Fish Tacos for Friday

 

This week has been a mixed bag. I want to start off with my high/lows.

Highs

• I cooked some good food, had some good work outs.

• I got my husband to walk on the beach with me, at night for the first time ever. He’s been promising me he would since before our very first date! It only lasted for 5 minutes, but it happened!Terrible picture of the moment:

• I managed to spend some time on the blog and made some time to catch up on blog reading.
• I enjoyed a great day on the beach Sunday, even though I was on-call for work.
• I have maintained my weight for 3 weeks. It’s not a loss, but at least it’s not a gain.

Lows

• I have allowed work to stress me out tremendously and I’ve been bringing it home with me.
• Also, because of my job, I am missing my sister’s birthday celebration at the lake (about 5 hours away) with all of my family and some of my friends. This has me VERY down in the dumps.
• I still am having a hard time keeping my stress eating in check. I’ve not been tracking my food very well at all. 
• I am absolutely exhausted 99% of the time.

All in all, an OK week. This weekend will be tough knowing my family is having a blast and I can’t be there, and the husband will be working, but I am planning a special date night for myself after work on Saturday. I am going to watch a movie, maybe make a pizza and give myself a pedicure. It’s all about the little things after all.

Ok, onto the Fish Tacos with Peach & Mango Rice!

Fish Tacos – Tilapia Filet pan seared with lemon juice, salt and pepper. Break apart into pieces. 1 filet=2 tacos=1 serving. Easy. I top mine with a little fat free yogurt mixed with a little chili powder and lettuce.

Peach & Mango Rice (this is really complicated, are you ready?)

1/2 cup cooked brown rice

3 Tbsp Store bought Peach & Mango Salsa

1/4 cup frozen sweet corn, cooked

Mix all together and serve.

An easy, healthy meal is always just minutes away and it doesn’t have to be boring! This meal is full of flavor and spice, used little ingredients and took literally 10 minutes to throw together. This makes 1 serving, it’s easily doubled or tripled.

That’s all I have for today. I hope all had great weeks and have fun weekend plans! I have a 5 mile run scheduled for Sunday, I changed up training schedule a bit to allow for more time with the husband on our day off Thursday…but more on that Monday. :)

What's your high and low for the week?

Non-cooking.

 

Last night I was supposed to make a fancy vegetarian spicy noodle dish, but alas, after a hellish day of work I didn’t feel like it.

That’s right. Me. The girl that LOVES to be in the kitchen, did not want to go into the kitchen. So, I nuked a meal. I don’t recommend it.

Blah.	Yum.

At least I stuck with Meatless Monday. I steamed the sprouts in the microwave and just S&P’ed them. They were by far the best part of that meal. I hate eating overly processed stuff. I swear one of these days I’m just going to stop buying it all together.

My work day yesterday was insane. It will be like this for the next 3 months. As I’m adjusting back to the crazy pace of Summer at the Beach, it’s going to take me awhile to adjust. I know that half of the reason the day was so stressful was because I skipped my workout yesterday morning. It was raining, the husband and the dog were sleeping peacefully next to me…ok, that’s a lie, the husband had gotten up for golf, but the dog and I were sleeping peacefully.

I even dreamt I was on the treadmill! I was walking at a fast pace and decided to run, just when I started to jog a little a get my stride the treadmill stopped suddenly and started beeping at me! It was my alarm. Maybe that’s a sign I’m still not ready to start running yet? Thursday will make 3 weeks since my last run. I’m really starting to get desperate…I think 1 mile would put me on top of the world. I miss it so much. I know my knee just isn’t really ready yet.

Today will be better though. I at least got a work out in. I walked to my amenity center this morning and all of the alarms were going off. It was so incredibly loud I could still hear it with my Ipod maxed out on volume. I waited about 10 minutes, stretching and trying to decide if I could work out with the sound, decided I could not. I came home and did a 20 Minute Sweat cross training work out on Exercise TV and I found a Yoga work out for after work today.

Do you guys have crazy dreams? I have them all the time!

Sometimes life just gets in the way

Savannah was amazing. I mean, really amazing. Fantastic and beyond my wildest imaginations. I had such a wonderful time and it was so great to see all of my friends.

However, I'm too tired to write about it right now.

As soon as I got home from Savannah on Sunday night, didn't even get a chance to pee, I had to take my husband to the ER for consistent vomiting. My husband has some other health issues and vomiting, although bad for everyone, is especially bad for him. We ended up there until 12:30am (after getting there at 7:15) while he got fluids and IV medications. He's still very sick, but at least it's manageable at home right now.

Then, yesterday, Chaser the wonder schnauzer got an upset tummy...all over my freshly cleaned carpets.

The past two days my allergies (which I seem to have developed this year, never had them before) has left me with eyes that feel glued shut and a super level exhaustion.

I also fell in Savannah, I slipped on some sand/cobblestone combination, tried to grab a metal barrier that was apparently made out of tin foil and rasberried one knee while tweaking the other trying to catch my fall. So, that 7 mile run got a little postponed.

My weekend full of amazingness came to a crashing end back in reality. Sometimes life gets in the way of your best intentions. I am trying to handle it as best I can.

So, between all of the above, I just don't have the energy. I promise I will update soon, a proper one. I'll leave you with one picture...just to let your imaginations run wild...

Wednesdays are a Battle

I always struggle on Wednesdays. My husband almost always falls asleep on the couch on Tuesday nights. I have no idea why, but he does. I always schedule a work out in my living room on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. If he's asleep in the living room, I obviously can't work out in there. So, when my alarm goes off at 6am and I realize he's not in the bed on Wednesday mornings I re-set the alarm for 7 and go back to sleep. This morning was of course, one of the same...add that to the fact I've slept poorly the past 2 nights and I slept until 7:30am, making my whole morning a rush.

This is wrong on so many level but here are a few reasons.

1. I have a laptop that plays DVDs and a huge bedroom. Problem solved.
2. I am in a significantly bad mood almost every Wednesday because I don't work out in the mornings, I know how to correct the situation, but I continue to do this same thing every Wednesday.
3. I end up working out after work on Wednesday, I much prefer morning work outs because it sets the tone for my entire day.

So, this throws my whole day off, makes me mad at the husband (for no good reason) and dampers my spirit.

Did I mention I'm a creature of habit? If my habit or routine is broken I get really grumpy. I even carry around a book with me that I call "The Panic Book" it's a day planner that has everything from my meals, work outs and blog ideas to reminding me to do laundry or take the trash out. I like to have a schedule, or I feel like I might forget something. I feel out of control and I do not like that feeling.

Wow. You guys just got a peek into my head...be careful, it's scary in here.

What I need to do now is take a deep breath.

*IN*

and

*OUT*

I know I will do a work out after work. I had a great Green Monster Smoothie this morning, have a healthy lunch, snack and healthy dinner planned. One rescheduled work out should not ruin my day.

Do you ever feel, during weight loss or trying to change your life in any way really, that routine is crucial? Do you get flustered when it's thrown off?

Date night and cement.

Friday after work I had a Skype date with my best friend who recently moved to Florida. If you don't have Skype, you should get it! It makes video conferencing a breeze! Then I did laundry. I could probably manage to do laundry every day and there's only two of us! I'm not sure how that happens.

On Saturday, I worked and planned to go for my 2.5 mile training run after work. Well, the husband decides he wants to do "date night" and I'm never one to turn that down. My husband and I have alternate schedules most of the week so our time together is a bit limited. We went to a bar, had some beers and played Buzztime Trivia. It was so much fun...but, I had a cheeseburger and fries. I was starving, ill prepared and craving a cheeseburger, so I had one.

Later that night, some friends of ours asked us to come to another bar and see them. It had been so long since we've seen them, we went there too! I had 1 beer and switched to water. This is good for me, an entire night out and I only drank 4 beers. I swear I'm not an alcoholic, I just like beer. :) We got home around 12:30am and watched SNL before going to bed.

I woke up around 9am on Sunday and got ready to go to the gym. I noticed my head was stuffy but figured it would clear up during my run. I stretched, that felt good and I got on the treadmill, started running and it felt as if my entire body was encased in cement. I was supposed to run 2.5 miles and I barely made it to 1.9. It was a slow run too...



after the treadmill I went to the weights, figuring I would at least get some strength training done. I found I had the same problem, my entire body was just exhausted. I started feeling nauseous and knew it was time to go home. It just wasn't the work out I had wanted. I sat around with a scowl on my face for a good 30 minutes afterward. I have no idea what was wrong with me, I feel alright today and I'm hoping for a better work out tomorrow. I spent the rest of Sunday doing some Christmas stuff and watching really awful Lifetime Christmas movies.

If you made it through this post, give yourself a pat on the back because I'm pretty sure it was really boring. :)

Happy Monday!