Lazy Bogger

Re-cap
1/5/07 & 1/6/07

Ok, so it’s actually 1/7/07 and I’m blogging for the weekend.
This is my “weekend wrap up” I guess!

Saturday we got up early and headed to the big city for a day full of shopping!
It was quite fun. I decided I wasn’t going to go crazy thinking about nutrition because it was my sister’s birthday trip. So I allowed myself a few treats… but I feel like I did pretty well overall.
Plus, I’m still looking for a few extra calories to get my weight back up there to my desired range.

We started the day at my favorite Bagel place, Bagelz… where I splurged, and got myself the “everything” bagel with some lo-cal veggie cream cheese. This probably wouldn’t have been too bad a choice, besides the lack of whole grain, but they put soooo much cream cheese on the bagels, I’m sure I could have wiped off a whole bunch of it and still had it be extra-cheesy!
I indulged, just this one time… hey, at least it’s “lo-cal” ;)

On the way there my stomach started growling just a bit, so I settled on a banana I brought with me to hold me over until we made it to the city.
Once in the city, we headed up 7th ave to Hale and Hearty Soups, where Ali and I both chose the combo- it’s a great choice, 1 small soup and ½ a sandwich!
I went for the “lentil chili” which was fantastic and very filling in itself, and then I tried the tomato, basil, mozzarella sandwich. It was on a GIANT crusty roll, which I tore off ½ of, because I didn’t need so much of those refined grains… but it was delicious, even minus some of the fluffy bread.

We headed off to Times Square, where Ali and I picked up cute “best friends” necklaces at the Quicksilver store, some new face products and a new perfume at Sephora (LAMB by Gwen Stefani… smells reallllly nice!)
Then we were off to 5th!
On our way up the street, we stopped at Garret’s Gourmet Popcorn.
I sampled about 1/3 cup of “the mix”… the original Chicago blend which has caramel and cheese… sooo good!
We picked up some for mom and dad to snack on, then continued shopping away!

I scored some great after-christmas deals, at Lacoste (2 shirts for the price of 1 ½!)
H&M, Henri Bendel… very fun!
On the way up the street, we did stop into the Lindt store and each sampled a peppermint truffle… yumm!
We also brought home raspberry truffles, but I’m saving mine for a true craving!
We headed over to Madison, where we browsed some designer windows, and grabbed drinks at Smiley’s (I had a blueberry raspberry Fuze, Ali chose a lemonade) before heading to Europa Café for an early dinner.
We both chose big salads for our meals; mine was a delicious mix of mixed greens, tomatoes, onions, broccoli, asparagus, sesame tofu, peppers and walnuts. I left a few walnuts in the bottom of the both- he gave me a generous few ounces! I like the extra healthy fat and protein, but so much is so much! The salad was filling for a while, held me over through our chilly trek from 54th to 32nd street… All the way down Madison!

We crossed at 32nd street, and went straight to Little Korea for my favorite Frozen Yogurt in NYC… Pinkberry! No fat, low in calories, DELICIOUS fruit, and a whole lotta froyo for under $6!
I had the medium orginal with strawberries, mango and chocolate chips… I finished all of it, leaving a few chocolate chips at the bottom.
I also had a bite of Ali’s with kiwi and capn crunch =)

This kept me good on the train, where I grabbed a diet Sierra Mist, and then at home I snacked on about 1 ½ cups Garrett’s Popcorn with the parents before getting some rest!

What a fun day!

1/6/07

I woke up on Sunday morning ready to get back on the healthy bandwagon!
Although, I feel I might have been equally as healthy/indulgent yesterday as I was on Saturday! Hmm.

I started off the day with 1 cup 1% cottage cheese with ¼ cup blackberries (all we had left in the house), a medium banana, and ½ wheat english muffin with 1 tsp margarine.

I ran in the morning, and we headed to wholefoods for lunch.
I chose to make ½ my bowl a mixed salad with some tomatoes, cucumber, peppers and shredded carrots over mixed greens with balsamic vinegar.
Then, I chose a few of their prepared salads to give my salad some protein, fiber, fat and bulk!
I had a couple pieces of tempeh, a couple pieces of ed’s tofu, a bit of the seitan which had some peppers and olives in it, chickpea salad with roasted garlic, morroccan lentil salad, and sweet edamame succotash with corn.
Yummy and filling!
We shopped for the week and the party, I am very excited to make some yummy new recipes this week!

My plan:
Monday- during the day, I’m planning on making some whole wheat foccacia, and splitting open a pomegranate for my salad!
Dinner is spaghetti squash with homemade ratatouille, (while watching the movie!) and I’m going to take a whack at some rice pudding after Yoga =)

Tuesday- Eggs and veggies for breakfast, lunch out with mom (maybe Middle Eastern? I love hummus!) dinner is going to be salmon burgers on foccacia with dill sauce, avocado, tomato and provolone with sweet potato fries!
Then I’m going out with Evie… should be a good time ;)
Wednesday- Something during the day, hopefully. Dinner at night will be at work, as usual.

Thursday- More eggs for breakfast (overdue for some omelettes!), lunch at the mall and shrimp scampi for dinner!

Friday- Big smoothie with new fruit for breakfast, maybe lunch out? And dinner is corndogs and chili =)
Yumm!

Now for last night… I picked up a very delicious looking mushroom-spinach lasagna at WholeFoods… it had 2 servings in it, 310 calories and 13 grams of fat each. That is a bit high on the fat, but I had ½ with some baby carrots (about 20 or so!) and it was soooo yummy, sooo filling- even after I picked off a bit of the cheese to reduced some of the saturated fat!
Good work dinner.

After work I had about 16 cherries and some tea before bed. This was good and healthy, but it took me a while to get to sleep… I hope it wasn’t my stomach digesting, but I feel I was just uncomfortable in general =( Oh, well. I’ll get some sleep tonight!