Post it

So a lot has changed and i am just full of surprises lately.. i haven't kept up with this blog mostly because my schedule wont allow it. However i am going to continue in the next few weeks to bring things to a close and focus more on me.. and this blog.
I leave you with this which is what explains my current state of mind/situation:

Everytime I do something out of the ordinary.. something extraordinary comes my way. Stepping outside my comfort zone has proved to be an adventure in itself.

Finish each day

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Crash and Burn

It has been almost 3 weeks without an update! I feel so terrible.. but i do have some good excuses, i was on vacation (Cancun,MX!!) then i came back and started school again -- so there went my free time.

On my next post i will update you with the yummy food down in Cancun.. for the meantime i took a picture of my dinner today.. some california shrimp sushi rolls, tangerine italian soda and 3 scoops of organic after dark froyo from stonyfields--mmm super yummy




I have totally been neglecting my organic diet ever since i came back from Mexico, since starting school i feel that i've been thrown off my normal eating schedule so dealing with that also.



Cancun pix to come! Heres a little taste..

Corn chowdah

Had lunch with one of my sorors on Sunday afternoon, we hit up panera bread and i ordered a turkey sandwich on focaccia bread with summer corn chowder and a baguette, it was fantastic.

We went shopping later because we had a chapter picture, spending money was super fun but ended up spending $80! More than i bargained for..

Didn't hit up the farmer's market this weekend, needed a break and also i didn't really have much to buy... went to a quinceanera this weekend (15th bday) and had soo much fun, danced the entire night!

*note to me: after having a plate of barbacoa and carne en mole with rice and beans my stomach did not accept it so well, think i had some indigestion for a lil bit.. * I may be getting used to organic foods.. those foods were heavy.*

However did end up dancing soo much that i'm pretty sure i burned most of it up. The sweat was pretty gross..

Here's a pic of us.. and i'm a hot mess..

Knee bummer

I went to the doctor yesterday, looks like my knee is just being dumb.. the doc told me to not play tennis for 4 weeks and prescribed some anti-inflammatory pills. I hate medicine..

She recommended low impact exercise such as swimming and walking. Guess i'll have to give that a shot.

Haven't updated much on the food front, I keep forgetting to take my memory card out of my computer after uploading pix! But i did find this awesome anti-oxidant trail mix that has dried cranberries, almonds, raisins and pieces of dark chocolate .. it is delish!

Did stroll practice last night with the girls, tried not to jostle my knee too much after icing it (the doc also gave me a huge ice pack!)

So much for running (at least for a while) looks like the water will be my best friend for the next few weeks! I'll let you know how it goes..

"Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy."

- Bill Blackman

quick fix

Got back into my exercise routine today with an hour and a half of intense tennis. I think i did something to my knee because it really hurt today. I hope its nothing too serious, but i'm getting it checked out anyways.

Breakfast consisted of oatmeal and a banana, then lunch at work was a salad, a cup of noodles and a ham/turkey sandwich on honey whole wheat bread.

Since i had a match in Red Oak i took some food on the go like a medium size apple and these great little vegetable TLC crackers...

It was super hot outside so i probably doubled the sweating.. ew. Then on my way back home my side mirror got all disconnected from the few threads of duct tape holding it in place, so i had to stop in the middle of the highway and bust out my duct tape to fix it.. i took a few neat pics..

Laziness is hard to shake off

I completely forgot my memory card inside the computer this weekend so i don't really have any pictures but i did learn that laziness was abundant this weekend and you probably don't want to know everything i ate!

Since friday i had slipped with my workout, i decided to stay home and chill with my parents instead and do some laundry.. then on Saturday i went to the farmers market and that was fun as always.. however didn't do any excercise then either.. instead i went to whole foods bought groceries (happy face) and bought a whole pizza for my sisters and my sisters boyfriend.. not to mention while at whole foods we bought some mocha gelato (which was to die for btw) and my lil sis bought a "healthy" choco chip cookie.. ya right..

Went into lazy mode watched a movie, ate and then later that night went to another movie at the dollar theater.. kudos to me i didn't buy anything there but i did eat 2 slices of pizza

and today was the worst! I slept until 2pm (granted i didn't go to sleep till 3am) but i felt soo tired and horrible.. i ate yogurt when i woke up (wouldn't call it breakfast) and later made an omelet.

I had told one of my sorority sisters i'd meet up with her to play tennis and so i did around 730pm.. did about an hour but again i was feeling so de-energized.

I wonder if it is because i didn't have a consistent work out.. all week i felt fine until the wknd.. how horrible! so afterwards i stopped at walmart and bought a few things then came home to clean before my roomie got back..

I was pumped so i went to the apt gym for a good 30 minutes of cardio and 15 minutes of weights.. now i'm here blogging even though its 230 in the morning.. but i feel good..

Prepped some salad for the week.. here's a pic of my fridge! I know not uber exciting or anything.. but that's the only pic i managed to get.. haha. Time for a new week.. bring it

Temptations

Had some fab fat free vanilla yogurt this morning with granola and flaxseed, this usually keeps me full until lunch...

For lunch i packed a salad, some sliced apples with peanut butter and one of annie chun's noodle bowls... it was super yummy

Later tonight i went to the 'rents house and had a slimwich from jimmy johns along with a wild rice and chicken soup.. double yummy. Missed my workout today but figured i deserve a break after going sunday through thursday. I was super tempted with fast food on the way home from work but decided against it.. not sure if it was my will or my lack of money..

Tomorrow morning i'm hitting up the farmer's market with my sisters! My flowers are dying i bought a few weeks ago.. time to replace them, I should make a list...

Enlightenment (sp?)

I want to be do PR press tours for films.. aaahhhhh
Now the only question is how to get there... hmmm

Annie Chun rox my sox

Had a hectic weekend, saturday worked half the day then went to see the fam. It was a joint birthday party for my 2 brothers and sister whose birthdays are all in July. My parents made their infamous "tacos de lengua" or tongue tacos (hey, don't knock it till you try it!) and fetucini alfredo with chicken and another with shrimp.

I had a serving of fetucini with chicken and 1 taco, it was soo good. I miss my mom's home cooking.

Later that evening we played some sand volleyball and tennis--for like 2 hours! Needless to say i'm pretty sure i burned off what i ate.

Yesterday was more or less a lazy day, got up really late and later went to play tennis with one of my sorority sisters.

When i finished i was really hungry so i stopped by walmart to get some things and bought this peculiar "soy" based cheese for quesadillas. I was really wanting a quesadilla so I was willing to try it out with my whole wheat tortillas.

The cheese hardly had any flavor so I added lettuce and salsa into my quesadilla, it was ok, nothing to rave about.This morning started out my day with a bowl of oatmeal and bananas, had a salad for lunch and some leftover meat w/zuchinni (sp?)

For dinner I made Annie Chun's Noodle express -- it was very good, i added fresh green pepper and i think it would have been even better with some cut up chicken.

It took only a few minutes to make!

Since i didn't get up in time to do my workout today i went to my apartment gym late tonight and did 30 minutes of cardio, im super tired... time for a good night's sleep. Later gators!

Tennis is my vice

I played a ton of tennis today-- and it was soo much fun!

So i haven't updated my meals but good news!!! I lost 3lbs this week! This is the first week i have started eating more whole foods (organic) and exercising more... so this works. Here are my pix for the week!

Here is my before eating salad.. the white stuff is feta cheese.. soo yummy

Soy burgers are delish!

I also made some not so healthy food although it was whole grain macaroni and cheese...

I was in the mood for something barbque so i made bbq chicken.. it was finger lickin' good!

This chocoloate froyo is fierce!

My drive to Red Oak, IA for a tennis match.. a whole lot of nothing..

Me n my sis bein krazee

So far so good! We will see what this next week has in store for me, oh and my roommate finally comes back this wednesday! yay!

Pad Thai and tofu= super scrumptious

So i have this thing now where i have a salad before my main course for lunch, really helps fill me up faster!
This morning went to the gym and did 30 minutes of cardio with 10 min of weights.. came back and had a cup of vanilla fat free yogurt with strawberry granola and a tsp of flax seed.. it was soo good.

For lunch i tried this frozen plate "Pad Thai with tofu" it was surprisingly good and a little spicy.
For dinner i was running late so i popped some leftover meat and veggies in the micro and ran out... did step practice with the girls then had a drink with Jessica at Billy Frog's.

Kinda late once i got home so i just had 2 scoops of After Dark Chocolate Fro-yo.. it was yummy

Meeting monika early tom at scooters... need my beauty sleep nite! :)

Soulmates

Classic Definition of Soulmates or twin flames:

The concepts of soulmates arose from Greek mythology. According to the story, our ancestors once had 2 heads, 4 arms. They did something to offend a god so that god punished them by splitting them down the middle, resulting in the creation of humans. As a punishment, we are condemned to spend our lives searching for the other half, our soulmates

I read an interesting theory once, from a professor in psychology who was writing about humans and love. In this theory, which probably goes out of the bounds of actual psychology, he proposed that there is no ‘one person’ that each of us is intended to be with forever. Rather, his theory said that there are about eight ‘right persons’ for each of us, but that since these eight are spread so much around the planet we will only have the chance of meeting one: a soulmate, of sorts.

This study proposed that from a standpoint of compatibility mixed with probability, if someone was to find one of their soulmates, there would only be a very minute chance they would ever meet with any of the other ‘eight’, and thus wouldn’t feel as strong a connection with anyone else in their lifetime; even though the others do exist somewhere.

Thought i'd share my findings :)

Today went by so slow, did some cooking last night with some meat and veggies!

Of course while cooking i had to snack on some yummy organic grapes and cucumbers with lime.

Then someone at work today walked in with some really good smelling chinese food, i was really tempted.. but i waited until i clocked out and went to whole foods to find a good substitute. This is what i ate instead of the grease heavy chinese food i could have had. (it wasn't too bad either)

Ahh and my wonderful honey vanilla chamomile tea--

lifetime shows..

Was off of work early today because i was supposed to play a tennis match but it rained too much to play on the courts! We rescheduled for Friday.
I hit up the gym in my apartments again 25 min of cardio 10 min of weights.. i hope i can go longer next week.

Watching lifetime "Drop Dead Diva" kinda getting into it.. lol


"Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer." Marcia Wieder

Saturday.. so much accomplished

Got up so early I can't believe i'm still awake. My sis spent the night and we hit the gym at 6:30am... unfortunately for us only 1 treadmill was working so we did the eliptical (sp?) and weights, the guy was on for like 30 minutes! Goodness..
After that we went to the Farmer's market downtown-- it was so awesome, i've only been one other time and hadn't realized just how many things there were!
So i overdid it and by the time i was heading out both of my hands were carrying bags, bought so many fresh veggies, salsa and bread! IT was so beautiful out too!

Headed out to work after that and at this point I've only had a honey oat granola bar so i was pretty hungry--- lucky for me my new addiction (and fav place) was having a summer taste festival so the whole store (Whole Foods) had samplings. That's where i went for lunch--see the yumminess?

Got off work and headed to my brother's place so he could install a new fuel injector in my car-- hung out with my niece and nephew.. they are soo silly.

Ran a few errands and by the time I got home it was 9:30pm! I was super hungry so i made some tea (honey vanilla chamomille, yum!) and started washing all the veggies and cutting them up for storage. (while munching on them too!)

A friend came by and I finished cutting, slicing, storing everything while chatting away. My fridge is super healthy! Can't wait to eat tomorrow! :)

Fiber in the morning..mmm

So today was the first day i went back to the gym.. my apt has a 24 hr fitness center (yay for me) the only hard part was getting there. Did 25 min of cardio and 10 min of weights.. im so out of shape, i can't believe i lasted that long.

Came home for bkfast -- bowl of fiber 1 with a banana and this fun bottle of water i got at whole foods. Payday is today so maybe i'll go check out what else they have.. that place is addictive.

Last night I didn't have much, 1/2 cup of mint choc ice cream and a smore (midnight bonfires) good times, bad 4 diet.

I'm so not a morning person... but i'm making an effort.

"The one thing worse than a quitter is the person who is afraid to begin."

Quote of the day

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." E.B. White

Whole Foods pizza

So I completely forgot about this blog, journaling in my journal of course and livejournal i guess there wasn't a real need to do it here.. however i have found a new use for you my lovely blog.

Food blogging. Yes i guess it is the new fad but it should also help in what i am consuming on a daily basis. Granted i did not think of this on my own, i skimmed several other food blogs before posting my own. Actors diet was fun and full of useful info (Lynn Chen and Christine Meyers) so here we go...

So to date I have bought only a few organic items.. organic green tea and ginger chews, although i'm not sure if those are organic.

Today i went to whole foods and got 2 slices of pizza. Spinach and artichoke and pepperoni.. also bought a cup of peach rosemary infused lemonade-- it sounded good. A little sugary but i added water and ice to balance it out.

The pizza was amazing--it was really odd though I thought i was really hungry but one slice and i was full!

In the morning i had Special k and skim milk. Yum.

We are having a going away party for a co-worker and they are providing a nacho bar.. lets see how this goes.

ttfn!

Jackie