Green Breakfast

This morning I wanted to try a green smoothie for breakfast.

I have put spinach in many smoothies in the past.

It's fantastic because there is NO TASTE to it!  

However, usually in the past I've used dark berries to hide the "green." 

Something about drinking a greenish mixture has made me want to gag in the past.

But I didn't want to add a bunch of berries today.  I wanted to make it filling, and have some protein.

So here it is:

I may or may not have gaged a little when I was sipping the drink and looking down at the green...but I realized quickly that could be avoided if I focused on something else while drinking.  

Because truthfully, the drink tasted great!  I knew that it meant the gagging was all in my head...

The smoothie was super easy to make:

1 frozen sliced banana (slice and peel before freezing!)

1 Tbsp peanut butter

1/2 C Vanilla Choibani Greek Yogurt

1 C Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze

I then filled the blender to the top with as much spinach as would fit.

(Total calories:  200)

Blend that baby smooth, and walah!  

Deliciousness!

As I was drinking it, my baby boy saw the drink and the straw and wanted some...

Even he loved it, I had to fight him off!  (Next time I'll make him his own...)

Today

Today is Monday.  (In case you don't read the header above this, and if you do....I like to state the obvious.)

I had a pretty good day today.  I tracked well!  Really well.  I made dinner for the 3rd night in a row!  THIRD NIGHT IN A ROW PEOPLE!

You see, I have had trouble with the whole cooking thing.  (Perhaps another reason I have been slowly gaining my weight back??)

So this week I was determined to get back to the kitchen...and I have.  And it has been good.  (At least I think so!)

Tonight we had Lazy Day Lasagna.

(I might have forgotten to take the picture until AFTER we were finished...what can I say?  It was good!)

The family LOVED this recipe!  5 out of 5 stars!  

(I rank the stars by family members who finish the entire serving without complaining or whining that they don't like it.....)

And the best part, it was filling...very filling!  The whole meal came to 8 WW pts.  Mmmmmmm.

I also got a friendly run in again today.  Friendly, because I didn't feel like my lungs were on fire....maybe just about to catch on fire.

The good news, I did better than last run.  (Really, it would have been pretty pathetic to have done worse...)

I went from a 12:13 mile to a 11:18 mile.  Hooray for almost shaving a minute, right?  We'll see where tomorrow takes me...