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I eat dessert every night! Usually it involves a chocolate bar. Or two.

That shopping centre looks to gorgeous with the lights and fire. Our Christmas lights are still up – fighting the January blues with them!!

When I run, I get sore feet. Blister city :(

I don’t have a child, but I just spent the weekend with my friend who has an 18 month old daughter. She ate porridge f0r breakfast, and a cheese omelette for lunch. Anything new there for you?

I get sore quads usually! I used to eat 4 scoops of ice cream every single night but lately I’m being a bit better ;) though I’m eating more helpings of savory food so I don’t know how much “better” it is….

I eat dessert every single day! Only one though…after dinner :-). I always look forward to seeing yours!

I tend to really only eat dessert at restaurants. We don’t stock it at the house because with two people it either goes bad quickly (except ice cream) or we end up eating a cake in a couple of days. That isn’t to say we don’t stock it. Anyways I probably eat dessert most times I go out so that’s that.

My calves always get sore…after almost every hard run.

I’m not actually a big sweets lover (I know, scandalous!!) but i still eat dessert probably 3 times a week. A couple nights ago, it was a piece of vegan lemon cake from Whole Foods with cream cheese frosting…mmm…I work at a preschool, so I see the toddlers’ lunches, and they eat similarly to how Brooke eats, so I have no suggestions! A lot of them are really into pita bread and hummus, and those squeezable applesauces.

I hardly ever buy desert, and therefore hardly ever eat it. That said, if I send my husband to the store for something, he almost always comes home with a carton of ice cream! And I can’t resist ice cream, so if it’s in our freezer, I eat it. :)

My sister was around Brooke’s age when the big tickle me Elmo craze was going on in the late 90s. All we could find for Christmas that year was the tickle me big bird and she ended up moving on to bigger, better things after that (ahem, blues clues). I’m sure she’ll have a new favorite once she has everything Elmo :-).

In our house we don’t call it dessert, we call it our nightly snack because it somehow sounds healthier lol. Either way, we eat dessert every night and I usually have some candy with my lunch. There’s some banana pudding ice cream calling my name!

I totally didn’t understand the Elmo thing with my BF’s kiddos- they had never even seen him before and became totally obsessed!
I am OUTRAGEOUSLY sore today from running 6 miles (TM) between 7.8-8.2 mph so that I could get it done quick before muscle pump- my shoulders and glutes are dying even though I didn’t go as high as I could have on the weights.
I am using you as my inspiration to keep going to pump class! It is sooo hard to fit in during training, and I know my MLR today is going to be tough, but I am going to get it done :)
Dessert= every night.

My daughter is almost 4, and loves to eat anything that she has “helped” to prepare. We make her lunch together for preschool and she loves it! We sometimes do a “roll up” which is just peanut butter and jelly rolled in a whole wheat tortilla and cut in half. She likes to roll it :) we also do our own “lunchables”.. I cut the turkey into small shapes with cookie cutters, along with crackers and cheese, so she can make little sandwiches.. Another favorite is cheese and pepperoni or turkey rolled and baked into a crescent roll. Yum! We are having an issue with vegetables right now, so she always gets what I call a “squeeze treat” but is just those squeezable veggie/fruit combos.. She loves them :)

My hip flexors are sore right now!!

You.can.do.it (with the dessert)!! I unfortunately tried to do the same thing and ended up eating 3 desserts at the 1 sitting. So now I am trying to eat literally 1 dessert a day.

I do not have a toddler, but every one in my life loves mac and cheese, and buttered noodles.

Today is my run today its going to be rough after being out of town most of last week.

I like to make “snack” plates for my son. I buy the plates at Target that have 4 to 6 little compartments then put fruit and veggies in them with crackers or noodles. Brysen thinks its a special treat when really its a way to sneak in more fruits and veggies!

I eat dessert before almost every meal. It is delicious :) sometimes it’s just a bunch of chocolate but usually brownies or cookies are my favorite!

Yay for soreness. Looks like you had an awesome run. I have a 14 month old and my mission in life is sneaking veggies in everything she eats. I purée veggies and mix them into the pancake batter. I also love to make her ground turkey patties with veggies (zucchini works best) she is also obsessed with egg and cheese wraps, and yogurt parfait a with chopped fruit. :)

I eat dessert every night! Usually ice cream because if we have cake and stuff I eat ice cream AND cake, then more cake later… ugh.

You know, I’d pretty much managed to cut dessert out on weekdays. Then, the holidays happened. Ah well, it was worth it. :-)

I am always sore in my calves and hamstrings but I just bought a foam roller and it has been way less since then! (My cursing on the other hand…:)) okay and toddler food- my one year old loves cucumbers! I’ve also started blending up our dinner leftovers (like sweet potatoes and I’ll add a banana and applesauce) and put them in those reusable squeeze pouches and he totally digs those! I bought them at nourishwithstyle.com They are pretty awesome!

I gave up desserts 13 days ago. I got a little too carried away eating way too many each day. I’m an all or nothing person.. giving up sugar has made me feel 100% better. Now I’m eating frozen fruit and loving it! No more cake, cookies and ice cream for me.

It’s weird, I don’t ever get sore in my legs (must not be doing hard enough running), but my feet just are stiff and a bit sore every morning.

I don’t usually have an official dessert every night, but I eat a sweet snack (handful of M&Ms, cookies, etc.). I guess it’s the same thing maybe? I don’t usually have a ton of options because my husband doesn’t like sweets so I don’t usually make a pan of brownies just for myself.

I have tons of toddler meals, so email me if you want details/recipes/more suggestions. My son (16.5 months) rarely eats so I have tried so many things to figure out what he’d want. I can’t believe Brooke eats that entire sandwich with tomatoes and oranges – my son would take a bite or two and be done.

For breakfast I usually give him oatmeal with bananas and shredded coconut or muffins (I make pumpkin muffins every once in a while and freeze them) or pancakes (also made ahead of time and frozen) or eggs (usually made the night before – today I sent him with scrambled eggs with cabbage). For lunch he gets a variety of different things but I try to have a bunch of stuff frozen in the freezer that I can use if we didn’t have something the night before that he enjoyed. In my freezer now I have frozen butternut squash soup (which I mix with rice when it’s defrosted), pumpkin soup, spinach and quinoa patties, lentil burgers, meatballs, and tomato sauce (a sauce I make with pureed spinach and sweet potatoes – I usually serve the sauce over the meatballs with polenta or rice). For sides he usually gets yogurt, string cheese, blueberries, applesauce, a banana, rice cakes, or bread. I used to make him peanut butter sandwiches but now my sister’s daughter is severely allergic to all nuts so we aren’t allowed to send him with that anymore (my son goes to my sister’s for daycare). For dinner he usually eats what we have and if he refuses I try and pull something from the freezer. But let’s be clear here, he is NOT an eater and getting him to eat more than five bites of anything is really hard. I get really, really excited when he eats 1/4 cup of oatmeal!

Okay, wow. I have learned so much about running from your blog. It’s a bit insane how much you and informed and inspired me as a beginning runner.

I’ve basically been hit or miss with searching the archives, which has been great, but have you ever considered starting “How To” or more informational tab for your blog? Stuff as simple as why wearing compression socks is a good thing (which I’m not even sure if it is), what a calf sleeve is, proper running stretches etc. would be beneficial to your readers like me who are just starting out, or a great resource for more advance runners for support.

You have so many good running techniques and strategies to share, and such a great audience, I don’t know, just a thought.

Either way, I love catching up in the early morning and again before a run! Thanks!
-Lori

I am usually sore in my shins, hips and lower back after long runs.

Is that peppermint ice cream?!

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Toddler meal ideas: French toast sticks, baked oatmeal, quesadillas cut into strips, grilled cheese, avocado slices, cheese + crackers, smoothie, granola + raisins + chocolate chips in a lil cup, super thin cut apple slices, raviolis, pizza on a tortilla, cuties (clementines), air popped popcorn (sometimes I toss in raisins + chocolate chips), sliced hard boiled egg.
One of my kids favorite drinks is when I warm some milk, add a little bit of vanilla flavor, honey and cinnamon. It almost tastes like a warmed vanilla milkshake..it’s really good!

i eat dessert every day! YOLO

I have some kind of treAt everyday. Right now, it just fruits or a protein bar.

I am sore in my calves and hams. Ice bath and chiropractor fixed it pretty well. I’ve been stretching like crazy, but avoiding lifting those muscles. That could be the problem. My quads are a lot stronger than my hams for sure.

Meals (foods)–eggs, oatmeal, quesadillas, canned green beans, sm00thies are my 2 year olds faves right now.

hmmm…I probably have dessert at least 5 times a week. I should be better about that too. Especially since I can’t run as much right now, so it’s not like I’m burning it off like I used to! haha!

My hip flexors and calves typically get sore after runs! Currently my hamstrings are pretty sore thanks to Pump Class yesterday though. I think a run will feel nice today to stretch them out a bit.

I’m liking your new dessert challenge… I’m so guilty of eating something sweet 2-3x per day rather than just one dessert. I think my sweet tooth amped up around the holidays and still hasn’t gone back to “normal” (which is still pretty high since I just LOVE sweets).

My knee keeps swelling up on me, but since I am seeing my orthopedist about it and we have been dealing with it for months and have determined its ok I am trying to figure it out in other ways. I think I have determined that I need to figure out a different way to stretch. I went to a pilates class and it has been much better ever since.

Having trouble with dessert since I have started running more I now want more sweets again :)

I only allow myself desert on the weekends… last weekend I had froyo twice! I have been getting pretty great at mastering the best combo-toppings.

Tot meals – we are lucky to have a great eater, but when she is being picky we bust out the kid chopsticks, give her chopsticks and she will eat anything! We have found that she loves quinoa so I try and have that with vegirs and Matt mixed in as a side dish. Soup is also a huge deal, if she can eat all the solid pieces then drink her dinner she is happy!

I tried barre class this week and my legs are super sore!

I wasn’t aware that there was such a thing as “too much” dessert if you aren’t throwing it up…

Woohoo for motivation!! Isn’t that a GREAT feeling??

I’m sore from a tumbling class (why I thought that was a good idea, I have no clue ;) )
There’s an awesome very hungry caterpillar meal online – as well as other sesame street themed foods :)

I have a dead butt right now. I’ve had a dead butt for a while, apparently it’s a syndrome…technically its called Gluteus Medius/Minimus Tendinosis or Gluteal tendinopathy but I call it dead butt and it hurts.

I eat dessert every day and sometimes twice or even three times. I’m working on this, but it’s so hard not to have dessert after every meal. I have been substituting ice cream for fruit or jello and that seems to work a little but I cannot and I will not give up my froyo!

Williams Sonoma has these awesome pancake molds shaped like star wars ships, Brooke is a little young for that, but I make them all the time and the kids, (my husband and grown son) love them and I do too. ;)

I eat dessert after lunch and dinner–every day! I just feel like I always need a little something and YOLO! When I get sore it’s definitely in my left hip/glute area. I’ve injured that area so many times it is my weak link without a doubt. I think it is what keeps me from ever going more than 10 miles but I am totally OK with that. Some running is way better than no running!

Question: will you do a recovery run today to help the DOMS? Would love to know how you work through that.

Take care!

I’ve actually been sore a little lately because I’ve actually been cross-training on my bike.

I give you two days on limited desserts before you cave! :-)

I usually get sore/tight in my calves and IT band…foam rolling is a necessity!

I have to have more sort dark chocolate everyday – usually just a little piece will do. Otherwise I go out with friends for froyo once a week or so!

My 4-year old asks for dessert after all meals including breakfast. She only gets it after some lunches and dinners but she keeps asking. My kids are all way too keyed into “d” … a family of sweet tooths (teeth?) we are. Best toddler meals are ones they’ll eat! I always start off feeding them what I’m eating and when the balking gets tiresome I break out the hot dogs, quesadillas, pb&j, spaghetti… Seriously, whatever works.

I am also trying to tame my sweet tooth but it is really easier said than done!

Thank you Janae for continually educating me on running and working out. I am still such the virgin to all this. I have been hobbling around since Sunday afternoon. I am so sore. I ran 7 miles on Saturday and pushed myself faster than normal to an 8:30 pace. Normally I run at 8:50 pace. The pace was not hard at all so clearly I have been holding out on myself. I am still recovering from a cold so I just said an hour run is enough.

I ran another 4 miles Sunday morning and did some leg workouts at the gym. Woke up Monday and it hurt to get out of bed. (I do not foam roll, maybe that would help?)

Took Monday & Tuesday off and ran 6 miles today. Still sore…but I do love it. I ran my first half marathon in Nov and I wasn’t sore after that. Should of pushed harder. Now I know.

I dont even eat meat but Ive always wanted to go to Fogo de Chao just for the salad bar! Brazilian steakhouses always have the best from what I hear!

I love new Instagram photos too and probably check it a little too often! I usually have dessert once a day – ice cream is my favorite so I usually hold out on any other desserts throughout the day. :)