Is This Turning In to a Food Blog? Is That Really a Bad Thing?

As I mentioned last week, I like to not be bored with my food choices each day.  This helps me to stay motivated, excited, and on track.  Today I decided I was in the mood for burritos for dinner.  I started searching online to get ideas.  I quickly decided I wanted something with black beans and avocado.  I soon happened upon this site with a recipe that I used as my inspiration.  I ended up making steak, kale, black bean, and avocado salsa verde burritos.  I basically followed the recipes on the linked website to make everything but the steak.  I used sirloin tip steak, which I heard was one of the leanest.  I cut the steak into strips and I seasoned the steak with salt, pepper, and chili powder, and marinaded it in lime juice, garlic, and salsa verde.  It took about 4 mins to cook on my stove top cast iron skillet.  The steak was divine! The burritos turned out to be very fresh, delicious, and light.  If I make these again in the future I'm going to probably half the amount of lime that's called for in the avocado salsa verde.

One of my favorite parts of this meal was that each burrito was only 400-450 calories!  I actually forgot to put the brown rice in my first burrito, but even if I had I would have ended up with a lot of left over rice.  I ate the extra rice with some of the avocado salsa verde and kale. The 400-450 calories actually accounts for the rice I ate afterward, so the #calorie/burrito was actually lower. In all (2 burritos + extra rice etc.) was about 850 calories.  Not bad for a meal that included tortillas, beans, rice, avocado, and steak!

My exercise plan continues to do me well.  Today was a training day for the 5K using the C25K.  On the days that I don't do the C25K I still walk.  My goal each day is to go at least 3 miles whether I'm doing C25K or not.  It's still pushing me, but each day feels better and better.  This was today's run/walk as tracked by the RunKeeper App.

Since I started my exercise plan on 6/30, I have walked/run over 30 miles!  As I said before, each day just gets easier!  I'm nervous about being ready for a 5K come the beginning of September, but that's still the goal that I'm working towards.

And thanks again to all of you for your support, encouragement, public and private messages, and your love and your prayers.  I truly wouldn't be able to do this without your support!  Thank you!