Happy National Trail Mix Day! Since September begins tomorrow—and the first day of fall is in 3 short weeks—I wanted to celebrate this “holiday” with a fall-inspired trail mix recipe of sorts. (I guess you could say I’m ready to let go of this ridiculously hot summer.) I’m calling it “Harvest Trail Mix” because it…
Archives for August 2015
10 Ways to Make Your House Feel Like a Home
About 9 months ago, Matt and I moved from his tiny apartment into a house that offered us more space (and freedom from the cat-calling parakeet across the way, but let’s not get into that right now). Ever since then, we’ve been very slowly making it feel like our home by incorporating a variety of…
A Few of My Favorite Things
Woohoo! Happy Hump Day! Speaking of humps, I’m three days into my 30-day booty challenge! Feel free to join me as I get farther into it and achieve bootylicious status [insert Destiny’s Child music]. And before you get to this past week’s favorites, I’m throwing some positivity at your face: Happiness tends to come out…
Chocolate Coconut Protein Bars
In honor of the fifth goal on my wedding fitness plan—be smarter about snacking—I decided to attempt making protein bars yesterday. I’m pretty pumped because after messing around with a recipe for a bit, I came up with the perfect combination of ingredients. I whipped up these Chocolate Coconut Protein Bars with the help of…
30-Day Booty Challenge
As I’m getting my body back into shape to hopefully be able to run again without knee/IT band pain, I’m focusing on a few muscle groups specifically–like my glutes, hamstrings, and quads. I feel pretty confident that I have some muscle imbalances that are hurting my psuedo-injury recovery, so I’m trying to step up my…
Get Low Circuit + My Favorite Things
It’s been awhile since I shared a workout on here. This may have something to do with me not working out consistently in quite awhile, but that’s beside the point… So I’m happy to be sharing a fresh new circuit workout as part of today’s list of favorites. I did this a couple days ago,…
Strawberry Chocolate Muffins with Greek Yogurt
I’ve been on a muffin kick lately. This is the third week in a row I’ve made them. First, it was my Greek Yogurt Banana Bread in muffin form. Then I made the Banana Bran Muffins I shared recently. Yesterday, I made a new recipe that I’ve been wanting to try for months—muffins filled with strawberries,…
Friday Five: Running Tips
Happiest of Fridays to you all! I’m mixing things up today and participating in a linkup hosted by Mar, Courtney, and Cynthia. Their theme for this week’s “Friday Five” is running tips, which I thought was fun because I’m weird and like running (most of the time). When people ask me for tips on running,…
My Favorite Things
I’ve been really into motivational quotes lately. Usually, I favor fitness quotes to help me get my butt into gear, but as of recently, I am all about general life-related quotes. They’re especially inspiring when you’re in a funk and need some positive words to think about and reflect upon. After finding a bunch of…
3-Year Blogging Anniversary
And just like that…I’ve reached the three-year mark of blogging. I’ve shared some posts I’m really proud of…and others I’m a little tempted to delete because they’re so bad. Regardless of how I feel about them, I’ve published a total of 516 posts, and that my friends, is a lot of time spent talking about…
Banana Bran Muffins
Since most of the baked goods I make are dessert (not sorry), I figured it was time to branch out and make something more nutritious. I’m talking muffins today, people—banana bread-inspired, bran-filled muffins. Why bran? Because it’s full of fiber, protein, minerals, and phytonutrients. I think I’m an old person at heart because I really…
A Few of My Favorite Things
I’ve decided I need to up my lunch game. About 75% of the time, the lunches I pre-make for work are extremely blah sandwiches—and it is the most disappointing midday break ever. In an effort to actually want to eat lunch, I am shunning boring lunches because I can’t handle them anymore. Plus, since I’m…
Banana Walnut Overnight Oats with Cacao Nibs
For the longest time, I’ve been wanting to try this “overnight oats” business. After stumbling across numerous recipes online lately, I finally took 5 minutes out of my time to try it. If you don’t know, the concoction known as overnight oats (or refrigerator oatmeal) is just a mixture of oats, yogurt and/or milk, and…
