Eat. Lift. Play. Repeat.

Eat Clean :: Lift Heavy :: Play Daily :: Repeat

Quad Sets – Front Body & Back Body

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Front Back Quad Sets 

Where do these weekends go?!? The work week seems to go fast (which can be nice) but then the weekends fly by and it is already almost Monday again… what the heck? 

Last night we had our annual Colorado Broadcasters Association award ceremony in Denver. Radio stations and television stations that are members of the Colorado Broadcasters Association can submit material in several different categories and then the winners are announced at this event.Some of the categories include Best Commercial for an Advertiser, Best Morning Show, Best Regularly Scheduled Newscast, etc. [Read more…]

Books. Books. Books.

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Keep Calm

I happen to love to read. Sitting by a fire in my pj’s reading a book cuddled under a blanket… that is heaven to me (with Doug on my lap of course!). I love reading at night but I also really love getting up in the morning, making coffee, and reading until Donny wakes up. So relaxing. 

I am going to 100% honest with you, one word that I feel describes my book preference is probably: shallow. I don’t want you to get offended if you like the same books I’m about to talk about, but that is how I feel. I mean, I love them enough to recommend them to you but they are not what I would call real literature. [Read more…]

Coconut-Cashew Granola Bars

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Coconut-Cashew Granola Bars

Prepare for me to go through withdrawals over the next few days. Withdrawals of what? Television. I know, right?! Who am I?!? I went three whole years without cable or television and now I am addicted to Orange is the New Black… well, Netflix in general. I finished Season 1 the last time Donny was gone and then he had to catch up. Well one week later and we are now done with all 13 episodes of Season 2. Yikes. [Read more…]

Buffalo Chicken Quinoa Bites

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Buffalo Chicken Quinoa Bites

Did you watch the Oscars last night?! I did not. Want to know why? Because Donny & I decided to watch 45 episodes of Orange is the New Black. Ok, 45 might be a bit of an exaggeration, but we did watch OITNB all day yesterday. It is just such an awesome show! It has very dry humor throughout it, but also has a lot of drama and suspense. I love it.

Donny suggested that I watch it while he was gone on his last trip so I assumed he had seen Season 1. I watched all of Season 1 and then a few episodes of Season 2. When he got home he informed me that he had only seen like 3-4 episodes…. whoops! He had some catching up to do. He is now caught up to me so we can start watching episodes I haven’t seen yet! There goes my free time…. if only I had self-control! [Read more…]

“Almond Joy” Oatmeal

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Almond Joy Oatmeal

It’s almost Valentine’s Day! Donny & I went on our first “real” date around Valentine’s Day in 2012. It was not actually on Valentine’s Day, but it was somewhere in the beginning to mid-February. I say “real” because we went on our first date in 2010, but it didn’t go anywhere. Then we gave it another go a couple years later and, as they say, the rest is history!

Donny always has food shows in Germany and Dubai in February so this will actually be the first Valentine’s Day that we have spent together! Technically we get about 5 hours of Valentine’s Day together this year because he gets in from Germany at about 7pm on Saturday night… but it counts! I am not really a big Valentine’s Day person, but it might be nice seeing my husband for once on the day. [Read more…]

My New Addiction = Foam Rolling

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My 27th birthday was last week and what did I buy myself?! A foam roller. Does everyone else seem to get more lame each year or is it just me? Donny probably would have let me get anything I wanted…well almost anything…and I decided a foam roller was what I needed. 

foam roll 4(Photo: Walmart.com)

I bought this foam roller at Walmart in Fort Morgan. It is a Gold’s Gym high-density 24″ foam roller  and it was about $18.00. Not only am I happy with my $18.00 purchase, but it is my new addiction. I have been doing research on foam rolling for a few weeks now and finally committed (most likely because I felt I could splurge on that for my birthday…since I never spend $18.00 on silly things……). I have looked at a lot of graphics for foam rolling and watched a few videos. Yet none of those things prepared me for the discomfort I would feel while using it. Good discomfort, but I won’t lie, major discomfort.  [Read more…]

Fancy Food – San Francisco

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Grocery Shopping

I happen to love grocery shopping. Like love grocery shopping. I can spend hours at a grocery store just looking at all the products and reading nutrition labels (total nerd, right?). Generally what makes me rush through the store is either a crowded grocery store or I am in a time crunch! When we have time and can go aisle-by-aisle at Whole Foods or Sprouts or Vitamin Cottage, I definitely take full advantage and try to look at as many products as possible. [Read more…]

My Trip to San Francisco!

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I am back from California and guess what, it wasn’t negative temperatures here in Colorado this time! When we came back from Mexico in November it was freeeezzzing for a few weeks. I read a forecast earlier today and tomorrow is suppose to be in the 50s…..people will probably be wearing t-shirts and shorts, it’ll feel that hot out after the weather we’ve had. I am definitely looking forward to this!

***Quick apology, I did not take any pictures while in San Francisco…if I can bum some off Nick & Shayla then I will post some! I definitely need to work on taking my camera places! [Read more…]

Mini Veggie Egg White Cups

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Mini Egg Cups

Man, has it been cold this winter or what?! At least here in northeast Colorado it has been cold. What I do like about this year is that with the cold weather we have had snow! Quite a bit compared to other Decembers in fact. I don’t mind the cold if I can look outside and see white stuff on the ground! It’s not as fun when it’s freezing and all you see is bare, brown grass…….

Speaking of colder weather… I am ditching this cold weather and heading somewhere a little warmer!  Hello Calirfornia. How I have missed you. Ok, I cannot really say I’ve missed California because I have only been once and it was 5 years ago! [Read more…]