5:30am: Kittens don’t understand the time change and start wrestling on my bed.

6:05: I finally get up.

I get ready for morning Crossfit and eat some Cheerios.

I was up earlier than I needed to be so I had plenty of time to snuggle kitties.

6:45am: Leave for Crossfit.

7:00: Crossfit. For strength, the rest of the class did cleans and I did snatches. My wrist has been feeling a ton better but cleans are going to be the last thing I’m able to do. The WOD was a long one.

100 sit ups

400m run

75 push ups

400m run

50 box jumps

400m run

Oof. I did push ups on a box because I am not strong enough and it’s easier only wrist! We ended up finishing class a few minutes late, and then I hit really bad traffic going back, so I was fairly flustered and rushed when I got back!

8:20: Arrive home.

8:25: Sit down to breakfast. I did a 9 mile race this past Sunday, and ever since then I have been so hungry! I was starving and had a few bites of chicken from soup that I made the other night because I knew my breakfast wouldn’t hold me over. This hunger will be a theme of the day, haha! Breakfast is cottage cheese with an apple from my Apple Hill weekend (where I did the race) with sunbutter.

8:45: Leave for class, more or less on time. We have lab today so I’m in scrubs, so thankfully getting ready is pretty quick!

9:00: First class of the day! We just started Reproduction, so I’ll spare you guys pictures.

After my first class, I actually ate a full size 3 Musketeers bar. Someone put out a big box of giant candy bars and I haven’t eaten a full sized candy bar in years, plus I was quickly burning through my breakfast so I just went for it. I only intended to have half but ate the whole thing and don’t regret that at all. I was expecting to feel sick afterwards, but again, my metabolism has been on fire since the race so I was more than hungry at lunch, after another couple of lectures!

12:00: Lunch at home. The handyman was supposed to come and I had a big gap between classes so I went home. On the menu was a big salad with persimmon, deli turkey (I recently started buying nitrite free deli turkey), cranberry goat cheese, and balsamic vinaigrette.

I also had a square of dark chocolate.

I watched an episode of Parks and Rec while eating. I don’t love it yet, but I’m still giving it a chance, and I needed a shorter show.

12:30: Study! With a side of wrestling kitties.

Marie’s current obsession is to climb on my shoulder and bite my hair.

Which usually quickly progresses to this:

1:45: I’m hungry (again) so I have my afternoon snack.

2:20: Take a short study break to start typing up this post.

2:35: Leave for lab.

3-4:30: Anatomy lab! Today is male reproduction.

4:30: Out of lab a little bit early, but it’s already getting dark!

4:45: Arrive home. I’m hungry (shocker) so I pick some veggies out of the soup I made.

Then it’s study time with the two babies!

5:45: Leave for soccer! We have a vet school team in the intramural league. Today’s game was against the 3rd year vet students and we sadly lost in penalty kicks! I still had fun and my ankle is not thrilled with me.

7:30: Finally sit down to dinner with an episode of Netflix ( I just started Riverdale). No matter how busy I get, I consider my Netlfix and dinner time sacred! On the menu is a stir fry of sorts. I microwaved some frozen stir fry veggies and then sautéed up tofu and spaghetti squash (Kind of weird, but sort of like chow mien!) with GF teriyaki sauce and served that on top of my veggies!

For dessert, I had a mini sunbutter cup and a GF snickerdoodle.

8:00: Have a few more Cheerios while icing my ankle.

8:20: Pick out an old spin playlist to teach tomorrow for Sunrise Cycle at 6:15am! I have actually a million old playlists to choose from. I teach 3 classes a week so I definitely don’t make a new playlist each time, but I have so many from years of cycling that no one will ever hear repeats!

8:25-8:30: Finish up this blog post. Before bed I’m going to try to squeeze in a little bit more studying or work on some emails, but on nights before I teach early morning spin, I try to be in bed reading a book and getting sleepy at 9, and asleep before 10!

Pre-Workout: Cheerios

I was planning on doing Crossfit, but I could actually do zero of the movements with my wrist so I decided to just do a lift on my own instead. I did 10-10-8 back squats at 135-145-155, 3 sets of single leg split squats and pistols, and then some rowing for conditioning! 3x1000m with 4 minutes of rest in between! I think my average time was 4:13 per 1000? It took me back to my rowing days though!

Breakfast: Cottage cheese with pumpkin pie filling and sunbutter, plus a few grapes. The saltiness of the cottage cheese pairs perfectly with the pumpkin—kind of like cheesecake (but I wouldn’t take it that far).

Lunch: Same thing as yesterday, but packed since I was at school all day. Chicken, nectarine, apricot cranberry goat cheese, balsamic vinaigrette.

Snack: It ended up being a pretty warm day, so I went and got ice cream with a few friends. I had salted caramel.

And then when I got home I had a few carrot sticks.

Dinner:

Of course I had a dinner-making snack:

And I know I recently posted this meal, but here it is in context. Zucchini noodles, apple chunks, chicken apple sausage, and white cheddar laughing cow. Seriously so good.

Dessert: Same as yesterday. Pumpkin pie filling with dark chocolate chips and whipped cream. And a piece of dark chocolate.

Bedtime snack: The same rice cake with pumpkin cream cheese, and a couple of pieces of dried persimmon.

And that’s it! I’m currently trying to hurry up and get my studying done for the night because I have early morning spin to teach tomorrow!

Here is your obligatory kitten picture:

Pre-Workout:

A couple of handfuls of Cheerios.

I teach 6:15am spin on Mondays and Wednesday now, so this was before my class! I’m still getting used to the early schedule, but it was a blast! I’m impressed at the class I get that early on a college campus!

Breakfast:

A couple of pumpkin crackers (these are really good and taste similar to Trader Joe’s pumpkin soup crackers, but with more spices).

And then a persimmon protein smoothie. One frozen persimmon from last year’s bounty, milk, salted caramel protein powder, and a few shakes of cinnamon.

Mid-morning snack: I don’t normally do a morning snack, but breakfast was on the earlier side and I didn’t have class until 10, so I had some of these carrot chips. They’re my newest obsession.

Lunch: I’ve had the same salad literally every weekday with a few variations. This one was nectarine, Trader Joe’s rosemary balsamic grilled chicken (this is amazing), Trader Joe’s apricot cranberry goat cheese, and light balsamic vinaigrette.

Whenever I had lunch at home, I always have to have something sweet. I try to keep it on the healthier side, so I had a square of 78% dark chocolate and half a piece of my sister’s homemade (!) chocolate.

Snack: Banana with Trader Joe’s unsweetened sunbutter. I actually really like this because I think it tastes a lot like peanut butter.

Dinner: Of course I have to have a bite of something while I cook, so I had a few of these:

And then my actual meal was a fall kale salad: kale massaged with aged balsamic vinegar, olive oil, and salt and pepper, butternut squash, dried cranberries, parmesan, and chicken apple sausage.

Dessert: I forgot to take a picture, but I had the exact same thing as last week that I shared before—pumpkin pie filling with dark chocolate chips heated up and topped with whipped cream.

And a ginger chew.

Evening snack: Rice cake with pumpkin cream cheese.

What do you think—was that enough fall foods??

I’ll leave you with this:

Happy fall!

He’s great in the car, but he gets scared of new people and new places.

I also just discovered he still has some residual baby teeth on his back molars and I need to have them taken out. I’m trying to figure out when and where I can get that taken care of.

For now, I thought I’d share a super fast full day of eating from today before I get back to studying!

Breakfast:

I got this super amazing apricot jam at a farmer’s market back home. It’s basically all apricot with minimal sugar. I’m trying to finish it up this week so it doesn’t go to waste! It’s super delicious with sunbutter and yogurt. Mango on the side.

Lunch:

Salad with grilled chicken, blueberries, honey goat cheese, and balsamic vinaigrette. GF cheddar crackers on the side. Plus a little something sweet.

I ended up doing my workout on my own this afternoon, since the Crossfit workout called for deadlifts and I’m not quite ready for that yet with my back. I figured I might as well share what I did!

5×5 back squat working up to 165ish# I say “ish” because I’m pretty sure I had a 2.5 plate on one side and a 5 on the other and kept feeling off balance. That explains it…

8 minute AMRAP: push ups and box jumps I like this little couplet and do it a lot because I work on my strict push ups from my toes, and the (padded) box is higher.

8 minutes: 20 seconds max effort on the assault bike/40 seconds rest

2×25 hip strength exercises My hips are still a little jacked up from squatting but they’re a lot better. I figure some focused strength + stretching couldn’t hurt.

Snack:

Bar+freeze dried grapes and then some real grapes.

Dinner:

Leftover cauliflower crust pizza and a kale salad massaged with poppyseed dressing and topped with parmesan.

Dessert:

I’m in the “eat things up” phase and I realized I had a mostly full box of this vanilla cereal left. I decided it would be good with chocolate chips, and then kicked it up a notch by heating up some gourmet marshmallows (seriously the best I’ve ever had) and making an impromptu rice crispie treat type of deal.

Snack #2:

Mid studying I had a brown rice cake with whipped chive cream cheese.

Back to it my friends. We’re almost at the finish line!

But yesterday was the actual day. I also had a super nice class schedule and only had a few hours of class! I figured, what better way to celebrate than a full day of eating?

Breakfast:

Birthday pear from my parents (amazing) and a flapjacked muffin.

Lunch:

Salad with chicken, pear, goat cheese, and crackers.

Bonus selfie with Jackson:

Snack:

One of my friends made me GF cupcakes, which was so nice because I rarely get to eat cake! Not a bad way to spice up lecture either!

Snack 2 was a bar.

Dinner:

My friends took me out to dinner, and it was such a nice night. I of course had to have a beer.

And then I got a salad with bleu cheese, currants, and grilled chicken.

And of course I finished the evening with more cupcakes.

Pre-workout:

Apple cinnamon Cheerios. My usual pre-Crossfit.

For some reason I was actually STARVING during Crossfit today. Huh. Crossfit was fun today. The workout was an AMRAP of pull ups, sit ups, and squats. I have various aches and pains right now so I’ve been avoiding some of the heavy days. but luckily this week has been more skill and less weight heavy!

Breakfast:

You know, it’s funny. I almost never eat hard boiled eggs, except that one week of the year when I eat massive amounts of them. Blue are my favorite!

1 egg+1 egg white on GF toast with a mango.

Lunch:

Salad with a hard boiled egg+1 egg white, hummus, creamy goat cheese, and champagne vinaigrette. A few GF crackers on the side.

Snack:

Between exams after I finished studying, I relaxed with some Netflix to give my mind a rest! I had a bar and a square of chocolate.

Pre-Dinner:

I went to Trader Joe’s and found these Churro bites. They are GOOD.

Then I settled down with a beer, a kitten, and Modern Family. Ahh. I knew I was getting drinks with friends later in the evening but I couldn’t wait! This was a lighter beer which normally isn’t my favorite, but it was good for early evening!

Dinner:

Keeping it simple. Salad with guacamole, cheese, deli turkey, and ketchup. With cheese puffs.

Dessert:

Flourless chocolate chip banana bread from the freezer.

In the evening we went out for beer.

And before bed I had a handful of Cheerios.

Breakfast:

Half a container of blackberry yogurt with vanilla cereal and sunbutter, plus a mango.

When I got to school, they had a free breakfast provided. Since I’ve been feeling pretty good lately, I decided to have the top of a chocolate donut.

Post-workout:

We had an early lab this morning, and a gap between class so I spent some time on the spin bike. As a post-workout, pre-lunch snack, I had some dried fruit.

Lunch:

Salad with pear and goat cheese, and hard boiled eggs on the side! I had some of the crackers while making lunch.

I also had half of a chocolate marshmallow egg for dessert.

Snack:

Pineapple

Dinner:

Some cracker while cooking and this salad:

It was supposed to be vaguely Greek, but I realized I didn’t really have any ingredients other than hummus to make it so! Leftover turkey, hummus, creamy goat cheese, and champagne vinaigrette.

Dessert:

Parfait with apricot jam, persimmon bread from the freezer, and vanilla pudding. Super random, but delicious! I’m seeking out more cold desserts now that the weather is warmer!

Snack:

Nugo bar

Back to studying…wish me luck!

Preworkout:

Apple Cinnamon Cheerios

The workout was Crossfit. It involved lots of double unders!

Breakfast:

Crackers eaten while packing lunch, protein shake drunk in class. Crossfit mornings can be a mad dash to get to class.

Snack/lunch dessert:

In vet school, clubs often hold fundraiser bake sales. There are rarely GF options, so if there are any, I jump at them! This was a butterscotch bar with butterscotch and chocolate chips.

Lunch:

Salad with hummus, goat cheese, and of course hard boiled eggs. GF crackers on the side.

Snack:

GF toast with fancy brie and apricot jam. This was a good combo!

Dinner:

I made a cheeseburger salad with half a baked sweet potato. For the meat, I added chopped celery to the ground turkey. I actually don’t think I’ve cooked meat all year…so this was a big step! I seasoned it with basically everything in my spice cabinet. Topped with cheese and a drizzle of ketchup for good measure.

Dessert:

Mint Halo Top with whipped cream. And then a piece of Easter candy.

I started my morning with a blueberry flapjacked muffin and a mango.

I spent the morning studying before heading outside to the park for a workout. I did a Nike Training Club workout, and then a sprint/agility workout that I had saved on my phone from years ago. The weather was perfect to head outside!

When I got back, I had a super light lunch of egg whites, spinach, and garlic and herb laughing cow with some peach Cheerios.

I have 3 Neuro finals this week so coming home for Easter wasn’t plausible. My parents were nice enough to come up to me, and we went out to Easter “brunch” with some of my friends. They also brought me Easter eggs!

Before brunch, I broke into the jelly beans.

Here were my plates from the buffet! I think the highlight was the chocolate creme brûlée.

It was so nice to be able to sneak away from school for a few hours!

Later that evening, I had some more Easter candy, some toast with jam, and some protein chips.

And that’s a wrap! Except more full days of eating coming up, featuring hard boiled eggs!

Breakfast:

Mango+ double chocolate might muffin.

Workout: Crossfit. We did 21 minutes of 5 pull ups, 10 push ups, and 15 pull ups with 100m run every 3 minutes. My pull ups felt super strong so I guess the work I’ve been doing on them lately has been paying off!

Lunch:

Panera half Fuji apple chicken salad. I spent a little time there studying (and charging my iPad). Funny story, yesterday I lost my iPad pencil (they are NOT cheap) and spent forever looking for it. It was a weird situation because I knew exactly where I had last seen it…putting it into my backpack. After searching every inch of my house, I ended up finding it in the parking lot at school, just lying on the ground where I parked. It must have fallen out and rolled under my car. It was mostly unscathed, thankfully. My iPad is my life so this was a relief!

Dessert:

I was walking to a coffeeshop to study when I passed people eating ice cream outside at Baskin Robbins, and it seemed like a really good idea. It was. Gold medal ribbon is a childhood favorite. I spent some time studying outside there and it was really nice! This past week it’s been in the 80s, and beautiful!

Snack:

I came home to a very special package.

Cheerios sent me their new seasonal peach Cheerios! To say I was excited was an understatement; I’ve actually been even more into Cheerios lately. Like I go through a box a week between pre-workout meals in the mornings and evening snacks. This made my day. They’re SO good. I have yet to see them in stores out here!

Dinner:

Super simple hash/scramble. Half of a baked sweet potato with 1 whole egg and some egg whites, spinach, and fancy cheese that was a gift from my parents. My favorite is the manchego, but this was a really good swiss-tasting one. YUM.

Dessert parts 1 and 2:

Mint chocolate chip halo top with chipped cream, and later half a package of these Enjoy Life mini chocolate chip cookies.

And here’s a bonus Jackson picture: