You scream, I scream...

...We all scream for icecream!  Well the title should be we all scream for frozen yoghurt but that just wouldn't sound the same now would it?

Sitting in the lunchroom at work today one of the girls discovered a Dairy Queen icecream cake in the freezer that was forgottton about (this rarely happens at my work, food practically evaporates into thin air, banking makes us hungry - and no not just for your money and fees, hahahaa aren't you funny?)

Instead of inhaling a piece immediately i started researching ice cream cake recipes on my iphone and it didn't sound too hard to recreate, this is usually a sign of a recipe that will turn out to be a total flop but i'm putting my hopeful hat on here (in size small) that all will turn out well and BF will come home to a lovingly slaved over frozen yoghurt cake made just for him! - i'll wait while you all saw "awwwwwwww" then i'll tell you that i will tell BF that its an icecream cake in order to avoid the sad faced comment about the frozen yoghurt of "oh? really? well does it taste okay"?

To healthify the recipe a little, i will use frozen yoghurt instead of icecream - i've never been a huge icecream fan, too sugary for my taste and i've added fruit to the icecream to sneak in a little fibre, again, no way to sneak spinach into this recipe, I'll work on that next week!


NEXT DAY UPDATE:
The hopeful hat failed me, oh the shame - the result was MESSY!!!  Oh gosh friends, i have A LOT of work to do on this recipe before i share it with you - BF loved loved loved it, i totally got the fudge oreo middle right but the fruit tasted wrong, i let the frozen yoghurt get too warm before refreezing BUT i still have all the ingredients to give it another college try so stay tuned!


Sooooo instead i've made you protein pancakes as a piece offering until i master the frozen yoghurt cake!

DONNA'S PROTEIN PANCAKES

(with cinnamon and grapefruit)

Hi, i'm a photogenic grapefruit, nice to meet you - have you forgotten about the icecream  cake donna promised you yet? yes? gooood, my job here is done, i'm off to be chopped up and sprinkled on a pancake now - waaahhhh!

Ingredients
1/4 cup of egg whites (2 egg whites)
1/4 cup of fat free cottage cheese
1/2 banana mashed
1/4 cup of oatmeal
1 tsp chia seeds (optional)
1 Tbsp of ground flax (optional)
1 tsp of cinnamon (necessary, it helps fight bad breath and who doesn't need that at breakfast?) 

Directions

1. Mix egg whites, cottage cheese and banana

2. Add in oatmeal, chia seeds, ground flax and cinnamon

3. Spray pan with non stick spray 

4. Add pancake to pan over medium heat - i made one big pancake it took about 6 minutes before i started to see bubbles and flipped the pancake then another 3 minutes on the other side

5. Panic because you think pancake is burning but realize its just left overs from last nights dessert disaster that melted on the stovetop ring

6. Remove from heat, add toppings, today i went with grapefruit and cinnamon with agave nectar, my nana and grandad used to eat a grapefruit every morning, i was feeling  nostalgic!

7. Enjoy OR take it outside and photograph it long enough that it gets cold and you have to re-heat it in the microwave!

8. Share the outside pancake photos on your blog :o)

9. Then share the picture of what you suffer through to share half decent pictures of breakfast food to all my blog readers - yup thats me in my furry robe with uggs and the doodle hanging out in hopes that the pancake will be shared because not only is she cute, she is fluffy too! 

Have a great long weekend friends i'm off for a run with the doodle (and yes i shared some pancake with her, for the cinnamon benefit of course, her doggie breath stinks)

Donna xox

Ps: this was my first time taking food photos with my DLSR, a wee bit better then the iPhone pics i think, can't wait till the weather improves and i don't risk frostbite on my hoohaaaa to photograph meals 

Pouty pouty pants

I truly try to post something cute, quirky or interesting every day and if i have nothing i throw up a travel blog for fun,  Mexico and Italy are still to come!
Today will not be one of those days
My "unreasonable time" has me turning into a grouchy monster (and not the yummy green kind)
I have the honour of being graced with a migraine every 28 days and today is that day, at least i hope so because if this sticks around another day my head might start spinning all the way around
I tried to google headache clipart and found some of the lamest pics ever so here is a self portrait of miss pouty pouty pants

I edited the picture to be sepia, if only i could make the world sepia until this headache and my aversion to bright colours and light passes :o)

Hope everyone has a lovely day, the weather is a lot warmer in Ontario today and despite headache i might attempt physique 57 tonight, i need to be bikini ready in 10 days :oÞ

Donna xox

Over 7.69 bakers dozens

Yesterday was kind of a write off, i made sweet potato whole wheat gnocchi from scratch yummmm, blew of zumba due to massive headache and just vedged out with hubby and furbaby, it was much needed!

This morning i made super yummy banana protein pancakes and told hubby he was my personal trainer and had to work me hard at the gym, ummm i don't think hubby realizes i'm a girl and carrying 50 pounds up and down stairs is not something they teach in zumba!  It was so much fun working out together, we really need to do it more often and i got a great work out :o)

So the big news!!!!!!  Last night my blog reached 100 views, really? seriously? thats flipping fantastic!  I know there are bloggers out there that reach this # every half hour but this makes me proud!  (i also won't pretend i was stalking the stats tab in preparation of reaching this # and hip hip horayed out sitting on the couch distracting hubby from important iPad app hunt), so i decided i would use this celebration as a reason to talk about what blogging means to me, cue the violins here please...

What i planned this blog to be: An experiment to help with boredom mostly, but there was going to be healthy eating with a little lululemon thrown in

What this blog actually is: Healthy eating, working out, rants, lululemon, silly storys, travel blogs (they are coming promise), lululemon, recipes, rants, just a whole lot about spazzy, (yet i prefer quirky) me!

First blogs i read:  these made me want to be a B-L-O-G-G-E-R - lulumum, running with coffee, a foodie stays fit

Who knows about my blog: not too many people!  Family and hubby know about it (but he has no interest reading about Spaghetti squash after being forced to eat it), and i haven't really let anyone else in on the secret!

What I love about this blog:  it holds me accountable to how i eat and what i eat and how i exercise, plus it gives me the opportunity to share with the world how much i heart lululemon and how EVERYONE should own a pair of reverse groove pants, and just impart everyone with my special brand of sarcasm

So thanks for checking in, the whole blogging world has opened my eyes to so much from healthy whole food eating to what isn't out yet but that i'm going to HAVE to own from lulu!  I appreciate all of the blogs i read and all of you that have checked in to read my spazzy (yet quirky) posts

Donna xox

Ps: found out my work is implementing a wellness account for left over benefit credits that will pay for things like fitness magazine subscriptions, gym memberships, vitamins, yoga wear, yup you heard right, lululemon for free YAY :o)  Luckily hubbys work covers our benefits so i see a lot of Lulu in our future!

A little about me...

My name is Donna, i feel that its marginally safe to share this little tidbit, I am 31 years old and live in Ontario, Canada

I work for a large bank as a Financial Advisor and enjoy most aspects of the job though the pressure often gets to be a bit much sometimes, it pays well and supports my shopping habits!  Lately this is mostly limited to Lululemon, i am obsessed with this store!

I live with my fur baby and a wonderful man who i shall call mr. donna, he is everything to me, i went through a divorce at the ripe age of 28.99 and spent all year 29 finding myself, traveling and dating, my sister had made me promise on a flight to vegas to take one year to myself with no serious boys and 1 year 1 day later I met m.d!

I'm currently on a new healthy kick where i eat the recommended calories for the day, its something i have never tried before!  I alluded to my eating issues in my previous post, and I promise this will not be a blog full of whinging about my weight, I'm realize i'm actually quite small at around 125lbs and 5'3, but my relationship with food and dieting sucks and i'm determined to put an end to that, i'm hoping to share with you healthy recipes, cool gym class descriptions and tips and progress as i attempt to like my body (this includes my jiggly bottom)!

My plan is to share tips, tactics etc... on
Healthy Eating (and the struggle to get m.d. to do the same!)
Working out (i belong to a local gym and love the classes)
Running (its a fight to get out there in the winter but gives me an excuse to buy more of the next item)
Lululemon (did you know thursday is the day new items are uploaded to the website? I do and it still doesn't stop me shopping at the actual store every other week or so)
Photography (mostly sharing photos as i honestly only use my camera to about 25% of its ability)
Travel (i have travelblogs from my recent trips to Greece, Jamaica and Italy that i might share or this could just be me daydreaming about where to travel next)

Well, thats the plan, lets see how it goes! :o)

So this is blogging?

So, my very first post, right now i'm most concerned about picking the perfect font, pondering why every blog i look at seems to be a car dealer or devoted friend of god, and most importantly when and how to actually tell people i've started a blog, so for now this is our little secret!

My title should actually be Love, Run, Travel, Eat and Lululemon as those are my top loves and i'll be talking about them all here if i decide this is something I really want to continue but more about me in a bit

I started following a few blogs recently and i had a lightbulbabovethehead moment last week and decided to finally start taking care of my body in regards to food as i've pretty much abused it for the last 10 years
Confession: I haven't stepped on a scale in almost 2 years now in order to avoid the scariness that was probably an eating disorder (my goodness this blog thing has me sharing things i don't normally say out loud already!)

I have blogged before but always in the form of travelblogs on facebook for my friends and family to follow me on my crazy travel adventures so i thought maybe just maybe i'd give a few random people the chance to read my every day ramblings not just my "oh holy crap i'm stuck on an italian train without a ticket" posts

So thats my intro, i'll be back with an all about me post once I figure out some other things to actually say :o)