Happy Friday everybody! Happy happy indeed. I have officially survived my week so I’m FINALLY back here. I had two midterms and a lab today, plus a full day of classes. This week was especially rough because I never caught up on sleep over the weekend thanks to some fabulous allergies. I’m going to do a full post-project recap probably sometime this weekend when I write up a paper for my Nutrition class, but in summary: the project made some great changes in my body. Eating horribly for a couple of weeks can undo said changes. Sooo I’m at square 1. My eating habits were more normal this week, although higher sugar than I’d like. I think I was craving it more thanks to lack of sleep.
Also-can I brag how semi-on top of things I was? I finished my lab report a whole day early, which meant my hell night only involved me staying up until 12. Although to be fair the problem set that was due today we got an extension on…
Anyways-what have I been up to? Studying. Not that much exercise. I just got back from the gym-I decided to do yesterday’s Crossfit workout on my own tonight and finished everything in about 40 minutes. BAM. Plus-no driving time!
I’ve been holding true to my Beta carotene promise.
Sloppy joe filling (turkey) with roasted carrots and roasted sweet potato on Monday. I went to my home Crossfit Monday morning. It was awesome. I was actually the only one there, plus 2 coaches! My shoulder has been bothering lately thanks to too many push presses, so instead of thrusters, I did front squats for a quick WOD of 21-15-9 front squats and burpees.
Track workout under the stars. I really enjoyed running in the dark. I had the track all to myself! (since it was dark…)
Carrots for breakfast, yogurt bowls for lunch. But actually. I had -2 seconds to run out the door to train Quidditch early Tuesday morning, and they were convenient to grab….
Delicious chicken vegetable soup. The broth is butternut squash!
Protein chocolate. I swapped some cocoa powder in my normal chocolate recipe for chocolate protein powder. Not bad but a little grainy.
I had this whole plan of how I was going to have protein bars for dessert at dinner this week…until I realized I was out of protein bars. So there’s that. Protein chocolate.
Roasted carrots as pre-run fuel. Are we sensing a theme here?
Post run fuel.
Hi I’m Aurora and I eat my lunches out of ziplock bags.
I’ve ordered lattes a couple of times lately. Not sure why. But this was kinda sad-all the milk foam gone in a single sip!
Vegetables. I’m out of carrots which is insanely depressing.
For some reason I thought it was a good idea to melt a baby Thinkthin bar over coconut flakes. It did not magically turn into a coconut truffle….where’s my fairy godmother when I need her??
I finally got my post-project giant gooey cookie. I had my elves fetch it for my last night while I was studying. In other words, I bartered out my ID card to a hungry college student. SO good. SO worth it. 
Hopefully this is the last coffee for a while for me!
Eggs and gouda post-spin.
PB&J in a sweet potato. Kind of. Berry compote and sunflower seed butter. This was actually kind of disappointing. I would have preferred to just eat the sunflower seed butter and berry compote together with a spoon!
Uhh my excuse was I had a 4 hour lab and midterm that afternoon?
My lab got out after only 1.5 hours though which was amazing. I’ve been trying to curb my insane snacking as of late, so I ended up holding out a little on a snack and eating an early dinner at 4. It’s 5 o clock somewhere, right? Dinner is clearly what they’re referring to when they say that!
More soup plus a snack plate with crackers and gouda, and apple chips dipped in cottage cheese and sunflower seed butter.
Aaaand a close up of the action.
From this post, you could assume that I’ve down nothing but eat all week! That would be correct. I definitely haven’t been as active or gotten as much sleep as I would have liked this week, but the goal was to make it through the week, and here I am!
Do you crave anything when you’re sleep deprived?
My sugar has been crazy high during the past week too. With the turtles Christian gave me AND the two bags of Reese’s that I picked up on a Valentine’s Day sale, I’m sure my body isn’t very happy 😉
It happens though! Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do!
I feel the need to tell you I’ve been checking your blog to see when your coming back haha. I’ll prob have a few MIA days myself since my capstone class starts in t-minus 21 days. EEK! Statistics too ;(
Anyways. I have been talking to people about sunflower seed butter and I think my next jar of “nut butter” shall be that! I am also considering buying coconut butter and doing a 50/50 ratio of pb and coconut butter in the morning instead of 2 globs of peanut butter. I know the fat content is the same, but maybe the nutritional benefits are better? Who knows.
Either way, be careful on the track in the dark! I am assuming your at University so it’s probably “safer” but there are so many creeps in the world now. I have grown accustomed to carrying pepper spray and wearing a blinky thing whenever I have dark runs haha. I sound like an old lady right? Preparing for the apocalypse haha
It never hurts to mix it up! I personally love sunflower seed butter! And the track is pretty safe-it’s in a very central area so there are always people walking by!
Drooling over all of this food! Have a great weekend!
You too!
Happy that your midterms are over for you! For the most part, mine are over. Though I do have my 2nd ochem midterm coming up this Tuesday. Mehh.
And mhmm… I feel you on the roasted carrots. SO GOOD.
Good luck on your midterm!
I always crave sugar when I haven’t been sleeping enough!
It’s annoying, isn’t it??