Healthy LIFESTYLE challenge

For me its always about the food, but I think what I really need is activity, so this is my new goal(retroactively including this week.)

Weekly Goal

1. Post in blog 5x
2. Walk for 30 minutes 5x
3. Yoga or stretch for 30 minutes 3x

They are small goals but I think they are actually acheivable... I'll recap on how well I acheived the goals every saturday.

xoxo

Skinny Bitch Plans

I have some silly vegan plans for when I get back from vacay. It will last about 4 weeks until my tip to Nantucket...hmm I'm planning one week at a time:

Skinny Bitch week 1 (July 8-14)

grocery list:
fruit for fruit salads(5 servings)
apples
romaine hearts
tomatoes
greek dressing
vegan cookies
vegan salty snack
nuts
zuchinni
ketchup
whole wheat bread
veggie burger
tofu
oatbran
dark chocolate dreams
jam
soy ice cream sammies
almond milk
spinach
tortillas

Menu:

Wednesday
fruit salad
wrap w/ hummus. feta. lettuce. tomatoes. greek dressing. vegan cookie
veggie burger on ww bread. ketchup. mustard. lettuce. tomatoes.

Thursday
fruit salad
salad. dressing. nuts. salty snack.
pasta. marinara. zuchinni. onions. soy ice cream.

Friday
fruit salad
peanut butter & jelly on ww bread. apple. salty snack.
veggie burger on ww bread. ketchup. mustard. lettuce. tomatoes. vegan cookie.

Saturday
fruit salad
wrap w/ hummus. feta. lettuce. tomatoes. greek dressing. vegan cookie
pasta. marinara. zuchinni. onions. soy ice cream.

Sunday
fruit salad
oat bran. dark chocolate dreams
salad. soy ice cream.

Monday
spiruten powder. almond milk.
peanut butter & jelly on ww bread. apple. salty snack.
veggie burger on ww bread. ketchup. mustard. lettuce. tomatoes. vegan cookie.

Tuesday
spiruten powder. almond milk.
salad. nuts. salty snack.
apple. oatmeal. dark chocolate dreams.


haha so thats the plan loves.

xoxo

This Blonde Blogger

is having a serious diet identity crisis. Today I cheated a little on south beach diet. no big deal though. I really feel like food has very little power over me at this point. I started reading Skinny Bitch but I can't tell if its a true story or just peta propaganda...hmm anyway I really want to try going vegan but Im going to wait until after this vacay weekend. I'm coming back late monday night so I think I'm going to aim to start this plan on Wednesday, July 8th. It probably won't be forever. But even if I can do it until Nantucket to lose some weight that will be good. I think I'm going to start the calorie counting game again because it is easiest. I do really like Skinny Bitch in the fact that I neeeed to stop ingesting crap!

Mondays Meal Plan:

spirutein chocolate peanutbutter shake w/ almond milk

sliced veggies (reb bell pepper, radishes, celery)
mini babybel light
go raw live "granola" bar

leftover salmon & veggies + steamed french green beans & i cant belive its not butter spray

2 mini sugar free dark chocoaltes w/ peanutbutter

Sassy & Classy

So how awesome is it that I am getting a pretty much free 3 day weekend on CAPE COD for fourth of July!!! One of my sorority sistahs has a house there so we are leaving Thursday evening for a relaxing weekend on the beach. Me and five close friends, oh this will be HEAVEN! I love beaches up North, give me a trip to Cape Cod or Nantucket and I will die of preppy happiness...oh such classy places!

Today I spent an entire week's paycheck($240) at the salon. I usually am not into hair. I have annoyingly curly fine colorless hair that grows as slow as a snail....but I decided to invest in it and let me just tell you I have found a life altering hairstylist. I am pretty sure I will have to stay in Pittsburgh the rest of my life just so I can keep him around. Ahhh well the price includes the 60 bucks I spent on products, but still, legit ridiculous. Heres what happened...

highlights and cut and blowout (ooo-la-la)

products (my weakness)

Brekkie/brunch was a salad with some purple cabbage, low fat feta and homemade vinaigrette with 2 hardboiled eggs turned egg salad. I ate almost all of the egg but just couldn't finish the salad bits.

I then went shopping and got these 5 random almost matching bathingsuit pieces for $5 each at old navy. I also picked up some jeans that are 2 sizes too small. Hmm that was dumb but I really really want to fit into them ASAP and they were only $7.50. By ASAP I actually mean maybe by the end of September.

I began to starve while shopping so I drank a diet cherry pepsi (I'm acting very strange ingesting all these 'sweeteners') and then later an unsweetend venti iced green tea from Starbucks. At this point in life I had totally forgotten I was supposed to be taking pics. For din din I had a chipotle salad with chicken and other healthy stuffs. I also got guac with it-no chips though-for free because I originally wanted barbacoa on my salad but they were out! I only ate about two thirds of it but I will prob eat the rest of it later today.

xoxo

Sweet Thing, you Make my Heart Sing

I've never been a fan of artificial sweeteners, no actually I've been known to hyperventilate when accidentally served a diet coke instead of regular at a restaurant. But my latest "thing" has been the south beach diet (I just wrapped up day four.) I've been following it very dilligently with the help of three of my friends who are also playing the south beach diet game. Get this...I have discovered that I can tolerate...no ENJOY Hershey's mini sugar free dark chocolates! They won't be a permanant fixture in my diet for sure, but this two week long phase 1 business definitely depends on their existence. I've noticed cravings for sugar have greatly reduced but still sometimes this girl just needs her chocolate!

So I was running errands today, talking to my good friend Cory and feeling sorry for myself...I was telling her how ever since I turned 20(2 months ago), I've been feeling like a) my life is meaningless and b) my life is almost over. Now okay that sounds dramatic, but the thing is I'm halfway through college...I'm getting much much deeper in my chosen life path. It seems like two years ago when I was still in high school the world was my playground, I had the potential to do ANYTHING I wanted in life. I'm definitely not unhappy with my college or major or anything like that, I just wonder sometimes if this is what I'm supposed to be doing, and if not, well, $100k down the drain already and I'm Screwed with a capitol S. I'm losing my creativity, I'm losing my big dreams, I feel like I'm kinda settling in, but maybe you are supposed to do that, or am I just being lazy?

Anywho, I've started probably about 7 other blogs but none of them seem to fit. I want to have a food blog because I LOVE food blogs and consider myself to have an interesting relationship with food, but it may just turn into more of my ramblings. Today while feeling sorry for myself I tried to think of the be all end all blog title and I happened to be eating an amazing, inspiring cup of white turkey chili from this little joint eat unique, I was instantly cured of my gloom. I love chili a lot more than I usually acknowledge. I have made chili for our school's chili cook off for the past two years but I never really think about it other than homecoming. But its pretty much a random title that doesn't seem too similar to any other blogs I've stumbled upon.

Since I started this blog way after I was done eating for the day and I know blogs are no fun without pictures, here is what happened in my life this lovely friday evening.

1. I made chili for dinner.

2. I ate said chili with two of my closest friends (and fellow south beach dieters) while watching disney channel.

3. I semi-organized my closet...

here is the discard pile...

4. I painted my nails...love Essie Fiji!

5. I did some other boring stuffs...now for bedtime!

xoxo