Well, I did have an iced coffee today, and this one tasted fabulous and did not anger my stomach.
Unfortunately, I ate my yogurt/Ezekiel Cereal snack at work today (Snack was 215 calories, 44g carbs, 1g fat, and 11g protein) which was a bad idea. I don’t know what it is but as soon as I get home, I need some food. I don’t know if its ingrained from years of after-school snacks, but as soon as I walk through the door, my stomach (and/or brain?) triggers, and I head straight to the kitchen. Usually that’s when I time my afternoon snack, but that yogurt and cereal were staring at me all afternoon, so I dove in about 4 PM. When I got home I had a Z Bar, which was a first time purchase for me:
I thought these things would be good, but man, this guy was delicious! Oh - you’ll notice that as much as possible I will no longer be taking pictures of things in my hands - my mother informs me she finds it unappetizing. 
Anyway, Pre Workout Snack was 130 calories, 24g carbs, 4g fat, and 3g protein.
Then I spent the most pointless two hours in my apt. First I couldn’t find my heart rate monitor. So I looked. For an hour. I finally find it pushed way under the couch. Then I’m walking out the down and my IPod dies, so I go charge it. Spend 15 minutes looking for the cord. Then I find it:
And:
Somehow I think she was involved with both the HRM and the cord:
Don’t let the eyes fool you.
Anyway, by the time I left the apt, I was a little annoyed. I even debated not going because I felt like I was in too foul a mood to have a good workout. And then I decided to myself, ‘You know what, I’m going to have an awesome workout today.’ And I did - I was pouring sweat and got up to a HR of 179! It always shocks me how much of life is mental. It’s like Lloyd Dobbler said, ‘How hard is it to decide to be in a good mood?’ Not hard at all. I did the cardio smorgas again: treadmill with weights, elliptical, wave, and stepmill. Cardio= 448 burned.
For dinner, I had wanted to use this honey goat cheese that Peter bought, and started out planning a pasta dish, but when it got down to it, I realized I’d rather have a salad. So I switched it up! This is a Baked Goat Cheese and Balsamic Salad:
- 1 oz goat cheese rolled in breadcrumbs and baked in the oven for 6 min at 425 degrees
- 92g spinach
- 64g broccoli
- 29g tomato
- 2 stalks celery
- 109g carrot
- 89g yellow squash grilled in pan with a little oil/butter, pepper and salt
- balsamic vinegar to taste
Very tasty, although I wish the breadcrumbs would have stayed on better. Dinner was 198 calories, 30g carbs, 4g fat, and 11g protein. I feel awesome! I loooove a mountain of veggies!
That salad looks really good! Did you find that it filled you up even without a carb? I usually need something like that to fill me up.
Hey Joane,
Great question! I’m with you, I usually need some sort of carb to feel like a meal is complete. For this meal, I had a carby Z Bar snack a few hours before and a whole wheat baguette at lunch, plus I always start my day with oatmeal, which is super carby. So by the time it got to dinner, I was craving a bunch of veggies; it didn’t occur to me to add a carb. If I wanted one, I could have crumbled a slice of whole wheat or Ezekiel bread over the salad, or heated up a roll on the side.
-Kate