Dear Summer:

Hi guys! Happy Hump Day!

I’m currently blogging from outside while enjoying the nice summer morning weather. Ahhhh. Dear Summer: Please stay forever. Thank you, Love Kristi.

Random Fact: I start off most days with a huge glass of lemon water immediately upon getting out of bed.

I have found that this has tremendously helped me to wake up and not feel groggy and tired. It immediately energizes me!

We all know what is great for us, so here are some of the benefits of lemon:

• helps a sluggish digestive system
• cleans toxins out of your body
• high vitamin C content
• promotes skin clarity
• has an alkalizing and balancing effect on the body

Pretty nifty, eh? I usually use 1/2 lemon, squeeze it in about 2 cups of water, shake…then bottoms up. 🙂

Soon after, it’s time for breakfast!

Today was a dough bowl, aka April’s Overnight Cottage Cheese Muesli

The Mix:

• 1/4 cup oats
• 1/4 cup frozen blueberries
• 1/2 cup Oikos plain greek yogurt
• 1/2 cup Kroger cottage cheese
• 5 drops of vanilla stevia
• tbsp Kroger natural creamy peanut butter

Never fails me. 🙂

Dinner last night was a good one!

Those would be some turkey veg meatloaf balls. I adapted a few recipes and came up with some major deliciousness. Recipe shall be posted soon! And what meal is complete without some green? Roasted brussels took care of that.

Then while I was patiently (read: jumping up and down) waiting for Glee to start, I whipped up a faux Wendy’s frosty:

1/2 cup almond milk, 1 scoop protein powder, 1 tbsp cocoa powder, 1/4 tsp xanthan gum, 1/4 tsp guar gum, stevia, ICE! Deeeelish. Janetha rocks.

I’ve got to get going and go off to work but I have a very important Q for you guys:

 What are some good Summer reads???

I want to pick one out to take with me on our Mexico trip coming up in a few weeks. (weeeeee!)

Catch ya later, bloggies…Stay tuned for that turkey veg ball recipe. 😀

Kristi