Overnight Oatmeal and Fruit 'Ice Cream'

I will first begin by saying, I need to figure out how to add pictures. ;)

Thought for sure I would need to go to the walk-in clinic today for a sinus infection or strep or something that needed help sorting itself out, but by some miracle, after downing some Benylin (if that was what it was, it was 2 am and I was desperate) my symptoms began to turn around and I slept! I woke up feeling darn near human.    ((Sidebar: I do not take cold medicine well, it tastes so terrible and I nearly vomit as it hits my mouth.  I have to plug my nose for 5 minutes after to keep it in there... blech!! So I avoid at all costs))

The night before I had made some 'overnight oatmeal' with some wheat free steel cut oats. I tried to follow a 'chai' flavoured version but halfway through I realized I lacked half the spices. Oh well!
It did the job.  I made hubby his own version using different stuff, went for a chocolate peanut butter flavour.  Will report how his was whenever he eats it.

Recipe:
1/2 C steel cut oats
1/2 C Greek yogurt vanilla
1/2 C Cashew milk (this is a new thing, I quite like it!! May become my go to over almond, soy and coconut)
and then I just freehanded cinnamon, nutmeg (too much), maple syrup, and some copped pecans for fun.
Let sit overnight.

Now maybe cashew milk doesn't absorb so well, or maybe I did something wrong, but my oats were still rather chewy.  I ended up warming up my jar and it was much, much better!  2 more jars for 2 more days waiting for me.


And since I didn't get my LSD yesterday I did 5 km on Miller today.  I was granted this due to the children starting school today!!!!! Oh it was wonderful to not worry about anyone "Mom-ing" me.  I read.  I am getting better at reading on the mill and it keeps me more entertained then music.  My form stays better, I am paying less attention to the time etc.  I would watch TV or movies but the iPad doesn't get very good wifi down in the dungeon. (It is a very nice dungeon though).  Hoping to get half an hour on the spinbike after kids to go bed but I don't know.  I should sleep early tonight again and kick this cold.

And then we had a nice heart meal, roast, I love roast.  And followed it with 'fruit ice cream'.  Frozen fruit pulverized by the vitamix into a soft serve type substance.  Call it whatever but if I call it 'ice cream' the children will eat it.  I added spinach.  They did not notice.  Mom 1 Kids 0.

Tomorrow: keep my snacks small, my meals properly portioned, drink MORE water, get a weight session in of any kind and hopefully some spin. And run. Because I am streaking? Right.

To Streak or Not to Streak

Today was a successful calorie count!! Do I feel hungry? Yes! Does a person always feel hungry for the first few days when they stop stuffing themselves silly? YES! So I'm good, basically.

I pretty much sat on my tuckus all day today. There may or may not be a cold creeping into my throat/nose. I will go with not. It shall be gone tomorrow. Be Gone!

And then just before I went to retrieve my little people from their visit I wavered in the hall. There was a voice in me. "You could just hop on the treadmill.... Slog along for a mile at barely more than a walk... And it would count as a streak day if you wanted to..." so I chose the running shoes, turned on the Garmin to at least track my time, you know, as proof, and schlumped a mile.

It is supposed to possibly briefly snow tonight. Maybe the only snow of the season by the looks. It's been saying snow for hours and the flakes have yet to appear. But if they do, I have 16 km tomorrow that would be wonderful to run with snow falling. Plus playing with my kids before and after. Yes I am that mom at 6 am, waking them up because I am excited to play in the snow. No, it doesn't get old for me.

Out.