Fitness Rage and Taco Seasoning

I am loving the Radius workouts. But I did one today, and the male trainer kept saying, "Ladies, you want to look good in a dress." Well, yeah but can we please stop talking about The Dress (Sorry, had to do it). But I work out because I want to be strong. Right now, in this move, I'm focusing on my arms so I can punch you out when I meet you! I don't think if you approach being healthy purely to improve how you look that you're going to be 100% happy with the results because there's always something more that needs to be improved. And I work out A LOT but I still don't look like the people in the videos. And that's ok. I guess Jillian Michaels says something similar in one of her videos about looking good in jeans and maybe something about a swimsuit, and that bothers me marginally less. Can't we focus less on the dress and more on promoting healthy eating and exercise? 

For instance, we all thought olive oil was healthy right? Turns out anything you see in the stores is probably not real and maybe bad for you! Ugh! I read labels! But if the labels lie, what am I supposed to do?! We might as well all go to Burger King - at least we know the quality of food we're getting there! 

With all this horror in the world (GMOs! Olive oil cut with vegetable oil! Hormones in chicken!), we all need some workout endorphins. Well, the speaker at the gym fritzed out (again!) on Monday. It should be replaced now, but let me tell you, ladies can get mean when they don't get their Zumba on! And apparently we need ear-blasting bass to dance effectively! 

No more complaining. Here's a recipe! We made Southwestern casserole last night, with big approval ratings from Steve.

I browned ground turkey, then added taco seasoning and a can of tomatoes (next time I'll add two cans). Then I cooked a red pepper, a yellow pepper and an onion with some minced garlic for 8 minutes, and added that, along with two cups of spinach to the meat mixture. Next time I'll wilt the spinach first. It made it hard to fit everything in the 8 X 13 pan! Then I put 3 sweet potatoes in my food processor (LOVE THAT THING!), mixed them with 1/3 C coconut oil and a teaspoon of chili powder and topped the casserole. Next time I'll used mashed sweet potatoes and coconut milk with the chili powder because I thought they were still kind of crunchy, even after we cooked for 25 minutes with foil and another 25 without! Steve heated it up in the microwave today with some hot sauce and said the leftovers were even better!