New Salad Recipe, Product Review, C25K Fail, Happy Hour

Thanks you guys!! I’m so pumped about the award, the new recipe, C25k – etc.! And ‘in my tummy’ tell Jason I’m right there with him! It WAS a big bump. My friend Stacy even made up her own “week” to bridge that gap. Best of luck to him – let me know if I can help further!

Backing up yet again - I forgot to post Tuesday’s stats: 1,762 calories, 240 carbs, 63 fat grams and 71 protein grams. Here’s what I ate.

Wednesday was a mess! I was in training but still super behind at work. We weren’t given much time for lunch so we only got in 2 miles. Then after training I went home and worked until about 9:45 at night. OMG. I felt ewwy – behind on training, behind on cooking – just sad! Bless little Austin – he made me ramen and brought it to me while I worked! Other than that, I had brunch pizza squares for breakfast, pasta fagioli for lunch and a few snacks (yogurt, iced oat cookies and crackers/cheese. I ended up at 1,418 calories, 192 carbs, 48 fat grams and 60 protein grams. Here’s what I ate.

Thursday I got up and got to it! Drove over to a meeting, got a bridesmaid dress, hit up Trader Joe’s (woo!) and worked some more! I picked up lots of new products, including Trader Joe’s Cilantro Salad Dressing!!


When I got home I quickly made a recipe based on it!

Spicy Cilantro Chicken Salad - 4 servings

16 oz. chicken
1 packet taco seasoning
1 can rotel
8 cups arugula (1 bag), divided into 4 servings
1 avocado, deseeded without skin, quartered
40 grams corn chips
40 grams Kraft reduced fat swiss cheese
8 tbsp Trader Joe’s Cilantro Salad Dressing
24 cherry tomatoes, quartered

Cook chicken in taco seasoning and rotel until no longer pink. Shred with two forks, divide into 4 servings and spoon it onto arugula topped plates. Add 10 grams corn chips, 10 grams cheese, 6 cherry tomatoes, ¼ of avocado and 2 tbsp of salad dressing to each. Eat up! Nutritional Information: 397 calories, carbs, 17 fat grams and 34 protein grams.

I loved it! Austin had it for dinner later and thought it was fabulous as well – this will be a summer staple! (to lower fat, just use less avocado). :) And you guys – that salad dressing is THE BOMB. It’s super flavorful – a little goes a very long way which makes me very happy.

At 5 I headed to the gym for C25k but felt weird. Like REALLY hot and almost dizzy. I walked 5 minutes and ran 12.5 minutes (1.4 miles), then walked the rest at a 5 incline taking me to 3 miles in 38 minutes burning 213 calories. Pretty good workout – hate that C25K didn’t work out but I thought it was more important to listen to my body which said “no running!!” I got home, the pinestraw peeps had come and gone (woop for new pinestraw! Another ‘house’ to-do done!) so I showered, had cereal and we were off to 5 Seasons for Happy Hour with Katie and Chris. We had a few glasses of wine and great convo, then we headed home, cooked 4 servings of beef enchilada casserole and 4 servings of easy Thai curry, had a nightcap miller lite and called it a night! I ended up at 1,884 calories, 151 carbs, 54 fat grams and 83 protein grams. Here’s what I ate.

Any exciting weekend plans??! We're doing another happy hour Friday night, Saturday will be "house stuff" and gym and Sunday we're going to a farm - should be interesting!!!

What's your favorite salad dressing? This might be mine - i'm going to be eat salads all spring/summer long - woo! Bye bye, soup...hello, salad!