Category Archives: Running

Oh, hi there friends.

Yes, I’ve been missing the past few days, but I’ve had nothing exciting to report.

Some updates on my healthy living attempt at healthy living this week:

• Food has been really good.  I’ve been cooking myself some eggs for breakfast, having a healthy lunch (homemade salad) and snacks, and we’ve been cooking dinner.
• Exercise has been lacking.  I had a really rough week at work, and have only run once this week.  My running buddy has also been sick, so it has been easier to skip my runs.  (whoops)
• Smoking has not been good.  Seriously having a hard time with this.
• Water intake has also not been good.  I have always been terrible at drinking water (I just don’t think about drinking anything during the day for some reason, especially when I’m busy).  I really need to work on it though, because I am definitely dehydrated and have been getting headaches later in the day.
• My second race is tomorrow!  Excited, but nervous.

Sesame and Ginger Chicken

• 1 lb. skinless, boneless chicken breast, cut into bite-sized strips
• 1/4 cup bottled light Asian-style dressing with sesame and ginger
• 2 cups packaged julienned carrots (I had to call the husband for this and ask him what julienne meant lol)
• 1/8 tsp. crushed red pepper
• 1 head lettuce, leaves separated
• 1/4 cup honey-roasted peanuts
• chopped lime wedges

Sprinkle chicken lightly with salt and pepper.  Lightly coat a large skillet with cooking spray; heat over medium heat.

Add chicken; cook and stir for 3 minutes or until browned.

Add 1 tablespoon of the dressing and the carrots to skillet; cook and stir for 2 to 3 minutes more or until carrots are crisp-tender and chicken is no longer pink.

Stir in red pepper.

On a large platter arrange 4 stacks of lettuce leaves.

Serve by filling leaves with chicken mixture.  Sprinkle with nuts.  Serve with the remaining dressing and lime wedges.

A little messy, but I think the presentation is a lot better than last time.

I’m working on it, folks.

This turned out very well, however it was a bit spicy for my taste.

The husband seemed to like it, though.

I am currently roasting some potatoes while the husband cooks up some steaks on the grill.

Yummmmmmmm.

I’ll let you know how they turn out!

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Just got back from my run with Nikki.

We decided on doing the very famous Couch to 5K plan to get back into it.

The first week is:

• 5 minute warm-up walk
• 60 seconds running
• 90 seconds walking
• Repeat for 20 minutes (8 times)

When I first read this, thinking back to when we were running 3, 4 and 5 miles at a time, I thought it was going to be too easy for us.

I was wronggggggggggggg.

It’s lovely what shitty eating, hardly any exercise and smoking like a friggin chimney will do to your body.

It was very hard.

And now I have a stomach ache and chest pains.

Maybe I’ll shoot for zero cigarettes tomorrow.

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