Month: April 2008

Food Journal

Happy trails to you!

Good morning and happy humpday! It’s already looking like another beautiful day here in Chicago. I woke up on time this morning and grabbed the second half of the Clif Chocolate Brownie ZBar from the other day for my pre-workout snack. Then it was off to the gym for a cardio/ab workout – 45 minutes […]

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Tomato bisque al dente!

I added something new to one of my stand-by meals for dinner tonight to give it a little crunch. But first… Snack I grabbed a snack before I sat down to do my phone interview. Nothing exciting – just another 1/2 cup of cottage cheese and some Kashi crackers for dipping: The phone interview was […]

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Spring in my step.

It is an absolutely gorgeous day! Luckily I have to walk quite a bit around campus for my classes, so I’ve spent plenty of time outside in the fresh air. Lunch today was what I’ll call a Veggie Medley Wrap. I used one La Tortilla Factory Garlic & Herb tortilla, a Morningstar Veggie Medley burger, […]

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What a whirlwind day!

WOW! This day just kept going and going and going…you get the idea 🙂 Between my class and NNN – I didn’t think it was ever going to end! I don’t have time to talk too in-depth about NNN yet. But I suppose since I’m going to keep talking about it I should probably at […]

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Merry Monday!

I hope the title of this post can inspire some positive thinking – YES, it is Monday…but that can be a good thing! It’s the start of another exciting week, right? Ok – I’m not even convincing myself! When the alarm clock went off this morning, I wasn’t super motivated to move. But eventually I […]

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Tutti frutti!

As predicted, about an hour after dinner my stomach was telling me it wanted dessert. Here’s some advice: you should ALWAYS listen to your stomach when it asks for dessert 🙂 After reviewing the options in my freezer, I decided on an Edy’s Fruit Bar – the strawberry flavor. I swear these are the most […]

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Whole wheat corn barbecue chicken mac?

Congratulations to Trevor Immelman for winning the Masters! He definitely earned it – can you tell I’m a golf fan? I absolutely love watching AND playing it! Now it just needs to warm up so that I can 🙂 For dinner tonight, I threw together a bunch of ingredients that I thought would taste good […]