TGIF

My planned hike this morning didn’t end up lasting two hours. But thats ok because we ended up going 4.5 miles in around an hour and a half. The perfect amount of exercise for one day. My best friend and I have been hiking a lot since the summer and we have been loving it! We have a 6 mile hike planned in a couple of weeks so we are in the process of working our way up to that. Hiking is my favorite form of exercise. You get a great workout and get to be outside talking at the same time. Hikes always speed by for me. I downed a good amount of water on my drive home but my breakfast kept me full till lunch!

This was part of our hike today. 

                                             

I love this new free app I found it's called map my hike. I can't wait to use it more often. 

For lunch I wanted some greens but didn’t feel like a salad so I had a green smoothie. For anyone who doesn’t want to sit and eat a whole salad this is the perfect way to get greens into your diet and you don’t even taste them. I fit two huge handfuls into this smoothie. 

Smoothie Recipe:

2 handfuls of baby greens

1 banana - I need to freeze some more of these because it really makes a huge difference

1 greek yogurt

1 cup rice milk

1 cup almond milk

I also had a lara bar and a fruit leather later on for a snack while I was at the library studying.

I think this is my favorite flavor if I had to choose. Even though I love them all. 

After studying at the library for 4 hours!! Thats grad school for you. I came home and threw together a salad for dinner. Same as last night minus the walnuts. I know third night in a row but I needed to use up all the lettuce I bough. Good news is I finished it tonight. 

Tonight I am going to relax! There is going to be a lot of studying going on this weekend! Enjoy your friday night everyone.