Clean Eating - Week 2 - Day 8

Breakfast - 8:30am
1 cup oatmeal (1/2 cup blueberries, 15 almonds)
1/2 cup OJ
1/8 apple

Snack - 11:00am
1/8 apple
1/2 honey wheat bagel w/ PB

Snack - 2:00pm

1/2 medium orange

1/8 apple

10 almonds

Linner - 4:30pm

3-color drink from Brodard

1 bowl of bun bo hue

Snack - 7:30pm

1/2 toasted honey wheat bagel w/ PB

Note: Went to pick up Sister K today and went for a little ride. Traffic was so nice since they closed down the I-5 at the grapevine. We all went to Brodards for linner. So good! It was a nice day.

Food(s) I craved today: Nothing...I had Brodards.

Day 7

Breakfast - 9:30am
1 cup oatmeal w/ 15 almonds and 1 tbsp PB
1 cup mixed berries (strawberries and blueberries)

Lunch - 1:00pm
1 small honey wheat bagel w/ PB

Snack/Dinner - 4:30pm
Smoothie (1 banana, 4 strawberries, 1 scoop protein powder, OJ, water)
1 Leftover carne asada soft taco

Dinner - 8:30pm

Large salad
1 piece chocolate (white chocolate covered peanuts and caramel)

Note: My eating schedule was pretty horrible today. I didn't eat when I was suppose to but I mainly ate good for being the weekend.

Food(s) I craved today: Pizza

Day 6 - 16 Miler Day!! or Valentine's Day to everyone else! :P

So I went and completed my 16 mile run today! It was nice weather. Ran with a medium size group. A bit cold at 6am but turned into a nice day. I ate breakfast for the first time in my running history and ran great. Will be eating breakfast before I run from now on.

Breakfast - 5:15am
Lightly toasted honey wheat bagel w/ PB

Snack - 9:30am
Lightly toasted honey wheat bagel w/ PB
1 small bottle of Gatorade

Lunch - 12:00pm
Leftover lo mein from last nights dinner - 1.5 cup of noodles
1/2 apple
1 medium orange

Snack - 3:00pm
1/2 toasted bagel w/ PB
1 cup blackberries

Dinner - 5:30pm
1 soft taco - carne asada w/ guacamole on corn tortilla
1/2 cup white beans
2 spoons of spanish rice
1/2 cup shrimp cerviche (shrimp marinated in lime juice w/ slice avocado)

Snack - 7:30pm
2 pieces of V-Day chocolate from Sees (one white chocolate covered peanuts/caramel and coconut covered in dark chocolate). Chocolate is so yummy!

Note: I was bit by a dog today during my long run and had to get a tetnis shot at the walk-in clinic. But I think everything is ok now as the doctor said that there hasn't been a case of rabies in OC for 20 years. I am feeling ok and eating normal. Lucky this time.

Food(s) I craved today: No cravings today since I had my cheat meal. It was so so good. I can tell that I have been eating good this week since this dinner was like a party in my mouth!! I ate pretty good at my cheat meal and I didn't eat too much. As Sister K stated, portion control!

Butt & Almond Milk

Today's nonfood related posting is about butt, specifically, how to make your butt look bigger. Yeah, you're probably saying, 'why would anyone want a bigger butt'? Well, you always want what you don't have. Although I don't want a bigger head! :D

I found this link with this exercise that I should try today and see how it goes.

http://www.nowloss.com/how-to-make-your-butt-bigger.htm

So, I tried the almond milk and realized that I should have gotten the lite version as I noticed that the regular one I got still has quite a bit of sugar in it. Now, I must drink up the whole thing. Blast!! Plus, it has that weird almond taste that I am not that fond of that you find with almond jello.

Day 5

Breakfast - 9:45am
1/2 cup cottage cheese w/ splash of vanilla soy milk
1 cup mixed berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries)
1/2 sliced banana
18 almonds
1/4 toasted english muffin w/ PB
1 hard boiled egg white

Snack - 12:00pm
1/2 orange

Lunch - 1:30pm
1.5 cup of chicken salad (celery, relish, miracle whip, apples, chopped up egg white)
1/2 toasted english muffin
1/4 toasted english muffin w/ PB

Snack - 3:30pm
1 cup mixed blackberries/strawberries
25 soy nuts

Snack - 5:30pm

1/2 medium orange

5 triscuts w/ PB and sliced apple

1/4 of apple

Dinner - 8:00pm
2/3 bowl of Pei Wei's shrimp lo mein - 450 calories

Snack -

Note: Not really craving anything today. I think I am just learning to live with my healthy eating for now. Although I am craving to go faster on my bike! :P~ Oh and now I am craving bun bo hue again.

Food(s) I craved today:

Friday night cheat meal

So it is going to be Friday already tomorrow and I look forward to Friday nights every week because I get to eat my cheat meal. Cheat meal makes it sound so bad but mostly it is eating out at a Vietnamese restaurant and more often than not, that place is Brodard's. I try to limit to only 1 cheat meal a week but this gets convoluted when I am at my parents' as they tend to eat lots of "white" carb and my dad cooks everything with more oil than need be. I actually watched him cook once. He was making this pork dish in which he first covered the meat in batter than fried it, then pan fried it and covered it in some heavy sauce. He has a way of even making veggies not so healthy. I should start praising his bland foods so he will make more of those.

Anyways, I went off on a tangent but I was contemplating on my Friday cheat meal and started thinking about how many calories I actually consume at Brodard's each Friday. I can tell you that it is way too many because I ALWAYS leave that place feeling very stuffed and bad about myself. I can't help but order a ton of stuff when I go there. I will not do that this time. I will either get the spring rolls (shrimp and pork) or a bowl of bun bo hue and not eat all the meat like I normally try to do. Will be interesting to see how this weekend pans out as I might be traveling a bit to San Diego for some R&R. I eat terrible when I travel as I don't have food prepared so I end up eating only 2 meal a day and I eat in large quantity. I will pack lots of healthy snacks for the road this weekend and see how it goes.

Anyways, I found this link where someone asks how many calories are in a bowl of pho and the funny responses that follow!

http://www.yelp.com/topic/los-angeles-calling-on-all-vietnamese-yelpers

Anyhow, I figure that I have a 16-miler on Saturday morning so it is ok to be well fueled? haha. I probably have enough fuel to run from here to China and back.

Costco Food Court Nutritional Facts

Hmm...I just found this site that lists the nutritional facts for food sold at the Costco Food Court. Wow, I really should not go eat there anymore. :s But hot dog and pizza are so good there!

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-nutrition-information-for-items-in-the-costco-food-court.htm