We Kin Get Thin!

Mmmm, I am enjoying my first smoothie with Chia seeds in it. Very good!

Chia seeds are 20% protein, 34% oil, 25% dietary fiber, chock full of anti-oxidants, with  no gluten or sodium. They are certainly a super-duper food. I've seen many a blogger toss some in their smoothies, but I hadn't tried until now.  I enjoy finding new things to incorporate into my smoothies to make them even more nutritious, rather than just low-calorie.


The only thing with these Chia seeds is that, when in water, they turn glutinous. Weird, I know. And its a good thing, they thicken up, and get softer.  The problem is,  now my smoothie is so thick, I have to eat it with a spoon instead of sipping! :-) Therefore, defeating the purpose of a smoothie! 
But that's ok. I'm not really on-the-go. So I can sit down and eat this sucker ice cream style.

And YES, Chia seeds are the very same that you use for Chia Pets.  Amazing! :-)

First of all.. Biggest Loser YAYAYAYAAYYYyy! :-)

Secondly..

I *almost* didn't do my jog this morning. But miraculously, I convinced myself to. And I did my 13 minutes :-) My knee is all sorts of jacked up right now, and I am praying it does not stay that way all day.

So, we've gotten the first (and now today, the second) snow of the year. You all know how much I hate it. But I took a picture anyway :-)



Had some soosh.

Made more smoothies -





Today is a big ol' snow storm, and my drive in was SCARE-E. But I made it!

Hope you're all doing well!

Happy Humpday everybody. It is supposed to be weigh in day today...but I am still just not in the right mind-set for it. I'll have to ask the Fall Into Fitness challenge ladies if they should just kick me out! My fantasy, has always been to wait as long as I can, and step on the scale and have some huge number, like 12lbs or something!
Something significant, and WOO-HOO worthy! I'm still waiting :-)
But I'd at least like to get one week of these double work outs/smoothies under the bridge before I weigh in.

That means, yes, I did my treadmillin' this morning. It was not as successful as yesterday morning, assuredly because it is still tired from my training session last night. My back and knees were killing this morning, and despite having some new awesome music, I just couldn't seem to push myself very far. But, whatevs. I still did it. They can't all be shiny gems :-)

I won't be home until late tonight, so I am trying to figure out what kind of workout I should do just before bed...I don't want to jog again, if I'll be getting up to jog in a few hours after. Eh, I'll figure it out!

Soooo, yah. The smoothies are good! I inadvertently started myself on a smoothie diet. lol. I fell in love with these cups, as you know. And so I just HAD to make a smoothie. Then I had leftovers, and it was sitting there ready for me for breakfast. Then, I had nothing for lunch, so hey, why not? I told Joel - "hey, I had a smoothie for breakfast, and a smoothie for lunch!" And he said "now, you just need to have a sensible dinner!" Hehe. And so I thought... yah, why not!
For 3 days now, I've had smoothie breakfast & lunch, sensible dinner, and one or two small snacks and I rather like the way it goes. So, I will continue for awhile, (until I get so sick of smoothies I can't bear it) hehe!