We are now entering the final week of the 30 Day Challenge!!! I have a couple of confessions to make this week....
First, I'm down 2 practices in my challenge. There came a couple of days when I simply could not for the life of me fit a yoga practice into my day. We are allowed to do doubles (practice twice in one day) to make up for a missed day. If I can do them in the next 5 days, then I will. If not, I'll live :)
Second, I've been doing awesome with the lack of caffeine (caffeine free for 24 days!), but I briefly broke the alcohol ban. My family and I signed up for the Twenty Valley Wine Country Run, a 4k walk in Niagara through wine country which includes wine tastings along the way. Of course, I signed up for this not realizing that it was smack in the middle of the 30 Day Challenge. Since I'd paid for it already, I decided to lift the ban for the day. In total I probably drank the equivalent of one glass of wine, so it wasn't the end of the world I guess...
Confessions over! Other than these two things, I'm still doing great. Eating vegetarian meals, no caffeine, journalling my experiences every day and sweating A LOT!!! Let me tell you - there's a lot of laundry involved in 30 days of hot yoga. Last night I did a huge load of laundry (because I hadn't done it almost all week and was completely out of clothes to wear). My laundry hanging thing was completely covered in sticky towels, shorts, shirts, and other yoga class paraphrenalia!
The 30 Day Challenge officially ends on Wednesday the 23rd with a vegetarian potluck party at the studio.
- (Shameless promotion: this is also the same day as the Weight Watchers Walk It Challenge with the Running Room! I'll be doing that first, THEN partying!)
- stuffed mushroom caps
- chocolate covered strawberries
- couscous salad
- pasta salad
- pineapple-angel food cake (it was the studio's 2nd birthday party, and was decorated accordingly)
I'm not sure what I'd like to make this time. The mushroom caps were an enormous hit the last time I made them, and ran out within about 30 seconds of hitting the table.
Enter: a poll!
What should I bring to the potluck? Here are a few options that I've thought of, but feel free to comment and suggest your own. Whichever idea wins is the one I will make, and I promise to post the recipe and photos when I make it on Tuesday/Wednesday. Some of these are simple suggestions (e.g. pasta salad), so if you have specific ideas of things to go into the recipe, add that with your vote!
- Mushroom caps
- Bean salad
- Lentil salad (recipe in the previous thread)
- Pasta salad
- Vegetable curry
Go!
*post edit* Since no one commented (*feels shame*), I made the lentil salad from the previous thread. It turned out to be a hit :)!
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