October 22

October 22

-Chobani blueberry nonfat greek yogurt with a tiny sprinkle of fiber one (didn't want too much fiber to hurt my tummy :-P) (love love, I'm sure you're not surprised :)) (150 cals)
-water



-grilled chicken breast (300 cals?)
-3 scrambled egg whites (50 cals)
-1 bite of a cream cheese danish (50 cals?)
-water




My stomach got upset again after that (I'm slightly allergic to egg whites, as I always mention, so that was a bad idea), but I took some pepcid and seemed a lil better. The meal also came with tomato slices and a bagel ( I picked whole wheat) with cream cheese, but I didn't eat either of those items.

-1.5 root beers (300 cals?)
-burger with avocado, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and thousand island (NO idea--Gonna say 900 cals? blah)
-french fries dipped in ranch (350 cals?)

Yep, I'm a piggy :). I can't believe I ate a whole burger at once, I never do that. At least not restaurant ones. Oinkkk. And it didn't make me feel sick either. Strange how my fatty meals are the only ones my body seems to tolerate :-P. It didn't help that my cousin has me positively addicted to root beer. OK, OK so I only have one every week or two, but I used to only have one or two a year! Looove it.

And of course RIGHT after I ordered the burger and fries and it was being prepared, I noticed an amazing sounding salad on the menu. What timing. I just ordered what I did because it's what everyone else wanted and we were placing a large to-go order and I didn't wanna make it too complicated. But we all personalized the stuff we wanted on the burger anyway, so the salad would have not only been healthier, but easier to order. No use perseverating now..

-3 small sour mamba chewy candies (55 cals)
-water



-1 sheet of cinnamon graham crackers (60 cals)
-1/2 a cran bran vitatop (50 cals)
-water

Not a very successful health day, I know.

Am I ever going to exercise again? Sheesh.

xo,
Amanda

October 21

October 21
-1/2 a think thin peanut butter bar (120 cals)



-1/2 a big bowl of apple oatmeal (200ish cals)



The oatmeal was very good, but a little too sweet. I'm kinda glad I couldn't finish it, even if I feel a bit wasteful, since the whole bowl would have easily amounted to 400 cals. Oops. Here's how I made it: First, I chopped up a large organic honeycrisp apple and mixed that with 2 tablespoons of apple butter and 2 tablespoons of no sugar added all natural applesauce. Then, I added in a few raisins and a bunch of cinnamon. While that heated up (and I stirred it quite a bit), I nuked a packet of high fiber brown sugar oatmeal. When that was done cooking I mixed it all together and topped it with half a tablespoon of cinnamon raisin peanut butter, stirred once more, and ate. I probably should have gone with my original intentions and used plain oatmeal (and maybe even steel cut or at least slow cooking, so I could have controlled the portion and not needed an entire packet-sized amount of oats) and probably only need 1 tbsp of the apple butter. But all in all it was good stuff.



My stomach hurt after the oatmeal (I think I'm a little sensitive to cinnamon sometimes), so I was weary about eating anymore, but cautiously ate some carb-age. Unfortch, it made my stomach hurt too. What the hell?

-flax seed chips (150ish cals)
-2 or 3 bites of potato from my crock pot pot roast (25 cals?)

the crock pot doing its thang

Stupidly, I took another risk a few hours later due to hunger pangs and had...

-a little of the pot roast, potatoes (fingerling and sweet), baby carrots, onion (just a piece or two, I figured onion would really be bad for my stomach), and yellow squash (300 cals? If that...)



Somehow this didn't seem to hurt my stomach quiiite as bad as some of the other comida, but it's still pretty achey. Grrrrrrrr. :(

It doesn't help that I want some chocolate or at least something sweet, even just a little, but I'm not willing to risk that. Boo.

I'll have to settle for a hot bath instead. Possibly followed by a lil Glee lovin'. I can live with that.

I'm also really wanting to partake in a little happy hour sesh tomorrow, so keepin' my fingers crossed that this yuckyness works itself out by manana. (no I don't know what's up with the random Spanglish, but I can't stop myself).

xo,
Amanda

October 20

October 20

-Chobani strawberry nonfat greek yogurt with fiber one (really good too and normally I don't like strawberry yogurt--I like that this kind doesn't taste artificial) (200 cals)
-small diet lemonade from Chick-Fil-A (20 cals)



-8 chicken nuggets with polynesian sauce (370 cals--110 of which are just from the damn, tasty, sugar-packed sauce)
-side salad with about 1/3 of the packet of ranch (I'm prob really overestimating it, but I'll say 190 cals)
-more diet lemonade (got a large this time, but then got a stomache ache, so prob only drank half at most) (15 cals)
-lots of water




-single serving container of roasted red pepper hummus with pretzel crisps (230 cals)
-fruit cup (70 cals)
-water




-3 oranges (190ish cals)
-1 small grapefruit (65ish cals)
-1 small apple (70ish cals)
-1 teaspoon cinnamon raisin peanut butter (to dip apple in) (35ish cals)
-water




Yesterday some guy came to our office randomly to see if my Dad wanted to buy organic produce he was selling. The process sounds to me kind of like a CSA share, but this guy just delivers it to you. You don't pick what he brings, he just brings a big box full of fruits and vegetables for $44. I thought it was a lil expensive, but after I went through it all it's not so bad and it's all stuff we eat, so that's good. Unfortunately my Dad forgot to tell us he bought it (I didn't go to work yesterday) and my Mom and I already went grocery shopping for the week and loaded up on a bunch of the same items the box contained. Now we have MASSIVE amounts of apples, oranges, and small grapefruits (among other things). I kind of feel like all I can eat is fruit now lol, but I guess there are worse things :).



I made Annie's mac & cheese + bbq chicken for my brother for dinner and was planning on having the same, but didn't feel hungry enough when the time came. I sampled the mac & cheese, but that's it. I decided to go light and attempt to make a dent in the citrus stash and boy did all that fruit make me fullll. At first I only had 2 oranges + the grapefruit, but when I went back for the rest I felt like I'd almost eaten too much.

really good sauce I picked up in Montana

Overall I'm pleased with how I've eaten so far this week. Gotta keep it up. The chicken nuggets may have not been the best choice, but they weren't high in cals and they were some protein at least. I ate the yogurt intending to be able to hold off until later, but I was STARVING an hour or two later and my Mom had Chick-Fil-A for her lunch (when I ate my yogurt--hence how I got the first lemonade) and I couldn't think of any other fast food that sounded good and didn't include bread/yeast, so whatev. The chicken sounded (and tasted) good, so I'd say I made a wise(ish) choice :-P. I barely eat fast food anyway.

Body-wise, my back, neck, and shoulders are back to being in terrible pain again, which sucks. Next time I go to the dr (in 2 months) I need to remember to mention it to her. I don't think there's anything she can do really, but I guess it should at least be checked out. I hope I don't get worse as I get older :(.

Anyway, I'm really tired and even though I probably won't go to sleep for a couple hours, I'm gonna relax with a lil 90210 and a good book (not simultaneously, of course).

*muah*

xo,
Amanda

Let's Try This Again

October 13

-petite vanilla scone (170 cals)
-pumpkin cream cheese muffin (430 cals)
-tall soy pumpkin spice latte (230 cals)

Shoulda only had the scone and latte :(. I REALLY wanted a pumpkin scone (which of course they didn't have), hence why I tried to make up for it, but that was just ridiculous. I'll have to work some of the muffin off later (side note: I didn't, lol surprise surprise). Oh, and speaking of the latte, I think I need to limit myself to one pumpkin spice latte a week max, and maybe even ask for it to be half sweet. The calories and sugars are astronomical. But the vanilla scone? Delicious.

-small organic braeburn apple (new obsession. apples were so blah in the Summer, but now that it's apple season? NOM NOM NOM)

-bowl of extra lean turkey chili with a dollop of sour cream, a handful of flax seed tortilla chips, and a corn bread vitatop
-tiny organic juice box

October 14

-pumpkin scone (took 4 hours to finish, a bite here, a bite there...)
-tall soy latte (one of the best things about fall)
-orange souffle

-part of a greek salad

-herby soft cheese and crackers
-tiny organic juice box

-small organic braeburn apple

-chinese takeout (moo goo gai pan & a couple big bites of my mom's uber unhealthy combination fried rice)
-another tiny organic juice box

Aaaaand, I kinda stopped officially tracking again, oops....let's pick back up on.....

October 19

1:35pm-ish
-cranberry bran vitatop with a tiny bit of apple butter on top (really good! As you can see, I'm trying out more than just the chocolate vitatops and they're all amazing) (110ish cals)



2:05pm
-1/2 of a kashi spinach & mushroom pizza (375 cals)
-tiny organic juice box (30 cals)
-water



7:30pm-ish?
-small gelato (half pumpkin pie half gingerbread cookie--oooh yeah, looove Fall food!) (160 cals)

8:30pm-ish
-the other 1/2 of the pizza (375 cals)
-1 mini sesame ball with red bean paste (60 cals?)
-water



10:45pm
-chobani peach nonfat greek yogurt with fiber one on top (soo good, now I see why Chobani is so popular among bloggers. Stoked I finally found it! Usually I don't like flavored yogurt either) (200 cals)



12:40pm
-a few low-fat cinnamon graham crackers topped with pumpkin cream cheese (130 cals)
-organic honeycrisp apple (80-ish cals)
-water



I've always been a honey graham girl, but decided to give the cinnamon a shot. Good choice!

xo,
Amanda

Being Sick Sucks

Isn't it weird how some days when you're sick you have to force yourself to choke back some soup and other days you seem insatiable? On Tuesday I swear I must have eaten 3,000 calories and probably could have kept going-no problem. Yesterday, I had a little soup (couldn't even finish a bowl), one waffle with pb and apple butter, a few swedish fish, a few soy cheese pizza bites (I refuse to eat dairy with this amount of congestion!), a couple handfuls of all bran crackers, stuff like that. It's nice that the body regulates itself, but it's pretty annoying! I feel H-U-G-E and gross! And now I've noticed during the day I'm not too hungry, but at night I seem to want to make up for it. Must. Control. Self.

I don't have the energy to do the whole pic thing, but here's what I ate today....I really need to track it, especially if this sickness is gonna stick around a few more days. Blah.

-2 small whole wheat wraps (the 50 calorie, high fiber ones) with turkey, spinach, and mustard
-bowl of organic grapes (1 cup, I'd guess?)
-glass of recharge (it's like gatorade, but without the artificial stuff)

-glass of simply orange juice mixed with water (more water than oj)

I also had 3 sour mamba candies (kinda like starbursts) and 2 jelly beans. Random.

-6 inch buffalo chicken subway on wheat with lettuce, tomato, green peppers, and light ranch
-small bag of chili cheese fritos
-more grapes (1/2 cup?)
-orangina mixed with oj (I wish I didn't like orangina since it's just sugar-water basically, but I had a craving and it was on sale. I was shocked to find out it had no vitamins in it tho, you'd think it'd at least have some vitamin c, grr)
-water mixed with emergen-c light packet

I'm kind of obsessed with Subway all of a sudden. I've had it every day since I've been back except yesterday.

I keep feeling hungry again off-and-on and I only ate like an hour ago, but I'm trying to hold off. I do have another half of the sub (I did the $5 foot long thing, but refuse to let myself eat the whole thing at once). I may have an apple and peanut butter or side salad or something later. Neeeed lots of vitamins and enzymes! Although, now another waffle with pb and apple butter sounds good lol. Maybe topped with apple slices. Hmm. OK, I need to stop thinking about food. I don't need to eat yet. It's all in my head....must repeat...:-P

It sucks too when I'm sick I want to eat sugar, sugar, and more sugar. I know sugar is an inflammatory and bad for the immune system, blah blah, but it's energyyyyy :-P.

OK, I can't think anymore, my head is tooooo clogged. Neeed tea.

'Nite, loves.

*sniffle*

xo,
Amanda

Burts Bees sample giveaway

Sorry guys, I know I owe you a "real" entry soon. I just got back from my vaca this Monday and I developed a nasty sinus infection, so I can only compose very short thoughts at a time lol.

I thought for now I'd share this info with you all real quick before I hop back in bed to cuddle with my dogs :).

I'm a member of Bzzagent.com. Basically, I just answer periodic, super-short surveys and occasionally they will invite me to join campaigns where they use word-of-mouth marketing to get new/improved products out there. They send their agents free samples/full sized products to use (and give away). It's really easy. If you wanna learn more about becoming a member yourself I can give you more info, but for now...

Awhile ago they gave me a bunch of free samples of the new Burts Bees (one of my fave companies) natural acne solutions spot treatment. I'll be honest, I don't have a lot of acne issues *knock on wood*, so I haven't had the opportunity to try this myself yet, but I trust Burts Bees, so I imagine it's good. If you wanna try for yourself just e-mail me @ manolomandi@aol.com and send me your name and address and I can hook you up with a sample or two so you can decide for yourself. OR you can go to www.burtsbees.com/acne and order a free sample straight from them.

xo,
Amanda

Apron Giveaway

The Fabulous From My Kitchen is sponsoring an apron giveaway, be sure to check it (and her) out right HERE.

Her blog is really fun and interesting--not to mention she has the cutest son ever. You don't wanna miss adding her to your daily blog roll even if you don't win the adorable prize :).

Hurry up, tomorrow is the last day to enter!

xo,
Amanda