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Chip On My Shoulder

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Oh man, today bypassed low-key and went straight into ridiculous!  It is a good thing I’ve got plans for tomorrow.  My eats were pretty uninspired too.

Breakfast/lunch/whatever you’d call the first meal of the day at 1pm – Stonyfield Fat Free Key Lime Yogurt, Total cereal, the last of the blueberries.

Holy yuck!  Oh jeez do I apparently dislike this key lime yogurt.  It tasted way too chemically sick-sweet, and I say that as an avid diet soda addict.  Gag me with a spoon! 

Then we went back to bed.  All day.  We only got up at 5:30 because Adam had to eat dinner before he went to work at the hospital.

Leftover crock pot soup.  I also had an everything Bagel Thin with 1oz of extra sharp cheddar.

30seconds in the microwave was too much,

lesson learned, but it still tasted good.

I also had several unphotographed handfuls of chips.  It will be a damn good thing when those are out of the house!

Since we’ve got the opposite of a sleep deficit going we’re actually heading out to do our grocery shopping when Adam gets home at 10.  I’m not sure if I’ll be able to handle that level of productivity.

Do you ever have days where you feel completely wiped out?  Do you give in to it or do you have any tips for us?

*****Updated to add – I should have just eaten the damn chips.  Grocery shopping while hungry is never a good idea.  All of my food plans fell through and I ended up buying and eating boneless wings.  What?

A Beautiful Buffalo Day

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Oh My Lord, it has just been the most beautiful sunny day here!  I finally feels like summer! (As it rightfully should, I mean, it’s almost freaking June!)

The husband ended up getting a ride to school in the AM which is just as well because I got up at 8o’clock in the morning and watched the Grey’s Anatomy finale and cried for 2 hours.  I don’t even like Grey’s Anatomy!  I think it will be a very good thing when I have classes and to-do’s like normal 25 year olds 😀

Amid my girl-fest was breakfast.

Stonyfield Fat-Free French Vanilla Yogurt with Total and blueberries.  Two things: 1. French vanilla yogurt is kind of amazing, it can’t compare to plain Greek, but I think it might be better than plain regular.  2. You will be seeing a lot of Total round these parts as I’m trying to finish it before the end of the month.  More on that below.

I did head to campus around 11 though, so I could hit up the pool for a swim work out.  I did 30lengths in 25minutes and they totally kicked my butt!  I am finding more and more that I really love swimming; it just feels so good!  I push myself to go as fast as I can for 10lengths and then I take a minute to catch my breath.  I only have until June to use the facilities at UB and I’d really like to get in a longer swim if I can next week.

After I de-chlorined I met up with Katie for lunch.  I don’t know why I didn’t take a picture, but we ate on a bench in the sun on Elmwood and it was glorious!  Sadly, the food selection at the Co-op today couldn’t match the company or the setting in quality, but I did my best.

A vegan biscuit, veggies, a stuffed grape leaf, and some coconut curry tempeh.

Thank goodness I bought a Kombucha to drink too or I would have been gnawing my arm off in hunger!

The Divine Grape held me over pretty well, but I did pick up a fun dessert to bring home.

Theo Bread and Chocolate Bar.

I loved this concept!  The packaging is so cute and the bar itself is delicious.  The 70% dark chocolate has that great almost sour flavor and the bread was more like little crunchy pieces.

I had half.

As I mentioned above, I’m trying to kill my box of Blueberry Pomegranate Total before June.  This is because I’m doing a fun food challenge with Allison – June is Vegan Month!  I’ll share more about the challenge later (we’d love for every/anyone to join us!!!) but for now we are asking for help.  We both know the basics of what’s vegan and what isn’t – the Total has milk solids which is why it’s off-limits – but we want to make sure we don’t miss anything.  Allison gave this example: I’m afraid I’m going to miss some 8 syllable ingredient on a list, like “dyrocxybyfliophbianiateratenpous”, eat it, only to find out that the word is just a fancy way to say “milk”.  Mama Pea’s wise advice was to avoid packaged foods as much as possible, which bypasses this issue and is healthier in general.  The problem is that June is also the month in which I’ll have class during lunch time 5 days a week, so no-packaged foods just won’t be realistic.

Do you have any advice/tips/hints for us?

Ready for Their Close-Up

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Happy Hump Day!  Although in Emily Land I’m not sure if it’s Monday or Friday, I don’t know why I feel so discombobulated.  Perhaps because I still haven’t unpacked our bags from this weekend and their residency in our living room throws off my game?

I did manage breakfast, albeit a late one.

Can we talk about how fricking gorgeous today’s participants are were?  Pomegranate Blueberry Total Cereal.

Stonyfield Fat Free Peach Yogurt.

Blueberries.

The total taste was actually a bit funky, apparently I’m not the biggest peach yogurt fan, but I did appreciate the texture and aesthetics.

Now I’ve got to go brush, brush, brush my teeth so I’m ready for my dentist appointment this afternoon.  Think about pearly whites for me please!

What day is it really for you today?

Boo Hoo Hoo

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The husband got up extra early for school today so I decided to get up too ….. and watch some tv!  Seriously though, I watched the season finales for “Mercy” and “Private Practice” and sobbed at both.  I am not even much of a crier but for some reason these both really got to me!

Between tears I ate a nice juicy breakfast.

0% Oikos with blackberries, a bit of honey, and fresh mango.

This combination was perfect, my berries are a bit under-ripe and very tart but the sweetness of the mango helped to balance it out.

Breakfast also helped fuel me for another treadmill visit.  10minutes walking + 5minutes jogging + 10minutes walking = 1.64miles and 25minutes.

Afterwards I headed home and put lunch into the oven before I did 25minutes of strength training and final packing.  While I continued sweating, some fresh green beans with salt and a portobello mushroom cap with balsamic vinegar were roasting up in the 450* oven.

The green bean fries made a great side,

and my ‘shroom was served sandwich style on a ww bun with miracle whip and a sprinkle of 2% Colby cheese.

Now I’ve got to hurry up and shower before I make us late!

Veggies eaten so far today: ~1.5cups

What was the last tv show or movie that got you teary eyed?

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.

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!

A Second Go

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I can’t really talk about it on the blog, but there are a few things going on right now that I’m really frustrated about.  Which I wouldn’t mention at all, except that I’m pretty sure my irritation has something to do with why I started my morning with a HUGE spoonful of Biscoff Spread.  Just putting that out there…

Now, breakfast!  Last time I tried oats in a jar I was left underwhelmed.  But every blogger can’t be wrong, so I decided to give it another go.  To give the trial a fair shake, I changed my methods up as well.  This time I used a jar with more than just a few scrapings of sunbutter.

Last night I poured 1/3cup oats and 1/2cup skim milk into the jar, and this morning I stirred in 1/4cup Stonyfield Low Fat Strawberry Yogurt; OvernightOIAJ!

I also topped my bowl jar off with 1/2cup of fresh strawberries.

The verdict?  They were right!   How can this not be good?

I’m not sure what today will bring, this weekend is pretty free.  I had a fun project on the agenda but I might put it off and catch up on tv, whilst sulking of course.

What was the very first thing you ate this morning?  I killed that Biscoff spoon before I even brushed my teeth 🙂

Fruit eaten so far today: .5cup

Berries for Breakfast

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Hump Day’s breakfast was again courtesy of a send-away free sample of cereal.  This time from Kashi.

I combined 1 Stonyfield Black Cherry Fat Free Yogurt, 1/2cup fresh raspberries and strawberries, and the sample box of Kashi Go Lean Crisp Toasted Berry Crumble for breakfast.

With a stewed tamarind spoon.

The cereal was my least favorite from Kashi (although still good) but the mix of flavors in the bowl was perfection.

By the way, when I got up this morning I got myself into a sports bra and some yoga pants so I am exercise-ready all day long.  I have a lot of to-dos today (some phone calls, studying for tomorrow’s final) and my plan is to break up every hour or so of work with 5-10minutes of strength training.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I can start running next week, but even more important than starting is being able to keep running injury-free.  Save a few swim workouts, I’ve basically not worked out in two months, and that’s ok.  My physical therapy would have been counterproductive with my injury and I let myself get a little depressed about the whole situation. 

But if I want to be a runner instead of someone who loves running from the couch I need to get myself in shape.  Which means doing my physical therapy every day, stretching every day, and doing abs/leg strength work at least 3 times a week.  So, if you see me go  a couple of days without mentioning a work out, please remind me!

Fruit eaten so far today: 1/2cup