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February goals

It’s a comin’! The snow’s a comin’! 😯   I knew I would have a chance to get in my lifting workout before it really hit. It was just starting to get a little sloppy out when I left the house this morning.

Exercise Set/rep/weight Muscle worked
Lying Leg Press 3 sets of 10 at 100# Lower Body
Underhand Grip Lat Pull down 3 sets of 8 at 60# Back
Horizontal Wood Chop 3 sets of 10 at 30# Core
Incline Barbell Bench Press 3 sets of 10 at 45# Chest
Barbell Deadlift to Row 3 sets of 8 at 65# Full Body
Front Raise 3 sets of 10 with 8# DBs (16# total) Shoulders
Calf Raise 3 sets of 10 at 140# Calves
Low Back extension 3 sets of 10 at 100# Low back

Lots of people with my idea of getting in a workout today to be able to stay home tomorrow.  Then I jetted home to make some brekkie! I did the peanut flour waffles today. I modified the recipe from 1/3 cup of cottage cheese down to 1/4 and had no waffle runoff today! I will amend the recipe page with this.

Looks like this is just floating there.  Introducing the new Hover Waffle!  I topped with blueberry sauce, but I think that the banana or apple topping suits the flavor of this waffle much better. Note to self.

A nice full morning of work and then a break for lunch.  It’s a little cold for a salad, but I wanted to use up the rest of the salad mix so it didn’t go to waste.

Yesterday I wrapped up January, so today I plan the rest of February!

February goals:

1. Continue with weight loss efforts.  I weighed myself once for the month of January.  I think I will up that to once a week for February.

2.  Experiment with some eating protocols. Just for fun.  I might try doing a couple low carb days just to see what they are like.  Or more likely paleo/primal type eating.

3. Be more productive with my down time.  Down time is great, but I don’t need to spend it all on the computer or playing games.  That means reading more books, going out for events, etc.

4. Do more recipe cooking and not just meal assembly.

5.  Clean the house for 15 minutes each day a la Fly Lady.

I feel like my goals right now are a little more low key until things start to ramp up in spring with more outdoor stuff to do and I have something to train for.

Latte time.  My raw honey drizzle matched Pixie, so I thought I would coordinate her with my drink.

What’s Pixie thinking here:

a.  Stop touching me.

b. What the hell is that?

c. You woke me up for this?

Today went by really fast, I have to say.  Dinner was an egg sammie with laughing cow and hot sauce.

I had an Arnold sandwich thin as the bun. I have to thank Arnold for changing up their sucralose thins and now using stevia instead.  I can eat these again!

I need to scrounge up a snack for tonight.  Snow storm #1 done.  Now to hunker down for the biggun’.  And do my 15 minutes of cleaning 😀

Recipe: Peanut Flour Waffles

So we have been playing with the Peanut Flour a bit around here.

The next stop?  Making protein waffles with them!  Normally, my protein waffles have an egg, cottage cheese, and oats as their base.   I had the brilliant (if I may say so) idea of replacing the oats with peanut flour!

Very few ingredients, which is always good for breakfast.

While the waffle iron heated up, I put the following into my bullet blender cup:

  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup of peanut flour
  • a lot of cinnamon 😉
  • 1/3 cup of cottage cheese (1%)
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder

If you want a sweeter waffle, add a sweetener of your choice, keeping in mind that I am used to unsweetened stuff.  Then I put on the blade and turned on the Magic Bullet Blender.  We have had this thing for probably 6 years now!

You can use a hand blender, mini food processor, or immersion blender.  You just need the batter smooth.

I then poured this into the waffle iron and let cook.  I did have a bit of waffle runoff, so keep that in mind.  Maybe a smaller egg or a little less cottage cheese would prevent that.

Voila!  Gluten free waffles.

These are topped with a banana that has been mashed with 1 tbsp of real maple syrup and warmed in the microwave.

The waffles came out fluffy and tender.  They didn’t stay real crisp, although they came out of the iron crispy.  The taste was good as well, and not super peanuty, which I thought they would be because the raw batter had a really strong peanut taste to it (yes, I ate raw batter with an egg).  They also smelled absolutely divine while cooking!

Stats for the waffles without topping:

This makes one batch of waffles for your iron, which is 4 squares, or 1 giant circle as mine does 😀

240 calories

9.5 g of fat

12.5 g of carbs

4 g of fiber

31.5 g of protein!!

The banana/maple topping adds about 140 calories to this depending on the size of the banana.

Another option for these is to use them as bread for sandwiches.  If you don’t sweeten them, they are perfect for savory dishes.

Enjoy!