I love fruits and veggies!!

Once again I enjoyed an iced coffee on the way to work.

Once at work I ate at wonderful fruit salad. We still have so much fruit I have hardly touched yet (watermelon, honeydew, and a bunch of apples, plus a lot more grapes, bananas, peaches and berries). I am crazy about fruit!

I knew that I was going to do weights at lunch so around 11am I had some dark chocolate Figamajigs. I bought some of these to take to Hawaii but didn't eat any there. I really liked them, although for 150 calories they didn't really fill me up.

At noon I went and did about 40 minutes of upper body weights and abs.

After the gym I had a Gardenburger (the Vegan grilled fake chicken one). I love these and it only has 80 calories. I had mine on an english muffin with guacamole, lettuce, and tomatoes.

Extra tomatoes:

I also enjoyed a Sugar free Vanilla pudding snack with some oreo pieces that came with a yogurt, but wasn't used with the Yogurt. This was so yummy that I may email Kraft and recommend that they include mix-ins with their pudding snacks.

I ran out of food at work and was so hungry, that I asked by husband to pick up a bar from Rite Aid for me to eat on the ride home. So at 6pm I ate a Fiber One Bar (no picture).

For dinner I made stir fry vegetables with brown rice and a Helen's Kitchen Tofu Steak. I also was eating the veggies out of the pan while I was trying to cook them:)

Close up....so yummy....

For dessert I had a weight watchers ice cream sandwich, vita-muffin brownie, a tsp of peanut butter, and some Hershey's lite chocolate syrup.

I didn't get too much cardio today, but I took two short walks with Sophie (one before work and one after), did 10 minutes on our treadmill and then had the round trip .66 miles to the gym. I'd rather have a good cardio session daily, but my weight session was good today, so I guess that will have to do!

Until tomorrow....

Thirsty Thursday!

Last night was busy, so here is Thursday....

This morning I had two of the blueberry-oat bars I made earlier in the week before leaving the house. I really can't get enough of these, and plan to make them again soon.


I had packed a different breakfast, but wasn't feeling like it after the oat bars, and I felt really thirsty and overheated so I decided I wanted something cold and went to Starbucks and got an Iced Venti Mocha Light Frap. I always take a picture empty because I start drinking it on my walk back to the office.


For lunch I threw some left overs into a container. I had a little brown rice leftover, some broccoli, cauliflower, and frozen vegetarian dumplings from whole foods. I topped it off with some reduced sodium ginger soy sauce. I was actually so hungry that I was eating this at 11:45.


With lunch I had green grapes and pineapple. Isn't this mug cute? Steve brought it back from a business trip to Hershey, PA.
At 3pm I decided to go to the gym for a quick run, I only got 2.3 miles in, but something is better than nothing. I was feeling hungry before I went, so I stopped at the GNC that is right outside my building. My lucky day because they had 3 Key Lime Pie Larabars on sale. I bought all three but only ate this one:) I never had this flavor but really liked it. It was great at calming my hunger and giving me energy to run.

I had made muesli for breakfast (which I didn't eat then) with 1/3 oats, 2/3 unsweetened chocolate almond milk, 1/8 cup dried fruit, 2 tbsp flax meal, 1/8 unsweetened coconut, 1 tbsp sliced almonds, and some fresh berries. These blackberries were huge! Because I had some shopping to do right after work and I decided to eat dinner at 6pm before I left the office. This was really good, and enough to hold me over until I could get home for something else.

When I got home at 8pm I was hungry so I had some left over couscous in the fridge (sorry no picture).

I have a super busy Friday, Sophie has a vet appointment and tonight at 6:30 a group of my girlfriends from high school are coming over for a pot-luck. We get together once a month, usually at a restaurant, for a girls night out. This is our first pot-luck.

Turns out Sophie is a fitness guru too, look at her getting ready to go to the gym!!

Have a wonderful Friday!!!

Dirty Water = Wasted Oatmeal

I had packed some oatmeal for breakfast, but then not thinking about an email I had received at work I added water from the sink faucet and it was very brown. We had gotten an email warning us about dirty water but I guess I ignored it. I felt that it was most likely unsafe to drink. So all I had left was 6 sliced strawberries and a 110 calorie bag of chocolate rice cakes. The chocolate rice cakes were super sweet for the morning and didn't fill be up at all.




So I had to think about what I could buy. I have an Au Bon Pain in my building and knew they served hot oatmeal. So I had a regular sized oatmeal and added raisins, slivered almonds, and a little granola. It was really good and really filling. I checked the website and it claims they just use water to cook their oatmeal.





Lunch was at the Fish Market with another attorney and two summer associates. I couldn't take a picture but I had the same meal I always have at the Fish Market: Vegetable Sushi. (Picture from a previous trip to the Fish Market) I also had a cup of miso to start.

I took a break from work to go to the gym, I did 25 minutes on the stair climber and 10 min on the Elliptical.

For dinner I had some kashi crackers while making dinner (about one serving but no picture because I was grabbing them out of the box while taking care of the puppy). Then I microwaved some fresh cauliflower, morningstar meatless chicken strips, a bag of Birds Eye steamfreah brown rice. I love using this brown rice, the bag is 2 servings and it is done in 4 minutes. I mixed up 1 cup of the rice, the cauliflower and the chicken strips with Annie's Goddess Dressing, and it was a great filling meal. I would have added freshly cut tomatoes for color but we were out, so sorry for the boring looking food, I promise it tastes great.

I also had some of the left over frozen yogurt cake that had fallen apart on the ride home with the 90 degrees weather. This is in an old Rainbow Brite plastic bowl that must be 20 years old, I should have taken a picture of the bottom of the bowl.

I am skipping Pilates tonight and may do some weights on the exercise ball with Steve because he left his MBA class early tonight (it is his last week of summer classes).