Lisa’s Rant….life and healthy eating

I had an intense day at work I’m swamped! Is it Friday yet?

I had a snack of some sort of plum not sure what kind and 1% cottage cheese

At work we usually have cookie day every Wednesday afternoon at 3 but apparantly they were “low in inventory” so no cookie day. After a stressful day I needed my cookie fix so I wandered over to the evil vending machine and came back with Milano. I only had 2 of the 4 in the package so I was good! Yay self control. I’m glad I did because it totally kicked my craving and i think prevented me from going nuts tonight.

I had a good sweaty workout. I’m on week f4 day 1 of the couch to 5K. I did almost 2.5 miles today and let me tell you I am def not a runner. I also did my weight routine. I’ve been focusing on getting a lot of good stretching in after each workout too. Here is the link for the couch to 5k in case you have no idea what i’m talking about:

http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml

On to dinner, since I had a big lunch and several snacks I decided a light dinner would be good. I had a banana that was almost a gonner so smoothie it was! I used Jay Robb’s whey protein Vanilla, 1 cup light vanilla soy milk, and a sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice and cinamon to spice things up (literally). I really like the Jay Robb protein powders they are quite tasty and use stevia. It’s a little pricey that is the only downfall. I tried the chocolate and it tasted too much like stevia for my liking. I like the vanilla way better. For some reason I think stevia has a chemical taste. Ironic right? Considering it is supposed to be the natural one and to me splenda doesn’t taste chemically and it has tons!

I also just saw the high fructose corn syrup commericial I’ve heard all the buzz about. RIDICULOUS! They are trying to say it is healthy. Here’s the site:

www.sweetsurprise.com