Biking and Cookies

I have had so much happen these past two days that I wanna blog about so let me get started.

To begin with...I have been visiting a lot of fast food restaurants this week..

I am so not happy about that.  But yesterday I got a cranberry, apple, chicken salad from Burger King.  It was surprisingly good and I would go for that again if I needed something quick or felt lazy.  It was about $5.50.  Not too bad.  I got it with an advocado/ranch dressing.  Of course I am not sure how many calories is involved in this Salad.  I am sure the dressing is the only bad thing.  It only had lettuce, apples, bleu cheese, and grilled chicken.  It seemed real enough.

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After that, I hopped onto my stationary bike while watching an episode of tv on my laptop.

 My legs were going crazy.  I am going to work up their stamina again.  I realized that in order for me to use the ifit Live thing then I have to pay $99 a year.  Woah, maybe when I get a better job or am done school... For we will use the interval and speed settings. to get these legs into shape.

I started a squat thing with a friend I know.
Here is the LINK to it.  100 Prisoner Squat Challenge
We are just ending Day 3.  Anybody else wanna jump on the band wagon?

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You might be wondering about this cooking thing you see here.  I have been wanting to make cookies for about 2 weeks now but I had no eggs, and still don't.  I have used milled flax seed for eggs before and thought I could do that.  But I kept putting it off.  Then on facebook tonight I see another young girl is making cookies and I decide it is time... So I go searching for egg less cookies.  It's hard to find one with all the plain ingredients that I have in my house. So I decided; fine, I will just substitute with the flax.  The first recipe I find is a Honey Walnut Cookie Recipe.  And turns out it doesn't need eggs or milk. + YAY!  So I proceed to substitute regular flour with buckwheat flour and brown sugar with coconut sugar. And this is what I made!  I had my room mate taste them.  I told her, "Forget about what you think cookies taste like."  And she did and she like them.  I thought of one other thing I would add to these cookies to make them even better.......BANANAS!!

Here's my edited recipe:

Honey Walnut Cookies2/3 cup buckwheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup cocnut sugar
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil (I think I would change this to safflower oil)
1/3 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat the oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar.
In a small bowl, whisk together oil, honey and vanilla extract. Pour into flour mixture and stir until almost combined. Add the walnuts and stir until walnuts are well distributed in the cookie dough.
Shape into 12 rounded balls (approx 1-inch balls) and place onto prepared baking sheet. It is easiest to shape this dough with your hands or with a small scoop.
Bake for 10 minutes, until cookies are lightly browned around the edges.
Cool on baking sheet for 2-3 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

++I only managed about 9 cookies...if you add bananas, make sure to add more flour too!

The Bike Finally Arrived

 My doorbell rang today and this is what I got!

I opened the box and this is what I find...big bummer.

At first I was gonna return it...then realized that is had nothing to do with the performance of the bike and decided to put it together anyway.

So here it is all put together and in my "gym".

I realized that I want to put some sort of cloth or curtain on the wooden work bench.  That stuff under there is organized but it looks horrible.  I guess that will be my next project.

I am going to work on Saturday morning at 7am.  And I hate weighing that early.  And I didn't weigh last Saturday, so I weighed yesterday; Wednesday.  I was down .8lbs!  So I hit the 296.6 mark.  Hopefully it will stay that way. I have been having a hard time not eating junk the last few days.