It’s cold in Montreal. Winter-like to those of us who get cold easily. What better time to make some chili? I found a recipe for vegetarian chili last week on the Whole Foods website. Recipe here. I had most of the ingredients but happened to run out of lentils. I bought more and it was chili time! As usual, I adapted the recipe to suit my needs. I had some vegetables that needed to be used as well as different spices that I wanted to use. Here is my version: Vegetarian Lenti

Today was an extremely productive day. Bootcamp in the morning followed by groceries, cooking, baking and the delivery of the food I made. Bootcamp was quite ridiculous! 5 rounds of: 6 power snatches (25lbs) 12 step ups holding 15lb kettle bells in each hand 18 burpees I completed it in 15:53 which was pretty good. I know it would’ve taken longer had I gone higher in weight but I was taking care not to aggravate my left arm – I had a blood test yesterday which left it sore. A

I tasted horse meat for the first time last night! It is super lean and high in protein. After cooking it and mixing it with quinoa and vegetables if I didn’t know it was horse I never would have guessed that’s what it was. Aside from that – My boyfriend and I had the quinoa squares for breakfast this morning. As I suspected they tasted amazing warmed up in the toaster oven, sprinkled with extra cinnamon and a bit of almond butter on top. On the agenda at some point during th

Today was a long day. I was up since 6am (after going to bed after 2am) and was out of the house from 8am until about 2pm. Tired is an understatement.... Even so, I decided to take a stab at the Cinnamon Quinoa Bake I mentioned a few days ago. It's a very simple recipe and I had all the ingredients in the house. Note..... TEAspoon and TABLEspoon are DIFFERENT!!!!!!!!!! Mine came out a bit bland because I mistakenly put one teaspoon of cinnamon instead of one tablespoon. I fig

I got the urge to bake last night. I knew I still had flour, baking powder and sugar along with chocolate chips in the fridge. I did some research and found a simple, easy, relatively healthy (compared to many others) recipe. So, today I decided to bake. This is a link to the recipe. I did change it up a bit because I despise bananas and only had spelt flour on hand. I also followed a tip from the comments below the original recipe that said to mix all of the wet ingredients

Well today was long. By the end of work I was contemplating skipping out on my workout and just relaxing at home. I was sore from yesterday's class (as predicted) and my left arm is sore from a shot this morning. Something I've learned over time is that when you are doubting a work out you should do it anyway. I mean if you are really in a lot of pain, all you have to do is tell the trainer and they will adapt the work out for you. Or, if you're really just being a baby, you'

Went to a bootcamp class this evening (of course!) and am sufficiently worked out. I have a feeling I will be extremely sore by the end of the workday tomorrow. That will be just in time for another class! The Workout Of The Day (WOD for those familiar) was weight-filled and challenging. Every class starts out with a warm up. 2 rounds of: 400 m run (2 laps around the parking lot of the location I attend) 10 pull ups, 10 push ups, 10 sit ups, 10 squats Today's WOD was: As many

I guess I should provide a little more background on how I came to be so focused on being fit and eating healthy foods. About two years ago I was towards the end of a 4 year relationship with a guy that ate a lot of junk food. I tried to eat as well as I could but when the groceries are done every couple of weeks in rotation (him one time, me the next) it's hard to control what goes in that grocery cart. And, of course, there is that little dilemma of "hey, I'm not eating a l

Hi everyone! My name is Mitzi and I am new to blogging. This is something I decided to do on a whim and am curious to see where it will go. The focus of this blog is on my quest for being healthy, fit, and more comfortable in my skin/body. I have my struggles. Don't we all? It's quite hard to be "good" ALL THE TIME. On this blog I will recap my workouts (what it was, my time, etc), share my favorite recipes, new recipes that I am trying, and - of course - pictures! xoxo Mitzf