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WIAW: Public Health Conference Style

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As you may or may not know, last week (or two weeks ago..I don’t remember…) I went to a big public health conference and it was a lot of fun.   A big misconception about people in the public health field is that we eat perfectly…all the time…

That is false my friends.

Also false is the only part of health is nutrition.  Whenever I mention I work in the Public health field on the blog, I 95% of the time get the response of:

“I would love to work in health, I read about nutrition and healthy living blogs already so much”

My job is not to read healthy living blogs…and it really doesn’t even relate to nutrition half of the time.  I’m sorry, just as people went to college for math, science, English…whatever…I went to school for public health.  I have a huge basis of knowledge that isn’t limited to nutrition and healthy living blogs.  Public health isn’t just nutrition or lowest calorie being best. 

While obviously I love blogging about living “pretty” healthy and working out, that isn’t my main focus with work and I irks me to no end when other bloggers believe they have the same amount of knowledge of public health.  Even more so saying yeah that seems so easy because I read all these blogs and blog myself.

 If you haven’t completed a four year degree in public health, community health…some sort of health, please don’t claim we have the same basis of knowledge.    I do not claim to be an expert in anything but I do claim to have a very strong basis in public health.

Okay end rant. 

Now on to WIAW at the conference. 

hoarding coffee…classic…

Mushroom salad and apple crisp with coffee

salmon and snap peas, chipoltle salad (with lots of guac) and smoked turkey sandwich with pretzels

salmon and snap peas with also fruity cheesecake

Confession number 2: Because I do work out more then most other people…I get hungry more then everyone else.  While all this food was amazing…it was NOT ANYWHERE CLOSE ENOUGH FOR ME…Did it feel awkward I was eating twice as much as most people?

blueberry cheesecake, cupcakes galore (I had 3) and Guinness beer

Somewhat…but  I was over it.  I packed a ton of snacks and went from there.

Oh and I dug out some real girl clothes too ;)

PS: If you are interested in doing a PMB {physical, mental and brag post} tomorrow link up.  Where are the weeks going seriously!?

Questions for you:

1.       Have you ever been to a conference?

2.       What irks you about your job? 

Typical Thursday

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Today was a typical Thursday.    But um, when thas my life really been typical?  I suppose I bring it upon myself but sometimes my days are boring-I swear.  Those are days I actually do an entire day of eats.

In case you are just tuning in, I go observe classes in the high school on Thursdays.  Today-I even got to do a demo lesson!  I taught about supplementary angles, traversals and all that jazz to 10th graders. (and the kids understood-I think)!   I was so tired this morning and waking up at 6am really didn’t work well in my life.

What did work was having my own America’s Next Top Model Shoot instead of getting ready for school.  Real girl outfit number 5 was Micheal Kor skirt, Hollister tights (oh yes I went there its cold up hurr), BCBG white lace top and crew green tank and kt tape on my ankle because that is part of my awesomesauce outfit.


Speaking of America’s Next Top Model-um why hasn’t Alex gone home yet?

This is the photoshoot from last night.  Do you like the Blondes or Brunettes?  I always have liked darker hair (although clearly by my roots the other day need to work on that situation.)

Blondes!

Brunettes!

My natural hair color=blonde (not dirty but not ultra bleach blonde).

I found a photo from my natural days..aka high school.

After I got back to campus, I went and had lunch at our dining hall with Bonna.  I broke up with the dining hall about 3 months ago, and have gone from going everydayish to going maybe once a week or so.  It was heading my life into a cycle that I didn’t want to go too.  Now that I have cut ties with it-I realize they actually have decent food.  Can you believe that?

Greek Salad. Olives+crumbly blue cheese=key to my heart

Roast Beef Sandwich

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Today was a run and (are you ready for this) a swim day too.  Neither of these were meant to be fast at all (in fact my run is supposed to be slower then my long run.  I love recovery runs, just slow long miles baby).  I ran 7.3 miles and swam 3000 yards in a little less than two hours.  I actually did this all in a row-how my brain stayed focused that long was the real question here.

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Today Blogging BFFS is the last day of March holla.  Which means let’s welcome in some April Goals.

1.       Gradually increase milage and replace the Arctrainer (sorry Blogging bffs we are having a long and slow breakup, the Arc and I.  I will still agree to see him once a week when my milage begins to increase).
2.       Try a new recipe once per week.
3.       Try a new food on campus at least once per week.  I normally get a quiche and the same side salad-but I’m changing I swear.
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Question for you:
1.       Any April Goals?
2.       I need your help.  I need to interview 3 people that use different types of supplements (this could be protein powder, multivitamin, fish oil).  But anyways-I will love forever if you email me at lolzthatswim@gmail.com allowing me to interview you.  You’ll be famous and my BFF forever.  I mean what more could you want in life.

Home Sweet Home

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As I sit here writing a blog before actually arriving home, I have determined that I need to make some goals while home.  As I was telling Allison, I want to use this break too really dive into not binge eating.  It gives me an entire week away from the dining hall and I’m hoping that once I get settled away from it, it won’t be too difficult to limit my dining hall for the final few weeks of school.

So here are my short term weekly goals for Tuesday-Sunday.

1.       Try at least 3 new meals.  Take a leap of faith. Binge eating is often because you eat the same things-all day everyday.  By trying new things, you are allowing your body some freedom.

2.       Get my swim practices in.  I need to get 3 practices in this week.  In case, you didn’t realize, unless we don’t get swimming in, we aren’t allowed to go home.  That is how varsity teams operate.

3.       Get all my work done.  Let me tell you about next week.  Monday, I have a test and a presentation.  Tuesday and Wednesday-I have a test.  Go figure busy bee.

4.       Relax and don’t overanalyze.  That is when I overeat, wouldn’t you know?

 

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Before practice this morning I had a Pria power bar.  I had a few of these leftover from my obsession last year.  They were sold out for a while and then I got tired of them so they sat in my fridge for a while.

It was another practice with the entire team.  If you decided to leave early (or not show up) you had a “punishment” set of 8X800s.  The first 800 was warmup and the last cooldown.  The middle 6 were timed with 15 seconds rest.  I don’t think it sounded too bad but I believe I’m in the minority.

4X300 Swim-kick-Pull-Swim

3X400 Pull.  I have come to realize I’m the pulling champion.

8X150 IM-odd butterfly-back-breast even-back-breast-free

14X75s Free Interval

400 Kick

Then I ran back to my room, showered and finished packing.  I ended up just mixing up some Chobani yogurt, protein powder and pumpkin for breakfast.  It was really good.  Then Aram and I picked up Alicia and we were off.

 

We stopped at diner on the way to Syracuse airport.  It was good as well.  I had two blueberry pancakes and one strawberry.  I was impressed with how crazy the shape of the pancakes w ere.  They had no problems serving irregular shaped pancakes-and I’m not sure why this impressed me so much but it did ha.

 

Such a strange shape.

We also stopped at Wegmans!  I haven’t been there in ages-I love it.  I had tofu sushi and some concoction of fruit salad in the car ride.   I seem to think grapes, mangos and olives make an awesome salad combination.  I seem to also have an obsession with grapes and olives.  I haven’t had mangos in ages and decided to mix that along with pineapple, spinach and grape tomatoes.

 

 

What is your favorite thing that Wegmans offers?

I can’t find the tofu sushi in many places (besides that strange Mongolian restaurant in town) so I always get a lot of that.  Also-Smuckers Sugar Free Pancake Syrup is so yummy.

During my flight, I got a phone call informing me my next flight was delayed.  I didn’t even know they called you when that happened.  Has that ever happened to you?

For dinner, I had dinner in the airport…it ended up costing me 16 dollars for a bowl of fruit, weird roll called prosciutto and mozzarella on ficelle.  It was pretty good although they added too much sauce but its airport food.  I don’t think you can complain much.  I’m glad I decided to try something new instead of going with a grilled chicken salad or something of that nature.  So day 1.  Tried something new.

 

 

I had a go free gluten free carrot cake bar for dessert because I was craving something sweet.  It was pretty good but I think I would prefer something not crunchy when tasting carrot cake.  It confused my brain.

Once I finally got home around 9, I had an apple and discovered I need to go grocery shopping for the house.  Thanks mom.  Ha.

 

Do you have off the rest of the week?

Because I love to wake up at 5:30 for no reason

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So I finally got my lazy butt up yesterday (well not really, besides leaf raking and my run, I was sitting or laying the entire day) and ordered some more protein off of netrition. The theme this month was more cake batter. I loved this flavor. I will be the first one to tell you, it is just an ultra sweet vanilla-but delicious it is.
I also ordered some PB2 and some carbquick baking mix. I love my PB2 and we will see how this carbquick goes.

I didn’t blog about last night’s dinner because I just was feeling lazy but I must add it to today’s blog. I went to the dining hall and discovered they had…GNOCCHI! This is where I first found out about my love for gnocchi. Gnocchi for dinner is what pancakes is for breakfast. I must say the dining hall makes them slightly burnt in such a way that it is my favorite thing they will ever cook (even though I believe they do it wrong-that is why they are burnt). So needless to say after having about 1000 of those on top of those diner pancakes…I’m all carbed out for a while.

The weekend was pretty good. My swim meet didn’t go as well as I would have liked but after cross country season, I can just focus on swimming. The after party was fun though. Swimming formal drama! If you need a few good chuckles read about it here.

Don’t forget my Trader Joe’s Cookbook giveaway ends on Saturday. I only have 15 entries thus far so you have an awesome chance to win.

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Well let me tell you about my morning. I woke up at 5:30 which was incredibly hard to do. Shouldn’t it be easier with daylight savings time? Walked all the way to the pool and what happened? It was closed…they were doing work on the pool yesterday and the chemicals were imbalanced. They didn’t tell our coach and he was livid, not to mention us early morning risers were livid.

So what did I do? Go for a run? No, I just went back to bed. I figured with my biggest race coming up on Saturday-I should start my week off strong with lots of sleep.
When I woke up at 8, I decided I was craving more fruity pancakes again. I looked around and saw we had a lemon and a lime. I went with the lemon. Ever since Di @ Treadmill Diaries posted about using orange zest in her French toast, I have wanted to zest up all my pancakes!

Lemon Zest Pancakes!

1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup egg substitute
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup greek yogurt
1/4 cup water
4 tablespoons lemon zest

Then class. She canceled class on Friday. Too bad I’ll already be missing it since I’m going to my big race.

My run today was exactly what I needed (minus my iPod died at mile 1). I completed 7.1 miles in exactly 48 minutes. I was really excited about that-6:48 pace! I hadn’t had any good runs in a while so this really helped to pump me up for this weekend. I seriously stared out of my window for 30 minutes deciding if I wanted to run on the treadmill or in the cold.

To run outside or inside? So many choices.

I came back and made myself hotdogs. I hadn’t had them in a while either and it seemed like a good idea at the time. I added a slice of cheese and ketchup to top them off.
Why don’t I have these more often? Mysteries of my life…

For snack, I made myself another peanut flour protein muffin. In case you missed it,
2 tablespoons Hershey unsweetened cocoa
¼ peanut flour
¼ cup pumpkin pure
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract

First time in my ramekin!

Mix and put into a mug or ramekin and place in microwave for 1 minute. Yummy ooey gooey yum. I could eat these for every meal.
Then off to swim practice again…at least the pool was open.

6750 yards
1000 warmup
400IM
16X100 Pull
10X200 Free Interval
3X (400 kick, drill, swim)
400 kick

Practice was okay-it actually went by really quickly…perhaps because the clock was broken and I couldn’t stare at it every five seconds.

Then I went to the dining hall for dinner. I had enchiladas and a turkey and roast beef flatbread sandwich. I didn’t talk to many pictures because I’m having a somewhat rough day.

This sandwich is a hot mess

I’ll probably explain in later blogs but long story short-I borrowed Aram’s car yesterday and over the weekend, he doesn’t know when and neither do I, someone hit it. There is a rather large dent on the top of the car, almost as if someone dropped something on it or punched it. Either way, it just so happened it was the only weekend I borrowed his car.

But Anywho, I hope everyone else had a lovely Monday. It’s already 7oclock; this day has flown by though. What did you get accomplished this weekend?

French Toast, Muffins and Too Much Dining Hall

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My blog will start with a question for you, because for the life of me I cannot figure it out. How do you arrange your blogroll in alphabetical order? It has been bothering me for a few weeks now-but like I said I have been having problems with it. I think I have spent a total of 2 hours looking into it ha. Anywho, please help. :)

But on a side note-someone found my blog yesterday by using the search term” Doctor Yogurt.” What is the craziest search term that has been directed to your blog?

I find the ones with my full name slightly humorous too. Someone knew what they wanted.
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The walk to morning practice was so cold. I think it was in the low 20s and there was frost on the ground. I walked and sipped my new eggnog coffee sample that I got. It isn’t too “eggnoggy” per say but it is still pretty decent. Not my favorite though.

Practice was hard today. I’m not really sure how I got through honestly. Ha.
Total: 6200 yards
800 warmup
2X [100 breastroke-100 kick-50 fly-150 kick]
12X175 Interval Free
3X500 TIMED Free, 6:01, 5:58, and 6:03
400 backstroke cool down
3X200IM

Then I came back and made French toast out of my Arnolds flatbreads. They were delicious. I hadn’t had French toast in a while so this hit the spot. I also mixed 1 cup FAGE Greek yogurt and ½ cup pumpkin.

After class I debated going for a run-but I just wasn’t feeling it. I decided I would buckle down on some homework and go later. I got some of my favorite subject done-modern algebra. In my opinion, there is no difference between modern algebra and old school algebra…they just needed a new course name. I mean in high school you have algebra one and two, then going into calculus 1-3, advanced calculus (for me is next semester). Oh I forgot about linear algebra, which is algebra about matrixes. Really is should be called matrix algebra. As I step off the soap box, I leave you with this class was just misnamed.

For my mid morning snack, I had another delicious protein muffin! Except this one was more delicious than the other day.
Peanut Butter Cup
¼ cup peanut flour
¼ cup pumpkin
½ tsp vanilla extract
½ tsp baking powder
1 tablespoon egg
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
Sweetener/spices to taste

Mix in a mug (or your small magic bullet cup) and pop into microwave for 1 minute. Can I just eat these all day?

Aram and I went on a glorious date to the dining hall for lunch. I had a roast beef sandwich, sweet potatoes and lucky charms mixed with Twix cereal. I’m not really a cereal fan 95% of the time but today I was craving some. It is better than all the cake no?

After modern algebra, I went for a 9 mile run. I actually was 5 minutes faster than Sunday and that was 26 miles and three swim practices later. I think for all the working out I have done so far this week-I was pretty proud.

For dinner I had turkey, stuffing, more sweet potatoes, and Aram and I split a piece of pie. Aram had most of it. I was some sort of coconut chocolate chip concoction. I have been too lazy to cook lately so you will see a lot more dining hall action.

Tomorrow marks my first grime girl day. AKA-the first double swim practice of the season. For me anyways-I have weaseled my way out of them all season because I have been doing cross country. But the time is here.

Then I’m going to the mall to pick out a dress for swimming formal with Aram.

By the way-I have ¼ left of my pumpkin pie. Aram and I each had ¼ last night too hehe. I’m surprised it lasted this long.

Question for you-What is your favorite type of formal attire? Are you a little black dress girl, a floral print, asymmetric, long, and short? Feel free to post pictures of you in your favorite dress. I’m between a red flower print dress, a black and silver dress and a blue one strap dress. I’ll post pictures tomorrow perhaps. I think I’ll end up buying one at the mall tomorrow though because that is how I roll.

Edit-I found 2/3 pictures of the dresses. I have yet to wear the blue one.  Both of these are from quite some time ago-so you may not recognize me.  I am wearing blue contacts by the way.  I nixed them though-because they even creeped me out.

Black?

 

 

Floral?