I wanted to save the leftover curry for dinner tonight, so for lunch I picked up salads for Chris and I from Green Tango on my way home from work. Green Tango has fresh chopped salads and the costumer gets to choose the ingredients!

I chose:

• Romain lettuce
• Roasted red peppers
• Chickpeas
• Grilled chicken
• Avocado
• Feta

You can’t really see anything but the roasted red pepper huh? Everything was buried underneath the lettuce!

See?

Oh wait…no… aside from one clump of feta only the red peppers can be seen! Despite the hidden toppings, it was delicious!

I opted to make my own dressing at home and used balsamic vinegar, olive oil, Dijon mustard, S & P and a pinch of sugar.

On the side we were given a piece of rosemary bread.

Which was a little bland, but overall it was ok.

About an hour before I left work I had 3/4 of a Gatorade nutrition bar.

  I knew I wanted to do some form of exercise at work and hate when I get home and am starving!

Even though I may not always show it, on days that I exercise I usually have a piece of fruit, nuts, or a granola bar of some sorts an hour before I leave work. Exercising on am empty stomach does not bode well for me. My body needs fuel!

So what did my workout consist of tonight?

So glad you asked! I was just getting to that!

Since it was pretty much dark when I got home, my options were pretty limited. Boo.

Chris was at the dog park with Nylah, so I decided to do a 10 minute jog around our apartment complex and ended at the dog park to jump rope. By that time it was dark so I was glad to have some company :) I got a lot of funny looks from the other dog owners, but oh well.

Here was my JR routine:

• 30 second jump
• 45 second jump
• Then I realized it was really difficult to look at my watch whilst jump roping, so I decided to count jumps instead
• 100 jumps X 4 (~ 50 seconds per 100)
• 50 jumps really fast x 4 (~ 20 seconds per 50)

My heart rate was souring and I was sweating like Ben Stiller in Along Came Polly. Ok, maybe not that bad.

I really had a lot of fun though! My new goal is to jump rope once a week. Luckily I can do it at the bottom of our outdoor stairwell at night. Hopefully I won’t bother the neighbors :)

I cooled down with a 3 minute jog, then came home to do:

• 3 sets of 30 bosu ball bicycle sit ups
• 3 sets of 10 bosu ball push ups

Since dinner was leftovers, it was ready in a snap! Which means we ate super early for us. I wonder if we’ll ever hit up the early bird specials when we’re old?

I heated up the leftover red lentil coconut curry in a sauce pan on medium-low for about ten minutes, and heated up the rice in the microwave for two minutes.

And voila! A twelve minute dinner!

While the curry was warming up, I toasted a whole-grain English Muffin.

We did rocks, paper, scissors for the last piece of naan and Chris won :(

I love my nooks and crannies though!

I sprayed some olive oil on there. Yum.

Dessert was holiday cookie bites!

  On top of a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

The perfect bit of sweetness.

Guys, I still have a carton and a half of pumpkin ice cream! What am I supposed to do with it?! It’s going to take us forever to eat it….

Maybe the fam will have some over Thanksgiving? :) Nothing like a little pumpkin pie ice cream on top of pumpkin pie, eh? I’m sure my Dad will eat at least a half a carton! Right Dad?

Off to do some laundry. Bleh.

Have a great night!