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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

What I ate

Ooey Gooey Love

June 24, 2010 4 Comments

This week is just F-L-Y-I-N-G by. Can’t believe tomorrow is Friday already!

Breakfast #1

This morning I was craving something warm and peanut-buttery for breakfast. I pulled a Mama lupe low carb tortilla out of the freezer to let it thaw out. Then I topped it with 1 tbsp Trader Joe’s Crunchy Almond Butter and some sliced strawberries.

I wrapped it up into a little burrito and put on the george foreman grill until it was hot and the shell was crispy. Then I wrapped the little guy up in foil and stuck him in my purse.

I got to work about 20 minutes later, and the wrap was still nice and hot and gooey.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — ooey gooey love

This was just delicious. So simple, and so delicious!

Side note: If you are obsessed with freezing things like me, before you freeze the tortillas put a piece of parchment paper or wax paper between each one. That way you can easily grab 1 tortilla from the freezer at a time (and they won’t all be frozen into one tortilla blob).

Stats on Breakfast #1: 172 calories, 13g carbs, 12g fat, 9g protein, 7g fiber

Breakfast #2

OO! That’s right, Overnight Oats!

I typically use quick oats when I make overnight oats, but this time I tried them with Bob’s Red Mill Thick Rolled Oats instead. Last night I threw the following into a bowl in the fridge:

1/2 cup Bob’s red mill thick oats (uncooked)
1/2 cup Almond breeze unsweetened vanilla almond milk
1 tsp brown sugar
cinnamon

This morning, I topped the oats with strawberries and blueberries:

The rolled oats have a different consistency than quick oats. They really keep their oat texture and are somewhat chewy:

These were sooooo yummmy. If I had to choose, I’d pick quick oats over rolled oats, but I’d be happy to eat either one 🙂

Stats on breakfast #2: 258 Calories, 45g carbs, 6g fat, 8g Protein, 8g Fiber

Lunch

Healthified Tuna Salad Lettuce Wrap! This was one of those times were I just kept adding things to the bowl until I found something tasty:

1 can tuna
s&P, rpf, celery seed, dill weed
3 tbsp greek oikos
1 big squirt wasabi mustard
couple drops lemon juice
1/4 cup chopped white onion
1 chopped pickle (that’s how my dad makes it!)

I made a lettuce wrap out of the tuna salad and also had some cucumber salad on the side, which was leftover from last night’s gyro dinner.

Stats on lunch: 211 calories, 19g carbs, 2g fat, 29g protein, 6g fiber

For dessert, I had a little unsweetened applesauce with some cinnamon. When I say little, I mean about 2 spoonfuls.. 🙂 (Leftovers from the big fat flop protein cakes I made)

Good news! I think my phone is almost fully recovered! 🙂

DAY #3 OF INTERVAL TRAINING TONIGHT! LET’S HOPE FOR NO KNEE PAIN!

Ramblings

Who doesn’t love a big package?

June 10, 2010 No Comments

Netrition order arrived!!! Yay for flat-rate UPS shipping!!!

Breakdown of the goods:

Mama Lupe’s Low-Carb Tortillas
Dixie Diner Carb Counters Soy Rocks plus Flax Bars (1 Crunchy Apple, 1 Crunchy Caramel Chocolate, 1 Crunchy Chocolate)
Nutritious Living Hi-Lo Cereal, Maple Pecan
Joseph’s Middle East Bakery Reduced Carb/Flax, Oat Bran & Whole Wheat Pita Bread
Joseph’s Middle East Bakery Reduced Carb/Flax, Oat Bran & Whole Wheat Lavash Bread
Bell Plantation Chocolate PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter

Can’t wait to try out all these goodies!

The Jewelry Party went really well! I always feel really happy and empowered when I get together with a group of women. Through my job, I get the opportunity to work with Akron’s Knowledgeable Network of Women, but outside of work I don’t have a ton of women-only time these days. While the Jewelry party was fun, I wish there was something I could do to get a group of women together without the enticement of having to buy a product.

Here’s some pics of the grub:

Separately, it may sound odd but I felt kinda guilty for getting free jewelry based on my friends’ purchases. Yes it offset the cost of the food and drinks, but that’s the sort of thing I like doing for friends without expecting anything in return. Maybe I’m just weird — but regardless I don’t think I’ll have any sort of jewelry/tupperware/purse/candle etc parties in the future, but I’ll definitely have to think of another type of get together for my lady friends.

I was so exhausted from the party that I didn’t spend a ton of time on my meals today. At least I’m going to get to try out a new recipe for dinner tonight 😀

B1 – After my success with the Luna Bar earlier this week, I was pumped to try a new breakfast bar so I decided to go with the Dixie Diner Carb Counters Soy Rocks plus Flax Bars in Crunchy Chocolate….

I took approximately 1.5 bites before tossing the rest in the trash! I felt like I was eating a chocolate scented tire.

🙁 Two thumbs down Dixie Diner… Two thumbs down.

B2 = Oats and fruits!

L: I decided to use up some of the party leftovers and make a lavash sandwich with the new lavash bread I ordered from netrition– a lavawich if you will 😉 . You may be asking, what the heck is lavash? Well my friends, It’s basically a really thin flat bread. I loaded it up with some turkey/ham, and a ton of sprouts, tomatoes, onions, and half a laughing cow french onion wedge.

Check out the height on this sucker:

The bread doesn’t have much taste to it (which is actually good–most low carb products have a funky after taste). I think what I like most about this bread is the sheer size of it. My sandwich was on half of the lavash–but I think I’ll try making a monster flat bread pizza with it this weekend.

Stats on the Lavash: 1/2 of one lavash has 50 calories, 7g carbs, 3g dietary fiber, 5g protein

Man… can’t wait for the weekend to get here! Goal this weekend is to not spend any money — which is good because I could really use a low-key R&R couple of days!

Dinner plan this evening is to try out the stuffed peppers I posted earlier in the week and make some roasted broccoli. I’m really getting sick of frozen steamed veggies, that is for darn sure!

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