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Single Edition Event #2 and Gum Update!

MissyMaintains — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:13:45 +0000

Hello friends! On Monday, I started my new job and love it so far! I am still learning everything but love being busy all day. Tomorrow my department is holding a welcome breakfast for me with bagels and cream cheese! Definitely something to look forward to in the morning. Today after work, I went to my 2nd Single Edition “Live the Life You Love Event.” I was able to squeeze in a little 20 minute elliptical session now that I get out of work a bit earlier. 20 minutes is better than nothing…right!? I met Mari and Monique after my quickie and headed into the Samsung store.

The appetizers were pretty similar to the first event.

I made a small plate since I knew we would be eating at Whole Foods after!

The bread on the left tasted like pizza! Once again, the candied walnuts were my favorite!

Tonight’s topics included:

Carolyn Kelley North, “How to Dump the Slumps! Way to Boost your mood when “dating fatigue” sets in.”

Helen Kim: “A Woman’s Guide to Your Money Relationship.”

Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos and Lauri Berger de Brito:“Fertility 101: Essential Tips for the Single Woman.”

All of the topics were pretty interesting! We got great swag bags again!

The bag included a pretty notebook, Neuro Bliss, lip gloss, arousal oils, Girl’s Night Box of Questions, and my favorite…..

BUMP-A-CUP!!! I will let you guys know how Bump-a-Cup works out for me.

The night ended with a wonderful Whole Foods salad.

As far as my gum chewing goes, I did not stick with my goal! Sorry guys! I am usually better at sticking with goals when I announce them on the blog. I really could not go one day without it! I am happy to say that I am chewing a lot less at work now that I am busy all day. Hopefully this continues. I should go spit my gum out now and go to bed! I have bagels waiting for me in the morning! Have a good night!

Don’t forget to enter my NatureMade TripleFlex giveaway!

The Chocolate Banana Burger

MissyMaintains — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:39:59 +0000

Happy July! I wanted to let you guys in on a little deal before I get started! A few of you have emailed me expressing interest in attending my school, Institute for Integrative Nutrition. They are holding an Independence Day special where if you enroll by Tuesday, July 5, you will receive a $300 tuition scholarship plus a “Let Freedom Ring” gift bag .

Here’s what’s in the “Let Freedom Ring” gift bag:

7 Habits of Highly Effective People 50 Card Deck
Achieve Everyday Journal
EnviroSax MiniSax
Goji Cranberry Cacao superfood bars by graduate Moria Felber
How to Find the Work You Love book
Strengths Finder book
Write it Down Make it Happen book
IIN logo goodies

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Yesterday’s Eats

I’ve been having the same breakfast every single morning this week: a Chocolate Banana Burger!

It doesn’t get much better than that! I finally ran out of the Nature’s Pride wheat buns so looks like I’ll have to move on! Dark Chocolate Dreams peanut butter is dangerous in my apartment anyway. I will explain later. The tub is almost gone just after 1 week. Oy.

I brought a lovely lunch to work! I made a salad with a Morningstar Farms Mushroom Lovers burger, avocado, hard boiled egg, and grilled mushrooms.

Delicious lunch! I also brought a snack to munch on for the side. The folks over at Smile.ly sent me Snikiddy Cheddar Cheese baked fries to try out.

About the fries:

50% less fat than regular potato chips
Gluten and wheat free
No preservatives
No corn syrup
No trans fats
Low in saturated fats
No hydrogenated oils

I liked that there were a ton of fries in the bag for just 130 calories. I don’t think I would buy them because the ingredient list is just way too long and they don’t really have any nutritional value. They were fun to munch on though! I guess they are a better option than french fries!

After work I went to the gym and did 30 minutes on the elliptical and some hand weights. I also walked outside for another half hour to pick up a package at my sister’s. I made up for not going to the gym in the morning!

I made another fun salad for dinner!

It contained salmon cake bites, edamame, mushrooms, avocado, and hard boiled eggs. I used my cool egg slicer that I got at the Eggland’s Best event!

So fun! It made slicing my eggs much easier. Daisy spotted the hummus on my plate.

One more…

I had an intense chocolate craving after dinner, like always. I searched my fridge and freezer and found a Chocolate Heart Thrive bar. I heated it up in the microwave for 30 seconds and then went a little dessert crazy….

Apparently just the bar itself was not enough. I wanted more chocolate for dipping! Then I saw a banana and decided that it would be fun to dip in the chocolate peanut butter. Then I saw whipped cream and decided to make it like a sundae! It was delicious! That was all fine until I went in the fridge again. I made myself another banana chocolate burger earlier in the evening to bring for breakfast today and just could not let it sit there. I ate half of that too. Blah. I guess I can’t make such a good breakfast that involves chocolate the night before because it is too tempting! Maybe it is just a bad time of month. I don’t know. I didn’t let it get to me. Instead I just set my alarm for 5:45 am and hit up the gym this morning. I knocked out 45 minutes of cardio plus some arm weights. Good to go. I was just sad this morning when I only had half of a breakfast left! I ate it as my pre-gym snack. Perfect. I will try to be a better intuitive eater today. It was just one of those nights!

1) Do you struggle with intuitive eating? Can you stop when you are full even if you are craving something?

2) Are there any foods you crave after a meal? Chocolate and fruit for me!

Will the Margaritas Pass the Test?

MissyMaintains — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:41:34 +0000

Hello! Yesterday was a nice and healthy day..until dinner. That’s usually the story of my life so it’s okay! Margaritas were involved but did you expect anything less in this warm weather?

After my morning gym session I picked up some pineapple cottage cheese for breakfast.

I’ve never had it with pineapple but really enjoyed it. There were little chunks throughout the container. I also had some ~~crack espresso~~ Click Espresso to drink. Love this stuff. It has 15 grams of protein and wakes me right up!

I also snacked on an apple later in the morning.

During lunch I walked around a little and tried to get a 30 minute tan! I also stopped at Westside Market and created my own salad.

It had chickpeas, broccoli, goat cheese, and pesto chicken. Delicious.

After work I got my taxes done. They were very generous to me this year because of my tuition bill! I decided to go celebrate with some margaritas! I met a friend and we wandered around near Union Square until we found a cute Mexican restaurant called EL Cantinero. It had an outside patio which I was very excited about.

We were trying to get a shot of the patio without people thinking we were taking pictures of them eating!

We were served chips and salsa of course. I was dying of hunger so I may have went a little overboard on the chips.

We weren’t even halfway through the basket and the server brought us a fresh basket of chips without even asking if we wanted more. Nice service!

I was debating between a margarita and sangria but decided I needed to see if any margarita could compare to the one at 5 Burro! I went with Mango.

At first I thought it was not as strong as the one at 5 Burro. I ended up being very wrong. This one was very refreshing and not too sweet. I downed it..a little too fast!

I got the Vegetarian Fajitas. I had to see if these could compare to 5 Burro’s fajitas too!

I loved how pretty the plate was! The orange slices gave the dish a nice touch. There was also tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, celery, carrots, lettuce, and peppers, and avocado slices. I love giant piles of veggies!! They were less greasy than the veggies at 5 Burro which was nice. I do prefer the zucchini and mushrooms at 5 Burro instead of celery and carrots but this was still very impressive. There were too many onions once I got to the bottom of the pile so I took that was my cue to stop eating!

The dish also came with Spanish rice and flour wraps but I skipped those since I had plenty of chips before the meal.

Sorry about the finger. The tequila was setting in.

Halfway through my meal I ordered another margarita. Totally not necessary. I went with Blackberry this time!

It was delicious but I could only drink half. Missy not able to finish a drink?? That should probably tell you something about how strong the drinks were!

Overall I was very impressed by El Cantinero. The prices were a little steeper than 5 Burro but the food was delicious, the drinks were strong, and the service was great! The outdoor patio was a nice bonus as well.

I’m not sure how I ate dessert because I was stuffed but I guess I can never be too full for The Lite Choice! Cookies N’ Cream softs serve is always a wonderful way to end the night.

Hmm… I guess we can disregard yesterday’s post about continuing on my Passover diet! I did wake up for the gym again today at least! I did 35 minutes on the elliptical and 15 minutes on the treadmill. I ran for 7 of the minutes until I got a cramp. Very annoying. Tonight I am also going to Core Fusion with a blog reader so margaritas and soft serve are fine in my book!

P.S. CALL FOR GUEST BLOGGERS! I am going on vacation next week and do not plan on bringing my laptop so let me know if you interested in doing a guest post! Have a good one!

Haha!

MissyMaintains — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:10:03 +0000

You might be wondering about the title. I started this post last night and just wrote a random title so I could save it. I had to keep the ”Haha!” today because it made me laugh! I know I’m weird.

Workouts!

I was able to make it to Core Fusion last night after all! It was day 4 of the challenge! I decided to go to a new location so that I could take the class with Fred Devito, the founder of Core Fusion and guy from the videos!

The Soho location is much smaller than the other locations I’ve been to. I walked up a large flight of stairs and right into the studio. There was a small space for our coats and a little corner with a curtain for changing. I was glad I changed into my workout clothes beforehand!

Fred saw me and asked me how the challenge was going! I told him that it was going well and that I was nice and sore from my previous class. He told me that he was very impressed that Dori was able to get so many people to join along in her challenge. He also asked if I needed anything from him. So nice!

I won’t get into too much detail about the class again but it was HARD. My legs were burning even more than the day before! I wanted to cry during abs. There is something about the way Fred teaches that makes me want to work my hardest. Everything he says is extremely motivating.

At the end of class, Fred told everyone about Dori’s challenge! He said that there was a girl doing Core Fusion for 30 days and to check out her diary on the Core Fusion website. I texted Dori and told her she was famous! Before I left class, Fred told me I looked stronger in the positions since the last time I took a class with him. Very nice to hear!

Tonight I will not be able to go to Core Fusion so I went to the gym this morning! I was dead tired and sore so it was a struggle to stay on any one machine. I did the elliptical for 7 minutes and then walked on the treadmill for 15 minutes. I felt like passing out so I stretched on the mat for a while. The good thing about early morning workouts is that I pretty much have to stay at the gym since I have nothing else to do before work. If this morning happened to me after work, I definitely would have left after the 20 minutes! I still had 45 minutes left till I needed to shower so I walked for another 15 minutes on the treadmill. I did the stepper for 7 minutes. I did the other weird elliptical thing for 7 minutes. I pretty much covered every machine in the gym! It turned out to be a decent workout I spent my last 10 minutes in the steam room. Nice and relaxing!

Eats

I went back to oats yesterday!

My bowl contained 2 packets of 365 plain instant oats with cinnamon, skim milk, and Gerber freeze dried fruits! The apple and strawberries made a wonderful addition to the oatmeal.

I went to Hale and Hearty for lunch again. Yes, slightly addicted. I had a good reason though! I had one of those “buy 10 salads, get 1 free” cards! My salad below was free! (almost)

I added some extra toppings since I knew it would be free. I got carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, asparagus, goat cheese, and avocado. Apparently I got one too many toppings because they charged me $0.65 for the goat cheese. Still a great deal for my delicious salad!

I had a Glow Gluten Free Double Chocolate cookie for dessert. YUM!

Dinner was a repeat Mexican salad since I had lots of leftovers!

This time with a glass of red wine

I had some sugar-free chocolate fudge pudding for dessert. I had about half that bowl and saved the rest for…today!

I will leave you with a funny picture! I turned around and guess who was in the fridge!

Have a great day!

Sushi & Saki!

MissyMaintains — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:47:49 +0000

Hello again! I had another relaxing day off yesterday! I could get used to this I woke up and had a little pre-gym breakfast.

A whole wheat English muffin with Crazy Richards peanut butter and 1/2 a banana. Yum!

I made my way to the gym and did 45 minutes on the elliptical and 20 minutes on the treadmill. I burned a nice 550 calories.

I then headed into the city to get my highlights. I snacked on a Glo Bar on the way there. Thanks Dori!

I liked the big chunks of apricots in there. It was pretty filling too!

3 hours later, my hair was done! It looks a little something like this (after running in the awful wind):

The front is a bit too blonde for me but I did not want to ruin the blow out and have them tone it down! Maybe I’ll go back if I don’t get used to it.

For dinner I went to a Japanese restaurant in Forest Hills called Narita. I’ve been there once before and really enjoyed the food and atmosphere.

We started off with Saki bombs of course!!

Along with some delicious edamame.

I got miso soup since I was freezing! It was very good. There were huge chunks of tofu in there. It was not too salty either.

I also got a side salad. The dressing was good but I prefer the orange ginger dressing over the creamy white dressing.

More Saki bombs

For my main course, I got the Super Naruto Roll: tuna, salmon, yellowtail & caviar wrapped in cucumber.

The fish was very fresh and delicious! I don’t think I would get it again because it was a bit too fishy for me. I’m glad I tried it though!

My friend got the Beef Teriyaki.

The beef was delicious! Very flavorful and lean. I stole all of the bean sprouts!

One more shot of my beautiful roll:

We got home and had a dessert shot! I love Bailey’s

A little bit later I had a bowl of chocolate brownie fro-yo. Bad combination with the dessert shot but I could not resist!

Today I plan on going to another Core Fusion class with Dori! My legs are killing me from Monday’s class so it should be interesting!!

Have a good day!