Trust My Intuition

I gotta make this post a quick one because I have to get to bed asap since I am getting up at 5 am!!!!  YIKES!  Clinical starts at 7 am, and I won’t be done until 4pm (I have an hour break at 12)!  It’s gonna be a long one!  I decided against the gym today and stuck with the outdoors theme by going for a run outside in my neighborhood!  It was 50 minutes of just what I needed (I walked some/more than usual…I was feeling sluggish today, and listened to my body)!  So, for dinner I quickly decided to make Veganomicon’s caesar dressing (sort of–I didn’t use any oil that it called for).  I halved the recipe, and had half of it on a huge bed of romaine with some spinach and cucumber and topped it with fresh ground black pepper.  It was pretty tasty!  I love caesar salads!  With my salad I had 1 cup dry whole wheat penne with .75 cups canned crushed tomatoes with oregano, thyme, basil, and garlic powder.  I also cooked in about an ounce of vegan gourmet to make the sauce a bit creamy.  This was a very filling dinner at 587 calories, 18 g fat, 18 g fiber, and 29 g protein. 

Even though I wasn’t hungry I still thought I needed a snack and would probably be hungry soon due to the fact that I was most likely full from such volume!  So, I had a banana bread muffin and an apple.  Yummy snack!  My snack was 231 calories, 1 g fat, 9 g fiber, and 3 g protein.  

Now, I must shower, pack my lunch, watch a CD-ROM to learn some things for tomorrow, and most importantly, go to bed!!!  Tomorrow’s post will be all in one most likely.  Have a good evening!  

This morning I had a bit more time to spare.  I didn’t have to get the bus until 10:13 for my noon class.  With this in mind I planned a somewhat different breakfast than the past few days.  The only difference was I used steel cut oats instead of rolled.  haha.  I enjoyed my chewy oatmeal with the same mixins and toppings though.  1/2 cup soymilk, 3/4 cup water, banana, cinnamon, flax, wheat germ, walnuts, PB spoonful, and agave nectar, which I mixed in this time instead of drizzling it on top.  Perfect for 471 calories, 16 g fat, 16 g fiber, and 18 g protein.  

Usually I take the express bus to school because it takes me straight there, but the last one is at 8:00 am, and I wanted to sleep as long as I could especially since I didn’t have class until noon.  After today, I’m thinking I would rather go to bed earlier (once I get into a routine again) than deal with the craziness of the city while transferring to another bus.  I was supposed to get off of the first bus and walk to catch the transfer, but as I was walking, I saw that bus go by!  It was EARLY by about 3 minutes!!!  I don’t know my way around the city very well, and it kind of intimidates me!  I was freaking out not only because I felt unsafe, but I was going to be late for class.  My mom looked up info online for me and helped me over the phone.  I finally got onto a bus that was going where I needed to go, a half an hour later.  I was ten minutes late for class, which wasn’t too bad.  Whew!  So, from now on I think I may just take the express bus to save myself from all that.  I will go to the library and study for three hours before class I guess!  After an hour and fifty minutes of class (well an hour and forty for me), I went to the park to eat my lunch since it is a beautiful day.  It was nice but ended up being a little too windy that my napkins couldn’t handle it!  I surely enjoyed the fresh air and scenery though!  For my lunch I packed a PB (first time using TJ’s creamy-soooo good!!!!) and TJ’s strawberry preserves (also excellent) sandwich on TJ’s sprouted wheat, kiwi, grapes, and red cabbage salad that I made last night!  this was 562 calories, 21 g fat, 15 g fiber, and 20 g protein. 

I figured my textbook wouldn’t like the wind too much either, so I moved inside to the library for that.  I saw the computers though and decided to  blog instead, so that’s where I am right now!  It’s time for me to head to the bus stop though, and then to the gym directly after getting off the bus, so I will see you later for dinner!  

(Note: I just posted this (two and a half hours later than I wrote it) because I just got the pics uploaded)

I think I may have to start posting once a day due to my busy schedule.  Most of my posts may be shorter as well, but I want to keep blogging.  

First, I would like to send a big thanks to Jumping Jill and Kristin’s Nibbles for awarding me the Excellent Blog Award!!!  They are both inspirational bloggers to me, and I am going to pass this award onto others (most who have probably already received it).  

Betsy Cooks Healthy Food-She is so inspirational from her healthy food to her passion for running.  I enjoy reading her blog, and hope for the best for her with her knee!  

VeggieGirl-I admire her enthusiasm towards cooking, health, nutrition, and life!  Her blog is always a joy to read!  

Eat, Live, Run-Jenna’s blog is one that I first discovered that introduced me into the blogging world.  She is such an inspiration, and I love her food philosophy!

Vegan Eating for One-I love her food philosophy as well!  She sure does a great job cooking for one, shown by all of her delicious meals!  

ChocolateCoveredVegan-She also always has such a positive attitude!  It’s catchy, and I love to see all of her yummy food (esp baking!)! 

To lotuslove10-I just went through my spam, which I haven’t checked for a while.  It caught your comments!  I’m sorry  I am glad you liked the banana bread muffins!  I like the changes you made.  They sound good, and I would like to try it next time.  Also, I’m glad you like my blog!  The fiber and flax bread is by Arnold.  It’s the original Brownberry bread.  The newer Brownberry started to have HFCS in it, and so the original recipe was brought back by popular request the bag said!  haha.  It was good, but the ingredients list is a little longer than I like.  It’s still healthy, I love reading simple ingredients lists!  The bread is 80 calories per slice.  

Onto my day.  I didn’t photograph my breakfast because it was the same as yesterday and the day before, so I thought I’d spare you another practically identical picture of my 1/2 cup rolled oats, 1/2 cup soymilk, 3/4 cup water, a banana, 1 Tbsp flaxseed meal, 1 Tbsp wheat germ, 1 Tbsp walnuts, agave nectar, cinnamon, and a spoonful of PB.  It was the same amount of calories and all…obviously.  about 480, etc.  

I left for school for one class (Pharmacology and therapeutics) at 8 and got home at 12:30!  Not bad at all!  I was lucky to be able to make my lunch at home.  I took some frozen dill tahini vegetables I’d made a few weeks ago using V’con’s dill tahini sauce if you recall.  I heated those up in the microwave and cut up a kiwi and peeled an orange.  I had a sandwich as well with Ezekiel sprouted whole grain bread.  On the sandwich I had 1/4 cup black beans, spinach, and salsa.  Yummy lunch.  After I ate this I found grapes in the fridge so I had about 15 of those.  (I didn’t count, I’m just estimating).  Lunch was 539 calories, 11 g fat, 20 g fiber, and 23 g protein.  

I felt like I needed a snack before going to baby sit at 3:00 in order to hold me over until dinner, so I had a whole orange bell pepper, a cup of unsweetened applesauce with cinnamon and a banana bread muffin.  Yum!!  300 calories, 1 g fat, 10 g fiber, and 5 g protein.  

Baby-sitting was a fun time as always.  I was not in the mood to make dinner again because, well, I just felt tired.  I wanted something new though, so I made some tempeh.  This is the first time I have ever had tempeh, and I liked it!  It was Lightlife Three Grain tempeh that I bought at Whole Foods.  I had half of the package (4 oz) and cooked it (burned it slightly) in a skillet with some Low sodium soy sauce.  I’m trying not to add oils to food, especially not to cook with because of the free radicals it can create.  I would rather eat olives or nuts anways.  So, with the tempeh I decided to have quinoa and broccoli.  I felt like jazzing up the quinoa a bit, so in the spirit of trying new things, I decided to toss in some curry powder, and I must say I am not a fan.  I don’t know if I need to actually try a recipe first or something, but bleh.  I also added soy sauce and rice vinegar to it.  I should have left it plain and simple.  I ruined my lovely quinoa!  How sad!  It wasn’t the worst thing I have ever eaten and actually not terrible.  I just would never make it like that again.  I think I will give curry another chance though because I feel bad to judge a food after only one, especially since I just tossed it in without really knowing what I was doing.  I had a salad on the side that looked like more of an entree, but don’t my salads always seem that way?  I put tomato, cucumber, salsa, and 2 Tbsp sunflower kernels on it for some healthy fat.  Indian and Mexican?  haha.  This meal was obviously not well thought out, but I enjoyed it.  It was 595 calories, 20 g fat, 25 g fiber, and 36 g protein.  

I had too much protein today, a little too many carbs, and too little healthy fat.  I’m almost always too high in protein.  Most non-foodies and non-vegetarians/vegans would be amazed to see these numbers since I don’t eat meat.  haha!  It amuses me.  Even though I was high and low for nutrients I suppose it all evens out in the end.  67 grams of fiber total!!! WOW.  

I got absolutely no school work done today.  I’m going to buckle down tomorrow.  Along with that on my agenda I need to buy some shoes for Thursday for my clinical in the hospital, go to the gym or run outside, cook as always, and blog.  I feel so busy these days.  It was nice when I was an omni in terms of not having to cook for myself every meal every day.  I love to cook, and wish the days were longer.  If only…

Have a good night everyone, and the clock is dinging at midnight as I type here in my house, so Have a good humpday!!