Fueling Up for an All-Day Workout

I have zumba instructor training in less than an hour and will participating in a 1 1/2 hour workout class followed by 4 1/2 hours of workshop and choreography.

When I was a kid, I didn’t like to eat breakfast. My mom would tell me, “Honey, your body is like a car, and if you don’t eat breakfast, you won’t have any fuel to run on and won’t have any energy.” Being a kid (and later teenager), I of course listened to her intently. Did you believe that? Neither did I. I didn’t listen to my mom and her brilliant advice back then because I “knew better.” Instead, I’d roll my eyes at her and still skip meals.

Nowadays, I know better, so I really wanted to fuel up for my all-day workout, so I made some oatmeal.

I’m terrified of eating spoiled foods, but figured this overly brown banana would be ok since my mom also saved the “old” bananas for banana bread. I only used about 1/3 for my oats.

I normally like to slice my bananas into my oats, but this guy was so soft, I had no choice but to mash it all up into the oats. I used about 1/4 cup of oats.

On top, I added some sliced almonds, ground blueberry flax seed, and a drizzle of vanilla maple syrup.

All-together with my assortment of beverages.

First up, we had water – to hydrate pre-workout.

Next up, OJ. I remember when I was in figure skating camp, they told us that OJ was good for nutrition, but only a little because that was all you needed to get the nutrition and after some point, you were just drinking extra sugar. That seems to make sense still, plus, I read an article (click) awhile back saying OJ and oatmeal went well together and actually helped increase the nutritional value in each other.