Recipe:

• 1 serving of whole grain pasta
• 1 handful of sliced cucumber
• 1 handful of sliced carrots
• 1 handful of yellow bean sprouts
• 1 serving of chopped chicken breast
• 1 serving of sesame dressing*
• 1/2 handful of roasted peanuts

To make the the sesame dressing:

Take two tablespoons of sesame butter, which could be substitute by natural peanut butter if you can’t find an Asian supermarket nearby, then pour a couple tablespoons of water into the sesame butter and stir them together. You want to stir the dressing until it becomes gooey. You may have to add more water to the sesame butter, but little by little, to find the right consistency. After getting the right consistency, you may add 1/2 tablespoons of low-sodium soy sauce, finely chopped garlic, and 1 tablespoon of rice vinegar into the dressing. Finally, you pour the sesame butter dressing onto the spaghetti and other ingredients and stir them well. By the way, the dish should be served cold. So plan ahead and cook your noodles, yellow bean sprouts, and chicken a couple hours earlier.

• Incline Bench (135 lbs.) & Body Weight Squat: 4 x 10
• Dumbbell Shoulder Press: 50-40-30-20-10 lbs, 10 reps for each weight without rest in between sets
• Lat Pull Downs (100 lbs & 80 lbs) & Pull-ups: 4 x 10
• Barbell Curls (65 lbs) & Dumbbell Curls (15 lbs): 2 x 10
• Closed Grip Bench (135 lbs) & Backward Dip: 2 x 10
• Abs
• Cardio: ran 1.5 miles with the kids from football practice

Enjoy your Chinese and work hard!