Lie to Me

Does anyone out there watch this program?  The season premier is tonight and I am watching, blogging and cuddling (of course, with my girl Bella).    Please ignore the sweaty grossness that is me.  I just finished a 90 minute game of Ultimate Frisbee and we had no female subs.  But, Bella is the cutest isn't she?  She loves herself a good cuddle.

Tim Roth is great as Dr. Lightman.  If you haven't watched the show it focuses around the Lightman Group who are a group of professionals trained to "read" faces.  They can tell when people are lying, scared, happy and sad.  While the program is fiction it is loosely based on the science of reading facial micrexpressions and pioneered by Paul Ekman.  I find this kind of science fascinating.  Imagine, one eyebrow twitch or a grimace of the upper lip and you can tell exactly what a person is thinking.

Speaking of lying there has been a huge flurry of activity in the health and wellness blogsphere today because of this article in Marie Claire by Katie Drummond.  I am brand new to this whole blogging thing but I am sure that uninspired and thoughtless articles like this are nothing more than an outlet for an author who, unable to fine any real dirt on these inspiring women so she had to make it up.  Sure, I have no doubt that the quotes were accurate but it sounds like they were taken totally out of context.  To imply that blogs such as these promote or encourage disordered eating is laughable.  I am in awe at how MUCH most of these women eat (and drink!!  lol).  Katie Drummond is not a journalist and I hope subscriptions and readership of their magazine plummets.  I never really like there magazine much to begin with but you can be certain I won't be buying it ever again and I will let all of my girlfriends know about the lack of ethics at this tabloid.  

Do you have any thoughts on this kind of issue?  Leave a comment and let me know.

Moving on.  My eats were boring today and not photo worthy.  Oats, quinoa with greek yogurt and kiwi fruit, chicken, broccoli, pork loin, a Larabar (peanut butter of course) and a few scrambled eggs.  Not necessarily in that order. 

I had a good workout at the gym this morning before work.  A full body circuit, as follows:

12 - 15 reps per exercise, I did the circuit twice this morning:
5 minute warm up on the elliptical
Jump squats
Squats
Push Ups
Bent Over Rows 20lbs
Shoulder Press 15lbs
Wall Sit with Bicep Curl 10lbs
Triceps Kickback 10lbs
Walking Lunges
Front/Side Lateral Raises 8lbs (but have a slight rotator cuff injury and had to skip the front raises after a few reps)
Seated Row 45 lbs
Swiss Ball Hamstring Curl

This is a new routine for me and even though it looks pretty basic it was good.  Tomorrow is leg day...boo!

Oats and Dumbbells and Brittany...oh my!

My day started out with a steaming bowl of oats.  But not just any old oats, steel cut oats.  I recently purchased a rice cooker and have been using it frequently for morning oats.  I go to the gym in the morning before work so time is of the essence.  But, I am not willing to give up a hearty breakfast in the interest of time.  Rice cooker oats to the rescue.  My rice cooker has a delay timer so I can set the oats to be perfectly done the moment I make it down to the kitchen.  Perfect! 

Today's Oataliciousness:
1/2 cup steel cut oats
1 cup water
1 cup almond milk

Once the oats were prepared I added:
1 tsp peanut butter
1 tsp agave nectar
2 tsp chia seeds
splash of milk

It was creamy, chewy, nutty heaven in a bowl.  I washed it all down with a half a glass of milk.

As I mentioned, I like to get my workout out of the way first thing in the morning.  I have learned that if I wait until the evening I can easily talk myself out of it.  I have started using the gym in my office building on my lunch hour a few days a week.  But this is usually a bonus workout or the result of not enough sleep and taking the extra hour in the morning. 

Right now, my workout consists of a 4 day split plus 3 cardio sessions.  Truth be told, I hate cardio.  I would rather lift heavy weights any day instead of running or ellipticalling.  Cardio is easily my downfall and I struggle every week to get in my cardio sessions. 

Today's workout:  Back and Biceps
Lat Pull downs 4 set, 6 reps 70lbs
One Arm Dumbbell Row 4 sets, 15 reps 20 lbs
Barbell Curl 4 sets, 6 reps 40 lbs
Preacher Curls 4 sets, 10 - 12 reps 20 lbs

I am liking this split because it combines heavy weights and low reps with lighter weights with more reps.  It is a good balance I think and I am enjoying it so far.

I must confess...time for Glee...Brittney's on.  Gotta go!