Getting it together…hopefully

Well I thought I was going to blog a lot more! Oh well!

The primary purpose of this blog is not to be a fitness blog. I guess whatever I fancy really! Cooking, art, music, poetry! I do have a hundred-ish pounds to lose, so fitness will be sometimes a part of it.

Tomorrow I see a personal trainer to help me along. Around 2013 I was doing really well with running and the gym. I had gotten from around 246-250 pounds to 230. Then I strained my hamstring (quite sure from boot camp and not running), I had to stop running for a bit, I fell back into old habits, never got back into it. I started to get back into it 2-3 weeks ago and I feel good about it. I have learned I am an excuse queen for working out after my job. Thankfully I am a morning person so getting up an hour earlier to get to the gym at 5am works better. My job starts at 7am. Not a lot of time to freshen up in between, but I must do it.

I am doing a couch to 10K program to get back into running. That is 3 times a week. My goals for now are a 10K and then a half marathon. I will play by ear if I want to do more. I know I don’t have to for my health, which is the most important thing, but it seems to what motivates me to get my ass out of bed and my foot out the door.

Thinking my workouts will be couch to 10K three times a week, one of them being a trail run. Swim once a week. Cross train two times a week. Rest on Sunday, I am not religious, just a good day for a rest. Now my trainer may have other ideas and I plan to be obedient.

First food photo is what I plan on for breakfast that isn’t the usual unhealthy stuff I eat. Though My Fitness Pal says it is 536 calories. A touch high, but I am more a breakfast and lunch person than dinner person. 1/2 cup oat milk, 2 tbsp peanut butter, and 1 tbsp honey blended in a blender (I had a hard time blending them by hand). Then pour into a bowl and add 1/4 cup rolled oats, 1 tbsp flax seed meal, and fruit of your choice. This recipe was inspired by the YouTube channel Make it Dairy Free and their video “what I eat in a day”.

Make it dairy free what I eat in a day

This next thing is a tomato tart. I used the black pepper tart crust recipe from Epicurious Heirloom Tomato Tart recipe, but my base layer is ricotta mixed with salt, pepper and um, canned garlic. On top of that, shredded gruyere cheese, then topped with glorious farmer’s market tomatoes. After the crust is done I put in the toppings, turn off the stove but leave it in the oven for ten minutes. There is still enough heat to melt the cheese.