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Little Cheese Pub!

This afternoon, I met Taurra for lunch. We’ve been following each other on Tumblr for quite a while, and when I saw the other day that she’d be in NYC this weekend, I told her we had to meet up! Taurra’s getting her masters at American, where I went to undergrad, and she hopes to one day move to NYC, so between Tumblr, AU, DC and NYC, we had a ton to talk about.

I wanted to take her somewhere cute (that I could walk to), so I decided we should go somewhere in Chelsea. I know Emily lives in the area and loves the restaurants in her ‘hood, so I asked her for a few suggestions. The Little Cheese Pub was one of her suggestions, and I remembered her blogging about it quite a few times, so to Little Cheese (hi, cheese in the name + diminutive? How could I not?) it was.

I got the baked eggs with chicken sausage. I was actually still pretty full from my oats, so I mostly just ate the pieces of sausage wrapped in egg and poked at the rest.

Afterwards, I walked over to Whole Foods to stock up on lots of veggies—asparagus, kale, spinach, zucchini, spinach, etc. 

One day I’ll go into a grocery store with recipes or a plan of meals for the week. 

Today wasn’t one of those days. 

Operation Shed Spare Tire

This morning, I went to Jess from Fit Chick in the City’s boot camp class. As we did lunges (approximately one million of them), I looked at myself in the mirror and did not like what I saw.

My abs, which were so toned in the fall, were covered by a huge spare tire. Maybe it’s the extra alcohol I’ve had this week and the extra treats I had over the holidays, maybe it’s bloating from PMSing and an upset stomach yesterday, or maybe it was just the pleat of the pants. Either way, I spent a lot of the class strategically adjusting my pants and my shirt so that my belly wasn’t flopping around.

I don’t want to make any big changes, because I know when I’m too strict with myself, the pendulum always swings back the other way, to not being strict with myself at all (like lately), so I’m just going to try to be mindful of keeping my healthy balance. 

I’m going to:

  • watch my alcohol intake. (Dear friends: this does not mean no more happy hours, don’t worry. It just means I’ll drink a little less.)
  • watch my takeout intake. (Dear wallet: you’re welcome, too)
  • up my fruit/veggie intake
  • drink more water
  • get back to blogging all my meals. Seriously. I’ve been back and forth on this for a while, because I was getting bored with it, but I just want to be able to keep watching what I’m eating and, for me, that helps.
  • follow my workout schedule more closely
  • add morning exercises (either some of these, or some that Joel gave me when I was doing Theodora 2.5. I never posted the results of that because my schedule got too busy and Joel and I have two more sessions to go, but it definitely worked…until the holidays got in my way.)

I’m not going to take measurements, but I’m just going to go by look and feel of my abs in my clothes.

Breakfast after the boot camp was:

  • 3/4 cup oatmeal
  • 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 large spoonful of sunflower butter
  • 1 banana