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So I was running around all day yesterday, and none of my photos came out, but here’s an overview of the day.

Morning workout: Week 5, Day 1 of Couch to 5k

Breakfast: Greek yogurt, blueberries, and Cville Cluster

Lunch: L/O steamed broccoli, a tortilla filled with hummus, grilled chicken, spinach, and feta

Snack: Delicious chocolate chip cookie from Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours

(I intend to do a full book review on that later)

Dinner: Tofu stir-fry (Tofu made Emily style), plus frozen stir-fry veggies, brown rice

I also made some muffins (which I haven’t tried yet) and started a soaker and biga for some bread I will make today, but hopefully more on that later.

Dinner before class

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Monday and Wednesday nights I have class (although there are only 3 left to go in Summer Session). On those days I eat leftovers, as I eat at 4:45. This will get more complicated in the fall when I have class three nights, but so be it.

One of the major staples in my house is big tubs of baby spinach. It isn’t my favorite green (Kale by far), but it works well in salads, and warm, and is very versatile so I know we will use the big tub before it goes bad. One of the ways I attempt to make my meals healthier, and more filling is to serve almost everything on a bed of baby spinach. Today is no exception.

When I’m serving something hot, I just put the spinach on the bottom of the bowl, but today I wanted to steam it. I started with this:

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30 seconds in the microwave later, and I got this:

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My husband had made a grilled eggplant, feta, and red onion salad for dinner last night (a Bobby Flay recipe we used to make as a side dish), and added some bulgur and grilled chicken to it to make a meal. Excellent leftovers — without the bulgur and chicken, it would have been awesome in scrambled eggs. Add some mineral water, and it was a perfect dinner eaten at my kitchen island.
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Now, when you eat dinner at 4:45 and class goes until 9, you need a snack. Usually I bring a Z-bar but having eaten a giant cookie earlier, I wanted something that seemed healthier so I brought a banana and raw almonds. Probably worse off in calories, but seemed better in my head.

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I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow. I have two projects due next week, and I want to get a big head start on one so I can ask questions of the professor in class on Wed. Also, I have a massage which is overdue, grocery shopping, and I plan on cooking dinner, making muffins, and starting bread dough to bake on Wed.

I’m still just getting the hang of remembering to capture these moments, but hopefully this will be helpful to someone who starts reading some day.

Lunch, again

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I just wrote an entire post about my lunch, but WordPress ate it. Great start to the blog. I was writing about how awesome my husband was for making me lunch, but then he got pissy when I was asking him to help, so oh well.

Lunch was good. I make all my bread from scratch (Post on that to come), and my husband decided to make hummus and made me open faced hummus and tomato and cucumber sandwiches.

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After lunch, I had a snack of a cappuccino (I <3 my Nespresso maker) and I ate a delicious whole wheat chocolate chip cookie while my husband was at my computer. No pictures taken, but trust me, it was EPIC.

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Now, I’m going to finish up some laundry, freshen up and off to class tonight. Fun talks on hurdle rates, and cost of capital. Just 4 more summer classes to go ( and 3 projects due in that time!!)

Up and at ‘em

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So this morning I set my alarm for 6:20. I’ve been having a problem with muscle knots and my husband massaged them for me last night. Which hurts, a lot. I woke up achy and snoozed until a bit after 7. I walked the pup, and then my husband got up (he’s off today) and we decided to go to the gym to swim.

I ate one Clif Shot Blok (Margarita flavor) before we went, and did the following:

100 meter warm up (2 freestyle, 2 breast stroke)

2 x 25 of each: swim with fins, kick with fins, pull

100 meter freestyle

2 x 25 of each: swim with fins, kick with fins, pull

100 meter cool down (2 freestyle, 2 breast)

I’m still a beginner so I rest ever 25 m lap, but I did this 600 meter workout faster than my last 500 meter workout, so I’m either getting faster or resting less, either of which is good.

Came home and ate leftover pancakes (Great Harvest mix from Kath’s Open Sky offer), and was so hungry it didn’t even occur to me to take a picture. I’ll try to get better at that because I prefer blogs with photos.  Now drinking coffee and working on my paper that is due tonight.

Starting anew, again

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Hi there, I’m Jenny. Nice to meet you.

Here’s my blurb:

30 year old MBA student, married, mom to the most awesome Boston Terrier ever, suburban dweller wanting to get out of her new construction development and into civilization, wanna be fit chick, beginner runner, swimmer, and cyclist

This is the nth time I’ve started a blog. I’ve been reading blogs for about 7 years. Originally knitting blogs, of which I had my own called Eat.Sleep.Knit which exists no longer. I stopped knitting obsessively, and didn’t keep up the blog.

About a year or so I started reading some healthy living blogs, trying to get motivated to change my life for the better. I was then 15 pounds heavier than I wanted to be, in a miserable, soul-sucking job, my relationship wasn’t as strong as it could be, my house was a mess, and I wasn’t very happy.

So now, a year later I’m about 25 pounds heavier than I want to be, I left my soul-sucking job, and went back to grad school full time to get my MBA, which I have no idea what I want to do with when I graduate, my relationship is much better but still a work in progress, and well, my house is still a mess, but that is a work in progress too.

Earlier this year, my husband started on his path to healthy living and I couldn’t be prouder, and a month ago, I realized I need to do it for my self and not make excuses that I don’t have time to take care of myself but I do have time to play Angry Birds on my iPad, read all those motivating blogs, watch Biggest Loser while eating ice cream, etc. I started Couch to 5K in late June and will be starting Week 5 this week. I’ve started cycling with my husband and on the indoor trainer while watching Friday Night Lights on Netflix instant, I swim a little.

I’m an avid cook and baker, and eat tons of veggies, but I eat too much and that is a struggle for me in my weight loss. But I don’t want this blog to be just about weight loss, and fitness, or recipes and food. I’m a mess in a lot more areas of my life, and I need to work on that, and I hope this site will be an outlet for me as I try to figure it out and make this decade of my life, better than my last.

I hope some people find the site and come along on their own journey too.