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Bagels and settling the mind.

I had a great night’s sleep – yay!  I wanted to stay up and watch the short track, but couldn’t make it past the semi-finals.  We headed on out to breakfast at Panera Bread.  I had a french toast bagel.  So good.

The coffee had grounds in it again, though.  What is up with that?? Only in my cup (twice), but not in John’s.  Still trying to figure that one out.

Slow work day this morning, so I got some much needed things done around the house.  I have a monster paper pile I am trying to tame, mostly junk mail, but other things as well.

We went grocery shopping today, and strawberries were on sale for $2 a pound!  You know who bought 3 boxes 😀  I had to incorporate into lunch today:

This is one of my very favorite combos – greek yogurt, strawberries, and hemp plus granola.  I have had cereal out of the house for quite a while, so I let a little back in.  I buy it from the bulk bin, so I can get as little as I want.  As you all know, I have a cereal snackage problem at times.
I need to see how well I do with this in the house.  If I am okay, we might buy a box of Kashi next week.   Baby steps.

Now that things have settled down, I have myself into a good routine again.  However, I am finding my mind still all over the place and racing around.  Meditation doesn’t seem to work as I can’t stop thinking about stuff.  Things that happened, things that are happening, things that could/are going to happen.  I guess I am just an inherent spazz, I don’t know.  Maybe it will just take longer to settle down my head and the longer I am in my physical routine, the better that will get?  I have decided it’s time to make some decisions on goal weight and all that and what I want to do.  After I finish work tonight, I am going to sit down and write out the pros and cons of what that will take and share them tomorrow.  I at least need to outline my goals for the week.

Went out for a chilly walk (not as warm out as yesterday!) then came back to a snack of this (x2):

And a latte.  I am so spoiled having my own barista in John, as he makes these pretty much every day for me since I started my job a year ago.

I also got some Cedar’s Lemon Hummus at the store today.  Gosh I love that stuff!  I used it for dinner in wrap with chicken.

Brussels and a very juicy bit of cantaloupe on the side.  I love fruit so much.  I swear that if fruit contained protein, that is all I would eat other than bagels :mrgreen:

After signing off, I am going to have a snack of crustless pumpkin pie.  John stole a can from my pumpkin stash 😯  and made this, so I am darn well going to eat some!  It’s yummy, though.  Who says pumpkin is just for Thanksgiving??

And because you all seem to like her pictures, Pixie posed for you doing what she does best:

Question:  Do you ever put a food ‘on hiatus’?

Gingerbread bagel time!

Fa-la-la-la-la!  It’s that time again at Panera 😀  Gingerbread bagels!

We almost biked to PB since it was in the upper 40s, but it was wet and soggy.  I guess it won’t hurt me to have a day off, anyway.

Check out this baby!

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I think if someone made a cranberry bagel with eggnog cream cheese I might pass out in a foodgasm. 😆

My work week started today.  I stepped on and broke my work headphones (sigh….) and have been using these now:

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Makes me look like I should be on a runway directing planes!  I love the sound on these, but not wearing them for 8 hours, as they make my ears sweat… ewwww…

Lunch was some greek yogurt, strawberries and Hemp granola (140 calories for 1/2 cup!):

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I have been having another super productive day.  I managed to make more batches of soap for this customer (she ordered again), roasted coffee, worked all my lines, and got my refinance loans scanned and uploaded!  I don’t know what is going on with my organization and productivity, but I will take it 😀   Way more productive than this one:

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However, I have been too snacky today.

Some of this:

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Okay, a couple of those…. and a Zone bar.  It’s one of those days where I just want to *eat*!  Frustrating.

We found some crab cakes at the grocery store yesterday, and each one has 150 calories and 8 grams of protein.  Not bad stat-wise and quite good taste-wise!

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Tonight is some football watching since I got so much done today.  I think I lost the picks this week.  Last week we tied, so we didn’t get dinner out!

Question:  What is your favorite flavor of the season?

The bestest snack!!

I made the yummiest snack!

1/2 cup Greek yogurt (I happen to have fat free)
2 tablespoons of homemade cranberry sauce
sprinkle of granola


It is sooooo good! Not to boast, but I make the best cranberry sauce ever LOL!

Recipe:
1 bag of cranberries
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup orange juice
1 cup sugar
1/2 of a vanilla bean (split and scraped)
1 cinnamon stick.

Combine all over medium heat and cook until the cranberries pop. Mash to desired thickness and let cool. Remove vanilla bean and cinnamon stick.

Happy Monday!

Ah, the start of a new week. I really want to make sure I stay focused for the rest of the month. My birthday is June 5th, and I do plan on allowing myself some treats that weekend when we go away.

I did C25K today. Another 25 minute jog. Felt like I was pushing it, but still ended up at about the same pace as Saturday. Going to take a while to get the pace up more, I guess. But – I still jogged 1 3/4 miles without stopping!

Today’s food:
Calorie goal: 1,350 • Consumed: 1,343 • Burned: 381
Net calories: 962
C/P/F ratio: 50/21/29

I was a little high on fat today. I ate some of that yummy, yummy greek yogurt I got at the farmers market on Saturday. Full fat stuff, of course. I only had half cup – it was really good. Added chopped strawberries and a tsp of honey to it. Can’t have this too often, but what a nice treat!

Farmer's Market

Gosh I love this time of year when the Farmer’s market is open! I don’t know why it feels so healthy and refreshing to walk around the market, even when there are all those baked goods for sale! LOL!

Someone there is now selling Greek yogurt. Yum! My favorite. Not low fat, but I only eat 1/2 cup at a time, and fat is okay 🙂

Got some apples, fresh rhubarb, greek yogurt and farm fresh eggs. Great deal on eggs, too – since there are at least 4 vendors selling eggs – they keep their prices competitive.

Today I did C25K Week 7 Day 2. Another 25 minute jog. I am now trying to increase the distance I jog in that time. On Thursday I did 1.5 miles. Today I did 1.5 miles and got in an extra 1/8 mile before the time was up. Yay! I really, really think I can do this. Take that highschool jerks who made fun of me when I ran!! Haha!