Tag Archives: Diner

Goal Setting

By Posted in Healthy Living, Personal, Resturants, Running Tagged , , , , , , , , 9 Comments

This is my 101 post. Can you believe it?

Thank-you for everyone for your kind words in the my last blog about my eating. It truly means a lot that there are so many people willing to listen to me. Sometimes that is all you need-someone talk too, vent too and to understand what it is exactly you are going through.

I couldn’t have posted that blog at a better time because in sports psychology the hour after I posted it, we learned about goal setting and how to follow through with goals. I love sports psychology because we learn so much information that can be in any other aspect of your life (such as now).

So here is what I learned. In order to succeed and achieve goals, you need to set three different types of goals.

1. An outcome goal-This could be something such as winning a race or a long term goal like living binge free.
2. Performance goals-This is a goal that you either do or you don’t. You either break twenty minutes running a 5k or you don’t. For my purposes this is going to be avoiding binging for the next month. It will either happen or it won’t.
3. Process goals- These are individual aspects of your performance. In swimming a good process goal for me would be to hold my streamlines longer, in running to always look up. (I look at my feet too much)
For this purpose though, I will have two process goals. My first process goal is to be more active when I get an urge to just keep eating and remove myself from the situation. My other performance goal is too not eat the same things every single day. To not make pancakes every day of my life, to not have a Panini for lunch and then go crazy at dinner.

We also learned about common problems of goal setting such as not providing follow-up, failing to set specific goals and setting too many goals too soon. A major problem I have is the all of nothing technique where I set too many goals too soon. It is unrealistic for me to say-no eating sweets, not eating at the dining hall, no going out to eat, only eat this and that because quite frankly I’ll be overwhelmed with one of the goals. That is why I am taking the slow and steady wins the race.

The meet this weekend-I didn’t eat at the dining hall on Friday or Saturday which was good for me.


What are your goals in swimming, running, eating, working out, life in general?

———————–
Eats:

Yesterday Aram suggested we go try that diner that I was not a fan of a while ago. I must search around for the post but anyways-long story short we went and they were out of pancakes. Then there were out of steak…and so I had a not tasty chicken parmesan.

Today we went for breakfast and I had oatmeal pancakes. They came with seriously a half cup of butter on top. I am not a fan of that much or really any butter on my pancakes so I pushed it away. The texture of butter reminds me of mayonnaise and I just cannot eat it. Don’t ask me how I put two and two together.

They were pretty good-not my favorite but not awful by any stretch. I think I have honestly become a bit biased and just love my Foxy Roxy diner and judge everything based on them. It is kind of like that boyfriend you had that judge everyone else on. What a bad idea. Anywho-they were good so don’t let me convince you otherwise. I would recommend going for breakfast but nothing else ha. They made me wonder why I haven’t cooked oatmeal pancakes in a while.

I also went to the gym (but it was only because Aram guilted me into going…) I needed to run, I did, but it was so chilly out I wasn’t in the mood to leave my house. I am glad he decided to go and I ended up running for 7 miles on the treadmill and doing some core exercises.

We went to the dining hall right after. Today, they had (of course) my two favorite foods…besides pancakes. Steak and gnocchi. I had two bowls of gnocchi and two pieces of steak. As much as that sounds like, it is an improvement for me. I would normally just keep eating the gnocchi and steak until my belly was completely full and uncomfortable and then go for dessert (which they had about 10 different types of yummy looking pie). But I avoided the dessert all together. So I consider it a success.

Questions for you.

What is your favorite Thanksgiving recipe and tell me your goals!

PA Second Round

By Posted in Breakfast, Pumpkin Tagged , , , , , , 15 Comments

Hello Today was supposed to begin text free Thursday (wordless Wednesday has been taken by many blogs). But have a few things that I wanted to post. So Text free Tuesday perhaps. God knows you can’t get me to shut up though.
I just hit 9000 views on my blog today. Golly, I remember when I had 100 views weekly and I was ecstatic. It’s nice to know people enjoy reading about my creepy obsession with pancakes. Seriously, PA (pancakes anonymous is not out of the question.)

————————
Oh My Stars! I’m sorry for not posting the pumpkin recipe. I make it so frequently-I’m not sure why I never posted it. This is a recipe where I PREFER using Fiber 1 pancake Mix. That is what makes them so light and fluffy.
½ cup fiber one pancake mix
½ cup pumpkin
1 packet splenda
1 tsp pumpkin spice
1 tsp vanilla extract
+You seasonings of choice. May I recommend Greek yogurt, peanut butter, caramel or syrup?

Anywho.

Tower de cakes

Today’s pancakes de choice was Hershey’s Sinless Cocoa Pancakes. But then-I decided to take some Greek yogurt and add some cocoa powder to that too and top my pancakes. Double Chocolate Fudge deliciousness on my plate.

Lunch.
Don’t even bother about judging me because I’m okay with it. I went to the diner and had pancakes. I can’t go tomorrow (like I normally do on Fridays) because these baby girls will not be sitting in my tummy during the mile and I want to carb load for my mass amount of events this weekend. AKA 2150 yards on hard swimming tomorrow. Anywho-I’m cutting down on pancakes (I swear) since it is highly unlikely I will be able to make them everyday I’m home next week.
After my educational psychology, I finally decided it was time to go track down my adviser so I could register for classes. After about an hour of chatting, I have come up with the following schedule for Spring Semester.
2 Math Courses:
1. Advanced Calculus
2. Concepts of Geometry (BOO)

2 Education Classes:
1. Math in Middle School (this isn’t the actual title but this actually explain the course…why aren’t course makers so blunt like me?)
2. Math in Middle School Practicum

2 Health Classes
1. Sports Physiology
2. Human Nutrition

It’s only 17 credits worth of classes. I actually may end up dropping Sports Physiology and saving it for my senior year so I’m not stuck with a 9 credit semester. Freshman and sophomore year I took between 18-21 credits and so I’m done with General education classes and can take basically majors classes and my new minor in health. Oh and my coaching certification which is just 3 additional classes. This really makes me sound like more of an overachiever than I am. I just like math, education, running, swimming and nutrition. (And pancakes…but they don’t make a course in that…)
What was your favorite course in college/high school/grade school?
I think my favorite class of all time was calculus one in college. What a fun class.

Diner and New Workout Schedule

By Posted in Breakfast, Food, Resturants, Running Tagged , , , , , , , , 8 Comments

Thoughts of the day:
Well first I have decided that I am going to be changing up my blog very soon. I will still be here-I swear! I will just be changing the layout of the actual blogging a bit.

So first, I ask you my actual readers…is there anything you would like to see more of on my blog? More pancakes? More waffles (forget about it). More actual daily life thoughts? I’m not too sure if you could handle my sarcasm too much more ha. I try and edit a lot of it out.

I won’t blog a food blog everyday because quite frankly, I eat a lot of the same things. I know what I like and I can only imagine half of you don’t want to relive your dining hall days. I still plan to post everyday or about everyday so be prepared for that.

Before I forget-Last chance to enter The Trader Joes Cookbook Giveaway because I’m not sure I’ll blog tomorrow (hopefully) but a winner will be chosen (via random.com) tomorrow night.

—————–

Since I’m on the bus now I needed to gather my thoughts and create a post cross country running schedule. I am going to cut back severely on my miles in order to focus on swimming of course. I plan to run around 4 days a week and between 20-35 miles.

So into phase two of the year we go:
Sunday: 9 mile run/Gym Day 1
Monday: Swim practice/7 mile run
Tuesday: Grime Girl Day 1/Weights Day 2
Wednesday: Swim practice/7 mile run
Thursday: Grime Girl Day 2: Weights Day 3 (unless meet on Friday or Saturday)
Friday: Swim practice/Running if time
Saturday: Meet or Swim practice and run

Totals: 7-8 swim practices (not flexible)
21-35 miles running
2-3 weight days

The swimming isn’t flexible, because that is what is required to be on the team. I’ll get my butt handed to me if I don’t. The running is a bit more flexible. I know what my coach wants me to do and what I need too-bit if I have an off day or week-it happens.

———————-

This morning was rather chilly and clear. Look at the frost! Ah-snow is so close I can feel it. By snow I mean snow that sticks. We have had a bit of snow but none of it has stayed.

Today I decided I was going to do my run with the team versus waking up and running before the bus left. Besides how would I have time to go to the diner? The lady now recognizes Aram and I and brings us our water and coffee before we order. We decided to mix it up today. I got a nannercake and a raspberry pancake (because I couldn’t resist!).

Aram, on the other hand, got oatmeal and 1 chocolate chip pancake (which he couldn’t finish so it is sitting in my fridge for later).

It was award winning!

I got back and finished packing and headed for the bus. Aram has misplaced his car keys so hopefully he will still be able to come. I guess he will be driving my car if not ha.
Julie and I were wearing our new matchy matchy swim team hoodies and black pants so of course we had to take a photo together. Kelley was in her room running late but she was also matching. Our new hoodies have writing on the hoods which is as Julie says “gangsta.” I prefer the underarmour ones from last season in all honesty but both are better than the maroon from two seasons ago.

After the long bus ride (4 hours of pure joy) in which the internet wasn’t working so I pretended to do math homework. We jogged the race course (it’s a 6k for females) and then went back to the hotel room, which is where I’m currently sitting now.

What are your plans this weekend?
Any ideas to enhance the blog?

Save the Drama for your Mama-Formal, Diner Day and Leaf Raking

By Posted in College, Food, Personal, Resturants Tagged , , , , , , , 13 Comments

My pictures are taking forever to load on here. I should have photoshopped them down to lower quality, so they would take less time.

 

Do you use lower quality photos on your blog when you are posting, or high res? Also-what cameras do you use for your food photography? General photography?

I’m interested in getting a new one-I just don’t know where to start and look.

Swimming formal was last night. I had a blast. I love my swim team (most of them). Half the girls were wearing my dresses-because seriously all I own are sweatpants, a few pairs of jeans and formal dresses. I ended up wearing the green dress. Thank-you everyone for your opinions. If something had happened I was going to wear the blue dress but I decided green was my favorite. Green was Aram’s favorite too. There was lots of dancing, lots of scandals and well lots of “swimcest.”

Swimcest-dating/hooking up within the swim team

I had never dated or even kissed anyone on any swim team until Aram. I actually told myself I wouldn’t. Ha. Aram doesn’t swim anymore so I’m not sure if it is considered “swimcest” per say.

Picture explain the night better than my rambling:

Housemates. :)

More of my ladies!

Aram

Dance Parties are fun especially when you can remember it all! It's just crystal light in my nalgene as always. It's my trademark! :)

My old roommate Alyssa.

Recognize the floral dress?

Yes I read 1 or 2 of your blogs last night while wearing my dress hehe.

Drama Drama!

I must just explain to you the sort of humor I had to deal with last night. I’m probably the least dramatic person on the swim team. I go to morning practice, I don’t care who I share a lane with, I don’t care who hooks up with who, I don’t really get involved in anyone’s business because quite frankly-I don’t care. I mean sure, it’s hilarious to listen too but I don’t go spread it around, I just get my laughs and move on with my life. I had to preface that before this story, so my readers (you guys) don’t think I was angry about this whole situation because quite frankly I found it completely hilarious.

Aram’s house has parties almost every Friday night. Yes, college house parties where people just come to get drunk and go home. It seems rather pointless in my opinion, but not when you are a freshman and don’t have a mad amount of work to do every weekend. With swim meets and cross country meets, I don’t ever go.

Aram respects that and often comes over for a bit to tuck me into bed or watch a movie before going to attend to the parties. Well insert 40 Bay Girl here. (Aram’s house address is 40 Bay so I dubbed her 40 Bay Girl). She is a freshman who comes to EVERY single party that Aram’s house has.

Why? Because she has a lovely crush on Aram.

It makes Aram extremely uncomfortable, and I think it’s funny to watch. Well-she knows one of the freshman on our team so she was this freshman’s date for our swim formal. He had no idea the situation. Poor kid didn’t know he was being used.

The entire party, she was all over her date (who I’ll dub R), trying to make Aram jealous…while I was standing right next to him. She was doing things to poor R, that I don’t think you would see in a porno. Every time she would do something, she would stare at Aram. She gave me some death glares a few times. I served her a plate of them right back. Poor Aram didn’t even know what to do. The best part is, 40 Bay Girl was talking and saying all these bad things about me. She was going around to my swim team, girls that always have my back saying how socially awkward I was and blah blah blah.

Had we ever talked?

No

She had come to the swim meet earlier and stared me down too. I feel like I have time travelled back, not even to high school but back to middle school. Oh the drama. But it made for a hilarious night. Things like that don’t bother me in the least, because I know Aram well enough to say he would never ever do anything along those lines. I also just find the drama some people invoke to be humorous. Being sober at parties that everyone else is getting drunk always gives me the best of times.

Today Aram and I went to the diner before raking leaves before I had to rake leaves. We are now officially regulars and they recognize that I always want coffee and a water to drink-no ice and that I have a love for pancakes.

Raspberry Pancakes all rolled up!

So Big and Fluffy

Stuffed with so much raspberry!

Aram likes toast and eggs.

For cross country and swimming, we have to do community service and rake the elderly’s leaves around town. We were assigned a few houses and that is how I spent the morning with my cross country team. I could have gone with swim team, but there are roughly 50 people versus the 15 on cross country so guess who needed me more ha.

My group of lovely rakers!

Clearing out the yard

This week is going to be pretty light on exercising because of my cross country race on Saturday. We are leaving Friday morning and the race is Saturday. It is the final cross country race so I hope I do well.
Here is my tentative plan:
Sunday: 9 Mile Run
Monday: Swim practice/7 mile run/4.75 mile run
Tuesday 2XSwim practice
Wednesday: Swim practice/7 mile run
Thursday: 7 mile run
Friday: OFF
Saturday Race

 

Questions for you:

1. Favorite Camera?

2. Favorite formal memory?

3. What is your most hilarious dramafilled memory?  I’m talking mean girls here.

Diner Day, New Hair and Pumpkin Muffins

By Posted in Food, Recipe, Resturants, Running Tagged , , , , , , 17 Comments

I never had my computer crash before-but it crashed and I lost my blog that I had so excitedly typed up. Well now-that is no fun and I guess I will have to recreate it and post it later. You see, I was going to post the blog at 3pm between class and swim practice because in all honesty, it’s a Friday night (and the Friday before Halloween) who is going to spend their time reading my blog?

Well hopefully you! But if not-I understand. You see with swimming we have a 48 hour policy of no drinking so there are no parties going on anyways. Not that I drink but I do have a social life (I swear!). So I’ll be spending my night reading blogs and doing homework. Anywho.
In response to everyone’s comments-I agree 100%! No one person can fulfill all your social needs. You have girlfriends to go get manicures with, you have a significant other that truly understands all your inner feelings, you have brothers and sisters you have grown up and of course you have other Foodies who love to blog! Ha-had to throw that in there.

Today it actually came up with Aram and I, he was talking in some sort of “Bro talk” vernacular that I had no idea what was going on. So I point blank said, “Aram I have no idea what sort of bro talk you are using and told him to read my blog.”

Dark Hair

or Lighter Hair?

——————-
Today started off at 6:40am-when my alarm went off. I sat there debating whether I should go for my run now or somehow squeeze in a run in between classes, then I thought back to last Friday. Last Friday was a disaster. I didn’t feel good because I was running on empty and was in bed by 7. I couldn’t complete a swim practice but I did complete a run. Anyways needless to say I slept in until 8 today and then my meeting that had thrown me off schedule was canceled anyways. So I got in my run at 12 like normal.

Friday is Diner Day!

I ordered 1 raspberry stuffed pancake and 1 apple pancake. Yes, the raspberry pancake came with whip cream on top.

So thick and neverending

Aram on the other hand ordered a meat lovers omelet.

 

Then off to Sports Psychology. We were almost late hehe. If you missed my blog on Wednesday, we are watching Bring it on. My teacher had a conference and so she had a graduate student put in the movie. Not only was there an attendance sheet but there is a GRADED worksheet. I love the movie to death (it’s one of my favorites) but in a college setting, she could have cancelled class and I could have gotten my math homework done. Oh wait…I did that while watching the movie anyways. Waste of my life.

Today I made pumpkin muffins for the cross country team. I posted a while back, that a big cross country meet happened to be on the same day as a big swim meet. Of course…well needless to say my swim coach told me if I don’t swim we won’t win and my cross country coach supported that. Was I in support? No not really-but I’m not a drama starter.

So I made them pumpkin muffins for tomorrow and I’m going to go give them to them on the bus (which leaves at 5:30am). No one can say I’m not dedicated to my teams!
Pumpkin Muffins:
1 box any cake mix you choose (I chose Spice Cake)
1 15 ounce can of pumpkin puree
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 egg whites
Mix and put into muffin cups. Cook according to package-I found mine were ready in about 12 minutes but I made them smaller.

All packaged up

My official Taste Tester

Not that I didn't eat half the batter...

 

 

 

Question for you: Favorite Holiday?
I like Christmas because of all the festivities. I like Halloween because I like the overall theme of pumpkins (but not being scared). New Years is good because it is a new start. Thanksgiving, Easter and Fourth of July bring families together. Valentines day is exciting if you have someone to share it with. What am I forgetting hehe?