Author: Sadie

Workout Songs: Part 3

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Aside from the Old School and Top 40 tracks, one key part of my workout music repertoire is the girl power genre.  Some days that’s exactly what I need to get motivated and keep me focused during my workout.  Some of my favorite artists are perennial members of this genre, and I pretty much celebrate their whole  catalogue.  Regardless of the specific song lyrics I will usually find motivation in songs by Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, Ciara, Rihanna, The Pussycat Dolls, and several others.  There are a lot of good choices in this area of music, here are some of my favorites.

Girl Power Songs

  1. Raining Men by Rihanna feat Nikki Minaj
  2. Stronger by Kelly Clarkson
  3. Here I Come by Fergie
  4. Pretty Girl Rock by Keri Hilson
  5. Born This Way by Lady Gaga
  6. Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benetar
  7. Since You’ve Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson
  8. Get Me Bodied by Beyonce
  9. Trouble by Pink
  10. Fly by Nicki Minaj
  11. We Run This by Missy Elliot
  12. Rumor Has It by Adele
  13. Fergalicious by Fergie
  14.  Diva by Beyonce
  15. I Don’t Need a Man by The Pussycat Dolls
  16. So What by Pink
  17. That’s Right by Ciara
  18. It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay (dance mix) by Whitney Houston (or Glee version even though boys sing it)
  19. Million Dollar Girl by Trina and Keri Hilson
  20. Check On It by Beyonce

Stay tuned for Hardcore/Motivational songs, and Cool Down music.

What songs did I miss?

Getting on the Bandwagon

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So I’m not sure about you, but I keep stumbling upon pictures of Miley Cyrus out and about everywhere.  Miley is obviously a celebrity at this point, but I’m not 100% why.  She earned her celebrity status in a traditional manner through nepotism and a television show, but what has she done lately?

Though she’s young and I’m sure she has a lot ahead of her in her career, right now she reminds me a little of people like Jessica Simpson.  Yes she was a popular singer at one point.  Yes she successfully transformed that into several brands and business ventures.  Why exactly do the paparazzi follow her around now?

Anywho, confusion aside, Miley has recently been happy to endorse the option of going gluten-free.  I find this option extremely appealing, but seemingly impossible to practice.  While I do believe it would be beneficial to my digestive system, I would hate to put what seems like an extreme amount of effort into meal planning.  Especially since I don’t feel I have severe medical reasons for doing so.

But then I saw this decadent recipe from Martha, and gluten-free never seemed so delicious:

Flourless Double Chocolate Pecan Cookies (Gluten Free)

From Martha

Yields about 12 depending on size

Ingredients

  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 5 oz. chopped bittersweet baking chocolate
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans (I also saw a version in her magazine with macadamia nuts)
  • 4 egg whites (room temp, FYI baking with egg whites only works with real eggs, not egg whites from a carton)

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 325.
  2. Combine sugar, cocoa, salt, chocolate, and pecans.  Stir until mixture is uniform.
  3. Add egg whites to mixture and stir to make sure mixture is wet throughout, but try not to over mix.
  4. Drop dough as flat discs on parchment lined baking sheets.  The cookies will expand slightly in the oven.  Bake for 25 minutes.  The cookies will look dry and cracked when they’re done.

I enjoyed these because they an intense chocolate flavor and because of the egg whites they have a meringue-like consistency to them.