Old Website…good photos

This is my old URL:

saltcitysweets.blogspot.com

There are a few recipes and some good photos.

I have been sippin on coffee this morning, now I am ready to head out the door for spin.

I am going to try to let that be enough (!!) today.

Tomorrow’s FRIDIZZLE!

Long time, No post…

Good Evening Lovers and Friends! It’s been a while…

Bowl O Veg

My apologies for the super lack of postage. After I taught Pilates last night (oh Heather, have you really given it a chance!?), I came home, had some food, and was ready to crash. Then I stayed up a little too long and my tiredness went away. As a result I really didn’t sleep, and I did some serious snacking…PB and vanilla whey, mixed up all creamy and nice. My belly hurt all day today and still feels kinda funny…that always happens when I eat too much too late.

Aaaanyway. Today has been superlong, and not just because I didn’t get any sleep. I was at school from 8:30 until 7. I did get a workout in, but we’ll discuss that in a bit.

The bowl o veg up top was part of tonights dinner. It was ALMOST too big to finish. I mustered up the gusto. This accompanied it:

Chicken Romaine Mexicana

That is a bowl of romaine with two kinds of salsa, reduced fat sour cream, and some chickie that I grilled and cut up. So yum. The veggies were: two different kinds of garden toms, garden squash, garden cuke, broccoli, cauli, baby bellas, yellow onion…and two seasoning shakers: southwest chipotle, and nacho cheeses popcorn sprinkles. Again, so yum.

two togetha

Last night was similar: (is anyone watching the dem. nat’l convention??? more of the same???)

Cottage cheese and eggwhites with vanilla, cinnamon, and splenda. Big bowl o veg (SURPRISE!)

last night

so damn unpretty

So that’s all I’ve got for you in the way of food…

My workout was a triathlon today. Not in the traditional sense…no. I biked, I ran, but there was no swimming (this girl’s got bad. ears.). Instead, there was rowing. I biked 57 miles, ran 8.17, and rowed 2. These were in a couple of different sessions. I was having random time to kill on campus, and working out helped me to not focus on how ick my belly and my head were feeling today. I also weighed the bag I was lugging around campus all day…eighteen pounds! Boo. Way too heavy. Needless to say, I am tuckered out, and SO excited that I don’t have to wake up to an alarm in the morning. No classes to take, no classes to teach! WOOOOOHOOOOOO.

Hope ya’ll are superstoked to be headin downhill in the week!

Night.

*E

Just in from ma workout

Hey everybody!  Thankfully it’s cooled off a few degrees here in Utah.  Running outside in the heat is exhausting.

Speaking of running…I just got in from running to the studio to lift, then running home.  Total mileage: 10.33 in 71:33…for 7:11/mile.  Honestly, my pace starting out was around 8mins/mile.  Once I warmed up and started jammin the BlackEyedPeas though, I sped up (obviously).

I lifted chest/tris/and shoulders.  I was kinda all over the place cause my coworkers kept talking with me while I was lifting…but I will try my best to recap.

• 5 supersets of 10 cable extension at 30 lbs w/ 10 wide pushups
• 5 trisets of 8 kickbacks at 16lbs w/ 10 tricep pushups & arnold presses at 16lbs
• 5 supersets of 10 dips and 10 inbetween pushups
• 3 supersets of “backhand” with cable at 10 lbs (wasn’t really feelin this exercise today) w/ bosu pushups

• 5 trisets of 10 shoulder presses at 45 lbs w/8 angled tri extensions on the smith & 8 straight tri extensions on the smith

I was shaky when I finished, but still had enough energy to run home…probably thanks to the protein powder/cottage cheese mixture, one baby carrot, one frozen strawberry, and two bites of chicken breast I had at the studio.  Sorry…no pic, I ran and didn’t have any intentions of carrying my camera with me!

So instead I will give you a photo of salad from Saturday night…nasturtiums!  Beautiful edible flowers from my garden!  They are kind of sweet and peppery…mostly I just like the way they look!

Dinner and Workouties.

I came home from an 8.5 miler to a delicious smell in the kitchy. BonMaman had made wholewheat panko breaded chickie. I cut it into small chunklets and put them in a big ol’ veggie salad with some sugar free bbq sauce.

before chickie

with chickie added (and some eaten)

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I spun for two hours in the morning today. Like I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I ran 8.5 in the eve. Mile 8 was sprinting straights, recovering curves…then .5 mile was cooldown jog-pace. The whole 8.5 took 64 minutes.

It was the first day of classes, too.  Needless to say it’s been a loooong one.  I think I finally got my schedule figured out though.  There is a class called Wilderness Nutrition, I could use it as an elective for my Nutrition Minor, but I can’t get in!  I am bummed, I thought it sounded like a great class!

Abstaining vs. Restricting???

I’d like to pose a question this afternoon.

I think most of us food bloggers have certain things we abstain from eating. At what point though, do these food choices cross over from abstaining to restricting? And is it just me, or is the only difference between the two a negative attitude?

I had a disappointing meal at the restaurant we went to last night (second time in a row!). I made two modifications to the Wahoo salad…no black beans, dressing on the side. I don’t remember the last time I ordered something simply as it was on the menu…

So after a couple of bad restaurant experiences where I was subbing/subtracting ingredients from the menu description, I started to feel pretty restrictive.

I pose the question because the notion of eating WHATEVER I want freaks me right out.  I guess I’d just like somebody else’s take on the whole thing.

**I just ate a very normal lunch…spinach, broccoli, tomatoes, fat free cottcheese, some celery sticks, a little bit of yogurt with allbranextrafiber, and a slice of deli turkey. Now I’m sippin on a decaf coffee even though it’s wicked hot outside**

No cooking…instead I shall clean!

My family wants to go out for dinner.  Boo.  I was really looking forward to grilling tonight.  Oh well.  We are going to the Porcupine Grill…www.porcupinepub.com  What looks great to you?!

I am spending my cooking time cleaning instead.  I am feeling anxious and there are three things that help: workin out, cookin, and cleanin.  So here I am in a tiny break from number three.

Burning man is basically a big crazy arts festival in the Nevada desert at the end of August every year.  See: http://www.burningman.com/

The hills of Salt Lake City

10.5 REEEEEAAALLY hilly miles…79 minutes.  I am faster uphill than downhill.  I H.A.T.E. downhill.  Alas, what goes up must come down.

Off to visit the boy before he leaves for BURNINGMAN.  I will be back to tell you all about what that crazy festival is…

Hope your Sunday is superfab!

Headin out to Therapy

I am on my way out the door for a run.

I had allbran extra fiber with yogurt and cottage cheese before hand (and coffee, of course).

My boyfriend is packing to go to BURNINGMAN, he leaves in a few hours.  I will be honest, I am a little nervous for him to go.  Do you all know about burningman?

I will be back later with a big clean dinner recap, and a run recap.  I feel like running forever, but I kinda think my body might not be feelin what my head is…

Ryan

Update while eating lunch. Yum.

After doing Pilates on the reformers with my bon maman for a little over an hour. I was really shaky all during our sesh. I think I had too much or too strong of coffee this morning. I don’t really think there is such a thing as too much coffee. . Afterward, I ran around the hood and ended up at home. 9 miles in 64 minutes. Average pace: 7:11…LOVE THAT! What a FAB number. I really had no control over my legs today, they were just cruisin. Love and Hate that, as I am a control FReAKy.

Had a ton to drink when I got home, munched on romaine hearts and red bell pepper dipped in fat free sour cream/salsa/ranchy dip mixture. Lots of it. And ate a sugar free creamsicle. My brother was here visiting when I got home. I only see him once every couple of weeks, so I waited to make my real meal until after he left, as he wasn’t hungry to eat with me.

Flash photo better?

Or FlashLess Photo?

I made myself a bowl of veggies with shirataki noodles, sriracha, sugarfree bbq, and fat free ranch. Veg were: homegrown yellow squash, broccoli, spinach, field greens, and baby bella mushrooms. It was ohsotasty but my belly is now super full. I also had a homegrown tomato with bleu cheese salad dressing and a cup of lowfat cottage cheese. Nobody wants to see a photo of a bowl of cottage cheese, and the tomato came straight off the vine, into my drooling cakehole (or tomatohole, in this case).

One bowl…two shots. For your viewing pleasure, of course (claro que si!)

On to last night. The menu was different than the one that was online. BOOOO. I hate it when restaurants don’t update their sites. We sat outside, and it was a hot one folks. So I pretty much decided I wanted cold food. I’m not a sandwich lova, which left me with a couple of salad options. The one with the most veggies (julienned carrots, green and yellow squash, red onion, and red bell) was a steak salad. I wasn’t jivin on the red meat last night, so I asked for blackened chicken instead. It also came with a side of jasmine rice (weird, no?) so I asked for extra veggies instead of rice. The salad comes out on a SALADSIZEDPLATE. There were four strips each of squash and bell. No carrots. No onions. Definitely NO extra veggies in sight. It was on top of romaine, with nice blackened chicken on top. Chipotle ranch on the side, and a side of salsa that I requested. The dressing was great, the chicken was tender, but I ate THEWHOLEDAMN thing, and definitely left hungry. I asked our server about the extra veg, and he said they were on there. Then asked if I wanted the side of rice. HUH? Doomkoff.

I had some leftover salmon salad, and sugarfree jello mixed with vanilla carbmaster yogurt after we went to Ryan’s parents house for carrotcake and presents. My belly was finally happy.

****I AM ADDING YOU TO MY BLOGROLL, if you don’t want to be on there, just send me a quick message and I’ll remove ya promptly! Hope you are having super adventures this weekend!***

Quick cake photo…

Hi all!  Happy Saturday!

I will be back later with a (disappointing) restaurant recap/review.  Wah.

For now, a picture of the cake.  I don’t like carrot cake, but everybody loooved it.

I made three layers and left one for my parents to eat, took the other two to the birthday girl!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend.  It’s wicked hot here in SLC!

I am takin my mama up to the pilates studio now, but will be back later with a real update.