Yay, I'm seriously still so happy for her! But I guess I should move onto food quickly, because I'm exhausted (it's past 1am!) and I want to get up early for a morning workout before my band and I leave for two shows in Maryland and New Jersey (Friday and Saturday nights). By the way, this also means that I won't be able to blog until Sunday night, but I will try to take interesting food pictures (although I can't make any promises because this blog is still pretty anonymous and I don't take foodie pictures in front of people). Also, the small task of packing, which I haven't even started on yet. Oops; thankfully I'm pretty good at it so it should be quick.
So I was craving protein all day. Like mad protein, and carbs just didn't sound good. I have know idea why, but I went with it. I'm actually quite puzzled, so please don't judge my (pretty ridiculously--but unintentional--) low carb day!
Breakfast:
-2 Morningstar soysage patties
-bowl of green beans (yeah I know, I'm weird! One of my best friends calls me an anomaly and this is a great example--seriously, who wakes up craving green beans?)
-1/2 Pure protein bar (had the other half about 2 hours later)
Then I went to a doctor's appt (just a check up) but had to drive around forever looking for parking!, went to the gym and did a 15 minute run, followed by arm/upper body weights for about 20 minutes, and then a 25 minutes fairly challenging Expresso bike ride (the Quicksilver route). Then I stopped at a store to get something for an upcoming blog giveaway!! I'm not announcing it yet, but I'm super excited for it! After all of that I went to Whole Foods and got a salad from their bar. It was heavenly!!
This salad had:
-spinach as the base
-a few tomatoes
-edamame
-2 pieces of grilled chicken (lower middle)
-3 marinated mushrooms (upper far right)
-broccoli slaw (lower left)
-two pieces of fake chicken (tempeh I think-upper left of the picture)
-eggplant salad (upper middle)
-southwestern tofu (lower right--this was good!)
-curried chicken salad (this was the star of the meal and one of the better things I've eaten! :)
The whole meal was only $6.57, which is too much for every day, but really not THAT bad. :)
On my way home from Whole Foods I had some cashews I bought: (there were more of these eaten at home!)
I didn't buy too much, but the highlights were:
-tofu
-wild rice tempeh (Ms. Gliding Calm eats this all the time and I really like it after I tried it!)
-celery (another thing I really wanted! Go figure)
-small carton of greek yogurt with a coupon
-Indian simmer sauce with a coupon--I can't wait till I'm home next week to cook up some chicken in it!)
-3 ThinkThin bars to travel with
(this one got eaten in small bites throughout the afternoon!)
-2 Luna bars (ditto)
-frozen Soy Boy (?) soysages because I finished the morningstar ones and they're delicious!
I came home, put away groceries and cooked up the tempeh. I drizzle it with tamari in cooking it and it gives it a wonderful flavor! I ended up eating about half a block (some then, some after I taught a 1 hour violin lesson, and some after gymnastics--but I'm getting to that). I also had two unphotographed stalks of celery with probably 2 TBs of PB on them.
The exciting thing about my day: I went to an adult gymnastics class! I love the sport so much and I want to be able to do all the stuff I could when I was younger, although admittedly I was never a crazy high level gymnast. I just loved it! And I still do! In fact, here is a video of Carly's floor routine in the all around competition at the 2004 Olympics. At the end when her winning score is announced and she starts crying on Evgeny Marchenko--I always lose it there. I never cry, but that moment is so beautiful! She has worked so much harder than I could ever imagine and it paid off and she accomplished her ultimate goal. And that is beautiful!
I might start doing a gymnastics video with many posts, because then I'd have a good excuse to watch them on YouTube. :)
I got home after gymanstics tonight and went to watch a rehearsal of my friends' band. It was great and I enjoyed it immensely. But I got home and was a little hungry so had probably two servings of these:
And I'll leave you with a cute picture I took this week at one of my student's lessons. I teach a young girl who has a 1/16th size violin!! It's so small that it looks like a toy. I put it next to mine for comparison. :)
OK, I'm off to pack quickly (good thing I did laundry today!) and hopefully be asleep by 2:30am. We'll see. Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend. ANY FUN PLANS?
