Ugh!!

Day two of school, and stressed out and exhausted!

Not so much because of school, but more so because of all of the driving I have been doing.

After my extended getting lost trip yesterday morning, I still agreed to go with J. to Gloucester, provided I was back home by 11:30 am to get to FSC for my 12:30 class.

Which made yesterdays total driving: Somerville -> Worcester ->Framingham -> Somerville -> Gloucester = about 120 miles, excluding the trip back to Somerville and Framingham this morning.



Of course we were subject to Murphy's Law when first J.'s mothers car battery died, and J. had to spend the morning fixing it, and the 128 was underconstruction and all backed up... getting me back to Somerville a little late and consequently to class late, again.

Today was two hours of metabolism. ::Yawn:: I do sorta enjoy the topics, but it's a very dry topic. Thankfully the professor is nice and relatively interesting, and helps to make the topics more understandable and interesting, but you can only do so much with ATP, Ribosomes, Kinase, and phosphoinositides.

The worst part about being late today was I was SOOO HUNGRY and tired throughout class. We did have breakfast, but being the frequent snacker than I am, by the end of the class at 2:30, I was not a happy camper. I have also developed an even stronger coffee addiction than usual and I missed my morning cup (or 6) of coffee, so staying awake through two hours of Biochemistry was no easy task!

I had originally been intending to check out the FSC gym after class today, but given my hunger and caffiene withdrawl symptoms, I opted to grab a snack instead.

I had a Mocha Odwalla Bar and a Cuppa Joe (which I took pics of on my phone, however, apparently forgot to save them)



The Mocha Odwalla Bar was heavenly! I had been soo hungry and it fulfilled my desire for food and coffee flavor at once. As I usually say, I am not a huge bar person because I am much more into volumetrics and enjoy eating larger quantities of food, but a bar was perfect for this situation.- quick, easy, nutritious and filling. I have enjoyed every flavor Odwalla Bar I have tried thus far, this and the Green Superfood one are probably my favorites. They have a nice soft, moist texture, and are big enough to make me feel like I have gotten my 200+ calories worth.

I was disheartened by the morning and lost the will to work out (which has been happening far to frequently lately.) so I just headed home instead, where I have since been being lazy and relatively unproductive unfortunately.

I need to get back on my game and get this semester started on the right foot!

Blog Beginnings...

I first got into food blogs by accident.

I work as a research diet technician, and I have to analyze study participants food diaries. So, one day I was trying to find the nutrition info for some Trader Joe’s Product, and the first website that came up was the blog Carrotsncake http://carrotsncake.com/ which had done a review of the particular food I was looking for.

It didn’t help me analyze the food per say- but it did get me hooked on food blogs! My two faves are now carrotsncake.com and katheats.com. I don’t allow myself to look at too many- because I think I would become addicted- though I think by creating a blog I probably and allowing for the addiction to set in as well.
Any way- my favorite bloggers tend to say everything they eat in a day! So I decided to try it out because I finally got a new camera! Nathan and I had one, but it unfortunately was run over by a car…

I figured it wouldn’t be appropriate to snap photos in the middle of class or wherever I wind up eating, so I just took pictures of everything the night before when I pack out my days food. (Since Thursday are my unpleasant day of class 9 am- 9 pm.)

I started off with about 2 cups of mixed fruit, including: grapefruit, strawberries, pluot, apple, pear, grapes and cantaloupe. – The large variety is namely due to Shaw’s discounted produce mixed variety bags. Fruit is delicious, and when I eat two cups I feel so full from all of the water and fiber, but then in about an hour, I am always hungry again, since again it is mostly water, and carbohydrate. To give it more staying power I usually mix it with yogurt, but when you’re on the go its hard to get the most ideal meal (I already look like a crazy bag lady!)



Lunch was around 2 pm: I had a delicious Tofu Sandwich! Made of 2 slices trader joe’s whole wheat high fiber bread, 2 slices barbequed-baked tofu, and some roasted veggies- mostly carrots, and some extra bbq sauce on top.


For a snack I had a cherry vanilla light and fit yogurt with some Trader Joe’s high fiber cereal, and some carrots. Carrots have been on sale the last few weeks at Shaw’s, so consequently, I keep buying carrots. But I’m really sick of eating raw carrots- and they aren’t the most ideal snack for in class since there’s no real way to eat them quietly, so I stuck them in the microwave for about 3 minutes. It was a nice change.

The carrots were still a little steamy when I took the picture:

I unfortunately ate all of the food I brought with me before 5 pm, which would have made for an unpleasant night class so I picked up a Superfood Odwalla Bar. It may be green but its delicious!


After class (which I may or may not have dunked out of an hour early :/ ) I decided to have some left over lentils and rice with some more roasted veggies:

And finally for dessert: Some Special K Vanilla Almond Milk, with almond milk, chocolate and butterscotch chips and chocolate sauce: