chocolate chip cookie greek yogurt | Running the Windy City

Happy Saturday guys, are you all as excited as I am that its FINALLY the weekend? Also, thanks for everyone for leaving thoughtful comments on my last post, I know health insurance and the health industry in general can be pretty polarizing but given all of the reform being discussed and underway, I think its important to talk about.

Yesterday was a work out day of epic proportions. Not because I ran 20 miles or biked for 3 hours but because I used so many different muscles! I started the morning with a four mile run. My legs felt heavy (as they should after an increase in activity) so I decided to bring my phone, run slow, and take some pictures.

Chicago is really beautiful at 5:30 in the morning.

City shot.

I ended up running a little over an 8 min/mile but given my sore legs, the fact that I was stopping for pictures, and that many roads/pathways were closed for the NATO summit, the pace was reasonable.

When I got home, I threw on my swimsuit, grabbed my gym bag, and headed over to the gym. I know this is going to sound ridiculous but I realized yesterday that I have no idea what the length of my pool is. I’ve been thinking it was meters but typing yards on here and now I’m all confused. I’ll have to check next time I stop in! Either way, I swam 1,650 whatever and felt speedier than usual. I love feeling stronger 😀

After swimming, I walked home, dropped my gym bag off, grabbed my lunch, and biked to work. I fit in a lot of activity before 8:15 a.m!

At work, I enjoyed a breakfast of cottage cheese oats with cookie butter on top

The mix has 1/2 cup oats, 1/2 cup cottage cheese, > 1/2 cup almond milk, banana slices, strawberries, and a drizzle of maple syrup. Cottage cheese overnight oats have so much more texture than the yogurt kind, I think I’m starting to like them more too!

Lunchtime came quickly and entailed a salad of mixed greens, roasted tempeh, blackberries, walnuts, and sun-dried tomatoes with strawberry balsamic vinaigrette.

I also munched on some unpictured dried figs and peanut butter pretzels and some Annie’s gf bunnies (don’t buy these unless you want to be HOOKED!)

Dinner was leftover squid ink pasta with extra sun-dried tomatoes and some mustard kale that I heated up on the stove.

I still have another serving of squid ink pasta left, if I turn into a noodle you know why!

For dessert I tried this chocolate chip cookie greek yogurt that popped up on twitter the other day. I used 2% greek because that’s all we had and I substituted chopped speculoos chocolate for chocolate chips (we didn’t have any).

It was really good. It didn’t taste exactly like a chocolate chip cookie, but maybe a healthier version? I also had half of a mini cannoli I’ve been stealing bites from all week.

Ian and I watched a Mad Men and I got the itch to bake and made him some rice pudding (I make amazing rice pudding by the way) and then we headed out to Happy Village, a neighborhood bar about 5 miles from us to meet some friends from Michigan who have just moved to the city.

I enjoyed a Blue Moon and an Oberon (ick, I don’t like it this year!) and then like the geriatrics we are, Ian and I called it a night. Being in bed by 11:15 on a Friday night is what all the cool kids are doing now ;).

The furbaby woke me up at 7 this morning with some scratchy kisses so I got out of bed and played with him for a while. I have a bike + run on the schedule this morning before Ian and I grab brunch so I snacked on some banana bread with sunflower butter, bananas, and walnuts and a little sidecar of cereal because I knew I would never make it until noon without needing a little something.