Birthday Thursday!

Happy birthday to: Me! Houdini! Peyton Manning! And, Alyson Hannigan!

Today is my big fat 28th birthday. I'm not old yet...I have 2 more years. BUT! I am pretty happy with today! Well, more like yesterday. Let me recap:

I came home and got my workout on. It was the plyometric cardio circuit. It was intense, but great. I burned 408 calories in 41 minutes. No complaints here! That's an average of nearly 10 calories a minute! I followed my workout with a solid dinner --> George Foreman gilled chicken, 1 tomato (sliced, eaten raw, yum!), sauteed zuchinni, and steamed rice. And of course, a glass of chocolate milk. I have found I prefer that to a protein smoothie after a workout. I drink a protein smoothie in the morning to increase my breakfast calorie count and hold me over til close to lunch time before getting hungry.

Today is cardio recovery day so it shouldn't be too intense. Since I skipped cardio abs earlier in the week, I'm planning to tack it on to the end of the cardio recovery. All in all it should be a fabulous workout. Since I don't really know anyone in the area yet, dinner will be in...it will be leftover chicken, steamed cabbage (yum!), rice, and either (homemade) honey glazed carrots or a sliced tomato. Decisions, decisions.

Hope your day is fabulous! Happy Birthday Thursday to Me!

Yoga stretches please!

What do you do on a crap shoot day? Workout! Duh! In a very broad statement, I had a terrible, horrible no good very bad day. And someone made me feel lower than low and it put me in a horribly foul mood which is - fortunately - not in existence...presently.

Here's a quick breakdown of the eats for the day:

B: Apple cinnamon cheerios
L: 1/2 stuffed pepper, 1/2 cup chicken and dumplings, 1/2 cup green beans, 1/4 cup hash browns and 1 banana
D: Homemade taco salad (1 cup lettuce, 1/2 cup meat, shredded cheese, salsa, 1 tbsp sour cream), refried beans (vegetarian), yellow saffron rice, fruit salad

Today was a cardio recovery day. It was a lot like yoga and core work. I actually enjoyed it a lot! I needed to get my stretch on. The old hamstrings have been super tight lately and of course sitting in a classroom setting all day for the past 3 days hasn't exactly helped. Today's workout did!

It was a 32 minute workout that burned 219 calories. So far this week, I've burned 1,319 calories! Holy smokes! Tomorrow is a Pure Cardio workout so I'll be anxious to see what it brings! Happy Thursday and get ready for Friday!