WOW WEEK

hello beautiful girls last couple days have been busy/fun....

COLLEGE.

This week is W.O.W week (week of welcome) and so many things are happening including, laser tag,comedian. hypnotist, movie,comedian, etc so much fun so much excitement around the school. 

Today and yesterday i had my 1st day of classes which were chemistry 1 and public speaking,pre calc, English. I had a lot of fun,even though we were just going over the syllabus.lol but it made me feel all grown up. Im pretty pumped to see how this year plays out. I am meeting a lot of people, and so far i really like my roommates. 

I have been walking around the campus looking into many clubs, they have over 300 once i find the ones i am going to stick with i'll be sure to tell you pretty girls. 

YOGA/work out

Yes i am still doing yoga, im trying every day but it is at least every other day so far. I am walking around A LOT. Yesterday i did 45mins of Yogatoday.com campus "turning fear into courage" this class is very hard i was sweating. They also do hand/headstands but since i have not even done these in a class i do back bends/bridges instead. My arms felt like jelly for a couple of hours later! 

I also did 20 min bike (reading my textbook killing two birds in one stone) and i did 12 min on the elliptical. It was good after this little cardio seash. i do not do much cardio any more so i just had fun with it and went at my pace instead of killing myself like i used to. 

today i wasn't able to go to the gym soooo much stuff to do but tomorrow for sure + some yoga hopefully.

 

FOOD.

EZPZ snack:

• Banana
• Peanut butter ( i used WcW)
• roasted pecans

1. cut banana in half
2. spread WCW peanut butter on, i put prob a lil more then a tbsp
3. lay pecan halves on top of banana
4. cut banana in pieces according to each nut to make little bits

This was such an awesome simple/fast snackum before my next class. the flavors melded so well, this would be awesome between some whole wheat potato bread!lol

EZPZ 

getting A's.

This is just my study routine and i seem to do very well with it if not a's, b's. 

• write notes as simple as you can. instead of writing a HUGE sentence try to cut it in half and take the main idea. this way it will be easier to remember and understand.
• Do NOT cram at all. Study each night/day for about 10-20 min and each night re-read the notes you read before, and soon you will know everything.
• make your own quizzes, this is a lot of fun, or at least to me and then you can help others around you 
• Teach other people the material. going over the material to your friend will glue all the info to your head, since when you are teaching others you are using simpler speech that you understand instead of book language.
• if you are reading your text book write main ideas/equations/vocab words on a post it and stick it on the page so you do not have to keep re-reading the WHOLE chapter over and over.
• if you do not understand something ask the teacher and it will be simplier or google the question it will be on the Internet.
• keep learning fun, find a way to will have fun learning, since i am a geek i love the feeling that i am becoming smarter with each class. GEEK ALERT haha
• and again DO NOT CRAM! The point of going to college/school is to learn cramming is only retained for a couple hours, trust me i crammed to much in 9th/10th grade.

healthy chai cookies?

****oppps silly me its chai not chia****

Hello chicas!

It is so far a fabulous Sunday.

Good news: i made friends! So now that i know some people it will only get more and more fun.

Yesterday i had a chai tea Luna bar

Nutritional info: 

• Serving Size 1 bar (48g)
• Calories 190
• Calories from fat 45

*Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

• Amount/Serving%DV*
• Total Fat 5g8%
• Sat. Fat 2.5g13%
• Trans Fat 0gNone
• Cholesterol 0mg0%
• Sodium 95mg4%
• Potassium 150mg4%

• Amount/Serving%DV*
• Total Carb. 26g9%
• Dietary Fiber 3g12%
• Insoluble Fiber 1gNone
• Sugars 12gNone
• Other Carb. 11gNone
• Protein 9g18%

Vit. A 20% * Vit. C 20% * Calcium 35% * Iron 30% * Vit. E 30% * Vit. K 10% * Thiamin (B1) 10% * Riboflavin (B2) 40% * Niacin (B3) 40% * Vit. B6 75% * Folate 100% * Vit. B12 75% * Vit. D 15% * Biotin 25% * Pantothenic Acid 40% * Phosphorus 20% * Iodine 35% * Magnesium 10% * Zinc 35% * Selenium 35% * Copper 10% * Manganese 25% * Chromium 25% * Molybdenum 25%

ingredients:

ingredients: LunaPro (Soy Nuggets [Soy Protein Isolate, Rice Flour, Malt Extract], Rolled Oats, Soy Protein Isolate, Roasted Soybeans, Soy Flour, Milled Flaxseed), brown rice syrup, natural flavors, sea salt, decaffeinated green tea extract. Chai Coating: evaporated cane juice, fractionated palm kernel oil, soy milk (soybeans, water), soy lecithin, Chai Blend (ground ginger, green tea leaves, cloves, anise, cinnamon, cardamom), natural flavors.

review: 

this flavor was good, if you are into chai teas. It taste just like a chai tea cookie with a little chew kind of on the dry side, but i might of gotten a dry bar. The coating was a a little splenda tasting but still good. Also this bar had a lot of chai spice to it, which I did LOVE. Very nutmeg,Cinnamon and gingery.I think i am more of a chocolate bar kind of girl, so although this isn't my favorite luna bar (WCM!) if you like chai spices you would like this bar. I had this and a banana for breakfast and that held me over for 3 hours, which was very surprising.

So i have a question girls. Since i am in college now i wanted to center my blog around ezpz eating,ezpz exercises, ezpz pamper,college lifestyle what do you pretty girls think? It will be hard taking photos of food since i eat in the dinning hall some times but i can put up what i ate if you want. and soon hopefully take pictures with out my friends caring. ya know?

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hello girls!

well today is Wednesday and i leave Friday at 7AM! ekkk needless to say i have been packing this week like a mad women. 

Packing = relizations 

1. i have A LOT of clothing
2. i have A LOT of tea
3. I have A LOT of food
4. I have A LOT of make up

Ekkk but of course being Nicole i am bringing 98% of it. haha

OK anyway on to food...

yesterday i mad nestle toll house chocolate chip cookies. 

Any one else out there obsessed with friends?

It is a tradition in my family on the 1st day of school my mom bakes these cookies so when we come home we have right out of the oven cookies with milk and discuss our 1st day. This year my mom had a very busy day so i made the cookies, it went well but of course it is different then when my mom made them.

I had one with a strawberry protein smoothie as my lunch

seriously soooo yummy, home made chocolate chip cookies w/almond milk is probably my favorite dessert sooo good.

TODAY.

I ate a yogurt mess for brekkie with some coffee. But it was nothing special. so i am going to show you another ezpz recipe. I am roasting nuts to bring with me to college for healthy snacking. This is how i roast them and they are soooooo good. raw pecans are yummy but these are AMAZING! 

EZPZ RECIPE:

healthy roasting pecans

1. preheat the oven 350 f
2. spray baking sheet with pam or butter if you rather
3. soak raw pecans in luke warm water for 5 min. the water is going to be slightly brown.
4. use a Coriander to strain the water and repeat soaking the pecans 2 more times.
5. spread the pecans on the baking sheet, one layer try to make the pecans not over lap too much.
6. sprinkle the desired amount of salt on top of nuts
7. bake for 20 min stirring the nuts every 5 minutes. make sure they do not get too brown.
8. take out and let cool

optional: you can add any spices to the nuts, or even sugar before baking them i just wanted to keep them simple and yummy.

Easy and yummy!

Have a great day girls!

best brekkie cookie ever!

work:

man o man i am beat! lol From 10-4:30 i was standing up and walking around with prob about 20min sitting down. i went to work, which totally organized and rearranged the juniors jeans. that task took 5 hours, but it flew by! i don't know why but i LOVE projects, and being in charge of something. Then i had to go to walmart to get refreshments for the Kids day at dillards this Saturday, which i am also responsible for. 

Finally i am home and letting my late lunch digest before i do some yoga.

Food:

brekkie

BEST brekkie cookie EVER!

• 1/3 cup oats
• 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder
• some dried fruit (cranberry,coconut,papaya)
• scoop of fresh cashew butter (best nut butter yet!!)
• 1/3 cup almond milk
• 1 tsp sweetener of choice
• 3 cashews, diced
• banana icing, mushed banana and heated for 30 seconds

after the cookie hardened over night place it in the micro for 30 sec and top it with the warm mushed banana, and enjoy!

 it is so good that i sat down to take a picture of it but forgot about the picture until i had a couple bites left.

oppps

Snack:

(google image)

although this brekkie cookie holds me over very well i got hungry around 1 so i decided to pull out my PB&J lara bar!

review: omg this is my FAV larabar or at least tied with pecan pie bar. seriously girls this taste JUST like a PB&J sammie, it was unbelievable. yummmmm! it was chewy with ALOT of peanuts in it and whole dried cherries. since i love cherry jam this would be my idea PB&J. 

BUY IT NOW

Lunch:

veggie burger wrap

• flat out wrap
• garden burger
• lettuce
• lil bit of sharp cheddar
• salsa
• with a plum and cashew butter date on the side.

it was ok i was just soooooooo hungry since when i got back from walmart, i just needed to make something quick.

Dinner:

haven't had it yet but when i do it will be a green monster of some sort.

Giveaway:

everything in moderation

missy maintains

actual food pictures

MONDAY

look at this ginormus smoothie i made Monday

• young thai coconut meat and some of the water
• 1/3banana
• cup pineapple
• lil tsp of WCW
• my last 2 dates
• a packet called ultimate meal

BEST smoothie! soooooooooo creamy i am def going to buy more of these!

Dinner was a gross publix smoothie and a yummy caramel cadbury egg from the freezer!

Tuesday

I was babysitting my sister and o boy she is a handful, so we went to see harry potter which was pretty good. I do not read the books anymore bc they make the movies so different.

Brekkie:

green smoothie

• 1/2 peach
• 1/4 cup pineapple
• almond milk
• spinkle of go lean cereal
• lots and lots of spinach
• lil WCW peanut butter

I also made a flat out wrap with pb and jelly but i toasted the wrap and i did not like the crispy feel so i threw out 3/4+ of it.

Movie snack:

Trio bar blueberry. This was awesome! i love trio bars, if you are in a nutty craving these are the best and it filled me through out the whole movie. plus 3 whole wheat cheez-it's

Lunch? (4pm)

Flat out wrap

• spinach
• lots of buffolo tofu (1/2 block)
• 1/2 tomato
• bbq sauce on side for dipping

very messy at first but i think i got it. I realized i love salads way more with a side of carb. The reason being because i like taking my time eating and like more volumous looking meals.

dinner:

veggie stir fry 

• vegtable bag full of diffrent stir fry
• terriaky sauce
• baby corn
• a small potato 

Tuesday was the boy and I 14 month anniversary <3>

Today!

brekkie

Cornmeal mush

• 1/4 cup cornmeal
• 1 cup water
• 1 banana
• 1 tbsp of choco chip cookie dough pb

It was ok, a little different. I just missed my oat bran so it was a decent subsitute.

Later i BAKED Blueberry/cherry muffins!

I used eat live run's recipe

adaptations:

• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour, 1 cup wheat all purpose flour
• 1 cup was cherries ( had soooo many extra cherries in the fridge)

I came out with 11 muffins. they are very good, and FILLING. Which suprised me but seriously make these asap!

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And the summer storms begin

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY

So i had the worst sleep last night! i kept waking up and i almost decided to stay up but finally stayed asleep long enough till 9 i woke up to beautiful weather. sun was shining and birds chirping so i went to a TURBO KICKBOXING class! This class was defiantly intense and at the end of the class she told us that they are trying this for this gym and we could burn up to 1000 calories a class. WOW! So the teacher is bringing her heart rate monitor next class and see if she burns more then her usaly 500 cals a class. 

I'm pretty pumped, not that i need to lose weight at all! but i do model and want to become more toned and HEALTHY!  not stickily.

     Anyway I ate a banana before i left, i wasn't hungry but knew i would need a lil something. sorry for no picture i was taking pictures as i was driving. ekkkk i know not safe and the pics were very blurry.

 

After the class i went to WHOLE FOODS! i was very tempted to bring my camera inside to show you my whole foods but decided i will do that next time.  For lunch...

  

spinach, BBQ seiten, roasted red pepper,lil corn, back bean salsa, lil chickpea salad. and on the side a piece of naan, 2 plantains,2 tofu something and a faux chicken salad( which tasted just like real chicken salad i even tricked the boy!) 

all this for $10.45!!! 

FUN FACT 2:Whole foods is in the mall plaza as well as my gym...LA Fitness. needless to say i go to whole foods a lot

this was soooo yummy after this i tried( key word tried) to play zoey's new PS2 game star wars 3: revenge of the sith. TOTAL FAILER! haha he whopped my butt and i kept trying since i didn't want him to beat me. But sadly me+video games do not add up to anything. 

FUN FACT: When i was younger i was a TOTAL tomboy and dominated video games. I have no idea where all my skill went

remember how i said it was beautiful outside but the title clearly says storms well this is what me and zoe were driving towards/in

HOLY COW! but this is summer down in south Florida,haha either this or the inferno for us. Obvi its a win win.haha

back to foods here is my snack

 

banana,choco dusted almonds( sooooooooooooooooooo yumtastic) sprinkle of special k and a dash of milk.

Then I had dinner at Zoey's house his mom cooked up steak,potatoes,roasted corn, and garlic bread. Since i do not eat meat i had a lil of everything, not much of the bread but the crust. Zoe eats the bread and i eat his crust...its the best part!

after eating a mucho amount of crust i stepped away from the table and came to the computer to inform you all about my day!

Also today after i have been seeing deals on Costco i decided to go and see what i can find. Once me and zoe got there we found out they were closed due to memorial day! I was defiantly bummed. oh well life goes on...meaning i will be going tomorrow.

Hopefully i will be adding another post later tonight! and this week i am going to pimp this blog. 

first post!!!

SO this is not my first blog but my last one didn't go so well, but after stalking so many of your awesome blogs i have decided to make a new one. I'm not exactly sure what this blog will have but it will mainly be about food and showing you that's its easy peasy to be healthy.  

so today was the first time i took pictures of all my eats!! this is very exciting for me because i always forget to. 

This morning i went to a body works plus abs class but before i went i had this yum yum snack plate of WF yogurt pretzels, dates and a Lil spoon of PB. All on a graduation plate because yes i have finally finished high school!!!!!

It took a while for me to get hungry again so i putsyed around my boys house and did the dishes and made us some brekkie. 

   i am in love with fruit and i absolutely love having a big plate/bowl of an assortment of them. today's was a red delicious apple,small banana, 1/2 a mango, and half a orange.

     I had a very long reading time while my boy was jamming ( he plays the drums) with his buddies. I finished the book "French Women Don't Get Fat" my review will be in another post i am running short on time since i have to get ready for a BBQ at my family's house.

anyway i  had a diet coke...i know this is basically  frowned upon in healthy blog world but this is defiantly my vice,as well as chocolate with being super super healthy. But hey no one is perfect.

I did just snack on a slice of bread with 1/2 an avocado and chipolte sauce! super yummy and the drink was a much needed tall, skinny, hazelnut latte with an extra shot...what can i say i like my coffee like i like my men...strong. haha i kid.

My dad has company coming over so he is grilling( my dad wants to be a pit master when he retires) and the husband is vegetarian like me!! So this means he is grilling portobello mushrooms which are awesome grilled ill come back with pictures but for now ill leave you a picture of me and my boy.

 We just celebrated a year and i made sticky rice,wasabi, ahi tuna, miso soup,and all the fixings for sushi and we rolled up sushi together. That is the picture with the whole set up. 

Fun fact. he was the one to push me to make this blog.

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