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!

a smoothie before swimming June 10, 2008

but first, last night.
pre-workout snack was CHOCOLATE COVERED STRAWBERRIES. i know, so fancy. i would never buy these for myself but they were a gift so i had to eat them (only because i knew it wouldn’t put me over the edge, i got all three for less than 150 calories). and they totally hit the spot.

to be fair, i also had a taste of a new bar but only a small piece and no picture.

post-workout i didn’t have a snack handy except for the rest of the bar and i wasn’t feeling it so i decided to wait ’til dinner. dad grilled chicken with honey chipotle barbecue sauce and it was yummy. i had maybe 2 or 3oz. cut into strips and rolled in a whole wheat tortilla with avocado slices and salsa with a side salad.

i didn’t add up the calories for this one but i do know that i burned about 450 more at spin class and when i woke up this morning i had lost 0.2lbs! haha, it’s a tiny consolation that i’m moving in the right direction.

this morning i went swimming. i pushed myself to go faster than yesterday and i managed to squeeze in two extra lengths in the same amount of time. i beat my 10 lap time by two minutes. i logged 15 minutes and 22 lengths (11 laps). if i could only get there earlier i would have more time to swim… i’m working on it.

pre-workout i had the purple power smoothie. i redid the recipe and now it’s like this:

-1/2c. light vanilla soymilk
-1/4c. egg whites
-1/4c. liquid mangosteen supplement
-1c. frozen cherries
-1tbsp. powdered greens
-1/2tbsp. flax oil

awesome. this is officially my pre-morning workout breakfast/snack. it has 290 calories, 26g carbs, 9g protein and 8g of fat. power smoothie indeed.

and it tastes good, i swear! post-workout i had a flax waffle and a light string cheese to round out breakfast at 450 calories.

great start to a great day! this is totally the calm before the storm but i’m in a great mood about the rest of the week and the adventures it will bring anyway!

pesto chicken genius June 9, 2008

i had the simplest sandwich for lunch but it was magnificent. pesto is good on EVERYTHING! except maybe ice cream but i haven’t tried it.

i put two slices of deli chicken on an ezekiel bun with 1tbsp. of my homemade pesto and presto! lunch.

dessert was a hungry girl cookie:

the best part is that was hours ago and i’m still not hungry! as soon as i hit publish i’m sure that’ll change, though…

a restocked fridge is a happy fridge June 4, 2008

after getting in my long hard sweaty workout and sampling the larabar i felt strong enough to hit up the grocery store on my way home. i needed some basics and i swear, i stuck to them. no picture of the groceries but one of the highlights was the 99 cent cantaloupe! i didn’t have enough time this morning to chop it open but maybe i’ll do it when i get home tonight, although that’s also unlikely. let’s be honest, i’m not really motivated to do anything when i get home after a long day and tonight is going to be a late one. i have spin (hour-long spin, not half-hour prep for boot camp spin) ’til 630 then i have to book it across town to be late (it’s ok, i cleared it with the director) for my volunteer meeting that was set to start at 6 and will run until 8. then i need to stop at my parent’s house (it’s in the same part of town as where the meeting is) to see the baby because he’s been sick and i haven’t had a chance to go over there.
so anyway, i restocked my fridge with my favorite food staples and came up with this for breakfast:

which was also great because it was good on-the-go and i had to be here early today. it’s a flax waffle and a cherry smoothie made with light vanilla soymilk and flax oil. theme for breakfast was flax, clearly.
but backtracking a little bit, dinner was a pita pocket with avocado and two chicken slices with a drizzle of mom’s salsa. perfect and only 221 calories.

i didn’t need any more than that after the snack attack!
p.s. i burned about 662 calories working out according to myfitnesspal.com

weekend June 2, 2008

saturday morning i had a smoothie before working out. i put a cup of nonfat milk with half a frozen banana and a cup of frozen peaches. it was so think and frozen, like a milkshake! of course i added the customary 1/2tbsp. of flax oil, too. total was 253 calories. i drank it on the way to my saturday morning jazzercise super-workout.

the rest of my food choices were kind of a blur because i just grazed a lot. i tend to do that on weekends… i’m not super proud of it but i’ll be reevaluating my habits and tweaking what i can for maximum energy and weight loss until the big beach vacation (BBV) in july. i really want to look my very best, of course, but i also want to win the $100
here are some food highlights from the weekend so i can catch up:
i made the hungry girl peanut butter fudge with pumpkin and it was delicious! i’ll definitely make it again. it was a big hit at home with the fam, too. i had three squares with coffee and toast.

salad for lunch before we hit the road to grandma’s:

at my cousin’s baby shower i had a lot of fruit and some bites of pretty much everything else except the pasta salad and the slaw dishes.
this tuna salad was my favorite and i paired it with some cantaloupe wedges:

really yummy cake for dessert (loaded with sugar, i’m sure):

an artfully sliced strawberry:

breakfast sunday: an over-easy egg on toast with some laughing cow spread.

chicken taco for lunch with grandma’s highly caloric cheesy frijoles

some more baby shower cake :/

and i’m spent.

graduation party food, yikes May 24, 2008

i went to a graduation party for a family friend and there was a buffet. with lots of fatty foods. it was like a nightmare. i think i managed all right, i loaded my plate with veggies: tomatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers, salad (not a fan of radish i realized). i took a piece of chicken, probably about 6 oz. it was soaked in what looked like a barbecue sauce but it didn’t have any distinctive flavor. i took some strawberries, too, even though they were clearly the sweetened, thawed from frozen variety. not my fav because of all the sugar but i figured it would keep me away from dessert. no such luck.

oh yeah, i topped it off with a homemade eggroll with ground beef and veggies. myfitnesspal puts this at 249 without the eggroll. i’ll give myself another 200 for that so 449 for dinner, more or less. and the strawberries didn’t do their job.

chocolate cake is my favorite and i have NO willpower, especially at parties, grr. but then they had the hawaiian cultural staple (i guess) guava cake and i absolutely had to try that too. so there you go. saturdays are hard. i managed to stay away from the alcohol (beer is another one of my greatest weaknesses) and the chips and salsa and dips and dressings. so all in all, i could have fared much worse. my next challenge is going to be sunday brunch. ay yay ay…