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!

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.

pesto-goat cheese pasta May 26, 2008

the pesto on the pasta was as good as it sounded, i had the whole family trying it, including the baby. i also added some fresh organic goat cheese to the mix.

a cup of the pasta with pesto and goat cheese was a lot of calories :/
pasta, even the whole wheat kind, has so many. i should probably quit eating it for now. total lunch calories=936! for one meal, holy cow.
had i known that, i would’ve skipped the yogurt and strawberries but i needed the sweet. a half cup of low-fat vanilla yogurt with 5 whole strawberries was another 120 calories. hopefully i won’t be hungry again for awhile.

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…