Author Archives: Emily

Better News

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Good morning, good morning, good morning!!  I am in a blissfully good mood today.  The good news from the other day can’t even touch this morning’s.

  • You know that thing I’ve been worrying about but can’t really blog about?  It’s been dealt with, finally, and I can stop freaking out.
  • THIS MORNING I DROPPED OFF OUR SECURITY DEPOSIT FOR OUR NEW APARTMENT!!!!  I didn’t want to blog about it until it was a sure thing, but in July we are going to flee this hell-hole and move into a fabulous new spot that just happens to be walking distance from my new school! 

The not so good news is that my leg (where the fracture was/is) has been hurting so I had to cancel my run.  But there’s nothing that’s going to get me down today; I threw on a 20minute playlist and did strength/stretch moves on my yoga mat.

It feels so good to get the lead out!

Breakfast didn’t get eaten until after 10:45.  I was starving and it was satisfying.

0% Oikos Greek Yogurt with a chopped plum and a drizzle of maple syrup. 

Plums are actually my very favorite Greek yogurt mix-in.

On the agenda for today?

  • a shower, duh!
  • trip to the post office
  • doctor’s appointment for a skin check
  • eat 2.5cups of veggies!

How often do you get a skin check?  Why do you (or don’t you) think it’s important?  Everyone should get a skin check yearly, but since I have a history of skin cancer in my family, and a lot of sun damage from my island childhood, I try to go every 6months.

I Take It Back

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Please disregard my pumpkin yogurt advice from this morning.  I’ll certainly never be eating it again.  I appears I have food poisoning.  Good times today, good times.  No real post, obviously, but I hope to be back tomorrow.

What was the last food that made you sick?  Any plans on eating it ever again?  I don’t really want to see canned pumpkin for a looooong time.

Fall in May

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My veggie consumption was pretty pitiful yesterday, so I knew I needed to start today on the right foot.  Hence, breakfast –

Fat-free Oikos Greek Yogurt with 1/3 cup canned pumpkin and 1T real maple syrup.

Since the weather outside is more fall than spring

breakfast seemed perfect.

Eat More Veggies Tip #3 – Don’t be afraid to eat veggies at all hours of the day; there’s no written rule that breakfast has to be cereal and fruit.

Today is looking very low-key, I have a few quick errands and an even quicker gym trip but other than that I’m wide open (TWSS!).  Perhaps I’ll do some baking 😀

Veggies eaten so far today: .5cup

What is the most non-traditional breakfast you enjoy?  I personally don’t think anything can beat cold pizza in the am.

Breaking the Fourth Wall

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I’m very open on my blog, probably to a fault.  I share about my lady business and even my fights with the husband.  There is nothing in my personal life that I chose not to share with the blog.  However, I did manage to mature before Facebook, and there are things from my business life that I have the savvy not to share.

Which in general wouldn’t be a problem, except that sometimes these things involve frustrating long errands and news that makes me irritated and sad.  And these feelings and errands do end up impacting what/how I eat, which is the focus of the blog.

For today, I’ll apologize for being vague, and ask that you don’t request an explanation for my strange eats and short post.  Thank you.

Breakfast = vending machine pastry while I was stuck waiting for an appointment.

This actually wasn’t terrible, but I was pretty annoyed to not be filled up by a 450calorie “breakfast.”

Starbucks for caffeine.

Grande iced Americano with skim milk.

{insert 4 hour nap here}

Dinner = grilled turkey sandwich on sourdough (no butter) with swiss, 1000island dressing, and tomatoes.

Veggies eaten today: 1cup, of potatoes, which count but still boo.

If you are a blogger, are there any parts of your life you choose not to share?  Why or why not?

My “First” Run

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It’s a late evening, but I’m not that worried about bedtime because Adam and I actually took a long nap this afternoon!  We haven’t been sleeping very well and it felt great to catch some daytime zzz’s.

Post-nap, we headed over to the gym for my 1st run in 2months!  I hopped on the treadmill for 5minutes walking, 5minutes at a slow jog, and 5minutes of walking for 1mile and 15minutes.  I can’t even tell you how hard it was to make myself stop running!  I ended with 15minutes of strength training.  My fracture didn’t hurt at all, but I had a twinge higher up in my leg so I did use a cold pack when I got home.

I was dying to eat dinner, so I snaked on a big handful of dried apricots while I waited.

Dinner was mostly an excuse to demolish my daily veggie goal.

Here is the recipe link, but I basically topped thin ww spaghetti with roasted broccoli, mushrooms, and tomatoes.

Delish!  P.S.  I also ate a small serving of dark chocolate whilst Buffy watching.

Veggies eaten today: 3.5cups

Great News

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I hope everyone is having a great Monday.  Mine has been full of all sorts of good news so far –

  • I got a 95% on the final and ended up with an A- in Anthropology
  • I finished my first set of Chemistry classes with an A in 102
  • My leg hasn’t hurt for the 3rd day in a row (more on what that means below)
  • Our plans are all set to visit Adam’s brother this weekend

As you might guess, I’m in a pretty good mood 😀  And all good days start with good breakfasts.

Stonyfield Blueberry Fat Free Yogurt with All-Bran Wheat Flakes (my final sample box) and fresh blackberries.

I’m going to be volunteering again for the next three weeks, so after breakfast I headed off to the hospital.  It felt so good to be back I ended up staying long over my time-commitment.

My late lunch was a veggie sensation.

I finally got to try the Nut-Butter Crusted Parsnip Fries blogworld has been raving about.

I tossed 1.5cups of peeled and chopped ‘snips in 2T of SunButter, then sprinkled them with salt and baked at 400* for 30minutes.  Here is the original recipe.  Angela was right, they are life-changing; I want to eat this every day!

I also had 1/2 cup of vegetarian baked beans.

Eat More Veggies Tip # 1 – Don’t be afraid to test their versatility, most veggies can go savory or sweet.

Eat More Veggies Tip # 2 – Canned veggies are just as healthy, and because they are non-perishable to easy to always have them on hand.

While I wait for lunch to digest, I will tell what about what I consider to be the best news of all: I can run again!!!!!  My doctor told me that my leg wouldn’t stop hurting until the fracture was fully healed, so 3 days without pain should mean I’m good to go.  I want to be able to keep running, so I’m going to be VERY careful.  i.e. –

  • icing as much as possible
  • stretching every day
  • working on leg strength training 3x a week
  • never running 2 days in a row
  • taking things really really slowly.  This first week I’m only going to let myself run for 5minutes.  And I’m not going to cross-train either until I’m sure I’m really healed.

So in just a bit I’ll be off to the gym, so exciting!  I’ll let you know how it goes over dinner.

Veggies eaten so far today:  2cups

Gotten any good news lately you’d like to share?  Brag away!

May 10th – May 16th: Eat 2 Cups of Vegetables Each Day

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I’m challenging myself to eat a more healthy diet this month.  You can check this post for more information, but essentially I am turning to the USDA’s food pyramid for inspiration.  This week’s goal is to hit or surpass the daily recommended allowance of veggies.

Here is a chart from MyPyramid.gov with the recommended allowances –

Since I’m a woman in my 20s my goal will be to eat at least 2.5 cups of veggies each day this week.  The pyramid divides the veggie requirement into 4 subgroups – dark green vegetables, orange vegetables, dry beans and peas, and starchy vegetables – I’ll try to spread my consumption across all four groups.

Here are some examples of what “1cup” of means for the common veggies-

The website has good tips for including mores servings into your diet.  Just like last week with fruit, I’ll being give my own ideas for squeezing in vegetables as well.

[All images and facts in this post sourced from http://www.mypyramid.gov]

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

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It is soooooo windy here today!  I’m a little afraid that if I take a nap I’ll wake up exclaiming “we’re not in Kansas anymore Toto!”  Or maybe that’s just on my mind because the latest episode of “Bones” had a witch in red slippers 🙂

However,  as always, hunger > bad weather so we braved the gales and headed to the grocery store.  Our weekly salad bar trip is kind of my favorite date!

I didn’t eat breakfast so I really made lunch count!  A little bit of general tso chicken,

a big scoop of ginger eggplant (the same pretty healthy, super tasty stuff from last week),

a bit of broccoli,

and some delicious fresh fruit, i.e. mango, watermelon, and pineapple.

Yums!  It made perfect fuel for sale scouring.  I also had a few undocumented samples.

Now we are going to follow the yellow brick road on down to the movie theater.  Hope everyone else is having a great Saturday!

Fruit eaten so far today: ~1.5cups

*****Updated to add –

Everything I didn this weekend seemed to be very picture unfriendly – dark movie theatres, bars, etc – so I decided to spare you the bad pictures and start fresh on Monday.  Hope everyone had a great weekend!