My mom said when I was little I used to love all orange foods…sweet potatoes, carrots and pumpkin! Well, I haven’t changed at all in this aspect!
Too bad my mom didn’t know about pumpkin oats when I was a kid – I would have gobbled it up! In the bowl: 1/3c oats, water, soy milk, vanilla, stevia, pumpkin pie spice, pumpkin and chia seeds. I added some brown sugar after the pic. I’m curious how this bowl is going to keep me full since I didn’t add any nut butter. We’ll see. 
Day 2 of the Beck workbook had me choose a diet. I am going with trying to be aware of calories and portions and aiming to break it down like this:
B: 400
S: 200
L: 500
S: 200
D: 500
Bad News!!! I can’t run the Sun Trust Half after all 
I just realized it is the same weekend as the Fitbloggin conference and I’m already signed up for that!
Saturday’s forecast is super cold and calls for snow I have an outside run planned, but am not looking forward to it…
25°F
Feels Like
16°F
Now I’m off to Kickboxing, see you in a bit!
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That’s too bad about the half
Oatmeal without nut butter doesn’t really keep me full longer than 2 hours… usually. And is that really 400 calories?
Booo for cold weather! The pumpkin oats look great though
Jessica – my oats have oats, a whole banana, soy milk and sugar. It often is 400 calories. I didn’t count it up for today, but also didn’t add in the handful of blubes I ate while cooking
um the fact u are even attempting to run in 25 degrees is insane. good luck dollface! thats colddddd! ur a better runner than I
xoxo
lolo
everytime i try and make pumpkin oats, mine never look (or taste) that delicious .. what are your proportions of the ingredients?
Pumpkin oats are my all time favorite. Too bad we have a pumpkin shortage here
I can’t believe how cold it will be tomorrow! Remember when it was nice and warm on Monday? Where did that go?!
I used to dislike orange foods but now I love them! Oats without nut butters are never as filling for me!
*shiver* and i’ve never had pumpkin oats before. i keep saying i’m going to try them buuuuuuut i never do haha
I love orange stuff too – squash and sweet potato!! Best foods ever
mmmm pumpkin oats look great!
I can’t believe it’s going to be that cold! I would struggle with running in that kind of weather!
Orange foods are truly the best.
Psht. I’d rather be fit blogging than running a half, anyway
You are DA BOMB for going out running in that weather – seriously! I would struggle – I prefer the treadmill on super cold days like that.
diet? I t hought you were trying to eat intuitively? haven’t read in a while so maybe I missed something?
maybe that’s why you have such pretty orange hair
I want to love pumpkin oats but for some reason mine always turn out pretty bland and underwhelming! This morning though I had CHOCOLATE oats! It was fantastic! Highly recommend it!
i love me some sweet potatoes. learning to love pumpkin though…
I like orange food, too. I just discovered pumpkin oats, but I have to be careful not to add too much pumpkin, or it’s too gourdy for my tastes. It’s kind of odd because I love all forms of squash.
Too bad about the half; the Fitbloggin conference is a good excuse, though.
If you’re looking for another (somewhat local) half marathon to participate in, there is the Marine Corps Historic Half in May. I think it’s May 16 in Fredericksburg, VA. I was going to run in it, but my husband is deploying and I don’t have anyone to watch our daughter.
Just a thought.
I LOVE pumpkin oats. Makes me wish I would have made some this morning.
Ohhhh… Too bad about the marathon. But we have to keep our priorities and engagements in check. No way around it.