Workout: 50 minute bike ride, average 12 mph for 10 miles :)  It was a super hard bike ride today because my legs are still sore from my run on Monday (didn’t stretch afterwards, always a bad idea!), and the wind was outrageous!  And of course, as is always true when on a bike ride, we were riding straight into the wind most of the time…Looking forward to Stretch X tomorrow :)

Also, I feel like a huge traitor to the Tumblr community because I tried a bite of the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Lara Bar tonight, and I’m sorry but they really all taste pretty similar to me, and it tasted nothing like chocolate…it’s not that it tastes bad per say, but I’m a chocoholic, so if I would definitely never eat it if I wanted something chocolate-y.  Okay I feel better now that I got that off my chest :) haha

And I may not like Lara Bars, but Luna Bars are amazzzzzing, so that should hopefully make up for it :)

I think the struggle is to get people to see long-term. Do you want to be around to see your kids graduate? Do you want to be a grandparent? Do you want to die young & leave your spouse alone? Those are the things I encourage them to think about.

Yeah that’s a good point thanks!…But I wonder if that would get through to people though because most people don’t think that far ahead or think that food would really have that big of an impact on your health.  I just wanna be able to bottle up a documentary into like a minute or two of explanation! haha :)

Just had a talk about animal cruelty in the farming industry at work with some guys and some of their attitudes about it were refreshing because they knew it was a problem and others are so discouraging because they just don’t care even a little bit. We were talking about pink slime and all that and they don’t care what goes into their body as long as it tastes good. I just don’t get it and I wish I had a more convincing argument as to why it’s more of an issue than maybe they realize. I’m not trying to convert anyone to veganism I just want people to see things for what they are.

What do you guys say in situations like this if you’ve ever been in one or were in one in the future?

Workout: Chest&Back + AbRipperX!  We decided not to do the workout along with the videos today since we have them memorized anyways, so we did it while watching Kung Fu Panda :)  It definitely made us take way longer, so we probably won’t do that again, but it was fun to ditch the video for once…Tony’s lame jokes only get lamer after 135 days haha

Tentative Plan for this week:

Tomorrow: Biking

Thursday: AbRipperX & Stretch X

Friday: REST (My friend is moving in Friday so I’m gonna help her, so that should burn some cals anyways :)

Saturday: Legs&Back + AbRipperX

Sunday: YogaX

Hopefully all goes as planned :)

My little cousin just kept rubbing my belly telling me I had a “big round belly” and then asked to see my belly button said “yep, you have a big round belly!”

Aren’t kids just the sweetest??

Okay I’ll try to this weekend :] I feel crappy after this holiday weekend and I’m afraid I won’t look much different between day 90 and now :/ but I should just do it so I’ll try!

Ah yay thanks for all the suggestions! :] I’m so excited to finally go!

I fell asleep at 10:45 last night, so of course I woke up at 6:45 this morning, so I decided to get moving right away and go for a run.  I ran 2.8 miles in 20 minutes, so about a 7:20 minute mile pace, which felt good:)

I’m ready to get back to school because it’s so much easier to stay on track there!

I’m coming back home in two weeks for Tyler’s sister’s graduation, and my mom pinky promised me we could go to Trader Joe’s that weekend :)  I’ve never been and I want to go so bad! 

Any suggestions for things I must try from Trader Joes??

So now that Tyler and I are working 40 hours a week doing fairly labor intensive stuff like cleaning apartments and painting, I came up with a new idea for making our working out happen more consistently…or at least I hope!

Here’s the idea…we are going to make a list at the beginning of each week of all the workouts we want to get done for that week.  By the end of the week the goal is to have completed all of them obviously; however, if it so happens that we don’t, for every workout that we miss, we will have to run 3 miles for it by the end of the day Sunday.  

I really hope this encourages us to keep on track even though work makes us tired.  Plus, it allows for more flexibility by letting us pick which day we do the workouts on versus doing it based on the P90X schedule, which is better for us because we can take our rest day on the day we are both the most tired, rather than just assigning it to a day.  

Tomorrow is a day off for us though, and we will both be at family things, so this week will only be Tuesday-Sunday.  Here are the workouts that we will have to get done this week:

• AbRipperX —3 times
• Legs&Back
• Chest&Back
• Cardio (biking or running) —2 times
• Yoga X
• Stretch X 

So I will still be doing my daily workout log on here, it just won’t go in the regular P90X order necessarily :)

Also, I never really put what I eat on here anymore because I don’t think anyone cares, but if you would like me to include my nutrition info, just like this post :)

Picture 1: Blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, and apples = <3…Definitely ate like half of the big bowl that this made…

Picture 2: My vegan baked beans made with Amy’s Organic baked beans + onions, mustard, organic ketchup, vegan BBQ sauce, liquid smoke, molasses, and some spices

Picture 3: My mom’s baked beans made with Bush’s Vegetarian baked beans + onions, mustard, ketchup, brown sugar, and bacon

I think we can see who the winner of the Great Bean Cook Off was considering whose dish looks a lot emptier… :)  The verdict was that mine tasted more “tomato-y” and my mom’s were more “barbecue-y,” but I didn’t rub my win in too bad :)   

My family is going over to my uncle’s for Memorial Day to hang out by the pool, and I am attempting to prove that vegan’s can have a barbecue too!  I’m making barbecue tempeh sandwiches, baked beans, sweet potato waffle fries (I was on a time crunch so I got frozen waffle fries) and a fruit salad :)  I wanted to make vegan mac and cheeze too, but the Kroger here at home didn’t have nutritional yeast!  Oh well I would rather keep it healthy anyways :)  

My mom is making her own baked beans with bacon in them, so we are going to see whose are better…Photos/winner to come!

Workout: 35 min run + AbRipperX…I went on my run with one of my friends from high school since I’m back home, and she runs at a slower pace than I’m used to, so it wasn’t a very difficult run, but I ran a little extra after she went home and I still got a pretty good burn :)  Also, AbRipperX is much more bearable when doing it while watching TV rather than with Tony Horton haha

I’m feeling great since I got my workout done early (with a high of 95 today with 90% humidity it was kind of necessary), and now my plans include:

• Baby shower for one of my best friend’s sister
• Help a friend pack to move to Chicago tomorrow
• Try not to eat all the food in the house
• Watch Dinner for Schmucks with my sister when she gets off work later tonight
• Try not to eat all the food in the house!
• Enjoy the time in between relaxing and indulging in some crap TV aka 16 and Pregnant haha :)  
• Try not to eat all the food in the house!!!

Today I went home for Memorial Day weekend right after work and have not had a free moment to myself since now at 1:19 a.m. so I’m not going to beat myself up about today.

I made my mom and dad lentil loaf and they liked it and I made the vegan cookie dough balls from OhSheGlows (check out my food page) and they were DEElicious! Then I got to see some friends from high school and we hung out and watched Bee Movie and talked and now I need sleeeep :]

I’m supposed to go running with one of them tomorrow morning which is fine with me and it was my idea… Well just have to see how she does waking up to run haha

Happy three day weekend all :]

I made the Vegan Cookie Dough Balls from OhSheGlows website tonight and oh. My. Gosh. they are DANGEROUSLY good. Cashews, oats, whole wheat flour, maple syrup, sugar, vanilla and Choco chips = <3

**Click the picture for the recipe! :)

No P90X or anything today, and my excuse isn’t that great but you get to hear it anyways…

Like I’ve posted before, my job is cleaning out apartments at my college to get them ready next year from 7-330 everyday, and today I had to clean out a bathroom for the first time.  I don’t even really mind cleaning, but that’s because I clean up after myself, and I’m not a dirty person like these people who leave these apartments.  I swear these people have never heard of spraying some damn 409 once in a while.  

So anyways, I kept splashing all kinds of nasty stuff on me from the bathroom all day (it took me all day today to clean one bathroom and a refrigerator if that tells you anything about how dirty this stuff is), and I just had to get in the shower right away when I got home.  And long story still pretty long, I was in no mood to workout after showering only to have to shower again.  I definitely burned plenty of calories today, but I hate that I skipped a strength/abs workout.  Boo me :(

BUT tomorrow is Friday of a three day weekend and I’m going home so yayyy! :)