Perfect Day!

Hello there! I hope you are having as good of Saturday as I am. I have so many thoughts I want to blog about today! Perhaps a double post is in order! If I don’t get all my thoughts shared today for sure I will tomorrow!

I have been having what I would call my perfect day!  I slept in until 6:45am (I know, I know, to some of you that might not seem like sleeping in but when you get up regularly at 5:30am it is!). Made myself a little breakfast, notgreen smoothie today as I was out of spinach, not to mention almost all my regular produce! I had a bowl of oatmeal, topped with one fried egg, cheese, and hot sauce. I know it sounds weird but trust me it’s really good and it gave me the energy I needed to teach back to back Group Strength and Zumba classes at the YMCA. Both classes ROCKED but my Zumba class was particularly on FIRE! The best part, to me, about teaching fitness classes if the instant gratification. In my full time work it often takes a long time (think years here) to see the fruits of your labor. You often hear about the negative more than the positive. When I teach a 55minute fitness class not only do I feel awesome afterwards but people thank me and tell me how much they enjoyed my class. I can see how my hard work paid off and how what I do benefits others. It may seem a little self centered but it keeps me going.

I then headed off to our local food Co-Op If you live in my area or any area that has a Co-Op check it out. Ours is particularly AWESOME! They have so much good and reasonably priced produce which is mostly what I buy there. They also have some hard to find health food items which I splurge on now and again. There’s just something about walking around surround by all that healthy food that makes me feel good! I just love coming home and filling my fridge with fresh produce!

For lunch I made the most AMAZING Veggie Spelt burgers. I have never tried to make anything like this but, they sounded good and now that I have REAL food processor I just had to try them. I got the recipe here from Angela at Oh She Glows. If you haven’t checked out her web site it’s really inspirational. I found it about 8 months ago and it has really changed how I think about eating and body image. I pretty much followed her recipe to a “T”. I even bought spelt flour (one of my splurges). The only thing I changed was I used half of an onion because the one I had was pretty big and it called for a small one, I used a whole can of garbanzo beans, and I left out the chia seeds since I didn’t have any. I debated eating one on two slices of bread or two with a fork and then I remembered I bought some Stacy’s pita chips and that sealed the deal. Here’s my plate

These were seriously SO DELICOUS! They were crispy on the outside and soft in the middle. I might add a little more garlic and cayenne pepper next time but otherwise they were great! And super easy. I also drank some  GT’s organic Kombucha (another splurge).

I like to drink these after a long workout or a crappy night of eating. They tasted really good and I feel cleansed and energized after I drink them.

So there you have it! My perfect Saturday morning. Not much planned for the rest of the day. I need to finish prepping some veggies, take a shower, and head off to work/church but that’s about it. I should probably do some reading for grad school but I found some really old pictures I want to scan and up load to facebook! Priorities people! Have a good one!