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When hunger calls

July 29, 2010 3 Comments

When I woke up this morning, I was STARVING. I thought that was pretty odd, since I didn’t eat dinner til around 8pm last night. Regardless, the grumbling monster in my belly needed food. STAT. I wanted something to hold me over til breakfast #1, so I downed 1/2 of a Thomas english multi-grain english muffin with 1 tsp JIF peanut butter in about 2 seconds flat.

My crazy hunger pangs reminded me of the Wanda Sykes comedy show I caught over the weekend on TV. She named her belly “Esther Roll,” and apparently Esther loves bread, beer, and cheeeeeessseeeeecake. Sounds like my kind of girl 😉

Take a look!

Breakfast #1

Fruit and nut butter wrap! 1 tbsp JIF with 3 medium strawberries atop a Mama Lupe’s Low carb tortilla:

Wrapped it up burrito style and grilled on the George Foreman for about 5 minutes til nice and ooey gooey and the tortilla was crispy:

I wrapped this little guy up and took him with me to work:

Yum yum yummmmmmmm 🙂

Stats on the FNBW: 167 calories, 14g carbs, 11g fat, 9g protein, 6g fiber

Breakfast #2

I was planning on having yogurt with strawberries, but I somehow left the yogurt at home! Lucky for me I had a blueberry bliss Luna Bar in my desk at work:

I LOVE this flavor

Lunch

Nothing really sounded good for lunch today… Don’t you just hate when that happens?

I decided to make some healthified buffalo chicken. This time I used 3 ounces chicken, 2 tbsp Plain Fat Free Stonyfield Farm yogurt, 3 tbsp Franks red hot, garlic powder, and some black pepper, all atop a Mama Lupe’s Low Carb tortilla:

I also added some lettuce, tomato, and onion and had some carrots on the side:

Even though I wasn’t craving it, the wrap sure was tasty!

Stats on the Lunch: 298 calories, 27g carbs, 6g fat, 34g protein, 8g fiber

Dinner

Whelp, even though nothing sounded good at lunch by the time dinner rolled around I had a serious craving for pizza and salad. I love the pizza salad combo!

I ran to the grocery store to pick up some light mini babybels, but they didn’t have any! Ughhh… sometimes I hate living in a small town! I looked around the store and ended up with these guys:

I used a Joseph’s low carb tortilla as my base and topped it with 1/4 cup Classico Fire Roasted Tomato and Garlic sauce that I doctored up with Black Pepper, Red Pepper Flakes, Garlic Powder, and Onion Powder. Then I added 1/2 of a sliced up Jennie O’s Hot Turkey Sausage, 1 chopped up Sargento light string cheese, and some thinly sliced tomato and onion:

I baked this in the oven at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, then chopped with some sliced up fresh basil that I plucked from the backyard.

Voila!

And on the side I had a huge delicious salad with romaine, cherry tomatoes (from the back yard 🙂 ), onion, tomato, banana peppers, and 2 tbsp Ken’s Steakhouse Lite Italian Romano dressing:

Stats on the Pizza & Salad: 340 calories, 30g carbs, 16g fat, 25g protein, 10g fiber

Finished dinner about an hour ago… and I’m already getting hungry! What’s up with that?! I see a green monster smoothie in my future 🙂

What I ate

Tuesday GFNBW, OO, BCW!

July 13, 2010 5 Comments

After my big b-day dinner last night, it felt especially good to get my run in this morning. Today marks the completion of week #4 of my interval training plan! I can’t believe I’ve made it this far, and still no knee pain. I’m really looking forward to signing up for some races once I’m back to running a 100% of the time!

Here are my Runkeeper Pro stats for the interval:

3.04 miles in 32 minutes. Not too shabby, given that I was power walking for 12 of the 32 minutes. Next, I’ll be doing 3 10-minute intervals of 7 minutes running and 3 minutes walking. Part of me is excited for this bump in run time, and part of me is nervous!

I’m not sure how they calculate the calories burned in this app since it never asked me to input my height, weight, or sex. Pretty sure it’s not accurate, but at least the GPS function works! Can’t really complain since it was free 🙂

Breakfast #1: GFNBW

Grilled Fruit and Nut Butter Wrap! These always make me smile 🙂

Today I spread 1 tbsp Trader Joe’s Crunchy Almond butter atop a Mama Lupe’s Low Carb tortilla along with some sliced strawberries and blueberries.

Then I grilled the wrap on the George Foreman grill, wrapped in foil, and enjoyed the deliciousness at my desk at work:

Stats on B#1: 193 calories, 18g carbs, 12g fat, 9g protein, 8g fiber

Breakfast #2: OO

For my midmorning breakfast I had… surprise surprise – overnight oats! I switched up my usual mix by adding blueberries. I know, really pushing the boundaries here.

I swear I’m going to get more adventurous with my overnight oats! I’m going to miss these creamy morning treats on vacation:

Stats on B#2: 208 calories, 38g carbs, 5g fat, 6g protein, 6g fiber

Lunch: BCW

I had planned on making a new dish using the leftover crabmeat from my birthday dinner, but I was short on time this morning so I quickly grabbed the fixin’s for a buffalo chicken wrap.

That consisted of:

1 Mama Lupe’s Low Carb Tortilla
3 ounces shredded chicken
2 tbsp plain Dannon Greek Yogurt
1 tbsp Franks Red Hot
Sprinkling of Black Pepper & Garlic Salt

I had the wrap cold this time, and it was DELICIOUS. Reminded me of the buffalo chicken dip Jarrod and I always make for get togethers, only about three thousand times healthier!

Stats on Lunch: 166 calories, 8g carbs, 4g fat, 28g protein, 4g fiber

Tonight

The Man Candy comes home tonight! His flight is only three hours delayed… Oh well. Tomorrow we’re heading southward to Charlotte, NC! Roadtrip! 😀

Last night, Jarrod finally got in a Belgium Waffle:

That is RIDICULOUS. I’m jealous!

Speaking of the man candy, you may be wondering why on earth I call the BF that. Early on in our dating, we were out at a local bar and my dad happened to show up! I was unsure whether or not Jarrod would be comfortable with me calling him my boyfriend, so I introduced him to my dad as my “man candy” (i.e., manly eye candy)… Totally less awkward than calling him my boyfriend, right?! Hahaha… well the nickname just sorta stuck. My family still refers to him as my man candy. He is pretty easy on the eyes afterall 😉

Fitness, What I ate

Running in the Rain

June 28, 2010 1 Comment

I started this lovely Monday morning off with Day #2, Week #2 of interval training. It looked pretty grey outside, but after consulting the local radar on my weather channel app, I determined I could definitely get 30 minutes in before any rain approached.

Whelp, I was about 15 minutes off on my calculation… Half way through my normal route, a torrential downpour started to erupt from the sky! Running in the rain is actually pretty fun, and I would have kept right on going had I not JUST got a new iPhone to replace the iPhone that suffered water damage last week. So, I threw my iphone in my sports bra to keep it dry and took shelter under a nearby tree for about 15 minutes until the rain let up. Standing under the tree in the rain was actually pretty peaceful and relaxing! I’m sure I looked like a creeper though 🙂

Breakfast #1

I’m really loving the grilled fruit and nut butter wraps I’ve been making for breakfast. Today, I made one with half of a banana and Smucker’s Organic Peanut Butter atop a Mama Lupe’s low carb tortilla. I wrapped everything up and threw it on the george foreman for about 5 minutes.

(I’ll have to post the pic later.. left the stinkin cord for my old camera at home!)

Soooo delicious!

Stats on B#1: 218 calories, 23g carbs, 11g fat, 10g protein, 7 g fiber

Breakfast #2

I was still pretty hungry after B#1, so I decided to overload my overnight oats. Last night, I put 1/2 cup quick oats, 1/2 cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze Almond milk, 1 tsp brown sugar, and some cinnamon in a bowl in the fridge. This morning, I overloaded the oats with blueberries, strawberries, the other 1/2 of my breakfast banana, and some Barbara’s Bakery Peanut Butter Puffins for crunch.

Yum-o.

Stats on B#2: 308 calories, 61g carbs (hello excessive carbs), 6g fat, 8g protein, 10g fiber

Lunch

After all the carbs at breakfast, I was glad I packed a salad for lunch! Today’s salad consisted of romaine lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber, a sliced up Trader Joe’s Spinach Fontina Roasted Garlic Chicken Sausage, with 2tbsp Hidden Valley fat free ranch dressing.

Couldn’t get the flash to go off for the life of me… haha… need to spend some time playing with the camera! 🙂 I’m really liking the Trader Joe’s sausage! I wish I would have picked up more than one kind… oh well, guess I’ll have to go back 😉

Stats on Lunch: 239 calories, 22g carbs, 8g fat, 19g protein, 6g fiber