Giving Back Giveaway!

I won my first giveaway last week (the week before?) from the blog Pursuing Balance. So, I want to give back to my readers and do the same! I've put together a Give Back Giveaway containing some of my all-time FAVORITE "health food" products, including:

USDA Organic Zola Acai Berry Juice

VitaTops -- Triple Chocolate Chunk and Fudgy Peanut Butter Cup

Southaven Farms -- Chocolate Baking Mix

Nutridel Oatmeal Cookie

2 PureVia samples

2 Truvia samples

Yogi Energy Green Tea 

 

 

In order to receive ONE entry the giveaway drawing simply post a comment below!

For a SECOND giveaway entry, post a link back to this post in your own blog and leave a second comment making me aware of your post. Plus, I probably want to follow your blog, too!

And for a THIRD entry, Tweet or Facebook post a link back to this blog post and include a comment below so that I'm sure to enter your name again!

The winner of the giveaway will be randomly selected on 

Friday, November 6th at 6pm Central Time. Good luck and thanks for your support!!

No gym, no workout? Psh!

It was an absolutely gorgeous day in Oklahoma yesterday – 72 and sunny! I was looking for something new to do for exercise to get a break from running…so, I headed to the local high school football stadium. Let’s just say, I kicked my own butt!

I started my workout with stadium stairs…running…up and down, up and down. And let’s just say high school football in the south is a big thing, so this is no small stadium stair feat. I next moved on to suicides. While I’ve done suicides on hockey rinks, the football field is a whole new beast (I later calculated that the football suicide is 0.625 miles!). After my suicide, I moved on to crunches and a pyramid of push-ups (10..rest..9..rest…8…rest…you get it). Water break and repeat.

Today, my calves feel like bricks. Luckily, my home nor work place require me to go down stairs…but I’m sure that would be far from pleasant as walking is painful enough. Let’s just say that 1) working out sans a gym is completely possible, 2) workouts outside a gym can be more difficult than workouts inside the gym, and 3) when you can FEEL lactic acid building in your muscles as you perform your workout, chances are you’re gunna be sore and you’re getting one CHALLENGING workout.

This morning I copied the breakfast of Meredith, writer of Pursuing Balance, and added fresh MANGO (mmm!) to my steel cut oats! I used a packet of PureVia and a sprinkle of cinnamon. 

It was VERY good! Though, I have to say, I’m not convinced that steel cut oats increase satiety. While I did have an early breakfast (6am), I was hungry by 10:30am…at which time I had…

…a Pumpkin Muffin I made last night with Southaven Farms’ Ginger Spice mix. They are sooo good, and SUPER easy! Don’t they look delicious?!

And I had my little helper for dish duty...

And on a random note, the Natural Twist Zevia is officially my favorite flavor. It has a bit of a citrus bitterness to it that I just love. Mmm!

P.S. Vita Top Promo! Get 6 FREE Deep Chocolate Vita Tops with the purchase of a 24-pack of Vitas. Enter coupon code EFBYY7Q9 at checkout to take advantage! Yumm! I LOVE Vita Tops!