day 2 September 5, 2008

i don’t really have a great plan for today, i need to buy food real bad.

5 September 2008

breakfast
overnight oats
-3/4c. oats
-1/2c. + splash almond milk
-vanilla + cinnamon
-1tbsp. slivered almonds
-1 chopped banana
-SF maple
2oz. vemma mangosteen supplement

lunch
i got nothing

snack
verve!

dinner
way up in the air

workout
jazzercise @430

not my favorite way to eat but all this situation does is challenge me to make better choices when i’m faced with them. hopefully i have a chance to pick up a few things today or tomorrow morning after i workout. my goal for tomorrow is to hit up the farmer’s market for fresh, local and cheap produce.

kale chip disaster August 22, 2008

my first attempt at making kale chips failed miserably. i don’t think i put enough kale pieces on the cookie sheet because they came out crumbly, like melt-in-your mouth crunchy and not in a good way. also, they were WAAAAAY too salty, it ruined the flavor of the kale. i sprinkled on quite a bit of salt because i was afraid i wouldn’t like kale’s natural flavor. i was wrong.

i’m going to try again soon because i have a ton of kale sitting in the fridge now that i need to use. here’s last nights batch before going into the oven.

and close-up, bathed in salt and olive oil.

fresh out of the oven on my plate along with my chick’n sandwich.

you can totally see the salt concentrations… it makes me gag just looking at how salty they were. my sandwich was good though. it was a chick’n patty on an ezekiel english muffin with a tiny sprinkle of mozzarella (that i couldn’t even taste) and some spicy mustard.

i was probably full after just eating that but i was so disappointed in the kale chip disaster that i craved something creamy and cool and sweet. i compromised by adding a tbsp. and a half of agave nectar to some soy yogurt and pairing it with kashi h2h and slivered almonds. so really it was a trio of things in there, (not counting the agave) not a pair.

friday morning dawned bright and early today. after my shower i was hungry so i dipped into my cantaloupe.

lots of fresh juicy cantaloupe and i ate it all. cantaloupe is my all-time favorite favorite fruit ever. of all time. i love it so much that last statement wasn’t even redundant.

i wasn’t so hungry after all that cantaloupe but i packed some grapes and an almond butter & banana sandwich for mid-morning.

having eaten all of that i should be stuffed. but i’m definitely already hungry for lunch. i’m excited to share something i’ve actually cooked myself with my dad. i had a ton of stuffing left over the other night from the spicy bean stuffed peppers. i brought the filling to work with me today and plan to run next door for some lettuce we can wrap it in for spicy lettuce wraps! i know he’ll love them because they’re really hot and he likes jalapenos.

hurry August 16, 2008

this will be a hurried post because i don’t want to be late to my mom’s birthday party and i haven’t posted since yesterday lunch because i’ve been super busy. the pictures are taking forever to load so i’m gonna write everything up and then just put the pictures in at the end.

i had a z bar pre-workout and my workout was good. it was real good, i’m still sore. lots of awesome guided strength training. after working out i headed home to freshen up and pack my bag for the night so i could sleep at my parent’s house since the wine bar i was going to is closer to their place. i stopped over there to eat dinner with them before i went to meet the girls for wine. i snacked on a small handful of honey wheat pretzels before dinner was ready. then i had a small serving of the chicken and vegetables with black beans my sister made for everyone. at the bar i started with a glass of white, an Argentinian Torrontes. then we ordered some bruschetta, of which i had two halves. one of prosciutto, brie and fig and one of salami, manchego and pesto. i washed that down with a Malbec Rose. and then we shared a tuxedo chocolate cake for dessert. the girls really wanted to be on my blog so they posed for me

this morning i wasn’t hungry before my workout so i jazzercised without a snack. i got back to my place and made banana oats the same way as yesterday to fuel me for yoga. then i went to yoga!

after yoga i had pb&j on wasa crackers. and the rest of my h2h with soy yogurt and agave nectar with almond slivers. and just now i had the rest of my cucumber, sliced, with tomato quarters and lemon-yogurt hummus. and that’s all i’ve eaten since my last post…

pics!

easy like sunday morning May 25, 2008

i was so good this morning, my dad made pancakes and i didn’t eat any! the best part was, i didn’t actually want any! this is a victory for me. i did start making my oatmeal before he put even one flapjack on the griddle (and i stole the only banana) so i was already looking forward to my oats. same as yesterday, delicious and satisfying.

i also had coffee with soymilk and one packet of splenda.

all together 486 calories.

all in all, a great morning. went to church with the fam (the weather is gorgeous today!) and didn’t get home til about an hour ago. we’re going to a memorial day barbecue at my uncle’s house later so i had something to hold me over, a whole wheat tortilla to dip into pesto sauce from paradise bakery. so yummy.

i had already dug in before i remembered to take a pic, hence the ripped tortilla. then i had a homemade cupcake one of my sister’s friends bakes that was delicious! snack calories totaled 371.

that’s been all the food for today, no sunday brunch… but i will be partaking at the barbecue. i’m taking boca burgers for my uncle to grill for me and my mom is making a batch of her pasta salad with whole wheat rotini so i can eat that, too
it should be good, i’m super psyched to see how i can make the barbecue foods work! i’ll keep you posted…

busy saturday morning May 24, 2008

two good things about this morning: my workout was awesome AND there was an us magazine waiting in the mailbox when i finally got back to the condo
from 7 to about 750 this morning i did a jazzed up version of circuit training. squats, weights, resistance bands, etc. all set to contemporary music. good times.
from 8 to 9 it was a regular jazzercise class with a lot of high-energy routines, i definitely got my cardio in for the day! myfitnesspal gives me a whopping 747 calories burned for 110 minutes of exercise. not bad at all. i love my saturday morning workout. i would have no reason to wake up on a saturday if i didn’t have someplace to be as important. if i skip it and sleep in, before i know it half of my day is gone!
breakfast was the same as yesterdays except with vanilla soymilk and toasted almonds.

then i got carried away (because i was at my parents house) and had an oatmeal raisin cookie with coffee and soymilk.

my tummy is very full now and i ate exactly as many calories as i burned off at jazzercise.
on my way back home i stopped at whole foods to pick up some things so i can make hummus, pesto sauce and coconut-almond granola. that’s my next adventure in the kitchen so we’ll see how it goes.