tamale | Fitness is Sweet

Hello, hello! Today was another light day school-wise so I have no complaints! I started my morning with a spin workout on my own. I debated going to Crossfit, but deadlifts were the strength and that’s just not happening right now, plus the WOD looked fun but had running and given I had soccer yesterday and a 5k this weekend, I don’t want to exceed my ankle’s ability to run. Wow, I truly am falling apart…the spin bike never fails me though!

Breakfast:

Plain greek yogurt, sunbutter, blueberries, and a couple of crackers. All of our metabolism and GI lectures have made me want to try to shift my macronutrient intake to be a little less carb-heavy, so I’m trying to add some fats back in and reduce the sugar a little bit.

Lunch:

I went to a lunch talk with food, but brought my own salad. I had a side of rice and roasted vegetables in place of the crackers I packed, and then had my salad with fresh mozzarella, heirloom tomato, turkey, and green goddess dressing.

Snack:

A custom granola bar with sunbutter, chocolate, and dried cherries, and some dried pear. A little later I had a couple of crackers with sunbutter.

Dinner:

Tamale Wednesday returns! Some may remember from this past fall, but the Wednesday Farmer’s Market is back for the season and there’s a place there with the best tamales. I went just for the tamale. I got a chicken one this time, and had it with a salad with white balsamic and dried cranberries.

Dessert:

Some Trader Joe’s Churro bites which are way too addicting, and Halo Top with mint chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

Snack:

New KIND bar that’s mostly dried banana with a chocolate drizzle.

Hello, hello! I’m taking a study break to share some of my food as of late!

Also…my body hurts. I don’t know what it was, but Crossfit hit me hard this week! I’m not sure what it is, maybe the programming, but I’ve spent a lot of time very, very sore. Someone had a shirt on yesterday that said “Everything hurts and I’m dying.” That’s sort of how I feel right about now.

I have been wimping out on my deadlifts lately (as in….the last year. whoops.) and did them with a partner the other day…so I was pushed to go a little heavier for sets of 5. I didn’t realize how sore I was until the next day, I reached down to pick up a horse’s foot and OW. And then it just keeps building. Yesterday was a spicy little couplet of 65# snatches and thrusters. I was expecting the thrusters to be trivial (for some reason…). Nope. The snatches felt much better. Oh, and here’s a new one: I bruised my hand doing pull ups (over 50 of them, to be fair). So that’s cool. But other than everything hurts and I’m dying, vet school life around here is going well! I’m actually fairly caught up on studying everything, which is a great feeling, and one that I’m not entirely familiar with. I completely changed my study habits when I got here, and honestly it takes away a ton of stress. This apparently is how I study:

On the lap

2. On the iPad.

3. On the chair.

And then this was last night. Apparently Rina knows I’m a grandma and meowed at me to come to bed at 9pm, so I brought my studying to bed.

And while we’re on the topic of pets, guess who’s coming in just over a week??

I believe I promised you some food (and not just animals, but let’s be real here), so let’s dive in!

Breakfasts

Watermelon, a GF pumpkin spice waffle, and plain greek yogurt with honey and cocoa powder.

Smoothie as I ran out the door after Crossfit: frozen banana, 1/2 school of chocolate Quest protein, milk, and cocoa powder. The classic.

Yogurt bowl with raspberry jam and sunbutter. This was supposed to be with passionfruit, but the very expensive passionfruit I got was pretty awful (and basically empty.)

Yogurt bowl with cinnamon granola and sunbutter, plus a farmer’s market plum.

Lunches

Basically all packed salads. The treat was picking up a rotisserie chicken breast this week!

Salad with grapes, shaved parmesan, and rotisserie chicken. Tossed in light balsamic, served with rice cakes.

Fig, goat cheese, and chicken salad with balsamic vinaigrette.

Dinners

Beet, carrot, apple juice at the farmer’s market.

Zucchini and corn tamale from the farmer’s market, plus a kale salad with nutritional yeast.

More zucchini soup with grilled cheese.

When I picked up the rotisserie chicken, it was perfectly warm. Dinner was chicken with ketchup and a side salad with ginger dressing.

This meal was a Quick and Easy FTW. I wasn’t sure what to make this week, so before going to the store I scrolled through to see what looked good and decided on this salad. Balsamic kale with roasted butternut squash, dried cranberries, and parmesan. Chicken on the side.

Another farmer’s market tamale. Can you tell I’m a little obsessed? This was chicken and vegetable. Ginger salad on the side.

That’s all I have—it’s dinner time!

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