Fiesta with the Rest-a

Leftovers from last night’s taco fiesta made lunch super easy today. I used the chicken seasoned with taco seasoning, sweet corn, lettuce, plum tomato, broccoli florets and a crunched up hard shell taco to make the salad and topped it all with salsa.

Taco Salad

I hope this is enough to tide me over until dinner because I am embarking on a four-hour fast in preparation for a metabolism test I’m completing at my gym after work. No exercising, eating or drinking anything other than water for four hours before the test, so no afternoon snack for me today. I definitely prefer to eat a lot of mini-meals rather than three big meals, so this throws a kink in my daily routine, but I’ll survive. I’m tough like that. 🙂

You Spin Me Right Round

I’ll never forget the first time I told my sister I was taking a spinning class. She looked at me like I was off my rocker and asked why anyone would want to just spin around and around… in her defense, that was before spinning became so popular. 🙂

My love with spinning is a rocky affair. I get obsessed with it for a few months and then I don’t take a class again for several months. Currently I’m lovin’ those bikes that go nowhere! This morning I did a 10 minute warm up on the elliptical before taking a 6 a.m. spinning class with my favorite spin teacher. She has such a positive attitude and is very knowledgeable about heart rate and getting the most out of your work out. Plus she incorporates a lot of sprints which are my fav! It was a great, sweaty kickoff to a Thursday.

In keeping with the spinning theme, I spun together today’s breakfast (okay, so I blended it). I whipped up a thick, blueberry-infused cottage cheese protein bowl.

Pre-Blended Blueberry Bowl

In this blueberry bowl I included 1/2 cup cottage cheese, 1/2 scoop cake batter protein powder, 70g frozen blueberries and a splash of Almond Breeze almond milk. I blended it together in my Bella Cucina rocket blender, which I call my knock-off Magic Bullet to create a thick blueberry goodness.

Blended Blueberry Bowl

I topped it was Pumpkorn Honey ‘n’ Flax pumpkin seeds for added crunch.

Blueberry Bowl with Honey-Flax Pumpkin Seeds

Blueberry Bowl with Pumpkorn Package

It was awfully tasty and filling enough to get me to my mid-morning snack time.

In other news, I stopped by Barnes & Noble last night to pick up this lil’ baby:

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

I am a HUGE Dan Brown fan an have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this book. My mom already started on it and said it’s a good read so far. Yippee!