Fresh Today: Meals and Training

Welcome this week! I'm so glad to see you.
I started the morning off by sleeping in an extra 20 mins, so I just about forwent my yoga for the day but reconsidered when I realized I won't be home until 9pm tonight. urgh. So I did the 20 minute Heart Opening flow (intermediate level 2-3). I really liked it and think I will purchase the longer versions of both this one, and the morning flow since I want to support YogaDownload.com as much as possible.
For breakfast it was super pancakes as they are quicker to make and eat than my omlette and hot rice cereal. No pics, but you can see them here from last week.
Post workout I had my balancing Kitcheree (rice and mung beans) and a gala apple.
I was out for a client meeting over lunch, so I didn't get to photograph the house side salad and grilled chicken breast with oil and vinegar.
For my afternoon snack I enjoyed 1/2c 1% cottage cheese and about 6oz of fresh crudites (broccoli, cherry tomatoes, carrots, peppers) with 1Tbsp salad dressing for dip.
Supper was at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant, "A Touch of Ginger" in Kensington; we used to live in this hip little artsy area and would go without fail every Thursday night just me and my husband. They got to know our names and our order never changed, so they had it hot for us just about immediately after we got in. We go less now since we bought in another area of the city, but they still know our names and we're happy to catch up with them whenever we get to.
When we got home from a meeting last night at around 930pm I was hungry and so had 1/2c plain non-fat Astro BioBest yogurt with 2Tbsp vanilla protein powder and a dash of cinnamon.
Training Summary:
20 min Heart Opening flow yoga (Ashtanga)
30 min uphill treadmill light jog

Oh and another note to my awesome husband- thanks darling for the new suit! Definitely helped hit the client meeting out of the park today- I'm so grateful. Love.

Fresh Week: Training

Here's my workout plan for the week:
Monday: am- 20 min Core Yoga download from YogaDownload.com for the Yoga Challenge/ 30min treadmill walk
Tuesday: am- 20 min Heart Opening Yoga/ pm-40 min fitness class
Wednesday: am- 20 min yoga (TBD)/ 30 min treadmill walk
Thursday: am- 20 min yoga (TBD)/ pm-40 min fitness class
Friday: am- 20 min yoga (TBD), 45 min cardio/strength intervals dvd (TBD)
Saturday: am- 20 min yoga (TBD), 45 min cardio/strength intervals dvd (TBD)
Sunday: am- 60min detox yoga

Fresh Today: Meals
Late Breakfast: 1/2c uncontaminated oats, 2T raisins, 2T ground flax, 2T salba, 2c coffee with almond milk and splenda, 6 egg white omlette with spinach, tomato, red pepper and mushrooms, 2T ketchup
Lunch: Crudites with 3T hummus, 1/2c cottage cheese
Mid-afternoon Snack: lettuce salad, 3oz ground turkey, 2T salad dressing
Supper: 4oz grilled salmon, roasted brussel sprouts
Treat: 1 fresh fruit when I like

Can't wait to get my camera back to post pics.

31 Day Yoga Challenge

Trina at CarrotsNCake has started a yoga revolution online; what a brilliant way to bring healthy minded persons together and promote well being. Her 31 Day Yoga Challenge is being promoted by YogaDownload.com too, offering a 50% discount off purchased yoga downloads for the month of March (enter promo code CarrotsNCake at checkout). Even better news, you can try all of their 20 minute sessions for free-anytime! Their classes are printable pose guides, accompanied by well-created audio guides and slide shows (optional).
I'm hopping on the bandwagon a week late, so my challenge will be a 25 Day Yoga Challenge and I'm committing to 20 minutes of yoga a day until March 31, 2009.
Saturday, March 7, 2009- 20 minutes Power Yoga- challenge level 3-4 (intermediate). A great, challenging class to really create some heat in your body. This was invigorating, and challenged my upper body strength right off the top. My shoulders are sore today for just the 20 minutes.
Sunday, March 8, 2009- 20 minutes Morning Flow- challenge level 2-3 (beginner-intermediate). Focusing on back bends, this really sets a pure-posture standard for your day if you do it in the morning. Opening and strengthening the spine supports a tall posture, and open chest for your long days in front of the computer or hunched over a steering wheel.

Oh- and where are those food pics for the weekend? In my ambition to get all my meals documented on Friday, I forgot the camera in the office. Oh well. Here's a breakdown in text:
Friday finished with a Playstation Scene It get together at our place. I indulged in multiple glasses of a Piesporter with my friends, a brownie with cream cheese icing, salad with pears and goat cheese topped with barbeque beef (everyone else had beef on a bun). So this was my treat meal for the week.
Saturday was a great clean day; I love the feeling of accomplishment and internal purity from a clean day:
Breakfast: 1/8c creamy rice with 2T flax, 2T salba seeds/ 6 egg white omlette with spinach, tomato, red pepper and mushroom, 2c coffee with almond milk and splenda
Mid-morning snack: 10 almonds
Lunch: 2c leftover butter-lettuce, pear and pecan salad with 3oz ground turkey and 1T sesame orange dressing
Supper: 2c iceberg lettuce salad with 3oz ground turkey and 1T sundried tomato & oregano dressing, 1 bowl fresh fruit including banana, strawberries, and kiwi