The Almost City Girl

The new blog still has my Lisa isms its just not a food blog where I post what I eat everyday since there is so much more to me than that and quite frankly what i eat at every meal is boring. So I hope you enjoy the new and improved blog!

I’m finally hitting the gym for some quick cardio about 30 min before class. I’m also finally recovering from my awful cold and not coughing up a storm so I feel like it’s gym time.

I’ve been having some 2nd thoughts about my career change lately. I know this is kind of big news. I really want to become an RD but I don’t know that I can handle living away from the bf for 2 plus years . Now i’m not one of those clingy girls or anything I just know we are going to get married in the near future and i think i’ll be unhappy if I’m away from him so it doesn’t help fixing one part of my life (i.e. my career) and getting a whole new problem. Do you see my dilemma?

So I’ve been looking into the local university around me George Mason and they have other nutrition related programs just not dietitics or anything that would help towards getting your RD certification. So I think I’m going to look into it and see if maybe there is something else I can do within the same subject that I love. So that’s my thinking. Just doing a little more exploring Ok thats my career rant for you.

I weighed myself this morning and I’m only up 1lb not bad! But I’m still down 5lbs total. So I’m going to be good the next few weeks to try to get to 5 more lbs off! No gym for me today though I’m still feeling pretty icky!

For breakfast I had a cup of coffee

which included one of these guys

and an NS Apple Scone

For a mid morning snack I had a strawberry Chobani

and a banana

I unfortunately consumed my lunch sitting in front of the comp at my desk. Not that exciting huh? I had a hard time remembering what I had on my plate at work after having a few days off so I was trying to get caught up.

I had an NS Chicken Noodle Soup

with the usual side salad with a Morning Star Garden Veggie Burger and Annie’s Light Rasberry Vinagarette

I also munched on a lot of handfuls of popcorn! I was in my boss’ office and we were walking and talking on our way to go meet someone and we stopped by our main front office where they had some fresh popcorn. We have a popcron cart in our office and they used to make it 3 times a week but the last few months they’ve cut back drastically and rarely ever make it anymore.

Around 3ish I had a honey crisp apple on its last leg. It wasn’t fantastic.

I’ve also been consuming a lot of Sugar Free Halls cough drops so I don’t annoy everyone around me at work with my coughing! Boo colds!

My plan is to go grocery shopping and then plop on the couch for some gossip girl tonight as well as proof read my paper for my Nutrition class thats due on Thursday!

As previously mentioned I went to Chipotle witht he bf. i didn’t eat much though my appetite has been meh today. I think I’m coming down with a cold or flu. Bad timing considering it’s a holiday weekend right?! It will not stop my from enjoying some good old southern cooking tomorrow though!

PS The only thing I’m craving today is PB&Co peanut butter because it has been on EVERYONE’S blogs this week. That stuff is like drugs its so addicting. I love it but can’t buy it because without a doubt I would sit there and eat out of the jar all day.

I prob won’t be blogging until Monday so I’ll give ya’ll the recap!

t-minus 50 minutes until I get to go home from work….

Ok on to bfast. I made myself a little yogurt parfait with a Chobani Vanilla, NS granola, and a banana. With a cup of coffee of course.

Here the are pre mixing it together

After

For lunch today I’m meeting up with the bf. They are cleaning out the office refridgerators so we couldn’t use them today which made packing my lunch a problem. So instead we are going to Chipotle. I know not the healthiest but I do get the burrito bowl with chicken, black beans, rice, lettuce, and fresh tomato salsa. No cheese, sour cream, or guac.  I’m a huge fan of those items but if you are watching your cal intake its better to skip them. And honestly its just as good without them. I would assume what I get prob runs about 500 cals if you eat the entire thing.

Love the Scale today!

I also may go for a run when I get home from work today. Or at least a nice power walk since I have a hard time running in the cold. Gets to my throat. I was also happily pleased this morning I weighed myself when I got out of the shower and I was down to 142. I think its because I’ve been weighing myself with clothes on lately since my scale is in our half bath not in our main shared bathroom in our house. So I think I weigh a little less than I have been thinking. Whoohoo!

Turkey Day Plans!

I’m going home with my bf for Thanksgiving and I’m totally excited about this since my family has never really celebrated Thanksgiving in a big way. My parents were born in Argentina and Cuba but have lived here for geez like 40 or 50 years. They moved in there teens. But anyways as a result tgiving was never a huge thing in my household. But my bf has a big ol’ southern all american fam that go all out and rent out a place for their huge fam and everyone brings stuff. Hence why I’m totally pumped! Then we’re going to the Virginia Tech vs University of Virginia football game on Sat. Huge rivals since they are the 2 big VA schools. The bf went to VT. My college roomie and her fam will be at the game too so it should be fun to tailgate! We are going to freeze though but thats ok because my mom sent me a suprise present of Burberry ear muffs yesterday! She said she found them at the outlet at home for $50. Nuts! FYI winter clothes in Florida is always ridiculously cheap for the obvious reason. So she always sends me stuff when she finds a good deal.

Anyways enough ranting about work. My lunch eats consisted of NS Veggie Beef Soup and a salad with Annie’s Light Rasberry Vinagarette and a Morning Star Veggie Burger. Just the regular kind this time. The pizza ones are wayyyyy better. I thought I should switch it up so I bought the regular ones instead this time.

This afternoon I wasn’t that hungry weird right? Oh yea maybe it was that pumpkin scone I scarfed down. Whoops! It was good though but very high in cals. I think those things run about 400 or more cals. So that was my dessert for the day.  Anyways I did eat a little something just now a 1% cottage cheese and some get this, Sugar Cookie tea! I found it I was so excited!

You should be able to find it at your reg grocery store since its made by Celestial Seasonings. Although I found it in a separate display not with the teas. Something to keep in mind. They also had some other awesome sounding flavors like Sugar Plum, Pepermint something or other, Gingerbread.

One thing I did notice and wanted to take a pic of is that the tea bags don’t have that much team in them. So I actually have been putting 2 in my tea. I prefer a stronger taste in my tea though just a personal pref. An example of stronger teas are the Tazo brand.

The smell is divine though. You have to restrain yourself from eating the tea bag.

Now on to the food. I’m feeling a little under the weather this morning I think the BF infected me with his cold/flu boo. Perfect timing before tgiving huh?

I started out with a cup of coffee and a NS PB Granola Bar

Then it was one of those mornings and I went for coffee round 2 and a get this CHOBANI!!!! I was totally excited to find these at the grocery store FINALLY! This morning I had blueberry and yesterday I had peach. Both were very yummy. To me the peach tasted like the fage with the peach compartment though which I like to. The blueberry was really good too I think I like the Chobani better then the Oikos but prob the same as Fage. I think that is the verdict. I also bought a vanilla and a strawberry. I got 1 of every flavor they had haha.

After lunch I need a bite of sweetness and had this

You know whats funny about blogs? You can always see what color nail polish everyone is wearing haha. Mine is looking rough as you can see by the chipped polish on my thumb. But as I previously mentioned I have a mani pedi coming my way this weekend

I was feeling better this afternoon and for some reason decided to dive into this sugary cinamony icing pastry that was in the office kitchen which I did not need. It wasn’t even worth it because I felt sick after eating it.

Oh well not the end of the world right? Its around 4pm now and I’m feeling better. I think I’m going to try to get in some cardio at the gym with more Twilight! No weights for me. I feel paranoid now after Monday and having all the Personal Trainers watching me. I’m not a fan of Personal Trainers mostly because I’ve never had a good one. They all over worked me so I couldn’t walk for 1 week and then never wanted to do those excercises again. I think a good trainer works you just enough to feel good and want to come back but pushes you slightly. Anyways since my gym is a personal training gym they are all just standing around waiting for their clients like circling around me. Makes me nervous! I might try to do some push ups, crunches, and that type of stuff though.  I know I sound stupid but again oh well haha.

 Nutrition class also went fabulous last night! I got a 97 on my Diet Analysis project! Another yay! We also did an in class Vitamin Meal Plan where we made a day’s worth of meals incorporating all the water soluble vitamins. So interesting. Vitamins intrigue me.

I got a 30 min eliptical workout before class. I should have stepped it up I burned 30 to 50 less cals than usual because I was reading Twilight, and umm yea only 50 pages in and I’m totally hooked. I could have stayed up all night and read it but I made myself go to sleep by 11. I can understand the hype. I don’t get into books that quickly usually.

I also watched Grey’s last night, umm what is gonig on with that show? Do they have different writers now? I’m not feeling it but feel obligated to watch it as a loyal fan. Monica in Run Eat Repeat mentioned the Denny scenario. I don’t get it. I think that story line should be done with as nice it is to watch the ruggedly handsome Denny.

Anywayssss, food!

As you can prob tell I’m in a good mood today and probably hyped up on caffeine because I had a full caffeinated coffee today and a Black Berry yogurt with a side of NS Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins.

These muffing are basically bite size, not bad though.

You know those little packets you find when you buy a new purse. Well umm they come in the muffins. I’m sure they are made of different things but kind of sketchy haha. I wonder what’s in it? Does keep them fresh though! You can see it under the muffin above to the left too. I also like that it says “Do Not Eat”. I know I’m on a diet but I’m not that ravenous where I will be eating the little packet.

Also I’ve had some people ask me about the cookie cake so I posted the umm we can call it recipe on my Recipe’s Page.