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Snack Boxes, Cookies, and Pizza… Oh My

Disclaimer. I am not a medical professional, nutritionist, or anyone with any business giving diet advice. This is my own personal journey. When it comes to yourself, seek the advice of a medical professional.

Here we are again, avocado and an egg on an English muffin, served with coffee. I love this breakfast. I could eat this every day, multiple times over and over and over again. Just talking about it, I want to eat it again.

I didn’t bring my lunch to work today, I was going to make something when I got home. My snack box from Vegan Cuts came in and I dug into it on the way home.

I split this rice krispie square with my spouse. Then novelty of having rice Krispy squares again was wonderful, the square was okay.

I split this cookie from the snack box too. I don’t want to dump on a product, but this was really gross. We both took only a bite and didn’t want anymore. It tasted really plastic like.

We tried these Snacklins and I really liked them. Lots of snacks, right… well there’s more.

I stopped in at the Snapping Turtle again for a dreamy latte and a cookie. This time the cookie was MY idea. I had forgotten I hadn’t had lunch yet. They didn’t have my favourite peanut butter cookie, but they had these chocolate covered coffee bean shaped ones and they left the café with me. One for each of us.

I didn’t really need lunch at this point, but still wanted something else, so I tried the new cheese from the Cheese Of The Month Club from the local cheese shop. I’m not sure what kind of cheese it is, but it has chili peppers in it and super good with a wonderful nip to it.

To make my day even healthier, I had pizza for dinner with wine, again. It was tasty.

I got everything I needed to do today done around 8:00pm and I really wasn’t feeling up to a workout. My legs were still really sore from yesterday and I just didn’t have it in me. I am trying to form a habit, (don’t they say it takes around 30 days?) of daily exercise and I didn’t want to start slacking off before I’d even hit a week. No days off. So I did this arm workout again. I didn’t do well. I had to put my arms down constantly and give them a shake many many times. I was doing push ups (very very modified push ups) yesterday with Slim In 6 and I don’t think my arms had recovered enough for this one. It was probably the day I should have done stretching, but I really wasn’t in the mood to set up the DVD player and change my clothes.

It wasn’t my best day, but I was saving Friday to Sunday for cheat days. I didn’t want to eat quite this badly on Friday, but I’m not going to beat myself up about it. I’m hungry, so I’m going to snack on some pickles before bed.

Which turned into a slice of strawberry rhubarb pie

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Working Out On A Full Stomach

This was my breakfast today. Not my healthiest. There was leftover waffle batter (I’ll post the recipe here. they were good) from Sunday’s breakfast and we decided to finish it. I had a craving for an egg on a waffle – no I don’t know why. Is that something people do? Egg on a waffle? Not with syrup or anything, just like, a fried egg on a waffle. On the other three sections I added syrup. This is actually me being modest with the syrup. I drown my pancakes and waffles.

I wasn’t able to finish my breakfast completely, which is something that makes me happy. I grew up with “clean your plate” eating habits, and I struggle with stopping, even if I’m full. Every time I don’t finish my plate, I feel it’s a win.

Lunch was a can of Campbell’s Moroccan Chickpea soup. This photo may make this soup seem unappetizing, but it’s flavourful and delicious. Right now I’m into them for work lunches. I usually snack on a couple Lara bars during work, but today I brought cherry tomatoes with me. They worked out pretty well for a work snack. I’ll keep having them until I get sick of them.

My snack for the commute home was a container of melon. This is my way of avoiding takeout for dinner. I work full time and commute. It makes it harder to cook healthy meals.

I cooked faro in the Instant Pot (wayyyy faster than stove top) and made a huge salad and served it with sparkling water with lemon. I was going to have wine, but I didn’t. Not to be healthier, I just went with the water.

The salad was mixed greens, cucumbers, tomato, and green onion. There was a lot more tomatoes and cucumbers than you see in the photo, I ended up adding more greens on top. I topped the salad with the faro and fried halloumi. For dressing I squeezed half a lemon, a couple tablespoons of avocado oil, some salt and sumac. It was pretty good, but it was too big. This time I did clean my plate and I was stuffed, giving me a dilemma. I am supposed to work out every night, it’s late 8:30pm, and I’m over full. Stuffed. I was also pretty sore from my workout yesterday. My thighs and butt were the sorest. I wasn’t up to anything too bouncy, or sweaty.

I went with Slim In 6 Pack. It’s a 10 minutes ab workout. It was difficult, but I did it. My arms were on fire, partly because of yesterday’s workout (Slim In 6 is an all body workout) and I had to rest them for a few seconds, a couple times during the video.

I stuck to my goal so far. I have concerns about timing. Dinner is always late at my home which makes it more challenging to work out. Tomorrow, I’m going to work out then eat. I’m going to have the same salad again, with the leftover faro and halloumi. I’m planning on doing a more… sweaty workout tomorrow.