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!

snack lunch August 9, 2008

friday i had various snacks in place of a real lunch due to circumstances beyond my control. i started with something light in case i managed to make it to a restaurant as per the original plan so i had a naked juice smoothie in ‘gold machine’ flavor. it was really tasty. this is the best picture i could get because i was on the run and driving around

by the time i got to my parents’ house lunching was still being put on hold so i had a piece of wheat toast with a smear of peanut butter

then lunch was postponed indefinitely so around 330 i had a bowl of frosted mini-wheats topped with apple oh’s in soymilk

apples & pb May 23, 2008

i held off all four hours i’m supposed to wait between meals. the only way i make it without mindless snacking is by guzzling water. i suppose i could eat every three hours but the timing works out much better this way… there’s a reason, i’m just not sure what it is yet.

so, without further adieu, my lunch:

it’s a medium granny smith apple (cut into perfect pieces with an apple slicer) with 2 tablespoons of laura scudder’s peanut butter spread on 2 pieces of eating right reduced sodium bread for a grand total of 470 calories. yikes, thats a few more calories than i was originally willing to spend on this meal. i’ll have to modify it for next time…

i ate each piece individually instead of stacked like a sandwich so i had extra apple slices to polish it off with.

i feel like it should be noted that i’ve never been a huge fan of peanut butter until recently. growing up, i never liked pb&j. i know, scandalous! but something about those two flavors together still doesn’t sit well with me. anyhoo, with all the reading i’ve been doing it has come to my attention that peanut butter is like one of the super diet foods out there. i bought a jar and now i can even enjoy the taste of it, without any kind of fruit preserve, of course. i still think i’ll enjoy almond and cashew butter much more. i’ll eat those without provocation any day and i only eat peanuts on planes