The Best Run Ever

I wanted to try my Quick Cooking Steel Cut Oats from Trader Joe’s this morning, so I went through the steps and botched them. They overflowed all over the microwave and what was left was as hard as a rock. I think I need to use a bigger bowl next time or else cook them on the stove. So I used my usual quick cooking Irish Oats with 1 Tbs. peanut butter mixed in and a banana on top along with 1 cup of 1% milk for 6 points.

This is such a filling and delicious breakfast!

I made an iced coffee for 1.5 points.

For my first break I had a large peach for 1 point.

These sure aren’t as good as the Missouri peaches that we had earlier! :(

The morning went really quickly. We have been pretty busy lately with people not showing up to work…makes it hard for the rest of us who are dependable!

For lunch I had a salad made up of lettuce, tomatoes, mushrooms, deli ham, bbq sauce and fat free ranch for 2 points. Isn’t that just amazing? I have to be careful because when I use the WW online tracker, I just put in all of the foods and this came out as 1 point- but if I did the recipe builder it’s 2. Do you put everything you eat into the recipe builder?

I also had some Trader Joe’s BBQ pops for 1.5 points.

And dessert was a No Pudge! brownie with a little whipped cream for 2 points.

For my last break I made a Pear/Peach Smoothie for 3.5 points.

I really wanted to go running after work, but it just wouldn’t stop raining. So I waited it out until Hubby got home and cooked supper.

I made salmon burgers on sandwich thins along with seasoned potato curls and green beans for 9 points total.

Dessert was light ice cream for 3 points.

After supper, I read some blogs and worked on laundry. Nothing too eventful here! But I’m enjoying having time to do what I want because it will be over soon with school starting next week.

I absolutely love the weather we’ve had this week. It’s cool and feels like fall. Fall is probably my favorite time of year. I love the summer, but I always look forward to the fall, too. Winter- not so much! My birthday is the first day of fall and hubby and I got married in the fall too. So maybe I just have a lot to look forward to in the fall. :)

So maybe that’s why I enjoyed running so much tonight. I actually LOVED IT! I would say I loved every minute of it, but there were a couple of minutes when I just wanted to sit down. :) But I ran 3 MILES WITHOUT STOPPING! Whoohoo!! Gorgeous weather- so cool and no humidity at all. This makes me love running and I can’t wait to do it again. The best part, hubby ran with me the whole time and we didn’t listen to music. We just talked and he pushed me a long. :) LOVE IT! 3 miles took 46:21, a little slow- but who’s timing? I burned 630 calories- which includes walking to and from the path- total workout time was over an hour. We ran on the path outside of town which is a gravel type path. Clean air and open spaces and a beautiful sky to look at. Peaceful. I LOVE RUNNING!