I wanted cereal today, but the banana I had would only work in oatmeal since it was way too ripe. It ended up making the oats super sweet and creamy though I don’t know may be it’s the warm California weather, but I want cereal for breakfast more often than anything else.

Run : 1 hour, a few farteks thrown in
Eat: 1/2c oats, 1/2 light soymilk, naner, dash salt, cinnamon, brown sugar – no PB today, I just wasn’t feeling it. Isn’t that weird?

Calories : 350 (because I also had a small handful of cereal with it)

In other news – I am going to NYC tonight! I am not very excited yet because I have soooo much to do before I leave. I am working right now, I have to get my nails done, go to the bank and pack. The flight doesn’t leave until 10 so I have some time. I am going to need a drink to unwind because we are taking a red eye and I need to sleep on the flight. I will be blogging from NYC though, so you’ll see the “Adventures on Runeatrepeat” while I’m goine. I love traveling!

One of my peeps came by my desk before lunch and was eating my chips and since they were there I had a handful too! Opps. I don’t even like those things (the fake Sun Chips from TJ’s) so I left them on her desk to have. Lunch was a LC butternut squash ravioli meal. So good! I have to write my name on it because people will eat your food. Lame.

Calories (with chips) – 400 cals My afternoon snackage was A LOT of watermelon,
and a kashi bar. Calories – about 250
Dinner was ww couscous, a veggie burger and salad with peanut dressing. Hmmm. Calorie estimate – 350
Dessert pumpkin ice cream on top and cookies and dreamz on the bottom. Calories – 200
Calorie Estimate for the day – 1600ish

I am going to NYC on Tuesday and will be there until Sunday. The BF is in a wedding for one of his best friends and we thought we would make it a mini-vacay.
1. My question is – Do you have suggestions for healthy eats in the city? I have not been there since I was 12 so I have no clue where to eat/what to eat…

2. Also, where is a good place to run?

I don’t know exactly where we are staying so suggestions for anywhere in the area are fine.

I went shopping for a dress for a wedding I’m attending this weekend and came back empty handed. I did however find this cute pink hat. I love it! I didn’t get it because I wouldn’t actually have anywhere to where it or anything to where it with, but I had to get a pic. I think I should try to bring hats back! I know I’m weird… So, I may have found the secret to staying full with cereal for breakfast. After my 11 mile run on Saturday I wanted cereal. I ate my bowl with half a banana inside the cereal and half on the side with Almond Butter. I was super full afterwards! I know I am supposed to be eating oatmeal everyday per my “Oatmeal Challenge”, but I let myself have whatever my body is craving after a long run. I think that is healthy right? The bad thing about this breakfast is that it adds up to 500 calories when I am trying to keep my breakfast calories to 400. Boo. I don’t know if I should stick to oatmeal (which is 400 the way I eat it) or take 100 cals from lunch or something. I didn’t care about the extra cals after a long run where I probably burned a lot of cals, but going forward I want to watch it.
Now for Monday…
Run : 5.5 miles, good pace – felt good
Eat: oatbran with soymilk, cinnamon, AB and brown sugar. It was delicious. Too bad we were out of naners, they make oats so much better!
I had some grapes for my morning fruit since I missed out on a banana.
Calories: 391, fat: 15.4, protein 17.2

I finally decided to sign up for Fit Day! I have been resisting it because I like to keep track of my eats in a notebook, but I need to watch my calories better if I want to lose weight. I will be posting my calorie counts for a little while so I can get a better idea of what my daily calorie goal looks like versus what I am eating.

I had some triscuits and a cheese stick in the afternoon when I was getting hungry. It’s really weird that my tastes are changing and I have been craving salty snacks over sweet sometimes. Dinner was salad, ww couscous and fish I made on the Foreman. I almost forgot that I had a Foreman because it’s been so long since I’ve used it. I love that thing – it makes THE BEST grilled cheese sandwiches! I want one right now.
When I was waiting for my car to get an oil change I walked around the store and found this…
Pumpkin Ice Cream! I scanned the nutrition info and it was actually not bad for ice cream – 120 cals for a 1/2 cup serving. The website has all the nutrition info here, but it says it is 100 cals for a serving I am not sure which is correct. Either way it is delicious. I love all things pumpkin and I love all things ice cream, so this is heaven for me It has a great pumpkin flavor and does not taste artificial. This would probably work as a great base for a pumpkin smoothie! That recipe is coming soon here… If you have a Golden Spoon near you they have Pumpkin Frozen Yogurt in the Fall too!
So, of course I had to have some of each of my ice cream finds for dessert

So I tried the suggestion to put eggs in my oatmeal. I added 1 egg white and it really seemed to bulk up the bowl. It was almost overflowing!
I made it with:
1/2c each – oats, soymilk, water
naner
1 egg white
cinnamon and dash salt
brown sugar on top
PB
This bowl was really good, but not as good as yesterday. I think the trick from yesterday’s was that the soymilk and naner marinated with the oats for about an hour before cooking. They were so sweet and creamy!
Verdict – this bowl kept me full till lunch! Exactly what I wanted. I know some days your hunger fluctuates, but I think this is a great and long lasting breakfast in general.
I had a Lean Cuisine meal for lunch – Lemon Chicken. Here it is right out of the micro…
and here it is plated with salad. Doesn’t look so much better like this? I don’t always feel like dirtying up a dish, but I do think this helps you feel like you’ve really eaten a substantial meal when you put it on a plate all fancy like.

So here is a quick recap of Tuesday so I can get to the good stuff. Lunch was a turkey sandwich with carrots, snap peas and couple of chips on the side – with hummus too! Afternoon snack was Kashi Trail Mix. Chocolate chips just make everything better, don’t they?
and some watermelon because it was there…

I got to my mom’s about 8pm and was super hungry. Luckily my mom had made spaghetti. I love her spaghetti
I had a piece of toast with garlic and butter. I also love garlic and bread and let’s face it sometimes butter -ha.
I tried to make my Vita Muffin mix in an individual serving like the No Pudge brownies, but that did not work…I ate it anyways.
So I made the mix for real. They are just okay. I don’t know why the frozen ones are soooo much better than the ones I made fresh at home. That doesn’t make sense. I ate 2 of them because they smelled so good, but didn’t taste as good as they smelled. Boo. At least my little bro likes them. I can pawn them off

Word up, it’s Tuesday. I hope this week goes by quickly. I just feel so busy right now I need the weekend so I can study for the GRE and get my life in order. I think I have an anxiety disorder because I get so stressed out and overwhelmed it’s not pleasant. Boo. I did a short run this morning and grabbed some grapes while walking out the door.

Guess what I had for breakfast? That’s right folks, oatmeal. This was a very good bowl with soymilk, naners, cinnamon and brown sugar. I added PB after the pic. I put the bowl together at home and let it marinate all the way to work – the result was a very creamy and sweet bowl. It barely needed any sugar. My oatmeal experiment is going well, I do feel like my blood sugar is a lot more stable throughout the morning, BUT – I have been craving eggs and stuff. I want a savory breakfast. I also think I need to incorporate protein into my breakfast. Especially after reading about how Kate says she overcame emotional eating. She gives a lot of credit to protein at each meal/snack – that is something I need to do for breakfast. I too have a history of emotional/binge eating and I do think my breakfasts in the past are notorious for lacking protein (I am known for overdosing on cereal till I feel sick, with no protein insight).I don’t know,
What is a “better” breakfast oatmeal or egg white sammie. What do you guys think?
We had a bunch of goodies in the office today because we had a visitor. I love bagels so I grabbed a half of one and cut it in half with some veggie cream cheese and some fruit.

I started Monday with a 4 mile run plus some hill repeats. I had to wait until I got to work to eat breakfast. I don’t like to do that because it’s over an hour after I finished my run and I think it makes me hungry for the rest of the day. I made oat bran with a naner and brown sugar. I also topped it with some South Beach granola. Lunch was a LC pizza with carrots and snap peas and hummus. So good
My afternoon snack was yogurt with PB. My co-worker saw this combo and said something about it. I think she thinks it’s weird.
I heated up some leftover chicken, a baked potato and veggies for dinner, salad too.
I made some more Kashi Trail mix after dinner and ate some. This is a pic from Fiber One Carmel Delight trail mix, but I didn’t take a new pic. I also had some ice cream and didn’t take a pic. Boo. I feel like I’ve given up and have been really bad about updating the blog this week. I need to get it together!

Almond Butter Announcement!
Have you guys heard that Justin’s Nut Butter will be available at Starbucks? Yes, the 100 calories packs are for sale at the ‘bucks now. Isn’t that cool?!