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

Breakfast: Avocado mashed with hummus and raisins.

Workout

4 miles jog

Weighted squats

Underhand cable pulldowns

Forward and backward lunges

Side leg raises

Donkey kicks

Lower ab raises

Weighted Russian Twist

Seated Cable Rows

Weighted Crunches

Weighted leg extensions

Lunch: Some Kind of Wonderful Smoothie

(Recipe)

½ block of silken tofu

½ cup of blueberries

1/3 cup of mango chunks

½ cup of 100% pinapple juice

Honey

2 TBS of Vanilla vegan protein powder

Dinner: Scrambled tofu w/spinach, tomatoes,  and hash browns.

Back on track after a week of crappy eats. The Warrior Dash took a lot out of me but I continued to try to hit it hard at the gym. I think my body tried to overcompensate for the lack of fuel by upping my craving for unhealthy carbs, fat and sugar.

Today’s Workout:

1.5 mile power walk

2.5 miles of sprints

20 minutes on elliptical, using resistance to up the calorie burn and toning factor!

Weighted Squats 20x10, 40x10, 20x10

Seated rows 10x10, 15x10, 10 to exhaustion

75 hanging knee raises

Seated lap pull down with 20 pounds

Leg extensions with 10 pounds

Back extensions with 30 pounds

Leg curls with 30 pounds

Lunges

Weighted crunches 30x20, 40x20,50x10

Crunches

Arm raises with 3 pound weights

Standing side leg raises

Stretching

Dinner was salad, which tasted so much better than the protein shakes I’ve been living on lately. I haven’t been going food shopping and therefore have been either eating junk or drinking protein shakes. Oy!

I think the lack of solid nutrients was making me bitchy, because my mood really altered-for the better-an hour after my salad.

Now I’m with the boyfriend, watching Rescue Me on Netflix.

Nite Fitblrs.

Fit is the New Black has a new column!!! I get a lot of questions via my Tumblr about fitness and diet. I’ve always made it clear that I am not a licensed professional, but I think people come to me because they know I’m living the stuff I talk about and that I give honest and personal answers, oppose to the tired ‘eat a balanced diet and be active’ thing so many sites and magazines give. I use to post my workout and diet every day on Tumblr, but after awhile I got tired of that. Seriously, my routine and diet can stay the same for months. Who wants to read about me running 4 miles again?

Well, apparently some of you do, which is why I’ve created the page ‘Workout With Me & Eat With me’. It will be updated 1-2 times a week, appearing as an additional feature post, as well as a link to the post in its allotted section (on site NOT TUmblr).

The purpose of the section? Just to give a little glimpse into what I do on a regular basis; homemade fitspiration, if you will. I won’t post every single workout or meal I have, but like I said, you’ll get a glimpse in the day of my life. Please share your workout routines with me, questions, and anything else you feel moved to do. The whole point of this site is to build a community of fitness and health enthusiast. Now, without further ado, here are some of the workouts and eats I’ve been enjoying the last few days.

Sunday’s workout consisted of 30 minutes on the elliptical, doing a series of hills with resistance. I also covered 4 miles on the treadmill, jogging and walking. To top it off I performed back extensions with 60 pounds, as well as leg extensions with 10 pounds. I filled my day with protein drinks and smoothies, started with a protein shake of vegan protein, unsweetened vanilla almond milk, vanilla vegan protein powder, 1/2 a scoop of muscle milk, flax seed, honey and ice. Later I had a fruit smoothie made with a packet from the Kaeng Raeng cleanse I did, extra strawberries, 2 TBS of vegan protein powder, fresh squeezed grapefruit juice, and some pineapple juice. I finished the night off with a Cesar salad at the diner.

[caption id=”attachment_1511” align=”aligncenter” width=”500”] Apparently I’m doing a tribute to bumble bees all over the world. So much black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow.

Working on make my abs more defined. Peach Perfect Protein Shake

Top photo is of me doing doing leg lifts to work my lower abs. I hate them but they work! If doing them on the floor hurts your back or bum, try doing them on an abench or mat. Second photo is a pre-workout protein shake, made with vanilla vegan protein powder, unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 2 TBS of chocolate muscle milk, PB and a ton of ice. I’ve been on a kale chip kick recently, hence the third photo. Someone tell me why I pay $8 bucks for these things when I can make them myself. Correction, my mom, a fabulous cook, can make them for me. Please ignore the random shot of my nails. I take photos of them compulsively. The last photo is another liquid creating-blueberries, banana, pineapple juice, and protein powder. Yum, yum, yum. Hope you liked the first edition of Eat & Workout with me. Let me know what workouts you are doing. Tell me what you’re eating. I’m weird. These things really interest me.

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!

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