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.

hot hot hot August 21, 2008

as if it’s not hot enough outside i have to turn up the heat a little by having a leftover spicy bean stuffed pepper for lunch.

whoops, that reminds me that i completely skipped posting breakfast. it was a good one today, too. a fruit smoothie in almond milk with cantaloupe, frozen strawberries, and blood orange sorbetto.

clearly, i didn’t use ALL of that stuff. but what i did use yielded a perfect 16oz. here it is in my very own homemade go-cup.

i felt like having waffles this morning in addition to all the fruit so i toasted two flax waffles and spread a little smear of almond butter on one and a mashed banana with sugar-free maple on the other.

i ate it sandwich style and it was delicious. here’s breakfast all together.

yes, that is an old cottage cheese container. i like to do my part by reusing.

back to lunch. for dessert i packed 4 caramel tea cookies which is technically 1 and 1/3 serving. and all that was left so i decided just to pack them all.

tonights planned workout: step-circuit. i’m not a huge fan of step classes so we’ll see how this one goes…

breakfast August 20, 2008

that’s the best i can do right now for a title. today i had kashi h2h with a small banana and almond milk.

i was in a hurry out the door so i ate that quickly at home then had some fruit at the office to supplement. i packed green grapes and a pear.

i was hoping the extra fiber from the fruit would keep me full longer but i think i need to eat it before i have any cereal for that to work. anyway, i’m already hungry and it’s only been 3 hours so i’m going to eat my chili! yes, i remembered the can opener today.

tuesday snooze-day August 19, 2008

tuesdays are boring and i’d rather be sleeping. i forced myself to wake up this morning and eat breakfast, though. two flax waffles topped with a small chopped banana and sugar-free maple.

i was worried that wouldn’t be enough breakfast to keep me going until noon so i had 1/2c. of h2h with a drizzle of almond milk to supplement.

as it turned out, i started to feel the first hunger pangs around 11. so i snacked on some peanut crunches.

lunch is supposed to be amy’s chili but i forgot to bring my can opener so i don’t know what i’m going to do.

happy monday August 18, 2008

since when am i happy on a monday? since i have confirmed the suspicion i’ve had since friday that i’m getting a new job! so happy monday it is.

happy monday’s breakfast oats had double water because i ran out of soymilk but they still had a banana because i stole one from mom’s house last night, even in my painful partially blind stupor. i topped this last-of-my-oats bowl with the rest of my pecans (i have GOT to shop for food today, it’s down to the wire worse than ever before) and a soy-yo maple icing. i made it good today because i didn’t feel like gagging when i tasted it. it also added the creamy element that was missing from lack of soymilk.

delicious. happy monday’s lunch was the rest of the leftover amy’s lentil vegetable soup. i wasn’t going to eat this at all because i so thoroughly dis-enjoyed it last time but i added parmesan cheese (one of the only things left in the fridge) and half an avocado (more contraband from mom’s house). it was pretty tasty after the additives, i think i even liked it.

on the side i had 4 saltines and water. it was all i needed, this bowl filled me right up.

but then i remembered the snapea crisps so i had the rest to polish off lunch.

i had originally planned on working out as usual (today it would be spin) but my mom just called to invite me to happy hour to celebrate her birthday today! of course i’d rather go to that. suddenly i’m very happy i dragged myself out of bed yesterday to squeeze in an atypical sunday workout…

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!

down to the wire August 15, 2008

it’s a good thing i get paid today because i have no food left except some spinach and tomatoes. i used my last english muffin for the pb&j i packed for lunch and i plan to have the aforementioned produce to make my last salad later today, probably after i workout. today i’m going to a new strength training class! i’m excited to add it to the rotation if it’s good because i had been seriously lacking a challenging friday workout.

this morning i made banana oats the usual way. after i served them in the bowl and topped them with the pecans and a handful of h2h, did the dishes and took some laundry out of the dryer while watching the today show so i could give the oatmeal a chance to cool off a little. i always get really eager to eat them and then i burn my tongue. not today!

i also drizzled it with a smidge of sugar-free maple before eating. this breakfast is doing it’s job, i didn’t get any hunger pangs until almost 1 (i ate at around 10). so i had my snack of true north peanut crunches.

they were pretty good but a little too sugary to be a regular snack. and right now i’m about to dip into the pb&j. so i don’t have to make another immediate post i won’t bother taking a picture. consider it logged. *update: i also added a serving of snapea crisps to round out lunch.

craving a balance August 13, 2008

i’ve decided that i definitely need to workout more, even more than i already do, because i just like food too much. i enjoy eating and i’d rather not put so many limitations on what i can and should eat. i like working out and the bottom line is i need to create more time to be active so i can start enjoying my life in a body i can be proud of. what brings this on is the discovery that i don’t have a waist and it’s high time that i get one. now that i’m done philosophizing (sp?) i can present breakfast.

same as yesterday, i started out with half a chopped cantaloupe. only today’s isn’t blurry

and followed it up with 1c. of kashi h2h with pecans and a small chopped banana in 1/2c. of soymilk

i ate at around 830 and started getting hungry again at around 1030 (!!) but i chugged water and staved off the real hunger until just now, 1215-ish.

cold breakfast August 12, 2008

yesterday my body temp was way up and i think it was because i had hot hot oats for breakfast. so today i had half a cantaloupe (that i chopped up last night in my motivational kitchen frenzy)

it had been in the fridge so it was nice and chilly. and blurry, too, apparently. to supplement i had 1 heaping cup of kashi h2h with a dash of apple oh’s and a small sliced banana in 3/4c. of soymilk

i had all that around 830 and exactly 3 hours later at 1130 i had this cherry pie larabar

and i’m trying not to be hungry again ’til 130 because it just seems like a good time to eat lunch. i packed a can of amy’s lentil vegetable soup and some true north pistachio crackers. lentils usually keep me full for a long time so we’ll see what happens because i already ate the only snack i brought.