Breakfast: Homemade Almond Muffin, coffee with soy milk. The muffins are not on the Accelerate Phase 1 but I think you could have them for the Activate Phase. I had company for breakfast so I went for it!

My recipe for muffins is fast and easy. Generally, I have all the ingredients and can whip them up in 10 minutes flat! Preheat oven to 400° and butter a 12 muffin pan.

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups flour

¼ cup wheat flour

¼ cup flax meal

1 cup old fashioned oatmeal

3 small, ripe bananas

2 eggs

¼ cup vegetable oil

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Mix dry together. Mix wet together. Mix it together gently, until just combined. Bake 10 minutes.

For almond muffins – use a cookie scoop and place one scoop of batter in each muffin cup, put 1 tsp. almond butter on top, then another cookie scoop size of batter. Top with sliced almonds and a sprinkle of sugar.

For chocolate chip banana muffins – do the same process but with chocolate chips.

Lunch: Panisses (a chickpea fry famous in Marseilles, France) with harrisa mayonaise and caprese salad with a glass of Wiehenstephaner Vitus Hefeweizen – or a German wheat beer from Wiehenstephaner Brewer started in Germany in 1040. Okay, my parents were visiting and they took me to a wonderful lunch at FISH in Jamestown. I couldn’t resist. It was all so fabulous!!

Dinner: Chicken Taco. I put chicken in a crock pot since I knew I was going to be out all day and would be too tired to make dinner. I threw 3 lbs. of frozen chicken, 5 chopped scallions, 5 smashed cloves of garlic, 1 can of Rotel tomatoes, 1 can of green chiles and ½ cup of water. I cooked it on low in a crock pot for 7 hours. I shredded it, put out toppings and everyone made their own.

Dessert: Froyo frozen yogurt – kiddie size, chocolate peanut butter cup.

Ab workout: Rest DAY!!