Best dinner bagel evah!

So Monday was my first day of rest. It felt good to get to sleep in, take my time with my morning routine, and know that I wasn't going to be running around like a complete mad woman.

My work day was different than the usual Monday. Today I went into my full time job for 8:30, to leave at 10:45am. Where did I have to go? Downtown Toronto. I got to go and do some U.M.A.B training for the group home I work with.

This was quite possibly one of the dullest U.M.A.B. refreshers I've ever had. It was 2.5 hrs of power point discussion. Thankfully, I have Nicole B & Paul to thank for keeping me entertained. With Paul's hilarious doodles (including Humpty Dumpty falling off his wall) and Nicole's off the cuff remarks, the time went faster. Also knowing that it was going to be dull I snagged myself a Tall non-fat, sugar-free vanilla chi tea latte (only 2 flavour shots instead of 3). Yummo!I was anxious to get out of the training. After our supervisor wanted to do an annual review of the policies and procedures. Bah! It was already 2:45! People, I had to get from downtown Toronto to Bowmanville in rush hour traffic (DVP and 401). And before we could start the 20 min annual review, people needed a smoke break. Gah! lol. No matter, I still made it out of the city and home in no more than 1hr15mins (pretty good seeing as I didn't take the DVP and didn't get on the 401 'till Pickering).

Anywho. Though I am resting this week, I felt that I should still be going to Yoga. It's all about relaxation, stretching and what more do I need right now than to relax and a good long stretch. My cousin Courtney came to Hot Yoga with me as her first ever Yoga experience. Though she did try to back out on me, I managed to convince her to come.

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Courtney says that she did like it and would consider going back again for more. Yeah!

For lunch Monday, I needed to make something that was portable, that could be eaten in the car if needed. So I went with a wrap.

I have learned that you can use cauliflower as a rice substitute, and frankly I love doing it. I have a feeling you will be seeing a lot of cauliflower 'rice' this week.

I cut 1 Florette from the bunch and tossed it in my 1.5cup food processor that I picked up at Wally World, for get this, 7.77$ Can't beat that!

Pulse for 5-10 seconds. Voila!

Cauliflower 'rice'. I sprinkled the cauliflower over 1tbsp of hummus on a tortilla wrap.

Topped it with, sliced zucchini,

Avocado, tomato, artichoke heart and green onions.

I had also packed myself my afternoon snack, which had baby carrots celery and 1 more cauliflower Florette.

When I got home I was 'marven! I grabbed one of my new buys from when I went to Whole Foods Sunday. I know I didn't' mention it sooner, but today is the perfect day to talk about it. I was so excited to go to whole foods and see what all I could find that I don't have at my local grocery store or health food stores. Now this was a special trip. If I make it to whole foods twice a year that would be enough. According to mapquest, a drive from home to Whole Foods is 59 mins. And I can tell you that doesn't account for city traffic. So what did I get to snack on?

This is quite possibly the tastiest bar I've ever had! I defiantly recommend you going out and trying one for yourself.

So I munched on my Luna bar while I prepped dinner. Which also included a new item I picked up at Whole Foods.

Whole Foods fat organic asparagus, toasted bagel with cream cheese & la piece de resistance. . . . Smoked salmon (it wasn't frozen in the store, it was fresh!). I sprinkled some dried dill on the salmon. OMG I seriously can't wait to have this again for dinner. I think I might do some rearranging with what I have planned out for this week (remember I've been making a week long meal plan so I don't have to think throughout the week. I just look and see what I have to eat).

Because this week I am not looking to stay below my calories, rather I am looking to repair my body, after getting home from Yoga I thought I should eat something just to replenish what I had just worked off.

I mixed Kashi Go Lean - Honey Almond Flax cereal, some dried cherries and blueberries, 1/3 banana, astro plain yogurt and a drizzle of agave nectar. Also a to note I think this is my new favourite cereal!

I am not going to count my calories burned or taken in this week through my blog. For those of you on MFP you can check out my food diary. I just don't want the calorie counting to be the focus this week. This week is all about self-care. So I will note that I did drink 12, 8oz glasses of water.

YESTERDAY's Goals:

1. Rest & relax.
2. Book an RMT.
3. Stay within calories.
4. Drink lots of Water, not been staying hydrated yesterday and Saturday.

I met all 4 of those goals.

TODAY's Goals:

1. Stay hydrated, drink lots of H2O.
2. Stay below calorie limit.
3. Continue to heal both inside & out.
4. Go to bed early 10pm.

Have a great day!

See my hat, see my hat!

I got myself a new had the other day when I went out and go my new running shoes. Don't get my wrong there was absolutely nothing wrong with my previous hat (support our troops), I just really liked this hat. It really represents me I think. Pink. Cute. Girly
I put it on for it's very first outing. Though it was raining, I walked from home to Hot Yoga and back home again. It did it's job. Looked cute on my head. Kept my noggin dry.

Rewinding a big, the rest of my food for Thursday.

For my afternoon snack I was excited. Look at this mini watermelon I grabbed at the grocery store. It's so red and looks so tasty.
I cut up all up 1/3 of it and made it fit into here.

Figure that is about 3 cups of watermelon. Sadly though it looks so sweet and juicy. It was not. Oh well, it tied me over until dinner time.

At work we had a group of people in for a meeting. So being gracious hosts, we ran out and grabbed a dozen or two TimBits (donut holes for our American friends).

I was weak and caved. This is not the one I ate, this is just a regular glazed TimBits, I ate the sour cream glazed TimBit.

Which I was looking forwards to. I even made up a cheesy song while making it and sung it as I danced around the kitchen. Kevin laughed at me telling me I was way too excited.

just under 3oz of Broiled Salmon, Mango Salsa (that's where the singing came in, cuz who doesn't like to say the word salsa, salllllllsa) and steamed asparagus.

Before running off to yoga, I threw together some homemade granola bars. I have been trying to find which blog I found this wonderful delicious recipe from. No luck yet, but will post as soon as I find it.

5 minute No Bake Granola Bar. As you can see I came up with a solution to the wasteful use of plastic wrap I went through with the last batch. I just kept them in the dish I spread them out on. Covered that with plastic wrap. I will take my granola bar out and pack it in Tupperware or glasswear as needed.

THURSDAY`s Goals:

1. Burn 400 calories in spin class. - YES
2. Weight train and ab work after spin class. - YES
3. No late night snacking. - YES
4. Stay below calories. - YES

Total water drank, 17, 8oz glasses of water.

Total calories burnt, 1,656.

Total calories eaten, 1,751.

FRIDAY`s Goals:

1. Go for a run tonight
2. No late night snacking.
3. Stay below calories.
4. Plan next weeks meals out.