It’s been a few days since I’ve updated the ole blog. Life happens. We had some sickness going on in our house, which is never fun to see your little one suffer. I also just needed some time to think over and reflect upon some personal stuff. I may feel like sharing it all later, but for now I want to talk about something happy. Workouts make me happy. Giving yummy stuff away also makes me happy. So let’s do both! First, a little recap of last week’s workouts.
I did a couple yoga classes (which I continue to love more and more) and a couple strength workouts from Best Body Bootcamp. The following few workouts were the highlight of my week, though.

Yes, indeed! I have now given myself the full month off running and feel ready to get back to it. I promised myself I wouldn’t jump back into runs, though, and take it slow and steady. It definitely felt slow and steady with Couch to 5K, but I’m ready to stick to the program and hopefully come back stronger and healthier in the long run. *pun intended hehe*

A good workout buddy always makes a workout more fun! One morning I wanted some good core work. So, I simply popped in a Physique 57 DVD and did 10 to 15 minutes of core work from the DVD. Makenzie was making me laugh the whole time. She tried to do the exercises with me and would look at me struggling. Finally she turned to me and said “Come on, Mommy! This is easy. I can even do it!”. Thanks for the motivation, kid. Ha!

The new RPM release from LesMIlls (release 57) takes things up a notch. Wait, not just a notch. Like a thousand notches. The entire workout included tracks with higher resistance and speed pushes at those higher levels of resistance. My quads burned. And I loved every second of it.
Now I’m inspired and ready for another great week of workouts. First, I need to get some fuel in me. Some Move It Monday style fuel? I’m craving a little hot oat action in the form of Love Grown Hot Oats. My LAST one!
Love Grown Foods launched their new line of Hot Oats about a month ago and I have certainly enjoyed trying the different flavors to share with you.
They have been wonderful for a quick breakfast since they cook up so quickly. You either add hot water and let the oats sit or microwave for 60 seconds on high and let sit for an extra minute or two to reach your desired consistency. I’m pretty picky about oat consistency and was able to reach the perfect texture with the microwave method. Although I will say a bit of my oats exploded every time that way. That’s not so cool.

See the mess on the side of the container? haha!
I would never choose these over stove top oats (well, maybe I would for the peach or blueberry flavors!) but I must say Love Grown hit the sweet spot on an instant oatmeal. The REAL ingredients as an instant oatmeal seals the deal for me. Plus some other great facts:
- under 250 calories.
- 7 grams of protein.
- 5 grams of fiber.
- sodium free
- gluten-free
Love Grown is known for wanting to spread the love, which is just what they plan to do.
Love Grown Foods is offering a prize pack with a sample of each new flavor of Hot Oats and your favorite flavor of their Oat Clusters granola. To Enter:
Mandatory: Just leave a comment on this blog post! A good workout you recently did? Flavor you would like to try? Whatever!
Optional Extra Entry 1: Connect with Love Grown on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. Let me know in another comment if you did!
Optional Extra Entry 2: Share the link to this giveaway on Twitter or Facebook and leave an extra comment that you did. Be sure to tag @lovegrownfoods and @tinareale on Twitter or Love Grown Foods and Best Body Fitness Training on Facebook. Something like this: I entered to win some #hotoats from @lovegrownfoods and @tinareale http://bit.ly/YyVgTU
Good luck!
Giveaway open to US & Canadian residents. Ends Wednesday evening at 11 pm EST.

Mother. Wife. Personal Trainer. Exercise lover. Blogger. Woman of faith. Striving for fitness inside and out. 
































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strawberry raspberry sounds amazing!!!
shared the link via twitter on @LetsTalkAndWalk
Treadmill intervals..always makes for a good sweat! Blueberry all the way!
I follow them on twitter and instagram!
I really want to try this oatmeal! LOL on McKenzie coaching you. Laughter is a good ab workout too.
I follow @LoveGrownFoods on Twitter
I’m so excited that this is gluten free! I just got diagnosed with a gluten allergy and have had such a hard time finding gluten free easy breakfast foods
I tweeted: https://twitter.com/Got2Run4Me/status/295868464478973954
you had had had me at the GF.
which I know oats are—but supposedly these REALLLLY ARE.
Took my first spinning class in a long time recently. I bought a class pass b/c I forgot how much I enjoyed it!
I’ve exploded mine a couple times too in attempt to get to the right consistency, but they really are SO good!
I would love to win as these hot oats aren’t in my area yet!! Dying to try them!!
I follow LGF everywhere
I want to try the blueberry!
I went ice skating yesterday which proved to be a good workout! My calves are definitely feeling it a bit this morning.
Hope you are doing well!
I have yet to see this in our store. I do look forward to trying them – love Love Grown
I follow them on twitter, FB and pinterest
and….I tweeted.
The picture of Mackenzie is adorable! Prayers for you and your family Tina, I hope that things are okay
I hope this is a better week for you and your cute family! Sickness is never fun!
I am 8 1/2 months pregnant, and I will admit that my workouts have pretty much been walking and chasing a toddler! I would love to try the peach flavor!
Connected with Love Grown through all the social media…
Tweeted!
I loooove me some oats
Back when I was a kid and actually ate instant oatmeal packets, strawberries ‘n cream flavor was a fave. So I’d totally love to try that one
I follow Love Grown Oats on Twitter.
Just followed Love Grown Oats on Instagram.
Mmm! The blueberry flavor looks delicious!
Strawberry Raspberry looks amazing!
This weekend I hauled brick around and rode horses on the beach.
Even though they weren’t ‘excerises’ I still loved moving!
shared on twitter
They all sound delicious but I think I would most like to try the peach!
Oh man, strawberry raspberry!? Sign me up!
Followed them on twitter! @omfgitsmel
Shared on twitter
I really want to try the peach! I bet it would be delish. I tweeted the third option also!
Ah, I LOVE the new 57!!! I still have yet to teach it but the practice kicked my booty! So glad you are finding other enjoyable workouts during your hiatus! It always amazes me when I venture out of just running. I always think I’m in such good shape because I run a lot, but I tend to prove to myself that running doesn’t necessarily make an excellent athlete. Yesterday, I did a hot power yoga sculpt class and it kicked my butt! Never thought I would say that from a yoga class.
Ah I’ve been wanting to try these!
that strawberry raspberry flavor sounds fabulous!
i follow love grown foods in all those ways (had been for all but instagram already)
tweeted https://twitter.com/thepajamachef/status/295896827490865152
Pack swim with the local triathlon club. It’s such a great workout because it challenges and motivates you all at once. The crew there is awesome too!
a good workout I did was best body bootcamp this morning!
I would enjoy trying the Strawberry Raspberry flavor! Thanks!
I like LoveGrown Foods on Facebook too!
I’d love to try the blueberry banana. I have breakfast at work during the week and these would be super convenient!
the blueberry banana walnut sounds amazing!
I follow Love Grown on Instagram and Twitter!
I’m sorry your house hasn’t been feeling well. Something’s going around my house too. Ick. I’m on the tail end of it, so I did some yoga this morning. It felt gooooood.
Doing your workout for BBB4 this morning! Loving it!
Recently started Bikram Yoga again! It’s such a great workout and I missed it so much! And I would definitely LOVE the Apple-Cinnamon flavor (as I love all things apple-cinnamon.
A good workout I did recently? Best Body Bootcamp! You’re killing me haha
I am doing your BBB and I LOVE it!!
I would love to try the apple one!
I’d love to try the blueberry and banana flavor!
I tweeted — @BlondeBostonian
i would love to try thr strawberry one or the peach.
I tweeted! https://twitter.com/MyFreckledLife/status/295919687907278849
Also, that Peach Almond Vanilla sounds AMAZING!
Would love to try the blueberry banana!
i’d love to try the blueberry!
I like and follow Love Grown on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. (@BarrAndTable)
I tweeted! https://twitter.com/BarrAndTable/status/295921699369664512
Since I’m oing BBBC right now I’m really diggin’ the strength workouts
I would LOVE to try the Blueberry Banana Walnut!
I would love to try Peach Almond!
Following on twitter and like on FB
I tweeted … @pruttybird
I did a great workout this morning! Just some nice relaxing pilates before I got the day started! These oats look awesome:)
I did TRX yesterday at a studio in Watertown, MA, and it was awesome!
This oatmeal looks so yummy!
I love Couch 2 5k! That’s how I started running, and I have my clients do it on their off days from our sessions all the time
makenzie is so cute!!
& i would absolutely love to win some hot oats since i’m a full time college student and when i’m in a pinch, instant oatmeal is by best friend
I just started training for my first half marathon! so excited. but I would love to win these oats – a perfect post=run breakfast.
The peach vanilla almond looks sooooo good
I have absolutely fallen in love with my most recent workout – a high intensity circuit training bootcamp!! Love Love Love…and I would also love to try these tasty oats – the Peach Almond for sure!
I have started following Love Grown on pinterest.
I would love to try the apple cinnamon flavor!
I follow love grown foods on twitter (Emily__Lynn)
That blueberry banana flavor looks delicious! I would love to try!
I have oatmeal for breakfast almost everyday…I love it!
I’ve always loved oats as a healthy breakfast and when I was younger I was obsessed with the Quaker packets, but now that I know how much sugar is in those I’ve gotten away from them. These look great especially with the protein and fiber count. I think the apples and cinnamon would be delicious!
Raspberry especially but any and all favors sound awesome!
Yum! I want to try them all! I LOVE oatmeal!
I am loving my toning DVDs right now, perfect match for my shorter runs during the week.
I am following them on FB and pinterest! I love oatmeal and eat it almost everyday
The 100 rep workout from your BBB. I felt so accomplished at the end of that workout. I almost shocked a 100 at the end.
P.S. I liked Love Grown on Facebook and connected on Twitter. I also tweeted about it.
I need to see if there is a gym near me that offers RPM! I think all of the oats sound good but I’d probably start with apple cinnamon. It would be nice to have an option of instant oatmeal that has good ingredients.
I follow them on Facebook & Instagram!
I also posted on Facebook with a link to your blog
Blueberry Banana Walnut sounds mighty fine. Would love to get my hands on that yumminess!
I would love to try the peach almond vanilla!
A good workout – we launched BODYPUMP 84 at my gym. I always like to take it up a notch when I lead launches, and I’m still feeling it.
I am loving the Best Body Bootcamp!! Oatmeal would really hit the spot after a good workout. They all sound delish!!!
My favorite and only work out right now is walking! I am 38 weeks preggo
OOohhh! I want to try those.
And I hope everything is well with you!
I’m connected with Love Grown on all the social media outlets!
I’m doing a similar running program (hal higdon’s 5K novice) to get back in the game!
I tweeted!
Oatmeal is my go to breakfast in this deep freeze we are having in the mid-Atlantic.
Became a fan on FB.
Shared via twitter @CelesteFR
About to start day 1 week 4 of BBB! Lovin’ the challenge!
crossfit did me in this morning! Arms already sore! 5 rounds of 5 each: pull ups, chin ups, candlesticks, hollow hold, ring dips. Hurts soooo good
I made myself go to yoga twice last week! That’s huge for me.
I have been doing New Rules of Lifting for Abs. It kicks my butt every work out and I love it!
I would have to try the apple cinnamon or blueberry – those are two go-to favorites
I want to try the yummy looking apple cinnamon!
I tweeted!
and I now follow Love Grown Foods
I would love to try the blueberry banana walnut. YUM!
I followed on instagram, pinterest, FB and twitter!
Don’t count me in on the prize thingy, even though they do look good, I just want to say hi! I will say the workout I did today: Abs, chest and tris, it was awesome!
Sorry to hear about the whole illness polava, I hope all the recoveries are swift, also, I hope your mother is okay
Good luck with the running! I’m not exactly pushing myself enough at the moment, but you’ve just inspired me to do so! Have a great day, Tina
I just finished BBBC Workout A during my lunch break and ROCKED it! I am loving bootcamp and cannot stop talking about it to all of my friends
Following Love Grown on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter!
Would love to get in on this. I finally got out for a run yesterday after being sidelined for a couple of weeks with sniffles and dental work. YAY!
I like them on FB, follow them on Twitter and Pinterest.
And I tweeted
@eatrunsail
Apple Cinnamon sounds really good right now.
Did your BBBC workout this morning! I also co-taught the RPM launch at our gym over the weekend, I agree- this release is no joke!!
So sorry you all have been sick… we got it last week, too. I’m so thankful to have my appetite and energy back again!
I follow Lovegrown on twitter.
And I tweeted!
The oats sound good yum!
Makenzie is so sweet! Love that she enjoys working out with you.
That LesMills looks so cool, must research!
Bob Harper’s DVD’s are killer and I love them. Great when you can’t go to a gym or get outside to run.
apple cinnamon all the way!
The peach flavor sounds AWESOME–I’d love to try it!
And I’m following LoveGrown on Pinterest!
OH how I wish I had RPM or Group Ride near me, my gym has crappy classes and I LOVE spin!! Bet it was fabulous! I love that the abs section of the Physique 57 DVD was hard! I did a Cathe Ab Circuits DVD this morning in my hotel room before my run and it was so hard! I am so used to teaching abs in class, and doing them as I go, and somehow when I teach, I feel superhuman, in a sense,and can bang them out, but doing them solo and not teaching them, SO much harder! Noted
Need to do that more! So glad you are back to running – me too!! My third run, slow and steady, and no pain! Yay us
hehe. And I totally want to try these oats, so so bad! would have been amazing on my work trip this week!!! And end long comment
I would love to try the peaches oatmeal!
I would love to try any of the flavors really. I’m very excited to see that there is another gluten free oats option out there!!! I like to keep oatmeal in my work desk drawer for easy/fast breakfast options!! Can’t wait to try them.
I also am following them on Pinterest.
http://pinterest.com/rcbholz/following/
My best workout is every morning because I get to spend it with my dog – we go running fairly early, before most people are up and there’s no traffic and we get to watch the sun rise together!!
I really want to try the peach oatmeal!
I follow Lovegrown on Twitter!
I follow them on FB too
Spinning this morning!
And I also follow them on Pinterest!
Yum apple cinnamon!
the peach, almond, vanilla looks so good…
For some reason, I am really intrigued by the peach flavor — maybe bc its a flavor I’ve never tried on my own at home? I am DYING to try these — looove LOVE GROWN!!
ps I just tweeted this out as well
The last good workout I did was yesterday! I did HIIT on the treadmill It felt good and a great calorie burn!
I tweeted your giveaway!!
I’m currently in the injury timeout box, so the fact that I still got up early and did an upper body workout this morning is a good thing! I may not be able to use the legs much right now, but that means I *get* to focus on arms and core instead! Yay!! (But I still miss running oh so much!)
I’m a blueberry junkie! That blueberry, banana, walnut flavour sounds delicious!
I need a good hot breakfast option and am going gluten free for the month of February. These look awesome!
I love oatmeal and would love trying this kind! I’m a big blueberry fan so that would probably be my favorite flavor
I connected with Love Grown Foods on all of their media!
I tweeted about the giveaway: https://twitter.com/Fight4Wellness/status/296050337503129601
I’m always up for trying something new for breakfast!!
I tweeted about the giveaway:
https://twitter.com/brkthrufitness/status/296052277620383744
I did an awesome walk-run-sprint interval workout today! And some Oatmeal would have been some great workout fuel
I tweeted
Hope you are all are feeling better!!!
I want!
I have been loving #bestbodybootcamp workouts lately and am LOVING the results. Feeling stronger, looking fitter, getting compliments. Trifecta!
Followed @lovegrownfoods on Twitter
Shared this link on Twitter!
Strawberry & Raspberry…… sounds like heaven to me! Thanks for another great giveaway.
Apple cinnamon!
I tweeted! @JesBWill
Strawberry Raspberry for me!
I like Love Grown Foods on Facebook!
Shared this link on Twitter too!
I would love to try the peachy oats!
I ran and interval 8 x 800 in preparation for a big weekend in May, half marathon on Saturday and a full marathon with my wife on Sunday. Its her first full and I will be with her for moral support. I am hoping to PR in the half with a sub 1:25.
I tweeted: https://twitter.com/FireRunner2379/status/296074043398963200
I recently tried Yoga Sculpt at Core Power Yoga, and it was an awesome workout. Since the class is heated, you sweat a ton AND you lift weights (my arms were screaming at me) AND you incorporate a few yoga postures. Fun!
I follow Love Grown on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
I follow Love Grown Foods on twitter (and I like them on Facebook).
i would love to try these — they’d be perfect for early mornings at school!
I tweeted about the giveaway! https://twitter.com/carrotrunr/status/296074793428594689
I absolutely never win anything. But that doesn’t stop me from trying! I eat oatmeal every day, and would love to try these.
I have GOT to try this oatmeal! Seriously! I love their stats and the flavors sound SO good! They would especially come in handy tomorrow morning when I work at 5am…eeep!
Breakfast is my favorite meal! Oats would be a perfect way to start the day– especially with the cold weather we’ve had here in the northeast! Would love to try the blueberry.
I follow LoveGrownFood on twitter!
Loving the running intervals! Due to injury, long distances aren’t happening anymore, so the intervals have helped me get in the hard work that make me feel strong and accomplished. Thanks for your boot camp inspiration!!!
pick me!!
Workout! Best body workout! Feeling sore and strong
Love kids’ honesty aye? haha. Yum, I wish love grown would come to Aus- put the good word in for me will ya?
I’d like to try the Apple Cinnamon Hot Oats! Yum!
I liked Hots Oats Facebook page.
I shared this giveaway on Facebook.
I am follow HomeGrown Foods on Pinterest.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Love Grown Foods! Blueberry Hot Oats I’m sure would be nice!
PS. I’ve connected via Facebook!
I definitely agree that when microwaving oats it’s nearly impossible to reach the proper consistency, but from the photo of your bowl of oats it certainly looks as if you did. Delicious!
blueberry banana is calling my name
Apple cinnamon or french vanilla sound fab!
I tweeted about the giveaway !
I’m going to track these down somewhere! They’re portable and look delish! (Plus you say they’re pretty great!!!)
I also just ‘liked’ Love Grown Foods on Facebook!
I just did workout C on Sunday and I am STILL SORE. It was a great workout!
I did workout A last night….still feeling it but in a good way
Yay for some great workouts!
I’d LOVE to try the hot oats!!!!!
ALL flavors sound delicious! Id loooove to win!
I had the best run of 2013 (so far!) on Sunday- 10 miles at a great pace and I felt wonderful the whole time!
I like Love Grown FOods on Facebook and am following them on Instagram and Pinterest! (I dont have twitter)
first time on the spin bike this week and was actually able to stand while pedalling, small victory! ive always wanted to try those oats, i cant seem to find them in Toronto!
I want to try the love grown oats so bad! The apple cinnamon flavor is calling my name!
I have liked Love Growns facebook page, followed them on twitter, pinterest, and instagram!
I took a great hip hop class at Alvin Ailey last week. Also I would loove to try the peach flavor.
I’ve been trying to get back into swimming lately, so thats been my best workout this week. Its hard because I used to swim competitively and now I can’t even keep up with my times from when I was 10 years old, but it still feels amazing to get in the pool.
It’s been way too long since I’ve had oatmeal, I was eating it every day! This looks like what I need to get out of my rut. The banana blueberry walnut flavor sounds delicious.
I am a Facebook fan of Love Grown Foods
I just tweeted about the giveaway: https://twitter.com/melissa_826/status/296727758183202817
Ummmm, how about all the BBB ones in the last week?! My body is so sore.
So excited to try the new oats!! Love me some oatmeal!
The Apple Cinnamon sounds delicious!
BBB is kicking my butt!
Just became a fan of Love Grown Foods on Facebook!