Friday, April 12, 2013

Lifting Weights and Orange Chicken

I guess I'm really into this whole literal blog title business, when it comes to being creative or witty I'm kinda slacking, I just title posts what I'm going to talk about...hey maybe it's will be a new trend? probably not...

Anyways!

We had a big snow storm in MN  yesterday...gross...so I worked from home, which was nice because it gave me the ability to spend a little more time preparing food and a little less time driving in traffic.

Breakfast was an apple and PB (not pictured) 

Then I got my workout in, Week 5 Day 2 of my C25K which was run for 8 minutes straight, the longest so far, walk 5 minutes, then run 8 minutes straight again! Well the plan usually gives about 30 minutes for each workout but I usually just repeat the patterns until I reach 45 minutes (the length of a tv episode...I am laaaame) but it gets in a good workout. But this time I was not really up for repeating a third run of 8 mintues straight, so I got of the treadmill after I finished and decided to do 15 minutes of free weights...I was very surprised that the whole time I did weights my heart rate stayed in my zone...I guess I figured it would drop down and it wouldn't really be a great cardio workout, but either I'm really out of shape or weightlifting is hard and good for your body. Either way I got in my 45 minutes of cardio AND my arms are a little sore today! WIN

For lunch I made egg white and spinach wraps with some feta cheese and Frank's hot sauce, I love that stuff!! This filling lunch was only 5 Points Plus!


Then, since I was home doing work, I decided I would finally try this black bean brownie  mix I picked up a while back...they sounded weird but I was really curious about how they would turn out for 3 Points Plus a brownie.


There are no pictures of the baking process because when I put all the wet ingredients in my food processor to mix they all started dripping on the counter, I guess it wasn't on the base right...anyways I got it all fixed and then did not take any pics until it was done.
They look normal, the true test will be if the bf likes them! (he did!)

For dinner I was also feeling ambitious with all my extra time at home I decided to make Orange Chicken. The bf and I both enjoy Asian food but it is often really bad for you, high in sodium and fat, deep fried or just generally mysterious as to the actual calories. I based the main recipe off of this recipe from Cupcake Diaries and added a little inspiration from this recipe from Laa Loosh. It turned out delicious and we both really enjoyed it. For 8 Points Plus it was filling and tasty. I highly recommend! 

And for dessert, I used my last Points to take a brownie, a dark chocolate sugar free pudding, a banana and some fat free cool whip for a bowl of OMG YUM.





14 comments:

  1. Sounds like a perfect snow day to me!
    Laurie
    Lulu and Daisy

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    1. sure was! the ONLY good thing about snow in April is when you get to stay home in your warm house :)

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  2. Those wraps look fantastic. I love how simple the ingredients are and how easy they would be to make. I imagine that they are absolutely delicious, too!

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    1. Very delicious! :) anything with spinach and hot sauce really will be yummy to me though

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  3. Your dessert looks amazing! Great job on the workout. Running for 8 minutes makes my chest hurt. When I was doing C25K I got up to the 5 minute run intervals before I got bored with the program and stopped. I've been doing 2:1 run/walk intervals and it works so much better for my endurance.

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    1. Yes I was really nervous about the 8 minutes straight, but I figured I'd at least give it a shot, and it wasn't really that bad at all! I usually get bored with these C25Ks too but this time I'm gonna try to make it to the end just to see if I can

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  4. mmm. Browniessssss. Those look tasty! Did you like them? also, what wraps do you use that give you such a low PP+ value?

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    1. They were actually really good, for 3PP, not exactly like regular brownies but still yummy! I buy these tortillas by Mission that are small whole wheat carb balance tortillas, they aren't very big but they are filling and yummy

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  5. Ouch, my legs trembled just thinking about running for 8 minutes straight. This does not bode well for my sort-of goal to run a mile, does it?

    I love to mix a squeeze of orange juice into bbq sauce for a meat marinade. So yummy and this post reminds me that I haven't done that in a while!

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    1. Yum orange juice in to bbq sauce sounds so good for summer meals! I will have to try that for sure!! yeah the 8 minutes was rough, but not as bad as i thought. The plan upped me to 20 minutes straight this weekend!

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  6. weights will definitely get your heart rate going, esp if you're working large muscles like legs, chest or back. way to go! i loooove lifting :)

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    1. I used to love the weight machines at the gym but since I don't have a membership anymore I've been trying to get into my free weights, my friend suggested doing things like squats and lunges while working my arms for a full body workout, so far it's going well :)

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  7. You are not lame, you are still better then I am, I skipped my running today!! :(
    I am following you now...can you please follow me back?
    Xs Neja
    http://itislovelyfood.blogspot.com/

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    1. Glad you found my blog Neja, I am excited to go check yours out :) aww I have had days where I skip my running, the important thing is to just jump back in as soon as you can, some days I just don't feel up for running.

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