Sport

Hey,
after my walk yesterday I felt really energized and so I decided to hit the gym today.
So after my breakfast, which was a simple yogurt with blueberries and redcurrant as well as some granola...
... I hit the gym. I didn't do any cardio (except for 7 minutes on the elliptical for warm up). But I did do some training on the weight machines.
After my workout I had a banana.
Then I went grocery shopping and came back nearly starving (by then it was 4pm). My mom wanted some noodles with a tomato sauce so I made the same pasta dish I had on the 13th. Just a really easy dish of whole grain Spaghetti and a premade tomato sauce to which I added caramelized onions, fried ground beef and some carrots to the Spaghettis.
Then my mom and I decided to go for another walk in the evenings. But before I could do that i had to enlist the help of an old friend of mine:

This gel is awesome if you hurt yourself during training. It's been my lifesaver for quite some time since I have bad feet. The doctor diagnosed that one of the ligaments inside a bone of the middle of my foot is not torn but too long and so I get those terrible pains quite often when I'm working out. The pain is the bad side of it and the good side...it won't get worse.

So I suck it up (or I try to) and put on this gel which makes it way better.

Our walk was really nice. We did about an hour walk but through the end it started raining. It started of with this weather where the sky is really dark and you know there is something going on. And then the wind started and you could feel the electricity in the air. The power of nature barely leashed... I love that kind of weather!

But unfortunately thi kind of weather is usually followed up by a lot of rain which we had to endure during the end of our walk.

After all this exitement I had a snack. A chocolate pudding with strawberries:

And then while watching "The Biggest Loser" I decided to have some snacks. I will start with the WW meal plans tomorrow and have my meals planned until next wednesday except for the weekend where we won't be at home so I had to use this opportunity to have some chips (Western Style-a little bit of sweet mixed into this BBQ taste):

I complimented this with a Diet Dr Pepper:

And since this was my savory snack I also had to have a chocolaty snack:

My aunt and uncle just came back from their trip to the US so they brought me some WW candies.

So I had two of the WW Butter Cream Caramel with Crispies:

I tried to snap a picture of every kind of the inside but the pics aren't too good.

I also had one of the Coconut ones:

And a German candy. A Merci Petit in the hazelnut flavor:

That's it from me for today. Starting tomorrow I'll be back to working (after my 5 days off) and like I said will be doing a meal plan including a breakfast, a light meal and a main meal and a snack....let's see how that goes!

Long time no see

Hey everyone,
first of: I'm sorry that I haven't been blogging for some days. but with my night shifts I just didn't want to make the time. And then my aunt was here this weekend and I just forgot...
But now I'm back and took pictures of pretty much everything I ate today.
I spent my day at the mall because I was off work. My mom and I were there on friday and went to the coffeeshop company and I saw their awesome sandwich collection. But since on friday we just had lunch at Subways before going there I didn't get one. But today I decided to start my day at the mall off with a Ham Flatbread:
It was really delicious. It had ham (of course), cream cheese and real cheese that was melted, arugula and tomatoes.
To go with that I had a large Oreo Shake. I had a couple of sips before taking this picture:

Then I went around at the mall and got some earrings, a shirt and a short PJ (pics following tomorrow as I can't be bothered to go downstairs now)

I had my lunch planned in advance too. Of course I didn't feel like Subway again but right next to it is this place where we usually get our Smoothies. And they also have a salad bar so I decided to try that:

I got Iceberg Salad with 5 veggie options (tomatoes, cucumber, cor, kidney beans and those chinese sprout thingies) and then sunflower seeds as a topping and balsamic vinegar dressing on the side. It was really good and really crunchy especially with the sunflower seeds.

Of course I also had to get a Smoothie:

A Papaya Passionfruit Smoothie made with just fruits and juices (no dairy added). Delicious as always but kinda sweet. The last time I had a Red Mango Smoothie with Mango pieces, Raspberries and Mango yoghurt (all of those frozen) and Mango juice. But my mom wanted to get this one so I opted for the other one.

Then we decided on dessert at the coffeeshop company. So I got another Oreo Shake (same pic I know ;-) and a Donut (which I forgot to take a pic of but I bet y'all know what a donut looks like):

So that pretty much was my day today. Oh and I also got a new haircut on friday...picture following tomorrow.

Having good night!

Stef

Back to work again

Today was another late shift day before going into night shift tomorrow.
Juts like yesterday I started my day off with a big, warm meal:
Whole wheat Spaghettis with lean ground beef and a premade pasta sauce in the flavor basil. Sprinkled all of this with a little bit of cheese and some veggies:
So I started off cooking the spaghetti and some carrot pieces. In a pan I fried half an onion in a little bit of oil and then the ground beef. Then I added this pasta sauce:

The ingredient are pretty good: 97% Tomatoes, basil, starch, salt, fructose, native olive oil, things to make the stuff sour (whatever that might be), and then something I think is cream of tatar (from what I read in recipes so far I think it is), and pepper
So this stuff doesn’t have any points and has chuncks of tomatoes in it. Very delicious!

Then I had a yoghurt with strawberries and blueberries and some granola right before leaving for work:

And I had another of the Chocolate Rice Krispie Treats (not the caramel one as pictured, darn got the wrong pic but well...)

And I prepared my pita sandwich for work. I added a piece of cucumber and my apple:

At work I also had some chocolate covered pretzels because somebody felt the need to open this box of cookies….ggrrr
My shift was very relaxing though. It started off pretty bad because we weren’t enough people even though we were way too many for my taste. Let me explain: I work in the ER at the moment so there is one nurse that does all the administration. And then we also have a small ward with like 6 beds for patients that cannot go to their ward because it’s full. So another nurse has to go there. And then we had two more nurses in the late shift for the actually work in the ER which isn’t enough. We had one though who had like a middle shift, so they tried to get another finished nurse to come when he left. Added to those ppl we also had 2 guys that are currently working on becoming a paramedic and me as a close to finished nursing student. But they did get a finished paramedic to come in late but he was like absolutely clueless about the work and no help at all…(in my humble opinion). So it was luck that there wasn’t a whole lot to do.

After getting back home I had another bowl of sweetened strawberries and bananas and a rice cracker with PB:

Trying to get back on track

Even though I’m not counting this week officially I’m still kinda calculating my points in my head and those last two days were kinda over the top. But that’s no problem as I still have my weekly points to dig into…
But I tried to keep closer to my daily points allowance yesterday which was not so easy since I was off work and thus had more time to eat ;-)
So the key for me is to start my day off with my main warm meal that is really filling. Yesterday I decided on a German Favorite “Milchreis” (milk rice) it’s kinda like rice pudding and a sweet risotto. You need round grain rice like the one you’d use for risotto but instead of putting broth into it you use milk and sweeten it. So I used a mixture of milk and water because I wanted to cut down on the calories. And I sweetened everything with artificial sweetener and Vanilla Extract for more flavour.
As toppings I had either unsweetened applesauce and sugar/cinnamon:

Or I mixed unsweetened cocoa baking powder into the rice and topped with frozen raspberries:

Soooo good. I had this whole pot full and I ate it all! Afterwards I was comfortably full. I make it my goal to have one meal a day where I really eat a lot so I’m nicely full. WW in germany has this part where it actually promotes that. Because you have certain ingredient either carb rich (i.e. potatoes, noodles, rice…) foods for 7 Pts or Protein rich (lean meats, eggs..) foods for 5 Pts that you can eat for that amount of points until you’re comfortably full.

So my breakfast did hold me full a long time. And I had my next meal maybe around 4pm. I had one of my Turkey Pitas with low fat mayonnaise, Avocado cream and cheese. I added to that some tomatoes and as dessert had a rice cracker with PB:

When I went shopping I got some more of the ice cream I have loved lately and of course had to have some as a snack around 5.30pm:

My portion:

Then I went into my room to watch TV but still thought about how I needed more fruits. So I went back downstairs and cut up some strawberries and a banana which I sweetened a little and added to that 2 rice crackers, one with PB and the other with strawberry Marshmallow Fluff.

Tomorrow I'll be back to work. But I'm doing a late shift so I can sleep in and have a comfy day before heading to work.

See y'all later!

Weekend

Hey,
Breakfast started off the same as yesterday on Saturday, just that I didn’t have time to eat at home and so had to take the toast and eat it in the train.
My yogurt for work was with redcurrant again. Plus the usual Granola and a banana, because we were out of apples.

Lunch started off with a salad. Drizzled with Mango Dressing again.

Afterwards I had my main: Polenta made with cornmeal, chicken broth, milk, cheese, onion, tomatoes and carrots. I topped it off with a toast schnitzel.

My dessert featured strawberries and banana sweetened with sweetener:

Then I had a Chocolate Rice Krispie Treat as a snack.

After my mom returned home we watched a DVD (Night in a Museum 2) and had ice cream.

Sunday started with oatmeal. I added: oats, hot water, yogurt, vanilla extract and frozen raspberries.

I topped the finished product with Strawberry Marshmallow Fluff.

Since I was feeling snacky yesterday at work I today decided to take a Caramel Rice Krispie Treat in case I felt like that again. But having it in my bag of course prompted me to not be able to forget it and so I had the bar in the morning.

At work my yogurt had blueberries in it and I had an apple again.

After work I was extremely hungry and made myself a salad with Mango Dressing again.

Dinner was Ostrich Steak, white asparagus, potatoes and Sauce Hollandaise.

During TV tonight I had a Green Monster in a bowl topped with some granola and chocolate sprinkles.

Well, that was my food for the weekend. I had to work both days in the early morning shift which startes at 6.15 am. Since I live so far away I had to get up at 3.45am so y'all can imagine that I didn't really do a whole lot this weekend as it was my 3rd and 4th early shift and I'm a night owl...

Tomorrow will be my one day off and then I'm going to have one late shift and then 2 nights...

Quick Recap

Hey,
today will just be a quick recap of yesterdays eats.
I started off with 6 small whole grain toasts, two of them with strawberry marshmallow fluff and one with reduced fat peanut butter. As my fruit side I had some strawberries:
Then for work I had the usual fat free yoghurt with blueberries and redcurrants this time. My apple and some granola.

Dinner after work featured an omelette with these ingredients:

• 3 egg whites and one egg
• Bell pepper
• Corn
• Cheese
• Ham
  

And to go with that a cornmuffin with half fat margarine. Here’s one right after pulling it out of the freezer: (sorry, kinda blurry)

Then as a snack I had some more of the same ice cream as I had yesterday with some of my granola.
For dinner I forgot to take a pic. Here are the dirty dishes:

But I had one whole grain slice of bread with peanut butter and some strawberries cut into pieces with sweetener.

Then the last meal of my day was salad with homemade mango dressing which includes:

• Mango
• Onion
• Vinegar
• Oil to fry in
• Unsweetened apple sauce (actually an apple but I didn’t have any)
• Mango Chutney

Well see you tomorrow for a combined Saturday-Sunday post!

Going shopping

Hey there,
so yesterday was really good because the weather was awesome and I got to stroll around town and do some shopping.
The day started off way early though. I had prepared breakfast the night before since I had planned on eating it on the train. But I was awake early and didn’t want to go back to sleep as it is always harder to get up after that. So I already had my Pita pocket filled with turkey, cheese, light mayo and avocado cream at home at around 4 am:
The banana was my snack right before starting work so I ate it at about 6 am.

During work I ate my usual Granny Smith apple and plain nonfat yoghurt with raspberries:

Like I said I went to town after work ( well okay, I was in town just stopped on my way) and went to the mall. There I picked up a Nintendo DS game and afterwards went to Starbucks. I had some money left over since the game was supposed to be 30 € and ended up only being 20€. So I got myself a Mango Passionfruit Frappucino which I enjoyed while walking to my next stop: the Lush store

After indulging myself at the Lush store and getting some gifts for my aunt. I decided that it was getting pretty late and I still had the journey home and the dinner preparation in front of me. So I went into the Dunkin Donuts and got a classical Dunclaire…which is basically a Long John.

I had this beauty on the train but beforehand took a picture of it with my Nintendo DSi for which I earned a lot of strange looks! But who cares…

So back home I decided on pasta and lot’s of veggies. So I had whole grain pasta and carrots:

Topped off with a sauce of tomatoes, red bell peppers, onions, a tsp oil, a package of italien seasoning and water…

Then I watched this nice video on youtube about what to do when you’re craving something and what you can substitute. Well this video made me crave the ice cream I picked up at the store on Tuesday so I had a bowl of that as a “Betthupferl” as we say in germany…just a sweet treat that you eat right before going to bed. (Okay it is usually a tradition for little children to make them want to go to bed but don’t we all have to take care of our inner child?)

Yeah, so that's it from today or better yesterday.

See y'all tomorrow

Stef