crust recipe.   1 cup almonds (soaked 1 hr)

                       1 cup walnuts  (soaked 1 hr)

                       1/2 cup dates

                        dash salt and cinnamon to taste.  

Directions:      After nuts have soaked, put almonds and dates in food processor for a few pulses. Then add walnuts, salt and cinnamon then blend until crust starts to fold in. You want to be able to have all nuts grounded but still have a moist enough crust to spread. Just keep an eye on it. Then top with favorite ingredients and enjoy!!!

Today's workout: Am Pilates workout focusing on Upper boddy strength. Then, a quick sprint later when I get home. Enjoy outside time if you have great weather!!

Hill work, circuit training

It is another beautiful day out today:) Love it!!! However; I have been stuck inside this morning finishing my paperwork. I truly despise paperwork, don't you???

Today's workout is a run on the treadmill at an incline of 5- I am going to run for as long as I can. Then, I am going to do a circuit of heavy legs, (squats) Plyo jumps( squatting down and jumping up as high as I can) then sprinting on treadmill (Incline 1, level 9) Then another round switching to, lunges then lateral lunges.

Then, I have to prepare for my PM Pilates class. And ending my day with my sons baseball game:)

Enjoy your Thursday everyone!!!

A lighter fare tonight? Last night was hummus:)
Friday night is Pizza night again. Can't believe it's almost Friday already.

Earth Day 2013

Happy Earth Day!!!

I have been trying to write in my blog all day! It is just too busy around here. But, spring is here and the sun is out today so for Earth Day, try to get outside and do something grounding and calming. Clean up your neighboorhood, your yard or just enjoy some gardening:) Just get outside today.

In a bit we are off to swim practice, it has been so nice with no more Religious ed classes. I mean it just takes a lot of our time out of Mondays.

Dinner tonight is a Quinoa casserole with Kale, raisins and walnuts. Yummy. Then I made a chickpea flour bread and topping it with a kale pesto. I love to eat good food:)

Tomorrow, Is my early morning client. I will do my run and legs workout then off to BJ's.....I am starting to stock up for our trip. I can't wait.

Let me know what you do on Earth Day???

veggie/protein dish ideas

Living in Massachusetts and some what near Boston, the bombings of the Marathon has hit home. I just want to give my deepest sympathy for everyone involved. I wish our world was a more peaceful place. Such senseless acts of violence.

As for today, It is a beautiful Friday morning but rain will be moving in. My husband has been home all week and with all the fun we have been having, I'm up 3 lbs for the week. Those who play must pay:)  

So, there's always next week! I will need to increase my cardio, strength training and reduce my caloric intake while increase my veggie and protein intake. It's really not as hard as you may think. Here are a few meal ideas:  Spinach egg omelet, veggie wraps with nutrional yeast, quinoa with roasted veggies, lots of roasted veggies, hummus with spinach or any other type of veggies.

What are some of your favorite foods to get back on track?

Today's workout is: One strength training class and then walking the hills with a friend....always the way to workout:)

Enjoy your friday everyone!!!

Roasted beet hamburger

Still continuing my hill workouts. My endurance is increasing:) Running up hill lots. The weather is finally starting to warm up so our meals have been light....spring like. Last night was a salad, soup and quinoa. But, the night before we had this beautifully colored hamburger!!!

Roasted Beet-Tofu Burgers

by Susan Voisin

Let me know if you'd like this recipe. It was delicous!!! The roasted beets gave the burger a nice smoky flavor! Food needs to taste good so you enjoy the whole family sharing experience.

Today's workout:  Hills on treadmill... I take the treadmill as high as it will go Incline level 12 and will walk to warm up then, run 1 min.then, walk 1 min. (repeat) until I die. Then, I'll take the incline down to 1 and sprint until I die.

Enjoy the day everyone!

Killer hill work out

This morning I am off to Trader Joe’sJ  My morning workout was hill work again on the treadmill but, this time I upped my challenge by running up hill a little(well a lot). Killer, Killer workout!!! Then, I did some intense yoga poses for leg strength and then ended with a great stretch. I feel absolutely amazing today!!! 

Already planning my lunch. Maybe something at TJ will trigger some ideas.

Keep me posted with your updates and progress!!!

Enjoy the day everyone!

Hill workout for the treadmill

It is going to be a beautiful day today!!! And I don’t have anything to doJ   All my chores are done, no running kids around, and classes are done for the day. So, what will I be doing???  I plan on doing my hill training on the treadmill, downloading new music, practicing for my new class and taking the dogs for a long walkJ

Treadmill workout:

MIN.         SPEED           INCLINE

0-1                                       3                          0

1-2                                    3.5                       0                 

2-3                                 4                           0              

3-4             4.5                      0

4-5             3                         3

5-7             3                         5

7-10           3                         6-8

10-13         3                         10

13-15         3                         12

15-17         3                         3

17-18        3                         5

18-20        3                         6-8

20-22       3                          10

22-25       3                          12

25-27       3                          3

27-30       3                          1

30-35       5-7                      1(RUN)

35-36       SPRINT 5-10 SPEED

36-37       WALK LEVEL 3 ISH

37-38      SPRINT

38-39     WALK

40-41    SPRINT

41-42    WALK

42-43   SPRINT

43-44  WAlk

44-45  SPRINT      *Then walk it out for at least 3 min then stretch

My nutritional information of the day, is my new favorite "food" , which is nutritional yeast....Yummy!!

Check it out

http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2011/10/what-the-heck-is-nutritional-yeast.html

This site has some wonderful recipes too.

Enjoy your day everyone!!

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Wow!! What a busy week we just had. This morning already my husband took my daughter to swim practice from 6-7:30am. I can't believe Madison got up and went. I'm so proud of her:) And for Rob for taking her, both are not morning people... as for me, I ran for 45 minutes on the treadmil and then did hills for another 15min.  I then did some leg sculpting exercises on the floor and then ending my workout with some Yoga stretches!!  Relaxing on our new couch!!

It is going to be a beautiful Saturday! Hope you enjoy the day where ever you are.

Nothing on the menu for tonight. We will be out for a benefit Hockey game tonight so, dinner will be on the fly... Tomorrow is another day. Maybe a good casserole for tomorrow.

Maybe veggie burgers....

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Good Morning on this beautiful Tuesday!!! These past few weeks have been extremely busy. On top of everything else going on, the kids spring sports have started. There is softball, baseball, and the swim team. I do bless my lucky stars that my kids are healthy and happy. Today started as usual... an early morning client then busy with the kids. I managed a great run and stretching routine.

We had a great relaxing Easter!! Saturday we spent early morning shopping and prepping then we colored eggs.

Hope the Easter Bunny was good to everyone. The snow is finally melting. I will be working off my Easter candy for a while. I am very excited about starting my new Pilates class at the Hospital soon. So, I have been studying and focusing on that. I always like to refresh on new client and beginner modifications. Enjoy the day!!!