Kale is no substitute for Tortillas but we all must make sacrifices

 

 

This is how I feel EVERYDAY!

I really hope this picture comes out a normal readable size since I’m still trying to master this whole blogging thing. Hello Bloggy World! Tuesday is always so much better than Monday, I have no explanation for this. Perhaps, because I’ve been beaten into submission by Monday but who knows?

This is a little shot of my lake as I waited for my bus this morning. My fellow commuters and I get to wait by a pretty gorgeous view right?

 

 

LOOK! Ducks! Take two!

 

 

Let’s chat about the New Year’s Goals, shall we. I hope you said yes otherwise you probably just clicked my shit closed. Anyways, bringing my lunch to work, peeps. I am really focusing quite a bit on this one. However it’s not enough just to bring my lunch. I personally find it needs to be tasty or I merely end up buying something else or quickly saying yes to a lunch date and standing up said home-made lunch.

This is my TUESDAY LUNCH AND IT’S LA BOMBA!

 

TASTY KALE TURKEY SALAD!

• Raw Kale
• Massage that raw kale w/ some olive oil and splash of balsamic
• Avocado (1/2) break up and massage into the kale – making it all gooey and coating that kale
• Campari tomatoes (2)
• White button mushrooms (2) sauteed w/ the deliciousness below
• Italian Turkey Sausage (from Whole Foodie, of course)

OMG I love this salad and that’s how you serve up a tasty lunch, kids. PS My thighs are totally killing me today from bar method. I am slowly beginning to loathe this damn little ball that they use as a torture device in the bar method. You hold it between your thighs and have to do all kinds of terrible things that make my entire body quiver…yes, I said quiver.

bar method ball

Hmm… hope that worked…it’s from another site. I have no idea. I’m sure you can google it.

For breakfast I have no photos but I did have a pretty healthy breakfast. I scrambled two eggs with a little salsa and ate that ish up w/ a trader joe’s homemade flour tortilla.  I thought about not having the tortilla but I’m just not there yet. Plus my DNA practically requires me to eat tortillas, I mean what kind of Mexican doesn’t eat tortillas. I’ve never met them…simply they don’t exist. But yeah, less tortillas would probably be a good idea. Sigh, now all I want is a tortilla. Jesus, they are so good!!!

Instead I will drink my water and try and save my tangelo for 3pm when I always get the munchies. Never fails 3pm is snack time, it’s like I’m 5.

Enjoy your Tuesday!!! Lunch break is almost over!

xox

lbg

I’m NOT wearing a skirted bathing suit while eating veggies, and trying to make a DAMN budget, and other new year’s lies

OMG it’s 2014….no idea how that happened.

Well Bloggy World,

Like most peeps out there I do think New Year’s is a time for new beginnings, a little fresh start, and a great time to take a look around. Ya know after you pick all the confetti out of your hair and finish hung over brunching and what have you 🙂

Without further ado the lil’ brown girl’s 2014 resolutions…..I know I hate the word resolution. Goals, perhaps?

• FOODIE GOALS
• FITNESS GOALS
• BUDGET & SAVING IMPLEMENTATION
• JOB IMPROVEMENT HOPES
• JOB SEARCH GOAL
• READ MORE

Yep…that looks good….Very very solid but what does all that ish mean, you Bloggy World (reader of one) might be asking yourself. Don’t trip. I’m kinda asking myself that too.

FOODIE GOALS

My foodie goals really just involve me eating more home cooked meals consisting of veggies, fruit, meats and WAY WAY LESS processed junk. I’m getting back onto the damn myfitnesspal to track my calories and what I’m eating. For me, if I’m over the calorie intake it doesn’t bother me as long as it’s fresh healthy food. You can’t make me feel bad for eating 8oz of grilled Alaskan Salmon with lemon. Sorry, doesn’t work. Also eating lunch at Fancy Pants University is expensive (like $10) and is pretty much always crap food. Not good for me and not that delicious. I’m a lady of my thiries and pizza and burgers with crinkle cut fries will just not do. Plus that whole I can eat a small Domino’s pizza by myself at 2:30am and wake up at 10am and hit the beach in a bikini metabolism of my twenties pretty much peaced out.  Yea, yea I want to feel better all that stuff…..but really I would like to take a vacation and as Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Project) said “I’m not wearing a skirted bathing suit, like a woman who gave up on life!”

PS- I actually dig skirted bathing suits, they can be WAY cute but the above was just TOOOOO funny!

FITNESS GOALS

Eventually or soonish I will work out three days a week. Hopefully it’s soon since I shelled out EIGHTY DOLLARS to try out this bar method class at this fancy studio in my neighborhood. Actually, I got a way cheap January deal for new clients and we will see. For some reason I cannot make myself run. I think it’s just really dark when I get home and I have a thirty minute commute which kinda kills. Since I used to have zero commute when I lived near campus.

For more info on the bar method, see here:http://barmethod.com/about-us/press/

It seems promising….and really my weight isn’t terrible. I still am rocking a healthy body weight, it’s more my body composition is all ehhh, Ya know skinny fat. I don’t really feel strong just jiggly and not in a sexy delicious way like lime jello. Seriously, lime jello and cool whip! So good. What…where was I oh yes fitness goals, so workout more, maybe lose some weight and get my jigglers into some sort of toned shape that looks great in a non-skirted bikini 😉

BUDGET & SAVING IMPLEMENTATION

Grow my ass up and get together a realistic budget. Create a plan to pay off my damn credit card debit, look at my retirement, and not just say “Cool, dead at 75, done”, and imagine one day I will pay off my student loan debt. This means I need to bring my lunch to work (but see above) and cut down on shit, I really just don’t need.  I’m sure I will have lots of cry baby posts about this as the year continues.

JOB IMPROVEMENT HOPES AND JOB SEARCH GOAL

Simply put I need to reinvest in my current position even if it kills me. I will have workout endorphins so hopefully this will help with my work blues. I’m also stepping up my search goal and keeping my head up. It’s still a bad economy and I’m blessed to have a job but there’s no way I’m leaving this one without an offer letter.

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Turn off the tv, baby. The boy’s writing his thesis and I could use a little more book reading plus I love it. I just finished Middlesex which was excellent, super different narrative flow, and just a great read. Thumbs Up.

Alright kiddies, I need to jet but I hope your New Year is kickin’ booty.

Besos,

lbg