It’s officially summer time! Are you a beach ready yogi? I didn’t feel like it! Not with work, grad school, nightly homework, projects, and trying not to neglect my dog. So here’s what I did for the two weeks leading up to my beach trip:
Breakfast…
- green smoothie
- herbal tea with honey (local honey is best)
Breakfast green smoothie
Snack… a fat and a fruit to give you energy and keep you full
- celery with peanut butter (add raisins if you like)
- apple with peanut butter
- ***sun butter (sunflower-seed butter) works great if you have a nut allergy***
Lunch… I used to be completely against frozen entrees until I found the Amy’s brand. No preservatives and so yummy. And I had to compromise somewhere with my lack of time.
- Amy’s frozen lunch
- any other sensible lunch that includes a carb, protein, and vegetable
Snack… Watch your quantities. I prepare it ahead of time and bring it to class with me. Bringing the whole box of crackers is always a bad idea.
- fruit with peanut butter (I like to use a half apple or banana)
- cheese and crackers with fruit
Dinner… Here’s what I think is the most important part. Juice for dinner! Super kick of vegetables and gives your digestive tract a short fast every night. Also, if you don’t get home until 8pm like me, it’s too late to eat a full meal but you’re hungry!
- fresh juice!
Green juice sponsored by my friend’s wedding…
My secret cheat… For when I just have to have some chocolate. It’s an addiction, we’re all human.
- Dark chocolate square with a scoop of peanut butter.
I’m an ingredient snob. Look at the ingredients list, not the nutrition facts… you can find out a lot more. In the above foods this means check out your peanut butter, frozen lunches, crackers, and cheese.
At the beach…
- Go to the grocery store… We stocked up on healthy snack items, sandwich stuff for lunch on the beach, and green smoothie ingredients. (We ended up with: Spinach, mango, banana, strawberries, apples, watermelon, pineapple, bread, cheese, avocado, deli meat, peanut butter, peanut/raisin/cranberry trail mix)
- Go on walks/runs… We brought our dogs so this one was easy to remember to do. We walked once in the morning and once at night. In the morning it’s not too hot and at night we waited until sunset so it was cool. It felt great to walk twice a day and vacay with our babies.
Duck watching on our morning walks…
- Find a local yoga studio… This is a must. I love visiting new studios and experiencing new teachers. I found a studio right in the area we were staying. Walking distance is definitely a plus!
I spy a yoga studio!
- Bring your blender… I left my juicer at home but I brought my blender. Nothing fancy, just a small single serving blender and I continued to have green smoothies for breakfast. It made me feel light and ready to put on my bikini! (Beach condos usually provide you with a blender but I brought mine just in case)
- Yoga on the beach… because it’s fun!
Beach yoga on a cloudy day…
Shanti,
lindseyogabliss 