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Cooking Confession

01 Wednesday Aug 2012

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Cooking, Fab Five, Fitness, gym, Health, Olympics 2012, Roasted Asparagus, Roasted Red Potatoes, The Magnificent Seven, Wild Grapeseed Oil

Before I talk about cooking abilities, or non-abilities, I must share ~

The Fab Five ~ 2012 Olympic Gold (!!!) Yea!

Gymnastics

I love, love, love watching gymnastics.  My grandma used to tape all kinds of gymnastics for KT and I so we could watch repeatedly. 

We were in love with these ladies –>

Mag Seven

^ The Magnificent Seven

I am loving the 2012 Olympics this summer — gymnastics and synchronized diving are my two favorite events to watch.  I am so pumped for the Fab Five and the USA Gymnastics Gold ~ Amazing Athletes (!!!)

Cooking –> I cannot cook, or bake, or follow recipe to save my life ~

But today is the day I will attempt to do so for my family (!!!!!)

My mom is constantly baking yummy treats, like zucchini bread, friendship bread, or chocolate chip cookies.  KT can always follow a recipe to bake healthy treats, like powerballs or yogurt brownies. 

What happened to me?  Why can I not do this?

Do you remember my idea of baking, from Thanksgiving?  Pretzel rods dipped in icing?  I even did this again on Christmas, with different sprinkles (!!)

I decided to give this whole recipe thing a whirl a few weekends ago.  While Ben was working outside, I took some time to look up recipes online.  They are very simple recipes, but they are recipes.  And I followed them.  And I used ingredients.  And I used measuring spoons. 

One was for roasted asparagus and the other for roasted red potatoes.  I used such spices as rosemary and garlic, and also lemon juice.

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As I was cooking, I even got nervous as to whether or not these would turn out, or if I used too much oil, or if Ben would like them.

I know this probably sounds silly to those readers who cook and bake and follow recipes all the time.  To them, this is hardly cooking ~ But I am anxious to continue to improve my kitchen skills and hopefully look back at this post and think it sounds silly also.

Instead of Olive Oil, I used Natural Grapeseed Oil, which I now love.  My mom gave this to me quite a long time ago, and I am finally using it –>

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Ben thought the asparagus and potatoes tasted delicious and he kept saying he was proud of me and that I should do it more often.

I think I just might.

I hit the gym twice yesterday, as my first visit did not go very well.  I would never say it was worthless because I think every workout, no matter how big or small, is totally beneficial – But I just could not get into it.

I returned yesterday evening for a second attempt and I am so glad I did.  I left the gym feeling like I had an awesome workout – And I can definitely feel it this morning! Holy Soreness!!! 

You will always have those days – sometimes it is just hard to get into it.  Find a way to make it work.  For me, this was trying a different time of day, and different headphones <—??? Whatever works…

Now I am up summer early to get started on my recipe (!!!) Tonight I am making dinner for my family.  They keep asking me what I am making, but it is a surprise!  I have really been talking up this dinner, so I hope it turns out and I hope they love it — I will update you soon.

Have an awesome Wednesday, and Remember ~

Finish a workout

^ Yeah!

Quote Life

^ This is Perfect

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.  ~Brian Tracy

Love_Ann

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Workin’ It Out

21 Monday Nov 2011

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ab workout, ChaLEAN Extreme, Extreme Abs, gym, Losing weight, Push Circuit, turbo jam ab jam, working out

This post is all about workin’ it out…

If you don’t like workin’ it out, there is a chance you might find this post extremely annoying…

KT and I had an awesome workout together yesterday!  We are both sore today and I know I will be even more sore tomorrow – I can feel it.

We started with Turbo Jam – Ab Jam {20 minutes}

Turbo Jam Ab Jam

Followed by some Chalean Extreme ~

Chalene Extreme

Chalean Extreme – Burn It Off, which is a lot of cardio {25 minutes}

Chalean Extreme – Push Circuit 1, which is strength training {15 minutes}

This was a great mixture of workouts and we were exhausted by the end!!  I wish KT and I could work it out every day together.  We are now planning our early morning Thanksgiving Day workout.  We decided we would plan it out and write it down, this way we would be sure to do it.

I will share this workout as soon as we make a final decision.  Do you have a Thanksgiving Day workout planned?

This morning I woke up at 4:45a for an early morning workout.  I am really trying hard to change my body, so a change in morning routine could be helpful, as well…

Usually when I wake up, all I can think about is school and everything I need to get done and how I should not take time to workout because there is too much to do at school.  But I need to stop thinking like that ~ because:

Never will I ever be completely caught up at school.  Ever.

I must learn to deal with this.

This morning I started by putting on my Pod and doing some jumping jacks, push-ups, bicep curls, and dips.  Once pumped up from the Pod, I moved on to Chalean Extreme – Extreme Abs.  Awesome ab workout ~ I could hardly finish the entire program.

Wait?  I did abs yesterday with KT.  I thought you weren’t supposed to do abs two days in a row?  Well, I did – and I just might even do them again later tonight.  Trust me, they have been neglected for quite some time.

Fitness 10  Body Goal 4

^ Plus, I want these abs, so could two days in a row really hurt?

Surely not…

I’m just feeling motivated, and I hope it lasts forever.

Fitness 7

^ I have always loved this quote…

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^ Great Shakeology feedback that I am excited to share!

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.  ~Jim Rohn

 

HeartAnn

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