C25K, Upper Body Circuit, Blogger Award

Happy (almost) Wednesday! Thanks for your sweet comments on the latest kitchen concoction - I responded to each of you in the comments section of the last post again!! Can't wait to try something new next week! :)

So yesterday my mood was definitely approved – woo! I got lots of work done, walked 2.5 miles during lunch (burned 113 calories), worked some more and walked 3.5 miles after work, along with an upper body circuit (burned 230 calories). This is the one I’ve been doing lately!

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After the circuit I changed clothes and me and Stacy went to meet her friend Jennie at Uncle Julio’s! Jennie and I are in Stacy’s wedding, so we all wanted to get together to chat with Stacy, catch up on wedding stuff, etc.! But then we all talked and talked about everything from our husbands to work and more – so much fun! But before I knew it 6:30 had changed into 10 p.m. – eek! So we all split up after our great girl dinner, and I headed home to bake my brunch pizza squares (6 servings) and pasta fagioli (4 servings) – then bed time FO SHO!

I ended up at 1,920 calories, 232 carbs, 60 fat grams and 81 protein grams. Here’s what I ate. Not too bad with the 343 calories burned, especially considering we went out to eat! (I had two chicken soft tacos and chips/salsa – had to estimate!).

Today was okay – traffic was horrendous so I was a bit late and today I was in an all-day training class. I’m all about some development, but I’m a bit behind at work so that kind of sucked! I had my brunch pizza square for breakfast, some carr’s/laughing cow for a snack and pasta fagioli for lunch. No workout during lunch – not enough time – but I had one more snack, iced oat cookies, then it was out of training and into the gym! I did C25K Week 7, Workout 2, a 5-minute walk and 25-minute run. It felt GREAT! It still freaks me out how much easier running gets the more you do it. Love it! I continued walking for another 30 minutes, getting me to 5 miles in 60 minutes burning 318 calories. Yay!

Afterwards I headed home, did some work, had slow-cooker chicken burritos for dinner, hung out with Austin and Reubs as per usual and called it a night! Haven't tallied stats yet - will post tomorrow!

In bloggie news, the SWEET skinny jeans, fat wallet gave me a wonderful award - the stiletto award!! Shelli is adorable - and so is her blog! She is a mom-to-be on a budget, working out and saving cash - love her blog! Thanks so much for thinking of me, and for your kind words! Here are the "Rules":

1. Display the Stiletto badge of honor.
2. Brag about it - post a link to the page to highlight what the award is about.
3. Say thanks! Include a link to the friend who nominated you.
4. Share the love-nominate 5-10 more blogs. Leave links to their blogs and leave them a comment so they know they won!

5. Do what you do! Keep at it and keep inspiring others.

1. Une Vie Saine - Love her blog - Gabriela is in college but still eats SO healthy! She posts lots of her eats and ideas, along with great viewpoints.

2. One Fit Foodie - Naomi has SO many great product reviews, recipes and more going on - great blog!

3. Faith, Fitness & Fun - Tina's blog has a little bit of everything (as noted in her title) - I love her book reviews, food reviews and more!

4. Spice and Sass - Very cool blog about her life, parties, eats, time in Africa and more - cute, cute cool!

5. Haute Teapot - This girl's got style all day long - love seeing the cute outfits she puts together, and hearing about her fun life!

I could go on and on - love so many blogs!

Question time: What's your favorite back exercise? I'm all for rows - sitting or standing, one arm at a time or both simultaneously - heart some dumbbells!

Month's almost over - what's one thing you accomplished this month that you're super happy about? I'm definitely not going to hit all of my goals, but am supper happy that the new appliances are in - woo! That's been on my list for a while and i'm definitely enjoying having them in the kitch!