Love Of Oats

A blog dedicated to balancing a healthy and fun life… with oats!

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My Peeps

Ahh, it’s Thursday, which means it’s almost Friday, peeps (no pun intended, with Easter right around the corner!)… Are you guys all excited for the weekend?  Do you have a long weekend?  I don’t but I’m hoping to finish up on Friday a little earlier than normal, we shall see…

Anyway, breakfast was quick and easy, regular Cheerios + strawberries + flax with skim, since I had to hit the road a little earlier (by 15 minutes) than normal.  I have a slightly new work schedule which involves working from 7:15am-6pm, ehh… I’m not happy about it and I don’t get paid OT, but oh well, it will keep me busy especially with having school too… Ok, well I promised no complaining during Holy Week, but this week has been quite trying so I’m trying to put things in perspective… !

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Mid-morning, I got my oatmeal fix in with the help of this packet of organic oats, water, and our office microwave.

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My lunch was a nice change :)   I had a ww english muffin smeared with my white bean hummus and spinach.

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On the side I had two biscottis and an orange.

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Mid-afternoon, I snacked on a Fiber One bar…

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For my workout ‘o the day, I went for a nice leisurely 1 mile walk with Bill since time got the best of us.

Dinner was a true repeat of Monday’s dinner, Mexican Steak Stir Fry with a salad, so I won’t elaborate on it :)   For details, you can check out my post about it on Monday.

Now I’m off to relax and get ready for a fun-filled night of TV, I’m really excited that there are two episodes of the Office on tonight haha… oh the little things that make me happy :)

This Isn’t Kansas

Before I forget, while watching LOST last night, I suddenly was starving despite my filling dinner so I made a bowl of cottage cheese, Zoe’s granola, and cinnamon.  I don’t want to spoil LOST for anyone who records it to watch over the weekend, but wasn’t it good?!!!!  I was jumping out of my seat!

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Fiberific is the best way to describe my breakfast today.  I would name it the title of this post but I’m pretty sure that I’ve used it before so I had to become more creative today :)

Breakfast was a bowl of Fiber One, sliced banana, ground flax, and almond breeze.  Mmmm!

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Mid-morning I snacked on an apple and some Quaker Weight Control oatmeal.  It held me like a charm because I knew I wouldn’t be able to eat lunch until 1pm today, so I doubled up on my snack :)

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I guess I wasn’t as burnt out on pb&j as I thought I was the other day because when I packed my lunch last night, what did I find myself packing?  A pb&j.  Go figure :)   The usual suspects were also included:  whole grain goldfish and a really great tangerine.  I say it was really great because it was SO juicy that it basically was all over my desk when I was done eating it – but it was worth it!

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And then just a little while ago I snacked on this Kashi Pumpkin Pie bar… luckily these were not recalled… whew!

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I don’t know what’s up with me both yesterday and today but I’ve been constantly hungry.  I know when this happens it’s important to listen to your body so I’ve been doing that, but it seems like nothing’s been satisfying me haha… I also feel kind of blah and worn out from the work week already so I worked an extra hour (to alleviate some of the craziness I’ll face tomorrow)  and decided to skip the gym tonight and relax instead :)   Bill is also skipping the gym so we’ll get to have some relaxing time and catch up on Heroes’ from Monday and the Office tonight!  I’m debating between getting another snack but I know we’ll be eating dinner in under 2 hours… What is goin’ on with me today :)   I’m going to blame it on the 50 mph winds we are experiencing here in Philly… it’s really insane… I heard it all throughout the night and it really hasn’t stopped throughout the day… At work, I honestly felt like the roof was going to fall off of our building because you could hear the wind howling against it.  Crazy – so yes, that’s my blog title was inspired by the weather… creative, eh?  That’s sarcasm of course :)

Back with din din in a bit!