Monday Blues

I woke up through the night with a sore throat. Blah. Thankfully everything else feels OK! I sipped on hot tea all day which was nice and soothing. *sigh*

Breakfast was oats, of course!

-1 cup water
-1/2 cup Quaker oats
-wheat berries
-cinnamon
-small handful Sahale Snack mix
-1 Tbsp southern pecan coffee creamer

Mmmm…YUM! Another delicious bowl of goodness! :)

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I snacked on some Nature's Path Optimum cereal and a hot chocolate while watching TV last night. I really like this cereal. It's nice and crunchy and not too sweet. Great buy!

I packed these 3 medjool dates and snacked on them throughout the morning.

Oh, how I missed their sticky sweetness! Good thing I only packed 3 because I could really eat too many of these at a time. At home I hide the container from myself so I’m not tempted!

No running for me today. Although it’s only my throat bothering me, I felt a little wiped out by lunch so I decided it would be best to rest today. Obviously my body is fighting something off and I didn’t want to make it worse by exerting myself. This was actually a very tough decision for me to make. I went back and forth all morning on whether or not I should just suck it up and run. I hate missing a chance to get my heart pumping! Common sense finally prevailed, though. Does anybody else struggle like this when feeling a little unwell? How do you talk yourself through it?

I brought a leftover portabello mushroom cap for lunch today. I decided to make a “burger” out of it so I stuck it in a WW bun with some ketchup and Dijon mustard. If you remember from yesterday, it had Sabra hummus and white cheddar cheese already on it. I peeled a big ole orange to eat as well. Gotta get my vitamin C into me!!


I ate all this at 12:30 and by 2pm I found myself starving again. When I looked back to my lunch, I realized that I didn’t do very well in the protein department with my meal. No wonder I was looking for munchies! I broke into this guy…

I left half at home so I wasn’t tempted to eat the whole thing. I’m glad I did because this flavour rocked and there’s no way I would’ve just eaten half. Here’s my piece;

I am definitely a Clif Bar kinda girl. Then….a co-worker brought around some raspberry lemon cake. I snagged this small piece…

….but did not like it so I inconspicuously tossed it. It looked good but just tasted like oil. BLAH! I think my taste buds have changed quite a bit over the past few years!

Before I left for Pilate's I ate an apple with dark chocolate dreams PB, but I was in such a rush that I forgot to take a picture! What bad planning for a food blogger! Once again class was very enjoyable. We worked on the different movements of the spine today. All the stretching feels fantastic and I left feeling nice and refreshed.

After picking DD up from dance I made some dinner. It was a toss up between soup & grilled cheese or salmon & veggies. I asked DD her opinion and she thought that soup & grilled cheese would be best for my throat, Smart girl! I warmed up a cup of V8 tomato and served it with a mozzarella WW grilled cheese.

Looks like someone was hoping I'd share! Charlie has manners, though and went on his way. Pepper, however, was a different story. Damn kitten was pretty sure he wanted some tomato soup. Weirdo! My verdict on the soup? Not bad at all! It had some texture to it which I was fond of. The tomato taste was a tad bit weak, but some salt fixed that right up. I would buy this again for sure!

The remainder of my night will be spent helping DS with his reading, preparing lunches for tomorrow and parking my butt on the couch with a mug of Neo-citron (I have NO clue how to spell that) in hopes of squashing whatever bug is trying to invade my body. Hope everybody has a fun show to watch or a fun "thing" to do tonight!!

Bye for now!!