These types of posts have been popping up on various food blogs I follow, so I thought I’d give my version. It is amazing how boring consistent my days can be, food-wise. However, this will all be changing next week as I complete my final day of work and head off to worlds unknown. But for now, this is about accurate. First, meet my long-term BFF:
After my 6:30 a.m. wake up call, I used to immediately start pounding coffee before my drive to work. After I ran out of coffee a couple times, I noticed I had a lot less road rage on my drive to work (perhaps because I am in a zombie-sleeplike state) so I decided I’d now try to hold off before work. However, upon arrival I make a beeline to the Kurig. No stopping and chatting, no checking email, just coffee NOW.
Some exciting emailing, filing, databasing (and food blog perusing) ensues for about an hour until I make my oatmeal.
A mixture of old fashioned oats, ground flaxseed and cinnamon is topped with thawed frozen berries, half a banana and a teaspoon of peanut butter. It never gets old.
I may complain about work like the rest of the world, but I am spoiled rotten. Yes I get done at 4 p.m. everyday and I get to attend super cute 3rd grade bake sales, but above all, I get free lunch. A lunch that’s piled high with spinach, vegetables, cheese, fruit… fo’ free. Our salads can get almost obnoxiously large.
Midday snack: Omega-3 trail mix and some carrots.
When I get home, I immediately throw on work out clothes and get myself out the door or onto my yoga mat before I have time to talk myself out of it and get lazy. It may sound cheesy, but for those painful first few minutes of a run, I replay trite motivational work out quotes in my head to keep going: "Do you want to feel sore tomorrow or do you want to feel sorry?" "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." Sweat is fat crying!" ... Thank you Pinterest.
These days my dinners have been based on a few parameters: super healthy and vegetable packed (as I hear vegetables are rare in Africa), inexpensive (since moving isn't cheap), and quick. A lot of sandwich thins have been employed in this process. Tonight was a sandwich thin, smeared with olive goat cheese and topped with sliced tomato, avocado and egg whites. On the side, a couple handfuls of spinach topped with cucumber, tomato, black beans and my new favorite dressing: plain yogurt, lemon juice and sriracha.
By this time it’s close to 8 and I’m close to getting in bed. My roommate and I have made our bedtime progressively earlier each week. The working world just beats you down after a while!
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