Butter and Push-Up Grips

Friday night, Kevin brought me two just-because gifts.  The best kind.

Push-Up Grips since my wrists always hurt during our P90 workouts.

And KerryGold Pure Irish Butter because i always eye it up at the grocery store.  I think these items even each other out perfectly. 


We were planning on a run Saturday morning, so we stayed in a made a nice dinner of fish (tuna and salmon), asparagus, and risotto.  I made my first risotto and it was so easy!

It was also straight out of a box!  This Butternut Squash Risotto was flavorful and super simple to make.  We ended up chopping some of the asparagus to mix into the risotto.

Healthy and filling dinner.  


Soooo, Kevin and I started P90x over again.  We had gotten too far off track to keep moving forward and figured it would be best if we just start over.  The past two weeks, we have been getting up at 5am and completing the workouts before work.  It has been brutal since I am not a morning person.  But, we have stayed consistent and the early wake-up call is getting easier.  We are ready to kick off week 3 tomorrow.


I have not been running as frequently, but felt surprisingly OK during our 6 mile run on Saturday morning.  I do have to keep up with the running since the Washington's Birthday Marathon Relay had to be postponed to March 28th due to the snow.  That reminds me that I need to post my 2010 Race Calendar. 

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Dinner (10.06.2008)

Before I get to dinner, let me back up and cover the afternoon. Later in the day I tried the lemon bar larabar and I really liked it.It held me over until about 4:30 when I had a banana. After getting home from work, Kevin, Oscar and I ran around the city for about 38 mins. It was such a cool night outside, the run felt great and both of us felt strong. We were reflecting about earlier in our training when some of the hills around the area were extremely challenging. Now, we flew up them and could talk all the way through it. love that and dont want to lose it this winter! I am already searching for some fall and winter races to keep me motivated...

Dinner tonight was fish tacos! I LOVE fish tacos and these were great. I used the coconut crusted tilapia that I always have in my freezer and loaded up grilled corn tortillas with the baked fish, shredded cabbage, this southwestern ranch sauce, and fresh squeezed lime juice. Here is the southwestern sauce - I used about a tablespoon total - just spread a little on the corn tortillas for flavor. Here is my plate before putting everything together.
And here is my first bite, going into my mouth. It was hard to take the time and snap this photo! YUM.Dessert was a few bites of this deliciousness - oh man - this stuff is good. I am not a huge ice cream fan, but this stuff is pretty amazing. Oh and check out my tofu that i baked up tonight! I am so proud of the pretty brown color. I mixed about a tablespoon of light melted butter with honey and drizzled it over the tofu. Then I sprinkled it with salt and pepper. This is a rendition of the version Kath made over at Katheats.com - but I added in the butter (it was light though!). It tastes so good and I like it thinner and crunchier!I am off to relax and get ready for the HILLS tonight!

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Standard Fare

Tonight, Kevin, Oscar and I went for a run around the city. Unfortunately, around 2 miles, kevin's foot started to hurt. The side of his foot has been hurting since the 20 miler this past weekend, so we decided to just walk it home and ice the foot. It could be his shoes because the ones he has are a little old - so he may try to get a new pair and break them in over the next couple weeks. Hopefully this is enough time and nothing is seriously wrong. This is his first marathon, so I am really along for the ride and just being there while he accomplishes this goal is the priority. This is the second time I will be running the Baltimore marathon, but will be my 4th marathon overall. The first time I ran Baltimore was in 2004 and I got my PR for a marathon! 4:27 - which beats Oprah and Katie Holmes marathon times, so I am proud of that. ha. I am still aiming for P Diddy's 4:14 marathon time in the future!

Now back to food! While making my standard, go-to dinner, I snacked on some more tortilla chips and whole foods black bean dip.

Dinner was baked coconut crusted tilapia with steamed brussels sprouts. To add some flavor to these sprouts, I added 2 small cloves of garlic (minced), a tablespoon of light whipped butter, 2 capfuls of apple cider vinegar, and a bunch of fresh pepper. This is a such a simple meal that I am always in the mood for - filling, healthy and delicious. (and yes, I took a little bite out of the fish before the picture - i couldnt wait!)Oh - I also had a glass of skinny chocolate milk! Skim milk with sugar free chocolate syrup. YUM.Off to sleep world.

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Flop

Dinner was supposed to be amazing. Grandmom had given me a mixture of stewed tomatoes, cabbage, and yellow squash. She also gave me some banana cream pie. I had mahi-mahi thawing in the fridge with hopes of doing something amazing. This mahi-mahi had been swimming in the atlantic ocean a few weeks back before Kevin caught it on his deep sea fishing adventure. I got home and found a simple marinade that I whipped up in no time. It said it only needed 45 mins to soak in, so while it was marinating, I was running.

With all those positive factors, the fish was horrible. I am not even going to give the recipe for the marinade because i would not recommend it to anyone. I could only get two bites down and the second bite had fage smeared all over it.

Grandma's vegetable side dish was, of course, delicious and I also heated up a piece of TJ Naan bread to go with everything. Here is my plate before digging into everything but the fish - yuck.
Since I didnt get much protein and I was still hungry - I ate the rest of the 0% Fage greek yogurt and added some blueberries and GoLean Kashi Crunch.For dessert, I ate my serving of grandma's banana cream pie - it was soooo good. I ate it all before I could take a picture!

While I was NOT eating the mahi mahi - I was reading "Her Sports", a magazine i started getting and have no clue how. Let me just say - does anyone's abs really look like this??! I wish mine would. Maybe I shouldnt have eaten that banana cream pie? that might be a place to start.
But anyway, I came across an article about FISH! They categorized fish into three categories:
YES FISH,
SOMETIMES FISH, and
NO FISH

Mahi-Mahi was under the SOMETIMES FISH category because "these types of fish may have elevated toxins or are in danger of being overfished."

Below is the list of the NO FISH from the article since "these fish have high toxin levels and are harvested in environmentally damaging ways."

• Farmed Atlantic Salmon
• Shark
• Grouper
• Orange Roughy
• Chilean Seabass
• Marlin
• Swordfish (imported)
• Bluefin Tuna
• Pacific Rockfish
• Red Snapper
• Tilefish
• American Eel

I am off to watch Project Runway - hope everyone has a great night! :) Oh and during the commercials I will be reading my TOP CHEF cookbook (thanks to my sister) to try and find some cool recipes and inspirations!P.P.P.S - I am really excited because tomorrow I am going to be getting half of a produce share my sister gets from a local farm. I cant wait to check out all the stuff!

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