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!