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I Love Avocado

I didn’t take any pictures at the Junior League party last night…and it was awesome.

This morning, Lacey and I headed to the diner for breakfast.

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I had the California omelette–avocado, mushroom and mozzarella, because I can’t see avocado on the menu and not order it.

Walking home from the diner, I was thinking about the last time I got laid off. Yup, this was not the first time. The last time, the magazine I was working from went from 12 issues a year to six. With half as many issues…they needed half as many people, and so I was laid off. That’s actually where my weight loss journey started.

I figured with the extra time on my hands, I could use it to get in shape. A few weeks earlier, I had flown up to Boston to see friends. I remember sitting down in my seat on the plane and realizing just how much of the little seat I took up and how I wasn’t okay with it. I started going to the gym a little more, but I still didn’t really get my act together until I asked my mom for a package of personal training sessions for my birthday–probably one of the best birthday presents I ever got.

(As far as the job, I got tremendously lucky and was rehired by the same company to work at another magazine there.)

I’ll start marathon training in July, so it will be nice to have some extra time to fit my runs in and focus on other fitness goals.

So…remember how I spoke on my first panel a few weeks ago?

Well! I’m already preparing for my second one!

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I’ll be speaking at the Healthy Living Summit with blogger buddies Ashley and Cynthia about how to make friends online, one of my favorite topics. Tickets go on sale on Monday and will go really, really quickly, so be sure to be at your computer when they go on sale if you want to go. I went for the first time last year, and I had an amazing time. If you’re nervous about attending something like this–don’t be! Everyone is super-friendly and has lots in common.

Any fun weekend plans? I’m going on a date tonight, home for my dad’s birthday tomorrow night and to a polo match on Governor’s Island Sunday.

Healthy Living Summit Fun!

I just got back from Chicago, where I was attending the Healthy Living Summit (a health blog conference!), and I’m exhausted but smiling. I’ll write way more about all of this later this week, but…you might want to catch up on what I’ve been eating.

Lunch yesterday, planned by the newly minted RD, Kath, included roasted veggies, tofu, fruit, a delicious quinoa salad and some Thomas sandwich thins.

We had snack time, which was sponsored by Athenos feta, so it included all kinds of feta-y goodness, which surprisingly didn’t bother my stomach.

Dinner was with my wonderful HLS roomies at a cute Italian place called Quartino. An Italian tapas bar, Quartino had all sorts of amazing dishes to share.

Like veal meatballs:

Polenta fries:

Some pizza:

To be honest, this was all somewhat heavy for having a 17-mile run on my schedule this morning. I was freaking out about the run and woke up just before 6 to meet a group for 16 miles. My plan was to do 16 with them and then run one more, but I ended up actually *only* doing 15.5.

I started off with these lovelies:

( Leslie, Meghann, Emily, Monica, Jenn, Bec, Evan )

And we ran along the lake path:

This group was all pretty fast, so I only ran portions of the run with them. They were sweet enough to wait for me when they stopped for water or bathroom breaks so I could run some more with them.

But by about mile 13, I was just about done—I definitely didn’t fuel properly—so I took quite a few walk breaks and eventually ran into these lovely ladies:

Me, Tina, Hillary, and Anne.

There’s definitely way more to tell you about this weekend—what I learned about blogging, people and myself—but my bed is calling, so stay tuned this week for more about HLS!