Friday Theft?

It’s FRIIIIDAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!  Do you know  what this means?!?!  It’s our first Gionino’s Friday in many weeks!  Alas, that will have to wait til after work…..

I was having technical difficulties while working on last night’s post — but good news! I was able to add the video I wanted.. Check it out if you want a laugh!

Just for fun this friday, I used snapshots of my personal myfitnesspal page to show the stats on my meals.  Yes, that qualifies as “fun” in my mind 🙂

Breakfast #1

Fun fact about me:  I steal…. Um… let’s call it “hoard.”  Yes, hoard.  I hoard the Smucker’s Blackberry Preserves from our free office breakfasts.  “Steal” is too strong of a word for single serving preserve packet…  Right???

I love these blackberry preserves…  They have little bits of seeds and taste awesome:

Today I brought a Sweet Wheat Alternative bagel from home, and then we ended up having free bagels from Panera at work!  I stuck to my guns, and went with my Alternative bagel topped with about 1 tbsp of Panera’s low calorie walnut & honey cream cheese, and 1 packet of Smucker’s blackberry preserves:

Check out the comparison on the sweat wheat Alternative Bagel and a whole wheat panera bagel:

Sometimes, life is just about compromises!   It’s crazy how different those stats are, and the Alternative bagel actually tastes like a real life bagel (unlike bagel thins).

Sad news though.  I only have 1 of my blackberry preserve packets left…. I hope we get some more soon!

Stats:

Breakfast #2

Was the breakfast I accidently left at home yesterday!  It consisted of some dannon vanilla greek yogurt and slice up strawberries:

Perfection!

Stats:

Lunch

In anticipation of having PIZZZZAAAAAA for dinner tonight, I figured I’d go with a healthy salad for lunch.  Today’s salad consisted of:

  • 1/2 bag romaine lettuce
  • 2 ounces chopped up grilled chicken (heated up in the microwave)
  • 1 hardboiled egg
  • 1/2 a green pepper
  • 1 roma tomato
  • 1/4 cup red onion
  • 2 tbsp Ken’s Steakhouse Lite Italian Romano Dressing

Giant salad:

Stats:

Delicious lunch, but lets be honest.  All I can think about is pizza now….. 

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Tuesday Tastes Good

Today marks Day #3, week #3 of my interval training plan!  I am just flying right along….. Which does make me a little nervous.  I keep waiting for another knee injury to surface… Hopefully with good stretching and elevation while at work I can continue to work my way back up to running the entire time.

I’m really hoping to be able to participate in the Healthy Living Summit group run in August too…  We shall see 🙂

Breakfast #1:  Just-sayin-no to muffin(tops)

I had a breakfast meeting at Panera this morning for the Knowledgeable Network of Women in Akron.  In a previous life, I would have been PUMPED for a muffie and/or bagel from Panera…  Coffee cake?  Bring-it-on.  Nowadays I just stare longingly at these delicious treats through the glass case and drool…. 

BUT there is good news!  Panera carries Stonyfield Farms yogurt!  So, I ordered up some of that with fruit (no granola though) and a TALLLLLL coffee 🙂

Breakfast #2:  Giving low-carb waffles a second go

I made low-carb waffles for the first time last week, and I was really excited to try them again.  There’s lots of things I’d like to play around with, but for the sake of determining what works and what doesn’t I only changed a few minor things this time around.

Last night I cooked up the waffle batter below for 10 minutes on the waffle iron:

This morning, I popped the waffles into the toaster, then topped ’em off with some fresh/frozen strawberries/bananas/blackberries that I heated up in the microwave along with some PB2 (added extra H20 fo’ the drizzle).

YUMMMMMM…..  So tasty, even though the texture is not quite what I want.  Guess I’ll just have to keep on experimenting.  No complaints here!

Stats on waffles with fixins:  206 calories, 31g carbs, 4g fat, 21g protein, 8g fiber

Lunch

Lately, I’m pretty much obsessed with hummus and spinach sandwiches of any variety.  It’s not just me either.  I made a wrap with hummus on it for the BF over the weekend, and he seconded my desire to rub it all over my face and marinate in its deliciousness.  Hahahah… 😉

Today’s wrap consisted of:

Heavenly 🙂

Stats on wrap & sliced yellow pepper:  295 calories, 23g carbs, 10g fat, 24g protein, 8g fiber

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