My playlist

If you work out with an I-pod, I believe it is imperative that you have a play list. While "technically" I don't have an actual playlist, (cuz I have an old shuffle that I work out with) I do have a list of songs that I use to work out with. Most of the time the list stays the same, on occasion I will switch up the "cool down" song. I get on my elliptical and "go" to the pace of each song. Most of the time when i work out,  pick a set time, then arrange my songs to fit into that time. Last night i said, "Self...tonight you will work out to 10 songs." With my "in a previous life" job I happen to know that 90% of songs out there are in the 3:30 range, so I knew that 10 songs would put me over 30 minutes. This playlist, which includes some absolute MUSTS for working out, is  40 minutes with a warm up and a cool down.
1) Airplanes by B.O.B featuring Haley Williams--it is the perfect warm up song, not to slow, not too fast, it eases you right in and has a nice even beat which is nice when you are on a elliptical with the arm thingy.
2) Smoke by Eric Church Coach K will disagree but I love this funky little country song, besides who can't love the lyric "Dig down deep, light my stash, light it up memory crash"
3) Firework-Katy Perry, takes the beat up a notch and gives you a little "who cares if my bat wings are flapping and my ass fat is jiggling, I'm a firework baby!"
4) Time of My Life (Dirty Bit) Black Eyed Peas. Again cranks up the beat a little, although after listening to it I get the urge to yell out "Dirty Bit" randomly in the middle of conversation.
5) Raise Your Glass- Pink..."Don't be fancy, just get dancy" enough said...
6) Club Can't Handle Me- Flo Rida--now, we're really sweating as the beat is sufficiently pumped up.
7) I Don't Care- Fall Out Boy- No going back now, this is where the sweat starts running down your ass crack and your boobs start to ache because no matter the brand of sports bra, they are flopping a little. (I got this song from Drew's playlist, its one of the songs they play at wrestling practice, if you ever need a good song to work out to, visit a wrestling room, they have some good ones.)
8) DJ's Got us Falling in Love Again- Usher-still fast faced, but we're slowing down just a tid, nice beat to work with and it comes at the appropriate point in time to successfully avoid lung poppage.
9) This is the one I switch out now and again I use either, Kid Rock "Bawitadaba" Finger 11 "Paralyzer" Taio Cruz, "Dynamite" all good pump me up songs, but the beat slows a little to cool you down.
10) I switch this one up a little too, as its my cool down song I use 'Free" Zac Brown Band, "September" by Daughtry or "Jar of Hearts" Christina Perri
Last night I stuck with the first 8, then did the bawitadaba and Free and it was 41 minutes. I also did not get to listen completely to songs 4 and 5 as my husband scared the holy hell by coming down the man cave stairs as I was in mid song. We had a nice little (me sort of out of breath) conversation, he had just increased my life insurance, which, is probably good because when I realized he was standing there I nearly fell off the eliptical and hung myself with my I-pod earbugs, while narrowly avoiding striking my head on the wall. (Yes, stalker friends, I AM that graceful.) Anywho...feel free to comment and add songs that you like to work out or that would be appropriate when you need a good "ass crack sweating" song.
FOOD:
Teresa--the fajitas are simple just thaw your shrimp, or thinly slice your chicken breast or steak. Slice up a pepper or two, I also add some sliced tomato and a little green onion. Get a packet of fajita seasoning at the store, put a teaspoon or so in a bowl, add a T of olive oil and 2 T of water, let your meat marinate in the mixture for about 30 minutes, put it all in a skillet and cook it like stir fry, or what I love to do is throw it in a grill basket and grill it. YUMMM-O, if you haven't hit your three servings of green with your peppers an onions you can put this over some lettuce as a nice fajita salad. I sometimes drizzle a little WF ranch over the top, sort of like sour cream.
The family wanted lasagna last night. Lasagna you say on a low carb plan? YES. And trust me from a complete pasta addict, you really don't miss the noodles, all that much, anyway. Yes, there are recipes on line in which you can make sheets of "noodles" out of cauliflower puree, or use sliced steamed zucchini, but frankly, I'm too fucking lazy for that. What i do is brown the meat that i am using for the family's sauce, measure out my 5 ounces, add a T or 2 of low sugar pasta sauce and set it aside. i assemble the lasagna as normal for the family, making a 9x9 inch pan of it to decrease the amount of leftovers and amount of temptation. When the lasagna has about 10 minutes left, I chop up some green pepper, zucchini, spinach, mushroom and tomato add a little garlic, sautee it in a skillet, throw in my set aside meat and sauce and toss it all together and heat it through. Pour it onto a plate sprinkle with a very little coating of Parmesan cheese. This gives you serious Italian flavor with way less fat and carbs and its a great way to disguise some of those vegetable that you should eat but don't really care for (like mushrooms, in my case).