Monthly Archives: September 2011

Foodie Fashion Fridays

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I am tired.  I am lazy.

That is all of my confessions of the evening.  It’s Friday night.  I have a RACE-I mean tempo run. Tomorrow morning.  So I must get some sleep.  Our cross country team was raising money for breast cancer awareness through a road race so it should be a fun four miler tomorrow.

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Anyways-onwards to Foodie Friday Favorites on the week.

I have been really into dark chocolate pomegranate pancakes this week.  Maybe that was because pomegranate juice was on sale and I hoarded it. 

Yes-I made those a grand total of 4 times this week.  Go me-Making pom pancakes is a rather simple addition but I’ll post anyways.  Instead of adding water to your dark chocopancake mix-add pomagrante juice.  It makes it insanely moist and delicious.  So easy.

Quiche.

Easy to cook dinners when  I’m tired.  Ie: sweet potatoes, broccoli in the microwave and grilled chicken and fish.  Wow it only took me 15 minutes and it was more colorful than the rainbow.

Oh and this salad that I somehow put together.  Aka the best thing of my young life.

spinach, garlic, onions, tomatoes, beans, chicken breast....the list is endless

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Other notable favorite things:

My new vera.  Mine was getting to grimetastic.  Is anyone else obsessed with Vera Bradley?  It must be a college thing…

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Now for real girl outfit photos.

First up, we have Lizzie. Lovin the grey top and white shorts.  I wish it was still warm enough to wear shorts here.  ;)

Next is Allie!  Ahh, white flowey tops are always a win.  PS: Love your phone case. 

Tara.  I practically begged her to submit this photo.

Sam.  I love the simple color block on this one. 

Laura.  Not only do I love this entire outfit, I love the photo as well.  :)

Last but not least, Amy keeps it casual and cute at work

You have until Sunday at noon to vote (and of course you are more than welcome to send me your outfits in the mail too). 

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Question for you:

  1. 1.       What were you obsessed with this week?
  2. 2.       What are your plans for the weekend?

Cramps.

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I have a confession to make.  Thursdays are my Fridays because I don’t have class on Friday.  Also in a week, I’ll on an airplane ready to head on home.  Well.  My flight leaves the Cuze at 6pm.  But I digress.

Today is one of the rare days that I don’t have to go to 6am practice.  I woke up at 6:43 am, and I said…well lay in bed and if you are still awake at 7am, then you can get up.

Would you believe I fell back asleep until 8:30? 

I got 10 hours of sleep last night and I needed that.

I’m currently typing this up at 5:30pm, and I feel like it’s so late.  Maybe it’s the pouring rain…I don’t know.

I wish I could tell you I did something exciting today, but not really at all.  I listened to speeches in the morning, went for a long relaxing run, and went to class at 12:30.  Oh and chased that with swim practice.

Today’s practice was as followed (incase you are bored and want to do it…)

400 warmup/100 back/100 breaststroke/100 kick
300 butterfly drills (which took about 30 minutes…)
4X100 Backstroke
4X100 Breaststroke
4X100 Butterfly
400 Pull
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Main Set
300 Freestyle (from the blocks)
2X200 Free
3X150 Free
4X100 Free
5X50 Free
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400 kick cooldown

Total:4800 yards

I actually really enjoyed practice.

Today at swim practice, one of the freshman asked me about getting cramps and how to get rid of them.  It was actually very flattering that someone would think to ask me…I was super excited my major was actually relevant to the real world…unlike last year…no one asked me to solve proofs and theories.

I don’t know about you guys-but I haven’t gotten cramps for a while in either running or swimming but when I do they suck.  A lot.

Especially Charlie horses.

In my nutrition class last semester, we learned that many cramps are caused by either dehyradation, lack of certain vitamins (holla at your potassium and magnesium)

Lucky for me, potassium is in some of my favorite foods: bananas, sweet potatoes, cocoa powder, prunes (prune juice…yes I like that stuff), seeds, beans and fish.

Magnesium is in fish, bananas, prune juice, beans, seeds and potatoes too!

Woah isn’t that fun.  Moral of the story: Drink your prune juice and you will stay hydrated and won’t get your cramps.

Funny story about cramps real quick-last year there was a girl on a team that always got out complaining of cramps.  (skipping 1000+ yards every practice is unacceptable).  We have a big sis/little sis tradition at one of our big swim meets to decorate each others locker.

Well, she was my lil sis and I drew a bunch of bananas on her locker with a doctor monkey, and wrote out: “a nanner a day keeps the cramps away.”  She thought it was hilarious.

I wasn’t joking.

This is my serious face.

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Question for you:

  1. 1.       Do you get cramps when you exercise?  What do you do to relieve them?
  2. 2.       Last chance to submit your real girl photos for tomorrow.  ;)

Real Girls and Real Food.

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I’m on this new jive of blogging.  I don’t blog when I don’t have things to say…it works for both of us eh?  I won’t bore you, you won’t read my bullshit posts and we can all still be blogging best friends. 

Good times.

This blog is a lot of random things combined into one.  It’s sporadic  (on a side note-microsoft word just tried to autocorrect sporadic into spermatic…is that even a word I don’t know) like my mind (I warned you).

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It looks like the fall favorite food in the bloggesphere (or posted from Monday) are apples.  I’m actually not the biggest apple fan…I don’t mind them but there are other fruits I would rather eat.  We have a lot of apple picking places in Upstate though.  True story.

On to today, I knew it would be such a good day when I woke up at 5:30, drove to practice and a little deer popped out of nowhere.  Good God-that is a wakeup call at 5:40am.  I did not hit him but I was on my toes the rest of the day.

I decided to go to Dexter’s for lunch and have a quiche with Julie.  I normally don’t eat lunch on campus right now, but change is good.  For those who weren’t my bffers last semester, Dexter’s a little café that I was obsessed with on campus.  They always have the best local food.

 Today I got a shrimp quiche and quinoa and black bean salad oh and fruit salad too.  

I was also a real girl today-shocking after 6am practice oh I know.  I’m rather proud though.

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And finally…

Someone emailed me (and asked to remain anonymous) about turning the Fashion Friday’s into some sort of competition.  I thought about it for a while and thought that would be the greatest idea in the world.  Tyra would be so proud.  Anyways here is what I thought, I would post all the photos Friday night and then readers could vote and I would declare the winner on Sunday.

Winners each week will receive pancake mix made especially by me.  :)

So with that being said: Submit me your Real girl photos for Round 1

Well actually maybe I should poll the crowd and see how you guys like it so I don’t just got on a tangent when no one wants me to.

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Question for you:

1.       Do you blog when you have nothing to say or would you rather take the night off?

 

Fall Favourites (Aka pumpkin things)

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A lot of people have been writing fall favourites.  I was wicked confused why until I realized the dreaded fact.  I could lie to you and say that my fall favourites are original, unique and different.

But they aren’t.

And I’m a tad obsessed with pumpkin.

Remember last year when I hoarded 15 cans from Hannafords?  Yeah me too.

Just a few of these cans...

Happy Fall as of the 23rd.

My fall favorites is rather simple.

Canned pumpkin

Pumpkin beer

Pumpkin pancakes

Other random pumpkiny things

Pumpkin Halloween Costume…which reminds me…what to be this year…

I have a somewhat new recipe for you.  Or to open your eyes to (whatever you want to call it).  A fall favorite that you didn’t think could be improved upon…

French Toast Pumpkin Waffle

1 egg
½ cup flour
1/2 cup pumpkin
(1 scoop protein powder)
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp pumpkin spice
Water to consistency
Cook waffle in waffle iron

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Then dip waffle into mixture of 2 eggs, ¼ cup milk, 2 tsp pumpkin spice, 1 tablespoon vanilla)

You will not be disappointed.  The pumpkin makes the waffle so absorbing to the French toast mixture.

Okay-I know I said I didn’t pick favorites…but the pumpkin makes the waffle so moist and then it absorbs the milk/egg so well and it is like I am eating a pumpkin pie waffle.

I also have lots of pumpkin recipes on my recipe page, not limited to breakfast.

Question for you:

Favorite Fall Food?

Weekly Exercising Round Up

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You know those times Microsoft word decides you are unacceptable and decides to delete your posts?

Yeah anyways…at least it wasn’t my ten page paper so I don’t really mind.  Now that I’m running again, I just feel a lot more comfortable writing about my workouts.  Granted they aren’t very excited (most of the time)…I just hated writing about the Arctrainer all the time.

Here are the stats from last week:

Running: 41.26

Swimming: 5 practices

Weight/Core work: 3 sessions

This is exactly where I wanted to be.  I don’t have any complaints about this week minus the fact that both my coaches (on separate occasions) said I needed to work on my core/lifting weights.  I’m really trying to make time for that but it is honestly the first thing to go (exercise wise) when I need to free up time.

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Goals of this week:

Running 38-46 miles

I have a “race” for breast cancer next Saturday that I plant to run as a tempo run around a 7 minute mile hopefully.

Swimming: 5 practices (Oh wait…I don’t really have a choice)

Weight/Core work: 3 sessions again, but try and do 10 minutes of daily core work.  Nothing fancy just restrengthen those muscles.

Well that is my weeks goals, I also have a few school to do things, incase you wanted to know that too.

To do list:

  1. Read for Program Evaluation
  2. Present Obesity Speech (T)
  3. Finish project on heart disease (W)
  4. Program Evaluation Midterm (Next Monday)

Another busy week.  Between this week and next week, I am giving three presentations and have 4 papers due.  #rude.

I love community health though and I love my major.

I'm expecting my protein powder in the mail this week...so if nothing else I can walk around with a 10 pound package like last year..

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Question for you:

Whats on your to do list?

Any fun workouts last week?