I’ve seemingly developed a tapeworm the past few days. I’ve seriously been so hungry, no matter what I eat or how often! The past few days I’ve been eating my newest creation for lunch – BURRACOS! Ok, they might really just be burritos (I’m a little fuzzy on my Mexican food terminology), but I think the term Burracos is pretty sweet. They’re a mixture of black beans and lean turkey meat, Greek yogurt, reduced fat “Mexican blend” cheese (Kraft), and TJ’s tortillas. Yummm! To make them more transportable, I’ve been wrapping them in the tortillas, then wrapping them in foil and putting them in a plastic container. Works pretty well! In theory, they should be really filling… but in reality I could totally eat a village after I eat a Burraco. In other new products, I branched out and tried both the TJ’s low sodium butternut squash soup and the vegan split pea soup. The butternut squash was sadly a terrible disappointment – very runny and unflavorful and ultimately too watery. The split pea soup, on the other hand, was pretty fab-u. It was chunky, vegan, fat free, and had only 100 calories per 1 cup serving. The sodium (as with any soup) was pretty high (570 mg, 24% RDV), but it had 3 grams of fiber and 7 grams of protein per serving. It was super yummy and I expected that the combination of a Burraco with 1 cup of the soup would tide me over for a few hours… but no. So I caved in and ate ½ cup fresh strawberries and about 7 pretzels dipped in unsalted cashew butter. I’m hoping to remain satiated until at least 4!
Ooh, and good news! My garage door finally works! It was heavenly today – I went outside, pushed a button, and the door went up. I got in the car, backed out, pushed another button FROM THE COMFORT OF MY CAR and the door closed. Just as it should. It was glo-rious! For probably the first time since I’ve bought the house, everything is in working order. I expect this to last until probably tomorrow, when undoubtedly something else will break.
In the middle of the night a few nights ago, I mysteriously took a small chunk out of my face… I have no idea how it happened and I have vague memories of it hurting and my face bleeding, but my nails aren’t that sharp. How on earth did it happen? Now I have this red mark just under my nose that looks like either a pimple or a bloody booger until you look closely and see the layers of dermis underneath the redness. Sometimes I’m just so awesome I amaze myself.
I’m excited to go to the gym tonight since I took last night off. I’ve been doing a lot of weights and mat work and I definitely notice a difference in the way I feel. Also, I’ve noticed that walking on a steep incline burns nearly as many calories (sometimes more!) than running, so that’s pretty interesting.
I’m gonna get up from my desk before I scarf down my fruit snacks I’ve reserved for pre-gym fuel. I really need to get rid of this tapeworm!
Showing posts with label lunch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lunch. Show all posts
2.24.2009
1.27.2009
i'm so tired, my mind is on the blink...
marzetti’s light slaw dressing is ATOMIC in my book.
when i was younger i spent my summer days at my great-grandma nana’s house since both my parents worked. my mom would drop me off and pick me up every day on her way to/from work. nana wasn’t big on going out for lunch (though she LOVED jamocha shakes from arby’s!), so we almost always had lunch at her house. she’d make grilled cheeses, ham and cheeses, fish sticks, sometimes a totino’s thin crust personal pizza, and sometimes even a michelina’s mac & cheese. any time we had sandwiches, fish sticks or fries, though, we’d always have marzetti’s as our condiment. i credit her with my obscene obsession with marzetti’s, my strange love of fish sticks, and the first bloom of my fascination with the French language. she passed away when i was 18 (so i guess 8 years ago… wow), but these things still linger within me. it’s weird, but sometimes when i eat something that we used to have all the time (wheaties with bananas is another biggie!), i swear i can still smell her and her house. it’s kind of creepy and it makes me cry every time, if only a couple slow tears.
anyways, i’m currently noshing on a virginia baked ham, provolone and marzetti’s sammy on tj’s multigrain sprouted wheat bread. it’s pretty close to heaven. i honestly think i could eat marzetti’s for the rest of my life and never get tired of it. marzetti’s is up there with ketchup for me. i love em both, and putting marzetti’s and ketchup on fries and fish sticks is possibly the greatest ever! also on today’s lunch menu is another spinach salad with goat cheese & woodstock dressing and maybe half a grapefruit… the grapefruit might be saved for a snack, though, since i’m quickly slowing down (what an oxymoron).
last night i did everything i set out to do and more. i went tanning after work and then went immediately to the gym. la fitness was PACKED! i had planned on hanging out on the treadmill until yoga, but no empty treadmills were to be found so i had to opt for the one lone elliptical that was free. i spent 20 minutes on there (178 calories) and then hopped off to steal a treadmill. i warmed up some more with a 4:30 walk (3.7 mph, 6% incline) and then ran for about 34 minutes at my usual turtle speed (4.6 mph). towards yoga time, i cranked the incline up a bit (i usually run at 0% incline cuz i’m a wuss) to burn more calories since i was running out of time. my goal was to hit 500 calories before yoga started for a grand total of around 700 calories. unfortunately, i fell short by 10 measly calories so i bargained with myself that i’d hop back on for a few minutes after yoga to make up those 10. yoga was good and i REALLY felt like i got a workout – even my feet felt like they were working out! an hour later, i hopped back on the treadmill and decided to walk for another 35 minutes (3.8 mph, 7% incline). in total, my gym session blasted at least 956 calories. that’s a bit excessive, even for me.
when i got home it was 10:15 pm and i was DEAD. i was starving, but strangely i wasn’t very hungry. that doesn’t even make sense, but whatever. i heated up my tomato soup leftovers from the weekend and ran a hot bath. I ate my soup in the tub. And I’m ghetto fab, so I rinsed my bowl out in the tub when i was done. i popped a couple tylenol pm tablets and i was ready to rock. to quote mr. norton in fight club, “babies don’t sleep this well.” in fact, i slept so well that i missed both clock alarms AND my cell phone alarm and groggily looked over at the clock at 9:15 am and realized i needed to move my still-sore butt. i totally considered calling off since i feel like i was run over by a semi, but only wusses call off.
so now i’m sitting at my desk in pain… i’ve popped more tylenols and i’m pretty sure they’re not helping. i know, it’s my own fault. on the bright side, i’ve reached my edited goal of 15 gym visits this month! yay! green mango is in store for me at some point in the future. funny thing is, i always bribe myself with a reward but i never actually give myself the reward. and i think january may have been a bad month to use the green mango as a bribe since i’m going on a cruise in a mere 2 weeks and there will be plenty of indulgences for a full week. perhaps i will delay that particular reward until march… but i’ll still probably cash in my original reward, which was a drink at starbucks.
not of particular interest to anyone but me, but i signed myself up for the budget plan with my gas company, thus cutting my gas bill in half for this coming month. it took me 6 very full months to catch on to that one, but finally i got smart.
now that i figured out how to blog at work without logging onto the blogger website and without using my itsy bitsy blackberry keypad, i might update this more often… provided i have time at work, of course!
have a better tuesday than me, everyone!
when i was younger i spent my summer days at my great-grandma nana’s house since both my parents worked. my mom would drop me off and pick me up every day on her way to/from work. nana wasn’t big on going out for lunch (though she LOVED jamocha shakes from arby’s!), so we almost always had lunch at her house. she’d make grilled cheeses, ham and cheeses, fish sticks, sometimes a totino’s thin crust personal pizza, and sometimes even a michelina’s mac & cheese. any time we had sandwiches, fish sticks or fries, though, we’d always have marzetti’s as our condiment. i credit her with my obscene obsession with marzetti’s, my strange love of fish sticks, and the first bloom of my fascination with the French language. she passed away when i was 18 (so i guess 8 years ago… wow), but these things still linger within me. it’s weird, but sometimes when i eat something that we used to have all the time (wheaties with bananas is another biggie!), i swear i can still smell her and her house. it’s kind of creepy and it makes me cry every time, if only a couple slow tears.
anyways, i’m currently noshing on a virginia baked ham, provolone and marzetti’s sammy on tj’s multigrain sprouted wheat bread. it’s pretty close to heaven. i honestly think i could eat marzetti’s for the rest of my life and never get tired of it. marzetti’s is up there with ketchup for me. i love em both, and putting marzetti’s and ketchup on fries and fish sticks is possibly the greatest ever! also on today’s lunch menu is another spinach salad with goat cheese & woodstock dressing and maybe half a grapefruit… the grapefruit might be saved for a snack, though, since i’m quickly slowing down (what an oxymoron).
last night i did everything i set out to do and more. i went tanning after work and then went immediately to the gym. la fitness was PACKED! i had planned on hanging out on the treadmill until yoga, but no empty treadmills were to be found so i had to opt for the one lone elliptical that was free. i spent 20 minutes on there (178 calories) and then hopped off to steal a treadmill. i warmed up some more with a 4:30 walk (3.7 mph, 6% incline) and then ran for about 34 minutes at my usual turtle speed (4.6 mph). towards yoga time, i cranked the incline up a bit (i usually run at 0% incline cuz i’m a wuss) to burn more calories since i was running out of time. my goal was to hit 500 calories before yoga started for a grand total of around 700 calories. unfortunately, i fell short by 10 measly calories so i bargained with myself that i’d hop back on for a few minutes after yoga to make up those 10. yoga was good and i REALLY felt like i got a workout – even my feet felt like they were working out! an hour later, i hopped back on the treadmill and decided to walk for another 35 minutes (3.8 mph, 7% incline). in total, my gym session blasted at least 956 calories. that’s a bit excessive, even for me.
when i got home it was 10:15 pm and i was DEAD. i was starving, but strangely i wasn’t very hungry. that doesn’t even make sense, but whatever. i heated up my tomato soup leftovers from the weekend and ran a hot bath. I ate my soup in the tub. And I’m ghetto fab, so I rinsed my bowl out in the tub when i was done. i popped a couple tylenol pm tablets and i was ready to rock. to quote mr. norton in fight club, “babies don’t sleep this well.” in fact, i slept so well that i missed both clock alarms AND my cell phone alarm and groggily looked over at the clock at 9:15 am and realized i needed to move my still-sore butt. i totally considered calling off since i feel like i was run over by a semi, but only wusses call off.
so now i’m sitting at my desk in pain… i’ve popped more tylenols and i’m pretty sure they’re not helping. i know, it’s my own fault. on the bright side, i’ve reached my edited goal of 15 gym visits this month! yay! green mango is in store for me at some point in the future. funny thing is, i always bribe myself with a reward but i never actually give myself the reward. and i think january may have been a bad month to use the green mango as a bribe since i’m going on a cruise in a mere 2 weeks and there will be plenty of indulgences for a full week. perhaps i will delay that particular reward until march… but i’ll still probably cash in my original reward, which was a drink at starbucks.
not of particular interest to anyone but me, but i signed myself up for the budget plan with my gas company, thus cutting my gas bill in half for this coming month. it took me 6 very full months to catch on to that one, but finally i got smart.
now that i figured out how to blog at work without logging onto the blogger website and without using my itsy bitsy blackberry keypad, i might update this more often… provided i have time at work, of course!
have a better tuesday than me, everyone!
1.25.2009
everybody hurts... sometimes.
ouch.
good news, folks! i was able to secure a spot in yoga class this morning. it was awesome and i'm probably going to hit it up again tomorrow night after work and tanning. i was pretty stable for most of the class but when the instructor had us move from warrior 1 to warrior 3 i lost it on both sides. literally fell over... it was quite hilarious and i couldn't stop laughing. the girl beside me was also laughing. good thing i can laugh at myself! the class lasted an hour and i felt like i got a better workout than last time. but is 1 hour enough for beastly linds? heck no. i changed from yoga pants to running shorts and blasted through 33 minutes running and then 32 minutes walking at 3.7 mph/7% incline. when i felt i had sufficiently depleted myself of all energy for the rest of the day, i had burned upwards of 700 calories. it was a good workout to say the least. however...
i'm having some very unpleasant lasting effects from my workout. my stomach has been cramping up almost since i got home and no matter which position i'm in, it feels like i'm going into labor. (well, for all i know.) i mean, these are really intense stomach cramps! and they didn't start until after my workout - i was fine before and during. i did some web research and apparently i'm not the only person with this issue, but no one seems to know what it is. so i'm taking it easy for the rest of the night. obviously, since i can barely move. raise your hand if you're looking forward to getting up tomorrow! ...bueller? ...bueller?
breakfast this morning was an enticing combo of 2 slices ezekiel cinnamon raisin toast, half a grapefruit and coffee. kept me going through the workout, but then i was famished! when i got home i made myself the perfect lunch for a 14 degree snowy day - grilled cheese made with provolone, colby and some ham with select harvest tomato basil soup. yum-o. dinner tonight is going to be either leftover chicken marsala from wednesday night or my leftover spaghetti warehouse chicken parm & pasta. i think i should probably concentrate on scarfing down the chicken marsala before it goes bad... so chicken marsala with a spinach salad with woodstock dressing and crumbled goat cheese. i'm so excited i'm literally salivating. i love me some chevre! oh, and my evening snack is becoming a tradition - a glass of milk with freshly grated nutmeg and cinnamon. i've been really surprised lately at how this calms me down before bed. in fact, i didn't have any last night and i laid awake for hours before falling asleep. that's probably all in my head, but i'll take whatever help i can get.
gripe of the day is... why on earth do sports bra manufacturers make B/C cup the standard?! this is so incredibly frustrating! i was searching for a particular sports bra online and it just amazes me that all of the good-support, bigger-cup sports bras are priced a good $20 or more above "average"-cup sports bras. really?? the women with the bigger boobs need the sports bras a lot more than the mosquito-bite chicks, so it's unfair to me that a good-fitting sports bra should be so inaccessible to most people. wake up, manufacturers. we're not all size 2s and B cups!
anyways, a few months ago i got an AWESOME sports bra from tj maxx - the brand is moving comfort. it has hooks in the back and adjustable straps, just like a regular bra, and the fit is AMAZING. seriously, i've never had a sports bra fit so well before and it has fantabulous support, which i obviously need for running and volleyball. since discovering this bra's awesomeness, i've been to every tj maxx/marshall's/filene's in the greater pittsburgh area in search of another one and i've come up empty in every single store. i amazon-ed tonight and guess what? i found the bra but the reason why i can't find it in stores is that it's been discontinued. for the life of me, i can't figure out why a discontinued bra would cost so much ($27.50 was the cheapest for my size)... wouldn't retailers want to get rid of it and price it cheaply? whatever. i bought 2 from sierra trading post and now i have something to look forward to at work all week since they're being shipped there. :)
plans for tomorrow include work, tanning, some elliptical/treadmill OR cardio kickboxing, and yoga class. i'm totally considering returning to cardio kickboxing. i went once a few months ago, and though i finished the entire class, it was the most strenuous workout i'd had. i think i'm probably better equipped to deal with it now and i'd probably benefit from it... and yoga would be a great cool-down. but who knows... it'll probably just be elliptical/treadmill and then yoga. i probably won't be as hardcore as today, but i liked the fact that i really got a GOOD workout in, and a total body workout. i just wish my tummy would stop hurting so much! :(
good news, folks! i was able to secure a spot in yoga class this morning. it was awesome and i'm probably going to hit it up again tomorrow night after work and tanning. i was pretty stable for most of the class but when the instructor had us move from warrior 1 to warrior 3 i lost it on both sides. literally fell over... it was quite hilarious and i couldn't stop laughing. the girl beside me was also laughing. good thing i can laugh at myself! the class lasted an hour and i felt like i got a better workout than last time. but is 1 hour enough for beastly linds? heck no. i changed from yoga pants to running shorts and blasted through 33 minutes running and then 32 minutes walking at 3.7 mph/7% incline. when i felt i had sufficiently depleted myself of all energy for the rest of the day, i had burned upwards of 700 calories. it was a good workout to say the least. however...
i'm having some very unpleasant lasting effects from my workout. my stomach has been cramping up almost since i got home and no matter which position i'm in, it feels like i'm going into labor. (well, for all i know.) i mean, these are really intense stomach cramps! and they didn't start until after my workout - i was fine before and during. i did some web research and apparently i'm not the only person with this issue, but no one seems to know what it is. so i'm taking it easy for the rest of the night. obviously, since i can barely move. raise your hand if you're looking forward to getting up tomorrow! ...bueller? ...bueller?
breakfast this morning was an enticing combo of 2 slices ezekiel cinnamon raisin toast, half a grapefruit and coffee. kept me going through the workout, but then i was famished! when i got home i made myself the perfect lunch for a 14 degree snowy day - grilled cheese made with provolone, colby and some ham with select harvest tomato basil soup. yum-o. dinner tonight is going to be either leftover chicken marsala from wednesday night or my leftover spaghetti warehouse chicken parm & pasta. i think i should probably concentrate on scarfing down the chicken marsala before it goes bad... so chicken marsala with a spinach salad with woodstock dressing and crumbled goat cheese. i'm so excited i'm literally salivating. i love me some chevre! oh, and my evening snack is becoming a tradition - a glass of milk with freshly grated nutmeg and cinnamon. i've been really surprised lately at how this calms me down before bed. in fact, i didn't have any last night and i laid awake for hours before falling asleep. that's probably all in my head, but i'll take whatever help i can get.
gripe of the day is... why on earth do sports bra manufacturers make B/C cup the standard?! this is so incredibly frustrating! i was searching for a particular sports bra online and it just amazes me that all of the good-support, bigger-cup sports bras are priced a good $20 or more above "average"-cup sports bras. really?? the women with the bigger boobs need the sports bras a lot more than the mosquito-bite chicks, so it's unfair to me that a good-fitting sports bra should be so inaccessible to most people. wake up, manufacturers. we're not all size 2s and B cups!
anyways, a few months ago i got an AWESOME sports bra from tj maxx - the brand is moving comfort. it has hooks in the back and adjustable straps, just like a regular bra, and the fit is AMAZING. seriously, i've never had a sports bra fit so well before and it has fantabulous support, which i obviously need for running and volleyball. since discovering this bra's awesomeness, i've been to every tj maxx/marshall's/filene's in the greater pittsburgh area in search of another one and i've come up empty in every single store. i amazon-ed tonight and guess what? i found the bra but the reason why i can't find it in stores is that it's been discontinued. for the life of me, i can't figure out why a discontinued bra would cost so much ($27.50 was the cheapest for my size)... wouldn't retailers want to get rid of it and price it cheaply? whatever. i bought 2 from sierra trading post and now i have something to look forward to at work all week since they're being shipped there. :)
plans for tomorrow include work, tanning, some elliptical/treadmill OR cardio kickboxing, and yoga class. i'm totally considering returning to cardio kickboxing. i went once a few months ago, and though i finished the entire class, it was the most strenuous workout i'd had. i think i'm probably better equipped to deal with it now and i'd probably benefit from it... and yoga would be a great cool-down. but who knows... it'll probably just be elliptical/treadmill and then yoga. i probably won't be as hardcore as today, but i liked the fact that i really got a GOOD workout in, and a total body workout. i just wish my tummy would stop hurting so much! :(
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