Can't Wait

Hello - thanks for stopping by :)

I can't wait for this week to be over. Then I'm free for the summer! Whoot!

Before church this morning, I ate this beauty for breakfast.

• 30 grams oats
• 1/2 scoop chocolate protein powder
• 1/2 banana
• 1 T UVAB
• 1 T natural PB

It's been awhile since I've had a breakfast cookie with banana in it. It was SO sweet! I almost went back to the fridge to put some plain yogurt on it to mellow it out, but I wanted to keep my breakfast calorie-light because I knew we were going out for lunch after church. 

I didn't bring my camera with me to the restaurant, I was just going to use my iphone to take a few pictures, unfortunately my iphone was dead. So I'm sorry to say, I have no pictures of my lunch. I had a poached egg sandwich with tomato and herb mayo with hashbrowns. It was face rockin. 

When we came home I got to work on a final project and snacked on this. 

• 1/2 cup cottage cheese
• 100 grams strawberry yogurt
• 4 small strawberries 

I kept working on my project, and then it was time to go to church for the evening service. 

I was starving by the time we got back to house, so I whipped up this salad. 

• 1 Italian chicken sausage 
• 1/2 cucumber
• 1/2 tomato
• 2 cups romaine 
• 1 cup mixed salad greens
• balsamic dressing 

It hit the spot. D's out riding his Harley around town with some of his friends. Time for me to get back to my books. 

Have a great night everyone! :) 

Pumpkin Crazy

Hey gang,

Today has been one of those quietly busy days. D and I got so much done, but it felt so relaxing at the same time!

My breakfast didn't stay with me very long. About 3 hours after I ate my breakfast cookie, I chowed down into a small bowl of cottage cheese, pumpkin puree, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

I poured a little sugar free maple syrup over the top.

Then lunch came about an hour later.

Leftover potatoes (102 grams) with ketchup (1 T)

and the same lunch I ate yesterday.

It was pretty darn tasty. Right after this, D and I got going on our errands. We went to Sears to get a fan for our bedroom. Then we dropped D's car off to get new tires put on. And after that, we hit the gym. I did a biceps and back workout.

• 21's - 30 pounds, 3 sets
• bent over row - 40 pounds, 3 sets of 12
• hammer curls - 12 pound dumbbells, 3 sets of 20
• lat pull downs - 70 pounds, 3 sets of 12
• back extensions - 3 sets of 25
• seated close grip row - 50 pounds, 3 sets of 12

My stats looked something like this:

Time - 40 minutes

Calories burned - 169

Max heart rate - 142

Average heart rate - 110

Usually I would be disappointed with the lack of calories I burned, but I didn't want to push too hard with my hips in the state they're in.  

As soon as we came home, I devoured this bowl of food. 

• 1/2 cup cottage cheese 
• 2/3 cup plain yogurt 
• 2 T pumpkin puree 
• 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder 
• cinnamon 
• nutmeg 

Can you tell I love pumpkin?

Dinner was alright tonight - not amazing. 

Chicken Caesar Salad

• 4 cups romaine 
• 5.5 ounces chicken breast 
• 7 grams croutons 
• 1 1/2 T caesar salad dressing 
• lots of lemon juice

I usually don't even like caesar salad, but I've been craving summer foods lately (e.i. burgers last night). 

I'm still hungry... what shall I eat, what shall I eat? I'm not sure yet. 

Have a great night everyone :) 

Oat-Branerrrrrific

Good morning everyone!

I slept so well last night; I wasn't even up before my alarm, which is huge for me!

Last night's dinner didn't hold me over as I hoped. I was still starving about a half hour after I ate it.

• 4 cups mixed salad greens
• 1/3 cup black beans
• 1/3 cup corn
• 1/2 cup salsa
• 1 serving firm tofu 
• 1 grated carrot 
• 1/5 avocado 

It tasted great - another great mexican feast. It was just too small, or I was just TOO hungry. 

So I made D and I these babies. 

These are the fitnessista's recipe. I did have to change the recipe quite a bit because I didn't have all the ingredients. 

Here are the switches. 

• Instead of two cups of spelt flour, I used 1.5 cups of whole wheat.
• Instead of vegan chocolate chips, I used 80% dark chocolate. 
• Instead of molasses, I used honey.
• Instead of almond butter (too precious to use for cookies), I used natural peanut butter.. 

And they turned out great! D was swooning over them, while he was eating his ice cream (frozen yogurt) sandwich. 

This was my dessert. 

One cookie with one scoop of Champan's Chocolate Frozen Yogurt. It was ahhhhhhh-mazing :)

Now, let's fast forward to this morning. 

• 1/3 cup oat bran
• 2/3 cup water
• 1/3 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
• 1/4 sliced banana
• 4 grams goji berries 
• 1 tbsp almond butter 
• cinnamon 

It was pretty darn tasty! After I'm finished writing this post, D and I are heading to the gym. I'm running 4 miles, and I'm not sure what he's planning. 

Have a fantastic morning everyone! 

Curried Walnuts

It's been great day so far. I got my work out in, a short one - just 30 minutes on the treadmill. I wanted to run for at least three miles, but my right hip was giving me some grief. So I stopped running and just walked at 4.0 miles an hour for the rest of the time.

I came home and got to work on lunch. It didn't take much time, since it was my shrimp leftovers from the other night.

I know... white bread. Shame on me. French bread just goes so well with tomato sauces and shrimp. I don't even remember the last time I ate white bread. It's so fluffy!

D and I are going over to another couple's house to watch the hockey game tonight. They asked me to bring the salad. I decided to make a mixed green salad with apples and curried walnuts. One of my favorites! I have the second batch of walnuts cooking the oven as I write this post.

The first batch didn't work out so well...

Hence the second batch...

They came out beautifully! Probably due to the fact I didn't forget about them in the oven. ;)

Curried Walnuts:

• 1 cup raw walnuts
• 1 egg white
• 1 tbsp stevia/sugar 
• 2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp hot curry powder
• 2 tsp cumin
• 2 tsp cinnamon 
• 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper 

1. Preheat over to 250 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray
2. Pour egg white into a small bowl and whisk till frothy. Add the nuts and stir until they're coated with the egg white. 
3. In another small bowl mix the sugar, salt and spices. Dust this mixture over the nuts. Make sure all the nuts are equally coated. 
4. Lay them out on the  baking sheet and bake for about a half hour. 

They are so good on salad, especially with apples. The sweetness of the apples balances the heat of the spiced nuts. 

I'll chat with you all tomorrow! 

No More Midterms

I'm boycotting midterms, so thankfully for them, I don't have any more! YAAAAY. I wrote my last one just about an hour ago. I'm so glad to be done with them.

Anyone want to see the awesomeness that was my dinner tonight? I honestly could not even believe it was raw!

I made Gena's Raw Cauliflower "Rice"

Please make this! It was so fast and easy, and delivered big flavor! I have over half still in my fridge waiting for another salad date.

I have some chia pudding setting up for me in the fridge. Can't wait to dig into that next!

Night all.

Mid-Morning Chat

Good afternoon,

I hope you all had a great morning. It's been ANOTHER productive day (this usually doesn't happen to me ;)). About an hour after I ate breaky, I went to the gym for a killer hill workout. Then I came back and ate this little egg sponge:

Such an awesome way to get protein in me throughout the day!

Then I started to get ready for school. I packed this up to eat on my way there:

A quarter of a banana with about 2 teaspoons of almond butter and two apricots.

After school (and a midterm in Intro. to Lit.), I ate this baby:

This was soooo good. It was a tuna wrap:

half a can of light packed in water tuna
tbsp light mayonnaise
tsp mustard
2 slices of pickles

I loaded it with spinach and wrapped it all up:

It took me less than two minutes to finish this. I then made this salad (just like all my other salads):

Time to study! I have another midterm tonight. Yuck. I can't wait for this work week to be over! Only one more day :)

See ya soon!