Winning Friends with Salad

Hey guys - sorry for the late post, I’ve been up and around all day. I woke up this morning around 8:00, hit snooze on my internal clock and woke back up at 9:00. I decided not to fight it and got up. I goofed around for a while on the Internet here and there, wished my mom happy mother’s day (Hi Mommy!), and tried to work out some of my upcoming surgery details. After my small dinner last night, I was hungry as soon as I woke up. I wasn’t sure of my plans for the day, so I decided to have a snack so I didn’t make any bad decisions. I had a cocoa banana scone with a tbsp of nonfat vanilla yogurt to help me start the day:

Snack was 145 calories, 27g carbs, 4g fat, and 4g protein.

While I was eating my snack, I debated the gym: gym or no gym? gym or no gym? I finally decided gym. I feel like whenever there is a question between gym or no gym - you should choose gym. I always feel better for it - and all that time spent debating could be time spent getting it done. Plus, I was kind of in the mood for it, so why not? I did a Cardio Smorgasboard - Elliptical, Treadmill with weights, Stepmill, and Wave. Cardio Smorgas = 433 calories burned.

Got back, showered, changed and met my old roommate Eva for brunch and manicures. We went to a really cute restaurant called The Mermaid Inn. Our wonderful and hilarious waiter (Hi Brett!!) gave us tons of info about how the food was prepped, so I feel really confident in my nutritional analysis of this meal. We dined alfresco because it was such a gorgeous day! To start, Eva and I each had a slice of cinnamon raisin bread with strawberry butter. Eva snatched her slice before I could take the picture, but here are the remaining two:

I had the thinner slice up top. Then for entrees, I had a Gruyere and Zucchini Frittata:

I had all of the greens, which were surprisingly spicy!, and 3/4 of the frittata, which was also very good. Eva had a Cobb salad, which wasn’t too pleasing to the eye, but very tasty she said.

My brunch came out to 566 calories, 22g carbs, 39g fat (!), and 32g protein. Much more reasonable brunch than yesterday, so I was pleased.

After some more girl chat and manicures (I got a beige nude color called Vanilla-zeula), we parted ways and I headed to my apt to pick up my mail. I have 4 new magazines to read, yay! On my way back to Peter’s, I snacked on a Chocolate Peppermint Stick Luna Bar while in the subway:

Snack was 180 calories, 26g carbs, 5g fat, and 9g protein. This is definitely my favorite of the Luna bars that I’ve tried, but I love anything that combines chocolate and mint, swoon.

The plan for the evening is to bake cookies for Ira and Martha, the sweet couple who found my wallet, clean the apt, and hit the drugstore. Have a great Sunday evening everyone!