Trying to blog from my blackberry so goodness knows how this will go. The swine flu has been visiting my house for the past 2 weeks and I'm currently the lucky one carrying the torch. I feel like complete and utter shit. No exercise this week and eating crap moderately so but still... I am now officially 5 lbs above my initial goal weight this last bit is taking freaking forever. I know though that another 5 isn't going to do it so I'd like to go for another 5 to 10 beyond that. Well see at the rate I'm going that will take me 6 months. Anyway ill end this here and go back to bed. Hopefully the next time I post ill feel way better.
Amy
Friday, October 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sugar overload
Oh my gosh, I feel sick. Today is someone's birthday at work so another lady brought in yo yo cookies (look like this) except for the one that I had had blue sugar covering the end not covered by chocolate. I got about 3/4 of the way through and now I just feel ill. It was good, really good, everything this local bakery makes is good, but I supposed when I'm just not used to eating this kind of stuff then I shovel in god knows how many calories of sweets it just doesn't sit well.
Anyway, a guy at work was telling me about this microwave fish that you cook in it's plastic pouch last week and I had to get some this weekend. It's put out by Starkist but darned if I can find it on their website. I got thai flavored and and 130 per filet it's delish and low in calories. Last night I had it over some baby spinach and yuummmmm!
Today's food
B - McDonalds egg mcmuffin with no egg. No, the no egg bit wasn't my choice. I pulled away from the drive thru and my sandwich was english muffin, cheese and canadian bacon but no egg. I didn't have time to even turn around. Ah well.
L - chicken breast lunch meat on 2 slices extra fiber whole wheat bread, 100 cal cocoa coated almonds
Snack - small banana
Dinner - Healthy choice chicken parmagiana meal that included broccoli and an apple dessert. And the aforementioned devil cookie treat
Exercise - nada, though I pledge to try to walk tomorrow night
Life - my poor baby is sick :( Both he and my 6 yr old have had a nasty cough. Adan had a dr's appt for shots today and ended up going for that and the cough. The doctor seems to think it's just a yucky cold and told me to give him a tiny dose of benadryl for the snotty nose and supposedly to help the cough. I now have a baby with 3 shots, cough and snot. I feel awful for him. I wish that I hadn't gone ahead with the shots but the doctor said he should be okay.
Soccer was this past Saturday again, my 8 yr old's team won again and my 6 yr old's team didn't win but he got two goals :) My oldest, Logan, had a school game yesterday and they won as well. He did an awesome job in goal and even had a dad from the other team complimenting him! My daughter has her first highschool dance this Saturday(homecoming). We got her dress the other day now we're on a quest for the perfect shoes and jewelery. She was going to wear black converse with it but the invitation explicitly says no tennis shoes. I think she could get away with it but I would hate for her to be turned away. She's freaking at the possibility of heels because she's 5'6 or so but I assured her that she'd be fine.
And lastly, I finally got my book The White Queen by Philippa Gregory. I'm about halfway through and love it so far.
Until the next time
~amy
Anyway, a guy at work was telling me about this microwave fish that you cook in it's plastic pouch last week and I had to get some this weekend. It's put out by Starkist but darned if I can find it on their website. I got thai flavored and and 130 per filet it's delish and low in calories. Last night I had it over some baby spinach and yuummmmm!
Today's food
B - McDonalds egg mcmuffin with no egg. No, the no egg bit wasn't my choice. I pulled away from the drive thru and my sandwich was english muffin, cheese and canadian bacon but no egg. I didn't have time to even turn around. Ah well.
L - chicken breast lunch meat on 2 slices extra fiber whole wheat bread, 100 cal cocoa coated almonds
Snack - small banana
Dinner - Healthy choice chicken parmagiana meal that included broccoli and an apple dessert. And the aforementioned devil cookie treat
Exercise - nada, though I pledge to try to walk tomorrow night
Life - my poor baby is sick :( Both he and my 6 yr old have had a nasty cough. Adan had a dr's appt for shots today and ended up going for that and the cough. The doctor seems to think it's just a yucky cold and told me to give him a tiny dose of benadryl for the snotty nose and supposedly to help the cough. I now have a baby with 3 shots, cough and snot. I feel awful for him. I wish that I hadn't gone ahead with the shots but the doctor said he should be okay.
Soccer was this past Saturday again, my 8 yr old's team won again and my 6 yr old's team didn't win but he got two goals :) My oldest, Logan, had a school game yesterday and they won as well. He did an awesome job in goal and even had a dad from the other team complimenting him! My daughter has her first highschool dance this Saturday(homecoming). We got her dress the other day now we're on a quest for the perfect shoes and jewelery. She was going to wear black converse with it but the invitation explicitly says no tennis shoes. I think she could get away with it but I would hate for her to be turned away. She's freaking at the possibility of heels because she's 5'6 or so but I assured her that she'd be fine.
And lastly, I finally got my book The White Queen by Philippa Gregory. I'm about halfway through and love it so far.
Until the next time
~amy
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Weight loss
I'll admit it, I'm irritated. I started back exercising 3 weeks ago and while I know I should be doing more I'm getting 2-3 days of cardio per week at 1 hour a pop. My weight loss has stopped. What the hell. I'm eating a bit less, 100-200 cals less on average per day, added exercise back in and I'm stuck with a good 18 or so lbs left to go. I know in my head that this being stuck won't last forever but in my "I want to be at my frigging goal" thinking, I'm irritated.
This week has been boring food wise. I grabbed what I thought was my organic spring salad mix that I've been getting but instead grabbed herb salad. It has baby spinach in it which is great, some dill, some cilantro I think but the thing in there that's just killing me flavor wise is the pine. Blech. I ate some the other day with chicken breast over it and it was okay but I just tried to eat some with a shredded Morningstar Farms veggie burger over it and just ended up picking out the burger along with the avocado and olives that I added to it.
Oh, on Monday I made the most delicious spaghetti! I can't remember the brand but will definitely share next time that I get it (definitely will again) but this awesome organic spinach pasta, wow. I got home that evening and fully intended to make chicken and rice with some yellow rice and chicken breasts but couldn't find the danged rice. So I grabbed the pasta, some spaghetti sauce that I had and put it together with the chicken. Adan loooooooved the pasta! The rest of the week has been primarily frozen meals, turkey and avocado on whole wheat sandwiches and cereal with vanilla or chocolate almond milk and some type of fruit for breakfast. A friend of mine was telling me that there's a new whole grain rice crispies that are a lot bigger in size than regular rice crispies but obviously more healthy and only 90 cals a serving. I'm trying to use up my Cascadian Farms organic cereal first which is really, really good but it's something like 210 or so calories per serving. As for the fruit I've been putting on my cereal one day it was strawberries, a couple days raspberries. I was going to put some banana on it this morning but they've disappeared. As long as my kids are eating healthy I suppose I can forgive them ;) I did make myself and the kids scrambled eggs (mine egg whites) and turkey bacon the other morning and since I was running late I slapped mine in a small tortilla and ate it on the way to work. On to todays food (finally right?)
b - Cascadian Farms granola cereal with vanilla almond milk and raspberries (the kiddles had biscuits and gravy)
Snack - 100 cal cocoa roasted almonds
L - Bumblebee tuna thai chili tuna on crackers and some collard greens
Snack - string cheese and 100 cal cocoa roasted almonds
D - previously mentioned Morningstar farms veggie burger, green olives, avocado and Campbell's lite italian veggie soup
Snack - Ghirardelli dark chocolate with raspberry filling
Exercise - none today, my 6 yr old was home sick with a cough and my daughter ended up calling me from school around 9 today with a headache. I in turn sat on my lazy rear and read.
I'm apprehensive about zumba tomorrow night because there's supposed to be a new instructor. The one that's been there has been perfect, not militant but not overly chipper either. I guess I'll just have to see tomorrow how I like her.
Soccer season has started here for the kids and I love it! I mean in the upwards of 90 degree heat you're sweating like a pig and cooking in the sun but it's great none the less. My 6 yr olds team lost, my 8 yr olds team won by something like 15 to 1. I'm so proud of him, he's soooooo good. I think he scored 6-7 of those goals himself. The whole team is really good. My 12 yr old's competitive team had a scrimmage on Sunday. They won the first game and lost the second. Thankfully the 2nd team is a division above because they kicked their hineys ;) Yesterday he had a game with his school team and they won as well. He's a goalie for his competitive team but on his school team while he plays in goal he gets some field time as well which we both like. He played tough yesterday :)
If I don't blog tomorrow, I hope that all has a good weekend!
~amy
This week has been boring food wise. I grabbed what I thought was my organic spring salad mix that I've been getting but instead grabbed herb salad. It has baby spinach in it which is great, some dill, some cilantro I think but the thing in there that's just killing me flavor wise is the pine. Blech. I ate some the other day with chicken breast over it and it was okay but I just tried to eat some with a shredded Morningstar Farms veggie burger over it and just ended up picking out the burger along with the avocado and olives that I added to it.
Oh, on Monday I made the most delicious spaghetti! I can't remember the brand but will definitely share next time that I get it (definitely will again) but this awesome organic spinach pasta, wow. I got home that evening and fully intended to make chicken and rice with some yellow rice and chicken breasts but couldn't find the danged rice. So I grabbed the pasta, some spaghetti sauce that I had and put it together with the chicken. Adan loooooooved the pasta! The rest of the week has been primarily frozen meals, turkey and avocado on whole wheat sandwiches and cereal with vanilla or chocolate almond milk and some type of fruit for breakfast. A friend of mine was telling me that there's a new whole grain rice crispies that are a lot bigger in size than regular rice crispies but obviously more healthy and only 90 cals a serving. I'm trying to use up my Cascadian Farms organic cereal first which is really, really good but it's something like 210 or so calories per serving. As for the fruit I've been putting on my cereal one day it was strawberries, a couple days raspberries. I was going to put some banana on it this morning but they've disappeared. As long as my kids are eating healthy I suppose I can forgive them ;) I did make myself and the kids scrambled eggs (mine egg whites) and turkey bacon the other morning and since I was running late I slapped mine in a small tortilla and ate it on the way to work. On to todays food (finally right?)
b - Cascadian Farms granola cereal with vanilla almond milk and raspberries (the kiddles had biscuits and gravy)
Snack - 100 cal cocoa roasted almonds
L - Bumblebee tuna thai chili tuna on crackers and some collard greens
Snack - string cheese and 100 cal cocoa roasted almonds
D - previously mentioned Morningstar farms veggie burger, green olives, avocado and Campbell's lite italian veggie soup
Snack - Ghirardelli dark chocolate with raspberry filling
Exercise - none today, my 6 yr old was home sick with a cough and my daughter ended up calling me from school around 9 today with a headache. I in turn sat on my lazy rear and read.
I'm apprehensive about zumba tomorrow night because there's supposed to be a new instructor. The one that's been there has been perfect, not militant but not overly chipper either. I guess I'll just have to see tomorrow how I like her.
Soccer season has started here for the kids and I love it! I mean in the upwards of 90 degree heat you're sweating like a pig and cooking in the sun but it's great none the less. My 6 yr olds team lost, my 8 yr olds team won by something like 15 to 1. I'm so proud of him, he's soooooo good. I think he scored 6-7 of those goals himself. The whole team is really good. My 12 yr old's competitive team had a scrimmage on Sunday. They won the first game and lost the second. Thankfully the 2nd team is a division above because they kicked their hineys ;) Yesterday he had a game with his school team and they won as well. He's a goalie for his competitive team but on his school team while he plays in goal he gets some field time as well which we both like. He played tough yesterday :)
If I don't blog tomorrow, I hope that all has a good weekend!
~amy
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Actually ate decently!
Food
B - 1 serving Kashi Go lean cereal with fresh strawberries cut up in it
L - turkey sandwich on extra fiber whole wheat bread with banana peppers and green olives, 1/2 serving dark chocolate covered raisins
Snack - 100 cal pack of cocoa coated almonds
D - Kashi Mayan harvest meal, 1 serving ghirardelli chocolate with raspberry, string cheese
Snack - maybe popcorn, not sure yet
Exercise - yes my friends, you read that right, I exercise again :) 45 minutes at home stuff, abs, legs, arse, arms, etc.
Life - I'm about 3/4 of the way done with Mr Darcy Vampyre and like it now. I think that the author is a little obvious with her foreshadowing but overall, it's pretty good. My husband sent flowers to work for my birthday yesterday! Shocking ;) He never has so it was a nice surprise. They're beautiful and smell wonderful. We went to dinner at a local steakhouse last night and it just so happens on Wednesdays that their bottles of wine are half off. I got a 20 bottle for 10 bucks and it was goooood. I love a good merlot. I went through almost half of it at dinner, whoopsy. Husband doesn't drink wine so the remainder of the bottle came home with me and I forsee breaking it out this weekend. I'm headed to zumba again tomorrow night and looking forward to it.
til the next time
~ amy
B - 1 serving Kashi Go lean cereal with fresh strawberries cut up in it
L - turkey sandwich on extra fiber whole wheat bread with banana peppers and green olives, 1/2 serving dark chocolate covered raisins
Snack - 100 cal pack of cocoa coated almonds
D - Kashi Mayan harvest meal, 1 serving ghirardelli chocolate with raspberry, string cheese
Snack - maybe popcorn, not sure yet
Exercise - yes my friends, you read that right, I exercise again :) 45 minutes at home stuff, abs, legs, arse, arms, etc.
Life - I'm about 3/4 of the way done with Mr Darcy Vampyre and like it now. I think that the author is a little obvious with her foreshadowing but overall, it's pretty good. My husband sent flowers to work for my birthday yesterday! Shocking ;) He never has so it was a nice surprise. They're beautiful and smell wonderful. We went to dinner at a local steakhouse last night and it just so happens on Wednesdays that their bottles of wine are half off. I got a 20 bottle for 10 bucks and it was goooood. I love a good merlot. I went through almost half of it at dinner, whoopsy. Husband doesn't drink wine so the remainder of the bottle came home with me and I forsee breaking it out this weekend. I'm headed to zumba again tomorrow night and looking forward to it.
til the next time
~ amy
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Way too long
I hate that I've gone a week without a blog post. I have to find a better way to get on here and blog. As a result, sit back and relax, I've got a lot of blogging to catch up on ;)
I'll start with food highlights
A christmas or two ago I ordered my husband a gift basket of cajun food products. We had one remaining item, and no it wasn't expired, jumbalaya mix. I finally got it out and made it with shrimp and turkey sausage over brown rice this weekend and it was delish! I got him the gift from Cajun Grocer. I orginally found them when I was looking to buy a turducken, which wasn't half bad by the way. I had leftover jumbalaya for dinner last night but rather than rice added greens to it and it was dare I say even more delish. On to todays foods
B - McDonald's egg mcmuffin. I was originally going to go for a nonfat latte and eat some Kashi granola cereal with strawberries at home but the mcmuffin was calling my name. In retrospect I wish I had held out for the cereal but ah well.
L - I met my mom for lunch at Beef O' Bradys. She usually takes me to lunch on my birthday but my birthday is tomorrow and I'm working during the day so there you go. I had a blackened fish sandwich and fries. Shouldn't have eaten the fries but their curly fries are so darned good :)
D - Lean Cuisine asian potstickers, banana
Snack - Ghirardelli dark chocolate with raspberry filling
Exercise -
I've gone to Zumba for the past 2 fridays and just love it. I found out she's also offering the class on Monday evenings so if I can swing it I'd like to go to that one as well. With doing zumba it's really gotten me into the groove of exercising again. Both Sunday and last night I walked 3 miles and today did 45 min. of legs,abs, arms, etc.
Weight loss -
I'm now 8 lbs away from my original goal that I set to be at on September 16th. I knew 2/3 months ago that there just wasn't any way that I'd reach it but being so close has definitely given me that added fire I need to get there as soon as I can.
Life - I'll be 33 tomorrow. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I've gotten into a really good routine with the Oil of Olay Regenerist serum which I really like by the way but I figured as a birthday gift to myself that I should go out and buy an arsenal of "good god don't let me look old" stuff. I went to CVS because while I'm willing to put out a bit of money I certainly am not going to nor am able to break the bank for it. I was headed for the Olay section when I walked past a display of cool looking stuff. Vickery and Clarke Natural Apothecary products. They had a bunch of really cool stuff (check out the link) for really awesome prices so I thought, oh why not. I'll have to report back in a few weeks with a review but for now I have the vitamin A&E face moisturizer, eye cream and anti-aging lip treatment. We'll see. I read an article in a recent issue of Allure about how you can pretty much slap as much stuff like that on your face as possible and not to worry about it causing zits and such. It also said to layer with the thinnest layer of product on bottom working your way up to the thickest for maximum penetration. I can't find the damn magazine to quote what exactly they said but regardless, I'm painting on as much stuff as I can in my war against wrinkles ;)
I read a really good book this weekend The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner. My only regret is that I read it so fast it was over with. It's historical fiction based on Queen Juana, often referred to as Juana the crazy or Juana la loca, daughter of queen Isabelle and King Ferdinand of Spain. She was also sister to Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife if King Henry the VIII. I just adore this time period. I've started a new book, Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange. It's supposed to be a follow up to Pride and Prejudice and I'm only into the first couple of chapters or so so there jury is still out on how I feel about it. I adore Pride and Prejudice so much that I'm finding it difficult to really get into this one. I tried reading Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife a few years ago (another contemporary follow up) but after several attempts just couldn't get into it. And lastly, I saw a cute movie today, New in Town, starring Renee Zellweger. It wasn't oscar worthy by any means but a fun movie none the less.
And lastly, I'm officially attempting to be an active twitter user, my username on there is amyms5 if you're so inclined to look for me ;)
I'll try to blog to my so that I can be a total douche and wish myself a happy birthday.
Until then
~amy
ack! totally forgot to mention - super excited about the premier of Biggest Loser tonight!
I'll start with food highlights
A christmas or two ago I ordered my husband a gift basket of cajun food products. We had one remaining item, and no it wasn't expired, jumbalaya mix. I finally got it out and made it with shrimp and turkey sausage over brown rice this weekend and it was delish! I got him the gift from Cajun Grocer. I orginally found them when I was looking to buy a turducken, which wasn't half bad by the way. I had leftover jumbalaya for dinner last night but rather than rice added greens to it and it was dare I say even more delish. On to todays foods
B - McDonald's egg mcmuffin. I was originally going to go for a nonfat latte and eat some Kashi granola cereal with strawberries at home but the mcmuffin was calling my name. In retrospect I wish I had held out for the cereal but ah well.
L - I met my mom for lunch at Beef O' Bradys. She usually takes me to lunch on my birthday but my birthday is tomorrow and I'm working during the day so there you go. I had a blackened fish sandwich and fries. Shouldn't have eaten the fries but their curly fries are so darned good :)
D - Lean Cuisine asian potstickers, banana
Snack - Ghirardelli dark chocolate with raspberry filling
Exercise -
I've gone to Zumba for the past 2 fridays and just love it. I found out she's also offering the class on Monday evenings so if I can swing it I'd like to go to that one as well. With doing zumba it's really gotten me into the groove of exercising again. Both Sunday and last night I walked 3 miles and today did 45 min. of legs,abs, arms, etc.
Weight loss -
I'm now 8 lbs away from my original goal that I set to be at on September 16th. I knew 2/3 months ago that there just wasn't any way that I'd reach it but being so close has definitely given me that added fire I need to get there as soon as I can.
Life - I'll be 33 tomorrow. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I've gotten into a really good routine with the Oil of Olay Regenerist serum which I really like by the way but I figured as a birthday gift to myself that I should go out and buy an arsenal of "good god don't let me look old" stuff. I went to CVS because while I'm willing to put out a bit of money I certainly am not going to nor am able to break the bank for it. I was headed for the Olay section when I walked past a display of cool looking stuff. Vickery and Clarke Natural Apothecary products. They had a bunch of really cool stuff (check out the link) for really awesome prices so I thought, oh why not. I'll have to report back in a few weeks with a review but for now I have the vitamin A&E face moisturizer, eye cream and anti-aging lip treatment. We'll see. I read an article in a recent issue of Allure about how you can pretty much slap as much stuff like that on your face as possible and not to worry about it causing zits and such. It also said to layer with the thinnest layer of product on bottom working your way up to the thickest for maximum penetration. I can't find the damn magazine to quote what exactly they said but regardless, I'm painting on as much stuff as I can in my war against wrinkles ;)
I read a really good book this weekend The Last Queen by C.W. Gortner. My only regret is that I read it so fast it was over with. It's historical fiction based on Queen Juana, often referred to as Juana the crazy or Juana la loca, daughter of queen Isabelle and King Ferdinand of Spain. She was also sister to Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife if King Henry the VIII. I just adore this time period. I've started a new book, Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange. It's supposed to be a follow up to Pride and Prejudice and I'm only into the first couple of chapters or so so there jury is still out on how I feel about it. I adore Pride and Prejudice so much that I'm finding it difficult to really get into this one. I tried reading Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife a few years ago (another contemporary follow up) but after several attempts just couldn't get into it. And lastly, I saw a cute movie today, New in Town, starring Renee Zellweger. It wasn't oscar worthy by any means but a fun movie none the less.
And lastly, I'm officially attempting to be an active twitter user, my username on there is amyms5 if you're so inclined to look for me ;)
I'll try to blog to my so that I can be a total douche and wish myself a happy birthday.
Until then
~amy
ack! totally forgot to mention - super excited about the premier of Biggest Loser tonight!
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Tuesday dummy
I keep forgetting that today is Tuesday rather than Monday. The positive of that is that when I do realize it's Tuesday it coincides with the thought that there's only 4 work days this week :)
The weekend was good. Zumba on Friday night was an absolute blast and I will definitely be returning this week. I sweated my arse off. There were only 8 of us in the class so it was nice being with a small group of people.
Saturday was all about relaxing, ended up with only babe and my daughter home so when babe took a nap my husband layed down with him and Anna and I lounged in the pool for a couple of hours. I know that sun isn't good for your skin but I feel like I look better with a tan so, there ;) Saturday night we went bowling with my son's soccer team and wow do I ever suck. We bowled two games and needless to say I got the lowest score both times. Ah well, it was fun regardless. A friend of mine has been working out of town but flew in for the weekend and that brat has lost 15 pounds in the two or so months that he's been gone simply by eating differently. Must be nice to have weight fall off so easily :) Sunday was a lazy day and yesterday we went to a humongous flea market and walked around in the blazing heat for several hours.
On to today~
B - Odwalla chocolate soy protein shake
L - Taco Bell fresco chicken soft taco and fresco chicken burrito
Snack - 1 wedge laughing cow cheese and 1/2 of an Arnold's sandwich thin
D - Lean Cuisine steak and broccoli, string cheese, 1 serving Ghirardelli dark chocolate w/raspberry
Snack - banana
I do not feel good one litte bit. My mom had a flu type thing going on and I'm afraid that she passed it on to me. I'm hoping that I feel better tomorrow because I really need to be at work.
hoping that I feel better
~ amy
The weekend was good. Zumba on Friday night was an absolute blast and I will definitely be returning this week. I sweated my arse off. There were only 8 of us in the class so it was nice being with a small group of people.
Saturday was all about relaxing, ended up with only babe and my daughter home so when babe took a nap my husband layed down with him and Anna and I lounged in the pool for a couple of hours. I know that sun isn't good for your skin but I feel like I look better with a tan so, there ;) Saturday night we went bowling with my son's soccer team and wow do I ever suck. We bowled two games and needless to say I got the lowest score both times. Ah well, it was fun regardless. A friend of mine has been working out of town but flew in for the weekend and that brat has lost 15 pounds in the two or so months that he's been gone simply by eating differently. Must be nice to have weight fall off so easily :) Sunday was a lazy day and yesterday we went to a humongous flea market and walked around in the blazing heat for several hours.
On to today~
B - Odwalla chocolate soy protein shake
L - Taco Bell fresco chicken soft taco and fresco chicken burrito
Snack - 1 wedge laughing cow cheese and 1/2 of an Arnold's sandwich thin
D - Lean Cuisine steak and broccoli, string cheese, 1 serving Ghirardelli dark chocolate w/raspberry
Snack - banana
I do not feel good one litte bit. My mom had a flu type thing going on and I'm afraid that she passed it on to me. I'm hoping that I feel better tomorrow because I really need to be at work.
hoping that I feel better
~ amy
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Negligence
Okay, I have an excuse, sorta. My work schedule has changed some so my blogging may have to adjust some as well. Until I figure it out I'll just blog todays stuff for now.
Food
Breakfast - 2 egg whites and 2 slices turkey bacon on an Arnolds sandwich thin. These suckers are perfect for sandwiches and I heart the lady at work who told me about them. Check them out!
Lunch - pb&j with sugar free raspberry preserves on, you guessed it: Arnold's sandwich thin. Also had half of a large banana
Snack - 1 wedge laughing cow cheese on half a sandwich thin. And no, it's not my new every meal thing, it's just that I was out of my regular crackers that I eat with my laughing cow cheese. Also had rasberry flavored FruitaBu fruit thin.
Dinner - 2 Morning Star spicy black bean burger pattys with dijon mustard and raw spinach on top as well as vegan miso ramen noodles. I can't remember the brand but the soup was really good! 1 serving Ghirardelli dark choc. with raspberry
Snack - frozen grapes and a few strawberries. Stupid strawberries and watermelon. I suppose they're not in season because they're going bad on me so quickly. My 8 yr old loves to take watermelon in his lunch and I bought him some Monday and it was already yuck this morning. I might have some popcorn tonight too if I'm hungry in a bit.
Edit! I made the popcorn but I'm also adding in some green olives. I loves olives of all kinds. I was reading an article in Allure magazine yesterday and how eating foods high in antioxidants is good for your skin. I googled a list of fruits and veggies high in them and olives rank pretty darn high. I happen to have a jar of green ones here at work so, voila!
Exercise - no, none today but I drove past the local gymnastics place and they're offering Zumba classes on Friday nights! I've been wanting to try it out and for only 5 bucks a class it's perfect. If you haven't heard of Zumba here's a copy and paste from their site describing it (zumba.com). ~ "Zumba® fuses hypnotic latin rhythms and easy to follow moves to create a dynamic fitness program that will blow you away. Our goal is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, to get hooked. Zumba® Fanatics achieve long term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast in one exhilarating hour of caloric-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate for life!
The routines feature interval training sessions where fast and slow rhythms, and resistance training are combined to tone and sculpt your body while burning fat. Add some Latin flavor and international zest into the mix and you've got Zumba®!"
Anyway, I'm excited about it, my friend is going too and I've talked my daughter into going :) I'll have to report back on it.
I am soooooo looking forward to this 3 day weekend. I forsee mega pool time in my future. I don't think I'll have a chance to blog tomorrow, so wishing everyone an awesome and safe Labor Day weekend!!
Eta: one more thing :) If you'll look to the right you'll see I now belong to the foodie blogroll, an awesome group of tonnnns up tonnnnns of food blogs. Check them out!
~ amy
Food
Breakfast - 2 egg whites and 2 slices turkey bacon on an Arnolds sandwich thin. These suckers are perfect for sandwiches and I heart the lady at work who told me about them. Check them out!
Lunch - pb&j with sugar free raspberry preserves on, you guessed it: Arnold's sandwich thin. Also had half of a large banana
Snack - 1 wedge laughing cow cheese on half a sandwich thin. And no, it's not my new every meal thing, it's just that I was out of my regular crackers that I eat with my laughing cow cheese. Also had rasberry flavored FruitaBu fruit thin.
Dinner - 2 Morning Star spicy black bean burger pattys with dijon mustard and raw spinach on top as well as vegan miso ramen noodles. I can't remember the brand but the soup was really good! 1 serving Ghirardelli dark choc. with raspberry
Snack - frozen grapes and a few strawberries. Stupid strawberries and watermelon. I suppose they're not in season because they're going bad on me so quickly. My 8 yr old loves to take watermelon in his lunch and I bought him some Monday and it was already yuck this morning. I might have some popcorn tonight too if I'm hungry in a bit.
Edit! I made the popcorn but I'm also adding in some green olives. I loves olives of all kinds. I was reading an article in Allure magazine yesterday and how eating foods high in antioxidants is good for your skin. I googled a list of fruits and veggies high in them and olives rank pretty darn high. I happen to have a jar of green ones here at work so, voila!
Exercise - no, none today but I drove past the local gymnastics place and they're offering Zumba classes on Friday nights! I've been wanting to try it out and for only 5 bucks a class it's perfect. If you haven't heard of Zumba here's a copy and paste from their site describing it (zumba.com). ~ "Zumba® fuses hypnotic latin rhythms and easy to follow moves to create a dynamic fitness program that will blow you away. Our goal is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, to get hooked. Zumba® Fanatics achieve long term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast in one exhilarating hour of caloric-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate for life!
The routines feature interval training sessions where fast and slow rhythms, and resistance training are combined to tone and sculpt your body while burning fat. Add some Latin flavor and international zest into the mix and you've got Zumba®!"
Anyway, I'm excited about it, my friend is going too and I've talked my daughter into going :) I'll have to report back on it.
I am soooooo looking forward to this 3 day weekend. I forsee mega pool time in my future. I don't think I'll have a chance to blog tomorrow, so wishing everyone an awesome and safe Labor Day weekend!!
Eta: one more thing :) If you'll look to the right you'll see I now belong to the foodie blogroll, an awesome group of tonnnns up tonnnnns of food blogs. Check them out!
~ amy
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