drank my dinner.

heyyy yoooou guyyyyys! (goonies anyone?)

i am glad my timeline steeze went over well, i think i will go with that whenever i am short on time because it went quite well.  although alison is a super sleuth and called me out on a time that was wrong because it was displayed on a clock in a photo~i think we should all nominate alison for the lead detective position on the next big mystery case out there.  where ever that may be.

so basically the majority of you really did not know your state birds.  the only reason i knew mine is because i know people who get pooped on them on more occasions than you would expect.  the seagull. 

they are everywhere around here.  i took this photo last summer, as you can see the seagull is plentiful in SLC.  and we don’t even have any seas near us.  just a big, salty lake.  maybe that is what they are attracted to?  i am glad i forced some of you to go to google and learn about your state bird, although i can’t say the new found information will get you any further in life.  but you may be able to answer someone else’s random blog question, so i guess there’s that.

one thing we can ALL learn from this question is thanks to anne, if you ever find yourself in arizona watch out for the gackles!  they are these gnarly birds who will peck your face off.  ok, maybe not, but to find out more about them check her comment out from my last post.  if it doesn’t strike you as a threat it sure as hell will make you smile.  i love you anne.

i was intrigued by the favorite protein source answers.  so intrigued, in fact, that i decided to do a breakdown in regarding protein preference percentages. if you said two things i split your vote into half votes.

• (greek) yogurt=24%
• garbanzo beans/hummus=15%
• poultry=15%
• nuts/nut butter=12%
• seafood=12%
• cottage cheese=9%
• other beans=4.5%
• tofu=1.5%
• eggs=1.5%
• veggie burgers=1.5%
• hemp=1.5%
• spirutein=1.5%

so there you have it. i thought more people would have said eggs.. but clearly the winner is greek yogurt! with those chickpeas coming in second.  fun little game that was.

anyway.

oh so my eye, the right one, has been bothering me all day.  this morning i did my make up and then got a humungo hair stuck in my eye.  i couldn’t get it out.  i took my contact out and rubbed my eye and squirt saline in there and it hurt so dang bad and the hair was clinging onto my eyeball for dear life, not realizing that it was already dead… because let’s face it, that stubborn hair had died the moment it was plucked from the roots of my scalp.  i finally finagled the hair from my eyeball and it was FIVE INCHES LONG. (TWSS)  there is something about the feeling of pulling a 5 inch hair out of your eye that just feels really good.  i was so relieved. 

sorry about the rambling, i am in some mood today.  when thursday comes around i am a little more feisty than i am on mondays.  maybe it is deadlines, maybe it is ornery customers or maybe i just am anxious for the weekend.

moving on.

meal 1: protein oats @ 9:30 AM

i smelled up the whole office with the lovely aroma of cinnamon.  as i was carrying my glorious cinnamony oats upstairs one of the sales men asked me to make him oatmeal.  this was the second day in a row i had to make breakfast for people at work.  i don’t mind it, but i do think it is funny that everyone always wants what i am having.  i eat well :)

you wouldn’t think so by the looks of this next dish though.  it really didn’t turn out too attractive.  luckily i was going for practicality over presentation and lunch ended up perfect for my guidelines~

meal 2: cottage cheese+garbanzos+7 grilled shrimp+leftover grilled squash, zuchhini, mushrooms, onions and bell pepper @ 12:45 PM

basically, this was hodge podge of leftovers and what i had at work.  i seasoned it all with some hidden valley ranch seasoning and called it good.  and it was.  it also clocked in at about 350 calories, 47% protein, 36% carbs and 17% fat. 

not too shabby for a lunch of leftover riff raff. not something i would go out and make again because it tasted so glorious, but it did the trick and it tasted great so that is that.

i have decided that anything can be mixed with garbanzos, cottage cheese & hidden valley ranch seasoning and it will taste amazing. so glad i found this concoction awhile back.

between meal 2 and 3 i went a little nutso because of horrible customers trying to think and having short tempers.  won’t go into details but i had the same conversation with this one lady three times… i might have nightmares about her and i don’t even know what she looks like.  sometimes that happens. i have dreams about people i have never met but they have a face in the dream.. kinda creepy.

meal 3: chobani non fat plain + nature’s path multi grain flax cereal @ 4:00 PM

 

i know, i know, i said cereal is off limits but i measured this out and put the box away afterward so it was OK.. i needed a mix in for my carb and had no fruit on hand. this worked though, it was delicious.

driving home from work i had an internal debate with myself. i was literally falling asleep at the wheel because i was so tired but i knew i needed to go to the gym for HIIT.  i thought i could go home and take a nap and go running outside later.  but i also had plans to hit up the free concert tonight.. i fought with myself in my head the whole way to the gym but then i found myself parked in the gold’s parking lot and so i decided to just get it over with.. but WOW it was a struggle getting there!

well i started my HIIT and then the phone rang and it was important because i had told my roomie i would give her directions to somewhere.. that is the only reason i took my phone into the gym with me, and she called 6 minutes into my HIIT! but i knew that would probably happen.  so i started over and it went something like this~

• 2 min @ 6 mph
• 1 min @ 6.5 mph
• 1 min @ 7 mph
• 1 min @ 7.5 mph
• 1 min @ 8 mph
• 1 min @ 6.5 mph
• 1 min @ 7.1 mph
• 1 min @ 7.6 mph
• 1 min @ 8.3 mph
• 1 min @ 6.5 mph
• 1 min @ 7.2 mph
• 1 min @ 7.9 mph
• 1 min @ 8.6 mph
• 1 min @ 6.5 mph
• 1 min @ 7.0 mph
• 1 min @ 7.5 mph
• 1 min @ 8 mph
• 1 min @ 10 mph
• 1 min @ 2 mph

so, usually i listen to the same song during my fastest minute. today i left it on the song that was playing, which happened to be “sunday morning”  by no doubt.. which yes, takes me back to seventh grade, but i thought it was ironic the lyrics that played during the last 20 seconds of my 10 mph minute when i was about to give up:

“i know who i am but who are you? you’re not lookin’ like you used to. you’re on the other side of the mirror and nothin’s lookin’ quite as clear.  thank you for turnin’ on the lights, thank you now you’re the parasite. i didn’t think you had it in you, but now you’re lookin’ like i used to”

ok, so who the hell knows what gwen was singing about but i related these lyrics directly to my situation of not having the physique i once had but that i am trying to get back.  and the lyrics just fit with the hardest minute ever.  and they got me through the minute. i freaking love lyrics, by the way.

then i rode the bike for 15 minutes while reading my clean eating magazine.

stats (of the whole time, including the failed attempt at HIIT and the phone call): duration=43:21, max HR=179, ave HR=134, calories=269

so i hurried home and had to shower because there was a free concert to attend to!  iron & wine was playing a free outdoor concert tonight.  heard of them? good stuff.  no time to cook dinner though.

meal 4: chocolate banana ice cream shake protein shake @ 7:00 PM

i drank it on the road.

then at the concert i had some good times and reunited with some high school homies

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and came home, needing to eat something, but too lazy to cook.  so guess what?

meal 5: chocolate banana protein shake again! @ 11:00 PM

it really is that good.  i could easily drink 5 meals a day if it was good for me.  but i know i need variety and veggies.. i def did not have enough veggies today!

mmmmmm.

and then i typed this! and now it is 9 minutes to midnight, i need to give myself a sleep challenge i think, i am really beating myself up this week on the whole lack of sleep thang.

on the upside, i have drank a gallon or more of water every day for the past 12 days.

speaking of 12 days.. yess.. 12 days of strict body-for-life down, 72 to go. i can do this. no honestly, it has not been hard this week. it was real hard last week eliminating all the extra carbs, snacky foods, sweets and treats.. etc.  but this week i am more in the zone and it has been easier.  the workouts are going great but that has never been an issue, i am glad i found my groove and hopefully can just build momentum from here on out.

in other news!!~~

• don’t forget to enter your sweetie dog(s) in my doggie giveaway, i am taking entries until midnight tomorrow (friday) night.
• miss everythingtarian is having a larabar giveaway but you gotta write a poem to enter so make sure you head over there prepared to bust a rhyme.
• saturday, which happens to be my free day as far as eats go, is also national eat a peach day AND national spumoni ice cream day.  sign me up.
• my girl lynn @ the actor’s diet has big news for the salty city dwellers, her movie, "white on rice" is playing at century 16 on 33rd and also at the century 16 in provo (poor provo residents.. i feel bad for you guys) on the tuesday the 25th!

i am so dang glad it is friday tomorrow. that is all.

Qs

1. any lyrics that motivate you to work harder or pull you through a workout? do share.  i am a lyrics fiend.

2. do you ever have dreams about people you have never met and they have faces and all that? even though you have no idea what they look like? no? that is just me that is a creep like that? well the tell me a weird dream you have had.

3. are there days you eat the same thing for more than one meal? what food is so good that it gets the pleasure of being devoured twice in a day? elise, no need to answer that one.. ;)

my questions were long winded today, if you don’t want to answer them, i understand. it is 12:02 AM, i gotta go to bed.

xo. janetha b.