When life gives you lemons, use them they're so healthy!!

Lemon is one of the most understated foods, in my opinion. It's great for a dressing to salad, adding zest to water, as a garnish, or adding a little flavor to veggies. According to healthmad.com :

Nutritionally, the lemon constitutes one of nature’s seven top sources of potassium, a mineral that promotes clear thinking, aids in normalizing blood pressure, and works with sodium to regulate the body’s water balance.

That's some pretty cool stuff right there. I started thinking about lemons a week ago, but today for dinner I made Ahi Tuna (you can get great individual frozen tuna steaks at Sam's Club. I pop them on the grill for about 3-4 minutes and they're ready to eat) and zucchini with garlic. Right before I ate it, I squeezed a lemon over my dish. The lemon added flavor. I find lemon is a natural ingredient that I never really used until recently. I prefer to use it over other unhealthy options to spice up food. What makes a salad feel lighter than adding a little lemon juice as dressing? It feels so fresh and summery. I just love it. Lemons also speed up metabolism and help in the digestion of food.

The website continues to say:

Lemons also provide modest amounts of nondairy calcium for healthy bones and teeth, magnesium, an aid in forming albumen in the blood, plus enzymes, iron, phosphorus, and copper. Fresh lemon juice has only 4 calories a tablespoon and just a trace of sodium. More importantly, just a single tablespoon of lemon juice one tenth of your daily requirement for vitamin C. The lemon is one of nature’s five best sources of ascorbic acid.

I think, I'm convinced. I'm a believer, please bring on the lemons. Don't get carried away and make lemonade with tons of sugar, the sugar counteracts all the health benefits. You know the kind I'm talking about, carnival lemonade that looks so refreshing until you seem the workers dump, I mean really dump, sugar into those babies. Oye.

Anyway, moving on. I woke up and ran, but for some reason this morning I was super starving and my run was not enjoyable. I felt very nauseous. I think it's because I had one drink last night with my dinner (bad girl, I know!). If I feel that way tomorrow morning, I know it must be something else, and I'll have to look back into my log to figure it out. Here's my run:

For lunch, I went to Sandy's , which isn't a chain so I can't really give nutritional facts or recommendations. Fortunately, I used to work there (and two of my brothers and sister work there as well), so I have an idea of what to eat. After learning about Caesar salad nutritional facts, I stay away from it unless I made it myself. With that being said, I went for a chicken salad wrap with a small side salad. I should maybe do a post on salads, because for each place I eat out at, I see how atrocious their salads are, and it makes me really disgusted. I think people go out to eat and get a salad as their "healthy" option. I know I used to, but it's very deceiving. How many of us have heard the old "just make one of your meals a salad and you'll loose weight?" Clearly, that's not the case if you're eating out. Enough of that rant, I'll eventually do a nice big post on salads for other salad lovers.

Anyway, it's gorgeous out and I'm off to a pig roast. Yup, you read it correctly, a pig roast.