Flat Out Fold Its & Goals

Today was a nice/easy day. The combination of a later work meeting, dinner plans with friends, and some extreme weekend workouts, helped me to decide that today was going to be a day off from working out (did everyone read/watch MizFit’s post about her day off?). Sooo after work, I got a two pump pumpkin spice misto and ran a few errands.

Now, I’m doing a few things around the house and getting ready for our dinner out.

I make sandwiches for Josh for lunch almost every day (when there aren’t leftovers to be eaten). Josh loves more meat/cheese and less bread so when I saw these new Flat Out Fold Its, I knew he’d love them. Here are a few pictures prior to sammie making:

Josh thought the flat out fold its were pretty tasty! He likes how thin they are and noted that it was nice and doughy! I will defintely be rotating these in with his usual Arnold's Thins.


I wanted to use this post to focus back in on my goals. I was pretty successful in terms of my goals from last week (one night I missed my 6.5 hour sleep goal, but I hit all the rest!). In terms of goals for this week, I am branching out a bit. I know these aren’t as measurable as some of my past goals, but they’re areas I’d really like to work on:

• Happy driving. Do you all get angry at slow drivers? I am use to a more…I guess northern mentality when it comes to driving (i.e. I gotta there 10 minutes ago so get out of my way…which is probably why I got a ticket haha) and get a little frustrated with the “Sunday driver” mentality. This week I’d like to take more deep breaths while driving and enjoy the ride (rather than stress)
• Core focus. As much as I encourage my students to make sure they suck in their belly buttons and focus on core strength during my classes….I often forget to do so. This week I will try to keep my core in mind during all my workouts

The longer term goals I had set are as follows (with updates in the parenthesis):

• RUN: Complete at least 1 race (2 would be ideal) before December (signed up for IOP Connector 10k run on October 3rd)
• RUN: Run 12 straight miles by the New Year (I’ve gotten to 9!)
• GROUP FITNESS: Train to teach a new group fitness program (signed up for Body Pump training first weekend in November- yikes!)
• EAT: Try at least 1 new restaurant a month (I tried a Greek restaurant in Columbia this past weekend, but would still like to try a new Charleston area restaurant before the end of the month!)
• FRIENDS: Have coffee with two new people/friends by the New Year (no progress…)
• JOSH: Take 1 walk a week with Josh (I have done this each week so far!)

Have you made progress on any of your goals?

Off to dinner (GO PATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Sunday Footbal BBQ

If Sunday wasn't the day before Monday...I would love it more ;) I got up this morning and caught up on some things around the house. I also prepared for a Sunday Football BBQ. My Aunt and Uncle were in town signing some paperwork on their future house (which is RIGHT down the street from ours- hoooray!), so we decided to do up some good food. I made Tina Bars with chocolate chips for dessert.

My Aunt brought this amazing bowl of fruit from Costco:

Josh made up some burgers and I toasted up some buns:

And I made up some oven baked fries. I had some sweet potato "fries" and lots of fruit (maybe 4 times this amount haha):

I also made up some traditional white potato fries for everyone else (they were still cooking in this picture ;)):

All in all, a great bbq! We watched a bundle of football and then I decided it was time to get my legs moving! I felt a little sore after the quarterly and knew I'd be doubly sore tomorrow if I didn't do anything today. I ended up doing 6 miles (5 running and 1 mile walking because I ran into my friend Jennifer who was walking her dog in the middle of my run):

Felt good to get a little sweaty :) I am currently making up some bbq chicken nachos and more steak fries for Josh and his friend Jeremy :). On tonight's agenda, switching up my Body Attack choreography and more football. What are you up to?