Piña Colada Smoothie

I am having special delishiousness for breakfast today. I found a recipe for a tropical smoothie and decided to tweak it a little to make it taste like a piña colada. So good!

Piña Colada Smoothie
1/2 cup milk
1 banana
1/2 cup pineapple
1 tsp coconut extract
1 scoop vanilla protein powder
Ice

I put all this in my Magic Bullet and voila!

Yum!

Daylight Savings

It was tough adjusting to springing forward today and I'm sure it didn't help that I spent the previous evening drinking a bottle of wine and snacking into the night with a friend. I finally got out of bed in time to make it to the gym but it resulted in a bit of a rushed breakfast. 1/2 a Power Bar.  I've said I'm not a breakfast person but working out on an empty stomach was resulting in migraines for me for a while.  A friend suggested getting some sugar in my body and it seems to do the trick.

60 minutes BodyPump. 60 minutes elliptical. Knee is still a little achy so I'll be icing and taking most of the week off so I'll be ready for my half next weekend.

It's gorgeous out and I'm lame to stay in but I really do want to stay off my knee.  Nap time.

Saturday snack

I normally eat apples and bananas with peanut butter but I found this recipe for  yogurt dip and decided to try it with almond butter instead of peanut butter.

Result?  Delicious!  Makes several servings and is a lot fewer calories too.  Yum!

Today is day 2 of taking off to rest my knee.  It is feeling better so I know I'm doing the right thing but I'm dying.  Cannot wait to hit the gym tomorrow.

Breakfast

I really struggle with breakfast. I know its important and I make sure to eat something (however small) every day. If I don't I know I'll pay for it later. The other problem is that I'm almost always running around like mad trying to get my kids out the door so my own breakfast is low on the priority list.

This morning I only had a couple of minutes so I tried a banana with a teaspoon of honey and some cinnamon. It was amazing! Thank you Pinterest for that idea!

Lunch

Mixed greens, cucumbers, egg, 1/4 avocado, fat-free balsamic vinaigrette. Have a training session tonight so I'll have to skip dinner until afterwards. I will probably follow this up with an orange and/or yogurt.

Lunch!

30 minute training session today followed by a 5 mile run. Made up an avocado wrap with the sweetest orange on the side. I'm starving! Digging in.