I
was scrolling through my Instagram feed the other day and one of the guys I
follow, the Austin caveman, posted a picture of his meal (like he does) and it
was zoodles (noodles made out of spiralized zucchini, just in case you didn’t
know). So, I got the idea that I should buy a bunch of zucchinis this
weekend and hook up the spiralizer attachment I bought for my Kitchenaid mixer
on Cyber Monday last month and make me some zoodles, then boil them so they’re
soft. Then I can mix some store bought marinara sauce with sautéed onions
and mushrooms. Then I’ll add a BUNCH of seasoned ground turkey and
voila! Spaghetti a la zoodle! So I’ll eat that all next week for my
lunches and I’m pretty excited about it. Oh! I also have an acorn
squash that I need to use, so I’ll bake that and then mix it into the spaghetti
sauce. Can’t have too many veggies, right?
So,
let’s just go over my weekday menu for next week:
•
breakfast: fruit smoothie w/cashew milk, water & my super foods protein
powder + 3 boiled eggs
•
lunch spaghetti w/zoodles
•
snack: sweet potatoes cooked in some way, shape or form
•
dinner: Greek yogurt
•
overtime snacks: skinny pop popcorn & sliced apples…and maybe a Sargento
Balanced Breaks snack pack, if necessary
I
kinda want to do some apples sautéed in coconut oil with cinnamon so maybe I’ll
do that for the following week. Might do a mix of apples and pears, in
fact. OR, I can bake them. Hmm…might do that actually.
On
Thursday, I worked overtime on the night shift…like I do. Anyway, it was super
cold and so while I didn’t want to skip my lunch break walk, I didn’t want to
do it outside. So, instead, I just walked back and forth in the hallway
of the building where I was working. I started it off with some of my PT
exercises. The band I have in my overtime bag is way more resistant than
the one I use at the gym and/or at my PT sessions. I got the floaty
feeling in my hips after I got done and took the band off and was just doing my
walking for the rest of my lunch break.
On
Saturday, I had my very first “soft tissue” appointment at run lab.
Essentially, a deep tissue sports massage. It went pretty well. It HURT, but I know that if those kinds of
massages don’t hurt a little (not like, ow you’re injuring me, just
uncomfortable pain, you know?), then I know they’re not doing me any good. After that, I went grocery shopping.
Then it was home to shower and then hanging out with Amanda! We went to IKEA
where I bought some storage trays for my Project Life cards. YAY! We
then headed over to Joann’s Crafts where I bought some paper and other
scrapbooking stuff. Also, I ordered MORE of the 3x4 journaling cards from
that lady on Etsy that I ordered all those cards from the other day. I
think I’m pretty well set for that size cards for quite some time!
After
that, we went to a place called Hopdoddy’s. It’s a burger place and it
was pretty good. We both got the chili
queso fries (amazing! highly recommend
if you have a Hopdoddy’s near you). I got
the PRIMETIME burger and added a fried egg to it. YUM! I
want to go back and try their Greek burger at some point. Before we left I saw one of the bartenders
(oh yea, we sat at the bar for faster service) giving a sample of something
called Christmas Ale to another customer.
It was a dark beer with soft serve ice cream in it. Yes please! So I asked for a sample as well and oh wow it
was amazing!
In
the evening, I went to Michael’s and, of course, bought MORE scrapbooking stuff. Haha! Then I mostly finished up my first 2 scrapbook
pages in my new Project Life album. So excited
with how they turned out!
Saturday
evening I also meal prepped for this week.
I used the spiralizer attachment for my Kitchenaid mixer for the first
time and I LOVE it! It’s so easy to
use. Almost fun, even! I spiralized over 4 pounds of zucchini and
then boiled it. Then I made a super
chunky, think meat sauce and prepped out 7 bowls of zoodles with meat sauce for
my lunches. Then I stuck a bunch of
peeled and cubed sweet potatoes in the crockpot with butter and cinnamon.
In
randomness from this week, I pulled out a super long (over an inch!!!) eyebrow
hair from a friend’s face. Speaking of random, one of my coworkers had a
sad looking orange on his desk, so while he was away for his lunch break, I
vandalized his orange. Then when I went on break and came back, he had
further vandalized it and put it on my desk. HAHA!
Someone
left a bag of Central Market brand “movie theater” popcorn in the breakroom at
work on Friday. I grabbed a handful and OMG so yummy! Dangerous, is
what it is. I could totally eat the whole bag.
And, since I didn’t post this
on Saturday like I’d planned to, let’s cover Sunday and Monday as well here
while I’m at it….haha.
Okay, Sunday. Sunday I was going to run 14 miles, a little
later in the day as I knew it was going to be COLD…in the 20’s (I know that’s
not really super cold, depending on where you live, but I’m not used to it at
the moment so it’s pretty cold to me right now). Anyway, I switched shifts with a girl a work,
so I ended up at work on Sunday (and will have Tuesday off from my regular
shift, but still have to go in for the overnight shift overtime I signed up
for). So then I changed it to just 10
miles. But then I procrastinated because
it was cold and not getting any warmer at all outside. I finally headed out the door with 8 miles in
mind. By mile 3 it was painfully obvious
that I had not layered properly on my arms and cut it short at just 4
miles. Ugh. I’m not sure I’m going to hit my goal of 120
miles for this month. Oh well. I’ll still try, tho.
On Monday, I got up and was PLANNING
to run and go to the gym. Buuuuuuut, I got
sucked into scrapbooking stuff and ended up going to 2 different Michael’s in
search of a specific valentine’s day stamp set, but was unable to find it. Then I went to Hobby Lobby. Needless to say, I didn’t have time to run
and I had to cut my gym workout short.
BUT, I did get 10 minutes on the ladder, some PT exercises, the kettlebell
sumo squats with front raise, the ab coaster and push press done. YAY!
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