After my delicious breakfast cookie on Friday, I decided to head to the pool and locker rooms since it was the last day for me to clean out my locker befor they closed up for 2 weeks. Walking there seemed like a good idea to me! So I walked a total of 3.7 miles roundtrip. Unforunately my breakfast cookie didn’t hold me over for as long as I was hoping! I got pretty hungry only 2 hours later, so on the way home I stopped at Starbies for a decaf iced Americano with 3 pumps pumpkin spice syrup to hold me over.
I could maybe taste the teeniest hint of pumpkin spice in this drink. Next time I’ll have to get a smaller drink or more syrup. But it was refreshing none the less!
Once home I made yet another yogurt mess (addicted I tell ya!). ย After a trip to the AT&T store, dinner involved my Cranberry & Pumpkin Seed Quinoa. I cooked up some chicken and added it in, then topped it all on a bed of spinach. I then drizzled the whole thing with Annie’s Raspberry dressing and topped it all with feta cheese.
It doesn’t look like there’s much quinoa there – but there was a ton. We planned to go bowling that night, and then my roommate called and notified me that it was drunk bowling. Hmmm….I ended up drinking a bit, but in no way too much. It actually takes me a lot of alcohol to get anywhere near buzzed, let alone drunk. My two girl friends did get pretty crazy though so that was entertaining.
Unfortunately I had the “buzzed munchies” when I got home and nothing could stop me from digging into my froyo carton. For 3 bowls. Topped with brownies and cookies. Ugh. I’ve had numerous problems with ice cream binges in the past, but it had been so long. Needless to say I wasn’t very hungry the next morning (or all day really) with my bloated belly.
My roommate and I both caught the cleaning bug, however, and spent most the day cleaning/organizing! Icompletely rearranged my room – took me 3 hours to move around furniture, and my bed and dresser ended up almost exactly back where they started! Ha. I also scrubbed down the dirty dirty kitchen.
When I finally got a bit hungry, I made something pretty light. An egg white omelette filled with onion, turkey, laughing cow cheese, a bit of my quinoa mix & some corn salsa.
And then topped with ketchup…duh!!
I proceeded to work on my room all day, and then threw on my running clothes to hit the track. Pre-workout I had 1/2 an Ezekiel english muffin with sunflower seed butter (more on that later) & superfruit preserves.
My run was much much better than the other day. Granted it was probably 30 degrees cooler, so I’m sure that helped. Once I got there, I realized my crappy respectably old Ipod was dead, and there was no way I could run around a track 1800000times without music. Enter my handy dandy Iphone! Plugged my earphones in, turned on Pandora, and wa-la! Like pure magic I say ๐ Gotta love it. I went:
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2 miles run/.25 mile walk
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1.75 miles run/.25 mile walk
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.75 mile run (a bit faster)/.25 mile walk
Total: 4.5 mile running; 5.3 miles total with walk breaks
I even kept under a 10 minute mile average including the walking! I wanted to get to 5, but the knees were a bit stiff so of course I pulled back.
For dinner I whipped up a simple chicken veggie stir-fry with my last chicken breast and a whole bag of frozen veggies.
To my bowl, I added a small bit of quinoa salad (yes – I still have a ton of this stuff left) & corn salsa, and last minute added a bit of BBQ sauce.
And I ended up going back and finishing off the entire wok. So much for leftovers! Guess my run brought back my normal appetite!
I remembered something else that I wanted to try out. Miss. Chocolate Covered Katie’s Banana Butter! I blended 2 bananas and 2 big scoops of PB. It tasted a bit too banana-y to me, so next time I’d use more PB or less banana. Or maybe less ripe bananas. I used pretty ripe ones – and I’m not a fan of that strong flavor. Either way, she wasn’t lying when she said it was lick-the-blender-good since I did indeed lick my blender!!
Afterwards I mixed in cinnamon and raisins to make some Cinnamon Raisin banana butter. I can’t wait to try this out after it’s set!
This morning I woke up still not super hungry. Baah. I tried to repeat my last breakfast sandwich, this time on a bagel. What’s inside this, you may ask?
Oh well let me tell you. Garlic/herb cream cheese & avocado spread on the bottom, topped with scambled egg whites, turkey, a scoop of corn salsa, and ketchup. Sandwiched and smashed between a Rudi’s cinnamon raisin bagel.
It was good, but I liked the waffle ‘wich more.
I also had to try my Banana Butter for good measure. It seemed that the cinnamon rose to the top over night?
Maybe becaue I didn’t blend the cinnamon in, I just mixed it. It was still good! I could just eat this whole thing by the spoonful.
Gotta get going because we’re going kayaking today!!
So how much did I actually get accomplished off my last list?
Workout
Clean out my locker at the gym
Clean/organize room/rearrange furniture
Call my madre
AT&T store to deal with my phone (itโs been acting up)
Organize my music on my computer & Itunes
Catch up on Google reader
Work on the blog
Ehh…not bad!
Today’s plan of action:
Finish the room organization
Head back to the AT&T store to exchange my phone
Have fun on our Kayak adventure!
Do ab work – yes that’s on my list because I always procrastinate on it
Organize my music on my computer & Itunes
Catch up on Google reader
Work on the blog
I’m just making this my list for the next couple days since I don’t work Tuesday either. Gaah I love lists! ๐
How is everyone’s adventurous holiday weekend treating them?!
I clearly need to get on this pumpkin spice page that the rest of the world seems to be going crazy over
nice work on the to-do list! i need to get crackin’ on mine! i want that bagel breakfast sandwich, maybe for dinner tonight ๐
I LOVE the days when all I just feel like cleaning eveything (though those days are very rare) I feel so productive and domesticated ๐
hey if you are going to binge, i say make sure it is on ice cream! well done ๐ love the bfast sandwich and the egg white creation!
so awesome that you are going kayaking! hope you take some pictures for us. but then again camera near the water could get dangerous
I’m such a lightweight – I get buzzed off of one glass! I didn’t use to be that way though. Way to go with that run!! Your banana butter looks awesome!
Enjoy the rest of your long weekend ๐
It is rare that I get a cleaning bug, but when I do, watch out! I clean IT ALL. It feels soooo good afterward though, I always feel so accomplished.
Banana butter?!?! I can’t wait to read up on this. And am very excited to hear what you think about the sunflower seed butter ๐
Love the breakfast sammie.
I love that you are getting a lot of tasks done this weekend, but yet having some fun thrown in, nice work! Can’t wait to hear about your kayaking adventure.
In high school gym class we had to kayak in a pool. My kayak flipped and I couldn’t get turned back up. Luckily some guy came and saved the day. To this day I am traumatized, but would love to try it out again!
nice work on the to do list. i LOOOVE crossin things off makes me feel so much better. When i get on those cleaning binges (which happens often surprisingly) i always feel so much better afterwerds, especially if i get some organization done in there too!
Lovin how your using all your quinoa leftovers in a multitude of ways!! i’ve never had quinoa before, is it easy to make?
Hope you have a fab night girl ๐
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Hooray for Pumpkin Spice!!! It only comes once a year, so bring on the pumps of syrup! ๐
That Ezekiel EM looks so good. The seeds just put it over the top!
The concept of the Banana PB sounds great, but I can see where 2 bananas per 2 tbsp PB would be a bit too much banana. I’m definitely a PB girl! ๐
xxoo
Heather
Yay for kayaking! Did you go to the beach? If you, did, I went to Avila today and it was gorgeous!! The weather was perfection. Sounds like you had a fun and eventful weekend!
What a busy day!
All of your eats look and sound spectacular!
Especially the stir fry – love me some good stir fry.
Have fun kayaking and good luck getting everything done!
I’m a huge lightweight and just got done eating my bodyweight in tater tots which I say is a fine and dandy way to consume your midnight buzzed munchies….oh yeah!
Ice cream rocks it too though. I’ve decided I need ice cream this weekend since Labor Day kinda feels like farewell to summer. What do I know, I’m British! But any excuse for ice cream works for me!!
I’m always moving things around in my room, I love reorganizing it ๐
I just noticed that starbucks is offering their pumpkin spice coffees, and I can’t wait to order my first one. ๐ I’ve always ordered it in a hot latte in the past, but I want to try the iced version too. ๐
All your quinoa recipes are making me jealous. ๐ I need to pick some up soon. Such a versatile little grain, and I love the texture. Yum!
I love the looks of that quinoa salad!! I always forget about adding dried fruit to things..
Ahh, alcohol brings down my food defenses as well. Except I usually end my night with pizza Hey, at least your body responded accordingly. I would have been pissed I woke up starving after eating a bunch of ice cream! ๐
the banana buttter looks to die for…the bananas may be oxidizung which may be the cause of the top brown part..i guess that means eat it asap!! ๐ lol like that could be a problem. YUM!
Whoa everything looks delicious! I love fall because I can eat loads of pumpkin and not get weird looks lol!
And for my pumpkin baked oatmeal recipe you could use any type of flour instead of wheat bran!
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ooo kayak adventure??
A walk with a coffee break? Awesome.
And nice job on your run! Under 10 minute miles is great.
I love all your quinoa! I recently discovered it and am addicted!
Ah, ice cream. how can anything so angelic be so…devilish?
Anyway. your banana butter sounds great, I’m gonna have to try that myself. And you’re making me crave quinoa!
Who ISN’T obsessed with a gorg yogurt mess?! I had two of them this weekend and I just couldn’t get over each and every delicious little bite! And hmmm, do you love the sunflower seed butter or what?! I haven’t had it since being at school, but reuniting with it this weekend was pure bliss! ๐
It’s pretty sweet AND savory, which is why I loveeeee it! Glad the run went well! Good luck with your list!
Ooh I didn’t see this til just now! I’ll definitely mention you in the next tribute post ๐
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