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An Extra Hour of Light

I love Daylight Savings time. I love that it’s after 6 out and although it’s overcast it’s still light out there. Although we lost an hour the day feels longer, and I really don’t mind losing an hour of sleep when in return you get an extra hour of light. Nothing depresses me more then getting out of work and it’s already dark out, so this is a welcome change.

I had a terrible eating day. I didn’t eat junk, I didn’t eat fast food, and I didn’t eat too much of anything. In fact the problem is I didn’t eat enough. I had NO hunger. And instead of eating balanced meals regardless I barely ate at all. Not a good thing at all.

I started out this morning with a cup of coffee and a 1/2 a clif bar.

I finally found them in my Whole Foods. And they totally taste like a glazed donut! I enjoyed this outside with my morning coffee on the deck. The deck is the best part of the apartment and I’m sure as it gets warmer you’ll see that we eat out there every night and most weekend meals, it’s also where our friends all come to hang out during the summer, I know for a fact that as the months get warmer you will be seeing a ton of pictures of my friends enjoying the deck with us, for meals and drinks.

My legs felt so tight this morning I was afraid that I was going to struggle with running today. So I downloaded Yoga for Runners from yogadownload.com. I’m not saying I consider myself a runner, I don’t. But I assumed it was going to focus on stretching the muscles that were giving me trouble. I’ve done yoga one other time before and so was not prepared for a podcast, I didn’t know some of the poses so Andrew made a slideshow to go along with the podcast. He decided to join me in doing the podcast. I know yoga is relaxing, but not with the 2 of us. There was way to much joking around, and way to much “get the f*** outta here I can’t do that, let’s just do child’s pose.” And whenever they mentioned energy from your fingertips Andrew made buzzing electric noises. Although we totally sucked at it we laughed a lot and I felt my muscles unwind. What should have taken 20 minutes took us over 40, we had to keep referring to the slideshow.

After this we went to the gym where I did some more of the first week of training from the Couch to 5k. I felt great afterwards! After the gym I wanted to eat but I wasn’t hungry I decided to go to Tropical Smoothie Cafe for a smoothie. I got their Sunny Day smoothie which is, banana, mango, orange, and kiwi. I also added soy protein to it. They were also offering free samples of a new product they’ll be selling, they are going to start carrying flatbread sandwiches, and one of them was a pb, banana, and granola flatbread. Okay I love pb and banana, but never in a million years would I have though to put granola on it, but I certainly will be now. It was so delicious and such a simple idea, how did I not think of that before!?

These pictures are from Andrew’s phone, amazing, my phone looks no where near this good, it always looks so washed out. I’m still amazed by these photos.

My smoothie was ginormous. It literally took me 2.5 hours to drink 3/4 of it, it was really yummy though.

We came home and took advantage of the nice weather and went for a walk/jog (mostly walk) around the neighborhood.

Once we got back we decided to make dinner, again I wasn’t hungry so I just went with what Andrew was having. He wanted pasta so he cooked some penne, I had mine with a small amount of butter, garlic powder, and parmesan cheese. On the side we also had meatless meatballs. Holy crap they were good, even Andrew enjoyed them and he’s a meat-eater through and through, and typically terrifed of eating vegetables/fake meat products. When he was younger and his mom made him and his twin brother broccoli one night, Andrew’s brother picked some up with his fork and attempted to eat it, and Andrew screamed “No DO NOT EAT THAT!!!” He acted like it was poison. My mom makes him eat broccoli when we go to her house for dinner, he’s getting a lot better with trying new things, but he’s a meat and potatoes kinda guy for the most part.

I put some spicy spaghetti sauce on the “meatballs” AMAZING!

So I guess that’s it for today! I hope you all had a fun weekend, I definitely did. We’re off to my parents house so Andrew can move a couch or something with my dad, poor Andrew he’s always recruited to help my dad with the heavy lifting since he’s surrounded by all girls day in and day out. Andrew doesn’t mind though, he’s a good guy.

March 8, 2009 at 5:45 pm 8 comments

23 Hours…

Good Morning! Hope you’re enjoying your weekend. Today is an hour shorter then every other day of this year so make sure to make the most of it! I love springing ahead because it will be lighter longer now but it looks like it’s going to be cloudy today and for the next couple days, we may not even get to enjoy the extra light. It has been so warm this weekend, all 14 inches of the snow are gone, in less the 6 days since the big snow fall it disappeared! It was close to 70 yesterday and I thoroughly enjoyed the weather.

Friday night was a ton of fun we went out to a bar down the street, I have such a great group of friends! I had a mozzarella stick but no picture of it, the rest of the night I enjoyed water and the company of my friends. So different from a few months ago where everytime we’d go out I’d spend 40 bucks on drinks, and feel sick Saturday morning. I’d really rather no have a drink at all or just enjoy one drink, just another change I made this year that I’m happy about. We came home kinda early and went to bed since Andrew had work Saturday morning. BUT I had a great conversation with my 2 best girlfriends and we have decided to run the Fear The Pier 5k in May! I’m so excited! It’ll be my first 5k and I couldn’t be happier about running it with them. Time to start training!

Yesterday morning I had personal training so I had a protein packed breakfast of a 0% plain Chobani with a piece of the banana bread mixed in. I hate it outside on our deck in the sunshine!

My trainer kicked my ass yesterday! I was so tired after training I didn’t wind up doing any cardio at the gym. I am so sore today and plan on doing some yoga to loosen up before I hit up the gym.

After personal training yesterday I went to my parents house to hang out with my sister while my parents went to buy new couches, after Andrew got out of work he stopped by Tropical Smoothie Cafe and grabbed me the same Veggie Veggie wrap as last time, and I went a little crazy and had a serving sized bag of baked lays with it.

After lunch Andrew and I took turns using my parents elliptical, I had to get my cardio in somewhere and it was slightly raining so I was a baby and didn’t want to go outside..

After that we came back to the apartment to clean and eat dinner. I had an eggplant I had to use up so I made my version of eggplant parm. Just sliced the eggplant, roasted it in the oven with a small amount of EVOO brushed onto the eggplant with garlic powder sprinkled on top and popped it in the oven for 20 minutes flipping once half way through. I then put it in a casserole dish covered it with sauce and a small amount of cheese. After the cheese is melted it’s done! Oh my gosh this is sooo good.

Once dinner was over, MsInformed and her fiancé came over to celebrate her birthday!!!! We had pomegranate and vodka drinks with the POM Wonderful juice. She also agreed it was really good. This is a photo from last time because I didn’t get a chance to take a picture last night.