Where did the day go?

Blam! It’s almost 5:00.  What?

So much for my mid-day post…I guess it’s an evening post now!!  oooops.

Continuing on with my “eat what’s on hand” menu plan for the week, I finished up the Stonyfield organic vanilla yogurt this morning (stealing the blog-popular idea of eating straight from the container to save a dish!) with fresh blueberries and a Banana Whoopie Pie crumbled in.

Enjoyed today’s cuppa coffee in my “memory mug” inspired by the massive amounts of emails with my blogger gal pals and the plans for our next GTG. So excited!!!

Noon workout: today was recumbent bike day.  I like the bike because I can read while I ride but I never feel quite as fulfilled.  I only burn half as many calories in the same amount of time as a run and the sense of accomplishment is a little “meh”…but it’s good to mix things up.  I go back to the treadmill tomorrow!

Also lots of core/ab work: regular (one-leg lifted) crunches, reverse crunches, and bicycle crunches.  And two full sets of eurydice’s bum exercises which I haven’t done in forever and my bum will hate me for tomorrow! 

For lunch I wanted to use up the last of the leftover haddock so for some reason chose to mash it up and mix it with some cottage cheese.  Sounds weird, but it was sooooo good!

 

Along with a toasted ww English muffin with light herby cream cheese and sliced vine tomatoes.  There’s just something about tomatoes and cream cheese…yummmmmm.

And then the day just flew by.  Work, Twitter, and an onslaught of Gmail from blogger gal pals will do that!

Oh, here’s Mr. Stoopy enjoying himself some Sookie Stackhouse.  What can I say, my cat has good taste in reading material.  :)

In this second shot, I think he’s working on his best “were-panther” face.  *grrrrrrr*

Bigass Compliment

Last night Ashley over at Lowfat Latte Blondie sent me the greatest email letting me know she thinks my blog is funny (moi? thanks girl!) and that every time she makes a “bigass salad” she thinks of me.  haha.

So of course when lunch rolled around today I had to dig out some salad fixins and put together…yes, you guessed it…a BIGASS SALAD!

In the big bowl today: romaine lettuce (this was the last of that huge one I bought at the Farmer’s Market TWO WEEKS ago…still crispy and fresh!), matchstick carrots, chopped tomatoes, cauliflower, old white cheddar and balsamic vinegrette.

 

Served up the last of my hummus (man that went fast!) with a few organic crackers alongside the salady goodness.

Since today is conference call day I made sure to prepare a snack before dialling in.  Two of last night’s crumbling chocolate chip/raisin/pecan cookies and half a glass of skim milk.  Yummy for my tummy!  And sugar for my attention span on an almost three hour call. 

As promised I took myself to the gym after work.  FH seems to be getting sick so he was sleeping on the couch anyway, so off I went. 

Solid 20 minute treadmill run.  I figure if I’m only doing 20ish minutes of cardio I’m going to push myself.  Started out thinking there was no way I could do it, but by about minute 7 I got into a groove and only needed to walk once for a water break.

(Side note: I really need a squeezy water bottle.  I LOVE my lululemon bottle but it’s impossible to drink out of while running.)

Followed my run with “mini-abs” (aka: back extensions and side extensions…today on a big ball), plus lots of lunges, one legged squats, and hamstring curls with a ball.  Threw in a 45 second plank just because.  :)

Dinner was late tonight but thankfully it was partially leftovers (maybe my sub-conscious knew I was going to switch Wednesdays to evening workouts when I made the weekly meal plan?…hmmmm).  I cooked up some white rice, sautéed up some carrots/zucchini/onion/yellow pepper, and reheated one of the haddock filets from last night.  Needed more seasoning, but other than that yummy combo.

Dessert was more of my deeeeelish yet super crumbly cookies…which I didn’t photograph because I was too busy shoving the chocolately goodness into my mouth while watching the Nurse Jackie finale on VOD.  Is it just me, or do the supporting characters totally make that show?  Coop is hysterical (and easy of the eyes of course).  :)

Hump Day Decisions

Hmmmm…Wednesdays will need to be rethought on the whole noon workout project.  I have these weekly conference calls for work that take place at 2pm and being ready for those, plus including a workout, lunch and shower is just a bit of a time crunch.

I either need to get up an hour early (ya right!) or plan to hit the gym later in the day.

I think I’ll take option number two. 

Wednesdays will now include an evening workout.  So it is said, so it shall be done.  :)

 

In other unrelated news…I forgot to set the coffee maker last night and then slept right until 9am this morning (damn that Sookie Stackhouse keeping me up late reading!).  So instead of traumatizing myself sitting here waiting for the coffee to brew, I treated myself to Starbucks.  (Yes it was actually faster to get dressed, drive to Starbucks, and drive back than it would have been to actually make coffee.)

Silver lining on a dreary and kind of cold August day: my first Triple Grande Vanilla Non-Fat Latte in ages.

And it was gooooood.