Funday Sunday

Sorry for the last posting! The boyfriend came into town late Saturday, so I was hanging with him yesterday.

I started out the day with an egg wrap I was craving.


This was about 1 egg and 1 egg white with a slice of swiss cheese on a Flat Out wrap. I made an extra egg and egg white for the doggies who were begging from me. They love eggs, so I just couldn't resist. I added some paprika and ketchup to my wrap after the picture

One the side I had roasted asparagus.


Roasted with a tsp of EVOO. It was delicious. I love roasted asparagus.

The boyfriend and I spent the day watching How I Met Your Mother Season 3. It was fun.

For dinner, we went out to eat with my grandpa, dad, and my cousin. I can already see a problem with eating while I'm home over the summer. My family eats out A LOT. That combined with eating out with my friends. Yikes. I tried to make good decisions at the Chinese buffet.


With another plate of green beans.

After dinner, my cousin, the boyfriend, and I went to see Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. My cousin saw it right when it came out and really liked it. Now, my cousin goes to the movies with me all the time when I'm home, but probably the last movie she REALLY liked was The Dark Knight. Most movies she either says she doesn't like. Or she says it is okay. So, I had to check this out. She was even willing to see it AGAIN AND go with me and the boyfriend. It was decent. Entertaining. Reminded me a lot of The Mummy. She is 14, so I think she might have one of her first movie star crushes. If I was 14, I would have loved it too.

I'm hanging out with my cats now, while the boyfriend goes on a bike ride.

The A-Team

Hello all!!

We went to see a noon movie about an hour away from us, so I tried to eat a large and filling breakfast!

I finally had the material to make overnight oats, so I put this batch together last night.


Topped with half a banana, cinnamon, and a Weetabix biscuit. I was so excited to finally try it. I thought it was a pretty good topping.

We saw the A-Team. I liked it, but I think I mainly liked it because Bradley Cooper is so cute. It was a fun action movie, and I like action movies.

I brought a wrap as a snack for the movie, but I ended up not needing it. I ate it around 7 instead.


Banana and Sunflower Seed Butter on a Flat Out Wrap.

I forgot to take a picture of my lunch, which was a salad at Moe's Burrito place. It was delicious.

I ran some errands with a friend, and she wanted Dairy Queen. I ended up getting a kid's meal.


Now I'm watching my newly purchased season 3 of How I Met Your Mother.

Suburb Food Tour 2010

On Wednesday my cousin and I took my dogs to the groomer in a suburb of Chitown. While they were getting groomed, we ate some food and went shopping! It was exciting.

Summer is 14 and a vegetarian. She has been on and off since she was about 12.

She had never had thai food before. So we ate some thai.


They gave us the soup of the day to start out with. It had a giant carrot in it. Summer was quite amused.

We shared an order of spring rolls.


They weren't that good. I've had better spring rolls for sure.

We both had Pad Thai with Tofu.


It was good!!

Afterwards we went to the mall for some Yogen Fruz!! I was so excited.

I had plain with mango mixed in. Yum.


Afterwards we went to Trader Joe's.

When we came back into town, we had a Chinese buffet.


I just watched the first episode of Losing It with Jillian Michaels. I have a girl crush on Jillian Michaels, so I liked it, but she is does try to play Dr. Phil too much. Anyone else watching? Thoughts?

Manic Monday

Hi all,

Last week of classes as an undergraduate! It is pretty crazy.

I'm thinking about changing the title of the blog since I'm not really focusing it on losing as much as I was in the beginning. I've had some suggestions for changes.

I forgot to take a picture of my breakfast (egg sandwich with strawberries) or lunch (hummus wrap) today, so I'm going to post the pictures from yesterday.

I slept until 10, so I just ate lunch instead of breakfast. I had a black bean burrito.


I had a side of roasted asparagus as well.


Dinner was a sweet potato with quinoa stuffing and roasted asparagus.


Instead of making the quinoa with water, I made it with vegetable broth. It was delicious.

Right now, I'm trying to decide what to make for dinner. I want to make enough to bring to work tomorrow. I'm thinking baked tofu with broccoli.

TGIF

Hi all! I'm blogging a little earlier than usual. I had a doctor's appointment, and now I have about 20 minutes until class starts.

My breakfast looks pretty similar to my dinner last night.


No spinach on the sandwich though.

I feel a lot better eating fresh fruit in the morning. I need to remember that.

I packed a few snacks since I'm going to be working on campus and eating a latish dinner with the boyfriend. Today is our "date night." We haven't decided what to do yet.

I'm excited about lunch/my snack though.

I'll see you after class!

Earth Day!

What do you do to help the earth?

I spent most of the afternoon sleeping so no electricity. Does that count?

I knew it was going to be a busy day at work, and I wasn't sure how long I would have for lunch so I started out with a pretty calorie dense breakfast.


Overnight oats. Topping with Almond Butter, Kashi Go lean, blueberries.

It kept me pretty full for a while. I did manage to get a very, very quick lunch between school groups, so I made a frozen dinner.

It doesn't look that appealing, but it was pretty tasty.


Sweet n sour "chicken" from morningstar farms. This had carrots, peppers, pineapple, and brown rice.

I had an unpictured strawberry shortcake for Administrative Professional's Day. They brought it in for some of the workers.

I took a nap with this guy after work.


I named him Phantom. I don't know if I ever made an announcement here! He has a total Phantom of the Opera mask, and he is super sweet.

Since I had fake meat for lunch, I knew I didn't want to have it for dinner. I was dreaming of eggs (seriously) during my nap, so made an egg sandwich. I wanted more veggies today, so I cooked some spinach with evoo to add on top.


Trader Joe's had fresh berries, and the blackberries were AWESOME. I'm so excited. I love berries.

This weekend is the Earth Day celebration in Forest Park, and the Tower Grove Farmer's Market is there. I think I might check it out on Thursday.

Fewer Meat Subs Experiment

I am so uncreative with titles for my blog posts. I should get better with that.

After my last post, I went to my first WW meeting in like a month or so. I really liked this leader. I want to keep going to her, so I'm going to figure out how to swing that with my schedule.

On my way back I stopped by trader joe's to pick up some fun, protein packed meal ideas.

I decided to replicate what I get from Chipotle, a burrito bowl.

I was super excited to find this at Trader Joe's


I don't like tomatoes (weird, I know), so I love Chipotle's corn salsa. This helped my laziness.

Here is my taco salad!


I used baby argula, black beans, a tsp of the corn salsa, fat free plain greek yogurt, and guacamola.

Excellent dinner for about half the points as Chipotle.

I am eating some hummus with whole wheat pita now!

It is going to be a long day tomorrow with a lot of kids at the museum, so I made a protein packed over night oats. I think I'll ad almond butter and fruit to it in the morning.

Good night all!

Wednesday

I started my morning out with a breakfast cookie.


I found the recipe on Fitnessita's blog.

I used Dark Chocolate Dream and chocolate protein powder. It was delicious.

Lunch today was a random fake chicken bbq sandwich with swiss cheese and a bagel thin.


It was good. The brussel sprouts were kind of gross, so I threw them out and made broccoli instead.

I'm about to go for a run, go to a WW meeting, and finally I'm going to trader joes.

I noticed I eat a lot of meat substitutes, so I'm going to try and eat less of them throughout the week.

Weekend

Hi all! Sorry I haven't posted in a few days.

Saturday the boyfriend and I ended up going on a long bike ride.


Here we are half way through the ride.

The boyfriend bought me this jersey for our 3 year anniversary.


I think it is pretty awesome.


Garmin time.

I started out this morning with my usual overnight oats.

I need to buy some more egg whites so I can start eating them again too!


Overnight oats with cinnamon harvest cereal and cinnamon.

I might make a breakfast cookie for tomorrow.

Dinner I had a black bean burger with sweet potatoes on campus.


Now I'm watching Glee. I love this show.

Saturday

Hope everyone is having a good Saturday!

Yesterday I stayed on campus and did homework until about 7. I went home and changed for a date with the boyfriend.

During the day I had an egg sandwich and a salad. Kind of boring so I'm not going to post the pictures.

We were going to go to a sushi place that I had a groupon for, but we were running late. We went to Stir Crazy instead.

Stir Crazy is probably my favorite chain restaurant. I love the market bar and making my own stir fry.

We started out with a side of edamame.




Yum. Love edamame.

I also had a mojito.




Also delicious.

For my main course I had the market bar create your own stir fry with tofu and flat rice noodles.




I get the classic chinese sauce.

For dessert the boyfriend and I shared the banana wontons.




Delicious. It was awesome.

We went to see Kick Ass afterwards. It was excellent. Really really good.

We snuck in some candy to the movie.




We also had some sour candy that I didn't snap a picture of. We didn't eat all of it because we were still pretty full.

This morning we headed to St. Louis Bread Co for breakfast (panera for all you non-St. Louis readers).

I had an egg and cheese sandwich. It was so good.




The boyfriend ate this.




He is 6' and weighs 140 pounds. He can eat anything.

I think we might go on a bike ride thsi afternoon. He is at work now, but when he is done.

Just signed up

For the Rock 'n roll Half Marathon in Chicago August 1st!

I'll be updating with training as I progress.

Whoo!!

DInner from Wednesday and Date Night Thursday

Dinner last night was during Criminal Minds/American Idol.

I love Criminal Minds. Seriously my favorite show.

I had a shit ton of points leftover, so I made something pretty point heavy.




Kale with asiago cheese and olive oil and whole wheat pasta with the same. IT was delicious.

For breakfast I had a bowl of overnight oats. I wasn't feeling well, so I woke up really late.



overnight oats. topping cinnamon harvest kashi, cinnamon, and bananas!

I'm about to eat dinner. TOnight I'm seeing Date Night! I'm excited.

Working Wednesdays

I'm back at the library. The end of the semester crunch time is upon us, so I'm starting to work here again. I haven't spent any serious time here since I turned in my thesis.

First the food and at the end I have some exciting news.

I started off the morning with overnight oats. This time with new toppings!



Topped with a tablespoon of Dark Chocolate Dreams and a handful of Cinnamon Harvest Kashi. I really wanted the crunch to go with it. Very delicious.

I had a late lunch.




This is my version of a bacon cheeseburger (I didn't come up with it). Morningstar Farms veggie bacon, a boca burger, and laughing cow on a bagel thin. Side of broccoli.

Yum.

I wanted a snack before heading to the library. I decided to try this Green super food I had picked up at whole foods.



Chocolate flavor.

I mixed it with a frozen banana, almond milk, and spinach.




It tasted too grassy for me. I decided to use this and mix it with cherries and a WW chocolate smoothie mix. It tasted much better.

I'll just have to add the regular to my normal smoothie from now on.

SO, my exciting news.

I think I'm going to sign up for the Rock n Roll Chicago Half Marathon in August. My dad is going to run it with me. I'm going to wait until May to sign up, so I can see how training is going.

I'm really excited!!!

Wow

I kind of stink at updating every day!!!

This weekend I was in Kansas City meeting up with other WW friends. It was awesome. I wish KC and St. Louis were closer.

I "ran" a 5k with Megan and Colleen. We cheered for another Megan and Julia at teh end of the half and got brunch together. We ate a lot. It was good to eat with other WW people!

I'll post pictures soon. For now I'm tired.

The St. Louis Marathon was also this weekend. Between seeing it and Julia and Megan run their half I think I'm inspired to sign up for one. I'm going to think some more about it and research it before I do though!

Wednesday

First off hi new followers!!

I'm at a film screening right now. We co-sponsored an event with another group AND we have an event tomorrow. We have a lot of money to spend.

I started out my day with the overnight oats I made last night.




This time I had added frozen cherries to it. It was awesome. I added a little agave nectar.

Before class I had a green smoothie.




This was a chocolate WW smoothie mix with frozen cherries, half a banana, almond breeze, and spinach. I think the chocolate smoothie mix might be too overpowering for other fruit flavors. I'll have to try the vanilla flavor of random protein mixes I bought from whole foods.

During my class break I had green beans at the place on campus.



They were pretty good. Kind of oily though.

I wasn't that hungry right when I was done with class but I knew I needed to eat.

I bought this at whole foods last night and decided to try it.




I love things I can make in the microwave.

I ate this on a bagel thin with kale! Yay I'm glad I have kale again.




I wanted some chocolate, so I had half of this. Also a whole foods purchase.




It was pretty good. Half of it was all I needed.

I forgot to take a picture of my dinner. I had a black bean burger with swiss! Also delicious.

Screening over! I can go home. Yay!

Tuesday! WI day and other fun adventures

I started out my day with the overnight oats I put together last night.




Last night I added

1/2 cup of oats
a little less than 1/2 cup of vanilla greek yogurt
a little less than 1/2 cup unsweetened vanilla almond breeze

I put that in a tupperware container so I could grab it tomorrow. Left it in the fridge overnight. In the morning I sliced up a banana and added it to it. I also added a ton of cinnamon after I took this picture.

This was awesome!! The greek yogurt added protein and it kept me much fuller than normal oats. I just ate it cold.

Tonight I made a bowl and added frozen cherries to it. I figured this would give the cherries time to defrost.

I didn't bring in a lunch today since we didn't have a tour in the afternoon. I figured I'd indulge in the cafe upstairs.

My boss (who still hasn't been able to find my blog) had extra of something she had made in the fridge and offered it to me. She is an awesome cook and vegetarian, so I always take her food when she gives it!!




This was lasagna made with rice noodles, tofu, goat's milk, zucchini and a fire-roasted tomato sauce. It was delicious.

I did have a cookie from the cafe upstairs.




Yum.

Tonight I went out for thai food with the boy. My friend who I usually have a friend date with was out of town for a grad school interview.




Pad Peanut Sauce with tofu. I ate about half the rice and half the sauce but all of the veggies and most of the tofu.

Afterwards I had a fun trip to whole foods. I bought a new apple pear thing to try. I also bought quinoa and polenta for the first time. I've eaten them before, but I've never tried to cook them!!

I also bought some random samples of protein powder to add to smoothies.