What a gorgeous day. For once, the wind chill wasn’t clocking in at colder than –20 and the sun made an appearance. A couple friends and I took advantage of it and went cross-country skiing – and I had a chickadee eat seeds from my hand! He just flew right up and perched on my finger. Nature is so, so awesome. My friend put it best when she said:
“It looks like Narnia out here.” And honestly, it did, way out in the trees in fresh snow. 
I Eat
Lots of yummy breakfasts lately…
A big, fat bowl of oat bran topped with snow + alien brains + cranberry mix + almond butter.
Saturday’s breakfast used this baby:
Santa was so very good to me… probably too good. But, I wasn’t complaining after it popped out a stack of these:
Some GF waffles topped with pumpkin spread + almonds + raisins + maple flakes. I added maple syrup later.
Enjoyed with a stack of foodie reads.
The mix I used was from Molly B Gluten Free. This is the first product I’ve tried from this company, and I give it two monster thumbs up. It’s a Canadian company too, which I like.
Half the mix made a whole bunch of waffles so I put a few in the freezer.
Okay, so what’s pumpkin spread? It’s pumpkin puree + applesauce + pumpkiny spices + sweetner of your choice, to your taste heated together on the stove. It’s pretty tasty. I’ve been putting it on everything.
This morning was some oatmeal.
See what I mean about the pumpkin spread?
A few good lunches to report, too.
A roast chicken sandwich + salad + leftover squash + tea.
Oh, and what’s this? More pumpkin spread?
Yes I was still in my pjs at lunch time…
I topped plain fat-free yogurt with the spread + almond butter + cranberry mix.
More sandwichness today on some bread mixer GF bread.
After this, I ate a cookie + apple and nut butter + way, way, wayyyy too much t-mix.
I felt like lead after that but that’s what happens when you take the container to the couch and start watching TLC. Bad.
Thursday’s dinner was some salmon + veggie explosion.
I used a new grill pan for the salmon + broccs, roasted the squash bracelets and threw some dressing on the salad greens.
I like my vegetables.
Friday night = AYCE sushi. Deeeeelicious.
Saturday night was roasted pork tenderloin + taters + broccs.
So, broccs were steamed.
Tenderloin was brushed with Dijon mustard + fresh rosemary and popped in the oven at 400 convection for about 25, 30 minutes.
Taters were chopped, tossed with red onion + rosemary + salt and put in a foil packet. They got a head start and went into the oven for about 40 minutes. They were super soft.
Tonight’s supper was easy because I’m tired and I ate such a gigantic lunch I wasn’t that hungry.
Leftover taters + toast with pumpkin spread + grapes + egg.
Simple.
I Move
Thursday – it was a nice day off from exercise. I need to sleep in those extra twenty minutes!
Friday – I did some great strength training at the gym before work. I need to focus more on weights than I have been lately. I focused on shoulders + back, but warmed up first with 15 minutes on the treadmill.
Saturday – please, withhold your laughter. I tried Zumba today. Yes, that salsa dancing, booty shaking gym class. I think I laughed through the whole hour because I was just so terrible, but it was fun! My little sister is a big fan of it. I think I’ll go back to see if there is such a thing as improvement in that class.
Sunday – two hours of exploring the great outdoors on skiis. If you’ve been thinking about trying the sport, go for it! It requires hardly any skill to get going and you can always take lessons to get better. I wanted to hate winter less and this is allowing that to happen! Yesss.
Okay, I am pooped. I’m going to be in bed by 9 pm tonight, but I can embrace my inner grandma.
But first, time to get myself organized for another week of work… goodbye sweet, sweet weekend…
Adi
