Weekly Eats: Christmas Recap

A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads.  I'm not a big Christmas person, but I am a big time with family/downtime person.  Let's talk eats!

Weekly Sweats: 'Twas the Night Before the Five Mile Race

In this week's adventures: 24 miles of running including a 5 mile race and an outdoor running streak.

Weekly Eats: Day Late Edition

A weekly round up, eats, watches, and reads.  For the first time in two years, I'm a day late with my weekly food recap.  Yesterday I ended up taking a "personal day" from the internet, something that I don't believe I've done since the internet was invented. 

Weekly Sweats: More treadmill

In this week's adventures: 23 miles of running/TV watching (P.S. the green thing is our fancy air mouse that I use as a remote for the laptop that's plugged into the TV).  Out of six runs, three were good, one was excellent, and the other two were blah, counting down to my Christmas Eve race.

Weekly Eats: French Toast with Love

A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition, hubs made French toast and I have some good TV to talk about.

Weekly Sweats: All Treadmill All the Time

A tale of 20 treadmill miles and two weight workouts.  Getting outside was impossible this week so I buddied up with the tready and made the most of it with some excellent TV.

Weekly Eats: Food Prep Extravaganza

A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition, I made like a duck and kept calm on the surface while paddling madly underneath to keep up with a crazy work week and to restock my freezer with some yummy meals.  And we found a dinner winner that the whole family enjoyed.

Weekly Sweats: A Christmas 10k

In this week's recap: 20.2 miles of running and a fun Christmas 10k.

Weekly Eats: Thanksgiving for Two and Thanksgiving for a Crowd

In this week's edition, hubs and I made Thanksgiving dinner for two and then helped out with Thanksgiving for a crowd.

Weekly Sweats: Turkey Trot Edition

A tale of 20.1 miles, one weight workout, one race, and one trip to the men's room.

Weekly Eats: Double Lasagna Edition

A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads.  In this week's adventures I went to Trader Joe's, made a lot of lasagna, and experimented with tofu and veggies for meal prep.

Weekly Sweats: Iron Edition

In this week's fitness news, I ran 20 miles and got in 3 weight workouts.  But there's so much more to say than that.

Weekly Eats: Chicken Parm Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, watches, and reads.  In this week's news, I saw the breaking news that Parmesan Chicken is the New Engagement Chicken, which makes complete sense to me.  Parm chicken is one of the easiest meals that I know how to make and my husband adores it.  The more I think of it, I'm pretty sure that's the first thing that he ever cooked for me.

Weekly Sweats: My Running Backstory

I did something this weekend that to the best of my memory I haven't done since 2011: back to back 6 mile runs.  That put me on memory lane and the path to telling my running backstory.

Weekly Eats: Substitution Edition

A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition, a block of cream cheese drove my menu selections.

Weekly Sweats: Recovery Week

Longer races take it out of me.  For last spring's 10 mile race, half marathon #1, and half marathon #2, I basically spent the day after napping.  In contrast, this Monday I rolled out of bed when the alarm went off and barely felt like I'd run a half this day before.

Happy Birthday Weekly Eats

This Monday marked two years of posting all of my meals on the internet.   It's time to roundup the roundups and give kudos to the best of the best.

Weekly Eats: Halloween Cupcakes and Sloppy Joes

A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads.  I came down with a cold this week which knocked my interest in meal planning down to zero.  But even so, I tried a new spaghetti squash recipe, made Halloween cupcakes, and my husband got a craving for sloppy joes.

Weekly Sweats: What's it's like to run a half marathon with a cold

Alright friends, the last time we left off I'd had several strong weeks of training under my belt and was feeling pretty cocky about half marathon #3.  Here's what happened from there:

Weekly Eats: Air Fried Tofu Edition

A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition, I tried air frying tofu for the first time (yep it's a winner), went to Trader Joe's, and took a shot at decorating a chocolate chip cookie cake. 

Weekly Sweats: Taper Time

This week's sweat recap: 26 miles of running and the countdown to half marathon #3.  All of my official training is done, so the hay is in the barn.  All that's left is to taper and enjoy the race.

Weekly Eats: Chili week

A weekly roundup: eats, watches, and reads.

Weekly Sweats: Progress Edition

This week's recap is the story of 29.25 miles and some solid optimism about half marathon #3.  I had a great week and I really feel like I've made progress with my fitness.  I don't want to be all "I got this" for half marathon #3 in two weeks, but...I got this.

Weekly Eats: Lots of Meat

A weekly roundup: eats, watches, and reads.  If there was a theme to our eating this week, it was lots of meat.  Chicken, pork, roast, and fish. 

Weekly Sweats: Pay for Pushup

Here's what went down this week: 27 miles of running including a bonus weekday outdoor run, not very much weight lifting, and I came up with a system to "pay" myself for doing pushups. 

Weekly Eats: Pumpkin Cheesecake Muffins Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, watches, and reads.  In this week's adventures, we were busy people and broke out the leftovers.  I had just enough free time to treat myself to some seasonal baking.

Weekly Sweats: Half Marathon Recovery Week

This week my fitness goal was to work out as much as I wanted to, and if that was not at all, that was fine.  The net result was 11.25 miles of running and two weight workouts, but that's not what I want to tell you.  What I want to tell you is how much I enjoyed each and every moment of physical activity that I did this week.

Weekly Eats: Pirate's Eye Edition

A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads.  This week I ran my first successful half marathon (how do you know if someone has run a half marathon?  Don't worry they'll tell you;-) but the side effect was that I totally ran out of ideas of what to eat all week long.  I learned that the secret to meal amnesia is to make grilled white BBQ chicken, pasta with meat sauce, and let your husband cook you pirate's eyes for breakfast.

Weekly Sweats: Half Marathon #2 is in the books

A couple of things happened yesterday:
1.  I ran my 2nd half marathon
2.  I fell in love with the half marathon
3.  Oh BTW, I completed my first marathon, with a finish time of 5 years and 2 days.  Confused?  Let me 'splain myself.

Weekly Eats: Chicken Week

 

A weekly round up: eats, watches, and reads.  I believe I've eaten more chicken this week than I have in my life, partly due to an incredible grilled chicken recipe.  And I went on a massive Trader Joe's binge.

But first, a blog announcement!  The Weekly Eats posts will no longer include my workouts.  If you go back to my first weekly eats post, my workout recap was just one sentence long.  Today things are just a bit different, and it's time for the workouts to spin off from the eats and have their own weekly recap.  Going forward I'll do a weekly sweat recap on Sundays and a weekly eats (plus TV and reads) recap on Mondays.  So go back one post if you want to read about workouts, and stay here if you're in it for the food.

Weekly Sweats: Back to the Treadmill

This week marks blog a change that was long overdue: a dedicated weekly sweats post.  I've been thinking for a while about breaking up weekly eats and weekly sweats, and since I have a lot to say about both this week, it's time.  If you came here for the food, the eats will be coming out on Monday (a to-die-for grilled chicken recipe + a Trader Joe's haul).  Now let's get our sweat on!

Weekly Eats: Leftover Edition

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  This week was notable for being almost 100% leftovers for meals.

Weekly Eats: Double Digit Edition

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  This week's highlights: the return of our favorite chicken fajitas, a Trader Joe's Haul, a short business trip, and a single girl weekend while my men went to boy scout camp.  Running was all over the place this week, starting with burnout, then time off, and then my first double digit mileage since May.

Weekly Eats: Adults Only Edition

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  If there's one thing I can tell you about this week, it did not suck.  Our calendar was light and airfare to our favorite Gulf Coast beach was cheap, so we did what we do best and headed away for an adults only long weekend.

All About the Women's Running 10 Week Training Program to Boost Your Speed

This summer I shook up my workout routine with the Women's Running 10 Week Training Program to Boost Your Speed.  My mile time improved by over 30 seconds, I learned a ton, and came away with all kinds of thoughts and plans for my future running.

Weekly Eats: Mile Test Edition

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition, we tried a new dinner that the adults loved and the kids hated, and I finished the Women's Running 10 Week Speed Program with my fastest mile to date.

Weekly Eats: return of the salmon bowl and my fall race calendar

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition I rediscovered salmon bowls, did a bunch of meal prep, signed up for a bunch of races, and took on some hills.

Weekly Eats: A bunch of new eats and a running cutback

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition, I made a home cooked meal for my family without being home, feasted off of rice and beans, made a killer flatbread pizza, and buffalo mac & cheese.  And my running plan called for a cutback which I kinda sorta followed.

Weekly Eats: I actually cooked this week edition

 A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches and reads.  I actually cooked this week edition.

Weekly Eats: Before Breakfast Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  I'm coming at you before breakfast today.  It's been a busy week and it's going to be a busy day, so let's chat quickly while I sip coffee and figure out what to have for breakfast.

Weekly Eats: Regroup Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  This week was all about regrouping from our vacation and getting back into the swing of things. Or what eating looks like when you don't plan anything.

Weekly Eats: Beach Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  Beach Edition.  If there's one thing that I can tell you about my family, it's that we take vacations seriously.  We spent 99% of our waking hours this week in our bathing suits. 

Weekly Eats: Stepkids Anniversary Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  This week started as a blur and ended on the beach.  With fireworks in between.

Weekly Eats: A Breakfast Shocker Edition

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's adventures, I had a new breakfast, revisited my single days, and went out on a spree with my sisters'-in-law.

Weekly Eats: What the Dietitian Told Me

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's adventures, I saw a dietitian, went to Trader Joe's, got a new Garmin, and ran a bad 10k.  I have so much to tell you about this week, let's start with the dietitian.

Everything that I could ever tell you about my first half marathon

My first half marathon was last month.  In a nutshell:
1.  I did everything within my control to prepare for a great race.
2.  Something happened outside of my control that made my first half marathon not so great.

Weekly Eats: Dinner for Two Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's adventures, there were a lot of dinners for two, we tried a new chicken burger, I have a plan to increase my running speed, and wow do I have a good book to tell you about.

Weekly Eats: Air Fryer Pizzadilla Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  Air fryer pizzadilla edition.

Weekly Eats: Cupcake Edition

A weekly roundup: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's adventures, I made cupcakes, ate a lot of tacos, and had my first session at a running clinic.

Weekly Eats: Low Calorie Edition

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  I laid off exercise this week to recover from the half marathon, and I was shocked about how little I eat when I'm not running 30 miles a week.  The second I started running again, my body demanded every calorie burned in running.