5 Healthy Ways to Enjoy the Fall

1. Get Outside and go for a long walk or hike and enjoy the beautiful scenery and changing leaves.

2. Make a homemade chili and enjoy watching some Sunday football with your significant other or family!

Paleo Lean Beef Chili Recipe

3. Take a day trip to go apple picking. Last Fall Marc and I went when I was pregnant, and I can’t wait to bring Ava this year.

(This picture is from last year when I was 7 months pregnant!!)

4. Make a new healthy Pumpkin recipe. There are tons of great ones out there.

Here ares some of my own quick simple Pumpkin Recipes

Pumpkin Bread

Pumpkin Spice Coffee

Skinny Pumpkin Cookies

Quick Pumpkin Oats

5. Carve Pumpkins with your family and cook the Pumpkin seeds as a treat for later!

What healthy fall traditions do you have? 

Do you like pumpkin flavored everything like me???

Some of the hills were pretty steep and I could tell that I was breathing heavy at some points! Man I was really feeling the extra weight I am carrying around. We hiked for about 45 minutes which was plenty of time, my legs were tired!

This was one of the nice views we had, it was very peaceful and quiet at the park! After our hike we headed back to our hotel to shower and go to dinner.

On Saturday I woke up at 5:30am and decided to let Marc sleep in a bit. Our hotel had a Dunkin Donuts not too far away so I walked over and grabbed this coffee!!

I indulged in a little pumpkin spiced coffee (I got one pump of the pumpkin spice since the syrup can be overly sweet) After Marc woke up we got breakfast and headed to the hotel gym!! It was basically like a private small gym and we got in a good workout. I did a 20-minute Elliptical Interval and then 20 minutes Upper Body Strength Workout for Triceps, Back, and Chest!

This workout was performed as supersets: meaning I performed the exercises for each muscle group back to back with no rest in between. I did however rest in between body parts.

Triceps- Overhead Extensions & Tricep Dips, Back- One arm rows & reverse flies, Chest- Pushups and Incline Chest press, I did 2 rounds of each of these exercises, and I even threw in a set of bicep curls at the end!

APPLE PICKING… was next on the list of things to do for our Fall weekend

Beardsley’s Orchard in Shelton, CT

We arrived at Beardsley’s Cider Mill & Orchard in Shelton, CT around 10am when they opened. We decided to head there early because the weather wasn’t looking promising and we wanted to make sure to pick some apples before it rained! As you can see it was cloudy!

There were 5 different kinds of apples available to pick: Liberty, Macoun, Cortland, Junagold, & Gala

We sampled a few (shhhh) My favorite was the Macoun but they were all quite tasty. My least favorite was the Junagold, it was a little too dry and not as fruity/sweet as the others. We ended up buying close to 13 lbs of apples which we shared with my family. I am looking forward to making a new apple dessert this week! Overall it was a great weekend.

HAPPY FALL!