Hey! Hey!
It has been an insane week! Tuesday I worked until after 9 and Wednesday until after 10 and was heading back into the office before 6:30! Needless to say by Thursday afternoon I was exhausted. My mornings have consisted of overnight oats and lots and lots of coffee!
Even though I have been working a lot, this week was actually one of the best weeks of the last four months. A couple of decisions we have been waiting for came through this week and things are finally starting to come together. By Friday morning I finally felt like the tons and tons of weight I’ve been carrying on my shoulders for the past 3-4 months was lifted and it has gone a long way to making me feel like me again! 
Tuesday, the day before all the good things started to come together, I did Petra Kolber’s Elegant Strength dvd and a short segment of Tracey Staehle’s yoga dvd. It was a nice way to get back into the fitness aspect of life. I did not have time/energy to do anything else all week. I think I need to find some yoga gloves or something because my hands slid all over the place and I always feel like I could hold poses longer if my palms weren’t sweaty and not cooperating. I used some strength training gloves for a bit, but my fingers tend to swell when I am working out (it’s hereditary) and it wasn’t too comfortable, although I was able to hold poses for a bit longer.
I have discovered my all time favorite overnight oats concoction. When I was growing up my mom used to buy the Quaker Oats instant oatmeal variety packs and one of the packs was the raisin and walnut pack. It was never my favorites, I prefered the brown sugar or the cream and fruity ones, but I recreated it in overnight oats and I am in love!
Raison and Walnut Overnight Oats
1/3 c of quick steel cut oats (I use Trader Joe’s)
1 tsp of cocoa
1 tsp of flaxseed
1 tbsp of chia seeds
2 tbsp of crushed walnuts
2 tbsp of raisins
cinnamon (to taste)
vanilla extract (to taste)
agave nectar (to taste)
almond milk (enough to make it soupy)
- combine dry ingredients and mix well
- add wet ingredients adding almond milk last (make sure it is soupy as the dry ingredients will absorb the almond milk overnight and it will stiffen up considerably.)
- stir well
- cover and put in fridge before you go to bed
- wake up and ENJOY!
Here is the finished product:
and I, of course, had coffee.
I suppose you could also add some nut butter, but I prefer it without nut butter and added an extra tbps of walnuts and raisins because I didnt’ have the extra calories of a tbsp of nut butter.
This will most likely be my breakfast until at least the New Year.
I’m not quite sure what today will hold. Probably a workout, some cleaning, some grocery shopping and maybe some reading. We shall see!
Make it a great one!
