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MissyMaintains — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:11:00 +0000

Hello! I am watching the Phillies and we are winning 6 to 1! Wahoo! I also just got back from Kickboxing and my teacher that I am in love with asked me where I’ve been the past few weeks! Oh yeah. He noticed Anyway, I will do a little recap of yesterday and today plus a review of a new product I love!

On Sunday, I had a bowl of cereal around 4:00 in the afternoon! I slept very late after being out till 6:00 in the morning the night before. I had Kashi Go Lean Crunch with bananas and raisins (also my dinner tonight because I was too lazy to make anything!)

I pretty much did nothing all day since I was so sleepy from Halloween! I got some Subway for dinner to eat while watching the game.

Turkey, ham, cheese, lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, sweet peppers, mustard, and popchips on the side!

Watching the game with Daisy May!

Nice lazy Sunday for everyone!

This morning I woke up and made a yummy juice.

I was a little nervous to try carrots because I know a lot of people that hate carrots in their juice. I followed a recipe from the juicer instruction manual and was pleasantly surprised.

I think the key was using 2 big apples so that I could not taste the celery and carrots too much. I will definitely be making that one again. I must say people really like to stare on the subway when drinking an orange or green drink. Guess there is nothing better to look at.

I got to work and made the usual oats.

I took a walk to Hale and Hearty Soups for lunch to get my favorite salad ever.

Mixed greens with edamame, carrots, cues, broccoli, avocado, and carrot-ginger dressing. I really think I need to try carrot-ginger juice since I like the dressing so much. Slightly nervous though. Maybe tomorrow I will be a brave one.

I was not satisfied after the salad and really wanted some chocolate. I took a walk around the Chelsea Market and spotted gelato! I had every intention of just asking for a sample and leaving but the lady was super nice. I felt terrible just walking away so I ended up with a small cup. I forget the flavor name but it was vanilla with hard chocolate pieces. YUM!

Right before I left work, the munchies hit again. I was probably just bored since I had no Internet but I still felt the need to have a snack. I pulled out this baby.

About a week or two ago, I received 2 cookies from the folks at Nutridel.

There were 2 flavors, Flaxseed and Pecan.

About Nutridel (from the Nutridel Website)

NUTRIDEL is an artisan, gourmet cookie, made by hand in small batches with all-natural, earth-loving high quality ingredients. Our cookies contain no animal or dairy products. They are baked to perfection, and the result is a crispy, crunchy snack you can enjoy any time with guilt-free pleasure!

The brand is a concoction of the words “NUTRItious” and “DELicious”, exactly what our cookies represent. Our products are 100% natural, contain no additives, preservatives, artificial colorings, flavorings or sweeteners of any kind. They are loaded with seeds, grains, nuts, fiber and sweetened with a touch of molasses.

I tried the Pecan as soon as I received the package. You know I can’t resist cookies in my desk! Check out the awesome nutrition facts:

59 calories for one cookie? Yes! I can’t eat just one but knowing that 2 cookies was still close to 100 calories made me happy. The short ingredient list was nice to see too: whole wheat flour, wheat bran, amaranth, pecans, molasses, sunflower oil, and natural pecan essence. A+!

The Flaxseed cookie had very similar nutrition facts to the Pecan.

I loved the thin, crunchy texture of the cookies. They were also pretty big in size for only 57 calories. I guess I would compare them to crackers but with a delicious taste. The Pecan and Flaxseed tasted pretty similar to me but I really enjoyed both. Perfect snack for my mid-day munchies! I would definitely purchase these cookies again! They also come in Almond and Oatmeal so I am very curious to try both in the future!

Well I am off to go finish watching the game! Stay tuned for a giveaway tomorrow! For now I will leave you with some other bloggy giveaways!

Andherlittledogtoo’s Yoplait Light Giveaway

Danica’s Nature’s Path Giveaway!

Progresso Winner and More!

MissyMaintains — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:19:00 +0000

Happy Friday and almost Halloween! My computer is still broken at work but I wrote most of this post last night just in case! Now I am at Lite Choice again finishing it off. Nice excuse to have fro-yo 2 days in a row! Anyway, I will start with the winner of the Progresso Panko gift pack!

Here are your random numbers:
The winner is Gina from The Persuit of Awesome! Congrats Gina! Please e-mail me with your address so I can get your prize out to you. If I do not hear from you by next Friday, I will choose a new winner.

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Timestamp: 2009-10-30 02:33:24 UTC

Now onto some food since it’s been a while! I basically ate the same thing on Wednesday and Thursday so I will just talk about one of the days!

I started off with a green juice at 6:00 in the morning!

Cucumbers, apple, celery, and ginger. I had no clue how much ginger to add in but I really enjoyed the extra spice. I think I could use a little more next time!

I went to the gym and did 8 minutes on the elliptical, 20 on the treadmill, and 10 on the stepper. I had a mild case of gym A.D.D! I got bored on every single machine but at least I tried!

Breakfast was some McCann’s brown sugar oats with goji granola.

Lunch and dinner were exactly the same! Turkey, ham and cheese on Arnold’s sandwich thins!

With dinner I had cucumbers, popchips, and hummus on the side. Oh and a few beers while watching the game!

Dessert was wonderful!

I used pumpkin butter, chocolate chips, and Oikos all over a baked pear.

The pumpkin butter and Oikos made a wonderful addition to my pear! Don’t forget to become an Oikos Facebook Fan!!!!! They are a great company so have to show them support!

*This is a submission to the Stonyfield Na-Moo-Ste Sweepstakes! Wish me luck

Last night after work I ended up going to Core Fusion. It was a teacher I had for sport a while ago but he did not remember me! It was a great class as usual! I ended up staying in for the game because I figured I’d be going out plenty this weekend. What is everyone doing for Halloween?? I am probably going to a party on Long Island but no clue what I am being yet!

Okay, I need to add something. I just got up to order my fro-yo and the guy next to me is on a porn website!! Who does that at an Internet Cafe??? I saw naked men and other sexual devises on his screen. EW!

Well I am off to since my time is about to be up and I need to leave this place!! Hopefully next week my Internet will be fixed! Don’t need to Come back tomorrow for a special Halloween post! Trust me, it will be worth your time!

Massages, Beers, Sushi…..

MissyMaintains — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:09:00 +0000

Good Morning! I’m a little hungover right now but that’s nothing new! I had a fun weekend that involved some pampering, drinking, and quality family time. Let’s go back to Friday night.

After work I thought about going to the gym but it was rainy, cold, and miserable. No thanks. Some Twitter friends (hi Dori and Caitlin! ) also made it very tempting to go home and relax with a glass of wine by the computer! That is exactly what I did.

Eventually the boy came over and we decided to grab some dinner. We ended up at Cheeburger Cheeburger for a quick yummy meal. He got an Oreo Cheesecake milkshake.

He is weird and didn’t like it. I loveeeed it. He said there were too many oreo chunks in there and a milkshake should not be that way. Personally I love huge oreo chunks no matter what it is!

I got a Portabello Mushroom salad.

I took advantage of the unlimited toppings and got carrots, cucumbers, guacamole, feta cheese, garbanzo beans, kidney beans, artichokes, and roasted red peppers.

Delicious! The boy got a burger of course!

We went to the pet store after and got Daisy a new toy!

We watched The Proposal and then the boy went to work and I went to sleep.

Saturday

Spa day! I got my sister a 1 hour massage and 1 hour facial at Exhale Spa for her wedding. Of course I got myself the package too so we could go together!

I woke up and had a small bowl of cereal since we were also taking a Core Fusion class before the massages!

Kashi Honey Sunshine with raisins.

We took Core Fusion with my favorite teacher. This was the first time my sister took the class and she loved it! She works out all of the time but loved that it targeted muscles in a whole new way. Our teacher gave her a pass too try Core Fusion Sport so we will be going back soon! She now understands why I am so addicted to it. We are both super sore today!

We had an hour to kill before our massages so we went to Hale and Hearty Soups and got salads.

I got the usual….edamame, broccoli, carrots, cucumbers, avocado with carrot ginger dressing.

We went back into the spa and put our feet in the whirlpools. The spa is so pretty and relaxing inside. There was a steam room, 3 whirl pools, and a long padded seating area. Everything is coed. Good to know haha. The massage was wonderful. It felt so good after such an intense Core Fusion class! The facial was great too. It was only my 2nd facial and so much better than my first one. Head massages are the best thing ever! Such a relaxing day!

I went home and got some Subway for dinner.

The bread was stale. Yuck. I brought popchips to munch on too. Not going back to Subway for a while after that.

I came home craving some chocolate so I heated up a cranberry Vitatop with chocolate chips and whipped cream. Fun dessert!

My roommate and I decided to go to a bar to watch the Yankees game after dinner. We decided to check out this bar we always walk by called Anna’s Place. It was the typical neighborhood bar where everyone knows everyone.

I think I had around 6 beers? As if that wasn’t enough…we ordered shots before we left. I got a Kamikaze and she got Sambuca.

Can you tell which one is which? The one on the right looks like a Kamikaze to me! I realized after taking half the shot that it was Sambuca! EWWW! Puke in my mouth? Yes!

We got a little hungry since we had Subway pretty early so we ordered a Turkey Club.

I had the fries and a few bites of the sandwich. Yummy!

She suggested cereal when we got home and my drunk self agreed. At least it was Kashi Go Lean right? I should have just passed out! Drunk munchies…

Sunday

I woke up at 2:00 in the afternoon! Yeah 8 million drinks will do that…

My parents told me they were coming around 4:30 to visit Daisy (and me) to have dinner. I had a Z-bar and banana to hold me over till they got there.

We went to the usual delicious Japanese place by my apartment. Here are some recycled pics since I can’t take pictures when I am with them!

We started with edamame and this fried tofu appetizer. I didn’t like the tofu because it was slimy and did not have any flavor.

I also got miso soup.

Salad with ginger dressing.

Alaskan and vegetable rolls with brown rice. Yummy.

The parents left around 6:30 and then I watched the Phillies game for the rest of the night.

I am off to go catch up on blogs and maybe do work. Have a good day!

Weekend of Kittens, Turkey Subs, and Road Trips!

MissyMaintains — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:38:00 +0000

Morning! I thought I’d start off with some pictures to brighten every one’s day!

Aww I miss her. My dad may bring her back to me this weekend if she can drink out of a bowl instead of a bottle!

Weekend Recap!

Just a warning before I even start…I ate a turkey sub for almost every meal! I will go back to Friday!

I got my hair highlighted and blown out after work. It was late so I picked up some Subway for dinner. I was in a hurry because I had Melanie’s engagement party to get to!

I ate it on the train so I couldn’t get a great picture. It was a 6 inch whole wheat with turkey, cheese, lettuce, pickles, sweet peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and mustard. Yummy. I picked up some Reese’s on the way home too!

Delicious!
On the way to the party!

The party was a lot of fun. Unfortunately I missed seeing Dori by 10 minutes! My friend and I left around 2:00 in the morning pretty drunk. We were both hungry by then since Subway was not too filling. The drunk munchies also came into play of course! We walked through Times Square looking for this amazing pizza place we went to a while ago. We could not find it so we ended up in some random one. I got a slice of mushroom, spinach, and cheese!

It was good to me since I rarely have real pizza but it was not as good as typical New York pizza. It seemed like it was sitting out for too long or something. It was 3:00 in the morning by this point. I should have went home but we ended up in a 2nd pizza place! I got another slice of mushroom!

This pizza was 10 times better! Best thing ever when drunk!

Saturday

I woke up bright and early to go pick up Daisy! There were 3 kitties to choose from but Daisy let me hold her the longest. She was purring right away!

I had plans to go to Towson, Maryland at night to visit my friend Katie from college. I decided to bring Daisy to my house in Philly so my parents could babysit while I was away. My other college friend Kaity came over and we took the train to Philadelphia.

I had my first Peanut Butter & Jelly Larabar!

Yes, it was just as delicious as all of the bloggers say!

We dropped off Daisy and drove my car the rest of the way to Maryland. We stopped at Wawa on the way for the best sub ever. For some reason it is sooo much better than Subway.

It contained turkey, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, pickles, mustard, and sweet peppers.

We got to Maryland around 7:00 and went to a bar later at night.

New York Kaity, Me, Maryland Katie. We were all roommates in college by the way.

After the bar, we were all starving since we ate Wawa at 5:00. We stopped at Royal Farms which is similar to Philly’s Wawa. They were out of whole wheat rolls so I asked for whole wheat bread. Instead they gave me white bread but oh well. It was probably a good thing to soak up the alcohol!

Sunday

We woke up and went to Subway for brunch. I was not kidding when I said I ate turkey for every meal. Better than going to McDonald’s though since we were always on the go!

Sunday we all just watched football and helped Katie clean out her old apartment. Kaity and I drove back home around 6:00 at night. At 8:00, we stopped for dinner! Wawa again!

I will not be eating turkey for another month now! I am craving lots of fruits and vegetables!

I got back to New York around midnight. I was a little hungry so I made a small bowl of Peanut Butter Puffins before heading to bed.

You know you love my new place mats!

Where did I get the Puffins and PB&J Larabar? I won a giveaway from Hallie of Healthy Twists!

It included all of her favorite things which happen to be my favorite things too! Thanks Hallie!!

I also came home to some other great packages! Quinn from Daily Moderation hosted a giveaway with awesome running gear!

Really nice Nike shorts, pepper spray which I love because it supports breast cancer, and Luna Moons! Thanks Quinn!

I received two cool items from Navitas Naturals as well.

I plan to cook something fun with the Coconut Oil later this week or next week!

I also received another giveaway prize pack from Leianna at HealthyFitRunner!

Z-Bars, Larabars, oatmeal, popcorn, tea, green tea mints, seasoning, gummi bears…does it get any better?

Okay, I’ve been on some kind of winning streak lately because I was notified yesterday that I won a Core Rhythms workout video from GirlGetStrong.com. I sent them my address yesterday and it arrived today! Very impressive!

I can’t wait to try it out!! I might actually have fun with this one since it involves dancing and making a fool of myself! Maybe I’ll do it tonight because I haven’t worked out since last Thursday!

I hope my winning streak continues because Dori is giving away some of the best workout DVD’s ever!! Enter here!

I had a great dinner last night but I will save that for tomorrow since this is getting too long! I am going to go do some work now! Have a great day! More Daisy pictures to come!

Yoplait Delights Winner and Electric Zoo Fest!

MissyMaintains — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:06:00 +0000

Good Morning! Hope everyone had a nice long weekend. My festival was very fun but more on that later. First I will announce the Yoplait Delights Spa Giveaway Winner!

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2009-09-08 13:39:38 UTC

And the winner is….

TRACEY! “My favorite sweet snack is a Healthy Choice Fudge Bar!”

Tracey: I do not have your contact information so please e-mail by this Sunday, September 13th. I will choose a new winner on Monday if I do not hear back from you. Thank you and congrats!!!

I had another giveaway planned for this week but apparently someone is stealing my packages. It was delivered last week but I never received it! This has happened with a few other packages as well since I moved to my new place. Looks like I will have to have them delivered to work from now on!

ELECTRIC ZOO FESTIVAL!

On Saturday and Sunday, I went to an electronic/house music festival on Randall’s Island. I’m not sure if any of you listen to this music but there were 4 stages with over 50 artists. The main DJ’s were Armin Van Buuren, David Guetta, Benny Benassi, Kaskade, and ATB. I was very excited to see all my favorite DJ’s in one place! On Saturday the boy arrived around 4 and we got to the island about an hour later. The festival started at 11 but I wasn’t going to last 12 hours, 2 days straight anyway!

Waiting for our bus Randall’s island is actually very close to my apartment!

Here are some random photos from the day!

I tried to add some videos but I am having issues from work so I will try it when I get home!

Oh yeah, no food pictures from Saturday because after my omelet at 8 in the morning, I had a peanut butter and jelly at 11:00. I had a second one at 3:00 before we left. I had a 3rd one when we got home at 1:00 in the morning! I won’t bore you with 3 sandwiches haha. Yes I need to go grocery shopping.

Sunday

We woke up and went to the Tower Diner since it’s been over a month!! It was packed so we sat at the bar and had to stare at a million desserts!! Apparently Diana was there too but we missed each other!

I got an egg white omelet with mushrooms, tomatoes, and broccoli. Lots of burnt hash browns on the side! I love them that way.

I also had whole wheat toast and a bite of the boy’s turkey sausage.

I was stuffed after all of that but he insisted on chocolate pudding so of course I agreed!!

We arrived at the festival around 3:00 on Sunday. The cupcake truck was there!

We each got mini Oreo cream cupcakes!

Yum yum.

Lots of hula hoopers and twirlers!

People were dressed up in all kinds of costumes and crazy outfits. It was insane but so fun!

We had a light lunch/dinner since we were both stuffed from brunch! We split a turkey wrap and iced tea. We both had bananas too. He also had ice cream and a few more cupcakes I think!

The wrap was extra good because of the mayo in it. I very rarely have full fart (okay I had to leave this typo since it is so funny but I meant fat!) mayo but it sure is delicious sometimes!

David Guetta from far away.

And that’s all! We both had a great time! I hope they have it again next year!

Monday

We got ourselves out of bed around 1 or 2 in the afternoon and went back to the diner!

The boy got the French Toast Deluxe. He added a bagel as well since eggs, ham, bacon, sausage, and french toast was not enough!! I wish I had his metabolism!

I got the same veggie omelet as the day before and stole his turkey sausage again!

Had to get the pudding again!

My pictures end here because I forgot to upload the rest last night but we went to the movies after brunch. We saw Final Destination in 3D. It was stupid but funny, especially wearing our cool glasses. I had a nice healthy snack of Diet Coke, Mike & Ike’s, and Dark Chocolate Raisinets. I was healthy the rest of the weekend so whatever!

Dinner was turkey sandwiches with pita chips and hummus. We watched Watchmen and drank some vodka. Very weird movie.

We thought we bought Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Brownie Fro-yo at the store after the movie. We were both all excited for ice cream after dinner. We checked the fridge, freezer, and cabinets and there was no ice cream! I think we left it on the deli counter but it was so disappointing. We had to split my last ice cream sandwich. Not as fun! Especially since only one side of it had the chocolate layer! What’s up with that Turtle Mountain?

Today he is coming for lunch so we plan to get some ice cream to make up for last night I am off since someone just gave me work to do for once! Bye!

Giveaway!

Oikos Yogurt!!

Work Today? No Thanks!

MissyMaintains — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:20:00 +0000

I have a very exciting day today! First of all, no work! But..I am still getting paid to work! I am spending the day with my boss! Every department gets to go on a retreat so we got to choose whatever we wanted (with a spending limit of course). We had about 6 different ideas and finally picked 3 of them! I am going to save the details for tomorrow’s post but I can’t wait! For now, I will recap back to Monday and Tuesday!

It’s been very chilly outside this week so I went back to good old oatmeal! I used one packet of Quaker Organic oatmeal with cinnamon, a banana, and Back to Nature Wild Blueberry Walnut granola.

The granola made the oatmeal so good! Loved the blueberry chunks!

For some reason, this only filled me up for 2 hours. Okay, I do know the reason. I forgot the protein! Oops! Well I was dying of hunger so I dug into lunch at 11:30! My lunch is supposed to be at 1:00. Lesson learned!

I made turkey and cheese roll ups with Miguel’s tortilla chips!

I knew I’d get hungry again since I ate lunch so early so I treated myself to a lovely afternoon snack.

Starbucks decaf iced coffee with skim milk and a big bowl of fresh fruit. The fruit is not from Starbucks since they give you half the size for more money!

I was planning on going to the gym after work until my roommate asked me to have dinner! Monday’s are the only days we can ever have dinner together because she goes to church groups every other night so I agreed! I knew my legs needed the rest anyway since I ran 4.4 miles on Sunday! I did walk to her work which took 20-25 minutes..every little bit counts right?

We both agreed on the amazing $2.99 sushi place across from our apartment! I started with Miso soup.

We shared edamame!

I also got a salad with ginger dressing. Some things never change

I got 2 brown rice rolls, Sweet Potato and Alaskan.

They were both amazing! The sweet potato roll was basically fried sweet potatoes with rice and seaweed! Yum! The Alaskan was salmon, avocado, and cucumber.

We went home and had every intention of walking outside. My head started pounding and her tummy hurt so we got lazy and decided to eat ice cream instead!!

Turtle Mountain Chocolate Peanut Butter So Delicious ice cream with a banana and mystery cookies! (Cookie review at the end of the week!) I was staring at the freezer after my bowl because I reallllly wanted a 2nd bowl. My roommate had to keep telling me to fight it. We both knew how full I was so she took my bowl and washed it. I need her every time I eat ice cream from now on!! I definitely would have had more if I was alone!

Tuesday I had some more oaties! This time I had 2 packets instead of one. I also added Artisana Raw Cocoa Bliss nut butter! Yum!!!!

I stayed full till lunch so 2 packets and some nut butter did the trick!!

Lunch was an opened-face turkey and cheese sammy on Dave’s Killer bread. I wanted to save room for a big portion of Lesser Evil Krinkle Sticks!

My afternoon snack was dark chocolate (3X what you see there), a nectarine, and green tea.

I went to the gym after work and took a spin class. Okay, I got a great workout but the teacher was horrible!! I should have taken a different class as soon as I saw a substitute. Hmm, just imagine Fran Drescher teaching a spin class.
The teacher had the most painful laugh and thick New York accent. She was SCREAMING into the microphone the entire time. Omg, I had such a headache. Seriously she felt the need to sing to the music or yell every 30 seconds!! I really needed ear plugs. I also have this hatred for Bon Jovi (sorry if you like him), especially the songs they play in bars that everyone sings to. You know…”Shot to the heart, and you’re to blame…..” Well, that is all she played. She sung (or screeched) every word. I would have left but I was getting a nice workout so I tried to block her out (very hard). Luckily she works at a location that I will never go to! I burned 428 calories so at least I got something out of the class!

I made a yummy dinner when I got back!! Morningstar Farms crumbles with mushrooms, salsa, and goat cheese!

I had the best chips ever on the side!

All over a salad with organic steamed broccoli.

Delicious!!

More ice cream was enjoyed for dessert! I added some watermelon too!

Well I am off to go hit up the gym before my exciting adventures today! I have a feeling there might be a few drinks involved so I figure I should get the gym out of the way first! Don’t want drunk Missy falling off the treadmill later!! I also ate a lot more after I typed this last night blahhh.. Something like 3 bowls of Zoey’s granola?? No idea why, very mad at myself. Oh well, I am off to go do cardio.

Come back tomorrow to read the details about my day off! But first, enter here to win Yoplait Delights, slippers, a bathrobe, spa mask, and lunch bag!

Sunday Outdoor Run!

MissyMaintains — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:27:00 +0000

Good Morning! Normally I’d be all blah since it is Monday but this week is a going to be a good one! I get to take off an entire day this Wednesday to go on a retreat with my boss! I think we are getting manicures and maybe some spa treatments. We are deciding at lunch today. Friday I get off at 1:00 too so it will be a nice short week! Saturday and Sunday I am going to a 2-day music festival on Randall’s Island (Electric Zoo) so I am extremely excited.

The rest of my weekend was pretty good. I will start from where I left off on Saturday! Around 6 I heated up more Chinese food leftovers.

Steamed chicken with mixed veggies, brown rice, and salad with ginger dressing. I had a Coors Light with lemon too

Dessert was grapes, a Cranbran Vitatop (so good), and a piece of a frozen Hershey’s bar. I needed my chocolate!

After dinner I took the subway to Central Park. Paul Van Dyke, one of my favorite house DJ’s was putting on an outdoor concert. I skipped paying the $45.00 to get in and just listened from outside. He was really good!

I got back around 11 and was hungry again! I made an open faced turkey and cheese sandwich on Dave’s Killer bread. I had some pita chips and hummus on the side.

I also had a delicious nectarine.

You know you like my cutting skills!

Sunday

I woke up around 10 starving again! I got out some ingredients to make a nice omelet.

I made a mushroom and goat cheese omelet!

I had a slice of Dave’s Killer bread with Crofter’s Organic Superfruit spread. I also had some POMx so I could wake up a little for a workout!

I waited 2 hours for my food to digest and decided to attempt an outdoor run. I have a 5K in 2 weeks so I needed some practice! I also just got the Nike+iPod so I wanted to calibrate it and see how far I ran during my previous 35 minute run. I did some research on MapMyRun.com and found that 1 time around the path at Flushing-Corona park is 2.18 miles. Last time I ran around it 1 1/2 times so I most likely did over 3 miles.

This is what the park looks like! Very pretty scenery!

I ran around the path once so that I could calibrate the Nike+iPod. It told me I ran 2.7 miles but it was more like 2.2. I knew it was not completely accurate because I had to do a lot of zig- zagging since the lake tends to overflow on the path. It was very muddy!

I waited a few minutes and decided to run around the path again! I wanted to see how accurate it was. The 2nd time around was a lot harder than the first. I wanted to stop but was so determined to calibrate the Nike+iPod so I kept going. I got this pain at the very top of my left leg too. The pain is still there so I need to figure out how to stretch it.

I finally reached the end and it said I ran 2 miles so I changed it to 2.18 to make it more accurate.

Stats

Run: 2.18 Miles
Duration: 23 minutes and 23 seconds
Pace: 10’43″
Calories:190

My heart rate monitor said I burned 250 I think so I believe that more. I thought I ran much slower so I was very happy with my stats! Now I am just very worried about the hills for the 5K since this track is completely flat. I will do my best though!

I walked around the track one more time to cool down. The sun was out so I wanted to get some color too! I ended up doing 6.6 miles total for the day.

Total Stats:

Calories Burned: 725
Maximum Heart Rate: 191
Average Heart Rate: 157

It’s funny, when I don’t run for a week or two I really dread going again. Today I woke up and really wanted to go for a run! Unfortunately I would have to wake up at 5 am if I wanted to run on that track before work since it is a 20 minute walk just to get there. I don’t feel comfortable running around my neighborhood (I get lost and there are weird men) so I will just stick with it on weekends!

I made a protein drink after my long workout.

I was craving watermelon too so I picked up a nice big tub on my way home and topped it over Chobani.

I sat around and read for a while and got hungry for some dinner! I made a turkey and cheese panini.

So much better when it is grilled! I had salad and tortilla chips on the side. Oh and hummus of course.

My roommate came home so we watched I Love You Man. It was a cute movie.

We snacked on some Cape Cod popcorn (x2).

Along with some Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream! (x2).

Both bowls of my ice cream were huge. I always feel so snacky on Sunday nights. I guess because I am bored and only think about food! I had cookies too but am saving those for a product review this week! Oh well!

Ow, ever since I hit my head on the freezer, I’ve been having bad headaches! Could this be a concussion? I’ve never had one before. Who knows??

I have no work to do as usual so I guess I am off to go read blogs!

Today is the last day to enter my Dave’s Killer Bread Giveaway! I will be choosing a winner tomorrow and a new amazing giveaway will begin!!

Drunk Chinese Food and Dance Parties!

MissyMaintains — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:24:00 +0000

Hello on this yucky Saturday! I don’t like this cold weather! I’ve been home all day cleaning so at least I am being a little productive! The worst thing ever just happened though! I was doing laundry (3 loads) and a fish oil supplement must have gotten mixed into my laundry basket! All of my clothes smell like fish now!! Blahhh. I have no more quarters either. What a pain!

So yesterday I attempted the whole oatmeal in a peanut butter jar trick for breakfast! I put a packet of Arrowhead Mills oats in my almost finished peanut butter jar and put it in the microwave for a minute. I looked in after 45 seconds and the oatmeal exploded everywhere! I took it out and the oatmeal still seemed very watery. The jar was burning hot so I just let it sit. After 3 minutes, the oatmeal became nice and creamy!

Delicious! So fun digging into all of the melted peanut butter at the end! Now I know to only stick it in for 20 seconds or so at a time! I enjoyed some POMx coffee as well!

I had peanut butter and jelly for lunch so no use in showing a picture of it for the millionth day in a row!

I got off of work at 4:00 and had plans for my friend Kaity to come over around 6. I decided to squeeze in a little gym workout before she arrived. I thought I would only have a half hour but I ended up doing 50 minutes on the elliptical!

Stats:

Calories Burned: 420
Maximum Heart Rate: 183
Average Heart Rate: 159

I did intervals at level 6 and level 12 so my heart rate got up pretty high. It felt good to get in an intense cardio session!

Kaity came over and we decided to pick up some alcohol and dinner and bring it back to my apartment. We knew it’d be a lot less money than going out to eat.

First we picked up a few Sparks since we were both extremely tired from working all day!

I had 2 of them and got a nice buzz! We also picked up Chinese food! Perfect for a rainy day.

I started with Vegetable soup. Yummm!

I also got Steamed Chicken with Mixed Vegetables.

They made me get a 2 person sized order since it was from the diet menu. Lots of leftovers!

We picked up some beers and walked over to her sister’s house which happens to be right down the street from me! I don’t have cable so we had absolutely nothing to do at my apartment. We watched Rachel Getting Married (kind of weird). After drinking about 6 beers, we stumbled home in the rain!

It was 2 in the morning by this point so we both had drunk munchy attacks. Good thing we still had Chinese food!

I still have even more left for dinner tonight! I’m excited.

This morning I woke up and had a light breakfast so that I could go to the gym.

I had about half of the POMx coffee since I was pretty tired from all the drinking last night! The banana toast hit the spot!

I did another 50 minutes on the elliptical! I was going to do the Shred too when I got back but I ended up collapsing in bed so that did not happen.

I made a nice turkey wrap for lunch.

It had mustard, Sabra Supremely Spicy hummus, lettuce, cues, low-salt turkey, and American cheese.
With some Miguel’s tortilla chips on the side to dip in more hummus!

Dessert was a Vitatop and grapes.

As I was digging in the fridge for the grapes, I got up and smacked my head really hard on the freezer door. It hurt so bad; I was hysterically crying! Now I have a huge lump on my head. Lovely!

I am off to go finish all my laundry! Not sure what my plans are for the rest of the weekend. I really want to go see Paul Van Dyke perform in Central Park but it depends on this weather! If not I’ll just dance in my room to his music and pretend. Haha yes I have dance parties by myself all the time. Good exercise right? What spontaneous exercises do you do in your own home?

Have a good night!

Time to Do the Friday Dance!

MissyMaintains — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:29:00 +0000

Hello! This is what I would be doing if I was not in an office right now!

I had to! I can’t believe my sister is getting married this weekend! It has not set in yet! I am very excited but still have a lot to do! Tomorrow I am getting manicures and pedicures with all of the bridesmaids. I can’t wait to get my hair and makeup done too! It is fun being a girly girl sometimes!

I did pretty well yesterday with food except for a few little cheats here and there.

I got to work and made eggbeaters in the microwave. I made double the amount I made last time so that I would actually stay full.

There was also a chunk of Laughing Cow hidden somewhere in there. I had Tazo Awake tea as well.

I brought delicious almonds to snack on later in the morning.

These things are addicting! They are so crunchy so I pretty much ate the whole bag at once.

Lunch was another turkey and ham lettuce wrap. Recycled pic because I completely forgot to take a picture of it! I had veggie chips on the side.

I might have stopped at The Lite Choice for some fro-yo too! It was 1000 degrees outside and I saw that they had banana fudge so I needed it!! That might be my new favorite flavor!

I had every intention of going to the gym after work. I was going to go to a 6:30 spin class. At 5:30, my friend from college messaged me and told me she would be in the city for happy hour. She lives in Jersey but I have not seen her since we graduated in 2007! We were roommates and best friends so of course I passed up the gym to see her and have a drink!

We met at a cute outdoor bar called The Frying Pan. It was on a boat docked by the Hudson we so we were rocking a bit!

It was packed!

Amanda and I!

It was crazy because she lost 30 pounds since the last time I saw her! I had no idea! During college, she was trying to help me gain weight at one point. I was trying to help her lose weight. We would cook healthy dinners together but she always struggled to lose the weight. She said she got sick and lost some of the weight but has been able to keep it off since. I am very happy for her.

I was good and only had 1 drink. Amanda does not drink so I wasn’t about to get drunk alone! I had a vodka soda with a splash of cranberry.

I want to go back to that bar because they had amazing looking sangria! I did not see it till after I ordered but there was soo much fruit in it!

Since I did not go to the gym, I decided to do some walking. The bar was at the 23rd street subway stop so instead of getting on there, I walked all the way to 50th. I was soaking wet from the heat but it felt good to get some activity in.

I got home around 10 starving for dinner! I made a Morningstar Farms burger with mushrooms.

I also made frozen broccoli in the microwave since I was too hungry to sit there and steam it. I added spray butter and Parmesan. Eating that made me realize how much better fresh broccoli is!

I dipped everything in hummus of course.

I had whipped cream and carob chips for dessert! Maybe a few extra handfuls of carobs after

I also had 2 Vegan Carob Banana cubes! Thanks to Diana, I am discovering all of these amazing snacks at Integral Yoga Health Food Store! I’ve been going there a few times a week during my lunch hour just to browse (and maybe buy Kombucha), but I never knew half of these treats existed!

I get off at 4:00 today so I plan to do some cardio and then go to Core Fusion! I am reserving a spot now so that way I can’t back out for the 3rd day in a row! I will be staying in a hotel in long Island for the next 2 nights (3 day weekend oh yeahhh), but I may post one more time before I go. If not, have a great weekend!

Low Carb Day 1

MissyMaintains — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:41:00 +0000

Hey everyone! This is what I feel like today…

I am exhausted! I got 7 1/2 hours of sleep which is not terrible but Core Fusion mixed with not many carbs yesterday is not a good combination! I am going to stick with it till the weekend but I will just be a very tired girl.

Core Fusion was great last night but very tough! The room was extra hot too so I was drenched and had a hart time holding onto the bar since my hands were sweaty! I think I was also still sore from kickboxing on Monday. I am really feeling it today which means it worked! It just hurts to walk, sit, and climb stairs! The only issue I had with the class was that the teacher played annoying 80′s music the whole time. Usually they play dance and house music which is all I ever listen to even when I am not working out so I was not as pumped. Other than that, it was amazing and a killer workout!

For breakfast yesterday I decided to make an omelet before I left the house. I added turkey and mushrooms too. I brought it in a little to-go container so it actually stayed warm during my hour long commute! It was so good because the mushroom juice soaked up the omelet and gave it a great flavor.

I also snacked on some Flanigan Farms cashews throughout the day.

During lunch I took a nice long walk outside. I think I went 20 blocks up and 20 back. After my walk, I finally got hungry. I made a turkey and ham lettuce roll-up. No cheese since the deli guy gave me Swiss instead of American! Swiss cheese is on my list of the top 5 foods I dislike. By the time I realized it, the deli was already closed so it was a waste of 1/2 a pound of cheese! I couldn’t exchange it yesterday either because of Core Fusion so oh well!

I had Snapea Crisps on the side!

Yummy!
I had a piece of dark chocolate too for a little pick-me-up!

I keep a bag of those in my desk and have 1 or 2 every day after lunch.

I got home from Core Fusion around 8:45 starving! I made another big, fun salad! I steamed broccoli and added spray butter and Parmesan.

I also made a Morningstar Farms Mushroom’s Lover burger.

I topped the salad with salsa and had edamame and hummus on the side! If I was doing the extreme Phase 1 South Beach Diet, I would not be allowed to have carrots or the black bean and corn salsa. I don’t think that is necessary and I need some sort of energy!

Dessert was sugar-free pudding with whipped cream and unsweetened carob chips.

I went back in the kitchen after and filled the cup with more whipped cream and carob chips!

Besides needing chocolate at all times, this is not hard for me at all. I will let you know if I dropped any poundage by the end of the week! My dress is actually ready to be picked up from the tailor today but I don’t think I will go get it till tomorrow since I have my first
Beam Green meeting after work! Very excited and I get to see some fellow NY bloggers!

I am off to go grab another cup of Awake tea! I will leave you with some giveaways!

Kelly Turner is giving away a Free People gift card and Sonoma Crisps!
NikeandPonytails Lunch Giveaway!