Food, Fitness & Summo' Food

So last night I cooked food for the week after dance class. I ended up making some egg muffins (keeshes, whatever), salmon and rice. Nothing too exciting. I also chopped up all my veggies so they're ready to roll on the fly when I am super hungry. Which is damn near all the time really.

So, the steps on

How to Make Tobin's Protein Egg Muffins

are simply as follows...

Ingredients:

• Fist full | Greens! (Kale, spinach, broccoli...)
• You're the judge | Additional veggies (Red bell peppers, mushrooms...)
• You're the judge | Cheese (don't get crazy, still being healthy here)
• Table Spoon | Seasoning (I used garlic and pepper)
• You're the judge | Meat (super optional. That shit takes forever to digest and also comes from poorly raised/handled farm animals)
• 18-24 | Eggs, obviously (the glue of all this awesomeness)

 

So, first things first!

1. Start cracking eggs and chopping veggies.
2. Then, preheat the oven to 350
3. In one bowl, mix the seasoning, eggs and cheese
4. In another, mix ALL those veggies. And meat, if you're dumb.
5. Usually, I beat the eggs and mix in EVERYTHINGZ into one bowl. But this time, as you'll see I have first poured 1/2way full cups into the cupcake pan, then tucked the veggies and cheese in with a spoon right in the middle. It's important you fill the cupcake cups halfway rather than full, because when you put the veggies in there AND the egg rise with heat, you're hosed. - Anyways, get all the sexiness in the cupcake pan you can manage for the first round. You may have two batches. Or you can SUPER TIGHTLY Tupperware your leftover yolks & veggies for the morning or whatever.

Bake for 25-30 minutes. You'll know they're ready by sticking a toothpick in and pulling it out. If it has chunks of yolk on it, you're a genius, they're not ready. I like to wait till they have a slight brown at the edge.

Eggs and seasoning, waiting to add vegetables

Finished product!

 

Ta-daaaa!

 

 

Now, check out this awesome soup I made out of carrots, kale, spinach, mushrooms and whole grain angel hair pasta! Boiled in vegetable broth. It was the cheapest thing ever and all organic.

 

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Weight loss journey

I must admit, in this “journey” of mine, I’m not really applying myself to my full potential. What I mean by that is, I am still having the occasional glass of wine (occasional meaning last night), a tablespoon of sugar in most of my coffee cups (not all), and I’m not tracking my workouts and meals. After all, the whole reason why I started this thing was to become more aware of my habits! And also to bitch my face off..


I’ve come to the conclusion that pole fitness is terrific, but just not helping me reach my fitness goals. I need something that’s going to make me sweat, burn, and ache, hallelujah! The best shape I’ve ever been in was definitely when I was a member at 24 hour fitness doing group classes like Turbo Kickboxing and Body Pump. Pole fitness is a great combination of rhythm, flexibility, endurance and strength while also teaching you to be ladylike and sexy in your regiment. I love dancing, and when I discovered this awesome combo of a workout, I bought a living social coupon and indulged. I quickly became and member, and here I am today, about 20 pounds heavier than I could and SHOULD be. Where did I go wrong? I eat fresh clean and organic about 90% of my day, most of the week. The only thing to blame is inadequate workouts!

It’s going to take some hard work and sweat to get me where I need to be. Dammit, just when I thought I had the ‘skinny’ thing down, too! Turns out you can’t eat a lot and not do cardio and still maintain a size 2 waist line.

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Post weekday promo funk

Last night I had a promotion for Three Olives Vodka, Loopy! They're always pretty fun. My boss is always there, setting up shop for us and taking our pictures for us, which is nice. We went to two bars: nodding donkey, and State & Allen. I like State & Allen for their killer salads. Fresh spinach, grilled asparagus and FRIED artichoke! Holy. Moly. Also, they're green everything basically. They do this thing called "tree-tini" where for every (particular) martini orded, they'll plant a tree (somewhere I forgot). Nodding Donkey is also cool because they do corn hole on the patio, baller.

 

Want to see what I get to wear to my promos?! Don't be so excited.

ThreeOlives Vodka

 

So now that I just made your day with that photo, onward...

Also something neat I did was make a butt ton of smoothies for my week.

I crammed tons of Kale, carrots, spinach, Strawberries, blueberries, bananas and apples in the blender along with some grapefruit juice. Oh yeah, and don't forget the asparagus I cooked. Love it!

I think I'm going to give this whole 30 day ab challenge a 'go'. Taking pictures of myself (every day) and posting them (every day) will make me put up for shut up. I've never had a super strong stomach, so now it's on. Got to get ready for thanksgiving coming up!

Day 1...

 

Meals:

• 1 whole wheat bagel w/ peanut butter
  
• 3 cups of awesome smoothie
  

 

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Marvelous Monday

Food

Get in my mouth.

I cannot seem to find a perfect, plain and simple portion conversion for vegetarians. I'd like to know exactly how many grams of each group I need. So far, I've found...

• 20% Carbs = 380calories
• 25% Fat = 475calories
• 55% Protein = 1045calories
  

That's what I can have a day. Just got to figure out what exactly it'll consist of.

Check out what else I made!

Pasta + Guac = Cure for any Monday night

 

On top is some whole wheat pasta with tomato sauce with some kale, peppers, and mushrooms hidden in! Below is some super balling guacamole I made on the regular in my place.