Day Four

Sweet almighty, what was I thinking?!?!

I decided as I was halfway through my elliptical workout that I would push myself a little harder... a few sayings came to mind... "no pain, no gain", "your legs are not giving out, your head is giving up". I kept saying that to myself and pushed to a 15 minute workout (which to some doesn't seem like long, but when your a larger girl, 15 minutes is an eternity). My heartrate was up, sweat was dripping in places I didn't think I could sweat and afterword, I felt good about myself for the first time in a long time. I'm a bit sore, but I can live through it, the feeling I had made every sore muscle worth it!

I decided on another green smoothie, but decided to do a protein green smoothie I saw... on Pinterest... surprised? I wasn't overly jazzed about it and could only get half of it down. The recipe called for baby spinach, but my spinach was getting a touch funky so I used straight up kale. Maybe that was the problem, kale is very distinct.

Recipe:
2 handfuls baby spinach
some frozen banana
1/2 cup vanilla non-fat Greek yogurt
1/4 cup peanut butter
Flaxseed
Some milk (skim, almond, soy...)

Throw it all in your blender, mix it up, put it in a cup and enjoy.

Now I realize this is basically the same recipe from a previous post. I was TOTALLY in love with the smoothie last weekend, but yesterday... not so much. Maybe I put too much peanut butter in it, or maybe it was the kale that totally threw it off. Has to be the kale, there is no such thing as too much peanut butter!!!

My spell checker has decided not to work, so if I misspelled something, move on it will be OK.