I know I already made a pretty lengthy list of New Year’s Resolutions, but I have to add one more: 2010 New Year’s Resolution: Stop Eating After Dinner I thought it would just be a part of my goal of Intuitive Eating, but this habit is dying hard so it needs to be said. I realized this last night, (after…
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Breakfast Bowl and Marathon Lessons
This morning I used half a cantaloupe as my “breakfast bowl”. I filled it up with cottage cheese, cereal, chia seeds and trail mix. It was delicious and took a while to eat because I had to scoop out the cantaloupe as I ate it. Love it! This would also work with yogurt and granola 🙂 Marathon Tapering – Since…
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Mexican Meatless Mondays
Question: What is better than Meatless Mondays? Answer: Mexican Meatless Mondays!!! I decided to make Meatless Mondays -> Mexican Meatless Mondays because that’s how I roll. Tonight for dinner I made Lentil Tacos and Spanish Rice. I made the Spanish rice with brown rice, onions, tomato paste, spices and mixed veggies. The spices I used: chili powder, salt, pepper and…
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Who am I?
I’m currently sipping on iced coffee. This is kinda weird for me and got me thinking – “Who am I?” I have recently developed this new coffee habit and didn’t really think anything of it until I keep reading about so many people who try to cut back on coffee. I figure it’s a lot better than Diet Coke (especially…
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Treadmill Stroll
Yesterday I really needed to take a walk to clear my mind, but it was way too cold for me to go outside. I opted for a walk on the treadmill with my book: Then it was pizza for dinner 🙂 Pizza is one of my favorite foods (coming in close second to ice cream of course). His side has…
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January Challenge: Meatless Mondays
I want to make 2010 my healthiest year ever and I have a lot of health related goals that I want to incorporate into my life. I decided instead of overwhelming myself with 12 different things, I would take one step toward a healthier life each month. One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to recommit to being vegetarian (I’ve…
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Blogging Pants
Chandra, from Chandra’s Shenanigans recently sent me the Blogging Pants. This concept was started by Faith, and was inspired by the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Now these pants travel from blogger to blogger passing on positive words 🙂 Rules of the pants (some borrowed from the book): Be your beautiful self and live vivaciously! Have fun! You must never…
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Cheese Please!
Despite the frigid temperatures, I reluctantly left my apartment and went to the store today. Ben has been wanting to explore the world of cheese so we went to Trader Joes today to try a few new kinds. We ended up with three to try plus some crackers: Dutch Gouda Some French Cheese Sharp Cheddar I made a fancy plate…
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Wind is a Four Letter Word
Today I learned what “Wind Chill Factor” means. I had never experienced cold, cuts right through you kinda wind until today. Ouch. I set out on my last “long” run of 8 miles and it was cold this morning. I considered going back for more clothes, but thought I’d warm up once I kept running – WRONG. I never warmed…
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