I'm addicted to vegetables.

Alternate title: "I walked a marathon at work the last 4 days (literally I walked 26 miles in 4 days)"

Food

Spaghetti Squash with TJ's 3 cheese marinara sauce, cottage cheese, garlic salt.  I DIED.  It was my first time trying spaghetti squash and it was nothing like pasta, but I liked it A LOT.  

Bumble Bars.  Those things are over $2.00 at any health food store so make yo own

Bumble Bars (Knock off)

*1 cup of sesame seeds

*1/2 cup of flax seeds

*1/2 cup of Almond Meal

*1/2 cup mixed nuts chopped (I used cashews, peanuts and pepitas)

*1/2 cupish of brown rice syrup (I used enough to moisten the mixture)

**Bake at 350 for around 20 mins and viola your own bumble bars

My 2nd attempt at macaroons.  I suggest you check out Jenna at ELR she's good at making them and I used her base recipe. 

Oats in a jar, but not a nut butter jar a JAM jar! wooo my first OIAJ

Chocolate strawberry oats w/ frozen bananer and pb on top nomsss

Me and Rob the brofer just went to the Great Dane. I got the falafel w/ no pita and extra veggies (unpicutred) on the side

Clearly I hated it.  The cucumber tzatziki type sauce was SO good and the hummus NOM.

Welcome to my go to breakfast every morning. I call it the "Every vegetable you can find" Scramble.  This beast had a whole zucchini, tomato, onion, and mushrooms.  Add some egg whites and hot sauce and its breakfast!

Normal late night snack for a 20 year old college student. Roasted kale, tilapia, and mushrooms. 

More of my veggies.  Sauted in a pan w/ a little evoo and then throw an eggwhite in and already cooked shredded chicken and cooked brown rice and soy sauce and BAM chicken fried rice.  I ate it all yesterday.

As you can see, most of my meals include a large amount of vegetables.  I literally get excited for veggies I'm not kidding AT ALL.  I might have something psychologically wrong with me but veggies make me happy.

Fitness

Since I worked the last 4 days (working=walking) I have only been lifting weights.

This is what weights are doing to me.  I'm the hulk I swear. 

Today is my ONE day off this week so I'm going to try and fit in a run after my intern meeting.

Life

I have been annoyed with work lately and when I ask for a max of 20 hours a week I don't think 32 hours throughout 6 days is really acceptable.  So I've applied to whole foods.  I am using all the positivity I can muster to get this job.  

I know that I would be a lot happier in an environment where people are buying nutritious healthy food for themselves.  After a little over 2 months of working in a hospital I am just really sad for the people there.  Ordering a burger and fries isn't exactly the best thing you should be doing for your body while your in a hospital for being sick.  I don't feel like I'm learning anything that could be beneficial to me in the field of nutrition when I bring a diabetes patient a sugar free cookie instead of a regular one.  

Ok the rant is done.  I just want to be a happy whole foods cashier and go on with life!

xoxo,

Rachel

So many noms!

This past week I had the BEST food.  I'll let the pictures do the talking.

Gluten-Free lasagna from Bunky's cafe (actually from 2 weeks ago)

ONE of the TWO complementary plates of gluten-free cheesecake from Bunky's!

Gluten Free Badgers club actually had dinner with the Dean of students at a local restaurant called Bunky's Cafe!  There menu is all gluten-free except 1 or 2 things.  The lasagna was to die for and the free desserts didn't hurt!

Potatoes covered in warm tomatoes and garlic at Jolly Bob's

Chicharron chicken at Jolly Bob's

Jerk Pork skewer at Jolly Bob's

Life changing Conch Fritters at Jolly Bobs

My mom is OBSESSED with groupon.  She bought not one but TWO groupons to a restaraunt called Jolly Bobs and after many failed attempts of planning to go it was the expiration date.  So I hurried over after lab at 5:30 with my bestie Maggie and Rob.  The place was PACKED with people trying to use their groupons!  We eventually got our food and made it out in time for our meetings at 7! It was a record!  As you can see the food was unreallll!  The conch fritters were SO amazing.

Swiss, egg, asparagus, and mushroom on everything bagel at Einsteins Bagels

This einsteins bagel was the first thing that I've been like wow not being gluten free could be awesome if I could eat this everyday.  It was so good for some reason.

Chinese Vegetables (might have been consumed twice this week)
I love stopping in at the food court to get a small container of veg.  For $2.65 I feel like its better than getting a coffee.

Rueben and African Peanut Stew at the Great Dane

I love the Great Dane and Jack always gets this African peanut stew when we go.  It is chock full of chicken and amazeball spices.  The rueben is self-explanatory, I could eat one everyday.

On the gluten front, I've had 2 really bad days.  One of those days was yesterday and I couldn't go on my 8 mile run because of the body aches and other digestive issues.  The thing I notice most is my ability to fall asleep ANYTIME and the body aches.  The digestive issues are still there, but they had been pretty bad the last 2 months being gluten free so I'm used to them.

Fitness

Since I started work I haven't been sticking to my training plan completely, but I did fit in 3 runs at the end of this week.

Th- 6 miles

Fr- 3 miles

Sat- upset tummy :(

Sun- 8 miles

Today I ran my 8 miler in 75 degree weather in 1 hr and 14 minutes!  I have never seen so many people out in Madison!  It was actually a blessing I couldn't run yesterday, because today was AMAZING.

My favorite feature of my forerunner is definitely being able to see where I ran on google earth.

School

After this week of school, I have a week of hell and then it's Easter!  So I'll hopefully be posting!

xoxo,

Rachel