Happy Friday friends! Do you have anything awesome planned for the weekend? I'm very much looking forward to spending it with my hubby, and we have something special planned for tomorrow. More on that to come! As usual, I'm sure that I'll fit a workout or two into my weekend... and speaking of workouts, I have a good one to share with you guys today! In honor of me breaking my muscle tweak streak and not having any muscle spasms or serious aches in the last few weeks, today I'm sharing a leg & booty HIIT workout that'll definitely make you sweat. I created this routine months ago and have done it a bunch of times, but for some reason I'm just getting to sharing it now. Perhaps it's because I wanted to snap some shots of me doing the moves for some visual explanation, and ... [Read More]
Archives for July 2015
Cocoa Cherry Watermelon Smoothie
Sweet ripe cherries, how I love you so. The same goes for smoothies. While I drink them year-round since I live in SoCal where it never gets really cold, my smoothie habit has been in serious full swing since summer started. I usually drink one a day, and lately my smoothies have been extra summery. A week or two ago I bought a huge watermelon. I was eating a lot of it on its own when I was hot and sweaty from working out or being outside in the hot sun or in my simple and favorite (and super refreshing!) strawberry watermelon smoothie. But I wanted to come up a new way to enjoy watermelon. And sweet cherries. And smoothies... which led to today's recipe! A couple of months ago I went to a fitness event and ZICO was there giving out coconut water samples. In all honesty, I've never been ... [Read More]
Dating Myself as an Early Birthday Treat
Hey, hey! Hope that you had a lovely weekend. My Marine was away for training all weekend and my birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, so I decided to spend some of the weekend treating myself to early birthday fun. I've talked numerous times on the blog about the idea of dating yourself. A couple of times a year I have a total "me" day, and I've made it an annual thing in recent years to do a birthday celebration day of sorts all on my own. Let's rewind it to the beginning of the weekend, shall we? After I finished working on Friday, I went for the massage I had mentioned wanting to get in this post about recent workouts. It was only half relaxing, as the other half of the time I was wincing in pain as things were crunching and getting unknotted, but it was much needed and ... [Read More]
Throwback Thursday: Wine Baked Peaches with Vanilla Fro Yo
Hi friends! While it's rare that I publish posts on Thursdays, I'm posting one today to linkup with my friend Britt's Throwback Thursday blog party. It's 8 PM on the west coast already, but better late than never right?! Now that I've had a healthy living blog for a couple of years, I think it's fun to look back at posts I wrote 1 or 2 years ago in the same month, or even week or day. Today's throwback post is on a yummy topic: wine baked peaches! This post was originally published 2 years ago, when we were living in the San Fran Bay area down the road from a gorgeous little winery. I decided to repost this recipe because I've been eating some nectarines and peaches, and I think it's time I make some wine baked peaches for dessert! Here I baked the peaches in sweet white wine from our ... [Read More]
Photo Dump: iPhone Shots That Didn’t (Originally) Make the Cut
Hey, hey! So, I've seen other bloggers do these "behind the scenes" and photo blooper posts lately, and since I don't feel like blogging about anything that requires too much brainpower today, I figured it was the perfect time to do one myself. These photos haven't made it into blog posts (well...until now!) for one reason or another. Many of them just didn't make the cut because too much else was going on that day or week, and a few are a tad embarrassing. Here we go! When I was recently baking bread I put it outside under the hot sun to rise, and Harley would not leave it alone. She kept sniffing it and I didn't trust her alone with my rising yeast! Anyone else try this TJ's peanut butter & jelly Greek yogurt? I can't really hate on anything PB&J, and like it with sliced ... [Read More]
My Workouts Lately: Xtend Barre Encinitas, Hiking Iron Mountain & The Fit Mill {Muscle Tweaks Can’t Hold Me Down!}
Hey friends! How was your weekend? Mine was wonderful and included lots of fun with my little family! Check out Harley licking her lips at the sangria carafes I brought to a friend's on the 4th of July: I can't blame her, sangria is one of my favorite summer drinks! Today I thought it'd be fun to talk about my workouts as of late. As usual I've been super active, but lately I've had a few not so fun muscular tweaks happening. I'm thankful to be strong and healthy, but does anyone else ever feel like their body is just out of whack and giving out on them in an aches and pains kind of way?! The first tweak was a couple of weeks ago when I hurt my neck doing a Jillian Michaels' DVD that I've done a million times. It felt like a nerve pinched in my neck down through my shoulder ... [Read More]