How’s your Monday treatin’ ya?
Mine has been pretty good.
I took Zoey on a brisk walk this morning before eating some breakfast and heading in to work. I woke up craving eggs, so I made a repeat breakfast from Saturday. There’s something about eating spinach with breakfast that makes you feel extra healthy!
Elisa and I met for some cardio before team teaching the new release of BodyPump. We’ve decided to partner up for the next few classes so we both feel comfortable teaching the new choreography…and because it’s way more fun with a friend 
We ended up doing about 25-minutes of the following, so we were good and sweaty by the time class began.
25-Minute Cardio Blast
10-minutes of stair running
1-min jump rope
1-min jacks
1-min lateral hops
1-min high knees
1-min quick feet
repeat last 5-minutes twice more
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After teaching, I had a meeting then got a quick shower before training a client and knocking out a bunch of work. I ate lunch desktop dining style (kale/quinoa salad…recipe still to come, promise) and it was delicious!
I ran home to make a protein smoothie, then headed off to pick up a book from the library and eventually to class.
Since I wasn’t quite hungry, I packed my smoothie to enjoy during my break at school!
•unsweetened almond milk
• chia seeds
•maca powder
•cacao powder
•protein powder
•frozen banana
•frozen strawberries
(I would really love to find a glass smoothie to-go container, if anyone has any recommendations, let me know!!)
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Class was good. I’ve officially had all three of three and it looks like my load will be intense, but manageable. My largest class has 8 people in it, and I’ll have the opportunity to do some major eating disorder prevention/body image work that I feel so passionate about!
With that, I’d better go do some reading. I have 50-pages of articles that need to be summarized for tomorrow’s class…yikes!
Have a great night 
*TIP TIME*
Plan your snacks accordingly. If you know you will be somewhere at a time when you “usually” eat, pack a little snack or eat a larger snack to hold you over. This will help prevent you from being ravenous and ultimately overeating when you get home!
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I love smoothie too, and I have been trying to find a glass cup too. I saw one at Target (the one with the straw with it). I’m planning on buying it to carry my smoothies around.
How cool that you have such great opportunities to do eating disorder prevention, girl!!
Your smoothie looks good! I need to find some of that maca powder.
Wow – largest class is of 8? That’s crazy!
Love the cardio workout. Again – I need to find some stairs!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a glass to go smoothie cup!
Is it the BPA/environmentally Unfriendly aspect that causes you to NOT want a plastic to go cup?
I can’t wait to hear about the work you get to do with eating disorder awareness! Such an important issue!
Oh I miss having smoothies, I definitely plan on incorporating them into my day more when I’m back at uni! I’d love to have a glass smoothie to-go container so if you find a nice (and not too pricey) one let me know
Your eating disorder prevention work sounds great, I’d love to hear more about it.
Looks like a good smoothie! I honestly just carry most of my to-go beverages in a mason jar. They’re inexpensive and never spill. They don’t have a cool lid like your plastic cup has, though!