Trayn Harder

ATTENTION!

2009-10-02T06:10:00.000-07:00

I've made the jump to wordpress!

here is my new site:

http://traynharder23.wordpress.com/

Huffin' and Puffin'

2009-10-01T18:02:00.000-07:00

Today was a good day- i got to open two new things (i have this thing about opening things! it's exciting and i time it so i open new things when i need some luck!)

Pretreadmill:

Nectarine and pb. mmmmmm.

treadmill walk, bike.

rest.

PRE WORKOUT SNACK TIME!!!!

CINNAMON PUFFINSSSSSSS
these things are great. i'm not going to lie, i had like another two bowls.

=D

Fueled this:

Run:
5X800 90 sec recovery
average pace for all splits 8:15/mile. did really well, most were 4:00, fastest was 3:56

Then walked back to gym texting d the whole time -___-
Lifts:

(Felt like i needed to hurry, i hate that (i felt like mom was waiting for me and the gym was crowding up)
4X7 70#! deadlift
5X15 glute ham stiups
7, 6, 5, 4 dips with corresponding assistance levels
4X6 22.5 row with side plank
3X10 ball pike and pushup

WHEW

Home to change, text D some more, and eat this!

Yogurt with strawberries (didn't finish) celery and peanut butter. ummmmm hella delicious.

Then to LOWE"S TO GET OUR NEW MICROWAVE. Lifting this baby was a CINCH after today! =D

then Target for some sports bras, and Korean market for some fruit and takeout chinese for mom.

She ate that for lunch, i ate this:

THBB! and little trees. =D

Making good on the vegetarian day!

Then i studied, wrote personal statements, chilled, and helped make dinner:

Tea egg, tortilla, tofu! cabbage and milk! =D

Now mom's calling me for jeopardy, so i gotta peace out! client tomorrow!
tired.......

I"M SOO EXCITED TO TRY THE CHOBANI I WON THAT CAME TODAY! my mom got the blueberry one and loved it!
http://www.soundeats.com/?p=974#comment-5937
go enter this giveaway!

oatmeal^2

2009-09-30T17:35:00.000-07:00

Ahh nothing like a rest day from running on the hump day of the week.

Treadmill and bike preceded by:

Oatmeal^2
A more modest portion. Still totally awesome. Eaten while watching Ace of Cakes.

Then incline walking, and biking with some mags.

Rest for like 2 hours, walked in the neighborhood, studied...and ate this breakfast:

Yogurt, kabocha, flax, cinnamon, nectarine, strawberries, milk.
Classic combo.

Then class. where i got made fun of in class. NOT COOL. =(
FLU SHOT followed where i waited for A YEAR. My arm is throbbing. INFLUENZA BEWARE

Then we went to gas up the car, and get sinnamon from CVS as well as some cans of soup for mom. she digs cajun chicken gumbo by chunky. never tried it. i guess i shall one of these days.

LUNCH!

Mustard, with some turkey in a wrap, milk, broccoli, and bell pepper inside the wrap. Total deliciousness made possible by tangy mustard. i squirted it every bite. does anyone else do this too?

Then I watched barefoot contessa, and then napped. I get tired these days.

Woke up, studied, emailed professors for rec's, and crunched away during Barefoot Contessa again.

Dinner!

Salmon, green beans (haricot vert) and tortilla and milk.

AND! BREAKING NEWS! literally! OUR MICROWAVE IS BROKEN! Sadness.

We are getting a new one tomorrow. This dinner i had to heat my food up in the convection oven. i wonder how this will affect my pretreadmill snack tomorrow. cereal? pb and fruit? who knows. i'm venturing into the UNKNOWN!

Now i'm going to take a shower, i'm kinda sticky, and watch some tv. maybe glee.

=D
ALMOST THE WEEKEND!

GIVEAWAY:
http://kristinsnibbles.com/2009/09/30/tjs-contest-confusion/#comment-2073
By this time I was soo hungry.

Today's workout is brought to you by Quaker Oats

2009-09-29T19:35:00.000-07:00

AND THEY totally MADE the workout.

=D
Treadmill doom preceded by:

(Is it crazy to say that I had even more time to savor my oats because i woke up at 3:45 am and not with my alarm?

Thank you tiny bladder. Thank you..

Bike + Shabanu. Good book.

Rest.

GYM WORKOUT SNACK!!!!

DELUGE OF QUAKER OAT SQUARES. I love these things. I"m not ashamed to a)put how much i eat of them on there, and b) ADMIT that i had like another 1/2 bowl afterwards. just for luck you know.

Workout:
8X200 m 1 minute recovery. UH I ROCKED IT, average all the splits- 6:48/mil!

=D

Strength
5X15 glute ham situps
4X6 deadlift 65#
6 neg pullups
7 dips at 7 assistance, 6 at 6, 5 at 5, 4 at 4 (quivery)
3X 10 crunch, 10 double crunch, 10 reverse crunch, 10 figure 4 on each side
3 X 12 pushups
3X15 inverted row
4X4 45# squat =D
5X5 25 # push press
12, 10, 8, 6, 12 skull crusher at 30#
stretch

AWESOME. fueled by awesome. Nice to NOT have stomach growl. sometimes you just need a LOT of food to get you going.

Home (D high fived me in the gym and totally watched me workout. AWKS!)

Home to eat this!

Yogurt, flax, cinnamon, 10 strawberries, 1/2 nectarine, and kabocha. milk too.

MM good.
Then 12-2 CRAZY rehabbing athletes.

CRAZY! i was running around like a scalded cat!

Then home to eat lunch!

Tofu burrito made of tofu stirfry and tofu sauteed with green onions (sadly this repeated itself) and bell pepper and 1/4 nectarine. milk to drink.

Then study and talk to an old friend and message D since he was bored.

Then client at 5:30. Whoooped her ass for an hour. fun times.

Late dinner:

Tofu (see it repeated itself. -__-) broccoli, and egg and milk and tortilla. =D

Now i'm going to finish my AT stuff, reading blogs, and chill. I tired. =D

OH! So....is this interesting?
giveaway:
http://leftoversforlunch.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/a-word-from-our-sponsors/

AND!
i was rehabbing this athlete and he was trying to guess what type of asian i am (taiwanese) and he's like you're not korean, since your eyes are different, they're beautiful but not korean I THINK I HEARD him say that (i wasn't about to be like repeat that please so i can tell my sole reader on my blog) it took him forever to guess it. =D
He's nice. He was like, what's your homeland's like home food. mine is FRIED CHICKEN. me:uhhh is there food for my country? hmmm. but then i was like, i'm from louisiana, so FRIED CHICKEN IS MY HOME FOOD.

LOL.

=D i dig oysters rockefeller.

is it sad to say that i'm excited to eat quaker oats tomorrow? =D

happy tuesday!

The pits. Peach pits.

2009-09-28T19:26:00.000-07:00

Ugh horrible run today. But i'll get to that.

first, treadmill sludge.

Almost out of cinnamon! HORRORS!

Then treadmill, bike, and reading of Shabanu, daughter of the wind.

Rest

Pre run snack:

Peach and strawberries i didn't end up eating.
Run:
9 minute time trial. I went down a different hill, i guess i went slow coz i didn't want to tumble, so ended up: 1.11 miles 8:11/mile. =(

Home to chill before class.

CLASS. EW. Watched movies from '99 about Athletic Training. I seriously saw like 5 mullets.

YIKES.

Home to eat this!

Yogurt mess, some red bell pepper (peach, kiwi, and 4 strawberries, flax and cinnamon in mess)

full belly. Gassy but full.

Then i chewed a ton of cinnamon gum. I love me some spicy gum.

Then! Mom got home and we got to go FOOD SHOPPING!
First stop?
CHASE. (LOL WE HAD TO PAY SOMETHING ALRIGHT?!)
then
TRADER JOE'S
the goods:
2 boxes of cinnamon puffins, sprouted wheat bagels by trader JOSEPH!, peanut butter

The cashier ALMOST forgot my peanut butter! i had to rescue it from being LEFT BEHIND! HORRORS! has that happened to anyone?

He was like , i've been up since 4 am. me: ME TOO! him: 0___0

Then RALPHS!
Goods: Quaker oatmeal crack, 2 pure protein smores bars, distilled water, ice cream (dreyers fro yo mango and slow churned double fudge brownie)

Then LUNCH!
mom had leftover dimsum from earlier that morning, and i had this:

Turkey wrap, bell pepper, and cauliflower. Milk too.

The makings of a good lunch:

I brought that mustard to the table since..i squirt mustard on every bite. yes, i'm gross.

Then
Filling out worksheet, conversing with THIRD client (WOW! i have a lot of clients!) and more reading. of blogs and text.

then, barefoot contessa, just cook this with sam, and just vegging til dinner:

Braised soy drumsticks re-steamed and cabbage (we have like 5 heads in our icebox! crazy!) and tortilla and milk. yum-o. sometimes you need some good home cooking.

now i'll just finish up some reading, and watch the jeopardy i recorded as well as the amazing race i recorded. i have built up soooo many tapes of recorded stuff! and blogs to read!
YIKES!

During the day:
40 pushups
2 sets of 10 crunches, 10 double crunches, 10 reverse crunch, 10 R figure 4 crunch, 10 L figure 4 crunch

A pie to DIE for

2009-09-27T19:37:00.000-07:00

Aww sunday has come and gone. Sadness.

ON TO THE EATZ!

Treadmill walk and bike ride was preceded by this hot mess:

Oats, flax, cinnamon. Sinfully delish.

Then rest, and eat this for running power!

Apple pie larabar bought yesterday and 4 cute strawberries. Apparently it's christmas over here. =D

Run:
6X 3minutes rest 1 minute on intervals 1, 3, 4 and 3 minutes rest on 2, 5

Then walked back, walked a bit with the neighbor and the dogs, and back to study and read blogs until i felt hungry for breakfast.

Breaking the fast:

Yogurt, flax, peach, kiwi, and kabocha. Milk to drink!

Then church, with english sermon. Sermon: Honor your parents.

HOME! for lunch!

Chicken wrap with bell pepper inside and outside. Milk.

Watched Ellie Krieger, and then napped. Woke for quick dinner:

Tofu wrap, cauliflower, and milk.

Downed it in like 15 min flat, and ran to get sister back to dorms.

Now i'm just chilling until AMAZING RACE!!!!!!!

Who's NOT excited for school tomorrow. =(
Today is a rest day, might do a couple of pushups, but i'm not pushing it since tomorrow is some body weight stuff at home.

peace out!

nuts over laras

2009-09-26T21:40:00.000-07:00

Treadmill snack of champions:

Oats.

Bike with 50/50 by Dean Karnazes.

Rest....then since NO Running:

Lifting snack:

A NUTTY PECAN PIE LARABAR! Delicious. Last plum

Went to school, walked for 1 hr and then

3X10 inverted row
3X10 Back extension
4X4 60 deadlift, 5th and last set to failure- 8 reps
4X4 40# squat =D
50 situps in as few sets as possible: 21, 10, 19
3X10 on each side figure 4 crunch
50 pushups in a few sets as possible: 13, 12, 15, 16
went home because i was sweaty! I actually got sweaty lifting! awesome.

Post workout:

Peach, container last bits of yogurt, water, strawberries, and kabocha. mmm good.

then we went to Topanga canyon so i could shop/xchange a tank top at Hollister, and buy some stuff at Target for sister.

Home after like HOURS (i got HANGRY!)

NO. this is NOT a bean burrito. REPEAT, this is not a bean burrito. It's tofu stirfry in a wrap with cauliflower on the side. mmm good.

Then like 2 hour nap. Yum.

Dinner!

tortilla, tea egg, green beans, tofu. SOOOOO DELICIOUS.

Then i went to LAVC to help the athletic trainers are the football game 7-9. i just filled TONS of water bottles. Then me and mommy went to ralphs to get some nice organic milk and i picked up 5 larabars- 2 apple pi, and 3 lemon bar. =D

Now i'm going to relax with google reader and tv. =D

CHURCH TOMORROW!
giveaway
http://tropicaleats.com/2009/09/26/tropical-eats-giveway/#comment-782

Honey~ I shrunk...

2009-09-25T19:27:00.000-07:00

the cereal?

3:50 Am Roll out! AUTOBOTS ROLL OUT! eat some food/cereal drink.

Hit up treadmill. Hit up bike.

Rest.

Recuperate.

THEN WORKOUT SNACK!

CEREAL! YESH! CEREAL! but it was less than a cup- thus the YOU SHRUNK?!
no deluge in the bowl. The plum was awesome tho!

Run:
2X10 minutes, 2 minute recovery
1.17 mile, 1.19 mile, average 8:39/mile.

Lifts:
went light today, heavy tomorrow (also i met this really sweet frosh at UCLA who was really grateful to me showing her around) and i saw someone from my church we gossip about, and I RAN into D (rather, D ran into me kept bumping me and all the meatheads are like?! wtf?)

6X6 45# deadlifts
5X10 glute ham situps
4X dips 34# assisted
Some crunches, some pushups. very light. my abs are a bit sore. yay!

Then I got a ride from D, so kind =D and then went home to eat this

Yogut, Peach, kabocha, milk. flax and cinnamon to cover

Then to Ranch 99 to pick up tofu! and Costco for eggs, meds, and strawberries!

Home (HUNGRY!)

BEAN BURRITO! (yeah, i missed it for one day, and i needed something quick) and cauliflower and kabocha. Yum yum.

Gaseous deliciousness.

Then, sit in Ralphs and watch mom get flu shot. Sit in traffic to Pick up sister. Sit in traffic to go home. Get home and sort through 300+ google reads.....and watch Chef Vs CIty! =D

Dinner:

TOFU STIRFRY!

CHICKEN!

ROMAINE!

and milk. it was good hearty food! =D

I look forward to making tofu stirfry burritos!

Now i'm just studying some organic chem (BLEH! isomers!) and hopefully will watch some tv. =D

ACHOO~ Bless you!

2009-09-24T19:13:00.000-07:00

3:50 AM: stumble out of bed, go make cereal drink for something FAST.

Complete treadmill. Complete bike.

Read blogs, study, pick split ends...

6:30 AM:

PRE RUN WORKOUT SNACK:

CASHEW COOKIE LARABAR and plum

OMG! I thought i HATED this flavor but it's nothing short of awesome. Think of like an amazingly tasty shortbread cookie. It's got this buttery taste, but not like REAL buttery, just like a nice light, slightly nutty flavor that makes you ponder..HMMM what is that? and each bite melts on the tongue. The nut bits are tiny, but still you can chew them...as you ponder the deliciousness of the bar. The aroma of the warmed up bar wafts up like a warm cookie, you don't pick it up, too fearful it will break. So each tasty bite is eaten carefully with a fork, and a fingertip picks up the dropped nuts. Oh wow. It was like nutty, kinda banana-y and delicious. Totally awesome.

Then SCHOOL! TO RUN! and LIFT!
run:
18 times of 1 minute on 20 seconds off. Total distance traveled 2.37 miles. If you average all my splits: 7:38/mile.

wow. it got hard at the end. WHOOO EEEEEE
Then lifting:

3X15 pushups
5X 10 crunches, 10 double crunch, 10 reverse crunch
5X10 glute ham situps
4X7 each side side plank with row 17.5
5X10 ball pike
5X5 push press

then home to eat this (my stomach started growling during my workout! NOT COOL!!!!!!)

Yogurt, peach, kabocha, cabbage, milk.

Digested, then headed to LAVC to help out IMMENSELY IT WAS CRAZY the amount of work i had to do to rehab these athletes!

Left there at 2pm and then went immediately to UCLA flyaway to pick up my mom.

OKAY i know this was BAD but i sort of kinda didn't eat a real lunch?
I had:
celery in the car on the way there

got back at 3 pm. and ate this

a can of tuna, lonely kabocha, and unpictured- a cereal drink.

then i studied organic chemistry (hey, caitlin/healthy tipping point, wanna be my study buddy?) and then athletic training. watched barefoot contessa make the cheesiest mac and cheese (how can people eat cheese! my stomach hurts just watchin it!)

then dinner COURTESY OF MOMS! THANKS TH MOM

Tortilla, Milk, 5 pieces of pan fried basa fillets, and cauliflower. =D
it was gassy and delicious.
Now we're just chilling, and i'll record bones later. for my sister.

Whew! Let's hope i get some sleep tonight!

Tra

Hey! if you're on facebook, friend me!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2514176&ref=profile
=D

One of those days...

2009-09-23T18:08:00.000-07:00

Wow. Today was ONE of those days

Treadmill walk, bike .

Study for test.

Eat 1.5? Cereal drink and run:

20 times of 10 second on, 5 seconds off. I am NOT a sprinter. Sigh..

Back to study for test and call sis to wake her up.

Then I prepared some food just in case I got hungry during or before the test:

4 egg whites. =D

Then I went to Valley HOURS before the test, and studied....COSMO and learned about guy body language. Too bad I wasn't getting tested on that. My stomach started growling, so then i went to the cafeteria and ate my egg whites. All while watching the clock. Then took the test. EW.

I hate testing.

Then! I went home to make this! I was hungry! Finally!

Yogurty mess of 1/2 cup yogurt, cinnamon, tiny plum, and kabocha. Half a celery stick.

Then I cleaned! and had a well deserved break from studying MCAT or AT.

And I read blogs. FUN TIMES =D

Next thing you know it, it's time for another meal.

I KNOW I KNOW it's the same, but i promise this is the last. I"m trying to eat up little bits and bobs in the fridge since I know i won't have to cook as much since my mom will be back tomorrow and cooking up a storm i bet.

So THBB. and Cabbage. Spicy goodness. Fueled an intense cleaning vacuuming session.....and a power nap of 2 hours. LOL.

Woke up, read more blogs, watched Barefoot Contessa, continued the cleaning rampage, and then made dinner:

CREATIVE!

Egg white (3) scramble that was supposed to be an omelette with napa and some cabbage, and kabocha. and milk. SOME HOW this was extra filling. I"m like SOO full! Could be because I am chewing gum right now. Oh well. Next time, I better not eat so fast! =/ I HATE feeling too full reminds me of the ED days. =(

Today was a day of rest, tomorrow is heavy lifting FOR THE FIRST TIME MY ABS ARE KINDA SORE!

=D

Oh D messaged me today at 8:33 am:
The Wooden (our gym) is empty without T -Lo ;t

and this is his prose in return to my macbeth:

Ahhhhhh, I like the prose from the rose that rises as does the phoenix. Tic toc who sees the clock not if one hears the tic toc of that clock.

=D

Happy wednesday!
Has anyone else experimented in the kitchen? I know i keep eating bean burritos, but when i dont want to eat (ED thoughts) i try to make things I would like. Sorry for the lack of excitement about my meals. I'm kinda stressing.

=(

Can't go wrong with a Classic Combo

2009-09-22T17:48:00.000-07:00

Look familiar? Yes, this pre treadmill snack was OATMEAL! 1/3 cup. =D oh and some dried cranberries. Meh, still NOT lovin dried fruit. I know, sacrilege.

After that hike uphill, then i biked, and then i rested. Studied (test tomorrow)
and then ate this!

Yup, that old skool combo known as

PB AND J! (but in the form of an all too delicious LARABAR!!!!!)
I guess it's OKAY. I was wishing it wasn't finished soooo much..but i think i'll stick to the coconut and ginger snap one and cocoa mole...the cherries were very big in this one and this bar was UBER crumbly. Peanuts everywhere!

Plum on the side. I ate the plum first. OF COURSE.

Then since i wasn't running, i called my sister to make sure she was awake (i'm the early bird, getting up at 4 am or earlier, everyone in my family relies on me to give wake the f up calls =D are any of you like that too? personal alarm clocks?)

Hoofed it to the gym where I ran into D and R. (r is the guy that calls me Bones. )

I did this:
80 pushups (first i banged out 20 in like 30 seconds? then did as many as i could fast and properly in sets)
CF workout: Deadlifts 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1
so mine went like this: 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 75, 75. SIGH. can't get any higher. OH well i'll get there.
then after D high fived me / said WAKE UP coz i looked tired (folks, i only got 3 hours last night)
6 negative pullups
3X5 dips 34 lbs assisted
4X7 side plank with 17.5 row via cable
5X5 25#push press
3 circuits of 10 crunches, 10 double crunch, 10 reverse crunch
4X4 35# squat =D
fin.

then i went home. chatted with my sister until i got uber hungry.

made this:

yogurt! in a container! with a peach and kabocha on the side. milk to drink. cinnamonnnnn

Then time to volunteer/lab at Valley College's AT room.
12-2. Fun times. Ran to Jon's to pick up a bunch of peaches. Stomach growling (LOOK MY APPETITE IS BACK!)

Quickly whipped up a quickie:

THBB (trayn harder bean burrito) and napa. YUM MO.
STUDY DUDDYYYY for the test. I screwed.

Then DINNER!

3 egg whites, napa, and KABOCHAAAAAAAAAAA. =D

I make extra at dinner to have for breakfast! =D

Now it's time to crank it down, look at blogs and study at the same time and hit up the tube. pray i get enough sleep and my hip flexor isn't soo aggravated and i can run tomorrow! =D

Peace out i'm out like trout

The best part of waking uppp

2009-09-21T18:42:00.000-07:00

Is OATMEAL IN YOUR BOWL! =D

Pre treadmill walk snack:

1/4 cup OATMEAL! =D I also woke up STARVING! Random....so i had some fiber one bar and some milk.

Walk a big hill

Bike with Pride and Prejudice and Time magazine

Then Pre run snack:

Plum and Dark Chocolate Mocha Almond Kashi bar. This thing was awesome!

Bad run tho: left hip flexor CRAZY TIGHT AND HURTY
ON tap:
10X200 m recovery how long it took (i was in a hurry so i just waited a bit and ran. bad idea)
Average pace 7:55/mile SIGHHHHH

Rest from lifting today. Tomorrow is rest running and gym lifting.

Then I went to school to LEARN!
GOT REALLY HUNGRY and had some bites of celery i brought with me.

Went to Ralphs afterwards for some moo juice and came home to eat

YOGURT CONTAINER BREAKFAST! Last of oikos + 1/4 cup regular NFYogurt, and kabocha and Peach and water. Yum.

Rested, studied REALLY HARD NO DISTRACTIONS watched barefoot contessa , and then made this:

I don't even want to talk about this. Nasty poached chicken breast, milk, and napa cabbage. Horrible. Bland. Not delicious. I ate because i was hungry and junked a little bit of the rest.

I BLAME this for ruining the rest of the day ( I feel really sick right now...nauseous)

I couldn't study, so i napped and then woke up even more nauseous. Waited til 6 to start making food, because I try to eat every couple hours and made this:

Looks good right? The other poached chicken breast in Trayn Harder Style Sauce of curry and cumin. It worked! with napa and milk. Okay I TRIED to eat this...TRIED and only got through half before almost throwing up. WHAT THE F IS WRONG WITH ME?!

I have no idea.

you might be seeing a lot of low key meals like egg whites or yogurt...or larabars. Something for my stomach to eat. =(

My sister says it's because i'm not sleeping well...it could be that..or like i'm stressed. i dunno guys, i'm like kinda worried about myself. I find myself worrying about calories and fat and body fat. =(

SIGH. ED DONT COME BACK

In other news, D messaged me saying what with it. Interesting lingo, D.

I hate mondays.

RIP PB

2009-09-20T18:51:00.000-07:00

Treadmill climb preceded by fiber one bar leftover and cereal drink sips.

Then i just walked up a big big hill. no sprinting, testing my hypothesis.

Bike to follow. =D

Then i studied, and then ate this to FUEL UP!

PB AND J LARABAR! and pb on a plum. =D

Thoughts on the PB and J larabar. The J part of the PB and J was very prominent, and okay, but the peanut butter taste was not as apparent. I guess i was waiting for like PEANUTTTT like in peanut butter. But it wasn't BAD. I just like CCP larabar better. =)

Then drove to school to do this:
35 minute TT 4.05 miles, 8:39/mile. DAMN! That was hard.
I was a hot-hot-hot-hot-hot-hot mess (to quote cobra starship. i love this song HOT MESS) coz i was.
Walked back to campus all sweaty, and then did this:

5X10 glute ham situps
4X4 30# squat (not bad! I could up it)
5X5 25 # push press
3X10 inverted row
3X10 pushups, reverse crunch
6X6 12.5 side plank with row
3X10 back extensions (HI ALLIE! (she popped up))
supine tricep side extension 12, 10, 8, 6, 12 with 5 lb dumbbell

Then it was weird, i was really really sick after the run (makes sense, i was running faster than i usually do crazy!) and then i got REALLY hungry. Made this:

PB PEACH JAR! (yum yum) celery bits, and rest of peach and kabocha and GREEK YOGURT!
It was delicious.

Then I worked at MCAT and AT and watched some tv.

Lunch:

Tofu sheets, 3 egg whites, plum and celery. I was goddamn hungry (from the running!?) so i devoured this. Then went back to read...then nappy.

Woke up, read some more, surfed the web.........
and then ate:

Heaven. Yes, a repeat, but when it's this good, you eat it again and again and again.
But Tra does not live by Bean burrito alone: she has to have it with

A little bit of napa cabbage (made it a little salty, junked it) and Kabocha.

A delicious dinner.

Now it's LOVE SONGSSSSSSSS and AT training stuff......and maybe watching GLEE. =D
How was your sunday/weekend?

Oh so D liked my macbeth quote so much that he said:
Oh my God marry me I love the romantic period with all the dark deception and heroism. Yea yeah

uhhh HAHHA?
Tomorrow is CLASS . BOO HOO. =(
GIVEAWAY:
http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/faq/veganism/ccv-in-a-box/test/door-1/up-a-tree/henry/amazing-grass-coupon-code-and-chocolate-superfood-bars-giveaway/#comment-18889
BYE!!

Dates, Almonds, Dried Shredded coconut = BLISS

2009-09-19T18:52:00.000-07:00

Dates + Almonds + Dried Shredded Coconut + HEAT => FOOD ORGASM

OMG. I love love the COCONUT CREAM PIE LARABAR. I'm sorry I didn't eat you for sooo long.

Treadmill was preceded by some cereal drink, smattering of pb, and a bite of Fiber one bar. I then burned SERIOUS rubber on that treadmill with a whole bunch of light 30 second jogs at 7.5, 7.4 (can you believe that when i did this "intensity training 30 second on 90 off" 7.0 was way too fast? now i was like oooh too easy, this is just some warm up 30 seconders.
Then i did a couple at 9.4, 9.5 (better) and then found the best pace at 10.4. TOO BAD MY TREADMILL TAKES FOREVER TO REACH THAT LOL. but it was good. TOo bad my warmup running excitement totally killed my legs during the real run. More on that later.

Pre Workout Snackeroo:

Nectar of the Gods. Just kidding: A coconut cream pie larabar and a mealy gala apple. =D And some delicious pb. I"M ALMOST TO THE BOTTOM! YIKES!

Then to SCHOOL! TO RUN! and LIFT (yes, i KNOW i am using !!! a lot. GET OVER IT! =D)
RUN:
3X5 minute maximal effort, 3 minute recovery
First wasn't so good, second was good, third, meh. I really need to NOT run hard sprints before sprinting. Well we all learn.

After sweating buckets and walking back to the gym, I then was soo pooped that i just did this:
warmup deadlifts 6? with 45#
5X 3 55# deadlifts
4X4 assisted dips at level 7 (34 # assisted)
50 Situps in sets of 10 supersetted with 10 crunches
30 pushups
6X6 30# skull crushers

Then i chatted with Allie and Seth, and then went home (isn't it weird, i felt soo sick (probably too much pb pre run) but then HUNGER HIT LIKE A ROCK!)
and fixed this:

Yogurt, PEACH! Kabocha, and celery and pb. VERY FILLING.

Then hoofed to the mall BUT I FORGOT the shirt i was to exchange.....but i bought my sister two shirts for her to choose from. I took pictures. HAHH. She was very grateful. I"M AN AWESOME LIL SIS RIGHT!?
=D

Then home to eat this:

That delicious chicken with half covered in oats, and then celery, apple, and green beans. YUM. Primal and DELICIOUS. I think...the chicken NEEDED SOME KETCHUP. Must try again with more mustard and more ketchup. =D

then I did the damn thing (i.e. work.) emailed a certain someone when we should have been studying...and then slept from 4-5:45. Did some more stuff, and then stood torn for dinner, which then was OBVIOUS because i wanted this:

Trayn Harder Bean Burrito.
Nom nom. Sophia of Burp and Slurp kindly reminded me that Kabocha is NOT a grain, and while i ate a ton, i need some whole grains in my life too! Primal/Paleo is okay with SOME light amounts of grains, and dude, it was AWESOME in a burrito. TOTAL hand food. =D
Kabocha on the side. YUM YUM. =D

Now i'm just resting watching DIRTY JOBS WHO LOVES MIKE ROWE?! HE IS THE BEST!
and also, D was like, you seemed off this week, and offered a shoulder to lean on. it was nice. I almost cried. I've been under a lot of stress, and not that happy this week. =( so hopefully it'll all be better. tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow/ creeps in this petty pace from day to day,/To the last syllable of recorded time...

props if you know what i'm quoting!

HAPPY SATURDAY ALL! It's a brand new day tomorrow and I know it's gonna be better.

Yes! WE CAN!

2009-09-18T18:42:00.000-07:00

HAHHA =D
IT"S FLEX IT FRIDAYYYYYY (just a funny name i made up for fridays. I DID FLEX a ton of muscles! what did you flex today? )

Treadmill was preceded by some cereal drink. SOMEONE HAS TO DRINK IT (it's weird, the box itself says no transfats in the ingredients, but the packet says partially hydrogenated etc etc. MEH.) Also supplemented by some PB. =D

Walking and also 30 second sprints 90 second recovery at 3.0 Sprints: 9.4, 9.4, 9.8. Still not the fastest speed- i was runnin OFF the dreadmill- gotta jack up to 10s

REST FROM RUNNING:
(as D said, you ran today? me: nope. D: GASP!)

Pre lifting workout snack:

A "YES PECAN PI" lara bar and a gala apple. Wasn't loving the pecan pie. just tasted dates. no pecans?! meh.

LOOK! it has a leg! hahahha. It was pretty okay.

Lifting:
5X30 glute ham situps
5X5 55# deadlift
5X5 25# push press
5X5 25# squat
5X10 pushups
3X10 elbows close bench press 20#
superset:
6 rounds of:
6 bench dips
10 knees in crunch while balanced on bench

Stretch
Then i ran into D and we chatted a bit, not a lot he was kinda busy...=/

Then HOME TO STUDY email izzzzzyyyyy and then change into short shorts and a tank and eat this:

regular yogurt, peach! KABOCHA, cinnamon, celery and broccoli and peanut butter spoonfuls! =D
i was hungry! so weird since i didn't run. I guess lifting is HARD CORE! =D

Then i ...SLEPT! =(

Woke up and it was time for lunch! (well i try to eat every 3-4 hours, so it was time)

Tofu sheets, broccoli, kabocha and a gala apple. Crunchy deliciousness. =D

Then i worked more, read some more, and rested a bits. never have google reader open when you want to get work done! =(

Watched barefoot contessa, bobby flay throwdown (PANCAKES!) and then fixed dinner:

2 egg whites, can of tuna, green beans, and more kabocha. i can't get tired of it. =D

Now i'm going to just finish my chapter in MCAT fold the laundry and settle down for the night.

Upper crust.

2009-09-17T18:58:00.000-07:00

Hahha that's what this predreadmill snack was!

My last glenny's brownies. heated up. savored. you know what's rockin' about them? they're like SPARKLY!

So i did walking on an incline, then jacked it up to 12 again, and did 6 20 second sprints at 7.0 last one was 7.8 whew almost fell off.

Then just walking and cool down on bike with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The book, not with Keira. although i do like that movie.

Then i rested, studied, and then ate this

Gala apple. I just realized i ate A TON of apples today. oh well. i'll be safe from Dr's offices...
Cherry pie larabar. mmmm okay, not amazing. BUT still good.

Then:
8X200 m, 1 minute recovery in between. 6:55/mile average.

Lifting:
3X15 glute ham sit ups
6X3 pull ups assisted
36 side plank with 12.5 lb row
6X6 30# skull crusher
3X15 back extension
tons of bikes, and crunches
D saw me in the gym and texted me so. =)

Oh! GRATUITOUS After gym shot. you should see me RIGHT after i run. I'm a sweat monster. Excuse the horrible definition in the picture and my abs. Sorry to SCAR YOU FOR LIFE

Home to eat this:

OIKOS YOGURT! (1/2) cup. SOOOO CREAMY DREAMY YUMMY~~~
An apple (see?!) plum, and grapes and broccoli. And the rest of the pb jar.

....
JUST KIDDING! I ate some with my broccoli. =D

Then i worked from 12-1 volunteering, and then got gas, produce and came home to fix this:

Kidney beans TRAYN HARDER STYLE (very spicy this time) green beans, and apple and celery stick. YUM-O.

Work Work work. Then CHORE TIME while watching Diner's paradise. Laundry, Cleaning, etc.

Then I tried out a new recipe of my own!
I took two chicken breasts defrosted and SLATHERED it in whole grain mustard. this is the shit!
Salty, but the SHIT!
and then i marinated it for like 12 minutes, i.e. heating the oven to 375 degree F
Then i popped them in (one of them i put some oats on it, we'll see how that tastes)
and baked for i guess 25? minutes? until i cut into it and it was done.

I also steamed kabocha in the microwave! YUM EVEN BETTER THAN STOVETOP and faster. 8 minutes with a bunch of water. YUm. I sprinkled cinnamon on that and devoured. The chicken was awesome. On the side I was going to have broccoli but then was like, hm. I want an apple. something crunchy. (everything was kinda one texture if i had microwave broccoli.)
Yum crunchy. this was an awesome and filling dinner.

Now i'm digesting and blogging, and will watch some stuff later. Tomorrow is a rest day from running (may do some sprints on the treaddy but more concentrated on lifting, like deadlifts squats) i'm upping the weight a little more!

BYE!

Giveaway:
http://cookinfanatic.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/pumpkin-butter-giveaway-if-you-say-so/

In the cookie of life, you are the chocolate chips.

2009-09-16T18:45:00.000-07:00

Almost over the hump guys!

=D

NEW! Treadmill workout snack:

GLENNY's 100 cal brownie. Chocolate chip. can anyone say YUM-O? (no not you Rachael Raye) I heated it up in the microwave and licked the plate clean. YUM. Only one more....=(

This fueled some hour of treadmill walking WITH- 12 % incline, 20 second sprint at 6.0, 6.5, 6.5, 7.0, 7.5. Whew! you jump to the side for 10 seconds. i was just getting the hang of it, so my rests were like a minute first and then i tried the JUMP TO THE SIDE/SCATTER!

Bike, and reading Pride and Prejudice.

Then I decided to hit up my run.
First: fuel.

White Chocolate Macadamia Luna Bar and Apple.

Apple good. White chocolate macadamia: not EXCITING. i just ate it. and was not BLOWN away. Sadness.

Then 9 minute time trial. 7:50/mile, 1.15 miles. didn't improve, but didn't detrain. Meh.

Then SCHOOL! ew.
My stomach growled during class. Oopsy.

Ran home to eat this:

Yogurt in container! and 2 pluots (no more...fruit shopping trip in the near future) and celery peeking out and grapes. And the last of the milk.

When you have celery, sometimes you just want to eat it like this:

Food porn. Gasp.

Then I worked on stuff, cleaned around the house, messaged D like no one else...
and then ate this for lunch!

Broccoli and tofu burrito, which ended up peeing on me. NOT FUN. I had to ditch 1/2 the tortilla near the end because it got too soggy. EW.

Then More mcat stuff, chatting with my sister on line, and then a 2 hour nap. Groggyyyyyyyy

Woke up, did more mcat. EW i am mcatt'ed out. hahah.

Dinner:
simple.

3 egg whites from the tea eggs in a tortilla, green beans, and an apple that was KINDA mealy.

protein BOMB. i full.
now it's almost time for love songs on the coast, and i have to watch last weeks Glee to know what's coming up tonight!

LOL!
And do 30 pushups and 30 crunches before sleep. GYM TIME TOMORROW! WOO WOO!

the you? i'm referring to in the title? YOU GUYS WHO READ THIS! =D

SCHIZOOOO SNACK

2009-09-15T18:43:00.000-07:00

YAY tuesdays. Not really exciting, but i'll try to be exciting.

AUGH! i just realized my cereal drink has partially hydrogenated oils. UHH not eating that anymore! Horrors.

So after the treadmill walk

I suited up and ran 8X20 seconds on 10 seconds off up a hill next to my house. Yowza.

Then i came back, read emails, and then ate this

Odwalla Sweet and Salty Bar (see?! it can't make up its mind!) and a tiny bowl of green grapes.
Thoughts on this sweet salty bar: didn't love it. Too sweet in a way...and like the peanuts were OKAY...i guess. I hope other odwalla bars taste better?

Grapes: good. great. Green. =D

GYM:
5X5 25# squat
5X5 25# push press
5X5 50# deadlift
3X10 backextension
3X10 inverted row
10, 8, 7, 7, 7, 5 assisted dips
30 crunch on ball
30 ball pikes
50 situps
(yesterday i forgot i did 40 glute ham situps)

home to eat:
OVERNIGHT OATS! wow. creamy! oaty! filling?

soaking for two days might have something to do with that...
with cinnamon, yogurt, 2 pluots.

Then headed to Valley College- helped rehab athletes 12-3.
Hungry!
Came home and devoured:

2 egg whites, celery stick, carrot, and grapes.

Worked at MCAT shit and AT shit...

ATE DINNER! bomb dinner

Bean burrito (nom nom) and broccoli and milk. =D

now waiting for love songs on the coast and finishing up some reading.
Oh and...messaging D?
haah. he was a bit snippy today. guess that's what happens when you're old and gray.

Cherry V.3.14

2009-09-14T18:55:00.000-07:00

WOO HOO NO CLASS AND I GOT TO GO TO THE GYM!
UNFORTUNATELY I FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE. I thought I did thoughhhhhh
pre workout snack: cherry pie larabar. Hmm i need to microwave it longer. it was still hard. YES i just said that.

Then headed to the gym:
6X6 deadlifts with 45# (time to up to 55!)
D scared me at the squat rack i almost tripped.
3X10 ball crunch
D finds me again in gym -__-
3X10 back extension
3 X10 pushups
6 neg pullups
3X10 captains chair
3X 10 ball pike
Talk to seth, laugh about working out, Prawns (District Nine) we part ways.
oh yeah, D also sent me a message: up and adam lil mama. =?
Breakfast (i ditched my overnight oats for this:)

1/2 cup yogurt, 2 pluots, carrot, and grapes. nom nom.

Then I went to Fashion Square, nother pair of shorts of AEO, and made out like a bandit!

Did some work! like learn about homeostasis, then LUNCH:

Kidney bean burrito, celery stalk, carrot, and milk. Spicy goodness. I had curry/cumin/bean burrito burps all through the afternoon.

Talked to my sister, and then napped from 2-4.
Hoofed it to UCLA, and met up with old friends- a girl and her dad. We chatted and walked around for 1 hr....

Came back home to fix:

Inside burrito:

And on the side was tea eggs:

and broccoli, steamed in microwave. I ate a little more today because i'm tired of being crazy hungry at like 4 in the morning. -__-.

Now i'm going to watch some recorded stuff....and study some more........ how was monday for everyone?

OMG I was sooo happy because:
CLASS WAS CANCELLED TODAY
and in other news...a guy i kinda hung out with ( i guess dated for a bit?) accepted my friend request. i don't know how i feel about that. kinda shy.
Giveaway:
http://healthyfitrunner.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-first-giveaway.html

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

2009-09-13T18:25:00.000-07:00

RIP Barbara's Shredded Oats. You made my life complete for 3 days. Yeah, i finished that box like in 3 days. Scratch the like. It was THREE DAYS. -__-

Anyways, that plus half a Organic Jammy Sammy (from Revolution Foods) (it tasted rEALLY funny i don't know if it was expired or something, but it tasted like metallic and....gross) and a spoonful of peanut butter. you know me, i dipped into the jar later with a fork. yep, that is HOW i roll.

All this fuel helped me do 1.88 miles. i didn't set up my Garmin right, but Here is what i was supposed to do:

1 mile, rest 3 min, 3X400 at the 1 mile pace 30 seconds in between.

What i really did was : run 1 mile in 8:24, rest 2 minutes, run .60 miles and then rest and then run .25 miles. Yeah. so i ran wrong. oh well, i worked up a nice sweat and walking back to UCLA i passed a guy who...passed some gas. yeah gross.

Then lifting time! my fav:
i did:
9X10 back extensions
125 total glute ham situps
30 crunches on ball
30 stability ball pushups in sets of 10
6X6 30# skull crushers

My legs are killing me from that damn hill yesterday.
Plus somehow i was dead during this. Ew. i hate that.Can't wait to fuel with fruit now.

Hoofed it home and after washing up, chilling with sister, pluggin in garmin, i made this

Left: grapes i didn't eat and yogurt and 2 pluots, RIGHT: cabbage. Milk on the side.

Then i worked on some MCAT shit, and took a glorious 1.5 hour nappy. Woke up and fixed THIS!

TOFU BURRITO! haven't seen these in awhile right?
I sauteed up some tofu in a tiiiiiny bit of oil(just enough to slick the pan) and soy sauce at the end when it was crispy to my liking. Yes i cut up my tofu in squares and triangles. =D
Plated and with a carrot and THE LAST bit of cabbage and milk. And my sunday crossword I"M STILL WORKING ON.

Then more study duddy, writing essays....watching tv.......

DINNER!

SAME OLD SAME OLD. Gotta go with what you crave a la Ellie Krieger.

Bean and Corn enchilada- why must you have so much sodium!? time to make my own bean stuff. Milk, and GRAPES! =D Yeah, that's the crossword that is STUMPING ME.

=(
At 8 i'm watching the FOOD NETWORK CHALLENGE! =D
Monday is school. EW. But at least i get to see someone i haven't seen in YEARS!

Geometric Goodness

2009-09-12T18:40:00.000-07:00

That's what i think of when i think of SHREDDED OATS. Wow.

I woke up sooo hungry and after downing the cereal drink and doing the treadmill and bike i was still ravenous. I chilled around (gym opens later on weekends and holidays) and then DOVE INTO THIS!

Yes. that is a DELUGE of cereal, Barbara's bakery Shredded oats. ORIGINAL. I'm sad the box is almost gone...but that's good on the primal/no processed food front....

This fueled (partially, i actually got LIGHTHEADED)
1.88 mile run (more than half was HIGH STEEP UPHILL.) hot damn. 9:08 pace. damn hill.

Then like 35 minute walk around westwood waiting for gym to open.

Gym time:
6X6 deadlift 45# bar
5X10 backextension
3X6 dips assisted
6 negative pullups
50 situps
30 pushups on stability ball
6X6 25# push press
5X5 25# deep squat. (hurt like hell)
3X6 inverted row
10 ball pikes
stretch

Home to eat:

yogurt, milk, tiny bit of salvaged peach (it was rotting from inside out!) 2 pluots and celery. grapes not eaten.

Studied, watched man v. food...crazy show...talked to both sisters and mom and then ate lunch at 2:15

last bit of curry chicken (flavor concentrated so much it was SOOOO salty i had to junk the rest of it) nectarine YUM YUM, and celery stick. Milk as drink.

Then i DIDN"T NAP! hooray! i watched a bunch of tv from 3-5, studied and stuff like that, cleaned and vacuumed my room too!
=D
Dinner: i was getting tired, but didn't know if i was hungry, but i thought it'd be better to eat something before i got ravenous:

thought i'd spare you cabbage and eggs, so here is A TRADER JOE'S bean and corn enchilada. these are the BOMB! i like lick the sauce it's that good. Green grapes on the side. yum yum.

Now i think i'll just chill around, rest, maybe do more studying/cleaning. I'm hoping to tire myself out because i honestly haven't been sleeping that well! =(

Puffy pillows of perfection

2009-09-11T18:41:00.000-07:00

Totally describes Barbara's Shredded oats. Oh hot damn. those are DAMN good.

This powered my
3X (200 m, 400m, 600 m ) intervals (rest in between: how long it takes to run the distance)

Finished the2.34 miles with average 8:03 pace i think.

=D

Orthotics are A GO!

Then i went to the gym with every intention of lifting...despite being pretty sore in chest, traps, and hammies and quads....and i was walking in, and i ran into D! Whoa. So i was like, eh, i'll go pee, and then go lift, so i started with 25 pushups to warm myself up...and then i'm resting thinking of the next step and he popped up, saying WHERE"D YOU GO! I WAS LOOKING ALL OVER!

Then we just chatted about everything for like 2 hours.....so he walked me out and to my car. how kind to be escorted!

Went home shakin because i was sooo hungry (weird, huh?)
and ate this:

yogurt, peach, pluot, cabbage (gosh, i'm getting sick of this) and milk.
Downed that sucker in like no time flat.

Then study, study study.

LUNCH!

nothing like beans to cheer me up! =D beans, nectarine, MORE CABBAGE. aiyah. And milk.

MORE MORE studying. and nappy. And messaging D.

Dinner:

Whew. I am soo full as i'm typing this. must be the protein? i have no idea. I hate feeling bloated. I probably will not eat 4 egg whites next time, just three. and not the grapes. WHEW! pluot was good and the cabbage is probably expanding in my stomach! wheewwwwww.

Now i'm watching matrix reloaded ONLY for the highway scene. LOL.

=D
oh so i have a turtle on my phone, like a tiny little turtle and i took a picture of it with a bigger one, and showed D, who responded: where's my turtle dove.

Huh.

no seth today =(
Have a good weekend peeps!
Giveaways:
http://deliciouslyfit.com/nutridel/comment-page-1/#comment-1051

Oh SNAP!

2009-09-10T18:17:00.000-07:00

Cinnasnaps are the bomb. SERIOUSLY. WHOLE FOODS YOU HAVE DONE IT AGAIN.

Preworkout snack:

shitload of cinnasnaps. YUM. (no running today)

Went to gym and did:
5X15 glute ham situps
5X10 back extensions
6X6 deadlift with 45#
3X10 inverted row
6X6 assisted dips
6 negative pullups
6X6 push press with 20#
6X6 squat with 20#
3X10 pushups...and at home later i did like 3 more sets of 30 pushups.

Breakfast:

yogurt, peach and plum. PLUS:

cabbage. and milk.

Then i did a WHOLE SHIT LOAD OF STUDYING.

LUNCH:

tofu stirfry! the last! cabbage, and nectarine and milk.

THen more studying...sigh, cleaning up around the house..napping...chatting with my sisterr

THEN DINNER:

bowl of curry chicken, and nectarine that was molding, and milk! YEP! non heated up milk! i have made the transition to milk!

yum yum. oh gosh. delicious curry.

Today was interesting. so like i lifted at the gym right? When i walked into the gym, Seth was walking out i guess, so i said HI! and he smiled. As usual. he was working. Then I got my lift on.
Whew....as i was finishing up a set of squats (full range, trying to get there, i'm not used to going that deep) HE WALKED BY. UHHHHH i just kinda died. He goes OH MAN you gotta go deeper than that! ASS TO HEELS! me: i'm GETTING THERE ALRIGHT? LET"S SEE YOU DO IT.
and he squats. kinda rounded back, but whatever....
and he gets up and starts walking away and i'm like FINE FINE. HEY! what are YOU DOING over here (usually he walks around in a different area not in the weights when he's on duty) he turns and just sticks his tongue out at me. Me: !! HEY! that's mean. (i don't care that it's 8:30 am and all the other meatheads are totally lookin/listening to our convo) He just turns, smiles, and sticks his tongue out again. =(

Oh! and on the D front, He and i were messaging about what i wanted to do, and i was talking about going to a bookstore and reading and he's like I LOVE THAT TOO, i see a bookstore hangout soon...and later he goes, when we bookstore clubbin'. ..... me: kinda a weird date, since i DO THIS BY MYSELF so i'm not going to say anything else about it...

HOW IS EVERYONE today?
Giveaways:
http://www.healthytwists.com/?p=653

http://www.mybreakfastblog.com/2009/09/cookie-giveaway.html

Square One

2009-09-09T18:34:00.000-07:00

=D
YAY IT"S HUMPDAY! only a couple of more days til the weekend! HOORAY!
today, after treadmill time, it was.....SQUARE ONE! one minute running, one off, 3 times and that set 3 times. whew!

This running was fueled by savory squares of goodness:

Then I came home from outside, studied, and then packed a snack:

grapes. GREEN thank you. no me gustan lluvas that are purple.

Then to Valley College where i vultured to find a parking space, and then went to the library to cram for my test. Test was 9:40-10:15. ew.

Home, then a weird meal?

chicken breast, milk, and cabbage and cauliflower. you'll be seeing a lot of this cabbage. my mom left me with TONS.
Dessert:

A little left over because i felt sick. Nap time!

Then to my podiatrist to pick up some new orthotics. LOOK OUT WORLD, TRAY'S STEPPIN OUT AND RUNNING!
=D

Then i dicked around the house, didn't feel like studying...so i ate another little meal:

Tofu stirfry burrito, more cabbage and milk. and chatting with my sister at the same time.

INNARDS!
Then i picked up my clothes around my room,
napped, and then
cooked up some eatz!

OHHH BEANS..where you bean?! just kidding. I missed you like the sun misses the rain. is that a love song? correct me if i am totally butchering it. I love love songs on the kost by the way. AHHH. I love it. Steamed cabbage. What is Tray? one big cabbage head. And leftover nectarine and a pluot. =D

D just said what he did today, and ended with "came to find you =) ". i guess that qualifies as cute?
Tomorrow is a rest day! WHEW! and gym! I MISSED IT.
Today I did 30 pushups.
=D

Dusttttt in the winddddddd

2009-09-08T18:58:00.001-07:00

Cereal dust, that is!
Today, RIP quaker oats. you were sooo good while you lasted.

Treadmill climb, bike, and then pre workout snackeroo

Cereal, a square meal.

Then: 2 mile time trial. 16 minutes! 8:08/mile i think. DAMN faster than last time i did this. =D

Then:
3X10 glute ham situps
10 ball pikes
10 crunches
3X6 pullups assisted
3X6 dips assisted
6X6 push press with 20#
2X10 inverted row

Then home and then to costco and WHOLE FOODS where i got larabars, cereal, and yogurt OIKOS =DDDDD

Breakfast:

Tofu stirfry (my mom made some more for me before she left today, so i ate that since it was FRESH. =D ) cabbage, kabocha and milk.

Then took mom to airport, came home, chilled, ate some unpictured cereal, and then went to volunteer. THAT WAS LIKE THREE HOURS OF TONS OF ACTIVITY.
Sheesh louise.

Came home, ate this

NO NOT ALL OF THEM. JUST ONE DELICIOUS NECTARINE.

Then studied my ass off.

Then dinner:

milk, tofu, and cauliflower. Simple. wasn't very hungry, but i didnt eat that much today, so tried to take in some more calories. I think i'm just tired and hot.

In OTHER NEWS
GIVEAWAYS:
http://www.onefrugalfoodie.com/2009/09/08/giveaway-vegan-brunch/

http://recipes.iamsucceeding.com/?p=91&cpage=1#comment-6

http://sillytatertot.com/2009/09/08/too-pooped-to-party-plus-its-giveaway-day/comment-page-1/#comment-300

OMG. so D was like, after a few facebook messages....nice hair at the movies. don't remember if i saw it down before
Me: well i let it down for special occassions
D: We need another special occassion so we can let your hair down. LOL :) ha ha hee.

??????

Be there or be square

2009-09-07T20:35:00.000-07:00

A QUAKER OAT SQUARE THAT IS! =D

Pre run snackeroo was:
QUAKER OAT CRACK AND POST shredded wheat! Squares!

This kind sat funny in my tummy....during my:

5 min on 2:30 off, 6 min on, 3:00 off, 7:00 min on
Average speed 8:02/mile! =D

Strength:
50 glute ham situps
50 crunches
50 pushups
50 ball pikes

I think. I don't feel like opening my garmin program to check LOL.

Then like i packed breakfast: celery, yogurt and kabocha, nectarine and a plum. SORRY I FORGOT TO TAKE A PICTURE BUT IT WAS IN THE CONTAINER

=(

Then we hit up the mall, where i bought a cute tanktop at hollister. =D and then like 2 grocery stores and CVS to get my MEDS/DRUGS/PILLS.

Lunch:

tofu stirfry burrito! and napa cabbage and kabocha. YUM and gasalicious.

Nap for 1.5 hours, and then study some more, post wall posts as in a war of posts with D, etc.

Then we loaded up the cahhhrrr and took my sister back to USC. =( SADNESS!

Just finished a late din din of

CURRY and A TENT TORTILLA as my mom called it. =D
Delicious.

YAY for crosswords. Glad i'm not the only one who enjoys challenging the mind.

BHealthier: PB and NECTARINES is AWESOME. The saltiness/slighty salty of the pb complements the sweet and tangy nectarine. the textures are awesome. Kinda messy to eat, but still delicious nonetheless! Tomorrow my mommy leaves for 3 weeks to taiwan. =( and i gotta do some volunteer work. aiyah.

hugs!

SUCCESS!

2009-09-06T19:03:00.000-07:00

YAY i had oats today and they didn't blow up in my face! HOORAY! =D

cereal drink, treadmill climb, bike, and then walk outside around the neighborhood. Rest day from running today.

=D

Does anyone ever feel like sometimes you get full really fast and feel a little bloated because you're eating when you just want to sleep? i feel that way right now.

Breakfast!

Yogurt, 1/4 cup oats that LISTENED TO ME, nectarine and pluot. Cinnamon to cover. =D
Drink: ALMOND MILK + MILK! wow, almond milk is so nutty. CRAZY.
check out the crazy reading material on my breakfast/eating table. BIOCHEMISTRY?! CROSSWORD DICTIONARY? yes, that is how tray's house rolls. We are all of the health professions/majors.

=D

Then church where i helped my mom cook for 33 people. WOw, cooking is a workout. In between boiling cabbage and reheating chicken drumsticks, I went to A&F and got a pair of cute shorts. I LOVE shorts. =D it doesn't hurt that i apparently got cute legs. LOL.

Lunch at home:

cabbage dish from church, awesome with shitake shrooms and fishballs and a savory broth
and TOFU mummy. =D almond milk and milk on the side.

Rest. Nap. Study. Rest. That is what went down.

Din DIN!

TORTILLA HAT! (you fold it in half like so it's a half circle with the circle round edge on the bottom. Then you fold in half taking care to flip up one of the ends so there is lip. =D then you admire your work, take pictures, coo about it, and then roll up porkchops and tofu stirfry. and eat to your heart's content.

=D

How is everyone enjoying their sunday? What does labor day hold for you? It holds hitting up the mall, and resting some more and filling out apps and studying for a test. i know, random!

Ohhhhh in OTHER news....
some guy that i met at in n out, does anyone remember that? in august, facebook walled me and was like, so when we watching a movie? LOL.

hugs!
giveaway:
http://healthhappinesshope.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/time-for-some-fun/

America runs on dunkin nectarines in pb.

2009-09-05T22:11:00.000-07:00

Just got back from seeing District 9 with texter friend D! it was pretty good, too bad his deltoid is so big that even when i'm sitting next to him, it keeps touching my shoulder. other than that, pretty good. He's so funny, he brought snacks and was like here! CANDY! me: uhhh i kinda don't do candy...but he even went to whole foods to get me snackimals. i declined since I JUST ATE DINNER. he was depressed. BUT! let's get to the food first.

Cereal drink. Treadmill climb (cue miley cyrus)

PRE WORKOUT SNACKEROO:

PB AND NECTARINE! i never tire of this combo.

8X 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off of hill sprints. Damn it near killed me.

Home, cleaned up, then facebook emailed D like a million times (he calls me so many random names like Smurfette....etc) I have no idea what this means.

Then me and mom went to get sister from USC, and then to bank, then home.

Home: i ate this:

Yogurt and peach and strawberries, cauliflower, and i added some kabocha to it later. With soymilk and cow milk cocktail.

Then I attempted to study, got dizzy, then slept for an hour, then went out to Costco to gas up, to Jon's for cabbage, and Daphnes for greek deliciousness.

Lunch:

Oregano Lemon? scented Daphne's greek chicken (SOOO GOOD GO TRY IT) breast (1/2)? in the tortilla. Cauliflower and kabocha on side. YUM YUM.

Then study, and then 20 pushups and like a couple of sets of 10 of crunches while watching JUST COOK THIS with Sam Zien on Fit tV. I love that guy. he's funny.

Then i napped again. It's just way too hot to function. Then i woke up, found a voicemail from D (whoops) and then missed his call again. god, i am just one hot mess. I took a shower so i would be presentable, and then hit up din din with mom:

TOFU! TORTILLA! NAPA CABBAGE! TEA EGG! LACTOSE !

=D it was good.

Then district nine at 7:30. Wow. what an intense movie. me and d chatted about little things the whole time, and now i'm back here posting. =D

=D HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEKEND!

got to go to rehab but i said no no no....

2009-09-04T19:02:00.000-07:00

rehab for what you ask?
For THIS:

Pre-run snackeroo:
CEREAL! Quaker oat squares deluge and under that is post shredded wheat.
Wow. it was weird eating cereal again. Dare i say, i'm NOT THAT BIG A FAN ANYMORE? sacrilege.

Workout: 1.5 mile time trial. Burn Baby burn as i ran it in 12:51, so like 8:25 /mile . SMOKIN in my terms. sadly, i cannot run 6 minute miles yet. only in my short sprints. that is how sad i am.

Then i had to go to a physical right afterwards, this was my packed breakfast:

yogurt, peach, and strawberries.

So it went: run, walk to find mom, change in bathroom, and go to physical for like 1.5 hours. or like a million years. i tried to type millenium...and i keep typing it wrong. sadness.

I then ate some of my packed breakfast, but wasn't really all that hungry..thank you quaker oat crack.

SO! We peaced out of valley college, and then went to fashion square, where i picked up the shorts i wanted and it was awesome because i thought they weren't there, but the girl got them from the back for me, and they were on sale, and even cheaper because i got 10% off! EXCELLENTE!

Then Costco, Ranch 99 market, and some other places i forget. or maybe it was just that.
Huh. I have the worst memory.

Home for lunch. I made it in a hurry since my mom was HANGRY.

BEAN BURRITO! ya missed it? it was awesome as usual.

White kidney beans are awesome. yes, awesome.

Cauliflower and brussel sprouts and soy/cow milk cocktail. I left one piece of cauliflower since i was getting stuffed. whew. FIBER BOMB. AND FART BOMB. but totally worth it.

Then, study study. And try to start my physician's assistant apps. STRESS UP THE WAZOO.

I was really happy because someone i haven't seen in like 5 months talked to me on facebook. ahhh it was very sweet and made my day. =D

Then:
50 pushups, 50 crunches, 50 reverse crunches.
=D finished that filthy fifty.

Dinner:

CURRY! and a tortilla hat. cute right? the soy milk and cow milk mug was feeling a little cold, so he headed to the sauna during the photo shoot.
Alright, almost the end of jeopardy so this means i get to watch it recorded. ON A VHS. how lame, but that is how tray's house rolls.
tomorrow i'm not sure what's going down, but a short spicy run and picking up my sister from u$c is in order. oh and maybe a WHOLE FOODS TRIP!?

giveaways:
http://sarahsbalance.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/a-busy-bee-goodbye-giveaway/#comment-358

http://www.yumyucky.com/yumyucky/2009/09/taste-test-sampler-pack-giveaway.html#comment-6a010536e3fd46970c0120a5a0adbe970c

yay FRIDAY AND 3 DAY WEEKEND!

An apple pie a day......

2009-09-03T18:46:00.000-07:00

ROCKS YOUR WORKOUT!

=D
One more day til the weekend! This lil' mama is ready for the weekend. Apparently that is my new name according to D. I am Lil' mama. Uhhhhh okay. =/
Cereal drink, treadmill climb, then....

APPLE PIE LARABAR and PLUOT! (bar microwaved, of course. and savored like fine wine...)

Then:
90 seconds on, 90 seconds off X6. Uhhhh average pace? 6:55 /mile! DAMN i sprinted that like nobody's biz! I remember thinking i HOPE i'm going fast, i feel kinda sluggish and slow and like this is extremely hard!

Lifted:
20 decline situps
50 glute ham situps
50 back extensions
50 swiss ball pikes
50 45#deadlifts
Wow. After those deadlifts I was kinda trembly. Then i met my friend D, and then he escorted me out. I was like, ehhhh i'll do more tomorrow. But if you think about it, that was kinda of a lot.
Tomorrow is pushup and squat day.

Breakfast:

Kabocha on a nice plate aka the yogurt quart lid, and a peach and 4 strawberries with yogurt. Soy milk cow milk mixture in microwave.

Then :
bank, cvs, vons, bea's bakery, jon's and then home. =D

Lunch:

tofu stirfry burrito (the last! i promise. it's just like crack!) kabocha and brussel sprouts. With milk. both soy and cow.

Then studied my arse off...and napped for 30 minutes.... then dinner:

2 braised drumsticks, and cauliflower. Tortilla and milk in microwave. =D

Then we went to Ralphs to get more drumsticks....mom's cooking for church, so she needs to make a lot. I'll go help her after i finish posting!

Might watch jeopardy later and tackle cellular respiration again. ugh....
I might hang out with him D saturday....he texted me 3 times in teh span of an hour asking what i was doing......and this morning, after yesterday when i said i woke up at 4 am, he texted this morning wake up lil mama. it's a brand new day. lol. i didn't get it until i saw him in teh gym becuase i didn't check my phone and i was running my amazing sprints. when he left me he was like CHECK YOUR PHONE.....i see why.

=/ he's interesting. an older guy, but very ....interesting..
FEED ME I"M CRANKY I GOT YOUR LETTER TODAY!

Tra :0, Oats 2

2009-09-02T19:13:00.000-07:00

Yes, I lost by 2 today. Quaker oat man got me... TWICE.

Pretreadmill walk fuel:

cereal drink + what was left in this cup.

See. Day already off to a bad start.

No pre run fuel seeing as how TODAY IS A REST DAY!

Breakfast: weirdly, i wasn't hungry. HOW STRANGE.

1/3 cup oats in microwave (b healthier, i tried to tell that oatmeal to behave and it just blew up in my face. literally. stove top anyone?) 3/4 cup yogurt, peach, strawberries, and a plum. Cinnamon to cover.

Then I went to class where i got called on like 3 times. UGH! i hate that! Then i bought a parking permit, and then i went to a grocery store to buy millions of drumsticks and also tofu and chicken broth.

Lunch, i was hungry!

Ugh. NOT a good lunch. made chickpeas like i usually make beans, and used garam masala. I don't know, something just didn't make me like it. I ate like 7/8s of the bowl, then junked the rest when i figured i was just eating to eat. Ate everything else tho.

Rest, and then study mcat crap and Athletic training crap.
Slept from 3:30-4:30- maybe longer but my texter friend woke me up calling me and leaving me a voicemessage that went like TRAYYYYYYYYYYYYY ITS YOUR BOY DDDDDDDDD. HOOLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (yes, that was verbatim)

I called him back and we figured out that we hadn't planned a time for saturday! yikes. not good. I don't know where we're going to see it, but i'm going to find him tomorrow during work.

More studying. Finally start to get hungry. Don't you just hate those days? I think because it's too hot.

Yep, tofu stirfry. tea egg, kabocha WHICH I MADE! yum yum. Much better than last time!
Tortilla and soy cow milk mix were in microwave. they were shy. and getting hot. in the box. LOL.

Now i'm just finishing some reviewing and then going to try to watch some tv later!
strength today: same as yesterday. tomorrow is gym time. yep, can't wait!

Has anyone had those days like today where NOTHING GOES RIGHT?! UGH!
GIVEAWAY:
http://jodie-rippedbodies.blogspot.com/2009/09/giveaway-post.html?showComment=1251937135346#c6932512308629778701

C^3 lump

2009-09-01T18:32:00.000-07:00

So i wanted to eat oatmeal instead of cereal drink. oatmeal had other plans...it blew up in my microwave. will try tomorrow hopefully with better results. Ugh. it takes so long to heat up too. lame.

Pre workout/run snack

CHOCOLATE COCONUT CHEW. Delish. plus a rottin' plum. you rotten thang. lol
My experience of eating the ccc larabar was marred by a nut shell! ouch! that hurts!

run: 2X1.5 miles with 5 minute recovery in between.
workout
3X15 glute ham situps
3X10 ball pike
3X10 crunches on ball
3X10 20 # squat
3X10 deadlift with 30#
3X10 20# push press
3X5 assistance 9 dips
3X3 assistance 9 pull ups
3X15 pushups

Fin. Then my friend D the texter escorted me out. so kind. we're trying to plan a movie (district 9) lol. i wonder if that will pan through.

Breakfast:

soymilk + milk cocktail. Celery sticks. Plum, cinnamon, peach, yogurt, and 5 strawberries. Heaven in a container.

Then i chatted with mom. better times. we get along now. thank gosh.

Then lunch at 1 pm after studying hard.

mystery burrito! just kidding. chive egg omelette inside and some of that crack i mean tofu with celery stirfry. Brussel sprouts on side. with soy/cow milk.

Then: korean store to recycle cans and glass, staples to buy paper, northridge mall and then ralps and popeyes (dinner for mom)

Chilled (more like boiled it's so hot!) and then dinner at 6 pm:

green beans. tortilla. pan fried tilapia/basa fillet. soy milk + cow milk mixture.

tabasco in the upper left. spicy goodness. tingly lips. yum.

Now i'm going to finish tending to my blog reader-- i whittled it down from 300+ posts! yikes!

tomorrow is class, and i don't know what yet....hmmm. can't wait for something exciting to happen. LABOR DAY WEEKEND! =D
who's already waiting for the weekend? ME!

Pete, repeat.

2009-08-31T19:12:00.000-07:00

Kinda in a weird mood because I got in a fight with my mom about eating turkey. Sigh. I guess i'm being annoying again. Coming from an ED you still stick with little eating quirks. I didn't feel like eating the turkey, and told her so, and she blew up in my face. =(

let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to starrrrt. (do re mi....do re mi...)

cereal drink. (tomorrow is something different!)

Treadmill

Bike with Anne of the Island

Pre workout snack:
Peanut butter and peach. does this look familiar? yes, pete repeat.

It was delish. Then: 9 minute time trial. 1.16 miles. .01 miles more than last time. IMPROVEMENT!

Breakfast:

Yogurt container mess! =D of a nectarine, plum, 5 strawberries. 4 mini stalks of celery. Yum. And soymilk.

Didn't finish the yogurt at the end (1/4 cup). Got too full. and nervous for my community college class. Enter community college class.
Then
an hour of driving to find a metrolink station, and pavilions to buy a shit load of kashi cereal....FOR MY SISTER AND DAD! (not me, i'm on the no cereal kick, remember?)

Lunch ( i was hungry!)

Stirfried tofu and celery burrito. With brussel sprouts on the side. To drink? mix of soy milk and milk. fat free. I'm switching to regular milk as i'm going primal/paleo/clean. =D

Rested, then studied. Then 3 hour nap. Whoa. woke up like i was in a dream. was i?

Dinner that spawned the cold war/fight.

sliced turkey, romaine that's been cut off, half half (soy and cow)

now i'm just chilling, going to study again.
OH! i did some crunches today. gym time tomorrow. i think i did like 20+ regular, 20 bike, 20 reverse. very low key.

2Ps in a pod

2009-08-30T19:56:00.000-07:00

=D
SUNDAY FUNDAY! just kidding.
Cereal drink
treadmill walk. Bike with 4:50 from paddington.
rest

P+P=2P = X-citing workout.

Peanut butter and Peach! =D it was SOOO nice.
Loaded on that nut butter like spackling a wall. PB burps for LIFE! =D

Run: 7X 90 seconds on 90 seconds off. Walked home and couldn't breathe- there are fires going on in the outskirts of SO CAL.

Chilled:
then: 3 sets of 10 pushups, 10 situps, 10 reverse crunch, 10 tricep pushups, 10 double crunch, 10 wide pushups.

Post workout meal:

YOGURT CONTAINER! filled with a nectarine, plum, and 5 strawberries. YUM YUM YUM.
On the side, we have a tiny bowl of broccoli and celery leaves.

Then we headed off to church, then century city westfield, where i bought a pair of shorts that MIGHT be too short. who knows. =/

Lunch:
tofu burrito wrapped up/mummified, cauliflower, soymilk.

Then...to USC to drop sis off. Tear tear. =(

Dinner:

braised drumsticks in lee kum kee chicken marinade, tortilla, and green beans. i love those from a can. (sorry my pictures are so dark. i dunno what is happening!)

Oh, so texter friend- totally weird. i told him that i was enjoying retail therapy, and he goes, where's my shirt and shorts (i told him what i bought) me: next time when we hit the mall, i'll buy you something good. him: oohhh i hear you talkin lil mama. i was like, you better hook me up to live up to that nickname. him: oooh without a doubt. me: yay steppin out in style. him: when we steppin out. me: uhh i'll find you and we'll plan it.

wow....i am pooped! =/ class starts tomorrow , so that will be kinda exciting. KINDA.

See you in the AM!
GIVEAWAY!
http://mponz.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/my-first-giveaway/

L-l-l-l-lick me like a lollipop...or an ice cream cone, i'm melting fast

2009-08-29T19:04:00.000-07:00

HAPPY SATURDAY! too bad i am burning up!

Eats at 4am: cereal drink.
That lasted me through a long treadmill walk incline style, biking (easy) and all the way to 9:15 am! yikes! I went out in the morn to get gas with mommy, exchange some boxed single milks, and get some other groceries.

Breakfast (i was HANGRY when i got back!)
hot soy juice, oats, 1/2 c? yogurt, 5 strawberries, plum, nectarine. HEAVEN in a bowl. Except my yogurt peed all over it. (it separated? so a bunch of water was floating around. no shit, i just drank it up like cows at trough.)

Then I watched Man V. Food. Does anyone else watch this show with a gross fascination that he's going to eat that massive amount of food or not? I dunno. it's crazy. He ate a humongous 8 scoop sundae. I puked watching him.

Lunch (unpictured, thrown together and schlepped out to Del Taco)
tofu burrito, broccoli and celery.

Then, like a million stores to shop at and return stuff at. I got a shirt! if you wanna see weird pictures of me in different clothes, just say the word. i just think you'l rear back in horror at my ugliness. =/

Then we ran to a couple of grocery stores to get essentials to fuel my sister up to go back to USC.

Home: we watched Chef vs. City. A GOOD SHOW i tell you. Aaron is cute and funny.

Dinner:

Egg omelette, stirfried tofu with celery, tortilla and soyjuice in microwave. =D

now to relax, post this, read blogs, and watch tv. life is good. LG.
=D
Today was a rest day for running, but strength was:
5 times of
10 pushups
10 sit ups
10 wide pushups
10 reverse crunches
10 close pushups
10 double crunches.

love you, and hugs all around.

sweet like apple pie.

2009-08-28T19:04:00.000-07:00

CEREAL DRINK TO START THE DAY! =D they make me smile. probably because i burnt my lip on them multiple times. HELLO LEARNING CURVE? i dunno.

Then pre workout snackie! DELICIOUS!

Of course, the larabar stripped and got into the tanning salon known as the MICROWAVE. Helo radioactivity!

Run: 3 X of 20 seconds on, 1 minute off, 50 sec off, 40, 30, 20 10 seconds off. =D
Lifts:
(focused on correct form and upper body to get good for CF.
5X5 resistance 52 # pull up.
5X5 52 assistance dips
(supersetted, 10 second rest in between. that is key to me.)
3X15 pushups
3x15 decline situps
Then home (i thought i had to hurry. tomorrow might be a longer gym day because it's a rest from running and such. =D

Then I packed up breakfast and headed out to run some errands.
Breakfast: HUMONGOUS BEHEMOTH of a WHITE PEACH (my last one, tear tear. prepare to see lots of strawberries in the future!) and 3/4 cup of yogurt. in the CONTAINER. ME LOVES
Also (unpictured) 1.5 celery stalk. Plain. no pb this time honey.

Errands: noah's bagels for FREE BAGEL FRIDAY!, Ralphs, Fashion Square, Gelsons

Home, rested, then LUNCH at 1pm. I was HANGRY!

Here we have a burrito and broccoli and brussel sprouts and hot soymilk. All chillin by the cancer cube ahem i mean microwave since i heat my stuff up like 125987215 times. Can you guys guess what's the burrito filling today? =D

Then we headed out to pick up my sister from USC. WOW TRAFFIC is hell. Hell = going from downtown to the valley. At 5 pm. UGH! I watched a person in a car eat their lunch while driving. CAN ANYONE SAY ACCIDENT IN THE MAKIN?!

Then we chilled at home, watched Barefoot Contessa (FAH BUUUU LOUSSSSS) and then i helped her with organizing Pharm notecards. Ghetto PHAAA bulous.

Dinner was:

Me: a horizon sun of a tortilla, soy juice, tofu on the plate, a tea egg, and cauliflower. My mom and sister had something else. =D

Now i'm going to try to rest, chew some gum, and read, and then watch my taped Jeopardy because I hate commercials. YES I do. can't wait for some good lifting tomorrow! =D

PEACE OUT PEEPS LOVE YOU!
GIVEAWAY:
http://heyitstay.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/surprise-package-1-giveaway/

When life gives you lemons....eat them. in the form of a bar.

2009-08-27T18:55:00.000-07:00

GIVEAWAY:
http://www.fitandfabulouslife.com/2009/08/27/another-coupon-giveaway/

Today started with a nice hot cereal drink at 4 am. then emeril green and more emeril green and then jane eyre on the bike.

Then pre run workout snackeroo!

LEMON LARABAR AND PLUM! YUM. the lemon was quite, interesting. a little too crumbly, but i liked it all the same. i got hella big almond chunks. tray likey. likey mucho.

Then 15 min time trial. 1.87 miles. avg pace 8:03/mile.
Then:
5X10 full range squat with 20 lb EZ curl bar.
3X10 shoulder push press 20lbs
3X10 dead lift 45 lbs
3X15 pushups
3X15 situps with legs at 90.
stretch. limp home to eat:

YOGURT IN THE CONTAINER! Massive white peach, 3/4 cup yo, 3 strawberries. with soy milk on the side and a carrot too for veg.

YUM.

then rest. read blog. dick around. watch tv. LUNCH!

BEAN BURRITO! tray style!
Here are the beans cookin:

Here is the whole shebang with brussel sprouts, celery and soy juice.

Then we did a shitbang load of errands:
Bank to deposit $$$, Marshalls to return mom's dress, Jon's to get water and veg and fruit, 99 Ranch to get tofu and cereal drink. It was freakin 111 degrees outside. i wilted. my back sweated. it was gross. at least i looked cute for a bit. Short shorts, hollister tee, ed hardy hat, steve madden shades. and sweat. =D

home, napped, watched barefoot contessa, napped, stretched lower back and dinner:
salmon (sockeye, wild) broccoli, soy juice, and tortilla. YUM.

this is what my mom ate:

3 cup chicken with basil, white rice, and black bean fish. NO she didn't eat the whole thing. She is an intuitive eater guys! she even set aside a bunch of that rice and fish before she started eating!

NOW IT"S TIME FOR JEOPARDY AND I"M BEAT AND SWEATY AND NEED A SHOWER!
do you guys like heat? i love summer, and i know i hate the sweating, but i like it better than cold. nothing is better than wearing shorts all the time and getting farmer tans and sock tans!

Ain't nuttin' but a chicken wing.

2009-08-26T18:54:00.000-07:00

Cereal Drink. Treadmill walk.
Bike.

Pre workout snackeroo:
PEANUT BUTTER! CARROT! and PLUM! (yes it's EXCITING!)

Then 90 seconds on 90 seconds off, X6. Whew!

Then time to shovel down breakfast despite not being THAT hungry (never doing this again.)
WHITE PEACH! SOYMILK! and sliced turkey, and kabocha. LAST NEW BREAKFAST! I did it!
Lost my creativity near the end tho!

Then mom and I headed out to Costco, Jon's, Walgreens to pick up necessities like soymilk, drugs, and celery, peaches, etc. etc. =D

Then i watched fast food with Robin Miller (her eyes scare me!) and then napped.
THEN SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENED.

I woke up at like 1pm, then figured i had to eat before I trained my client (who ended up standing me up! WHAT A )#%(*#)%)
I made a chicken burrito and had kabocha. After I ate this, I have no idea, I almost felt like throwing up. I blame the chicken. I told my mom, no more chicken! AIGH. I have never felt so sick!

Then to ucla where my client stood me up. Then I went to the bank to deposit and withdraw money. It ended up negative, if you were wondering.

Then home, where i chatted with my sister and did some reading of the blogs.

Dinner!
Opo! Tofu sheets, soymilk, and a tea egg. Aren't those purty!?

Now it's jeopardy, so i'll peace out. Oh yeah, i did 130 situps. i iz hard core.
Giveaways:
http://veganstrong.blogspot.com/2009/08/love-force-giveaway.html

http://www.missymaintains.com/2009/08/giveaway-alert-daves-killer-bread.html

ANGRY GORRILLA~

2009-08-25T10:08:00.000-07:00

Yes, this has something to do with my pre workout snack- run rest day!

First: cereal drink:

Then....treadmill, bike time (reading jane eyre. ahhh what a nice read.)

Then preworkout snackeroo

BANANABREAD LARA BAR (microwaved 30 sec. it tastes like A HOT PIECE OF BB!) and a plum. yum yum.

Then I met my friend that calls me bones, and he helped me perfect my lifting technique on the press, deadlift,and back squat. Here are my stats that I will basically erase when the technique clicks with me (you can bet your bottom dollar i'm practicing this now as my workout.)

45 lb press
75 lb deadlift
55 lb squat (going BEYOND parallel, that's where i fail.)

Of course, I"ll get better, he says and that makes me pleased. He's such a nice dude. me likey.
Then, he left to take a nappy and I did

3X10 decline sit ups
3X10 glute ham sit ups
3X10 ball pikes

Then drove home to eat:

hot soymilk
4 egg whites (probably only needed three)
4 tiny brussel sprouts
1 carrot (the carrot i declined to eat yesterday)
1 pluot, sliced.
Yes i know that it's not december, but who cares that i'm using a snowman plate. i love snowmen. I have a whole collection.

By the way, the kind people at PB LOCO responded to my plea for nutritional information:

PB LOCO JUNGLE BANANA
(the only one i've ever tried, thanks to a giveaway!)
Ingredients: peanuts, sugar, palm oil(non hydrogenated), bananas, banana concentrate, and less than 2 percent of evaporated cane juice, salt, modified food starch, natural flavor and color from annatto
okay. then i watched sam the cooking guy, studied, watched ddds....then made lunch.

chicken burrito (was going to do the yogurt in a bowl, but my mom was waiting politely to make my lunch, this was faster.) brussel sprouts (5) i had a baby one! and soymilk. i peeled/shaved a carrot just in case, but WOW! i got full fast!

Then we headed out to Rite Aid, Walgreens, Ralphs. and the post office.
Came home, napped, and helped fix and eat dinner.

here we have, kabocha (i made this!) curry chicken in the other bowl and a tortilla. i rip off little bits of the tortilla so curry tortilla in every little bite.

'Kay, rot be attacking my fruit!

2009-08-24T11:01:00.000-07:00

No picture of the cereal drink I ALWAYS have. It's a staple in my diet. Next challenge- eating something else! =D

I did the fiber one bowl before a treadmill walk last month, and my stomach and body didn't like the vast amount of aspartame it was ingesting. Fake, i tell you, is not good. Although....A LOT OF CLEANING OF THE PIPES, if you know what i'm saying...

Then, since i had a podiatrist appointment at 830 am, had to make sure i finished my run outside around the house with time to spare. WOOO...

Pre run Snackeroo: (could you guess by the title?)

PLUM! (rotting inside, whew, )
and Carrot...and PEANUT BUTTER. Carrots and peanut butter are not too shabby! I have to get used to no salt in this pb. but...it's not too shabby. Natural pb is SOO different than say, Jif, or Pb LOCO (this has sugar and oil? i think in it.)

I can't find the nutritionals. sorry.

Anyways, this was ingested at 6:15 AM. Run til 7:00 am (8X200 m 1 minute recovery)
Appt, Walgreens, Korean market then home. Ate this breakfast at 10:15 AM. Wow. nut butter you are AWESOME!

Different breakfast!
Oats, yogurt, pluot, humongo white peach, crunchy, and 3 grapes. cinnamon to top.
=D

yes, i counted those grapes. Soymilk is not pictured- probably because i was heating it up like 124098120958125 times! lol

After taking my dad to LAX, I came home to some grub!

Carrot which i didn't eat, brussel sprouts microwave steamed, leftover beans!, and leftover tofu! and soymilk. =D

LOL i just found a picture my dad took ( i leave the camera on the table i eat at so i remember to take a picture of my eatz.)

He had two pieces of meaty lobster. LOL. how cute he took a picture of his lunch.

Rested, and then crossfitted, trayn style.
20 minutes: do as many rounds of
5 squats, 10 pushups, 15 sit ups (froggie style)
I did 9. I would have done more, but somehow i got the most MASSIVE headache! UGH THANKS A LOT BODY.
So at 4 pm i attempted to sleep that shizit off.

then i got a package! i'll open it later!

Dinner:

Chicken sauteed marinated in thyme and lemon, green beans sauteed with garlic cooked earlier in the day, tortilla, soymilk:

Time to play some CHAMPION OF TOURNAMENTS JEOPARDY!

Lead's atomic symbol BANANZA!

2009-08-22T20:12:00.000-07:00

First!
I GOT AN AWARD!

THANK YOU SO MUCH IZZY! (she sent me something good!)

1. Brag
HOLLAH AT YOUR GIRL! I GOT AN AWARD despite being a new greenstick blogger!
I love her description of me:
A great blog I’ve stumbled upon more recently. She’s someone who’s workout regime I envy like mad and if she deserves this award for anything, then it’s for giving up cereal!!!
I love the community of bloggers.

=D
2. Bloggers:
Sophia- she emails me a lot and i love how she has gotten me to break out of my comfort zone! I love her recipes!

Kath: the first blog i ever read. she started it all, peeps. i'm making her oat pancake soon! she got me interested in pb!

Kailey: She has the funniest posts ever, and i love her cheetah fries. Plus hers was the first giveaway i ever won! I love how she thought my nickname tra was pronounced trah.

Sue: fellow tofu fiend. her blog is gorgeous and i read all the archives and i hope and aspire to blog like her!

No Meat Athlete: just found this blog, and it's amazing how one can accomplish so much and not have to eat meat! i love how he's an awesome runner, so inspiring since i HEART running and want to run a marathon!

Roboppy: I read this one blog before I read kath's. For a recovered anorexic still struggling with eating however and whatever I like, this blog is wonderful for me to see how true people eat and love food. her pictures and posts on what she eats and how she celebrates birthdays and etc food style are hilarious.

The Food Pornographer: she makes awesome curry. and she eats a ton of asian food. what's not to like? She has certain food she loves and I love how she waxes poetic on things like KFC and mickey d's big breakfast (rip). She lives in australia. HOW COOL IS THAT?!

3. 10 honest things:
1. I HATE saliva. I can't stand watching babies burp up or do spit bubbles.
2. I didn't get my first kiss/make out session until June 2009. YES THIS YEAR.
3. I wish I could be more like my twin and eat whatever the hell i wanted and still fit into tiny jeans.
4. I really want a motorcycle. BADLY.
5. Sometimes I wish I didn't recover- my body has changed so much.
6. Whenever I'm bored, I search for split ends. yes, split ends.
7. When I was slowly recovering I engaged in disordered behavior: chewing and spitting. Even now I do it sometimes when i'm stressed. It's gross and I have to stop.
8. It takes me so long to figure out what to eat because i'm calculating calories, fat, nutrients...
9. I wish I could just train and not worry about a job or school. (i.e. enroll in crossfit, run and train etc.)
10. I've turned down so many invitations for fear of eating something I can't control. i waver between being openly social, and a homebody. i'm afraid i'll never find true love. ever.

WHEW!
i was going to also put: i hate the pb cookie larabar. SORRY!

a hard core treadmill workout preceded by:

(i say hardcore BECAUSE MY ASS HURTS LIKE HELL. nothing else hurts, randomly. time to go at it harder. =) )
Pre run snack: that leftover peach microwaved with cinnamon. (burned my lip on that shit. (see tray spit the rhymez.) It was OKAY. i think it would have been better baked longer. HMM>)

was going to eat a banana bread lara bar for prep for 5 K, but I took stock of my limbs and legs (uhh yesterday after hard run, my knees burned hours afterward. running a hard 5 k would NOT be good. i'm transitioning into running high intensity only 3 times a week as prescribed by CFE and doing more CF exercises 4-6 times a week. we'll see.)
SO INSTEAD I BUSTED INTO MY NEW PB and a ripe naner!

The pb de Trader Joe's was interesting. I guess coming from a sweetened PB loco jungle banana and going to something where the ingredient list is : PEANUTS is a tough transition, but I'll do it.
insert: 9 min tt. 1.15 miles, 7:57/mile. =D sometimes a short hard run > long arduous and slow run.
And it was made all the better with the pb banana burps i love so much.

Breakfast:
tofu burrito!

and: hot soymilk, celery stalk, carrot, and a mealy plum. =D

Then came church. I got really hungry.

HOME! LUNCH!

Lunch: canellini beans cooked TRAY style...pluot, 4 pieces of cantaloupe, celery (yes i eat the leaves) and brussel sprouts. And SOYMILK! =D

DELICIOUS!

Then we went to U$C to drop my sister off, she starts school tomorrow =( I will miss her during the week!

Here's the dinner we had at Monterey Park to load her up with leftovers

Fire in the hole

2009-08-22T18:55:00.000-07:00

That's what my mouth is right now- too much tabasco with dinner!

Dinner:
tortilla, soymilk (a more reasonable amount) pan fried tilapia (rolled in flour, pan fried) tofu stirfry with soy and green onions, and stir fried romaine lettuce.

Now i'm chewing a piece of gum and have no feeling in my lips.

Time to relax with my computer and hopefully rest my hurting knees (they hurt a LOT today!)

Rollin' wit the homies

2009-08-22T11:20:00.000-07:00

WHAT UP PEEPS?! QUE TAL?!
GIVEAWAY:
http://bananaandchocolate.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-oats-my-first-giveaway.html

Today was a hard to get up 4 am wakeup call....some days it's so easy...
Cereal drink:

Working the macro setting.

Then 60 minutes of dreadmill. Then 40 minutes easy bicycling with Women's Day and Pride and Prejudice. And day dreams.

Then....chill, sweat drying....put on garmin bf and heart rate monitor...
Pre run/gym snack:
Nectarine!

And cinnamon ROLL LARA BAR! Warmed up after this picture. Try microwaving it! It's nice and hot...and soft..(yes, that's what i wrote.) (NOTE: do NOT microwave in wrapper. everything sparks and the wrapper is all busted up and burned. I stupidly did this.)

And a handful of grapes as i ran out the door.

Insert CFE hard core run:
2X12 minute intervals with 2 minute recovery in between.
My stats: 1st 12 min interval: 1.51 miles, 7:57/mile =D. 2nd: 1/48 8:03/mile. that's 2.99 (grr) miles in 24 minutes! =D

I was peeved I could have done better if :a) Random girl didn't grab at me to ask where some building was. uhhh get a map?
b) some jeep totally almost ran me over doing a right turn. #*%%@#(*@#.

Then lifting at the gym:
Walking lunges
21 pullups assisted, pushups, situps
walking lunges, 18 etc etc
walking lunges, 15 etc etc
Walking lunges, 12 etc etc, walking lunge, 9 etc, walking lunge, 6 etc.
I am rocking on the pushups and situps, but the pull ups get to me. Damn weak upper back. =(

Then I talked to my friend the texter, and he showed me pictures of his daughter...soo cute!=D

Then home to change into a nice puma shirt and nike guy shorts. its my weekend, i dress accordingly.

Breakfast: (SEE! STILL DIFFERENT! )

less than 1 big block of tofu (soft) with low sodium soy, soymilk, brussel sprouts micro-steamed, i need a steamer basket STAT, and a UNDER RIPE PEACH which i ate a couple of pieces, and then grabbed like 10 green grapes. What do you do with a cut up underripe peach? microwave it with cinnamon? HMMM.

Then i dicked around on google reader, studied....lunch was late....wanted to wait for my sister, but it was pointless to keep waiting if i was hangry!

Lunch: A SHITLOAD of soymilk, 5 brussel sprouts, beans in a wrap! (the celery is pictured, but i didn't feel like eating it.)

The famous BEAN BURRITO i talk about. On my favorite yellow plate- it's soo FISHER PRICE it's scary.

Inside shot!

beans are kidney beans.
Tell me what you think! =D

Be back hopefully with a dinner post!

Nectar even runs down my arm at 5:15 AM

2009-08-21T17:44:00.000-07:00

Yep. Nectarine again. and some green grapes. no me gusta red grapes.

I'm such a bad blogger! I keep forgetting totake pictures. In my defense, I was terribly hungry for lunch and tore into my salad and banana like a wild woman.

Rewind: rest day, just treadmill walk. and then nectarine grapes and then 20 minutes lifting:
3X10 sit ups
3X10 ball pike
3X10 dips
3X5 pull ups assisted
3X10 squat 50 lb with machine
3X6 dead lift 85 pounds
2X10 pushup
2X10 bike crunch

Breakfast: yogurt mess! nectarine, cinnamon, plum, and blueberries. And cinnamon.

Taken in a Burger King.

Then did some wasting of time to wait for sister to finish biz at U$C. Then we jetted off to Camarillo. we stopped at trader joe's for me: I got a reduced fat chicken salad and a banana. Yum.

Insert boredom. nothing worth buying.
Then drove home, and had a cup of soymilk. Sorry, camera was charging.

Then went to costco to buy more crap, like green beans, tortillas, salad, eggs.

Sorry i'm just not writing as funny as before...i'm hella tired. somehow i just had a massive headache, felt weak...probably didn't eat enough today. hmm.

On a funnier note, I saw a friend in the gym- the friend that calls me Bones..I was trying to avoid seeing him, i dunno, i didn't feel like seeing anyone at 5:45 AM in the gym, and then i was trying to do situps he taught me and saw him coming so i picked up and started leaving and i thought he didnt notice, but i hear: WHAT UP TRAYYY- why you hiding in the dark.
=/

This is my dinner. Tofu stirfry with celery. Shoved in a tortilla. I also had 2 pieces of salmon and a carrot and celery.
Again, I started eating before taking the picture. WHOOPS. My mind is in the gutter today. =(
Please forgive me...today has been hard and stressful- it took me 15 minutes to pick out my lunch.

=(

Pluot-ed through a hard hill sprint workout...

2009-08-20T09:12:00.000-07:00

Pluot and Nectarine. Didn't take a picture because...YOU KNOW WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE!

Hill sprint tabata workout.

BLEH! I died. Worse than the awesome 5K i ran yesterday! 25:43! woo woot!

Came home, and lifted at home (save gas, save trees, go green!)

3X10 sit ups
3X10 bike crunch
6X10 pushup with row (5 lbs)
3X10 bicep curl 5#
6X6 lateral raise with 5#
3X10 Shoulder press 5# =D

Breakfast was

Hot soymilk in the snoopy mug, green beans in that tupperware, white peach in that bowl(that white peach was HUMONGOUS, and cannelini beans, cooked like THIS:

That's the spice mixture! curry powder, chili powder, cumin bubbling away in MY BEAN PAN. Seriously, it's mine. =D
I throw the beans and wait till it's all super saucy. quieres un tutorial? email me/comment.

Did you know that peach pits have almonds inside?
gotta go!

Last night din din pix and GIVEAWAY!

2009-08-20T06:22:00.000-07:00

GIVEAWAY!
http://allveggedout.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/clifbar/

Cereal Craver Caves.....seriously.

2009-08-19T13:50:00.000-07:00

Yes. I had a big as bowl of cereal for a pre-run snack. Honey Clusters Fiber One.

This pushes back my NO cereal deadline to September 3rd (i'm extending it even longer!)

What have I learned?

a) this cereal tastes...funny.
b) too sweet
c) not as good as i remember. too processed?

Suffice it to say, not touching the other box of this one nor Fiber One twigs...after eating this bowl, i ran, but after I ran, stomach hurt. HMMM. Could be the I'm not used to it no more!

Well, despite the feelings of guilt that I should have eaten the Lara bar i set out and photographed....5 k- 25:43! SPEEDY! my last time was like 27 minutes, and the last 5 k race i did was 26:24. SWEET i'm getting faster.

Post workout was on the run: unphotographed chicken and a peach. Juicy and messy. Not the chicken, the peach.

Just finished up my unphotographed lunch- i'm not used to taking pictures of everything!
very voluminous: 1/4 c oats, 2 pluots, 1 plum, bloobs, cinnamon, 3/4 cup yogurt. Wow. i am STUFFED. =?

now it's time to chill. oops, i just found an email that i messed up my time sheet. WHOOPS.
AFter the run i was so tired, tho, i didn't get much done in the gym:
3X10 full range situps
3X10 ball pikes
3X10 hip lifts
some dips.

here are some pictures. YES I KNOW I CAN"T FOCUS I AM LEARNING.
<---- this is the infamous cereal drink. very unfocused.

This is the cereal drink with some water and microwaved 1 minute. Chunky. I devoured it and burned my mouth. That mug says marymount on it- my high school.
Look delicious? probably not because it's so blurry. But i guarantee it was awesome. as usual.

Dinner is going to be out, since we're treating my sister (staying in dorms for the first night) to some food in Monterey Park. I'm still not comfortable eating out, so I might bring some tofu in a wrap. But don't worry, if it's awesome, I'll eat it. =D I'm trying....

I'll update this post with pictures for sure.

Plumb tired. Can't a Loper get a break?

2009-08-18T10:07:00.000-07:00

Pre run snack:
2 plums and cantaloupe! Props to those who figured it out from the title! that took awhile to think of!

This came after my treadmill climb. WHew! what a killah! (shorty was a killahhhh)
Then came 8 times of 20 sec on 10 sec off of hill sprints. Still kinda slow, need to work on that.
Ran outside in crazy fog at 5:30 AM. Yep, it was totally like setting of Prince of Persia. CARREEEPYY.
Then came back inside, packed some food for road trip to take sis to usc. Ended up not eating it until got home after a ralphs trip where two old geezers almost came to blows! yikes. slo mo UFC if you know what i mean.

Broke my fast with: 1/3 oats, 1/2 cup? yogurt, BIG ASS peach, 2 green pluots, bloobs, cinnamon and hot soymilk.
Basking in the warmth of a breakfast baby.

UPDATE! giveaway!
http://heatherbakes.com/2009/08/18/give-it-away/

http://www.andherlittledogtoo.com/2009/08/flax-matters-giveaway.html

http://grazewithme.blogspot.com/2009/08/comforting.html

http://runbeansrun.blogspot.com/2009/08/100th-post-lots-of-food-and-giveaway.html
Lunch after lazing around was a chive omelette stirfried tofu wrap with green beans on the side. stuffed. i need to intuitively eat again. SIGH.

Then I went to the airport to pick up dad (he lives in taiwan and works there) and then we went to USC to pick up my sister who went through a harrowing orientation. IN between this, I went to Trader Joe's to scope out some good eatz....pb was 1.79. CHEEP! almond butter: 4.99 NOT CHEEAP. =(

That was the end of that. just eating roasted almonds for now since i need to take out a mortgage for almond butter! just kidding, LOL.
Dinner will be salmon and opo! =D
teaser:

The Key to a good workout...

2009-08-17T11:58:00.000-07:00

IS A KEY LIME PIE LARABAR! =D
Yes a lot of my post titles will be referencing my pre workout snack of choice- and today's was an awesome snackeroo of tasty, tart deliciousness!
It was awesome. I was sad it ended.
And i also had a sweet peach. Deliciously juicy.

(this was my pre gym snack. pre treadmill climb was 80 cal cereal drink. sweat tastic.)

Went into the gym at around 6:20 AM (yep, just like old times) and I ALMOST sneak past seth, he seemed busy, but he looked up, saw my name register on the comp as me checkin in, and smiles. Me: HEY! =D
Him: wow, you're here real early (looks at clock). hitting it before the crowd?
Me: yep. Smile.
Him: ..Cool (smile)
I told him i deadlifted yesterday and am sore, and thought he wouldn't say anything, but he kept talking! He was like, that's the best feeling. Me: yep yep!
Kind hard to chat when i'm on the far side of the desk and seth talks softly.

Did one hour of hard core shit. Wednesday you'll see it go REALLY hard core- i'm still kinda sore from yesterday. (Today was rest day from CFE. i'm deciding whether to tone it down and spread out the workouts like you're supposed to apparently. it makes sense. make it running hard 3 times a week. i might switch to that since i'm feeling some burnout, but i love running, so it's hard)

Strength:

3X20 Glute Ham Situps
3X10 Swiss Ball Pike
3X15 Back extension no weight
3X10 Inverted row
3X10 Decline pushups with toes on bench
6X6 35# skull crushers
3 sets of 21s with 5# dumbbells
6X6 each side sidelying posterior delt raise
3X10 Glute Ham Situps
2X10 pushups
10 close elbow pushups

Again, 10 Second rest between sets.
Then i peaced out, and said hi to a counselor that showed up to workout, and then caught up Allie (a building supe, seth's girlfriend? perhaps? i have no idea. they go out to eat a lot/see movies a lot. i hope they are, they are a cute couple!) anyways,i talked to allie about all of camp gossip, she loved it. and then seth came back and we had a fun time laughing and joking. Then i left, and walked up the hill to my car...and here's what REALLY made my day/morning

So last friday, i was in the office and the Gym technicians: they fix the gym equipment, they're called Rec tech (awesome name): well they came in the office to get keys to the gym closet...and one of them asked, and i recognized him as someone doing deadlifts in the gym on the olympic platform- yes i notice weird things..i notice the people doing hard core lifting and not guys that attempt to look hot- and i said, oh yeah! i saw you deadlifting yesterday! he goes, yeah! that was me. I'm D.you are? Me: i'm jet. SLASH tracy. Him: okay jet/tracy.

Okay fast forward to me walking up the hill. I hate walking that hill- i was kinda in the zone because i was cold (no jacket dumbass me.) and looking down to gather strength (hungry) and someone goes, good morning tracy. I look up, look behind me and it's D! Me: HEYYY! where you going? D: class and then work! (smiles) me: COOL! i'll see you there!

That was nice- sometimes i think i'm forgettable but that made my day!

Breakfast was oats, yogurt, a DELICIOUS PEACH AND PLUOT and blueberries. YUM-O

I can't believe how awesome it feels to be AT HOME and not at work. I mean, i enjoyed parts of my work, dealing with kids, but 8 weeks is my limit.

Then I helped Momma Trayn get gas for our car, go to CVS for tuna cans and shampoo, walgreens for a hamper and Momma Trayn's lip stuff that makes her lips SO kissable (just kidding) and then back to 99 ranch supermarket for cool asian essentials: cereal drink ON SALE, tofu (threads and savory baked tofu...tofu stirfried IN THE FUTURE! and OPO!)
Then home.

Dicked around....killed a scorpion...and then LUNCH at 1!
Somehow i'm like hungrier. STRANGE and not cool. I guess i'm adapting to this big 3 meal biz.
Anyways, i kinda miss the mini meals, might go back to it.

BUT! lunch made up for it....I got more cannelini beans...and had those in a bean burrito! YUM-O! =D curried and such. =D No fear because I bought more beans and more curry powder. Hmph. I seem to be making bigger and bigger burritos. Time to tone that down. LOL.
Broccoli on the side and also soymilk. Hum. I'm taking stock of my hunger, and i seem to be full, not OVERLY full. HMM. I"m going to experiment with MEASURING said beans. Perhaps i don't need that many to stay full. =D They are chock full of fiber of course!

I have a client at 3 pm. I wonder what I'm going to put her through today!.....
I put her through hell...(sorry i've been saving this post to type and finish throughout the day. When i get off my little blogging feet i'll try to post lots of times during the day)

Giveaways tho:
http://nikesandponytails.blogspot.com/2009/08/lunch-giveaway.html
http://www.feedmeimcranky.com/?p=2046

I'm still kinda sore from yesterday- I LOVE IT! =D
Dinner: sauteed thyme lemon chicken, tortilla, stir fried savory baked tofu with celery and soymilk! YUM-O!
=D

Time to relax with my computer and blogs! =D

HOLY MOLE COCOA MOLE

2009-08-16T13:53:00.000-07:00

VITATOPS GIVEAWAY!
http://www.teamgiles.com/2009/08/giveaway-time/

HAPPY SUNDAY!
=D
Today my left iliopsoas (hip flexor) hurt, so easy incline treadmill walk plus some biking. This was preceded by a delicious cereal drink. yum yum. too bad i don't have chocolate flavored ones. Then i rested and then refueled for my run with....A COCOAMOLE LARABAR! SO SPICY! SO GOOD! i realized i love dark unsweetened chocolate/cocoa powder. um YUM!? I also downed a ripe ripe plum.

8X200 m with 1 minute recovery. My stats: 7:00/mile. average. VERY NICE!

Came back, chilled, and then breakfasted at 9: oats, microwaved coz i love that gloppy texture, yogurt, humongo nectarine, and blueberries/bloobs/and a green pluot. CINNAMON DOUSED ON TOP and IN BETWEEN LAYERS.
You see, (well, when camera comes tuesday, you'll see how i put together my yogurty goodness)
I prepare my breakfast VERY carefully (takes me a long while)
First, heat up soymilk (1:10, then 55 seconds, take cup out to rest)
Next: 1/3 cup oats in big ass bowl, dump in some water (i never measure) microwave for 2:30 with a cover over it. Then take cover out and microwave 1:00. keep nuking until texture is JUST RIGHT.
While the nuking with radioactive waves is going on, prepare fruit.
Wash and soak blueberries. Cut up massive nectarine into delectable bite size pieces.
Find 1/4 cup for measuring yogurt.
Take oatmeal bowl, DOUSE in cinnamon ( no measurements, just sprinkle from container) dump in 1/4 runny yogurt. Throw on the nectarine bits (about 1/4, 1/3 of the cut up bits).
Cover with 1/4 c yogurt, cinnamon. Throw on more nectarine bits. Cinnamon. Yogurt. Cinnamon. Rest of FRUITS!- Rest of nectarine, blueberries, and then decide whether want more fruit. Today i decided to throw on another green pluot. and then covered the top of fruit mountain with snow storm of cinnamon. Always be careful because in my cinnamon craze i have spread cinnamon ALL over the kitchen counter.
Does anyone else have an extensive method of preparation for their meals? Or am i just OCD or just plain doodoo/crazy?

Hot soymilk TOTALLY MADE THIS MEAL A PLUS. =D (while the preparation of fruit takes place, I am heating my soymilk to BURNING status. )

Then I digested, read blogs, fuckin' cursed out my internet for being so slow, and then grabbed my running pack to head to THE GYM!
today was low key, tomorrow is HIGH KEY!

3X15 glute ham situps
3X15 back extension
3X10 45lb back squat
1X10 warmup 45# deadlift (bent leg)
3X6 85#! deadlift. owie.
6 negative pull ups
3X18 dips at assistance level 9 (burnout)
3X10 close grip bench press with 20 lb EZ bar
6X6 pelvic hip lifts with leg lowering until lower back curves (protect low back)
3X6 Shoulder press (v) push ups with toes on bench
6X6 up right row with 20# EZ bar
6X6 prone row lying on bench using 2 10# dumbbells.

All sets were spaced out with 10 second rest.

Then i came home and rested. And then WHOOP! time to make lunch!

Broccoli, hot soymilk....and A BEAN BURRITO with TWO KINDS OF BEANS! Leftover kidney beans from my last bean fest, plus cannelini beans. ME LIKEY! ME LIKEY!
Couldn't finish it all (too many beans put in in my hungry state) so i just ate the insides and left 1/4? 1/3 tortilla left. I kinda like the beans by themselves, but sometimes wrapped up in a tortilla they rock. OH DAMN i wish i had my camera so you could see the behemoth of a burrito that i basically could have finished but i chickened out. That muthafucka could have tipped the scales like a) a new born duggar baby or b) a chipotle burrito.

Didn't see Seth today. =( but i did see a person that works at the gym I go to and we chatted. =D
OOP. now i'm gassy. broccoli (gas inducer.) hella amount of beans (gas inducing.) prepare for nuclear warfare. Toot toot.

So I finished reading the THRIVE diet, and I really really am interested in it. I think I'd do well phasing out processed foods for good (uh yeah, those cereal boxes in the pantry? hmmm. eat those and no more. I decided that the last cereal i buy with the two last coupons i have will be the finale! LOL. One is a 4$ off coupon for a quaker product saved for QUAKER CRACK and 50cents off barbara's bakery- shredded spoonfuls or shredded oats...quaker crack barbara style!) That go lean crunch left in the pantry is NOT touched by me!
I mean, I fueled today with a run with basically fruit and nuts (larabar) and fruit(plum) and some how it's not too hard on my stomach which happens when i eat cereal (i.e. FIBER ONE YIKES) I just hate how my mom is like processed central and i have to repeat to tell her I DON'T WANT TO EAT THAT and she thinks i'm disordered all over again. SIGH.
Sometimes after i eat my breakfast i feel tired, which is weird. me hates. I never felt that way when i was eating during work (i.e. eggwhites first...then veg...then yogurt mess...) i should try to go back to that way- mini meals.

Dinner was simple. Finishing up leftovers- chive omelette, tofu in a tortilla. Buttload of soymilk on the side. And did some of a crossword.

MONDAY tomorrow- i'm excited because I DON"T HAVE TO GO TO CAMP! (i do have to trayn someone...)

Awww the poor lad must suffer silently...

2009-08-15T16:50:00.000-07:00

Aww the poor lad must suffer silently til we get to kick it [..]

=/ or...=D

Text from dude of the song lyrics. Way to text me the day OF wanting to hang out. =( I kinda don't dig! LOL. I mean I could but I just woke up groggy from a nap and am looking forward to a chill evening. I COULD be being introverted, but I JUST don't feel like going out and it wouldn't be fair to him honestly. That happen to you? You just feel BLAH and not social and if you went out with a person, you'd be cranky and annoying and it wouldn't be fair. I'd rather schedule for another time and be an awesome....date? Friend? hangout? yeah, i cut out the rest of the text ...maybe because it doesn't matter? LOL if you wanna know the rest (its really nothing...but if you really want to know..) comment and say so and i'll reply back with the rest.

Today was my free weekend! (declined working a football practice.)
I got a hair cut at 10. This morning was a treadmill incline walk, then rest, and then refuel with pluot, sunflower seed butter (last of the sample! AUGH!) and tortilla, and then 2 mile run (didn't think i could do a 10K and be back in time to get ready for haircut (leave at 9)). Plus you know, i just didn't feel the 10 k distance. i hate that, but i'll be ready for it next week. FOR SURE. I need to up my distance. 9:17/mile, finished in 18:37. Damn last hill. DAMN YOU for slowing me down. And legs felt weird. dunno. GET WITH THE PROGRAM LEGS

Came back and did this:
5X10 pushups, 5X10 bike crunches
100! 100! sit ups (real sits, 50 real, 50 butterfly style.) I just realized what i LOVE working, Seth- ABS! I told him that but i wasn't really sure. LOL. Hope i see him tomorrow! and NO IZZY HE"S NOT A BOY TOY LOL

Breakfast: 1/3 cup oats doused in cinnamon, plum, pluot, and bloobs. and nonfat watery yogurt and hot soymilk. YUM YUM.
Insert Loss of 1/2 of hair.
Then we headed to get my mom and sis vietnamese banh mi, and to a korean supermarket to fill up on tons of fruit! White peaches the size of my face, peaches, pluots, plums, and tofu! and banchan.
Lunch = TOFU! leftovers with cauliflower and a tortilla. and a wall street journal crossword.

insert blog reading and then...3 hour nap. OOPS. now i'm just chilling aim-ing people.

Has anyone ever closed their car door on a finger? okay, i did that 8 weeks ago...and my nail finally fell off. BUT WILL IT GROW BACK!? WHO WILL WANT TO HOLD MY HAND!?

Dinner WAS CURRY! =D
With a tortilla on the side to wrap up each individual bite. YUM. Already craving it already.
Tomorrow is serious gym time....and maybe a movie with the sister. Who knows.
PEACE OUT PEEPS!

Yay last day of camp!

2009-08-14T17:14:00.000-07:00

So finally it's friday and my last day of camp! i can't tell you how relieved i am. All this stress the week leading up to this day made me hate it. SO SAD. But at least it was an okay day...

Same incline treadmill walk, 80 cal cereal drink. Finished, and then ate a pluot and some bites of yogurt.
CLEAN CLEAN! =D Lol

Then hoofed it to work to clock in early, and then chatted with the building supes WHO I TOTALLY LOVE...rest of breakfast or breakfast, episode 2 was some canned tuna and carrots. Snack later was the rest of the tuna. Me loves. LOVES. =D I happen to like canned tuna a lot. no need for mayo. it's just fine flaked out of the can.

Then came a yogurt mess whilst i chilled with some counselor buddies by the pool (swim day) Totally avoided my other co worker. On my last day, stay the fuck away from me or i'll kill you.

Yogurt mess was delicious...albeit marred by a child coming up and saying..GROSS. Whatever. Come talk to me in 15 years and you'll love cinnamon yogurt messes. So there! (thumbs nose)

Thennnn before you know it, camp is over! (well, my shift ended! HOORAY! i changed..said my goodbyes to uhh pm counselors (i'm am shift) like HULK lol.

OH! and today was an awesome day BECAUSE i chatted with seth for a long while! 13? minutes?
Apparently he goes: thanks for keeping me company.
I didnt hear him because he talks so softly sometimes. It was a great convo about working out, he notices that i resistance train too! and am not just always doing cardio! =D
He laughed and smiled a lot and made me laugh too! We talked about a coworker that seriously sweats a lot and kinda stinks, about people that are just pissing on weights, and about guys that grunt WAY too loud in the gym. He gladly talked about HIS plyo pushups...and it was awesome because he was like, what do you wanna do? What body part do you like the best? I kinda don't have a favorite, but i like working my abs...maybe legs? and back? i couldn't choose. he loves back. He whipped out his workout and i took a look, and he was like, yeah, i'll put you through a cool workout based on what you like best. i hope he really is cool with working out together! he's not on facebook (LAME!) but i was like i'll find you. LOL. We talked about how we're just going to workout for the rest of the summer, and just work other jobs. OMG we are sooo alike in so many weird ways. I think it's really cool that I finally could get him to open up about stuff. =D

The run at home was 20 reps of 10 seconds on 5 seconds off. Pre workout meal: 1/2 a packet of sunflower seed butter, sunbutter on a tortilla and a plum. Post workout refuel meal?? DUH! BEANS! and cauliflower aka fart central. Haven't farted yet. I love dem beans. Spicy goodness.

Then we got to go to costco! we got wild salmon, soymilk, water, romaine lettuce (my mom stirfries that suckah), tons of eggs (i eat a ton!), bloobs, and see's candies gift certificates.

WOW! I WON MISSY"S GIVEAWAY! CRAZY CRAZY! what a way to make my friday awesome (other than having fun chatting with seth!)

just had din din- stewed/braised drumsticks, toritlla, and broccoli and egg drop soup. with hot soymilk i burned my mouth on. but so delicious.

how was your friday?

Crawling to the weekend....

2009-08-13T19:03:00.000-07:00

Giveaways:

http://ericarunning.blogspot.com/2009/08/healthier-way-wednesday-and-giveaway.html

http://healthhappinesshope.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/back-to-reality-giveaway/

ONLY ONE MORE DAY OF THIS CAMP!
UGH FINALLY!
I can't stand some of my coworkers. bleh bleh!

At least today's dinner made up for it- chive eggs (i luve) and tofu. with green beans. my favorite meal of all time!

I trained a client today- put her through step ups, sumo squats, side lunges, 21s, tricep dips, shoulder work....fun times

I trained myself today: 6X6 30 lb skull crushers, 6 negative pull ups, 3X10 40lb deadlifts, 5X10 glute ham situps, 5X10 shoulder front raises with 20 lb dumbbell. and 3X 10 inverted row.

Could have gone harder but i was bothered by a text i'm not going to get into.

ANYWAYS today was better because I got to talk to a friend i haven't seen in awhile- a cutie! LOL. He's training to be a navy seal and has agreed to help me out in teh gym. sweetness. I sat with him at lunch/1:45 ish while he ate. It rocks because he wasn't like WHY AREN"T YOU EATING? it was really cool just talking to him. if anyone was curious, he ate a low carb six dollar burger from Carl's jr. or hardees. We had an interesting discussion of larabars and what was good and wasn't. LOL. i love

Hulk was like, you answer my texts when i text you! me: of course. Hulk: real talk, i like calling. Me: sure, just call. Hulk: SMILE. LOL i bet he's not going to.
Oh the friend that sent song lyrics? He texted yea, yeah. I don't get him! LOL

OH so I had eggwhites, yogurty mess, and cauliflower WHICH MADE ME GASSY ALL DAY. ARGH. and A box of soft tofu. =D
I love my tofu. No sauce needed. Although i ate it too fast so i kinda got sick. LOL.
I hate how my mom just printed out a list of Top careers that won't get outsourced. What is this, a major hint i'm not living my life the way you want me too? i hate that.

Today was a rest day from running, but i still did incline walking. Ironically, i'm kinda sore. Weird. I guess my weird intervals from yesterday hurt bad!

I'm off to watch Coraline- i fell asleep during it yesterday! I AM SOOOO LAME!

peeps: no one answered- yay or nay on little house books?

Don't Worry, Eat Curry

2009-08-12T18:28:00.000-07:00

Yup, Curry was on the menu for tonight! YUMYUM! It was japanese style, and i ripped up a tortilla to dip in the sauce and get chicken tortilla and carrot in every delicious bite. Cauliflower on the side. And hot soymilk for my beverage. Yes, it's 90 F outside and i STILL heat up my soymilk. Yuppers, i'm interesting.

Random aside: my friend found my blog. Awkward?

Today was interesting. Pre workout was a cereal drink, a 1/2 a simply harvest bar, and...a GRAHAM cracker?! I saw it in the pantry, and was like, just try it. So i did. umm i liked it! not too bad! too bad it's got HFCS. Time to find a better version!

Eggwhites, broccoli, yogurt mess...IN THE CONTAINER...so much fun to eat. Me loves. Came home, did a short run of hill sprints. Fun times. Sweaty times. Refueled with a bowl of curried beans and an apple and pluot. delish.

Dinner was as previously notated.

Today i bought yogurt at Ralphs (1.88! nice!) (for the big tubs) and milk for my sister. I was examining peanut butter and mom was like JUST BUY IT! Then she was like, why not just eat almonds. Good point. But almonds dont spread well on a banana.

OH! So my friend at camp seriously makes a serious banana dog. He peels a banana, slathers it in pb, slathers a bun in pb, and sticks it in. Aka, banana dog!
=D
Crazy.
but genius! =D

tomorrow is my rest day from running, and i get to train my client tomorrow. Time to plan what food to bring for my lunch? to eat there. Bleh! i hate planning but i have to plan just in case i get hungry!
i like eating at home. that's how lame i am LOL.
Today was some more drama, but only 2 more days!

OH! (too many ohs/gasps of happiness)
So that friend that texted those lyrics? Another girlfriend of mine says he was writing his own poetry? ANYWAYS, he asked if i wanted to do something this weekend, because he called me, so i called him back and he was like, let's hang out this weekend...we'll plan it. Is this a date or just a friend thing? I have NO IDEA
tomorrow is my hard core workout day (right izzy?!) i foresee more circuits and box jumps. pushups. weights. squats. =D

How was hump day for all y'all? did anyone catch the meteor shower? I don't know when it is.
So...curry question. What kind of curry do you all like? I am partial to the curry japanese style- made with those blocks you melt into water. I have never tried true indian curry con naaan.

Crying...

2009-08-11T16:12:00.000-07:00

I have never cried so much than i cried today. Today was just a ROUGH day at work.
First, my co-site coordinator equal/peer comes at me and says i am slacking, i'm always pissy, i'm being whiny and snippy and not being social. The slacker comment got to me and he just wouldn't let me answer and i couldn't because i take things EXTRA personal and almost lost it right there. Even now, like 3 hours later, i still feel tears building up. It was a horrible way to talk down to someone who is YOUR PEER. he says I spend too much time with certain people and favoritism is NOT cool at camp. Says the person who talks to only his gf who he got promoted.

Anyways, I tried to hold it back and manfully walk to the bathroom to let it go, but apparently I am an open book, and my friend of 2 years I love love love and work with at this camp saw and ran into the bathroom after me and said, you better not be crying...NO NO! and almost left to cuss him out.
We talked about it, and i manned up, and just as I am walking out, HULK pops in walking toward the guy's bathroom, and totally notices my reddish face, and i just let it go all over again.. He totally takes control and is like, i wanna talk to Boston (the other site coordinator).
I go out, and everyone is doing just fine. Yay, no one really noticed. Then i'm heading back and ANOTHER counselor was like, what happened. Tears. She helps me out and i just spill all my feelings. Then i go see how the counselors are doing with the kids (since i've been gone..oops) and they all come over one by one. First, ACE comes and goes, ARE YOU COOL? because you just say when and i'm all up in his sh*t. The others chime in and totally are marshalling to tell him off. I have never felt so secure in a family...close to people. I guess i have really touched and made friends with these people...and they care about me. I was so touched.

I know i have to talk to Boston and say I don't apppreciate the way he talked to me. I'm going to man up about that. I KNO that i am not a slacker, and I don't play favorites. Obviously since ALL the counselors know me and i talk to everyone.

Anyways, this morning had begun VERY well with a treadmill incline walk and cereal drink before hand supplemented with 1/2 of a simply harvest quaker bar. they are very crumbly.
Then 4 egg whites, carrots BROCOLLI and yogurt mess. I love eating yogurt messes out of the container. Anyone else think so? =D

Insert crying episode.

Go home and then 9 minute time trial. Um burned rubber here. avg pace 7:49?/mile, 1.11 miles i think. I was running so well. powerful. perhaps because i was fueled by another barney butter wrap (still not loving it) and yogurt. mmm.

Post workout? CURRY SPICY BEANS (the same process as that for bean burrito. spicy goodness.) and then a gala apple. YUM YUM! sweet jebsus it was delicious.

Now i'm just chillin like a villain. I might do some bike crunches later. it'll be 4 sets of 20, 20, 20, 20 alternating crunches, bike crunches, etc. and then 3 sets of 15 pushups. I'm already dreaming up next gym workout. yes i'm crazy.

not sure what dinner is going to be.....
oh! giveaway!
http://www.teamgiles.com/2009/08/giveaway-time/

http://glutenfreeislife.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/product-review-natures-path-cereals-2/
http://www.missymaintains.com/2009/08/flaxmatters-giveaway.html

okay update. dinner was a salmon patty. yum. and last of the tofu stirfry and cabbage. DELISH.

Mondays....blah...

2009-08-10T15:54:00.000-07:00

Does anyone else HATE mondays? I just wanted to sit down and cry today. Yes, it was that bad.
Eating wise, not so sure, but it was okay.

4 am, 80 cals of a cereal drink, some yogurt, and treadmill incline workout. Sweat pours afterwards. Then some baked tofu from last night- totally crack.

4 egg whites, carrot pieces, yogurt mess, then home. pre run snack: ALMOND BUTTER SAMPLE from Barney butter on 80 cal tortilla, half a dark chocolate quaker bar, and some yog and tofu. that stuff is seriously addictive. Crazy CFE run. Sweat pours AGAIN. Walk home dripping, and then rest, and then fix post workout meal: tofu (yes i know i'm sooo in a rut but it's delicious, egg, and broccoli. and water. WHEW!) dinner might be curry chicken, i have no idea because i KINDA ate all the carrots. OOPS.

Thoughts on BARNEY butter: not impressed. tasted....interesting. Not a BIG BIG fan. Might have to try a non-name brand butter. Sorry peeps. maybe i just didn't get enough.

not much chatting with seth, so a little depressing. and i almost died by getting hit in the head by a flying hockey stick. WHOA. not what i needed. and then got smack talked by one of my counselors/coordinators i oversee. what a @#*%&@#(*@#%.
AHHH i hate cingular for charging for INCOMING texts as well as outgoing texts. WAY TO BE SNEAKY! ARGH!

also, in other news, i almost died by a hockey stick hitting my head (it hit a mirror above me and the mirror cracked. WOW.)

near death experience to the MAX!
hopefully today goes by better. ugh, sorry about the lame post, but today has been A DAY.
tomorrow i'm going to try almond barney butter again and see if i REALLY just don't feel that brand.
OH! i found the giveaway!
http://glutenfreegidget.blogspot.com/2009/08/review-and-giveaway.html

Easy like Sunday Morning...

2009-08-09T20:11:00.000-07:00

Today was a pretty chill day. Got myself into the gym for some PUMPING of the Fe. =D

First woke up hella early and did my incline treadmill walk, then headed out to get gas and get my mom's bagel from Noah's bagels. Wow, what a gourmet bagel shop.

Breakfast for her was the bagel, and I had 1/3 cup oats, 3/4 cup yogurt, strawberries, plum, pluot and bloobs. Covered in cinnamon. Unfortunately, my yogurt is crazy runny! But it's kinda delicious in its own way.

Then after digestion, I jetted off to UCLA for an important and well deserved strength session. Me loves. Here's the breakdown:

5 minute sprints on bike at resistance 3 (12 second sprint, 8 second easy for all 5 minutes)
5X10 glute ham situps
5X10 pelvic lifts for lower abs
10 on each side spider man pushups

5 minute bike sprints as above
10 sumo squat + 20#
10 upright row 20#
10 overhead reverse lunge each leg 20#
(repeat 3 times)

5 minutes elliptical (someone took my bike!)
3X10 tricep dip
6 negative pull ups
3X10 deadlifts 45#

10 box jumps
3 sets of 21s with 5# dumbbells
3X10 skull crusher + close elbow bench 20#

10 box jumps

Fin.

I then chatted with a friend for an hour at the gym, and then took my sore self home to go make some lunch- BEAN BURRITO with cauliflower and carrots!

Insert 3? hour nap. oops.

Then came 2 hour hang out with friend (talked FOREVER!)
and then dinner: stirfried baked tofu, broccoli, and chive omelette. HEAVEN. =D

Otherwise a pretty chill sunday. I liked it. Too bad dinner was at like 8 pm. Not like that matters, but i'm not used to eating that late. Whew. Tired.

Tomorrow begins the last week of camp and then helping my sister move into her dorms at USC. THE ENEMY! lol. I wonder if Seth is going to be there in the morning tomorrow.

How was y'all's weekend? Chill? No?

peace out peeps!

WHAT UP, SLICK?!

2009-08-08T15:59:00.000-07:00

happy saturday peeps!

What's crackalackin?

Today was a 4 am wake up call! (As usual). Then 80 cals of food cereal drink (YUMMERS!) and then 62 minutes of incline walking. GOT MY SWEAT ON. Followed by some easy biking on a stationary bike 21 minutes..then 8X20:10 tabata hill sprints. 20 seconds on, 10 seconds on. Yowza. i need to do this on a treadmill now because outside i'm STILL too slow and not 5 k pace or 30 seconds slower than that. BLEH!

Breakfast involved: 1/3 cup oats cooked in microwave (i like them sludgey, anyone else?) plus 3/4 cup yogurt, 9 strawberries, shitload of bloobs, and a plum. Doused in cinnamon and hot soymilk to wash it down. That was at 7 AM. Yeah, that is A LOT of food. But I look back and say, well, I don't really know when my next meal is, so i gotta prepare. Then I jetted off to Valley College to help administer Team physicals. I was the eye exam chick. easy peasy working til 12 pm, when i took off to hang with my sister and mom. My boss/friend/mentor D sent me off with subway sandwiches and an apple? fritter. I saved those for my mom and sis. When i got home, I fixed myself a tofu pillow/sheet wrap and cauliflower. YUMMERS. I was going to make my famous bean burrito but cauliflower + beans = n testing if you know what i mean. Atomic. deathly.

Then i headed off to Northridge to go to TARGEAYYYY for some astringent for my snackface lol, and to go with mommy poo to get chinese food for her din din. We also stopped at the library so i picked up Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, and Thrive diet. Interesting reads! I love reading. What are your favorite books?

Dinner might be a TJ's salmon patty, we'll see.

In other news, i'll expand on the friend? that texts song lyrics? weird shit like that. Here is his last text- i had to ask for major translations but my friends were stumped/laughed out loud.

"And you know this, a bara bistro my mello. So what ya gonna do. A cool P, its better for your head. A queen bee, I make you lose yo shyness. So, shake ya rump. "
Translations welcome.
Altho miss JULIE has her ideas =D

Tomorrow i'm hanging out with an old friend i havent seen in SO long. I"m kinda nervous. I get that way. oh wells.
Yay gymming it tomorrow. I miss lifting heavy weights, and talking to Seth made me miss the gym even more. I'm glad that we are sort of? buddies. I love meeting and making new friends.

I will be trying to find a good almond butter/pb in a couple of weeks- i can make it out to Trader Joes in that time. LOL. It'll be a special occasion. I might try some samples of Barney butter i got awhile ago before i make a decision.

One of my friends brought up an interesting point: he said, Jet, I know you eat clean like all the time, but why don't you ever indulge? it's not healthy!

Do you think he's right? I know i eat the same things, but what if i just don' t crave fried foods, desserts, etc? ALTHOUGH Sophia of Burp and Slurp thinks i have to start eating "out of the norm foods". Thoughts?

Thanks for reading this EXTRA long post, and a camera will soon be in my hands in a couple of weeks so i can start adding pictures of my food. Although today would have been very brown. LOL except for breakfast.

Question: did anyone ever read the little house books? did anyone else think laura was a bit spoiled?

Seth is hilarious.

2009-08-07T17:31:00.000-07:00

http://krittie.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/happy-friday-and-a-giveaway/
GIVEAWAY FOR YOGURT!

HIYA!

It's Friday! I am SOO happy it's friday, today was a hell day at work. And somehow my plantar fascia is bothering me. Time to watch that sucker and not strain it! I've been massaging it and rolling it out, and taking advil. I will seriously take a couple of rest days if need be.

So rewind to this morning. Cereal drink (80 cal) incline walking for an hour. Then at work 4 egg whites (Yum yum.) and a couple pieces of carrot. Follow it up with a baggie of leftover chicken tenders, cauliflower, and 2 plums and a strawberry.
Pre workout snack: 2 cereal drinks plus yogurt, and then post? yogurt and a yellow kiwi and 3 strawberries. Delicious covered in cinnamon.
Me and mamma Trayn went off to costco for essentials: tortillas, kidney beans, night lights, eggs, and contact solution. fun times.
Dinner today was leftovers: porkchops and cabbage for me, wrapped in a tortilla, my mom had like mabo do fu made with shrimp over rice. woo woo.

Run: 9 minute distance trial: 1.11 miles i think, pace: 8:11/mile
Strength training today:
4 sets of
10 bike crunch, 10 frog sit ups, 10 double crunch, 10 regular crunch, and v hold with 20 arm pulses

12, 10, 8, 6, 12 reps of 5 lb tricep extension
3X6 of lateral raise with 5 lb, 3X10 shoulder press with 5#, front raise 6X6 with 5#

Today was an interesting day. Seth was interested in seeing Victoria sparklepants (a little boy we chatted about) and he bet that he would be able to point him out in a SECOND. So today was the day. We chatted about that when i picked up the keys....fun times seeing people smile at 6 in the morning. When i got back after drop off of the kiddies, he let me into the gym and i was like, um, HE went by. Seth: NO WAY! I WASN"T PAYING ATTENTION! Me: you lost your chance!

Later, like 9:00 i was like, he's upstairs. Seth: DAMN i'm not supe today, so i can't walk around. Me: What time you get off? Seth: 9:30. Me: come find me, he'll be up there and i'll take you there.

So....a bunch of issues go by (taking kids to their respective camps, signing in parents, giving things to each camp) and it's 9:30 ishhhh and i meet him coming to the office. And I"m like, you ready? YOU READY? Seth: YEAH! I'm going to be like YOU! VICTORIA! me: uhh not a good idea. just tell me which one.

So...we walk up the stairs and he's telling me how tired he is, did laundry at 4 am. he apparently has no wardrobe...other than workout clothes. We bonded because THAT"S ALL I OWN TOO!
He was telling me how it gets him out of going to formal family functions...and i thought that was smart. So we pop up to the kid's camp and they're going to snack. Seth: this is HARDER than i thought! but.....he goes...the kid. in red. or is the kid in blue. ..me: which one? seth: the kid in red. for sure. Me: (turns to look right at him) OMG YOU GOT IT
Seth: SMILES really big. I TOLD YOU
funniness at 9:40 am.
I walked back with him and we talked about workouts, and i asked what he was up to. I said i'd be lifting over the weekend: seth: that's my rest days. but i go eat like 1500-2000 calories....you should come tag along *smile. Me: going into another classroom: FOR SURE!

i hope he wasn't kidding about that...

so YAY! I've cracked the reserved seth! =D kinda sad he opened up JUST when camp is about to end. But hopefully I'll see him when i go workout in the mornings (YAY I GET TO DO MORE MORNING WORKOUTS INSTEAD OF WORKING!)

thanks for reading that long and involved paragraph. lol.
in other news....what's up with this friend of mine that keeps texting me random lyrics? to a song. strange. i don't get it. he kept me company while i was running around.

Tomorrow i'm helping out my athletic trainer friend and doing team physicals only for a half day because THIS GIRL NEEDS to recharge. Sunday I have a hang out with an old friend. kinda nervous about that. what are we going to talk about!?

still haven't bought my pb/almond butter! aiyah. lol. and going strong on the cereal front. my mom bought me some post shredded wheat which will be saved for september! it's pretty clean: ingredients: whole wheat. LOL!
have a good weekend peeps!

Jet, you have an...AURA

2009-08-06T18:59:00.000-07:00

WHAT UP PEEPS!

How you all doin' today?
Just finished up dinner: sauteed chicken marinated in lemon juice and thyme (it's based off a tyler florence recipe...i'll find it for you guys) cauliflower boiled in chicken broth, soymilk, tortilla and something like a tofu sheet: it's like a yuba sheet, i believe, a flattened sheet that is tofu. I'll try to take a picture of it so you can see it. It's quite tasty. My mom boils it in a savory broth of soy and sugar.

Breakfast was the same 4 egg whites, carrots (or ENERGY sticks as me and my coworkers call them..in joke) and fruit yogurt mess. I came home and had some more cereal drinks, and yogurt and set off for 6X3 minute distance trials with varying recovery. WHEW! The hills killed my times but average pace was 8:49/mile.

Strength today involved sets of 10 pushups supersetted with bike crunches, double crunches, and regular crunches. =D Gym with weights this weekend FO SHO.

Post workout snackeroo: 6 pieces of leftover soy'd tofu from din din, and green beans. YUM.

Today was pretty chill, until my other coworker came in and started banging on counselors- saying they don't do jack shit around when in reality, it is he who does not do work, nor help out if we are understaffed. He just complains about having no staff. PLEASE.
None of the parents know him because he NEVER talks to parents. They always ask for me. Figures.

Has anyone ever dealt with trying to be nice/befriend someone that is EXTRA reserved and doesn't really open up/act friendly? Well I think I just did it!

Okay, so i'm the AM site coordinator at my camp: i show up early to get keys to open our office and then open other rooms. The whole summer, I've been checking out the keys from the building supervisor, a guy named Seth who NEVER TALKED AT ALL and who i pegged as a jackass the first time i met him because he hated on the bonding games our camp had him participate in. HOWEVER, after certain situations like me locking the keys inside office and me jamming the keys inside the office...somehow we have hit it off! I get weirded out by long silences and not saying anything to people i see on a daily basis, so i've been making small talk these past 8 weeks. I also know one of his coworkers so he listened/s in when i talk to his coworker..and started jumping in. He's a pretty reserved guy, but lately we've been chatting about the randomest stuff, like how i just eat celery sans peanut butter, working out, this weird boy who calls himself victoria sparklepants, and falling asleep in class. One of my counselor co workers knows him too, but only gets a head nod in recognition ON A GOOD DAY. He's surprised i've started to CRACK the shell of seth! =D He's a pretty cool guy. We have weird laughs. Sometimes he's quiet, and i respect that. I still smile big and wave hi.

Okay that was TOOO LONG of a tangent. LOL. OH! and remember hulk? today....he asked me to tell the other site coordinator something about leaving early, and i was like, sure, you know i got your back. he goes, Jet, i like you, you have this aura around you that is really great and draws people in.
That was amazing to hear for sure!

Alright, time to peace out and rest.I hope i can sleep despite taking an hour nap at 5 pm!

giveaway: http://fearlessfabulousfulloflife.com/2009/08/06/musselman-giveaway/#comment-5202

I listen to Naaasssssss

2009-08-05T18:03:00.000-07:00

First: a giveaway by Running around normal! Go check out that blog!
http://www.runningaroundnormal.com/2009/08/giveaway-extravaganza.html

another giveaway!:
http://www.fitandfabulouslife.com/2009/08/05/another-awesome-giveaway/
Whew! Hump day has finished.

Today was a weird day. I woke up at 3:45 am, and then proceeded to do my incline workout on the dreadmill. Fun times. Sweaty times. Then came the strength portion: (basically, what shit can i do in the 30 min before i have to leave? i can't wait to get in the gym again and do nice constructed weights workouts.) Strength was: 3X10 crunches, 3X10 pushups, 3X10 bike pushups, 4X8 double crunch, 3X21s with 5 lb weights. Simple. My triceps are still sore from monday.

First round for breakfast was 4 egg whites. Yum. Next came a couple of shaved carrots (i say shaved, yes, weird) and then yogurt mess. Deliciousness. NO comments from weird coworker because i took my yogurt mess and ran away to eat it in the comfort of my other friends who love how healthy i am (they like to poke fun at me, but they love me for who i am.)
For instance, my friend was eating a humongo Otis Spunkmeyer chocolate chip muffin, and wanted to get something out of her bag on her arm, so she gave it to me to hold. My other friend turned around and was like, you're eating THAT? what? and then the muffin's owner was like, no no, she's not, she's holding it. Other friend: whew, i would have thought you were taken over by aliens. lol.

Lunch was a little late, very hungry (no running today! rest!) it was a repeat of last nights din din, tofu, egg omelette wrapped in tofu with carrots and brocolli on the side. Ate too fast so felt bloated. I need to work on that. And erase fat feelings.

Then! I got to go to Nordstrom's Rack (HEAVEN for scavengers! WOO HOO!) and picked up a pair of union bay shorts and roxy tank top. The shorts were an issue. I could fit both X and Y sizes, but wanted to get X because it was a smaller size. I realized that that would not be good (the X size was also a little tighter) and I went with Y for the comfort. SCORE for me and not ED (ED would have been screaming that i was fat for X not falling off my hips and choosing Y)

By the way, I might be wrong, but maybe some of you are curious about the cereal drink I drink before workouts. I get it from 99 Ranch Market. Here is the product:
http://www.commandnutrimax.com/m-products-nutri-5.html
Vanilla is AWESOME. So is chocolate. Haven't tried strawberry, so i wouldn't know.
Usually I microwave it so it's like oaty goodness. Oh gosh, yum yum.

OH! and kickback to why I titled this post I listen to NAHHHHSSS.
You know the rapper NAS? Yeah, that's what I was saying.
I am giving a blank cd to a friend to make me a mix of music for working out to/just bangin listening to. He asked what i listened to and i said, "I listen to NAS, but I said the "a" nasally, like "ass". Apparently it is pronounced NAH, like AH, as in AHA!. Everyone cracked up. =D
Then we got in a great big discussion about how Kanye West is not cool to listen too..lol at 7:30 AM. We are an awesome group of people.

Dinner appears to be porkchops (hahha i typed pockchops) and greenbeans (i don't really like corn which my mom boiled, so i'm cooking up some canned green beans which i can also bring to work tomorrow for breakfast) and tortilla and hot soymilk. yum yum.

Anyone have any recommendations for almond butter- that is a reasonable price? and do you pour the oil off? it's kinda weird. refrigeration?

=( NO MORE PB.

2009-08-04T19:25:00.001-07:00

RIP PB LOCO jungle banana. I scraped out the insides and ate it before my run. The burps of pb during my run were a sad sad reminder of how it is all gone! =(

It's amazing how I used to be afraid of pb. Yet I cowboy'd up and ate it all!

This is an epihany!

Hahha. So update on the cereal situation- I DIDN"T eat it despite the "guilty feelings" that my mom bought it for me! WHOO HOO! i just had a buttload of cereal oaty drinks. Better for my tummy when i'm running.

Other eats of the day included eggwhites, celery (the heart of celery is actually quite delicious), carrots, yogurt mess, and apple and broccoli.

Dinner! DINNER WAS TOFU and Egg omelette with chives. MY FAVORITE! =D with a side of stirfried cabbage. I kinda prefer steamed cabbage. Does anyone else think steamed cabbage smells, but is STILL DELICIOUS?

hhaha.

Oh, something yesterday really stuck in my craw. I'll explain the situation to you.
So I eat a yogurt mess around 10:30 AM in the office where I work. I'm a site coordinator at the camp i work at, so I can go around to the camps and examine and play with kids, and come back to hang in the office. We have an office coordinator who takes care of office shit. She's interesting. Anyways, she used to bring fruit just because I was bringing fruit. She would go, it's 10:30! TIME TO EAT FRUIT RIGHT JET? and if i didn't, she'd wait til I busted out mine and started eating. Yesterday she took out her tupperware of fruit, yogurt and cinnamon, and said, omg I have fruit...and yogurt...and cinnamon. I'm so copying you jet. Me: uhh, oh okay.
Then she starts talking about how her yogurt is runny. I don't look up, because i saw how runny it was in one glance, and say yeah, it's pretty runny. She says in a whiny voice: you didn't even look up!
Me: i'm really annoyed now, so i get up and stick my head in her yogurt tupperware and say WOW IT"S SOOO RUNNY.
I don't know, the way she was whining about attention kinda bothered me, but maybe I"m just being a little peevish. Who knows. Usually other times when i'm eating she'll ask me if i count calories, or what i do when i workout, am i swimming laps or just play swimming with the kids. It's kinda awkward for someone who had an ED to be quizzed about calories and such, and it 's uncomfortable.

ANYHOO, today was a 3X.63 mile run with 2 minute recoveries except I'm sooo badass I don't do the recoveries for the full 2 minutes. Average pace: 8:40 AND THAT"S WITH HILLS.
Later, 4X8 double crunch, 3X10 bike pilates move supersetted with 3X10 pushups.

Yesterday strength was:
5 minute warm up bike
3X10 GH situp
3X10 deadlift, 40#
3X10 inverted row
3X6 upright row 20#
6X6 skull crusher 35#
3X10 pushups
my triceps are sore.

Time to deal with some emails! =D And I'm actually on the look out for more PB! or should i look for almond butter? Can someone explain to me why RAW almond butter might be better than roasted?

Temptation.

2009-08-03T19:02:00.000-07:00

So I get home, and while eating dinner, my mom goes, i bought cereal for an amazing price! Me: ohhh (thinking: yikes....) did you just buy cheerios? Mom: no i got 2 cheerios and one box of fiber one! me: Uhhh you can eat that. I don't eat cereal anymore. Mom: what? I GOT IT FOR YOU! YOU EAT it in the mornings right? with yogurt and fruit? Me: i've been eating oatmeal for the past couple of months. I only ate cereal before workouts.

Weird, i don't get it. She got real defensive. I have to stay strong! Help me out peeps!
I almost want to cave because i feel guilty that she bought it...but that is no excuse to eat cereal and then feel guilty afterwards! Also, I have wanted to do this GO LESS processed for the longest time! I think the most "processed" thing i eat now is a tortilla.

ANYHOO
I love larabars. LOVE. I had a apple pie one for lunch/snack/food and it was delectable. AHHH.
Other eats included 4 pieces of tilapia, celery, 4 eggwhites, yogurt mess, cereal drinks, and soymilk, soup, bokchoy and salmon with 3 bones in it. YUM calcium bonus!

I got to do some lifting today! It was very exciting. Only a 30 minute but i felt good to be lifting more weights. Me loves.

Today was a draining day. Bleh! no naps = tray is very tired!
Time to relax with 245 google reader reads. =D
Personal training is going well= 2 clients! YAY!
so thinking about what hulk said last time, sunset workout or sunrise workout?
also: hot weather or cold weather?

Me: sunrise, and hot weather!

Tofu = TOO FUN!

2009-08-02T19:51:00.000-07:00

How you all doing?!

Yep, time for the daily bloggeroo!

Today was another chill day- no lifting at the gym, just heavy sets of pushups and situps abs and other fun stuff. All preceded by tabata hill sprints. I am blessed to live in a neighborhood consisting of HILLS HILLS AND what else? HILLS! and these aren't like little hills. These are like 12% incline hills. WHEW!

I drank two cereal drinks, supplemented by peanut butter and yogurt...then breakfasted on strawbs, bbs, and yogurt with oatmeal. Lunch was a chicken wrap with broccoli! and dinner, which i just had, was tofu wrap with green beans. Yes, confession: i love love love canned green beans! MUSHY and delicious.

The tofu is not plain although I do eat plain chunks of firm tofu: my mom first pan sears it, and then adds the whites of the green onions, water, soysauce to make a little salty sauce, white pepper, salt, and then the greens of the green onions. There is a system and timing to the addition of certain parts of the green onions. yes, it's complicated.

I also went to watch a kid production of Annie, Jr. Cute. Some kids can't act though, and that makes me sad.

Tomorrow I get to go to work for the camp and then right afterwards, I get to talk to my first client in like MONTHS! MONTHS I TELL YOU! I cannot wait to start training again other than training myself.

So about Hulk, since I totally didn't explain the situation beforehand.
Hulk is a 27 year camp counselor that I work with. Anyways, he was telling me that working out during sunset is the best. When do you guys work out? I was telling him that I love early morning running when the sun is rising and the air is cool and it's nice and quiet. I did text back (he texted re: sunset workouts) that I would try it. Apparently that comment was an attempt to ask me to workout with him. WHOOOPS. But he did say, we should do a chill blockbuster night. He likes "relaxin". =D LOL. I'm wondering if this will pan out. He did start out first saying, "i wanted to be the first to say the first official greeting. And I think you're cool". Cute. CUTE!

He's really big with basketball and is CRAZY athletic. The man has a HIGH vertical jump! Sheesh! he's just impressed that i like to lift and run. Apparently it's cool that i love being active and have a positive attitude. That was nice of him to say. VERY different from the last guy i hung out with who wanted to brag about the size of his..er....equipment. YES HE TEXTED ME THAT. i was so....eh?

I didn't tell you guys before (i'll do a bigger post on my past) but I did get diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa...and during that time i pushed everyone away and didn't think myself worthy. Even now i have problems opening up to people and making plans to hang out. I kinda distance myself now and again. It's not healthy, so i'm glad that I do meet these kinds of people like hulk, who appreciate me for who i am.

Whew! That was way too deep! Time to be funny. Bleh i feel like 5 times bigger than i am. (gas...etc.) TOO MUCH INFORMATION. I might have a camera coming into my hands soon! my dad will let me borrow his. I'm kinda worried that summer is BASICALLY OVER! I have to go take a community college class now! HORRORS i have to study when all i want to do is run, and lift weights. I know, i'm SUCH a crazy person. =)

Now I'm off to watch Ms Marple (any one else LOVE agatha christie?) and take a well earned shower. Can't wait to run and lift tomorrow!

And on Saturday, Tra rested.

2009-08-01T17:45:00.000-07:00

Today was a nice rest day. A little unsettling since i'm so used to doing activity. Kinda hard when every 5 minutes you cramp up. GAHH!

But! I'm not going to feel sorry for myself. I'm not going to let how active I am determine what I eat. SO THERE!

Today started out with a nice cereal drink, copius spoonfuls of peanut butter and yogurt...then breakfast of oats, (1/3 cup made in microw) with yogurt, a peach and tons of strawberries. Must....eat....before rot....

Then me, twin sis, and mommy trayn went to Costco to gas up, and chuck off to Northridge to the mall.. No DICE...no purchases. Darn you expensive A and F and hollister clothing!

I waited for them to eat El Pollo Loco, and then we jetted off to costco for....feminine products. LOL I HAD TO SAY IT!
Upon arrival at home, I was shakin with hunger. SHAKING! So I put together a chicken wrap with lastnight's chicken, and had soymilk and kabocha on the side. yum yum yum. Then i blog read for an hour, and then slept for 2 hours ( i was up at 3 AM TODAY! with pain.) Then I chilled and helped mom fix dinner: pan fried basa, thrown into a tortilla, with opo and soy milk.

Opo: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-opo-squash.htm
it's a squash! It's green and delicious. You have to peel it(do you know, i say SHAVE carrots instead of peel. yep, i'm a quirky one!)

My mom stirfries this SUCKAH with little shrimpies. Here is a little picture of flavoring shrimp thanks to Wikipedia:

Cute little buggers eh? yes, i'm canadian now. Anyways, that's a big part of Asian Stirfried veg, especially for cukes, napa cabbage, and opo! Yum!

Ew, I'm all sweaty and gross and i didn't even run! YUCKO!

Otherwise, a not so interesting day....Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
Question: does anyone eat oatmeal before they run? is it too heavy in the stomach? I might just eat fruit. Thoughts?

Day 1- no cereal! WOO HOO. Processed foods: OUT!

1 new message from Hulk

2009-07-31T20:17:00.000-07:00

This kept popping up on my phone for the past hour....yes, "Hulk" because at the summer camp I work at, we have to have nicknames and NOT use our real names. I'm Jet. =D

Hi peeps! How are you? Sorry for the late post- it's 3008 (actually 8.21 pm) and i'm 2000 n-LATE.

=D Boom boom pow! KACHOW!

Today was SORT of chill, one of those tiring days tho that drains you like vampires sucking blood. Okay gross analogy.

Eats: cereal drink, bites of a miss may's bar, and then turkey sandwich meat, celery stalk, and then the rest of the bar, then yogurt mess. Yes i am a creature of habit....shoot me. Came home tired and hungry (DID NOT REACH FOR any CEREAL!) fixed myself a nectarine and dabbed/SPOONED pb loco jungle banana on it and then drank another cereal drink and suited up for a nice CFE run. And walk back home dripping sweat. Then i ate eggwhites and kabocha chased with some Soy juice/milk. Dinner was thyme chicken, broccoli, and milk. soy. hot. yum.

Yes I am aware those were all fragments. Sigh, where is my english grammar going? To ROT!

You know what's weird? Someone you haven't talked to for like 3 years wall posting on your facebook for a couple of days! STRANGE!

So Hulk brings up an interesting point: he like working out when the sun's setting. I love running and watching the sun go up whilst running/breathing hard/dying. Then he goes in his text: [...]we should have a chill blockbuster night i like relaxing.
lol. i like relaxing too. =D he and i were back and forth totally complimenting each other on our love of being active. =D

Tomorrow is a rest day, so light activity heavy strength is planned. Me loves. Right now feeling a little bloated. God I hate the horror you have bestowed upon womenkind known as a monthly gift. THANKS.
Does anyone eat pb straight up from teh jar? by the spoonful? I tried that...and you get a pb aftertaste/breath, but...TOTALLY worth it. OMG i've come so far.

giveaways!

2009-07-31T17:17:00.001-07:00

Just a quickie right now:

http://learnruneatrepeat.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-favorites-for-you.html
http://layaourt.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-lucky-number-giveaway.html
http://www.fitandfabulouslife.com/2009/07/31/sunshine-burger-coupon-giveaway/

readers! mention my name! =D

I LOVE KABOCHA

2009-07-30T19:05:00.000-07:00

SO WHY DON'T YOU MARRY IT?!

Lol. Just kidding. Today I made kabocha again (last kabocha! TEAR TEAR!) I do my kabocha via STOVETOP! I know, I don't roast it like everyone else, but I seem to like it nice and mushy with some flavor. If you all want the recipe how I do it, lemme know in the comments and i'll write a nice little hilarious post on how I do KABOCHA (yes, that's what she said.)

Today's eats included - cereal drink, 3 eggwhites cooked in the microwave- does anyone have a god recipe for this? My eggwhites ADHERED to my bowl and refused to let go like long lost lovers. Afterward, 1/5 stalks of celery which i kept in a produce bag and whipped out of my pocket at random times to bite and shove back in my pocket (my coworkers + cute building supervisor laughed at me), coffee buzz which gave me a headache (there you go, drinking after 1 year of quiting caffeine cold turky) and a yogurt mess of 3/4 cup nf plain yogurt, nectarine, 2 strawbs, bbs, and a plum. COVERED in cinnamon. Came home, and downed the LAST bowl of GO LEAN CRUNCH HONEY ALMOND FLAX RIP FOREVERS...and did a hilly 20 minute run. WHEW! Post workout meal: salmon and canned green beans. DELICIOUS.

Dinner, tho, rocked my socks. Tofu, Chive egg omelette, and aforementioned Kabocha. With hot soymilk because that's HOW I ROLL.

I'm a little worried because my right hip flexor is sore/tight. I'll watch this carefully to monitor in case I might be close to pulling it. Time to roll out with foam roller! FOAM ROLLER HOOOOOOO(a la thundercats. )

So apparently I am the weird eater at my work. I have tofu for breakfast. I have hard boiled eggs. I have yogurt with fruit. I eat veggie burgers in the morning. I don't eat fast food. LOL. No donuts/refined flours for me! =D I carry celery in my pocket. OKAY the last comment i'll say i'm kinda weird.

So I got orthotics today. Ouch! It hurts! =D
How's everyone doing today! I'd like to say that anyone who reads this blog- HUGS! I love being able to spill my thoughts to you guys. Time to tend to my Google Reader- 198! AIYAH! And do some strength- although my Abs are ABSOLUTELY tight. lol.

PEACE OUT PEEPS!

CRUNCH! ~ sorry miss, she's eating...

2009-07-29T15:30:00.000-07:00

GO LEAN CRUNCH! NOT A VLASIC classic! =D everyone remember that commercial?
Today I decided to eat some go lean crunch honey almond flax EVEN though I promised myself not to have cereal no more. I really want to eat less processed food, so i'm giving myself a dead line to wean myself off - Once it hits august first, eat oatmeal as a pre run snack or pb and a piece of fruit. Too many times I've said this and then dived into a box of cereal. NO MORE!
I always end up feeling a bit guilty for going back on my word/oath/swear/etc.

Anyways, tough hilly run all over my neighborhood. Only like 1.7 miles but it felt like FOREVER because of the heat! AUGH!

Today I just worked from 6:12 AM to 1:15 pm. Bleh! Hard work dealing with kids who don't listen. Breakfast was a cereal drink, half a veggie burger, a can of tuna, and then later 3/4 cup of non fat yogurt with a peach, 2 strawberries, a yellow kiwi, and bloobs. Covered in cinnamon. I think i'm running out! HORRORS!

Later i'm going to hit up the gym for THE FASTEST 20 minute body weight workout created by moi. Usually it involves lunges, sit ups, push ups, inverted rows, squats, and close grip push ups. Hell in a handbasket. Actually that would be when i create circuits that start with 5 minutes of bike sprints and then finishes with supersets of 5 sets of 10 of an exercise. Yes i am crazy.

Dinner might just be a lara bar since i'm possibly going to be out on the run. Time to contemplate my post workout snack. Feeling PECKISH. =D

Does anyone else load up on cinnamon? My friends never thought of putting cinnamon on things....lol. I also crave kabocha right now. Anyone ever make it in the microwave?

HEYYYYYYY BURRITO~

2009-07-28T16:55:00.000-07:00

Cheese on Chicken! Cheese on Chicken!
Anyone ever sing that camp song hey burrito? Seriously?

So right now I'm working at a summer camp, and that's one of the songs. VERY VERY catchy.
My fav is "baby shark" (da da da da da...etc)

Anyways, today for lunchy poo- (it kinda looked like poop, but HEY! who cares when you haven't eaten since 10:30 and it's pushing 2:30!) I made my all time favorite bean burrito. Here's the breakdown:

First, in mini saucepan that oddly smells like curry powder, heat some water to cover the bottom. Realize pan has weird crust from last burrito filling making adventure, and scrub with dishwashing soap. Fill with water again, add a bunch of curry powder, chili powder, and cumin and turn on stove to heat.

As it heats, drain 15 oz can of kidney beans in strainer too small for that amount. Curse as it rains beans in sink. Pick out some from sink, rinse off with water and throw in to pan (Probably 1/2 cup? who knows) . Stir and mix as the water slowly evaporates off, and makes a weird spice sauce. It's delicious. It might crust around the edges but HEY! it comes off with some water. Trust me I've tried. I'll try to put up pictures if and when i get a cool camera. Keep stirring to soften and heat beans.
Heat up La tortilla Factory burrito tortilla (80 cal! SWEET!) in microwave, 30 seconds. At this time, beans should be all nice and soft and coated in weird spice-y sauce. Spoon onto tortilla. Wrap up burrito style and MICROWAVE for 45 seconds. (Yes, i like my stuff BURNING HOT)
EAT AND THEN...deal with aftermath..i.e. sit near bathroom, and let 'er rip. Seriously. But it's worth it.

This is delish to me. Maybe not to you, but I've PERFECTED MY METHOD. WHWAHHAHA. =D
Okay, this is getting out of hand.

Today was my rest day, but I did do some ab work at 5:30 AM (crunches, bike style) and I also walked inclines on the dreadmill for 60 minutes.

Usually I do more lifting, (i'm a nsca cpt!) but not during the week because I work. I do run 5 times a week. Do you guys want to know more about me though? Sorry about no pictures! I can't figure out how to post pictures from flickr (and to cite the picture taker too)

And so it begins....

2009-07-27T18:50:00.000-07:00

So i'm making the jump into blogging.....inspired by Kath, Caitlin, Jenna, and all you wonderful bloggers!

Unfortunately no pictures as of yet, but I'm going to first spill my workouts, my eats, and my thoughts. =D

Today for din din- braised drumsticks, La Tortilla Factory Tortilla, Napa cabbage and hot soy milk (yep, i drink it hot even when it's 90 outside! hell yeah!)