Newlywed, Newly Veg!

Hey guys!  I thought I’d post this morning because A.) I don’t know when I’ll be able to post throughout the day, and B.) I tried something new for breakfast, so I wanted to share!

My breakfast this morning looked eerily similar to something I encountered quite often when my job was taking care of this cool dude:

Here we are at our “rehearsal dinner” Cheeseburgers in Paradise party, the night before my wedding:

His dad (Ryan’s bff) was our minister!  (Please excuse the hair; it was the Caribbean.) 

Anywho, last spring, I was a diaper changing champ, and I gotta say, this breakfast was strangely reminiscent of…well, you know:

Looks pretty gross, right?  But it tasted delicious!  That’s 1/2 cup oats, mixed with a cup of unsweetened almond milk, 1 tbsp. of chia seeds, and half a package of this bad boy:

Vega powder! I’ve been wanting to try some, so I finally picked up some single packets the other day to give them a whirl.  It turned my oats pale green!  This was the vanilla chai flavor, which was mildly sweet, but contained no sugar (score!).  Check out the nutritional stats:

Pretty good, right?

This breakfast looks gross, but the taste was great—a little sweet, with a definite “chai spice” flavor coming through.  Plus—sugar free!  What, what!

Okay.  Now I need to go pack.  That’s right—why pack last night when I had free time when I could sit on my ass all night watching The Office and save it for this morning when I’m rushed and stressed out? That’s called logic, my friends.

Oh, and if you’re wondering…Will and I still see each other, even though we’ve moved away.   His parents live in DC, so we got to visit them a few times this fall, and are hoping to go back down soon. 

Sweet reunion:

What a guy!

Okay…I’m off! See you tonight, if not sooner!  Hope my flight goes okay…it’s snowing out there!  Eek!

Hey y’all!  Sorry for the lack of posting all day—it’s been a lonnnng day. day!

This morning, I did a quick treadmill workout, alternating 10 minutes of running with 10 minutes of my “10 Minute Solutions” abs dvd—I did the pilates section and the 6-pack abs section, and they were pretty intense!  A good workout for sure.  It ended up being a good 50 minute workout!

At noon, I ate a quick lunch:

Doesn’t this pic look like a monster face?  Hee hee.

After I ate my lunch, I headed upstairs to blog and discovered, lo and behold, my wireless wasn’t working! Lovely!  I needed to get to school, so I didn’t have time to play around and try to figure out what was wrong, so I just turned it off (which is basically the only thing I know how to do when I encounter any sort of technological problem). 

My classes went well today—for their first paper, my students create a mixed cd for a specific audience and write a paper explaining their song choices (as an exercise in audience, purpose, text analysis, etc.).  I always like getting these papers—some of them are pretty funny!  Plus, I get a bunch of free music, haha!

Ryan and I met back up when we were done teaching and headed home for dinner…with a stop along the way for some help, that is!  We stopped into Subway to pick up some sandwiches to go along with our leftover vegetable soup.

Mmmmm…I LOVE me some Subway.  When I used to work as a nanny, Ryan would bring me a sandwich from either Pita Pit or Subway every Wednesday.  Good times. 

Dinner was delicious!

A veggie delight with extra pickles:

plus vegetable soup:

Sugar Challenge Update 

On the sugar challenge today, I got a little confused over something, and I’m hoping that one of y’all might be able to help me figure this out!  For a snack today, I was looking through my bars again, and I noticed that one of my Balance bars listed 15 grams of sugar alcohol, but just 1 gram of sugar.  Should I count this as 15 grams towards my overall added sugars, or no?  Thoughts?  I’m going to count it until I hear otherwise.

Total Sugar Intake:

• millet bread: 3 grams
• almond butter: 1 gram
• veggie burger: 1 gram (I think just from the natural veggies, but I’m still counting it)
• cashew crunch: 3 grams
• Subway bread:  3 grams (I got regular wheat—the honey oat has 8 grams!)
• 1 tablespoon dark chocolate chips (umm…oops?): 4 grams
• balance bar: 15 grams

Total = 30 grams

Pretty high still.  Nobody said it’d be easy, right?

I worked my tail off all day and got all of my online class grading done, but that BIG pile of papers is definitely coming along with me down South!  My flight leaves tomorrow at noon, so I don’t know when I’ll be posting all day.  But, if everything goes as planned, I’ll be in Shreveport by 7:00, so I’ll definitely post a recap at some point tomorrow night!  I’ll be tracking my sugar all day, so wish me luck—something tells me the airport might be a sugar trap!

I need to get moving—I haven’t packed yet at all!  I’d like to get to bed early…last night, I woke up at 4 am, convinced that I was hearing someone walking around in our house.  Our house is really old, so it creaks and moans a lot, but for some reason, last night (this morning?!?), it really got to me.  It took me about an hour to get back to sleep!

OH! And if you’re wondering—my magic trick of shutting my computer down worked! When I turned it back on tonight, everything was up and running, just like normal!  Go figure.

Hope Tuesday was a good one for you! See you tomorrow, kiddos!