The most complex, messy smoothie

The nutritionist at fat camp gave us this recipe and I have been dying to try because it is SO PACKED with vitamins it is crazy.  And while it is fruit packed, it is also full of spinach/kale - whatever green you want.

But if you LOVE vanilla/pineapple/mango type smoothie it is really good and 700-900 of your daily vitamins!!


1 - fill the blender up with spinach - an entire bag!  Add two cups of water and get the spinach really smooth so that it is a green smoothie but with none of the stringy stuff.

2 - Add a banana, an orange, a bit of fat (I did 1/2 avo), 1 scoop plant based organic vanilla flavored protein powder.

 3 - Fill to the top with frozen tropical fruit like pineapple and mango.

It looks like it will be a green smoothie with a veggie taste but it tasted like vanilla and fruit.
I drank about half the blender and put the rest in the fridge.  It is suppose to last up to three days.

It was a mess but if it keeps me healthy - all is forgiven. :)

friends that tempt!!!

Lisa popped over for a bit and brought POTATO CHIPS!!!!!!

I completely resisted.  I am really proud of myself. 
How do I keep that resistance gene on?  It is normally very difficult but was POWERFUL to say no.

Monday Motivation

I thought this was great.  Proving that it is mind over matter!!
Bring on Monday!

Sunday Weigh In

I lost a pound.
The same pound I have lost several times in the past two months.

How am I going to break this cycle? Move back to Pt Coo????

I do feel like a success with my diet is in direct correlation to my social schedule.
My new PT feels like he can get my knee right.
I'm just frustrated.

Funny Friday

We all feel this way...

Olympic Motivation - Jesse Owens

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 Games.

Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". His achievement of setting three world records and tying another in less than an hour at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been called "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport" and has never been equalled. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Owens achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: 100 meters, 200 meters, long jump, and 4 × 100 meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the Games and, as a black man, was credited with "single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy", although he "wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either".

The Jesse Owens Award is USA Track and Field's highest accolade for the year's best track and field athlete. Owens was ranked by ESPN as the sixth greatest North American athlete of the twentieth century and the highest-ranked in his sport. In 1999 he was on the six man shortlist for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century.

Olympic Motivation - Jamacian Bobsled Team

The team, consisting of Devon Harris, Dudley Stokes, Michael White, Freddy Powell, and last minute replacement Chris Stokes, debuted at the 1988 Winter Olympicsin Calgary, Alberta. The team was coached by Howard Siler, an Olympic bobsledder for the United States in 1972 and 1980.^[3] They quickly became very popular, largely because of their status as the ultimate 'underdog' story of the games. Alongside the novelty of a tropical country competing in a cold-weather sport, the team had very little experience going down a bobsled track, and borrowed spare sleds from other countries to compete. In a show of sporting camaraderie across national boundaries, other bobsledders were quick to give them guidance and support. They did not officially finish after losing control of the sled and crashing during one of their qualifiers.^[4] The movie Cool Runnings is loosely based on their experience at the 1988 games.