Fit Is The New Black

Breakfast:

Strawberry & Banana

Smoothie, made with:

7-8 Frozen Strawberries

1 Banana

2 cups of unsweetened vanilla almond milk

Honey

1 Scoop of Vanilla Vegan Protein Powder

Lunch:

Salad, made with:

2 Cups of mixed greens

5 cherry tomatoes

1 TBS of hummus

1/2 avocado

Onions

1 roasted beet, sliced up into chunks

Dinner:

1 Veggie burger with:

4 cherry tomatoes

1/2 avocado

Hummus

Menu

Soy latte

Blackberry Surprise smoothie-Learn the surprise on Thursday!

Life is Peachy smoothie-Recipe will be posted Thursday!

2 Hail Merry raw & vegan chocolate macaroons

Salad made of mixed greens, butternut squash, cherry tomatoes, avocado, and a dressing of dijon mustard, honey, olive oil, liquid aminoes, fig vinegar, and Spike seasoning.

Workout

2.5 mile sprints

20 minutes on elliptical (levels 17, 12 with 6 resistance, 10, 9, and 3 for cool down portion)

Hanging leg lifts

Crunches

Rotary Twist machine with 35 pounds

Lunges

Back extensions with 20 pounds

Arm raises with 5 pounds

Leg lifts on abench

1.5 power walk

I also cleaned the apartment with my boyfriend from 3-6!! We’re talking major mopping!

I’m not going back to posting my workouts and eats every day, but I do want to give a few days to it.

This morning I made my boyfriend breakfast. Let’s here it for pancakes! I love pancakes, but rarely indulge in them because I’m sensitive to wheat, gluten, and they’re not exactly healthy. Buuutttt… They are soo good. I ate 3/4 of one, and loved every but of it.

After my workout my boyfriend took me to a local version of Pinkberry, only the yogurt is even lower in calories. I had the original tart vanilla one, topped with pineapple chunks, blueberries, and 2 maraschino cherries. I drizzled a little raspberry sauce, along with Melba sauce. Um…freakin delicious, especially on a day like today. It’s more than 90 degrees in New York!

My workout

1.2 mile power walk

2.7 mile run with brief breaks of walking on a high incline of 6.

30 minutes on elliptical

Standing side leg raises

Donkey kicks

Rotary twist with 35 pounds

Arm raises with 3 pound weights

Back extensions with 20 pounds

80 hanging knee raises

Crunches on abench and stability ball

Lunges

Stretches

I am super sore. I want to enter Warrior Dash this summer, so I’m working running with no breaks. Yesterday I clocked myself. I did one mile in 11 and 40 seconds, with one break at the 1/2 mile. I ran between 5.4-5.6 mph. I think 6mph will be my final goal, and I want to be able to run 3 miles without stopping. I’ve been working on strength training, but I’ll have to start cleaning up my diet.

Summer is one of my favorite times in terms of food, because there is so many delicious and light fare around. On the other hand, it’s also ice cream season, potato salad season, and a bunch of yummy things I love.  Summer is the one time that I don’t mind being a little strict about my vegan habits. I only have ice cream about once a week during the summer. It’s a tradition of my boyfriend and I. As for the potato salad I only eat it when my mom makes it, which isn’t so often since 1) I don’t live at home and 2) Homemade potato salad takes mad long to make, which means my mom doesn’t bust out the potato peeler every day.

Anyway, I’m going to get back to being more mindful of my protein intake. I will also be more mindful of simple carbs. Sorry, Pancakes:(

Hi all!

Ok, so for the month of March I’ll be posting on Fitisthenewblack.me my workouts and eating, because I’m working on cleaner eating and other things. I don’t really see the point in being redundant and repeating what I did at the gym or what I ate, so if you are interested just click the link and check it out.

Also, feel free to give me some tips on how you eat cleaner!! I need all the help I can get. I’m so lazy when it comes to the whole food thing.

xo

Workout

1.5 walk

2 miles of running at 5.4-5.6mph

40 minutes on elliptical

.5 mile walk on incline

Crunches on abench

Reverse Leg lifts

Standing side leg raises

Hanging knee raises

Weighted crunches

Lunges

Butt lifts

Food

Soy latte

2 soy yogurts from Stony Fields

Peanut Butter and a protein bar

Mango & Blueberry protein smoothie

Hummus and dried fruit

* Ok, so I start trying to clean eating tomorrow, and seriously I’m trying to do it now and all I can say is WHAH!!! I looked at the sugar content of my yogurt and you know how much a tiny container of that stuff had?? 12 grams!!! What the hell?!?! Soy yogurt is suppose to be healthy.  I still have a bunch in my fridge, but I guess I’ll have to consider them “dessert” until they are done. I’m really going to have to start cooking for this thing to work. Tomorrow I’ll be looking up the “how to” eat clean thing. Perhaps I’ll post on it?

Workout

1 mile power walk

3 mile run, keeping the average speed of 5.6mph

30 minutes on elliptical (levels 5, 10, 12, 17, 9)

Lunges

Rotary twist machine with 35 pounds

Hanging knee raises

Lower leg raises

Back extensions with 20 pounds

Crunches on abench

Arm lifts

Crunches on stability ball

.5 mile walk

Stretches

Food

Breakfast:

Soy latte

Lunch:

Hummus, dried fruit

Dinner:

Scrambled tofu w/veggies, hash browns

Chopped avocado

3 raw/vegan macaroon bites

I feel like I’ve been MIA lately, guys. I’m sorry. I’ve been spending most of my time writing or traveling, then writing some more. I spend so much time I’m my computer that when it comes time to relax the first thing I want to do is turn the damn thing off!!!

Food Journal

Breakfast:

Soy Latte

Lunch:

Blueberry & Pineapple protein smoothie

Dinner:

Salad made with romaine lettuce, cucumbers, red peppers, 1/2 of a avocado, and onions.

Rice chips

I felt all amped up to workout this morning, but I didn’t get to the gym till the afternoon for various reasons. By the time I hit the treadmill I didn’t feel very energetic. Boo. I did workout for about an hour though.

20 minutes of Crunch cardio dance blast-it’s on Netflix, and I did it before I went to the gym.

2 miles on the treadmill, walking on a high incline for most of it.

40 minutes on the elliptical

Food:

I just made a pita sandwich stuffed with mixed greens, avocado, dried tomato hummus, and veganaise. I also had about two massive handfuls of those amazing salsa flavored rice chips from Rice Works. So freaking good!

Food

Breakfast:

Soy latte

Lunch:

Protein shake made with vanilla vegan protein powder, muscle milk, almond milk, and 1/4 cup of oats.

-This was a really weird shake. It didn’t taste bad, but it wasn’t fantastic either.

Dinner:

pita sandwich made with veganaise, dried tomato hummus, mixed greens, and tomato slices. I also had two handfuls of rice chips!

Workout

1 mile power walk with arm jabs and black swan arms

2.7 miles of running at 5.7mph, mixed with power walking on a small incline

30 minutes on elliptical (levels 10,12,9,3,10)

Hanging knee raises

Weighted crunches with 40 pounds

Ab coaster

Crunches

Dead lifts with straight legs, holding 30 pounds

Side bends with 15 pounds

lunges

Oblique crunches with leg raises

Shadow boxing video

Stretches

Today was one of those days where I just felt on the brink. I don’t have the energy to whine, so onto the workout and food journal.

Food

-Blueberry pineapple protein smoothie

- Hummus

-Black sesame rice chips

Workout

I seriously don’t know why I post my workout. It’s pretty much variations of the same thing every day, but…

1.5 mile power walk

2 mile run mixed with high incline walk

.5 mile run

30 minutes on elliptical

Toning exercises