I wish I weren't a grown up!!

I can't tell you all how happy I am that it is Thursday night! Yesterday I put in over 12 hours for work and today wasn't much better. I wish I would have know really how much I would miss being a kid or a student or in college or in law school...So for those readers still in school, you may wish you could fast forward to graduation, don't!

Okay so, no exercise yesterday because I couldn't even take a lunch break. Today I managed a 4.7 mile walk with Steve and Sophie at North Park. I hate days that I am super stressed and can't get any exercise, because exercise is a huge stress reliever for me.

On to the food for yesterday and today.


Wednesday

I ate 0% Fage mixed with strawberries and 1 serving of Udi's granola. Here is a picture before it was mixed.
Luckily this had a ton of staying power because I was seeing a client outside of the office in another county and didn't get back to the office until 2:30pm to eat lunch.


Lunch was an individual serving pack of Annie's Mac & Cheese, which is made in the microwave I guess like easy mac, but I've never tried that because it is not natural like Annie's. I added about 1/4 cup Morningstar Crumbles and a chopped up tomato. I also added some of the 0% Fage that I left from my breakfast. I also had a Chocolate Cherry LaraBar. This LaraBar seemed good, but I ate it straight from the fridge, so it was cold and hard and maybe not as good as if it had been kept out of the fridge.



Around 4:30pm I ate a Maple Nut Clif Bar. This was the first time I had this kind and while I might buy it again, I wouldn't list it as a favorite.



For dinner I ate some Kashi crackers, nuts from Hawaii, and a whole wheat wrap with a Morningstar Veggie Burger with guacamole and some veggies.


A little later I had some Edy's Cookie Dough Ice Cream (sorry no picture).

Thursday

Because of the great staying power of breakfast yesterday, today I also had 0% Fage with peaches, strawberries, and 1 serving of Udi's Granola.



Iced Skim Latte around 10:30ish:

For lunch I had a Kashi Pocket Sandwich and a Salad. I also had two pieces of chocolate that were in my desk drawer, that I don't like much but I need to finish (only a few more piece left).

At 3pm I want to a office birthday celebration for an other attorney a couple floors up at my firm (my firm occupies about 15 floors of an office building). I had a piece of chocolate cake from Cost Co that was so good. I originally had planned on stopping to say Happy Birthday and not have cake, but I succumbed.

Dinner was a Mexican Impossible Pie that my wonderful husband made for me. I emailed him the recipe at work.

Impossible Vegetarian Taco Pie

1 1/2 cups Morningstar Crumbles

1 medium onion, chopped (we used 1/2 large onion)

1 envelope taco seasoning mix (I found a Vegetarian Taco Mix at Whole Foods)

1 1/4 cups skim milk

2 egg whites and 1 whole egg

3/4 cup Bisquick Heart Healthy Baking Mix

2 tomatoes, chopped

1 cup mushrooms, chopped

Cheese if desired

Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease a 10-inch pie plate.Cook and stir Morningstar Crumbles and onion in 10-inch skillet until crumbles are brown. Stir in dry taco seasoning mix. Spread in plate; add mushrooms and tomatoes. Beat milk, eggs and baking mix until smooth, 15 seconds in blender on high or 1 minute with hand beater. Pour into plate. Bake 25 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake until cheese is golden brown and knife inserted in center comes out clean, 8 to 10 minutes longer. Cool 5 minutes. Serve with sour cream, chopped tomatoes and shredded lettuce if desired. Makes 6 to 8 servings.

Here is my first piece, I had a second piece that I didn't take a picture of.

I also snacked on a mixture of things from my pantry, that 1) I didn't photograph and 2) was clearly out of stress, exhaustion, etc.

And like I said at the start of the post, I got it a walk of almost 5 miles right after dinner.

I'm tired! Good Night!!!!

Fage Friday

I didn't get around to posting about Friday last night, so here it is...

Before I left the house I had an iced coffee with some Hershey's Lite Chocolate Syrup and light chocolate soy milk.

At work I made oatmeal, with 3 ounces of Fage and peaches and raspberries. The peaches and raspberries were so good together.

Around 11am I broke out the colorful grapes that I packed for a snack. All of these were meant for 2 snacks, but I ate them all at once.


At 12:30 I decided to eat my lunch, even though I had planned to go to the gym before lunch. I packed 1 cup of vegetarian chili from last night and some brown rice.


After lunch I needed something sweet, so I went into the chocolate stash hiding in my desk drawer. A few weeks ago I was craving chocolate so I went to Rite Aid and bought this Cookies & Creme Fully Loaded mini chocolate bars. I had never tried them but at the time they looked good. I don't like them much and won't buy them again. I had two mini bars.



At 2:30 pm I decided to take a gym break, and I even wore my Nike + with my ipod to learn how far of a walk my gym is from my office. I was thinking it was 1/2 mile round trip. But it turns out it is 1/3 mile there so it is 2/3 mile round trip. At the gym I was feeling really stressed and worried I would miss a call from a partner while I was on the machine, so I only was able to do 20 minutes on the stair climber and 5 minutes on the elliptical and a small bit of stretching. In total: 25 min at the gym and then 10 min of walking to and from the gym. I figure on a busy day 35 minutes is better than nothing.


Around 4pm I had a Kashi Cherry Dark Chocolate granola bar to hold me over until dinner.



I got home around 6pm and had no idea what to make for dinner. Around 6:30 I ventured into the kitchen and snacked on some Kashi crackers while deciding what to make. We decided to just make the Annie's Mac and Cheese with peas and Boca Crumbles. We use 1/2 cup Fage instead of milk to make the sauce. We shared a sliced tomato on the side.




After dinner I had another iced coffee. We then went to run some errands.



Around 9pm, when we got home, I had a weight watchers ice cream sandwich, a vita-muffin brownie, with cool whip and Hershey's lite chocolate syrup. This dessert total had about 250 calories. I figure I opted not to have a Friday glass or two of wine, so 250 calories was not too bad for dessert.


I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far!!!

Starbucks Sucker!!

Thanks for all of the get well wishes. I'm feeling better today. I found out that a few other people from my work got sick, a group of us went to volunteer with disabled kids on Saturday and played games in a gym with them. The girl that partnered with me held my hand the whole time and had her head on my shoulder, so I easily could have picked up germs.

Steve thinks that juice is the best thing to drink when you are sick, so I listen to him and had another of my drinks, this time I used light orange juice. This was no where good as the mixture with Naked Juice last night. This light orange juice is already watered down enough that mixing with more water just made it pretty tasteless. I took this drink in a purple cup for the car ride.

Breakfast was a repeat of yesterday's because it was so yummy, Chocolate Covered Cherry Oatmeal. Love it!! I may have to try Christie's suggestion and add Carob powder sometime although Chocolate Whey might taste good too.

Because of my sore throat (although I don't really need an excuse for Starbucks) I thought something cold would be good, so around 10am I had a Mocha Light Frap.

I decided that because I wasn't feeling weak, I would take the noon spin class, I could feel a difference from my healthy spinning, but I still managed to burn 300 calories in 35 minutes.

I ate lunch after Spinning. I had a can of Muir Glen lentil soup, this is one of my favorite brands. I really love having soup for lunch, the only downside is the high sodium count is canned soup. I also had some carrots and the last of my homemade hummus.

I was super busy, but around 4pm I wanted a snack. I couldn't believe how fast I ate this! I felt so pressured to get a project done, that I hogged it up. I know that I need to focus on eating more slowly.

I got home for dinner around 6:30pm and made Annie's Whole Wheat White Cheddar Mac & Cheese. I love this kind and it uses animal enzyme free cheese (which is the only kind I eat). I used 0% fage instead of milk and added morningstar crumbles and peas. This was such a great meal and I can't wait to make it again! Steve liked it too.

Starbucks sucked me in with its new promo which entitles morning customers to a $2 iced drink with their morning receipt. So after dinner I got a Skinny Vanilla Latte. Too much Caffeine for me, when up until 2 months ago I hadn't had any coffee products for over a year in an attempt to control bad acid reflux problems, but it tastes so good. No picture of the PM latte.

Last reminder about the udi's granola contest, I changed the date to Thursday, so please enter by Thursday at 5pm. Steve will pick the winner Thursday night.