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Homemade Protein Bars

Homemade protein bars
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5 TBLSP natural peanut butter (crunchy or creamy)
1/2 cup oats
1/2 cup oat flour (if you don't have oat flour, use another
1/2 cup of oats)
6 scoops chocolate whey protein
1 tsp vanilla
2 TBSP flax seeds (optional)
1 cup non fat dry milk
1/2 cup water (you may need more water depending on whey protein)

Mix together dry ingredients. Add peanut butter and mix. It will be crumbly. Add water and vanilla. (Use a spatula sprayed with non stick spray) and mix completely (dough may be very sticky). Put in a greased 8x8 pan and either refridgerate or freeze until hardened. Cut into 9 squares. Wrap individually and take with you.

Nutrition per square:
Calories: 197
protein:21
fat:7
carbs:13.7
fiber:1.6

Just to let you know....

I plan on posting about my weekend run/xtraining when I get home tonight. I FINALLY got to use my GARMIN! 'bout time! So naturally I'll have to post pictures from that. Which, i have on the home computer.

Stay tuned....

Not a Great Start....

WoW. Day 2 of our training and I've already messed up. Yesterday was suppose to be our long run; we didn't run. Heck, we didn't walk, we didn't do anything. Upon waking up I noticed my eye was feeling kinda funky. so I checked it out and it was just about swollen shut - gross. So Boz gave me a Benadryl and it knocked me out for another couple hours.

Woke up and had 2 hours before we had to be at Aunt Karen's for the Murphy Christmas party.

After the party we put up the garland, big red bows and white lights on the porch. Neither of us were feeling that great so we watched a movie and went right to bed.

Have no fear, we WILL run tonight. We already discussed that this morning. Its in the 40s today so this evenings run should be very nice assuming there's no rain ;o). Another motivator to getting us out there - we want to try out our new Garmin!!! Of course it arrived when it was 4* outside every day of the week. LOL!

Changes

Afternoon Fellow Runners!!

Guess What!? There's been a change in plans.... marathon training starts next week!!!! Woo-Hoo!! Who's excited?? Who's nervous?? Who's a little of both!? :o)

I'll post the NEW training schedule that we'll be following. I think it fits us more with only having us run 3 times a week. Easier to fit in. Plus we'll have longer.

Let me know what you guys think of it. Also, you know what this means, right?? Being more diligent at posting here on our blog. :~D

Hello Runnerss!

It's now 9:50pm; I'm laying on my couch, ice packs on knees and watching Law & Order: CI. Great show by the way, not nearly at great as SVU... but whatever.

Anywho. i ran a mile tonight - little over 13 minutes. Oh well. Can't all be great, right? i was still happy. I did some arm exercises with my sexy 5lb weights. After that i did about 25 minutes worth of physical therapy. That consisted of..... well... all sorts of stuff - squat jumpy things (I'm great at explaining, huh!?), resistance band w/o and a step thing. Yeah, I'm awful at explaining. OH CRAP! Just remembered i forgot to stretch. Dang it. I'm really trying to be better at that. I never really thought it was all that important. There've been MANY discussions on that; as to whether stretching is good or not. I'm personally still not totally sold on it, but it was suggested that I do it by my PT woman, so I am.

What are your opinions on stretching?

Boz is at his volleyball league tonight. So i guess that'll be his workout for the evening. He's quite the active guy. Not only does he coach, he's also on a volleyball league, basketball league as well as a softball league.

Lovely. I've managed to give myself a slight case of frostbite.

Don't let this happen to you!