I am loving this 4-day weekend! I am not getting anything productive done but I am definitely doing a whole lot of relaxing… and catching up on much needed blog reading. It’s awesome! But let me go back to breakfast…
BREAKFAST
I dug into the fridge this morning for breakfast inspiration and found 1 apple. That’s all we had in the fruit department! 1 apple! Ok, at least we had some fruit, I guess. And what goes great with apples? Peanut butter! So this morning I threw together an apple and pb bowl. And I bulked it up with some yogurt 
In the lovely bowl there was about 3/4 c of nonfat yogurt, 1 small apple, some Erin Baker’s peanut butter granola, Barbara’s peanut butter puffins and 1T of WF chunky peanut butter. Is that enough peanut butter for you all? 
I loved it!
After gobbling this up in record time, I made myself a huge cup of New England Coffee chocolate cappuccino coffee with skim milk and agave nectar. This coffee is my new obsession!
WORKOUT
I had another great cardio workout today! On the schedule was “4 miles fast.” ”Fast” means faster than a typical run, meant for improving your speed on weekend runs. I planned on running at 6.8 mph but once I got going, 6.8 seemed way too slow, so I kept on increasing the speed up to 7.7 mph! Yeah! I warmed up with a 0.15 mile walk at 4.3 mph and a 0.15 mile run at 6.3, then did my 4 mile run as described above and cooled down by walking at 5.0 incline at 4.3 mph until I hit 40 minutes. Then I jumped on the elliptical and did another 20 minutes, varying resistance and speed. Total calories burnt: 750. Awesome!
LUNCH
Of course after burning quite a few calories at the gym, I needed to feed myself. I made some open faced tuna melts. I combined a pod of 2% cottage cheese (=4 oz) with a can of white albacore tuna and some S&P. Mashed that all together, put it over Arnold’s sandwich thin and covered it with 1/2 oz of white american cheese. After a little toasting action, it was ready to be eaten. A sour pickle perfectly completed this meal. Yum!
Close-up of one of these babies:
Ok, I’m off to do a whole lot of nothing! Love it
I am all over that PB filled breakfast! Hope you had a relaxing day
I am jealous of your 4-day weekend, but more so of your workout! Wow! I am working on running that well. You have just given be some inspiration. I can rarely run above 7.0 and that is usually only for a short time. I might have to email you and ask you some running questions! Congrats on a great workout.
Hope you conitunue to enjoy your weekend
I love 4-day weekends too! Love your lunch creation!
Lara, you’re so sweet. I’m no runner but I definitely built up my endurance over the last few years. I remember the day when I couldn’t even finish 1 mile and when I finally did, I think I was bright red and ready to pass out. I roughly follow Hal Hannigan’s programs and I think that helps a lot! Email me if you have other questions