Bikini season is just a couple months away! Instead of going on a crazy crash diet weeks before your first bathing suit appearance, be safe and start cleaning up your eating habits now. Crash dieting is very dangerous. I see a pattern of crash dieting before vacations, spring break and summer. It’s important to stay healthy and make small steps to reach your ...
Four Ingredient Pumpkin Protein Pancakes!
Who says pumpkins are only for fall? Certainly not me! Yesterday for breakfast, I was going to make banana-egg pancakes. I was not in the mood for bananas, but still in the mood for pancakes. I use bananas and pumpkin as baking swaps. So when I saw the pumpkin puree in my cabinet, I thought, “what the heck, why not swap them with each other”? This was another trial ...
Workouts, Dinner & Protein!
Monday workouts always consist of a noon run and a 5:30 body pump class. Yesterday, I skipped my run. My knee has been aching for the past couple days, so I’m giving it a rest. Saturday, I ran a couple seven minutes miles for a class, but I think it was too much. I’m going to Las Vegas on Thursday and would really hate to have it injured during my trip. Today I’m ...
85 Calorie Protein Brownies: Gluten Free, Vegan, Dairy Free, Soy Free, No Sugar Added, Low Carb & High Fiber.
Growing up, brownies were my best friends. I held hands with brownies every Wednesday. We would: sing, travel, explore and learn all kinds of things together. One time, a bunch of brownies and I spent the night at Sea World. I’m being serious, but I’m not here to tell you about being a “girl scout brownie”. I’m here to give you my chocolate brownie recipe. I ...
Two Ingredient: Chocolate Protein Blueberries
Being clumsy is not ideal, but today my clumsiness created a magical concoction. As I was making a chocolate protein smoothie, I accidentally dropped a blueberry into the protein mix. I was not going to let the blueberry go to waste, so I ate it. My eyes lit up instantly. I tasted like brownie batter. I put the blender away and decided to take a new route for my post ...