Fitness Friday #5: Motivation

This week I have had zero motivation to workout! I don't know why, but I have just felt like being lazy and lounging. Here's some good motivation:

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Weekly Gratitude

Weekly Gratitude

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• I am so grateful that once this long-term assignment is over, I have another one lined up to last through the school year!

• Thank you to my church's worship team for being so dedicated and putting in all the hard work for Good Friday service next week! (Practice was fun!)

• Thank you to my students who are working hard and are going to do great on the state test this week! :)

• Thank you Casey for being an inspiration for women/girls to be happy and content with their bodies and for being so open about past struggles!

• Thank you pinterest for giving me this great idea for my students!

This week has been rough, so it's great to sit back and reflect on all of the many blessings God has given me! Have a wonderful and relaxing weekend!

Weekly Gratitude

Weekly Gratitude

• I am thankful for my spring break this week! And for gorgeous weather during my spring break!

• Thank you to my husband for taking a day off to go to the beach yesterday, we had such a fun time!

• Thank you friends for having a Just Dance night, I had a blast!

• Thank you Forever 21 for the cutest dress for me to buy! :)

• Thank you to my sister for helping me out at a stressful time this week, she's always here for me even if she lives far!

• Thank you, April, for coming so quickly! I can't wait to celebrate Good Friday and Easter!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Fitness Friday #4: Raw Recipe

A couple of weeks ago I was looking online, trying to find some new dinner ideas and stumbled upon this blog. I found a recipe for thai lettuce wraps and just had to try them. They were delicious!

Raw Thai Lettuce Wraps

Ingredients:
½ cup zucchini, diced
½ cup Champignon mushrooms, diced
½ cup red bell pepper, diced
½ cup fresh cilantro, minced
½ cup scallions, minced (greens only)


Sauce:
½ cup raw wild honey
¼ cup nama shoyu
1 clove garlic, minced
2 teaspoons fresh ginger, grated
2 Tablespoons sesame seeds, hulled
2 Tablespoons sesame Oil
2 teaspoons red pepper flakes


Garnish:
1 head of lettuce, Butter, Bib, or Romaine
2 cups mung bean sprouts
1 carrot


Gently pull-apart lettuce leaves wash and let dry on paper towel. Prepare the sauce in a food processor fitted with an s-blade by adding all ingredients and pulsing 3-4 times. Add diced vegetables to processor and pulse 3-4 more times until all ingredients are incorporated. Place 2-3 lettuce leaves on plate, scoop 2-3 tablespoons of vegetable mixture onto each leaf. Garnish with mung beans, and grated carrot.

*I did change this a little bit, I didn't use any walnuts, just veggies (the recipe calls for 2 cups to mix into the veggie mixture, and I forgot to get green onions! But it was still amazingly good!

Fitness Friday #3: DVD Review

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I will admit that I have not tried the whole DVD, I could barely get to the 2nd level. Not because the workout was too difficult, but because I couldn't handle how off the contestants were. I like the idea of making a Biggest Loser workout DVD with former contests/winners, but they are not professionals and they don't always have the correct form and they do not stay together. The workout itself was pretty good, a good amount of cardio with some hand weights, but it wasn't really my style (I felt like it was too easy aside from all the quad work) and it really drove me crazy that the contestants were so off, which was partly because Trainer Bob wasn't really cueing them and keeping them together. Overall I used this DVD 2 or 3 times and will not do it again.

Weekly Gratitude

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I am thankful for:

• My one day off this weekend!
• The record labels that are showing interest for my husband's band!!!
• Dr. White for his great (and extremely informative) lecture tonight on the reliability of the New Testament
• My long-term assignment being extended until April 25th
• My students who gave me beautiful flowers and hand-drawn pictures :)
• Jillian Michaels and her workout DVDs!

Weekly Gratitude

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This week has flown by! I can't believe it's Friday already! I have so, so much to be thankful for!

• Thank you to my husband who has been so helpful with getting things done around the house, we've both been very busy!
• Thank you Sprouts for giving me extra hours this week.
• I am thankful for my long-term substitute assignment for the next few weeks, I have some great kiddos I get to teach!
• I am very grateful for Midnight Hour's first full-length CD finally being finished, we just got the pressed and packaged CDs last night!
• Thank you to Casey for a wonderful and easy hair tutorial!
• And a special thank you to Tatiana for her wonderful blog and wanting to get to know her readers!

I have a busy weekend ahead of me, but I'm hoping to get an outfit post finished for next week! Have a lovely weekend!