Tuesday - not yet back in the swing of things...

Hi Everyone!

Happy Tuesday... for some reason, this is feeling like a really long week to me! But I wanted to get one post up for you today.

SO, this morning (yet again) I was not able to get out of bed at the correct time. What is wrong with me!? I got to work again at 9am.... but I was able to eat breakfast on the run which was a treat! I forgot to take a picture, but I will tell you what I made. It was a Kashi Go Lean protein shake - the vanilla flavor. I was scraping the bottom of the container today, but still had enough to get a great shake and 26 grams of protein! I love this stuff. Two scoops has 220 calories, .5 grams of fat, 33 G carb (ok, so there is a bit of sugar in the mix - but it is cane sugar which makes it a little better!), 7 grams of FIBER and 21 Grams of Protein! The extra protein came from mixing the scoops with skim MILK. (which of course added about 70 calories as well - but still less than a 300 calorie breakfast which is fine on a day that I"m not working out in the morning).

For lunch I had a boca burger sando with whole wheat bread (toasted) and a piece of low fat American cheese (melted via the toaster oven at work!) along with half a cup of spinach on top of the sandwich and a teaspoon of mustard and ketchup. YUM!

After the sando I realized that I needed something else to tide me over until my afternoon snack. Chobani vanilla to the rescue. It was a great day for Greek Yogurt - and I added a few peanut butter Pandas to the top of it. What a treat! This was the best Part II of lunch I have had in a long while.

After lunch I did get outside for a quick ten minutes... it wasn't too cold, and my face needed to see the sun for a few minutes. I hope that I got some vitamin D even though I was only out for such a short time this afternoon! Tomorrow hopefully I will be able to walk at work. Exercise and Sun - you can't beat that combo in December!!

My afternoon snack today was a Blueberry Cliff Zbar. I'm meeting my friend Stephanie for dinner tonight - and we'll probably be eating around 7:30 or 8pm... I'm hoping my snack will be enough to get me to dinner!

I am so excited for dinner tonight! Stephanie and I are going to Figgs on Charles Street and I am sure we will enjoy some sort of amazing Pizza tonight!

Until then, my friends - have a good rest of your Tuesday!

Monday Night Football - and a day of food

Hi Everyone:

I hope you all survived Monday! My morning started off a bit "off" as I waited for the commuter rail for an extra ten minutes, and over all the train was about 20 minutes late to South Station - which made me over 25 minutes late to work - not a great way to start off the week!

While I was on the train, I was starving. Thankfully I had a Zbar with me - so I ate that while on the train. When I got to work, I did not have the rest of my breakfast right away. But around 9:45 Monday morning, I fixed my TJ's blueberry oatmeal. It was quite good - and because I had the Zbar earlier in the morning, I didn't add anything to the oatmeal today. I was good until lunch at 1pm!

Lunch on Monday felt more like a picnic, which certainly was fun! I had done a pretty good job of packing my lunch, especially because did NOT pack the night before! I had carrots, Kashi crackers, roasted red pepper hummus, Chobani strawberry yogurt, an apple (which I ended up eating later in the day) and a slice of Great Harvest bread prepared with melted low fat string cheese. Between the Chobani, cheese and bread I had a good amount of protein and dairy. It was a fun lunch to eat!

I left work a little after 5PM to meet Ben, my sister and her roommate at South Station where we headed out to Foxboro for Monday Night Football. I was sort of hungry on the car ride. But I had packed a couple of snacks - the one I settled on was a handful of trail mix: raisin, almond, cashew and dark chocolate. It definitely kept me going!

At around 9pm I left my seat at Gillette in search of food / dinner. I walked around for quite a bit because I wanted to get something interesting - and there were a lot of "standard" choices. I ended up getting a burrito, that I shared with Ben.

The burrito had chicken, rice, a small amount of sour cream and cheese (I asked the lady to only add a small amount of both) and salsa. The result was a pretty good burrito - but it obviously didn't compare to Anna's! But I certainly enjoyed it.

We ended up leaving the game just a couple of minutes early... but it certainly did not help us in getting a head start on the traffic! We got to the car at about 11:35 and didn't get home until 2:45 in the morning!! I am so glad I had arranged to take the day off today!

Well, there is a recap on Monday! I'm heading to the gym now - but I will return to talk about food, etc. for today!

A lovely Saturday

I hope everyone is enjoying a nice Saturday evening. Ben and I had a busy day - and now we're at home watching the Red Sox game.

We left our house around 1:30 this afternoon and headed out to the Financial District of Boston. We took the T to South Station and then set off in search of the Fort Point open studios event. I'm really glad we did this. Fort Point is a community for local artists, and this weekend they are doing an open studios event. The event is also going on tomorrow, until 6pm so if you're in the area, I highly recommend it.

I was a little disappointed that I wasn't able to get to the gym this morning - but it turned out to be ok, because we got a lot of walking in today! We walked around for four hours, so I feel like I got a good amount of movement in today.

I'm glad that I had enough protein in my breakfast this morning, because I did not have anything to eat again until 4:30 this afternoon when I snacked on a MAC apple that I had stuck in my purse. I knew the afternoon would be long, and I needed to be prepared in case I got hungry.

Before we left the house I stuck an apple and a ZBar (Clif Bar) in my purse. The apple was great, but a half hour later I needed to open the chocolate chip ZBar - thankfully Ben split it with me. Both snacks were great, and I was really glad to have them with me.

After a few hours of looking at the art work, we decided to walk from A Street / Congress St area to the Boston Commons. There we bought movie tickets, and while we waited we decided to get a drink and a bite to eat at Teatro. Teatro is a really cool place in Boston, and convienetly located near the Theatre District. I was not famished, so decided to order something on the light side - I had an amazing squash soup with a dab of crème fraîche.

Even though Ben & I were eating at the Bar, they brought us some bread, hummus and olive oil. The bread was piping hot when they served it - fantastic! I had a small amount of hummus on one small piece of bread, but mostly I used my portion of bread to eat with my soup. It was perfect!

Ben ordered a white pizza with red peppers and spinach. I had a small bite of one piece - and wow, was it spicy! (and great!) It also looked beautiful when they brought it out.

We ate at the bar and enjoyed a glass of wine for an hour before our movie started. It was a wonderful day in Boston (even if it was a bit chilly down by the water!) and we had a great day, with some great food.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend, too. Good night!