Leg Day Workout 2

Happy leg day all!

Like I said I've been working on different at-home weight workouts and last week I posted my first leg day workout. This week I tried another workout and loved it too! 

Here's what I did: 

3x15 sumo squats

3x15 reverse lunges

3x15 single leg dead lifts (30 reps per leg)

3x15 step-ups

100 walking lunges (40, 30, 30)

4x15 single leg calf raise (30 reps per leg)

Pineapple & Snap Pea Salad

I first feel obligated to warn you that the following ingredient you will find in this post is highly, highly addictive: toasted oat flakes.

I know, I know they may not sound remotely appetizing let alone addictive but that's where they get you. Seriously my coworker just got a box because I recommended them and she yelled at me this morning because she ate half the box overnight. Well, she didn't actually yell but she now knows firsthand why I can't keep them in the house that often.

On the rare chance that I do have them I will literally try adding them to whatever dish I can. For the future I'm thinking of a toasted flake crusted chicken like you can do with cornflakes. But in this case I substituted them as croutons on my salad.

This salad had:
1/2 cup diced pinapple
1/2 cup snap peas, cut in half
1 dried apricot, diced
2 cups mixed greens
1 cup arugula
3-4 mini heirloom tomatoes, halved
2 tbsp raspberry vinaigrette
1/4 cup toasted oatmeal flakes
3 egg whites

You might think that having dry cereal on your salad might be weird but trust me it works! The flakes give it the right amount of crunch just as a crouton would but they're much healthier for you. 

If you don't believe me try it out for yourself but be warned: you'll find it hard to stop eating those flakes!

Impromptu Parfait

Okay two very important things: 

1. it's Friday

2. I made a wonderful discovery at work the other morning

I have a greek yogurt every mid-morning as a snack to hold me over between breakfast and lunch. I don't think my coworkers would appreciate me getting hangry so it's crucial that I don't skip my snack. Same thing goes for in the afternoon but let's not get off track. 

It's normal for me to keep healthy foods around the office to keep me on track but a thought occurred to me as I realized what I had on hand: greek yogurt, an apple, and a granola bar. It slowly dawned on me what I could create and make my usual snack 15,000,000% better. 

I don't know why this hasn't occurred to me before but even though I've got packing my lunch down to a science, often times I can be bad at pre-planning what I want to keep at the office. What I do have in my office is usually the result of forgetting to bring stuff home, packing extra, or is something that I like but my coworkers didn't and gave to me. It's a random jumble but I want to get better at keeping stuff here. That may or may not happen but I'm going to try! 

So what I did was chop up my apple, add it to my yogurt, and take a piece of the granola bar and crumble it up on top. I saved a lot of it because I had big plans for it for the next couple days. 

My parfait had: 

6 oz plain greek yogurt (with stevia to sweeten it) but you could also use vanilla yogurt

1 small fuji apple

1/2 of Nature Valley granola bar

It was a total of 200 calories for the whole thing plus being loaded with protein from the greek yogurt and granola bar. Like I said I only used a half of one of the granola bar (one pack has 2 bars) but it gave the perfect amount of crunch! 

I didn't have an apple the next day but I still took the other half and added it to my yogurt that morning! I still have the second granola bar from the pack so I'll see what else I can use it for. 

What's something good you've made last minute?!