Walking to the Beat

I like to get out at least 2-3 times week for a good walk. Walking allows me to think all by myself and enjoy the outdoors.

I have always listened to music when I walked but now I have found myself walking to the beat and have turned it into a great workout. usually I get out to walk later in the day so a lot of up beat songs are on the radio. No ipod need, I just use a basic head set radio. I step to the beat in each song and get a great workout in the end. Some times its a killer when there are 3 or 4 fast songs in a row, and then sometimes it is radio commercial time and it is hard to find a good beat. Though I do have to say with walking by myself it is a great tool to use to keep my speed and motivation up.

Give it a try and let me know how you like it!

Advertising with a side of Tuna

This summer I have been bumping up my advertising flow to reach out to more people and to turn my fun side business into my own personal business. I am excited to see all my advertising coming together. Recently I put an add in my church bulletin and added a phone number to my car signs. So if you happen to see these around time you will know you have found me!

Sorry for it being a little blurry, but you get the gist of it. I am excited to see my purple and white ad every week!
These are my car signs, I love them too. They now have a new business phone number on them for Embrace.

This was our dinner last night. I am enjoying having my meal planned out and all the ingredients in the fridge ready to go, so I will definitely be keep up with the planning for meals but I need to find better recipes for tuna. I rotate between chicken, fish, turkey, and a little beef. Now yesterday was fish day and I thought it would be a great idea to make a tuna casserole in the crock-pot so it would be ready for us when we both got home from work. Though as you can see from this picture it looked like a pile of barf. Back to true fish on fish night.

Planning Meals

I am still on my mission to make healthy dinners and low cost. It has been going quite well so far. It is nice knowing what I am making and just coming home after work and getting started.

I never knew how I was going to be bale to have kids work and feed everyone as well. Now with the plan I have come up with of planning two weeks at a time I think it organizes the meals and makes life a little less stressful.

The past week we had BBQ chicken with pineapple and bell peppers all make in a easy throw away foil pouch. Pasta with shrimp, chicken enchiladas and tuna cakes. I do have to say I don't think I will be making the tuna cakes again. They tasted ok but cooking was a pain. The paddies would not stay together and it was just big mess.

So as for meals, work on planning them and and stick with it. My husband and I will have chicken tonight so I put it in the fridge this morning and by the time it is time to make dinner it will be thawed and ready to go.

The keys to planning

Just like workout out it is helpful to have a meal plan as well. This will not only help you make easy decisions when it comes dinners and helps save money when you are buying groceries.

I took the time this past week to plan out two weeks of meals and made a shopping list for it. This enables me to not buy things I don't truly need and makes meal time a little less stressful when in a rush.

I am still keeping up with the healthy desserts. I made a pudding dessert last night and it was delicious. It had chocolate and vanilla pudding with strawberries and just a spoonful of whipped cream. It definitely hit my sweet spot for the night.

Behold the healthy carrot cake

So I am successfully back on my kick of finding delicous healthy desserts. I found a recipe for a carrot cake in Fitness Magazine and made it this past week. Each serving is 121 calories, and for a sweet treat it does not taste to bad. I do have to say it tastes better chilled then warm. The frosting you make has light cream cheese in it and with it warm did not taste all that good but as soon as it all chilled it had a much better flavor to it.
The nice part about these recipes are that they are made from scratch. The picture in the magazines always looks better than in person but oh well.

Nutty Carrot Cake Bars

Go to www. diabeticlivingonline.com/recipe/cakes/nutty-carrot-cake for complete recipe.

Stretch to a new healthy you

Stretching is a key component of starting a new healthy lifestyle. Stretching not only reduces injuries it also helps reduce soreness after a workout or a cardio workout.
Are you a person who suffers form chronic lower back pain? Do you realize that it could all be just because your hamstrings are tight?

Here a some simple stretches I challenge you to add into your daily tasks and let me know how they make you feel after a few weeks.

Making time for exercise

As most of you have probably experienced before to acheive a workout goal you must create and plan and stick to a routine. Even for myself as a personal trainer I struggle to make sure I squezz in some worjout or cardio time each day.

I have been working on picking up running though I have made it out three times in the past two weeks. One downside of living in Texas is when your break in the day is at noon it is just a little to hot to be running outside. I need to start schduleing my runs at the end of the day, and stick to it.

Tomorrow I will pick up some ingredients to make another fabulous and healthy dessert. I will keep you posted on how it tastes and how eary or hard it is to make.