Month: August 2021

Adventure Awaits · Healthy eats! · Inspirational Posts

Sunday- A day to reset

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My life the last year had been filled with a lot of anxiety and no routine.

I am a creature of routine. At least I used to be.

My therapist thinks that sticking to a schedule is helpful for me to feel in control of my life. Saying “yes” to what I want to be doing and “no” to things that do not serve me at this time in my life. A continued work in progress.

So I listed out some goals for myself and one of them included:

Get out side and adventure on Saturdays so that Sunday’s can be a reset day.

We did just that.

A 3 mile out and back hike in Cottonwood Canyon Saturday morning.

Enjoying the fresh mountain air, light rain and cool winds.

It truly felt like fall.

The hike on Saturday left me to having my Sunday as a true reset day!

Sunday Routine:

Wake up with the sun, make coffee and pumpkin pancakes

30 minute Peloton Yoga sesh with my favorite instructor, Anna Greenberg. If you have not checked out the Spice Girls Peloton Yoga sesh, I highly recommend it! Plus, add me and we can workout together! #TinyTina22

Shower, skin routine, quick clean of the house and then lunch with my favorite person.

I love the Ordinary products, this is my skin care day time routine, night time is a tad different with the addition of The Ordinary Retinol and no sunscreen as shown here. The caffeine solution is great for my tired ass under eyes and I love the Aveeno Maxglow when I add 1-2 drops to my Fleur & Bee Moisturizer. At night I am using an ELF toner, The Ordinary retinol and the same face cream but without the maxglow drops. And, I always let my skin breathe on Sunday so no make up it is!

I am by no means a skin care guru, this is just what I use and I love so do your research on these products before trying them/ combining them like I do.

Lunch today was at Protein Foundry in SoJo. If you have yet to go here, add it to the list. They have the best protein shakes and gourmet toast. I had the Snickerdoodle protein shake and the Wasatch Back Toast.

Next up, grocery shopping and meal prep!

Stopped by Smiths in Daybreak to grab some stables for the week and a little more! No real pumpkin items yet but the count down is on! Should we do another post this year about all the yummy pumpkin finds?


I am still not 100% back to meal prepping my whole life, and to be honest, I doubt I will be ever doing that again but I do meal prep my lunches so that I am not eating out if I go into the office during the week. I like still meal prepping lunch but having the freedom to eat different things for breakfast and dinner makes staying on track work better for me.

This week we are having some artichoke, spinach chicken alfredo with Bonza protein pasta. I cooked it all in the crock pot and it took less than 20 mins. Talk about quick and easy.

Recipe? You got it!

Ingredients:

4 frozen chicken breast

1 box of Banza Protein Pasta

1 jar of alfredo sauce

1/2 bag of spinach

1 cup of chicken broth

1 can of artichoke hearts

Directions:

  1. Spray Instant Pot with non stick cooking spray
  2. Add chicken, pasta and chicken broth, make sure to stir so all pasta is covered with liquid
  3. Place lid on Instant Pot, make sure it is sealed
  4. Pressure cook on high for 18 mins
  5. Quick release
  6. Take chicken out, shred with fork, then add back to pot
  7. Stir in artichoke hearts (make sure they are drained), spinach and alfredo sauce
  8. Turn Instant Pot on to simmer and stir for 2-3 mins or until warm. **DO NOT OVERHEAT** you can burn the bottom of your pasta!
  9. Split into 7 meal prep containers or less if you want bigger portions.
  10. Let cool before storing or eat right away. Top with some grated parmesan cheese!

So the weekend seemed to fly by and we are back at Monday again but having a schedule and being able to reset my week on Sunday, makes Monday seem less daunting.

The house is cleaned, lunches prepped, self care completed and we are ready to tackle whatever the week brings.

What is your Sunday routine?

See ya next week! -T

Inspirational Posts

2021… I thought you were the year

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2021… I thought you were the year… but maybe you still are?

The last you heard from me I was 32 years old and while we were all in the mist of a pandemic, I still managed to turn 33. Pretty soon I will have been right back where I left ya but another year older… I could not let a whole year go by without getting the blog back.

A lot has happened in 2021. The clock struck midnight and 2020 was in the past… well we all thought it would be. I managed to go a whole year without getting Covid 19… that is until 2021 hit. 2021, you were supposed to be my comeback year, what the hell happened???

That is right. I got COVID.

Here is the thing. I never thought I would die from Covid, that was never a fear of mine, even though I am considered at “risk” but it still scared the living shit out of me. So when I got it, I was living my worst nightmare. Well, literally, it was the worst pain I had felt in ages.

How it started:

I went to Costco and Smiths on Sunday morning, grocery shopped and went straight home. The following day, I worked remotely and then hit a hard workout. Tuesday rolled around and I felt so sore. Like DOMS sore. I thought, “damn that was a good workout, but F I am so sore.” I worked remotely again. Wednesday hit, and I could barely move. I felt like I had the flu, and DOMS combined and so I took the day to rest, I slept a lot and the next morning was 1000x worse. First thought, “no f’ing way I have Covid, there is no f’ing way”

Off to the COVID testing line I went. Thursday, I can barely walk up stairs, I am coughing my lungs out and now having difficulty breathing. No results yet. Thank god my sister is an MA, she was able to bring by some goods. Porch drop of course. Friday morning, confirmed… you have the RONA. Yay me. Quarantine 2 more weeks. My symptoms were the worst the first 4-5 days, by the time that Saturday rolled around, I was feeling more like myself. 2 weeks in quarantine and symptom finally free… or so I thought.

2 months later:

Working out, still hard to do, breathless walking up stairs, have a handy inhaler now.

3 months later:

Makes lunch… Sausage, broccoli and rice… the norm. Same thing I ate the day before… what is that smell? What is that taste? Is my lunch bad?

3 months 1 week later:

Walks into Starbucks… what is that rancid smell?? Gross my latte tastes sour.. What and the actual f is happening. I will tell you what is happening. Parosmia, “a change in the normal perception of odors, such as when the smell of something familiar is distorted, or when something that normally smells pleasant now smells foul.”

Literally, FML.

How it is going:

So yeah, 3 months later, I did not “lose” my taste and smell like most, I had Parosmia, fully distorted taste and smell. Everything I ate was rancid tasting, chemical tasting or like wet dog. It is hard to explain. But it made me want to die. Literally. Months went on and nothing seemed to make it better until I saw a kick ass ENT who was able to bring a little light to this dark ass tunnel.

Where I am at:

Covid hit me hard. I survived but I am still experiencing the effects of this shit hole of an illness. My ENT was able to place me on a round of steroids, and found some research that was being done in the UK about smell training to help my senses and heal my olfactory. We are all just wandering around here in the dark as we continue to navigate covid though so if you have experienced prolonged distorted taste and smell due to covid, email me. I would love to swap experiences.

How is my taste and smell now you ask? I would say 40% back. I do smell training twice a day and I really think my taste and smell has improved. It has been 8 months since these symptoms appeared and it has been 10 months since I had gotten Covid. I have recently been able to incorporate foods that once tasted disgusting back into my everyday diet. Hot coffee still smells like wet dog but Iced Coffee is great again, thank the lord. I tried carne asada for the first time a few days ago and it had a slight funk aftertaste but it tasted for the most part, normal.

My Covid experience flared up my anxiety, messed with my mental health and killed my foodie vibe so I have not been writing. I was not really sure how to navigate life, let alone a blog. So thanks for sticking around.

Excited to get back to me again.

Promise I will not be gone for that long again.

XOXO

T

If you have questions about my covid-19 experience, please leave a comment or email me directly.