Welcome to another WIAW! Once again in honor of my #TransformationTuesday series, I’m doing another Then vs Now WIAW, this week throwing it back to sophomore year. Here’s the original.

Preworkout

Then

Half a protein bar and some dates

Now

Pumpkin banana bread. Nearing the end of my freezer stash! Plus a couple of tortilla chips.

Breakfast

Then

A cappuccino (sleep deprivation was real), a chocolate Kashi soft baked granola bar, and lots of dried mango.

Now

Fage whole milk Greek yogurt with a little bit of raspberry KIND granola, and a mango. And a tortilla chip.

Lunch

Then

Tupperware salad with goat cheese, hard boiled egg, and hummus. (Still love this combo.)

Now

Pasta with puttnesca sauce, artichoke salad, greens, marinated eggplant, and muscles. I accidentally got too much past so I split it up and stuck with the bottom pile. Plus fruit.

Afternoon Snack

Then

Pumpkin Bread from a cafe on campus.

Now

Eggplant, fruit, kettle corn rice cake with whipped strawberry cream cheese. Plus a piece of dried mango and a chocolate.

Dinner

Then

Peach, chicken, an goat cheese salad.

Now

Watermelon salad, crab cake, gluten free cornbread with butter and honey, and roasted sweet potatoes.

Post-Dinner

Then

Some of these homemade granola bar concoctions. “2 T sunflower seed butter and 2 T brown rice syrup, 1/2 c applesauce., vanilla extract and cinnamon, 2 packets of instant oatmeal (or 1.5 c oats), 2 T chia seeds, handful coconut flakes, 1 egg, chopped date and mango.”

Now

A piece of dried mango, and another crab cake.

Not going to lie…the eats of two-year-ago-Aurora looks pretty delicious!

My favorite question: best thing you ate this week?

Happy WIAW!

Since my little #TransformationTuesday series is the day before WIAW, I thought I’d include a little themed WIAW action alongside that. This week, we’re going to look at Spring of Freshman year vs. now. (Original here.)

Preworkout:

Then

Power Snacks mentioned later.

Now:

GF pumpkin banana bread from the freezer, plus 2 tortilla chips while it heated up.

Breakfast:

Then:

Dining hall biscuit, pear+hard boiled egg, gummy vitamins ( still take these, don’t take stylized pictures!) and midmorning cappuccino.

Now:

Breakfast on the go before squirrel watching (for a research project). Aesthetic level=0. 2% plain fage greek yogurt, Trader Joe’s reduced sugar blueberry jam (SO good), and sunbutter.

Lunch:

Then:

Salad with added hard boiled egg.

Now:

Make your own sandwich: I made half with egg salad and half with smoked salmon and herbed dill cream cheese. Roasted butternut squash and purple potatoes on the side, plus fruit salad. Went back for more fruit and squash! Sidenote: I LOVE fruit salad that includes bananas!

Afternoon snack:

Then:

Now:

More leftover roasted squash and fruit salad, and a piece of dried mango.

Dinner:

Then:

Garden burger over salad, roasted sweet potatoes, roasted carrots, and cabbage.

A roll with jelly, butter, and peanut butter. Dessert of vanilla soft serve with pineapple and granola.

Now:

Out to dinner with the family for my mom’s birthday. Goat cheese and beat salad with mint vinaigrette (love that idea!) with grilled chicken. + a few of my mom’s amazing fries. I took about half the lettuce and some of the beets home for lunch tomorrow!

+ a scoop of peppermint fudge ripple ice cream.

Post-Dinner Snack:

Then:

Snack 1 is a bar, snack 2 was dark chocolate, pumpkin seeds, and the creation on the right up there. Dorm room cooking at its finest: sunflower seed milk, unsweetened coconut, and a mashed up ripe banana. Served with a square of dark chocolate, and sunbutter.

Now:

A few bites of these roasted sweet potatoes (that picture is the whole container. I did not eat the whole container). And GF chocolate chip cookie because you don’t pass that up.

It’s really funny to look back on this. I think every single meal included an item I can no longer eat (gluten/nuts/coconut). Funny how that works! I think looking back that was actually one of my healthier days of that time period as well.

And lastly: photos from dinner! Since you don’t pass up an opportunity for photos when you look presentable.

Favorite ice cream flavor. GO.

I like things with fudge swirls. Love Baskin Robbins Gold Medal Ribbon (caramel swirl, chocolate and vanilla ice cream), but Tin Pot’s TCHO chocolate cannot be beat.