Today ended up being a great day. Nearly perfect, might I add! I’m happy to kick of the New Year with such a bang.
After my oats settled in my tummy for a little bit, I tested the temp (nearly 50*) and decided to take the dog for a nice 5 miler. I ended up running in shorts! For January 1 in Colorado, that’s pretty good. It felt so good to get outside and enjoy the fresh air.
The fridge is looking a little bare, but I decided on a delicious lunch of leftover butternut squash soup, whole wheat toast topped with a laughing cow, a grapefruit, and raw veggies. I think my eyes were bigger than my hunger because I left nearly all the grapefruit, and bits of both the soup and veggies. It was my last container of leftover soup. It was super quick and easy and came out so well. The recipe is posted here.
I cleaned up and curled up with my book on the couch while my hubby was enthralled with football. I’m reading Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahara. If you haven’t read any of her books, you should! She’s an amazing author.
I decided to forgo the 2pm Alignment Intensive yoga class and opted to go to a Hot Power Fusion class at 4pm instead. It was INCREDIBLE! The class was relatively small and incorporated poses from both Bikram/Hot Yoga and Power Vinyasa. I left feeling so energetic and invigorated.
Funny thing, though, that some of you might be able to relate to. You know when you’re doing floor poses (cobra, floor bow, etc) and between sets you relax your hands by your sides and rest one ear on the mat? Well, the teacher didn’t give us a direction, and each time I placed my ear down, I was looking my neighbor straight in the eye! When I flipped my head over to try the other way, I found myself face-to-face with the other neighbor. It was pretty humorous.
When I got home, I was starving, and had a small bowl of shredded wheat with a handful of raisins and a baby spoon of peanut butter to tide me over ’till dinner.
After showering and whatnot, I began to fix dinner. We had a package of tofu and a sweet potato to use up, so I made a pretty sizable scramble with zucchini, red pepper, onion, spinach, sweet potato, and the cubed tofu. I had my leftover grapefruit from lunch on the side.
It came out ok, not great, and I found my mouth wanting something else, so I made a cup of hot cocoa w/ 1 c. silk light, 1 heaping tsp cocoa, and 1 tsp of agave (sorry, I sipped it right up before I could snap a photo). It hit the spot!
Ok, off to bed. G’night!
