Planning for Success

Hey friends! Thank you all so much for helping me count down to my glorious day of freedom last week :) Your kind words always help me get through the busy times! I enjoyed my day off by spending some time with Delilah and then relaxing and watching a bunch of TV. Probably not the most productive way to spend my time but I was able to rest my body and I was happy to be able to do that.

Today's post has a little bit of everything I think! I have a meal from yesterday, some planning for the week and some inspiration :)

Last night's dinner was really yummy. A home made Chipotle bowl with rice and beans, salsa, daiya and avocado. I served with with a tortilla since I'm too much of a spazz to roll a decent burrito that actually stays together. After this meal I put the rest of my Daiya in the freezer because a) I've been eating it too much lately and b) It seems to be lasting forever! Seriously the bag just won't end!

The perfect bite!

Today I took a ton of time to get a lot of fruit ready for smoothies for the week. I really want to get back into the habit of drinking smoothies every day and being prepared is key. I added 4 more bags of cherries to my other two in the freezer (I'm going to make these last!) as well as some strawberries. I had the bananas already and just added them to the pile so you could see how much fruit I have ha! I also have half a bag of frozen blueberries as well as some frozen pineapple. I think I'm set on smoothies for a while!

While I was cleaning I found this old fortune and thought it was so perfect for the headspace I'm in right now. "You'll never know what you can do until you try." This is so true!

So I have a question. I just tried to upload another photo and it said that I'm out of space in my Picasa account or something. I didn't even know I had a Picasa account and when I clicked to get details it said I had 5 GB of drive space that I wasn't using. I'm confused I guess and if I don't upgrade does that mean I can't upload any more photos at all? Has this happened to any of you, and if so did you just pay to upgrade? Please let me know, I'm so confused! 

I hope that you all had a great day and that Monday wasn't too tough for you!

Toasty Sunday

Hey everyone. First, I just want to thank you all so much for your kind words and support on yesterday's post. You are all very sweet and I appreciate all of your positive thoughts.

Today was a toasty one here in NY. It was actually a perfect, beautiful day. I got to the gym as soon as it opened at 9 and got in some cardio. After that I visited my friend that just had a baby (such a beautiful baby, so teeny!) and then ran some errands, including a trip to Trader Joe's to stock up on essentials.

My food has been strange lately so I'll just show you what I ate today (well at least what I remembered to photograph).

Unpictured: Post workout I had a half of a banana and some almonds.

Yesterday when we went to the outlets we had dinner in a Mexican restaurant. I had the other half of the wrap pictured above that was stuffed with rice, beans and veggies. It was really good and really filling, and that's why I had the other half for lunch today. I just ate the filling and wish I would have asked for it in a bowl instead of a wrap but too late. I just ripped the wrap open and ate the filling and I wish I would have taken a photo of the carnage. At dinner I finally drank my strawberry margarita I've been wanting since my birthday 7 months ago. Well half of it then I was pretty well buzzed and passed the other half to my bro. What can I say, I don't drink much ;)

For a snack I had a grape fruit leather.

And I decided to treat myself and enjoy an iced decaf soy latte with cinnamon. The weather was too good and it was the perfect way to welcome the warm sunshine. Between the coffee and the margarita I'm pretty well set on splurges and it is back to the veggies and green smoothies tomorrow.

Dinner is some moo shoo veggies so I'm getting in some good veggies and the sauce is light so I'm pretty happy with that.

Hopefully tomorrow will be back to normal. I'm noticing the bruising coming back on my body and a general feeling of fatigue so that means it's back on the high raw food train.  I've got some good stuff planned.

Hope you all enjoyed your weekend! It went too fast, back to the grind. Wah.

Mexican Take Out!

Vegans can enjoy a great meal in a restaurant or quick and easy take out.  We just need to be creative and ask a lot of questions.  Here is a salad I enjoy fairly frequently from a local Mexican take out place and a burrito I tried as a treat.  Both are  amazing and totally vegan.

Grilled Veggie Salad with Spicy Vinaigrette (I also added some seitan for protein at home)

Grilled Veggie Burrito (No cheese, no sour cream!!)