Energy Balls

So a goal for this year is me trying to be a bit healthier. I'm not going to stop eating sugar, or stop drinking my Sodalicious' but I'm trying to make a few better choices. So I decided to make some healthy energy balls that I found online. Here's the recipe:

1 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 cup flaxseed (can be ground or whole, I used whole here, but I think I'll do ground next time)
1/3 cup agave
1 scoop protein powder (the recipe called for vanilla, but I just used a regular non-flavored one)
1 tsp vanilla extract

Stir together all the ingredients in a large bowl. Refrigerate for 2 hours. Then, remove from fridge.

 Roll into balls.

(yes this picture is upside down, deal with it)
Store these in the fridge between eatings, you need to keep them cool or else they'll fall apart. But, these are really tasty. I think I would go ground flaxseed next time, because the whole ones get stuck all up in my teeth, and I don't care for that. But otherwise, these are good.

Hurts so Good

Lately, my feet hurt. Not the whole foot, and not even all the time. But there’s one specific place in the arch that just hurts. Mostly when I stretch it weird, or if I happen to just rub my foot weird on my flip flop. But when I push into the spot, or dig like, the leg of my chair into it, I get a feeling that I can describe as “glorious pain”. I finally understand the phrase: Hurts So Good, because it does. It HURTS when I do that, but it feels amazing too. The other day I was like, I should get a small foam roller for my feet, and work on them (Especially with the half marathon this weekend). I went to Sports Authority, and found:

Now, these feel AMAZING. The gray one is awesome (and if you get these, I recommend doing them with socks on, it takes the intensity out a little, and makes it feel just a little better) and the orange one…feels. It’s not good or bad, necessarily, it just feels different. Pokier, for sure, but I am using the heck out of the gray one. I’m close to bringing it to work to do during the day!
I really enjoy them, and if you have feet pain where I’ve described, or probably any, I would recommend these. Now maybe my feet won’t be too bad this weekend!