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Dreams of Root Vegetables

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Whew, Tuesday is almost over!  My meeting went well, I still have no idea which career path I’ll choose but it is exciting to learn about the options.  After my meeting I swung by the house to pick up the husband, who graciously offered to go along on my printing/mailing resume errands.

True Story – while we were driving he got annoyed that I don’t know what I want to do and said – “You’ll never know what you want to do.  Next thing I’ll know you’ll want to be a turnip!  Do you need to go back to school to be a turnip!?!”  And now he has called me Turnip for the rest of the day.  Holy cow I love my funny husband!

On our way home – resumes successfully mailed, hopefully I will be substituting at some point – we stopped in The Spot for coffee.

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I got a small  Chaider; steamed apple cider and chai tea.  Mmn, fall!  I actually think I’m going to head back to the Spot to work tomorrow, I haven’t been getting much done at home 😦

I was feeling sick with hunger when we got home so I got a snack while I worked on my lab (which I can not do without help, boo!).

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A bumped log,

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with Granny Smith slices with cinnamon caramel apple dip.

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I had a coupon for the dip and you know I’m a sucker for all foods fall.

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After struggling with Chemistry for forever I moved on to making dinner.  On the meal plan was a recipe from the November “Everyday with Rachael Ray” ‘lightened up’ moussaka.

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I can’t share the recipe but if you bought the magazine and are planning to try it here are the changes I made:

  • used 99% lean ground turkey instead of beef
  • skipped the food processor and used low fat whipped cottage cheese
  • used half graffiti eggplants
  • add 1/2 pint mushrooms

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We actually got busy and didn’t even eat dinner so I’ll have to review the recipe tomorrow!  I have a busy day planned tomorrow – no room for headaches! – so don’t be surprised if I don’t post until dinner.  Night!

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Ice Ice Baby

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It’s been a busy, but random.  I had plans of getting up early but the husband felt like studying until 1am last night which totally threw me off.  When we were in the city and my job was crazy he was always mad at me for staying up until 4am while he tried to sleep (especially difficult in our one room apartment!).  Here, where he is in medical school and I do nothing am not, the situation is reversed.  We have multiple rooms now but I’ve found I have a hard time falling asleep without him around – cheesy relationship moment alert!!!

When I did get up at 10 this morning I went straight to the phone for the next 3 hours!  I don’t know if I actually accomplished that much, but at least I got the ball rolling!  My hunger was totally off and I ended up eating the last serving of pretzels for breakfast!

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Unhealthiness aside, here is a healthy tip: buy a food scale!  I’m not saying you need to be obsessive and measure everything you put in your mouth, but things like pretzel nuggets add up faster than you think – a serving of those bad boys is ONE ounce.  Once you are eating pretzels straight out of the bag for breakfast, there is no way you are going to pull out a measuring cup.  But plopping the bag on the food scale?  Easy.  (P.S. My scale read 1 and 1/4 oz, so with the weight of the bag I had a perfect serving left)

At 1pm – once I had at very least left a message with every single number on my list – I set out for the gym sat on the couch and kissed Adam and stole some slices of his turkey pepperoni.  I ended up pushing the gym back to the end of the evening in favor of going to the post-office and being dropped off at the Spot.  I worked on Chemistry by myself for a while before Caroline met me for some group studying.  By myself I got a late lunch.

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A big diet coke and a turkey cajun  wrap (turkey, lettuce, tomato, pepperjack cheese, cajun sauce, ww wrap).

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The salad looked over-dressed so I didn’t even taste it, but I demolished the sandwich.

During my social studying I also had a medium pumpkin pie latte (pumpkin, vanilla, cinnamon; 1pump syrup, skim milk).

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Yums.

Caroline dropped me off at home at 9 and after so very brief glancing at the magazines I got in the mail we set out for the gym.  It was about time too, I’d been rocking this look since 10am!

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I always work out in baggy t-shirts but I went ahead and bought some running tank tops last weekend.  Somehow I feel more “official,” not that I look too fine in that picture!!  I’ll show you all of my new finds as I wear them; this one was $4 at Target.

On the treadmill I did 10minute warm up – 20minute run – 5 minute cool down.  In the end the totals were 3.25miles and 361 calories.  My legs are still crazy bothering me (my knees, hips, ankles often hurt but lately it is an intense pain in my calves!).  I did a lot of stretching when I got home and now I am trying icing them.

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We’ll see how it goes.

I can’t believe I’m doing such a late recap post but considering that dinner just kind of never happened I guess it’s not that surprising!  I got a lot done today, but tomorrow is still going to be jam-packed.  We just found out our in-laws are visiting this weekend which makes this week even busier.  I’ve got to go deal with my ice bags and take a shower, see you in the am!

Do you ice?  Any tips for me?

Savory Instead of Sweet

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Hello, lunch-eaters!  My morning has gone well; it looks like the notecards won’t be finished until tomorrow but my labs are totally up to date.  My pumpkin pudding smoothie held me over well but I did snack on a bowl of red grapes while I worked.

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By noon it was time for lunch.  When I received a Nature’s Pride sample as part of the Foodbuzz Tastemakers program I actually was sent two loaves.  I seem to hardly ever eat bread and I was worried that Adam would move too slowly and we’d develop a mold problem, so into the freezer one loaf went.  Once we were ready for more bread we simply moved the loaf down to the fridge and gave it a few hours to defrost.  This is a good solution if you find a bread(product) sale at your grocery store too.

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With 12 Grain I made a yummy french toast, so I knew that would be good for 100% Whole Wheat as well.  But I was feeling adventurous.  Which led to…….

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savory french toast!  I sanwiched sliced turkey, Crofter’s North American Superfruit Spread and dijon mustard between two slices of Nature’s Pride Whole Wheat.  Then I dipped the ‘wich in a mixture of egg/.5C chicken broth.  I cooked it for ~3minutes on each side in a pan with .5T Smart Balance Light.  Finally it got topped off with maple syrup, Chipotle Tabasco, and squeeze cheese.

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Mmmn.  I loved this mess mix of flavors!  Next time I would leave off the sqeeze cheese (which I mostly ate around anyway), but we had it and it looked fun.  I doused it with hot sauce the the spice/egginess combo was perfection.

I am watching an episode of “Mercy” while I eat my lunch and then it’s back to work.  I think I will cook dinner before I leave for class, but I’ll post it this evening.  All that really matters is that I remember my lab goggles!

Have you ever tried savory french toast?  What’d you think?  {I realize this is similar to a Monte Cristo}

Rain Check

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The intense torrential downpour all day mucked up my plans, but I did find some fun substitutes!  I had so many crazy dreams last night that I ended up pressing snooze on the alarm this morning until after 9.  I ate a Cashew Almond Boomi Bar on the way to volunteering today.

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I liked the flavorbut I was running late so I only ate 3/4 of it.

For lunch at the hospital I used my voucher to get a sandwich from the cafeteria.

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Chicken salad in a jalopeno wrap with spring mix lettuce, bell peppers, banana peppers, sundried tomato and pesto sauce.  I ate 85% or so.

Adam had the day off from school (Yom Kippur) so he picked me up at the hospital to save me from the rain.  I had planned on going to the gym but once I saw the sky it didn’t take much convincing to get me to see a movie with him!  We went to a 3o’clock showing of “Surrogates,” which we both enjoyed.  We hit up Dairy Queen at the mall.

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I ordered a small oreo cookie dough blizzard.

I was very glad that Adam drove me to class because the rain was so bad you could barely see.  We ended up taking the (slow) main road home instead of the highway because it was so bad.

When we got home we made the perfect rainy day dinner – pizza!  I would say it was super veggie, but by the time the husband got done with it it was super cheesey!

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On a store bought crust we piled

  • 12oz pizza sauce
  • 2C reduced fat mozzarella cheese
  • 1 chopped red bell pepper
  • 1 chopped yellow bell pepper
  • 3/4pint mushrooms
  • 1/2 sliced yellow onion

We precooked the veggies for 15minutes at 475* before we put them on the pizza.  Look at how sweet our pizza sauce was –

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It was very tasty, but we definitely bought it because I fell in love with the can!

After it came out of the oven I ate 1/4 of the finished product.

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Yums.  We watched the new episode of “Bones” while we ate and towards the end I had a half serving of Lindt Sea Salt Dark Chocolate.

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Yums x2.

I’m disappointed that the gym didn’t happen because I have to go back to the doctor on Thursday, but such is life.  I always appreciate hang out time with the husband.  Have a great night everybody!

What do you like to put on pizza?  My favorite toppings are green olives and broccoli.  I also really like cheeseless pesto pizza.

House in the House

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I don’t know how I managed to get Adam out of bed at 8am to run with me this morning, but I did.  He’s not the best running partner though, he made me laugh so hard I had to take a break!  His brother’s neighborhood had a loop, so I ran that 3x and walked in once.  The husband measured it afterwards and found out the loop was .75mile.  That means I did 3miles total, with my walk included.  39minutes, 273calories.

I played a rousing game of Hungry Hippos with my niece before I decided I was a hungry hippo and it was time for a shower.  Then I put together a random lunch plate.

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An apple and a few pieces of sliced turkey.

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Cheese and pizza bites.

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I actually ate another piece bite too, and when I realized I was still starving I got a bowl of cereal.

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I haven’t had Lucky Charms in years!

We were supposed to go to the fair today but it is raining buckets so we are just hanging out around the house.  And watching House, they have the newest episode on dvr.  Hope everyone else is having a sunny Saturday.

What are your Saturday plans?

Put Up Your Dukes

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I’m doing good work of my to-do list, but there is still much to do so this will be quick.

1st things 1st.  My gorgeous amazing perfect friend just went through a break-up and I am sending her love.  Just the other day, this friend and I discussed how silly it is that bloggers pretend to have *the perfect* marriage.  If you truly never argue more power to you, but I’m kind of a b**ch so I just don’t see that happening for me.  That said; the first few years of marriage suck.  The first few years of medical school suck.  Being unsure about what to do with my life sucks.  And my fabulous husband and I are angry bitter people, we can’t just do yoga and mentally picture the suckiness floating away in a bubble, we fight.  A lot.  In fact, the reason I got such a late start this morning is because we screamed at each other instead of going to bed.  But you know what?  I love my husband.  I love my marriage.  As life calms down and we grow up we will fight less.  But for now we fight, and that’s really ok.

Anywhoo, said fight meant I didn’t leave for coffee/studying until 10:30 this morning.  A PSA to my younger readers – When you are 24, and unemployed, and late, and low on laundry, you too will put on this for drinking coffee.

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Snazzy sparkles aside, I didn’t actually drink coffee, I went with my craving and got a diet coke.

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And it was gooood.  I was at The Spot again, so you know I got another Mike’s sandwich.

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This was not so gooood.  I think I’ve finally kicked my Mike’s craving, this one had too much cheese and turned me off.  Not to say I didn’t finish it 🙂

This afternoon/tonight I need to finish my reading, work on homework, do some housecleaning, pre-make dinner for tomorrow and go to the gym.  Back to the grindstone!

Do you fight or are you a robot?  **totally kidding, I really am happy for people who are that mature

Huevos Rancheros

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Skipping dinner last night left me ravenous this morning!  I knew I needed to remedy that with a big plate of stick-to-your-ribs food.

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It was like Huevos Rancheros, but better!

  1. Chop 2 maple chicken apple sausages, heat in a skillet.
  2. Add 1T SmartBalance Light and 1/2black beans, season with salt and pepper.
  3. Meanwhile, stir together 2eggs with a splash of skim milk and a sprinkle chili powder.
  4. Add eggs to skillet and cook through.
  5. At the last minute, add 2oz chopped cheddar.
  6. Remove from pan and top with 2dashes Chipotle Tabasco and 1-2T salsa.

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‘Twas good!

The reason I am up so early (for me) is because today is busy busy.  I have a doctors appointment at 9:30 (to deal with my ridiculous foot worts that are still there!!!) and then I have my first lab today!  It is supposed to run from 5-8:50 but we are taking a safety test, not doing a lab experiment, so I hope we get out early.  The doctor’s office is near campus so I’m going to go straight to school from there, it will be a loooong day.  I’m going to buy lunch at school and I packed a snack.  Have a great day!

What is your favorite way to eat eggs?  I adore sunny side up with bread for dipping, but lately I’ve been all about salsa on everything.

Hungry Eyes

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Good evening all!  I know I said I was doing a lunch post, but I was supposed to do a lot of things, and instead I slept.  🙂  I did get some of my to do’s finished, but all my kitchen work got pushed back in favor of a nap.

For lunch I did a replay of the best salad ever.

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Did I mention that I microwave the whole thing?  I think that is what makes it so fantastic.  I used bit little bit more hot sauce, salsa, and cheese than the last time 🙂

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I was still super hungry after my first lunch (I told you I get ravenous when I’m feeling sick!) so I made a Flat Out, stuffed with melted cheese.

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Mmmmn, cheesey.

Class this evening went pretty well, I’m pretty psyched that I still understand everything she is talking about!  When I got to campus I was still starving so I stoped at Jamba Juice for a 16oz smoothie.  I got a Caribbean Passion, and it tasted like apple juice.  Apple juice wasn’t listed in the ingredients and I hate apple juice, I had to throw it out 1/3-in.  I hate that!  I find it very stressful to make the “wrong” choice with food.  Food court situations send me into a tizzy.

On the drive home I suddenly felt much better so I took advantage of the random burst of energy and went to the gym.  I had 3miles scheduled so I cranked up the treadmill.  Today I put the incline on .5 to (slightly) approximate running outside.  With warm up/cool down I did 3.5miles and 35minutes.  Afterwards I did some abs (70reps) and stretching.  All total: 43minutes, 441calories.  I am loving my great playlist, I listen to it in the car everyday too!

After my intense hunger all day now that it’s finally dinnertime I’m not even hungry!  If the feeling strikes after my shower I’ll make something, but either way I’ll see you in the am!

When you are under the weather do you end up eating more or less?  I feel like my hunger is always the opposite of normal, sickness makes me ravenous!  Plus I get way more hungry in the heat and have no appetite when it’s cold.