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Beach Countdown: 1 Day!

Posted by Gretchen on July 7, 2011 Posted in Dear Diary, Food Tagged beach, healthy eating, logo, meal planning, vacation

Wow. Thank you all so, so much for your feedback on the options for the blog’s new logo! While I love them all, there was a resounding response to option numero dos (er, number two, in case you didn’t get that) so I think that’s definitely the winner! I can’t wait to do a whole big reveal of the logo and new blog header soon… so exciting!

So the last you heard me talking about my impending beach trip was a week ago, where I was freaking out after realizing I was nowhere near my beach-perfect-body goals and had merely a week to cram in all I could. Well, we’re at the one-day mark now and I think I can sufficiently say that I have made pretty much no progress. Hahaha. Now, to be fair, I did stick to my workout plan for the most part, and while I did suffer a rather unfortunate weight-related set-back this week, I’m trying to keep my confidence up (and tears at the thought of spending an entire weekend in my bikini to a minimum.)

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AUGH.

After Tuesday’s disastrous and eye-opening weigh-in, I think it finally hit home that I am constantly making excuses for myself to go totally balls-to-the-wall each weekend. There’s always a trip, or friends coming into town, or some other kind of special occasion to celebrate, and it’s gotten to the point that doing it up on the weekends is the norm, not the rarity. So in having (finally) recognized this, I’m determined not to let this weekend’s beach trip be yet another downfall to my week of healthy eating. I know there’s only so much I can do about going out to eat for the big meals, but I figure I can at least provide myself with some healthy options for snackage (hey, all that lounging on the beach gets a gal HANGRY!) Prepare to be shocked by the following announcement: I AM SNACK PLANNING. ON VACATION. And look, I even went grocery shopping yesterday to prove it.

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2 yellow zucchini, 2 green zucchini, 2 granny smith apples, 2 gala apples

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Romaine, broccoli slaw, brussels sprouts, baby carrots, portobella mushroom caps.

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A crapton of cheese (dill havarti, feta, chedder, mozzerella shreds), eggs, smoked salmon, chicken breast.

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Pasta sauce, capers, edamame hummus (excited to try this!), kalamata olives, roasted red & yellow peppers.

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Misc: pepperoni and a couple of Luna bars.

I’m obviously not planning on bringing all of these things with me (dinner tonight is gonna be epic!), but our place should have a little kitchen so I figure that if I take along some healthy snack items (veggies and hummus, cheese, Luna bars) as well as some easy breakfast stuffs (fruit, instant oatmeal, smoked salmon), then maybe — just maybe! — I’ll be able to keep some of the horrible beach snacking at bay. I’m sure that boardwalk fries will be consumed at some point, but hey, at the very least this might help cancel out a modicum of the beer that will be drunk (drank?), right? Good thing the Asian in me makes each beer go a loooong way, eh? Hahahaha.

What are your tips for healthy eating on vacation? In particular, on a BEACH trip? Clearly I can use all the help I can get!

PS: Check it out! I finally bit the bullet and made a Facebook page for the blog. Help quench my unending desire for approval and “Like” me! There’s a button in the sidebar, or just click through to my page! 😀

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Einkorn Pasta and a New Logo (Giveaway Winner Announced!)

Posted by Gretchen on July 6, 2011 Posted in Food Tagged blog, einkorn, giveaway, hard drive, logo, scale

Mornin’ folks! Hope everyone is enjoying the fact that the week is already (basically) 1/2 over! Last night I whipped up a quick meal using the einkorn pasta sample that we received at the Fitness & Health Bloggers Conference I attended in Boulder.

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According to the people at Jovial Foods, the makers of the pasta we received, Einkorn is an “ancient grain” that has far higher nutrition stats than the typical whole wheat durum pasta popularly consumed. Einkorn even have naturally-occuring B-vitamins, something that is usually only found from animal sources!

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The einkorn definitely takes longer than white or even regular wheat pasta to cook. Plus, you’ve probably heard me say that I like to overcook my whole wheat pasta to give it a closer consistency to the white stuff, so that happened too. While that was simmering away, I whipped a high-protein sauce to go along with it:

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TJ’s mushroom spaghetti sauce, ground turkey breast, peas, edamame, corn, and kale!

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This was one of my finest pantry/freezer emptying dishes. Toss it all in, see what comes out, right? And what came out was pretty tasty.

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And pretty pretty, too! 🙂 The rest of my night was spent configuring this little dohicky:

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My new external hard drive! It’s so tiny, I still can’t really believe it. An entire terrabyte of space in the palm of my hand — literally! I moved ALL of my pictures from my ‘pooter onto this little guy because my poor dying MacBook was about 3 gigs away from being completely filled to the brim with high resolution gloriousness.

All right, all right, I know you’re all frothing at the mouth to hear who the winner of the EatSmart Precision Plus Scale giveaway was, so without further adieu, here we go!

(Drumroll, please…)


Congratulations, Dan! (For the sake of not being totally sketch-tastic, I should let you know that Dan happens to be my brother-in-law, but I *SWEAR* that this was a totally random pick – the screenshot above is proof!)

Sorry to those of you who didn’t win, but blame it on the plug-in. 😉 Hopefully there will be some more fun giveaways coming up in the near future, so fret not. You day may yet come! And as long as you’re not totally ticked off from not winning, I still could use your help.

The amazing Bailey Doehler has been working with me to design a new logo for this here blog. Bailey helped Anne with her logo and header, and after seeing her work I snatched her up. I found out that we have a lot in common, and she has a weight loss blog as well! She has been super patient with my indecision and waffley-ness, so now I’m counting on that patience while I ask for your help. I’m totally stuck on being able to choose a font style and would LOVE your input!

 

Cast your vote for logo option 1, 2, or 3! And if you have any other comments, ideas, or whatever, I’d love to hear them too! My thoughts are to replace the current header with some version of this logo plus a few photos that represent my blog, oh, just a little bit better than Daxter’s feet and a dog food container. 😉

Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

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