It's pretty simple...eat, sweat, smile.
I’ll keep this short and sweet (pun intended).
Yesterday after dinner I was craving something cool and chocolate-y since it’s really hot in San Francisco right now (for once). I decided on a milkshake…just without the milk.
So I created this-
Yeah, I’m not a photographer.
Refreshing, chocolate pepperminty goodness with a dash of protein.
Have a great weekend folks!
Last night before losing a few hundred brain cells from watching “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” (whatever you’ve heard, the rumors are true), I made one of my favorite Clean Eating Magazine recipes, Cheesy Eggplant Baguettes (from this issue), in accidental honor of Meatless Monday and Earth Day (two birds people) -
Oh, it’s vegan too. Get some son.
along with a lovely side dish, zucchini fritters, which I made from a recipe I received in my most recent Full Circle Farms CSA box. As if Full Circle Farms weren’t lovely enough already, they send me useful ways to use my veggies in addition delivering produce to my doorstep every week. Win, win.
Since I can’t post the Clean Eating Magazine recipe, I’ll meet you half way share the Full Circle Farms recipe for Zucchini Fritters. They’re easy to make (once you get past drying the zucchini stage) and taste exactly like crab cakes…minus the crabs.
Zucchini Fritters
Adapted from Full Circle Farms
Ingredients
3 cups of shredded zucchini
1 tbsp. reduced fat mayonnaise
2 cloves of minced garlic
1/4 c. red bell pepper, diced
1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes
1 egg
2 slices whole grain/complete protein bread (process to turn into bread crumbs)
salt, pepper, oregano and onion powder to taste
1. Place zucchini in a bowl and season with salt. Allow to sit for 30 minutes to draw out liquid.
2. Handful by handful, place zucchini in paper towels and press to absorb remaining liquid.
3. Once zucchini is dry, place it along with all ingredients in a bowl and mix until well combined.
4. Form into eight patties and chill until cool.
5. Coat a skillet with non stick spray and heat over medium high heat. Cook patties until browned on both sides.
If you’ve ever been here before you know that Jillian Michaels is at the top of my fitness idols list. From her podcasts, to her workouts to her epic return to the Biggest Loser, I love everything about her.
That’s why I was over the moon when popchips asked me if I would take a look at Jillian’s new book, Slim for Life. They obviously didn’t know who they were dealing with.
There was a lot of Jillian in my life this month-as if I weren’t enough of a stalker already.
The book is a compendium of fitness, nutrition, weight loss and general lifestyle tips that Jillian has accumulated throughout her career and is intended for people with all levels of fitness knowledge-there were a ton of tips that I had never even heard before! Each tip comes with a point value-three points indicates a tip that is worth picking up, two points is for tips that are nice to adopt and one is take it or leave it. At the end of the book, you add up your points to determine how to fine tune your “slim strategy” and set yourself up for success. Some of my favorite tips:
What I really like about the book offers an array of tips and is structured to so that everyone can pick out and use the tips that work best for their lifestyle. I also like that the book is definitely written in Jillian’s no B.S. voice.
The icing on top of the cake?
I GOT A SIGNED COPY OF JILLIAN’S BOOK.
The icing on top of the icing on top of the cake?
You get a chance to win one too! PLUS a month’s supply of popchips.
I must say, I’m quite jealous.
Here’s what you have to do to win. Click this link and do one (or all) of the following:
The contest is open until next Wednesday, March 27th. Good luck!
Hi friends!
Since I’m in Mexico this week, Clare, who you’ve met before on Ask A Blogger, is dropping by for a guest post.
Clare recently started her journey with intuitive eating, which is all about creating a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body. Since I’ve personally struggled with this and know many people also have, I was excited that Clare agreed to share her experiences. Take it away Clare!
Five Things I Learned In One Week of Intuitive Eating
A couple of months go I realized I was struggling with emotional eating.
I have a history of Anorexia, but for about three years after my recovery I was eating normally and maintaining my weight. I was getting confident that eating issues were something of my past.
However, addiction and depression run in my family, so stressful events and big life changes can easily trigger a behavioral response in me. This time, instead of eating less food for control, I was eating more food for comfort.
I didn’t understand it at first. For months I was frustrated with how much I was snacking and always craving sugar. I would eat so much that I would get stomachaches and not be able to sleep. I thought I had just lost my willpower.
Eventually I took a closer look, and realized my eating was emotional. I recently quit my job and am making a total career change towards medicine. I was really unhappy in my previous work, but deciding to quit was really hard. I felt lots of guilt, fear, and failure. I ended up changing cities and moving back in with my parents while I prepared to go back to school.
That was enough to do it.
Once I came to terms with the fact that I was struggling with food again, it got a lot easier. It was a weight off my shoulders. And it turns out a lot of people related to what I was going through. I decided to try intuitive eating to relearn my hunger singles and start eating what and when my body craved.
I am part of the Studio Eats Intuitive Eating Challenge this March, and it is awesome. It’s only been a week, and the breakthroughs the group is making are inspiring. I can’t wait to keep working on this and hopefully make it a complete lifestyle!
You can read more about my struggle with emotional eating and the Intuitive Eating Challenge on my blog, Fitting It All In.
Do you practice intuitive eating?
This weekend was quite exciting.
Between studying (it’s getting down to go time, folks), cleaning out my closet (it was a disaster),
Ruthless editing.
going out on a Saturday night run (sorry Liz!),
Saturday night #run party-5 miles-back in the game!!
— DanielleWolfe (@DanielleWolfe) March 3, 2013
and prepping meals for the week,
you can bet that I was the craziest kid in San Francisco this weekend.
Since meal preparation is something that I’ve been hit or miss with, I decided to visit good ol’ Trader Joe’s nice and early yesterday morning (I’ve learned my lesson about going to the grocery store on high traffic evenings) to get all of my grocery shopping done for the week.
With ingredients in hand, I set to preparing meals for the week including-
Health Magazine’s Sunshine Muffins
They’re not cooked yet, but I have them ready to go for a Monday morning treat!
Quinoa Jambalaya and
Since the whole ordeal took about three hours, I relied on Netflix to keep me entertained. First, I watched “The Queen of Versailles”, which is about a couple who builds a 90,000 square foot, $100 million dollar home right as the stock market crashed…suffice to say things did not end well. The only reason I watched this was because I saw them on the Today Show and was wondering who the heck would build a house (period) and who would build it as the stock market was collapsing. But don’t feel bad folks, apparently these millionaires were able to salvage the “largest house in America” and just started rebuilding the house. I digress.
Then I flew to the complete opposite end of the spectrum and watched a National Geographic documentary about dogs. Balance.
So there you have it, a weekend in the life. I hope yours was more exciting than mine!
Hope your week is off to a great start!
First off, how is it Friday already?!
Second, it’s already March?!
2013 seems to be speeding by!
Tina always does monthly round ups of her favorite moments from the past month, which is something I’ve always admired and wanted to do but the first of the month always seems to sneak by. Not this time my friends…not this time.
So here’s a look back at some of my favorite February posts.
It’s Christmas in February…an AMRAP holiday workout that you can do any time of the year.
What I’ve been up to lately…and why the posts were a little spotty in February.
February was the month for hopping on…falling off….and hopping back on the Daily Burn Challenge wagon.
And I’m back in the daily burn game! (source)
Of course the past month was full of recipes of all kinds-desserts, dinners and everything in between.
Plus I got to try out a new gadget (update coming soon!)
Hope your February was fabulous (had to!) and your March is even better!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!
Here’s to the hardest working, smartest, most fabulous lady I know. And the one that’s put up with me for 26 years. Love you!!
On to the regularly scheduled content…
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I had a few apples that were less than edible, but not ready for the trash bin, so I decided to try out some dehydrated apples.
It was super simple and they taste great on their own or on top of oatmeal or yogurt!
All you have to do is-
Hello!
Yes, I’m still alive! I spent a lot of the weekend spending time with these -
This is gonna be me!
finishing up on work work and relaxing.
Pat and I even had time for one of the hardest Daily Burn Inferno workouts I’ve done so far (update coming soon!)
Yesterday I arrived home in need of something chocolatey and I had a lot of dates hanging around from my Super Bowl creation, so I got a little experimental.
The result?
Delicious! My boyfriend said they would be great on top of ice cream (or a dairy free blizzard!) and didn’t know that they were actually good for him. And he came back for more. I know I’ve succeeded with a recipe when he eats more than one serving.
So if you’re looking for a good for you, on the go treat, check out the recipe below.
Chocolate Coconut Date Balls
Yields 14 balls
Ingredients
1 cup pitted Medjool dates
3/4 cups unsweetened shredded coconut
1 cup. rolled oats
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp. vanilla
3. Remove dates from heat and drain, reserving 2-3 tbsp of water.
4. Add dates to food processor and process until smooth, adding reserved water tablespoon by tablespoon.
5. Add vanilla extract and continue to combine.
6. Add coconut and oat mixture to food processor and process until well combined.
7. Form into balls and place into glass cooking dish.
8. Refrigerate for 30 minutes and enjoy! Store covered in the fridge for up to a week or even freeze them to enjoy later!
Hello and Happy Monday….night.
I know tonight’s post is coming at you a little bit later than usual, but after cleaning up after last night’s Super Bowl festivities, the only thing I wanted to do was sit down and watch Girls…for five minutes…until I fell asleep on the couch.
To my credit, “cleaning up” entailed tidying up after a 30 person party and “de-stadiumizing” our couches. Yes, my boyfrined made multi-tiered seating for the event.
Although I was skeptical at first, I’m now convinced that stadium seating is necessary for any get together.
And we took Rosie on a beach run Sunday morning in order to tire her out and prevent her from harassing our guests.
On top of that, I also had to recover from the insane amount of screaming and singing I did during the halftime show.
She runs the world (source).
Girlfriend killed it. Then, when Kelly and Michelle joined Beyonce for the Destiny’s Child reunion, I lost it. Bottom line…the combination of the 49ers’ roller coaster of emotions, beach playtime, Beyonce and playing hostess with the mostest tired me out.
Oh yes! I forgot to mention the food! Although I failed to get a picture of the full spread, I can tell you we had a vast array of delicious dishes. We had everything from crabmeat, goat cheese and cheddar mashed potatoes, which I made per my boyfriend’s instructions and contain an ungodly amount of butter (read:delicious) to Nutella and Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies.
As far as my contributions, I failed miserably at making some Philly Cheesesteak dip from Clean Eating Magazine (I didn’t even serve it) and had mediocre success with a Clean Eating Magazine 5 Layer Dip. The real winners amongst my contributions were the gems pictured in the forefront of the photo below-
Peanut butter, chocolate and date balls. De-licious.
Although the veggie platter I threw together was great, the Clean Eating Chocolate Peanut Butter Date Balls were delicious…and surprisingly easy to make. I’ll try to post the recipe soon!
Anyway, on to the fitness-y things!
Today, I started Inferno, a new 21 day workout series from Daily Burn.
Anja might be smiling…but I was not
I’ll tell you more about why I’m doing it tomorrow, but holy crap was it hard. Even though the workout was just seconds shy of 34 minutes and only required a plyo box, it kicked my butt. I was sweaty and heaving by the end. At the end of the workout, I let Anja know how I felt-
@daniellewolfe @madelinedavis no ma’am I am not
— Anja Garcia, RN MSN (@AnjaGarcia) February 4, 2013
and received confirmation that she is not kidding around.
Happy Monday-see you tomorrow!
Last night when I was looking for an after dinner snack, I decided to pour myself a portion of dark chocolate sea salt popcorn and paused when I poured it-was I actually eating a serving size? Well, you’ll find out later on in this post, but first I’ll drop a little knowledge on you.
The bowl of popcorn, the confusion around servings and portions and my food scale got me thinking “How well would I do with guesstimating food serving sizes?” I grabbed my handy dandy food scale to find out. Read on to find out how I did.
Ghirardelli Semisweet Chocolate Chips
Womp, womp! I would normally grab nearly double the suggested serving size. That serving size looks so sad.
Red Wine (I used juice because we had no wine open-shocking, I know)
This one’s a doozy.
This is a depressing realization
Somehow it’s not shocking that I nearly doubled the suggested serving size for the wine. I live in wine country-wine flows freely here.
Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Popcorn
That happened!
Yes, I used the same image twice, but shockingly I was right on with this one. I’m pretty sure it was pure luck. Don’t worry I ate double the suggested serving size throughout the evening 
So there you have it! Don’t worry, I don’t measure out everything I eat-that would drive both me and those around me crazy-but sometimes I do like to have an idea of what a serving is especially when it comes to desserts and items that I normally eat right out of the bag. If you’re on the go and want to get a good idea of how to pretty accurately gauge a serving, check out this post!
How well do you think you’d do with “guesstimating” serving sizes?
