Guilt-free by Association
Daniel and I are sincerely trying to do better in our working out/eating healthy regimen. The eating part isn't bad, we cook most of our own meals out of nice, fresh, healthy ingredients and typically shun most foods that come pre-packaged. We always buy lots of nice fruits and vegetables from the produce mart and we've recently been buying and eating tofu several times weekly between our regimen of silken tofu smoothies and extra-firm tofu stir-fries.
Its just the gym that's the hard part. Ever since the new year hit, our gym attendance has plummeted. We've been gym buddies since I moved in last August, I think it might have been the same day we began moving my things that we marched into the gym and signed up for a partner membership. We like to go together and motivate each other. Or enable ourselves to sit on the couch and whine about how we are tired as the case may be. I just don't understand how we could have gone from 4 gym visits a week back in August to now, March, when we need the exercise the most and we are barely making twice a week. I think its the weather. Its so hard to motivate when it is freezing cold out and gets dark so early. Its not as bad as December but still! We are trying to make it back up to three times a week as well as one yoga class (so four exercise days total) but its proving really hard.
To compensate ourselves for actually peeling our lazy butts off the couch and working out tonight, I made guilt-free brownies from MS Everyday Food Issue 19*. They are guilt free because of a reduction in the amount of eggs and butter and the addition of some surreptitious prune paste.
These were spot on, oozy and fudgy and rich, I swear you would never know the difference.
Despite our failed gym goals, Daniel did finally put up some hooks by the door for the dogs' leashes and harnesses. I had been asking for them for quite some time and we finally dragged out the toolbox over the weekend, discovered that we did in fact have molly bolts, whipped out the electric drill and put these up. I love utilitarian things that hold other things on the wall.
*Can you tell I love this magazine? I'll have to give you my whole Everyday Food spiel about uni-taste some time soon but we tend to make an average of one recipe from here a week.
Its just the gym that's the hard part. Ever since the new year hit, our gym attendance has plummeted. We've been gym buddies since I moved in last August, I think it might have been the same day we began moving my things that we marched into the gym and signed up for a partner membership. We like to go together and motivate each other. Or enable ourselves to sit on the couch and whine about how we are tired as the case may be. I just don't understand how we could have gone from 4 gym visits a week back in August to now, March, when we need the exercise the most and we are barely making twice a week. I think its the weather. Its so hard to motivate when it is freezing cold out and gets dark so early. Its not as bad as December but still! We are trying to make it back up to three times a week as well as one yoga class (so four exercise days total) but its proving really hard.
To compensate ourselves for actually peeling our lazy butts off the couch and working out tonight, I made guilt-free brownies from MS Everyday Food Issue 19*. They are guilt free because of a reduction in the amount of eggs and butter and the addition of some surreptitious prune paste.
These were spot on, oozy and fudgy and rich, I swear you would never know the difference.
Despite our failed gym goals, Daniel did finally put up some hooks by the door for the dogs' leashes and harnesses. I had been asking for them for quite some time and we finally dragged out the toolbox over the weekend, discovered that we did in fact have molly bolts, whipped out the electric drill and put these up. I love utilitarian things that hold other things on the wall.
*Can you tell I love this magazine? I'll have to give you my whole Everyday Food spiel about uni-taste some time soon but we tend to make an average of one recipe from here a week.
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