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Random

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I have not gotten near enough done today (unless you count the huge stack of magazines I powered through as an accomplishment) so this post needs to be quick.  All of my food choices have been unbelievably random today.

“Breakfast” was the last serving of Food Should Taste Good Lime Chips.

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For lunch I followed last night’s theme and did some more using up.  The last Flat Out wrapped around the last Boca Spicy Chik’n Patty, with lettuce, carrots, cheese, and buffalo sauce.

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For fruit I made a smoothie – 1C passionfruit pulp, 1 fat free plain Oikos, big splash oj, drizzle honey.

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And I snacked on a Healthy Hazel Boomi Bar sample.

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I’ll be back after class this evening.

Tell me one random thing about yourself.  I’ll go first – My middle name is Helen.

Autumn is for Apples

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I was having camera and computer issues yesterday so I figured I was better off forgetting about a post.  I’ve been feeling very, very under-motivated lately so I can’t say I personally accomplished much, but I did get a lot of excitement in the mail!  I have some fun reviews coming up 🙂

I did spend a lot of my downtime yesterday thinking about what my goals are.  I sort of have a list, but I think it’s important to put things down on paper so once I’ve solidified that I will share it with you all.  With that in mind, I started my day at 5:30am.  It wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be.  I’m going to work on some getting up early strategiesthis week and if I hit success I’ll let you guys know.

My doctor’s appointment for today was cancelled so my plans got slightly switched around.  The first thing I decided to do was tackle my lab work for this evening.  It’s going to be a long and difficult one tonight, eek!  I hope I do ok, and I really hope I get my quiz from last week back (and that I did ok!).

I was dreaming of apple picking while I ate – 1/2 an Apple Pie Lara Bar and a Nonfat Apple Turnover Yopliat Yogurt.

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Breakfast was pretty light so I’m going to enjoy this Rockstar Juiced while I do Chemistry reading.

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Next on the agenda is a trip to the gym.  I’m trying to time it so I can walk straight from sweating to Walgreens, I have a 10am appointment to get my flu shot.  Anyone want to mentally send me a lollipop for being brave?!?!

Are you a morning bird or a night owl?  I’m a little bit of both.  I’ve never been someone who is especially sluggish in the morning (not that I’ve been up for morning lately!) but I’ve always been able to stay up late.  When I was in high school I didn’t need much sleep and I was basically hyper from morning until night 🙂

I Was Just Brought a Bellini

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We made it!  I felt the need to bicker instead of pack, so we ended up slightly off schedule, but we made it to Ohio by 9o’clock. 

The drive up was pretty painless (especially for me because I was only in charge of the music!).  I ate a very late lunch once we got on the road.

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2% Fage with jam, sooooo good.  I do like fat free the best but these mixing ones are to die for.

Once we reached our family’s house and did some hanging out we ran out to pick up a late dinner.  Hardee’s was the best we could do, but it ended up being a good meal.

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I got a bbq chicken sandwich.

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I order it because it was the only nonfried chicken on the menu but it ended up being pretty good.  It was a grilled chicken breast with bbq sauce on a ww bun.

I supplemented with a popchips sample I brought from home.

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Salt and Pepper was a little spicy, but a great compliment to the sandwich.

For dessert I had an apple.

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And as I started blogging my sister-in-law delivered me a bellini!

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It’s family time, gotta drink run!

What do you pack for roadtrips?   I had it in my head that I was packing dinner but then I realized we had no food!  Popchip samples, Lara Bars, and apples seemed like a good idea to me.

In the Cards

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I’d like to start the morning by reminding everyone, most especially me, of a quote I had on here the other day – “Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.” ~Josh Billings

You know, I do have lots of reasons to complain right now – my foot hurts like crazy, I’ve gained weight the past few months, I can’t sleep at night which makes me tired all day, I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life, moving to Buffalo with Adam limited the programs I can apply to, my skin is going crazy and it makes me sad – but I have so many things to be grateful for I can’t even begin to list them.  Even if I don’t know what programs I am applying to yet, doing well in my Chemistry class is a prereq for all of them.  I need to stop wallowing and do the best to make the most of what I have.

That said, I woke up at 8am this morning and got started on breakfast.

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Wegmans Key Lime Fat free yogurt, sample box Kashi Honey Sunshine, 1t Crofters Europe Superfruit Spread.

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It was very tasty, though I don’t think I will buy that particular fake sugar yogurt again.  I liked the pillowiness of the cereal but I think that with milk it would take a huge bowl to fill you up.

I also drank the 2nd half of Adam’s orange Rockstar.

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On the agenda for today –

  • Prepare for my first lab: answer the pre-questions, fill out a flow-chart
  • Study for my first quiz: review my notecards, do practice problems
  • Go to the gym (even if I can’t do anything but walk on the treadmill for 5minutes and cry, I’m going)
  • Shower
  • Lunch
  • Drive to campus – my new way, which is all highway, is 8x faster, yay
  • More studying
  • Chemistry (5-8:50pm): quiz, lab
  • Drive home – my new way home is even faster!!!
  • Dinner
  • Blog
  • Bed

What is your goal for today?

Crossing My Fingers and Toes

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I actually got in bed before 10pm last night, but when we wake up 8bazillion times a night you kind of are tired no matter when you go to bed!  I wouldn’t have mattered when I woke up today though, I let my sadness over my foot kind of take over my whole day.  Not good, Emily, not good.

For breakfast I made 0% Fage with a heaping teaspoon TJ’s Sun Butter.

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And lunch made tasty tasty use of leftovers (and made leftovers for tomorrow!).

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I chopped up cooked lasagna noodles and stir fried them with broccoli, carrots, seitan, evoo, soy sauce, and chipotle oil.  It was super tasty, but I don’t think I like seitan as much as I once did.  I used this package from West Soy, and it just tasted a little off.

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All in all the plate was still pretty good though.

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Adam came home early from school (a class was canceled because of a big test this week) and we watched “Boogeyman” together.  It was a strange movie, but the eating of 4squares of this greatly upped my enjoyment.

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I got to school in time to print off class notes and purchase a stuffed buffalo for my niece.  We are visiting Adam’s brother in Ohio this weekend.  I also gave Jamba Juice a second chance.

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Much better.  When I got home from class I supplemented “dinner” with these pretzels.

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Tomorrow is a big day, I have my first lab, my first quiz, and hopefully my first day back at the gym.  Wish me luck!

What are you crossing your fingers for this week?

Breakfast, Lunch, Junk

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I’ll be honest, I’m still feeling a bit down.  My foot is killing me and I’m pretty pissed about not being able to go to the gym.  Plus I’m still feeling a bit under the weather, so I’m all-around blah.  This will be quick, and therefore, less whiney 🙂

Breakfast.

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Stoneyfield Farms YoKids Lowfat Strawberry-Vanilla and Raspberry yogurts, white nectarine, and Justin’s Almond Butter packet.  I also added half a teaspoon of sunbutter.

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It was good, but I was still hungry afterwards.  I had to drop of a prescription for medicine for my foot so Adam and I set off.  During our errands we split a small frozen cappuccino.

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Our plan was to get lunch at Wegmans but the selection was pretty disappointing, no tofu!  I made do with a small plate.

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Broccoli and green beans plus a little bit of general tso’s chicken.  I had been expecting tofu and this did not deal with my hunger, I was still starving!  We shopped quickly, and I ate this candy on the way home.

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Plus I polished off 90% of these nachos from the bar downstairs.

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I’m having a love affair with jalopenos.

I’m watching GhostWorld and I’m really not sure what I think of it, but I guess I won’t judge until it’s over.  See you for dinner!

Pie(ish)

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It’s Wednesday!  I woke up feeling pretty awful this morning (exhausted, sore throat, headache) but I had preplanned breakfast last night and was too excited not to push through (yes, I realize I wake up at 8:45 and most bloggers are up hours before the sun!).

This

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Yum.  Dannon Nonfat Plain yogurt, sprinkle cinnamon, crumbled Apple Pie Lara Bar, chopped Zestar apple, Justin’s Nut Butters Cinnamon Peanut Butter packet.  The pb made this bowl, it actually did taste like pie!

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I’m actually (amazingly) feeling a little hungry still, I get ravenous when I’m sick(ish).  Today I’ve got lots of to-dos, some studying, and I’m hoping to make it to the gym.  I think I’m going to do my baking and prepare dinner this morning, I have a night class so I’ll set everything up so Adam can just put it into the oven.  I’ll be back with lunch.

What is your favorite way to eat nut butter?  Other than the awesomeness that is these Justin’s squeeze packets (straight into my mouth), I think I like it best in yogurt.

I Think I Found My Motivation

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Woot! Woot!  My to-do’s finally got off-schedule for good reasons.  I’ve been so unmotivated the past week, everything feels like I’m moving in slow-motion and I got behind on my work, training schedule, life!  Now I am not only caught up, but slightly ahead 🙂  I had to push back my kitchen time but it’s a small price to pay.

After my 5hrs at the coffee shop I did 2.5more here.  I am halfway done with the online work due Monday.  While I worked I fueled up for the gym.

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Stoneyfield YoKids Lowfat Strawberry/Vanilla yogurt, sliced black plum, Justin’s Nut Butters Honey Almond Butter packet.  So satisfying.

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Around 8 Adam and I headed to the gym for some treadmill time.  My training schedule had 2miles for today and I decided to work on speed.

  • I did Mile 1 in 8minutes 11seconds
  • Mile 2 in 8minutes 35seconds
  • with warm up/between miles break/cool down I did 27minutes
  • and burned 287calories

Since cooked dinner got cooked back (but mostly because we had a coupon which is exciting to me) Adam convinced me to get Pizza Hut for dinner.  We did green peppers, green olives, and mushrooms.

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I had this x3 (that’s a small plate).

To drink/for dessert I made this hottness –

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I’ve been mulling this idea over for a week and I think it was a success: 2 So Delicious Dairy Free Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches + 5cubes ice + big splash skim milk + blending = cookies and cream inspired milkshake for ~200calories.

I’ve still got to shower (we ate slowly and watched a Bones rerun online) so I’m out for the evening, peace!

Do you ever reformat foods?  I was pretty proud of my sandwich to shake idea.