P90x Day 7 + healthy homemade tacos

P90x first week down!

Day 7 review

Instead of just taking the day off or skipping this stretch day (since I am behind 1 day of a workout) I did the X Stretch DVD because my muscles were feeling tight and my calves felt in need of stretches a la downward dog.

Food intake

As I mentioned previously, I only recently tasted cottage cheese and I love it! Since it is high in protein and I usually eat a lot of cheese I figured this could be my new go-to high-carb. As such I need to get on the hunt for recipes that call for it. So, I figured it might be a good replacement for sour cream--not because of the taste but because it actually looks like a good replacement.

Since I figured tacos would not make it into my clean eating lifestyle switch I had not picked up anything at the supermarket with tacos in mind.

[Enter the pantry and refrigerator raiding]

I found:

• Cottage cheese
• Cilantro
• Spinach
• Scallions
• Garlic powder
• Ground turkey (left-over from a meal where I seasoned it with Mrs. Dash garlic & herbs and yellow and white onions.)
• Corn
• Tabasco sauce
• Cherry tomatoes
• Red onion
• and:

I wanted a hard shell taco instead of a burrito-esque meal so I preheated my Breville conventional oven at 375F. Next, I cut up my veggies and since I wanted the look of guacamole I blended some cottage cheese, spinach, scallions, cilantro and garlic powder.

Then I wet two paper towels and wrapped a tortilla in it, to provide a steam effect once heated in the microwave and to prevent hardening from the microwave. I heated this for 35 seconds.

By the time my tortilla was done from the microwave my oven was successfully pre-heated. So, I placed the tortilla on the rack and heated it for 9 minutes.

I was famished so I did not have time to take a picture of the end result!  

P90x Day 6 + vanilla flavored protein pancakes with peanut butter & cinnamon

P90x Day 6 of 90: Kenpo!

My calves are still burning from Legs & Back! I did not think the workout would make me feel this sore but now I know I need to stretch my calves more on Legs & Back days. My hamstrings do not feel tight so this tells me that I may have been too easy on myself. Next week I will squat lower and make sure I am holding everything for the suggested counts.

Day 6 review

Kenpo is my favorite of all the workouts. I dabbled in kick boxing and Tae Kwon Do in the past so I felt most comfortable with this workout. Since the other workouts (especially yoga) were all new to me I feel as if I wasted too much time double checking the video to make sure I was following along properly.

Food intake

I have been flipping through my clean eating recipe books as well as old Food & Wine and Oxygen magazines to add diversity in my meals and have seen cottage cheese mentioned a lot. Can you believe I never had any? Well, that is until today! I tried some and found that there are a ton of pancake recipes using cottage cheese!

For the best protein packed punch I opted for:

• Pancake mix:
• ½ cup oatmeal
• ½ cup cottage cheese
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 egg whites

(cooked in coconut oil)

• Pancake topping:
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• ½ tablespoon peanut butter 

I hope that next time I remember to snap a picture!