Chocolate For Breakfast + A Giveaway

Chocolate for breakfast is always a good idea. Even better if you can put a healthy twist to it. Remember how yesterday I posted about how September is National Healthy Breakfast Month? Well, shortly after I posted that yesterday, I perused my Pinterest boards for some inspiring healthy breakfast recipes. When I saw this recipe for a "healthy" breakfast quesadilla, I decided to use it as my inspiration, except I tried to make it just a little bit healthier. I don't like to brag, but this recipe is easily one of my best. Healthy and delicious - you just can't ask for much more than that!

Breakfast Quesadilla

Ingredients

• 1 Flatout Light Original Flatbread
• 2 tbsp almond butter (or any kind of nut butter)
• 1/2 sliced banana
• 4 sliced strawberries
• Sprinkle of coconut flakes
• Sprinkle of Enjoy Life mini chocolate chips (about 1 tbsp)
• Extra virgin olive oil

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit

2. Spread almond butter onto the entire area of the flatbread

3. Place banana slices on top of the almond butter

4. Place strawberry slices on top of the banana slices

5. Sprinkle coconut flakes and chocolate chips on top and close flatbread

6. Baste olive oil on both sides of the flatbread, placing it on a foil-lined baking sheet

7. Bake for 15 minutes - flipping after seven

Workout

Before creating (and devouring) this absolutely delicious breakfast, I went to the gym to get in a good workout. I completed a treadmill workout inspired by this PBFingers treadmill workout.

I covered 2.5 miles in 20 minutes, plus .35 miles of walking. Not bad for only 25 minutes! After my time on the treadmill, I went over to the free weights and completed three rounds of this tank top arms workout.

I really like the up/down plank, as well as the slow burn bicep curls. They are both very Body Pump-esque, and they challenge me in a way that I don't usually think to challenge myself. My arms are officially dead, however, and I am anticipating some problems tomorrow morning when I try and put my hair up in a ponytail.

Giveaway

And now it's finally time for a giveaway! Remember the reviews I completed for Best Price Nutrition and My Supplement Store? Well, I have some very similar products for one lucky reader to sample. The following products will be mailed to the winner of this giveaway:

• Raw Meal Beyond Organic Meal Replacement Formula - Vanilla (vegan, gluten-, and dairy-free)
• Raw Protein Beyond Organic Protein Formula - Vanilla (vegan, gluten-, dairy-, and soy-free)
• Cyto Greens Acai Berry Green Tea
• Alive! Once Daily Women's Ultra Potency Multi-Vitamin and Whole Food Energizer

To enter the giveaway, simply leave a comment on this post with the product you are most excited to try. A winner will be selected sometime on Friday.

And with my blog post done and all of the necessary reading out of the way, I'm thinking of taking a little afternoon walk before I get ready for dinner with my new YoungLife team. Though I already know some people on the team, this is my first time to actually get to meet everyone on the team. I am not going to lie, I'm a little bit nervous, but they all seem like fun people, so I am sure it will be great! I hope you all are enjoying a great day off! Happy Labor Day!

Boundless Giveaway

Hump Day! I have officially spent 14 of the last 24 hours at SRD, so I am more than happy to have a 24-hour break before heading back to work tomorrow. On the plus side, I finished yet another book, and this one would stand to impress my fellow English majors. I plan on doing a brief review of all the books I complete this summer, so hang tight, because it's only three short weeks away.

Lunch

Today's lunch looked a lot like yesterday's, but instead of the lemon pepper vegetables, I had a heaping side of red grapes. I have had more than my fair share of grapes today, but as grapes are often quite expensive to buy at the grocery store, I always make sure to take full advantage of them when they are available to me at SRD.

Workout

After work today I walked on over to Gregory Gym to complete another mile and a half swim. It has been one HOT one today in Austin, Texas, so it felt good to get in the pool and escape the extreme heat. I also knew I wanted to get in a swim today because I am going home to Houston this weekend, and I tend to gravitate toward taking spin classes at the MAC rather than swimming laps in the normally-crowded pool, so this swim was an attempt at holding me over for the next few days, as I more than likely won't be in a pool.

Giveaway

And now, I am very excited to announce that Fitness & Fro-Yo is sharing its very first giveaway. Kelsey, who works for the startup Boundless, stationed in Boston, is a reader of my blog and reached out to me about a potential partnership with their company.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Boundless, here is a little bit of information about it. Boundless is working toward building an innovative learning platform that offers textbooks in more than 20 subjects with a plethora of interactive features. This is a wonderful textbook alternative that can be accessed on any computer, smartphone, or tablet, which allows you to access your study materials anytime, anywhere. That is great for all of us college students who find ourselves waiting somewhere for hours with a big test the next day, and not a textbook in sight. But, we do always seem to have our phones with us, don't we?

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With the rising cost of textbooks, Boundless' $20 books offer a much affordable alternative. Though they will not be identical to your assigned textbook, Boundless has worked tirelessly to cover the exact same concepts as your assigned textbook. Boundless textbooks cover 20+ subjects and have learning technology that helps students remember key concepts, and there are also built-in flashcards and quizzes to aid you in your studying. Thousands of students are forgoing the expensive textbooks and discovering the Boundless alternative, and you can be apart of that ever-growing number.

And if you are in the incoming college class of 2017, or you know someone in the class of 2017 who you want to surprise with a "going off to college" present, these next few sentences are for you. Boundless so kindly reached out to me about sharing this giveaway with my readers, and one lucky participant has the opportunity to win an iPad mini and $200 in dorm gear. Simply follow this link, and in less than 10 seconds you could be on your way to winning some new technology as well as $200 in dorm gear. Happy entering!