Red Light Green Light

I was convinced I wasn’t going to make it out the door for my run this morning. I was in a total daze!! When I finally did, I realized I had forgotten my shin sleeves after traveling ~100 feet. Red Light. So I went back and tried again.

Green Light. I ran to the WaDuke trail and around it once. My body was not feeling it today so I stopped to walk a few times. I ran 4.17 miles and walked 0.6 miles (I stopped the Garmin to walk).

My hips were starting to hurt during my run, which is why I stopped. Red Light. I was just starting to feel good after mile 4, but I knew better than to keep going! I went to the gym to cool down for 15 min. on the elliptical and then streeeeeeetched and foam rolled for a good 20 min.

My muscles were SO tight. I couldn’t touch my toes and I can usually plant my entire face on my legs. After some Googling, I discovered that tightness in the lower back can cause inflammation in the hip area. Well there ya go. My lower back is aching like I’m 90 years old!!

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I made sure to ice after I got back. Check out my butt implant:

I wanted to ice my hip so I stuck some frozen peas in my shorts . Don’t worry, they’re MY green peas.

I tried taking an ice bath because my hip was in quite some pain….

…but it only works if your bath tub stopper isn’t STUCK. Major Red Light.

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Post Workout:

Green Light Smoothies.

• 1/2 banana
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 1/4 cup 2% milk
• 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
• 1 scoop Green Superfood

G-Fruit ‘n’ Strawbs

The tropical AllieBar I made last night! Green Light. It was my very first time making this flavor (or any other flavor besides the original). I was pretty happy with them considering they were the first batch. They stuck together well too!

I think in the end, I’ll use macadamia nuts but for this batch I had to use blanched almonds so I could taste them (I’m allergic to mac nuts). I wish shipping weren’t so darn expensive so I could use you all as taste testers!! I made a whole batch with nobody around to try them .

I was thinking of a name for the bars during my run. ‘Aloha AllieBar’ or ‘AlohaBar’? Or any other good suggestions!? Help!

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Shortly after, I wasn’t hungry in the least bit (don’t you hate that) but I wanted to get in some protein. I had a bowl of cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, 1/2 grapefruit and millet bread chunks.

Green Light.

After some work (okay, fine, blogging), I decided 4:40pm was too early for dinner so I started fingering my jar of sunflower seed butter …in front of the window too. It was pretty raunchy. A total Green Light.

I should get a speeding ticket for how fast I’ve gone through this jar.

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I held out until 5:30pm for dinner.

Spinach, spring mix, fresh mozz, mini peppers and a tomato.

I got this tomato from a farmstand on campus. It came from a local organic farm. Green Light.

2 slices of faux turkey for protein.

Bubblay!

And another one of these babies.

I’m gonna have a 2nd dinner later tonight since I was a total grandma today. I’m already dreaming about millet bread and cottage cheese .

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