Good morning bloggers.  This is going to be a fast post with some good stuff!  I have a 12 hour school day awaiting and must brief my TX Pretrial!  (Cannot wait for this class to be over!!!!)

Yesterday was a bad snack day.  I caved.  I was stressed and didn’t feel great. Hmm…maybe law school is why I can’t lose my Texas Ten.

But, today was a great exercise day.  I tried my first ever HIIT workout this morning.  WOW!  It kicked my booty and I loved every minute of it!  I saw the workout posted yesterday over at One Fit Foodie and have seen it a lot at Meals and Moves. These girls on onto something!  Click here to see the workout I followed.  She also also links to Janetha’s page and her own page explaining what HIIT is.  Thanks girls!  I enjoyed my workout!

Lunch yesterday in pictures:

Snacks included A LOT of jelly beans (they are gone now-thank goodness!), What Thins (don’t even know who bought these?), and Cliff Z Bar.

Italian Polenta “Bake”

1 roll polenta

1 jar pasta sauce

vegetables of choice

cheese of choice

I cut the polenta into 7 think slices.

While cutting polenta, start large skillet on high heat.  Once skillet is hot add in slices of polenta.  (Optional-I added about 1 Tbsp of Smart Balance to pan).  I seared eat side of the polenta slices.  Once each side has some color remove from pan.

Reduce to Med-High heat, add olive oil, and saute vegetables of choice.  I used mushrooms and onions because that is what we had on hand.

Turn oven to Broil to preheat.  In medium casserole dish arrange polenta slices in single layer.  Pour sauteed vegetables on top of polenta slices.  Optional to sprinkle with seasoning, but my pasta sauce was already tasty enough.  Then pour on desired amount of pasta sauce to cover polenta and vegetables.  I used about half the jar.  Sprinkle top with your choice of cheese.  I used about 1/4th cup mozz and a lot of Parmesan.

Place under broiler about 3 minutes.  Watch this carefully!  All broilers are different and you don’t want to burn your meal.  Since everything has already been cooked, this is just to warm up sauce and brown cheese.

Serve with additional Parmesan if desired.

I enjoyed mine with a side of roasted asparagus.

After dinner my stress levels needed dessert.

Chocolate Chip Protein Cake

3 Tbsp egg subsitute

1 Tbsp no-sugar added applesauce

1 tsp baking powder

1 scoop Lean Dessert Protein-Chocolate Pudding

mini chocolate chips

Mix all ingredients together in a non-stick sprayed bowl, sprinkle on chips, microwave approx 2 mins.  (The new microwave takes 1 min 45 secs for best cake!)

I then topped mine with small scoop of vanilla ice cream and sugar free strawberry jam.  Wow, this was an awesome dessert!

I may or may not have eaten more of those darn Wheat Thins!  This girl is going to have some work to do be bikini ready after this finals season.

I have gotten a few responses for guest posts, but I would love to have some more!  (You would be contributing to my study time).  The post can be about anything you want (I would like it to remain PG-13) and can be as short or detailed as you want.  Anyone that bakes or has recipes would be greatly welcomed considering the oven and I aren’t really friends.

I heard the East Coast had weather in the 80s yesterday!  Crazy!  Anyone up there enjoy the unseasonably warm spell?

You all can keep the heat, I am enjoying the break from heat and humidity here in Houston today.