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All 3000 calories of my Eats (Dinner by Cook de Aram).

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Thanks to everyone who responded about my last “concerning” blog ha.  In regards to that-I have tried to post about everything that goes into my mouth today to show just how much I eat.  It’s also a double grime girl swim practice day-so even better.  I’m going to not use a lot more pictures versus words.

I didn’t add any aspect of I compete at a varsity level in two different sports-not one but two.  Each college sport has it’s own set of practices and rules that I need to follow.  That means I have a set amount of practices I have to do for both sports.  My coaches both understand completely since swimming and running are endurance sports if occasionally I do need to miss one or the other.  Normally it isn’t speed days I miss but just more of cardio days.  It isn’t like I have decided to exercise more because I want to burn more calories (believe me I would burn those babies in my bed sleeping).

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Today’s question of the day:  What is your favorite type of boxed pancake mix?

Fiber one. “Just Add Water”

For ½ of mix you have 180 calories, 6 grams of protein and 5 grams of fiber.  My favorite part is 25% of your daily calcium!  The only thing you have to add is water-but adding milk is my route of choice.   Actually that’s a lie.  If you add ½ cup of Greek yogurt and ¼ cup of water you won’t be disappointed either.  I have used this plenty of times and it is really a plus.

Got a question?  Leave it or feel free to send me an email lolzthatswim@gmail.com

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Now for my actual food.

I tried a TLC raspberry chocolate bar.  It was pretty good but I enjoy my south beach bars more before practice.  I’m not the the biggest “nut” fan.

 

Practice in the morning:

I haven’t swam since Thursday so it was hard to dive into the pool this morning.

6000 yards

1000 warmup

8X250 Free Interval

200 backstroke

20X50 Free Interval

200 Backstroke

8X100 Pull

After practice I made chocolate pumpkin pancakes.  But you can’t really taste the flavors.  They kind of loss their flavor while cooking.  Needless to say, pancakes are still pancakes and they were still delicious.  I topped with OIKOS Greek caramel yogurt and a bit of syrup.  As always-my breakfast plate is my my yellow plate.

Then off to make up a quiz I missed from Friday and to go to Sports Psychology.  Both were uneventful.  I spent another two hours in the library doing some homework.  During that time I consumed an apple and Greek God yogurt.

I had lunch with Bonna again.  YAY!  I miss her, now that cross country is done, I need to see my friends somehow and when am I not eating?

Roast Beef Sandwich

 

turkey and ham

Then I was craving grapes before practice

Practice 2:

6800 yards

1000 warmup

12X175 free interval

2X150 backstroke

2X400IM

2X300Free

15X50 Free Interval

2X50 Timed Freestyle

400 kick

800 Free Pull

Aram made dinner tonight.  With the biggest sweet potatoes in the world.  He made grilled tuna, corn muffins and baked sweet potatoes.  It was delicious.  I am super full now.

Sweet Potato and Grilled Tuna

Corn Muffins

 

Question for you:  what are your plans this week, are you busy before the Holidays?

I actually don’t have too much work this week surprisingly.  Being a math major-you have homework or you don’t.  No long term projects or anything.  I’m flying home though a week from Tuesday.  I hope there are no delays.  Anyone know of any good restaurants around Syracuse, New York?   (big thumbs up for pancake places ha:))

Too much Greek Yogurt? No Whey!

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As some of you know (or don’t), I don’t post every single thing that goes into my mouth. Some things are just not as exciting to post. I got an email; however, on Sparkpeople in I could take a picture of everything that goes into my body for a day. They were curious because on days that I burn 1700 calories, how can I just eat that much and not disappear. This isn’t feasible to photograph every little thing every day but I decided for the next three days everything that goes into my body will be photographed.

5:30 am-morning practice. Coffee and Cliff Z Bar. I’m just trying to work through all these Cliff Z bars I bought a while back, so I can find a new prepractice snack. Similar to when I bought an overflow of Cliff Pria Bars hehe.

Insert practice here:
5700 yards
700 Warmup
3X (100 breastroke-100butterfly-100 kick)
400 IM
600 kick
600 pull
10X150 Interval
4X300 Swim
Practice today actually went by very quickly and I didn’t mind it too much.

8:45am-I was starving though and basically ran to my house to cook some breakfast. I ended up having a bowl resembling pancakes and oats, I’m not too sure. My pancakes didn’t stay together on the griddle today so I mashed them all up and added athenos blueberry Greek yogurt. My breakfast contained all the following ingredients cooked in the bowl.
½ cup pumpkin
1 scoop Isopure protein
¼ cup egg substitute
½ kashi go lean cereal (crushed)
2 cups strawberries
1 package of Athenos Blueberry Yogurt
It was quite good-just not the most viewable breakfast I have had in a while.

11:00am ¼ cup pumpkin and 4 ounces of Oikos Greek Honey yogurt. I love pumpkin and yogurt and that combination will never get old. It also makes a perfect prerace snack.

Insert a run here. I hurt my foot really badly and don’t think I’ll be running again today. It is the top of the foot but I think it is lingering from the hill workout I did yesterday erg.

1:00pm-A pizza wrap. I used Josephs flat bread flax wrap (from BJS), turkey pepperonis, 2 pieces of provolone cheese, and 4 tablespoons of salsa. I also dipped it in 6 ounces of Greek God Yogurt. I don’t normally have this much yogurt in one day but apparently, it’s a Greek day.

3:30pm-Aram and I made protein cakes. I tried mine with beets and he tried his plain vanilla. It was pretty good but I think I’ll stick with chocolate. Mine looks more like a donut though. Where the middle went is a mystery to me.

5:30 for dinner tonight Aram and I made more Tilapia and sweet potato crisps. One batch seasoned with cinnamon and one batch seasoned with salt and pepper. It was a rather simple meal but I enjoyed it.

Today was a rather productive day getting school work done as well. I finally got some of my education assignments done that I had been avoiding all weekend boo. I like typing papers but this essay was just not my cup of tea.

Incase you wondered, I also had four cups of coffee as well today. Coffee is just brown and unphotogenic hehe.

How much coffee do you have daily? Love it or hate it? Cold or hot? Skim or cream? Splenda or sugar?

Mumpkins

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Good morning blogging world.  I’m sitting here at 5:30am, rather wide awake enjoying my cliff kids bar and cup of coffee.  I’m about to head to morning swim practice.  I just thought I would type the first line now ha.  J

Insert 5100 yards here.

450 warm-ups
15X50s Freestyle drill (5-1 arm, 5-swimming with closed fists, 5-1 arm)
2X700 Freestyle
14X100 Interval Freestyle
500 kick
2X300 Pull

8:30am-I had been thinking about what exactly I wanted to make for breakfast.  I do that a lot when working out but mostly during swimming.  I had told myself that I wasn’t going to use pumpkin because I was saving that for other occasions such as dinner tonight.  But alas-my cravings got the best of me.  Today I made chocolate pumpkin protein pancakes.

1/3 cup fiber one pancake mix
1 scoop protein
2 tablespoons Hershey dark cocoa
½ cup canned pumpkin
¼ cup milk

Then I topped with PB2 and  6 ounces of Greek God Yogurt.  It was very tasty and I am so pleased with the outcome.  Everyone who said cooking with pumpkin makes your pancakes/cake/muffins so moist, you are right!  I have never had anything more delicious.

Insert a one hour 7.5 mile run.  I ran up and down a two story hill and around a one mile track.  I ran four times around the track and the hill is right in the middle so I just veered off course and ran up the hill for that portion.

After my run, I snacked on the frozen strawberries to cool my body down.  Do you enjoy frozen fruit?  I keep buying them for smoothies but then keep eating them whole.  I would have taken a picture but they were gone in about 2 minutes!

12:30pm Lunch at Lehman Dining Hall.  Today I just wanted the stuffed chicken (stuffed with stuffing) and raviolis.  I had a lot but my body was hungry.  My boyfriend skipped breakfast.  :O  He was very hungry by noon!  I would be too yuck.

2:00pm-Modern Algebra.  Insert lots of proofs but my teacher decided not to give us homework which means I basically have no work for the rest of the week.  Just studying.  I love having rest Sundays and getting all my nonmath homework done hehe.

Insert a 40 minute run.  I did a lot of cardio today but Mondays are my hard training days for running and swimming.

5:30pm-My boyfriend and I decided we would make dinners together on Mondays.  Today we made grilled Tilapia, cooked spinach and shockingly Pumpkin Muffins!

The grilled Tilapia was seasoned with a bit of red pepper and red wine vinegar and when making spinach I always add lots of garlic and onion powder.

To make the pumpkin muffins (which I have decided I named Mumpkins) I’m going to make humerous names for all my pumpkin creations this month. I added 12 ounces canned pumpkin and 1 package of cornbread muffin mix.  Aram was skeptical at first (he always is when it comes to my cooking.) but he loved them!  I loved them too.  He ate them plain but I added a couple tablespoons of Orange Marmalade.


Cheers to Yummy Pumpkin Muffins

Then off to teach swimming lessons.  It’s week three which means only one more week to go.  I enjoy teaching the lesson; it’s just another thing on my plate.  For our annual trip to Puerto Rico, we are required though so I would rather suck it up and teach lessons then not go…besides I don’t have much work this week anyways.

Question for you:

What is your favorite type of fish?

Mine is Salmon, although I’m generally a fan of all seafood.  :)

Obsessions-Pancakes and Yogurt

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I have been finding it a lot harder and harder to run in the morning.  When I go to swim practice in the morning-I feel much more motivated to go (and my coach will have my bottom if I don’t).   Running, however, is different because I’m running by myself.  There is no one to call me if I’m not there…or they don’t see me.  Today began with a 1 hour run through the town.  I felt decent running today, which I was actually surprised.

8:30am-Sweet Potato Pancakes.  Remember these guys?  I haven’t had you in a while and that is basically all I thought about during my run ha.  I had a side of vanilla Chobani yogurt.  I love yogurt with my pancakes.  I will never get enough of either.  I like how sweet potato pancakes and pumpkin pancakes are not always in a perfect circle and look like a giant blob.  If that makes sense.

Then I had a math class-we had a pop quiz boo!  I think I did pretty well-we have a test on Tuesday though.  I guess she wanted to give us a check to make sure we knew what we needed to study.  After that I got some much needed laundry done.  It amazes me how gross running clothes can smell ah.

12:00pm-Strawberry pancakes.  Okay yes, this is very embarrassing that I was having pancakes for two meals today.  They are, however, made entirely different.  The first ones were made without any pancake mix and these use fiber one pancake mix.  I also made lots of baby pancakes versus one big pancake.  I’m trying to go a more meatless route when I have 2:00 swim practice because I can feel it sitting in my stomach sometimes.

My boyfriend wanted to take my picture today because I didn’t look like a bum.  I said I would only take a photo with my favorite stuffed animal Bloomie.  I have had him since I was one!


Do you have any stuffed animals that you have had forever?

Insert another awful IM practice here.

Total: 5300 yards
750 warmup
10X50 butterfly drill
4X100 Backstroke
4X100 Breastroke
5X100 Butterfly
1000 freestyle (1:20 base…on 12:40)
600 freestyle
400 free
2X200 free
350 cool-down

It was the practice that never ends.

4:30pm-Greek god yogurt with hot cocoa mix.  A friend of mine told me about mixing hot cocoa with yogurt and it tastes exactly like mousse.  I added swiss miss diet and 1 serving of Greek god plain.  Yummy! (not pictured booo)

5:30-Dinner date to the dining hall.  Thursday is steak night at Lehman.  The flank steak was actually delicious and I had a lot.  Nothing too excessive but I got my fair share of protein tonight.  I also had mixed veggies, a baked potato and fruit salad.  I found some banana peppers on the salad bar that I was craving as well.

I have to teach swimming lessons tonight and I’m rather cold.  We will see how this goes.  I suppose I’ll make myself some hot cocoa, and use more and more of my hot cocoa mix.  I’m starting to run low eek.

After my run, I noticed the veins in my feet were popping out.  I’m going to do more research on this, it has happened during swimming with my shoulders but never when running.  I hope this doesn’t gross anyone out hehe. I made it smaller just incase.

Question for you-What are some of your favorite high protein meatless meals?

Oh Hey Breezy Day

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Pete warned me this would happen.  My cross country coach said at about 10 days in, I would start to feel fatigued…not motivated…my runs would stink.  Well here they are.  I am all of the following.

I woke up at 7am this morning and went for a 40 minute run.  Sure, I could have gone farther but I’ll get my other 20 minutes in at another point sometime today.

8:30am-I came back and made strawberry pancakes and had a side of Greek god yogurt.  These pancakes are very simple.  Mix fiber one pancake mix, 1 scoop of protein and some mushy strawberries.  I blended mine and the pancakes were pink.  They were delicious though and just what I needed.

During my run today, I decided I was going to take Sunday off.  I’m sure Pete won’t mind and I think it will be helpful for my body to have a full day of just laying in bed.  Actually my boyfriend and I are going to plan a date that day (I hope) if football doesn’t get in the way boo.

After my doctor’s appointment, my boyfriend and I went to lunch at Dexter’s.  I had soup, a sandwich, and fruit salad.  It seems like a lot I suppose but I need to be eating more to balance out my exercise.

11:30am-Lunch at Dexter’s

Then for the moment, I had been waiting for.  My educational psychology test (boo!)  I think I did pretty well (hopefully) and he should have them all graded soon.  We will see I suppose.  I finished in about 45 minutes and knew a lot of the answers but he tried to trick us on a lot of questions.  For instance, one of the questions was,

What are Piaget’s four developmental stages?

a.       Sensormoter, prepositional, concrete operational and formal operational
b.      Sensormotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational.

The correct answer is nonoperational, but he was a tricky one.

After that I headed towards practice.  Swim team today was another 5000 yards (go figure).  But ah it was an im practice.  For those of you who don’t know, I’m a distance swimmer.  Freestyle distance.  Not im.   I have absolutely no skill in strokes and I’m okay with that.  Anyways-the first four weeks I have to suck it up and do some lovely stroke work.

500 warm-up freestyle
3X300 backstroke
3X400 freestyle
6X100 butterfly
7X200 IM (the death of me I swear)
400 cool down

Then afterwards, I made myself a protein smoothie.  Somewhat protein-more fiber than anything else.  It had 1/3 cup Fage yogurt, 1 Greek god 4 ounce yogurt and ½ cup fiber one cereal crushed with about a cup of strawberries.

Then a lovely trip to Wal-Mart which involved buying grapes.  For dinner, I just ate about 800 grams of grapes.  It’s not sugary ice-cream, so I suppose that’s a start. Does anyone else enjoy the Concord Grape Season? It’s my favorite fruit ha.

8:00pm-I made eggplant, turkey pepperoni and provolone cheese in a bowl.  It was a strange combination but never the less good.  I was going to make a pizza wrap but then I remembered I had a giant eggplant.  I grilled the eggplant then added a layer of turkey pepperoni then added the cheese.  I will have to make it again and my boyfriend surprised me and showed up and had some too.

Now I’m sitting here doing some math homework.

On a side note-I want to add a blog roll.  Is anyone interested in being on my blog roll?  Can someone help create a blog roll?  I tried to add one to my blog today but it was all wordpress links.  :(