Lisa’s Rant….life and healthy eating

I tend to have some bad luck on occassion and yesterday afternoon was one of those days. It’s 5 o’clock I’m trying to finish up my audit to turn in before going to the work happy hour when I get up to walk to the printer and feel my zipper in the back of my fav work dress breaking. I did a mad dash to the bathroom holding my dress shut and once I get there the entire zipper broke! The zipper was super long and ran all way down the dress. I was stuck in the bathroom thinking what the hell am I going to do??? So I waited like 20 minutes for someone to come in and thank goodness it was my coworker who turned Macgiver on my and got me a jacket and safty pins. So needless to say I didn’t go to the happy hour and went straight home changed into sweats and marched over to the Library to study for my Nutrition exam.

My nerves were a little shot so I decided I just wanted a smoothies for dinner. So I walked to smoothies king and got a 32oz Slim N Trim Vanilla, Skinny style. Which is about 360 cals but this thing was ginormous so it kept me entertained the entire time I was studying. I needed something to chew on so i ate a clif z bar when I got home from the libs.  I felt like I was back in college marching into the libs with a smoothies and sweats to tackle studying.

I feel pretty good about my exam at least.

So I didn’t get a picture of last nights dinner because I made Kale chips again and immediately starting diving into them. My roomie tried 1 and was totally shocked how good they were. Even 5 minutes later she was like those were really good haha.  Anyways so obviously I had Kale Chips and I also had my left over Amy’s Organics Butternut Squash Soup. These soups are good but I ate it plain the other night and was bored. So I added 2 steamed carrots and some leftover avocado I had, cinnamon, basil, and a tiny bit of minced garlic. The meal was suprisingly filling and very satisfying. I’m really enjoying throwing random crap in pots and seeing what I come up with.

At the gym last night i ran week 5 day 2 of the couch to 5k. It was suprisingly not that rough either. I thought since I haven’t been running for almost 2 weeks I would be struggling. Next run is 20 straight minutes, ahhhh!

Oh I almost forgot, I had a big banana with about 1 tablespoon of PB for dessert.

Sorry for not posting last night and uploading the pics for the day. I watched Gossip Girl, my latest obsession, then went over some notes talk to the bf and passed out.

I was excited to come home and find an empty house and more importantly empty kitchen to whip up some dinner. Living with 2 other girls makes the kitchen hard to come by (among other things). I finally bought some kale at the store to try Kath’s Kale chips. OMG so good! I was skeptical though I mean you are baking grass how good can that taste? Well it tasted like potato chips its nuts. I sprinkled olive oil, sea salt, and pepper and in the oven it went and 10 to 15 minutes later they were cripsy goodness. Yum! I also whipped up a super random pasta dish. I made some whole wheat pasta cut up an avocado and threw a can of tuna (for protein) in and topped it off with the remainder of the Annie’s Goddess Dressing. Sounds disgusting but it was good I promise. I brought half for lunch today which I plan on eating cold, pasta salad style.

While watching gossip girl I had a cup of tazo passion tea, and a small apple. Is anyone else obsessed with this show?

So I had a really unsatisfying dinner today. As I mentioned I had to pack dinner since I had my nutrition class tonight. I packed a turkey sandwhich on ezikiel bread with 1 laughing cow cheese wedge and some texas pete sauce. By 6 o clock it tasted pretty blah. I had about 3/4 of it. I also packed some carrots and some cherry tomatoes. I ate a few of the tomatoes before i took the pic and then didn’t eat the rest. I ate half the carrots before class and half after. Then of course the Chocolate coffee larabar. mmm. Then after class I got snacky. I think it’s because 1) dinner sucked 2) i was tired and a little cranky. So it lead me to over eat. I had an unpictured english muffin with PB, glass of milk, anddd a vitamin muffin top. I didn’t need that at all and shouldn’t have eaten it but what can you do.

Class tonight was interesting as always. I love my nutrition class. Today’s subject was Digestion. I learned that a lot of times food allergies that appear when we are older in our 20’s are from damage done to your digestive system. Which is totally interesting to me since I developed a pork allergy within the past year. But my mom got the same thing in her 20’s so I’m thinking mine is genetics. The prof mentioned that processed foods and diet can cause the damage to your digestive system though. Oh and 1 more thing and I promise I’ll stop talking about my class because I could go on forever. I learned that your GI tract has its own nervous system so “gut feelings” really do exist! Ok done promise. Class was cancelled for next week and I’m going to miss the following week because I have to travel for work.

Anyways i’m ready for this work week to end I’m going to try to get into work tomorrow at 7:30 to get some things out and done by noon yuck!

Sweet dreams ya’ll!