Terrific Ten!

Ay bloggies! I can’t believe it’s Sunday night already. Whereee does the weekend go?! Last night after posting I went to a friend’s apartment to celebrate Molly’s birthday. We had plans to eat out at a Mexican place and then go to a bar, but there was a ridiculous wait at the restaurant so we ended up ordering takeout instead. I had three veggie fajitas with mountains of salsa, guacamole and jalapeño peppers, plus my weight in homemade tortilla chips. So. Freaking. Good. Afterwards, we just hung out, made margaritas and danced like crazy people to Beatles music. I only had one “birthday drink”, in preparation for today’s run, but it might have been more fun to be hyper than drunk J It reminded me of being a kid. The only damper of the night came when I left to go home. I swear, there were NO EMPTY CABS on the entire island of Manhattan. Mike made sure I got home safe, but a half hour trek in four inch heels is never fun!

This morning I woke up surprisingly early for having gone to bed at nearly three, and had my favorite breakfast:

Nature’s Path SmartBran + frozen blobs + almond milk, topped with cinnamon

I got on a roll with homework and didn’t end up making it to the gym until pretty late in the morning, so I had a snack before I left to fuel me through my run:

Toasted Nuts and Cranberry Luna bar

My run went great! I thought I would be dying of boredom by the end of 10 miles on a treadmill, but a combination of Lil Wayne, DJ Earworm, the Olympics and a book for class on my iPod got me through it pretty painlessly. I tried to take it pretty slow, finishing in 1:27:55, roughly a 8:48 minute mile average. It felt great to do my longest run to date!

I came home HANGRY and decided to make a MONSTROUS bowl of oats to refuel. This puppy was DENSE! Before I left I’d mixed 2 T chia seeds with ½ c almond milk, then left it in the fridge to gelatinize. The result:

Pure, chia pudding goodness

I also added some Vega vanilla flavored Whole Food Health Optimizer to my oats while they were cooking:

The result?

½ c steel cut oats, 1 c almond milk, Vega packet, chia pudding, sliced banana, 2 spoonfuls of Naturally More and a large handful of Ezekiel Golden Flax cereal

Maybe it was the fact that I was so hungry, but these were hands down some of the best oats I’ve ever made. The picture doesn’t do them justice- they were super filling! I also had a sliced apple:

I spend the whole afternoon working on an outline of Parisian history for one of my classes. Talk about painful! My oats did an awesome job of keeping me full, but I knew I needed to keep refueling, so I had some baby carrots and Mary’s Crack with hummus:

 

Went back for seconds (and thirds) on the hummus. Portion control containers are great, but not for dipping endless supplies of snacks!

For dinner, I had a serious veg craving. I made a massive salad beast:

Spinach, tomato, zucchini and Brussels roasted in EVOO and sea salt, green olives, half a block of Lightlife soy tempeh, all topped with EVOO and red wine vinegar, plus nooch after the photo was taken (can’t believe I almost forgot it!)

This was another super-filling meal! I had a slice of toasted Ezekiel bread on the side for carbs, and an apple with Once Again sunflower seed butter for dessert:

After dinner, I stopped by my friend Zoe’s to say hi….it’s been awhile since I’ve seen her! We chatted for awhile while snacking on some of her mom’s amazing homemade granola with almonds. I came home and had another snack:

So Delicious Coconut Milk Blueberry yogurt

I was very pleasantly surprised by this yogurt! It tasted almost like a regular blueberry yogurt, but a bit lighter. The ingredients list isn’t great, and it has a lot of sugar, but it’s definitely a nice replacement!

Alright mes belles, that’s it for tonight…I’ve gotta buckle down and get some reading done! Have an awesome Monday!

What’s your favorite way to pass the time while working out? I’m definitely an iPod girl, though sometimes I wish I could learn to enjoy exercising without it!