Avocado & Cinnamon

My Jillianmichaels.com adventures continue. This has been quite entertaining! Life is so boring when you're not going outside your comfort zone, but sometimes, as you will read in today's blog, it's safer.

Thursday, July 22-I decided to improvise for breakfast and put together a turkey sandwich on lite, whole wheat toast. As I pulled the bread out of the toaster ready to put on some mustard, I recalled Jillian saying on the show that avocado makes a good substitute for mayo. I'm not much of a mayo fan but I like butter and that toast was looking really dry. I pulled out the avocado and mushed some on both slices. Add the turkey, mustard, and tomato and it was very tasty. Avocado is good as guacamole, but I struggle with it's mushy texture when eating it alone. I could totally use it as a sandwich spread. I was very excited to find yet another healthy food finding it's way into my diet.
Tilipia leftovers for lunch.
We ended up eating the actual scheduled breakfast for supper. Shawn was craving eggs.
Went on a long bike ride (2 1/2hr) with Trysten. Took a break from the JM workout in my basement.

Friday, July 23-Woke up feeling unmotivated and a little lost. Didn't want to make any decisions so when I opened my fridge and saw the Greek Yogurt & Cinnamon mixture that I had made a couple days before and forgotten to eat, I grabbed it. Problem was, the JM recipe had called for 2 tsp. of cinnamon in a 6oz dish of plain Greek yogurt. It seemed a little excessive but I innocently complied with the recipe. Now two days later, the cinnamon was fully potent and I struggled with eating the combination. It was bitter and it burned. Suck it up, Cassidy! Maybe there was a purpose to this. Cinnamon is good for speeding up the metabolism. If other people can eat it, so can I!
My stomach burned for hours and to make matters worse, I had Texas Chili leftovers for lunch. Agony of heartburn all afternoon. I don't get heartburn that often so this is a big deal.
It was at this point that I double-checked the Greek Yogurt & Cinnamon recipe. No, I didn't misread it. It really said two teaspoons. This is what the message boards are for. I promptly logged in and posted my experience asking others if they thought this recipe's cinnamon was excessive.
I got a reply from someone named "Kim" apologizing about the amount of cinnamon in the recipe. She cut & pasted an identical recipe which called for 1 tsp, but I replied to her with a cut & paste of my own. I'm finding out quickly that each recipe is altered somewhat depending on the calorie and oxidation levels you are following. One version of the recipe may be fine, but it seems there are more errors in the ones I'm using!
I can't believe I cinnamon-poisoned myself thinking I was following the program. Man, I feel dumb. Who does that?
Did the JM workout first thing in the morning. Getting used to Jillian's 3-2-1 strategy. Three weight-training exercises, two cardio exercises, and one ab exercise.....x2 and 5 different circuits of course! I actually only completed four circuits before the hour was done. I have a feeling Jillian would be telling me to hurry it up.

Actually, Jillian Michaels would've liked my suffering today because for the first time since beginning this program, I really did think I was going to throw up and it wasn't from the workout!