Sandwich Lover

May 24:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BELLA!

It's my little girl's 8th b-day. WOW.



We can't help it, we're just two fools in love :-P.

Workout:

-27 min cross ramp
-stretching

-slice of brown rice toast with tomato & basil laughing cow wedge, sauteed spinach, 1 fried egg
-blackberries & blueberries with a lil blueberry almond milk yogurt
-starbucks via with a splash of milk (forget if it was vanilla coconut or unsweetened almond)



MMM. I liked this combo a lot.

I brought an Amy's meal to eat, but we ran out of ink and needed it asap. Lucky for me, Which Wich is right next door to Office Max (and lucky for us all, Office Max is basically within walking distance to our office, even tho we always choose to drive lol). Obvi amazing sandwich>>>>>frozen meal, as good as Amy's are!

-which wich small sub (wheat bread, hummus, avocado, tomato, peppers, pepperocinis, black olives, dijon mustard, lettuce, vinegar, black pepper, red pepper flakes, caramalized onions, mushrooms, & cucumbers)





So, SO good. I could eat Which Wich for lunch every day pretty much.

-handful of tortilla chips (oops, unncessary!)
-big bowl of fruit salad (blueberries, blackberries, organic raspberries, organic pineapple, organic strawberries, organic cherries)



-pho!



Perfect rainy day dinner.

-ginger ale zevia for dessert

Deeeeeeelish day.

May 25

Workout:

arms & legs

-side salad (organic mixed greens, organic strawberries, & goat cheese crumbles drizzled with local honey & organic olive oil)
-blackberries/raspberries/blueberries
-organic pineapple
-Dunkin D's iced black coffee that I added milk to (I forget if it was unsweetened almond or vanilla coconut) + stevia at home




The fruit & salad supposed to be my lunch, but I forgot I had a business lunch until riiiight after I made it the nite before, so I saved it for breaky instead.

Of course, our business meeting ran late, OVER an hour in fact (SO rude, we pay this guy a LOT of money to consult and he's always on the phone, late, etc. but he's a necessary evil ugh). We ordered in Jimmy John's & decided to just meet in the office group room. My Dad and I ate our food about an hour before the guy even showed up. I had...

-turkey sandwich on wheat bread with lettuce, tomato, sprouts, & dijon



My Mom wanted to do a girls dinner, but she was starving around 4:45 pm and I was still full from my 1 pm sandwich. I was beginning to feel sick tho, so I agreed to go with her for Mexican and I'd get soup.

-corn tortilla with salsa + obvi chips with salsa
-multi-flavored frozen margarita (thought it may help freeze my throat ache and numb my shoulder pain away...and it kinda did)
-bowl of tortilla soup





Yummy.

I thought I'd be hungry later, but I really wasn't.

Right after early-dinner I had a venti zen green tea...trying all hot & cold self-medication methods to soothe my ailments!

Why yes I am at the sonic drive thru. Not for me!! Starbucks all the way.

I also had a few frozen grapes, but they didn't taste very good. Bummer.



Bonus Pics from undocumented Monday yum-ness:


LONG overdue Indian Food Monday! It didn't disappoint. Though I do wish they'd serve their cabbage again. I've only seen it once and it was delightful. What a tease!

big plate--mostly veg, a few bites of chicken tikka masala
small plate-all veg
HEAVEN. AKA Sulji Halva.

chocolate vitamuffin top with biscoff

Pants on the Ground

July 13

Workout:

-5 min treadmill jogging (warm up)
-about 30 min weights? Didn't keep track. Arms & legs.
-about 10 min stretching
-5 min treadmill walking (cool down)

I did hammer squats on this machine for the first time. I thought they were going to be miserable, but um, can you say obsessed? I was so sore RIGHT AWAY, even before I finished my third (and even second, really) set, but I LOVED them! Feel the buuurn, baby. It was great. Looking forward to doing those again. I just love arms & legs day, what can I say?

-chocolate cherry protein shake (chocolate protein powder, almond milk, 10 frozen cherries, a little bit of hemp seeds, a little ice)



It's so weird: Every time I make a protein shake and taste it I think it's so gross, but if I leave it alone to melt a little it becomes delish. I still prefer banana as my fruit/sweetener, but we were out. Cherries are pretty good in protein shakes, just not my faaave. I also meant to have a nectarine on the side, but forgot.

-grande soy latte



-half of a salmon/feta/roasted red pepper pinwheel
-half of a corn on the cob
-fruit (cherries/organic strawberries/blueberries/raspberries)
-broccoli with hummus





I ate this at diff times over the course of the whole afternoon.

-sample of organic merlot @ Central Market

-single serve bowl of chicken "pho"




Central Market had this single-serving portion. I wouldn't call it real pho. It was OK, but a little too bland. I added hot sauce and a dash of soy. It needed jalapenos (and more bean sprouts and more basil). They gave a random red chili and green chili pepper, but all the pho I've ever had used sliced jalapeno. *shrug* I really wish it came with shrimp or even beef (in general, but also because the chicken was dry), but alas. There wasn't much meat anyway, so it doesn't matter much. I almost got this shrimp in peanut sauce noodle dish, but it had dyes/chemicals like yellow 5 in it. Ugh, why? So unnecessary. No thank you. At least the faux-Pho had pretty clean ingredients. It was also comforting, but still light. Just what I needed. It was one of those meals where you feel sick and tired and you know you need to eat, but nothing in particular sounds good. I just knew I didn't want to cook, lol.

-egg roll with honey flavored goat cheese, extra honey, and a few white chocolate chips and a few dark chocolate chips
-a cut up nectarine
-a few cut up organic strawberries



-herba tussin tea with honey & lemon



Body Bugg Stats:

Calories Burned: 2,420
Steps Taken: 10,039

I haven't weighed myself in a few days or maybe even a week *gasp*, but at last glance I weighed the same if not more than I have lately. HOWEVER, my fave pair of pj pants are literally falling off of me to the point where I almost can't wear them anymore, even tied. Hopefully that means I'm building muscle or at least changing my shape or something (for the better, ha). :-P. We'll seeee...my normal jeans have been loose for awhile, but they're stretchy, so that doesn't necessarily say much.

Random Pics of the Day:

Wanna see one reason I'm lovin' pencil skirts? They make me feel rather large on the whole but...

They give me a booooty :-P. Oh yeah. Haha.
got that pendant at a craft show, thought it was pretty cool
Flowerssss. The bouqet I got was so big it filled up 2 of my fave vases. Gotta love it. Two-toned flowers are my faves. Preferably tulips, but these work too!

xo,
Amanda