My Story

I wrote a huge post but then it all kerplunked and something messed up so instead i will tell you my story.

Growing up i was "chubby" never fat per say but definitely a lil chubster, but who isn't elementary/middle school. Prob in 7th grade my family decided to go on the south beach diet. This is the year all the crazes came in like Atkins and such, but my mom searched high and low for a good diet that would teach us how to eat. I liked to eat a bag of Doritos or lays when i got home. I did not have to do the diet since i wasn't large. but i was gun ho about it so i did it.the first two weeks sucked (during valentines day) and i couldn't eat any sugar.

Once my family got into the matinence part i became obsessed with what was "healthy" and my mom is always everything in moderation. But being a teen and seeing models i was positive she was wrong. so i ate very very little. Never did i have an eating disorder but i def had bad eating rules. then i believe my lowest weight was 93lbs and i was about 5'5" or so. I would also during the summer ride my bike for hours,and hours to burn calories,as well as walking hours,and counting calories like crazy. 

The thing that stopped this crazy eating was XC i joined in high school after a couple of months i realized what i was eating was not enough. This team would run 45min on an easy day going at max a 9 min mile! any slower and he would yell or make you do about 100 push ups. I finally started eating healthier and got up to a better weight. I loved this team it was hard.very hard but the girls cross country made it 4th place in states my first year on varsity and then 2nd place my second year on varsity. we would run everyday and were given a rest day every other Sunday, with weights,medicine ball or a serious plank workout after each run. I was my healthiest then.

The summer going into 11th grade, my rents tell my sisters and i we are moving to west palm beach. of course scared about the beaches i worked out a lot and joined a gym.we moved and i joined the cross country team again(which was the most lax team i could of ever imagined) I gained some weight over my 11th grade year , i meet friends and started partying and having a great time, but never thought of what it would do to my tummy. That summer i took senior pics and when i got them i was surprised that i looked chubby. I also started dating he boy in 11th grade so my eating habits started being his eating habits...junk food.

i was signed to a modeling agency, so being chubby=no jobs. I was determined lose weight the right way. I quit XC and  started running like the old days at least 45min doing a 9min mile pace. But i got bored of just running so i joined LA fitness and do workouts when i can, i love the classes. I dropped 15lbs, over a couple months and now am keeping the weight off. 

these are now my eating habits

• eat when i am hungry
• when i want chocolate i have a lil piece, or big depending on how bad i want it
• eat whole foods, mostly unprocessed.(the only thing i eat that isn't grown from the ground is baking goods,chocolate,protein shakes,protein bar...luna's wcm 
• no meat except seafood, i love it. I have read books about meat that have freaked me out so right now i am staying away from it
• i keep a general calorie count in my head
• eat everything in moderation(moms right..dont you just hate it)
• not to stress if i indulge, i only got one life so i am going to live it to the fullest

Sims 3

Hey everyone i will try to post a post today if not tomorrow will be large so be prepared.

but at this moment i am trying to download SIMS 3. It seems like super fun, def where i am with all these summer showers EVERYDAY! so thats what i am up to.

Jenny is having a give away,(but i don't think anyone can enter it anymore)....haha i kid, i just want to win! haha but really it closes sunday.

talk to you soon...actually i will prob be commenting on blogs, if you cant tell i am very anxious i have been deciding if i want to load this for about a month four more hours.lol

also gluten free gidget giveaway

odd body clock

Happy Sunday Everyone! 

So today I have had a late start but i did go to the gym to do a body plus class! very nice did a lot of strength but moved a lot to keep heart rate up!

After I went to fresh market to start buying Dad day gifts. My dad love love loves spicy food, and peanuts. So for a little gift i got him some wasabi peas, and Buffalo peanuts. Later i plan on getting him a starting running book since he want to become more active.

I also stole a PB pretzel and papaya spear

Once home I was STARVING! So i made a refreshing salad with black beans,corn, and Buffalo wing sauce as dressing, o and a lil cheese. Then a English muffin with jam and tuffuti Cream cheese.(not pictured i scarfed it down :) 

I also made a baby sitter flyer for extra money during the summer, no one around me is hiring :(

I tried to show it up here but it says...

"Need a dependable, happy Baby sitter to watch your kid(s)? Call me for day and/or night babysitting. They wont be just watching TV all day will, play out side, color. Will make healthy  meals. 

CALL TODAY TO SEE HOW I CAN MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER!

     CPR CERTIFIED

     HIGH School honors Graduate

     Have 7yr old sister

     Wont bore your kids!"

QUESTION: what do you think of the flyer info? need to change anything? Add anything?

The picture cracks me up!

I do not know why but I do not get hungry till later in the day! Granted i wake up and grab a bite of food and coffee go work out, then come back and make a smaller meal(because thats all my body needs) and i do not get hungry for a while. It is now ALmost 4! Now i do munch here and there on animal crackers. maybe that is it. My body just has a weird time clock, im trying to stick with the intuitive eating and eat what i want when i need food. I guess i'll see how the rest of my day goes but i don't want to under eat. Sorry this is kindda a weird rant. But im just confused and had to write it out. 

Thanks for reading!!! 

almost forgot to title it

Quick Post going to try to make this blog pretty or something.

Lunch:

sweet potato and a little crust off of zoe pizza

Dinner

Today the boy and i decided to go shot some hoops, and i do not know where all my skills went. I played point guard in 3rd-6th or 7th grade dominating but now i can barley make a close shot and I'm 5'8?! Then next to me is a 6foot 2" boy making every 3point shot.haha it was pretty funny and we made a game out of it, he would throw 3pointers and if he missed it i would go for the rebound (a.k.a. easy shot) and whoever reached 20 first one. the score was 16 to 20...the boy won. 

we got home it was 5 and i was getting sooooo hungry but we decided to get Chinese so i waited(munched on some animal crackers) I got the diet special -

steamed SCALLOPS and mixed veggies had probs 1/2 cup of the yummy white rice , some of the brown sauce

then went for seconds (on only veggies and some of that brown sauce)

ate a fortune cookie that said something like brooms find dirty dust...something very bizarre.

and had some dessert natural bryers ice cream with small banana it only has 5 ingredients for 130 half a cup! yummm

giveaway:mix my granola

reviews and costco

The rest of yesterday i long boarded to blockbuster to drop off "how to lose a guy in ten days" and it was a sight. picture me in a knee length skirt and lacy tank long boarding haha. but lots of fun.

Lunch was:

heart thrive date flavor, kiwi( and another one), lil bit of cheese, and a blackberry/blueberry smoothie. I was craving a lot of things so i made a plate full. i also had a brownie(unpictured)

Review: Heart Thrive date

INGREDIENTS

OATS, DATES, BROWN RICE SYRUP, BROWN RICE FLOUR, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SOY FLOUR, INULIN (CHICORY ROOT EXTRACT), RICE BRAN, NATURAL FRUIT JUICE, DRIED PLUMS, DRIED APPLES, DRIED PEARS, CALCIUM CITRATE, GINGER, CINNAMON. 

Nutritional Info: per heart: calories-158, fat Cal-13, fiber-5g, protein-6g and calcium 189mg

VERDICT: this was sooooo yummy it did taste healthier cake. like a dense date cake. chewy,dense,moistish. this heart is thick and not a wimpy serving at all. It did keep me satisfied i didnt eat untll 5 hours later, granted i was hungry 4 hours later but was fine.

So yesterday at 5 the boy and i decided to go to the beach, and yes it was storming but we thought it would stop by the time we got there....

We were wrong! hahaha but i did snag some video of the boy and his friends skimming but as you can tell from the pic i got chilly and decided to read my fitness magazine!

after the beach my tummy was grumbling so i made a small sweet potato w/light sour cream and PB and a boca vegan burger! 5 for $10!!! score!!!

 review for bocaburger vegan

Ingredients: WATER, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, WHEAT GLUTEN, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF METHYLCELLULOSE, SALT, CARAMEL COLOR, DRIED ONIONS, YEAST EXTRACT, SESAME OIL, HYDROLYZED WHEAT PROTEIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR (NON-MEAT), DISODIUM GUANYLATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE. CONTAINS: SOY, WHEAT, SESAME.

nutritional info- per patty. calories-70, cals from fat-5, dietary fiber-4, protein- 13!

Verdict? this was yummy and has a lot of protein for such small amount of calories, i think i will be using two pattys for a burger in the future. It tasted like well done burger but not as juicy. I would defiantly buy this flavor again. taste like a burger and it doesn't have veggie chunks in it, which i like because i was feeling burger without meat.

     4 out of 5 because of the skimpy size.

We went to a friends house and the boys decided to play poker at 12! i some hoe passed out in all the ruckus and was woken up at 4am. zoey got second place in poker!!!!

No workout this morning but i do plan on walking a lot today/cleaning randomly. 

 For some odd reason my hunger has been very small the past couple days and i do eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm satisfied. but this morning i was not hungry at all but after cleaning the kitch and living room i grabbed an apricot heart thrive warmed it up and put a lil dab of PB.

i also had a couple bites of my sisters apple turnover. :) 

I went to Costco today with zoe to get his mom an ipod touch. I also took a picture of the bar aisle

pure protein,larabars,trio bars, go lean,cliff,zone,cliff kids and mucho more! 

Now i am just waiting to get hungry so i can make sweet potato fries.haha

QUESTION! what is the diff between whey and egg white protein? i love jay Robb's vanilla but i want to buy a whole cartoon instead of the pouches. I just do not know what to buy or which one is better for you or if they even are diff. 

give away: holey doughnuts 

dad cookies

of course the zesty blog giveaway!

double whammy!

 remember that TV game show?

WHAMMY 1: chocolate lovers and taste of the west festival.

this is 1/2 of a row! there were at least 5 more! busy  packed mean hungry people. one lady snapped at me bc i "cut" the line but i didn't there was a longgggg line for other restaurants but i just wanted natures table but she was so mean that i left :( o well i didn't need it

I will let my pictures do the talking but there 32 different chocolate/ice cream/restaurants giving away large "samples" of food me and Zoe went to approx 12! and i didn't eat to to much def my fair share of chocolate. There was a lot of BBQ which of course i didn't par take it. some of the restaurants were

• calif pizza kitchen( Thai salad)

• Philly connection (zoey really liked their wings)

• Golden corral (no picture) but they had my favorite thing there, it was this kinda sweet roll i ate the whole thing soooo good i want more!
• Rita's ( i got smores only ate a couple bits zoe got mango)

• ronneys sports bar had a pesto ravioli i had half it was really really good but very rich.
• whole foods! giving away chocolate and cheesecake layered cake i didn't have any i was full!

• publix giving away samples of these beauty's

• and this was from some bakery  it was peanut butter mousse over white chocolate pieces and a dark chocolate "boat" with a piece of strawberry on top...i had half 

•  there was two of these
  

• other restaurants panera,Starbucks,gelota stick, jimmy johns, Hoffman's chocolate, pizza
• and also competitions for cake decorating

• i also brought along with me little Ziploc bags to bring Zoe's fam baking goods home, zoe laughed at me for this but i think it was pure genius! this was one of three bags full of goodies i couldn't eat i was sooo full!

zoey was stuffed as well

whew longgggg but funny. all these people seemed like they haven't eaten for days they were so aggressive me and Zoe just were chillen taking our time gong to only places we felt like. and i guess some one tripped over me or i did something to make someone trip...i don't know what happened i was in THE ZONE!  but zoe told me a lady exclaimed to a security man " i know it was the girl in the yellow!" nothing happened but it made me laugh people were hatting on me

WHAMMY 2: *drummmmm rollllllll* 

My secret blogger package came from Julie at striving for balance!

  She is such a sweetheart and defiantly spoiled me! I was giggling like a little girl on Christmas when i saw the package at my door! I brought it to my room and grabbed my camera turned it on and then it ran out of battery! AHHHHHHHHH i charged it for a couple minutes while i opened this glorious package. then took pictures of everything. I then proceeded to call my boy and exclaimed that my blogging present came! he laughed and told me to bring it over. no more wait look what i got...

this is what i saw when i opened it! lovely

Julie put little post-its on the items which i thought was soo nice and made me giggle. ok this is what i got

• green & blacks organic milk chocolate bar! (love chocolate and G&B has the most creamy milk that i absolutely love)
• Heart Thrive in apricot and date! ( amazing! ever since seeing these on others blogs i have been wanting them so badly since they are no where in sight in west palm beach sad) 
• mix my granola coupon, had a post it that said " don't be scared of granola! you can make your own healthy version"( i am pretty pumped to go and make granola)
• larabars apple pie and cocoa mole (yummmmer i have yet to try apple pie and i love pie!) 
• think thin brownie crunch ( chocolate? high protein? sign me up!!!)
• mojo dipped choco peanut( i love love this bar...i have had it only once)
• BARNEY BUTTER ( i do not like regular almond butter bc its too grainy but this almond butter is SPECTACULAR  it still does the sticky PB effect but has almond, glorious!)

 Now that was picture ONE out of THREE!

• fitness mag ( i love all magazines and this one looks like fun to read on the elliptical/by the pool) 
• Sparkle candle( i love candles when i want some me time and relax!)
• lotion and body spray fresh cherry ( i adore the smell, its summery and fresh)

Now Picture THREE!

peanut butter...chocolate...brownies! Look at those swirls! i had one already haha after brekkie and it was sooo good,fudgey(just the way i like my brownies), full of chocolate and peanut buttery flavor. defiantly the best brownies!!!!!

she also sent me a card that was very nice and made me smile. after showing my boy my package he says "wow there are Nicole's all over the USA) because he knows i love sharing healthy food and giving people presents just bc and making baking goods and etc. basically what the blogging community does.

This was more then i expected! i am so lucky, thank you so much Julie! you made my day!

Morning before the package arrived

  I went to body plus class  and usually it is really hard and I'm sweating after but today i had a new lady and instead of sweating it just hurt really good doing endurance muscle things with weights and a lot of repetition. It was a nice change

coming home i was going to make a smoothie but instead i made a salad (no picture my phone is dead and charging.) but it was just spinach,bbq sauce, corn,black beans. simple but large and a brownie, and couple pretzels 

the rest of the day i am going to be chillaxing with my boy and partying with some friends at night! I am very excited that summer is here!

givaway : chocolate covered katie

health, happiness and hope

new obsession

First things first. giveaway notices

• missy maintains is having one for coffee/protein drink
• honey nut lo needs support for her challenge!
• Krista's kravings is haveing a full bar giveaway
• healthy on the run is having a bar giveaway

from now on i am really going to start trying to blog everyday because i love blogging. I have been just so busy but blogging is my "me" time where i can just relax and write about whatever i want to write about.

lets catch up 

• i have fallen in love with a protein powder... jay robbs vanilla whey/egg protein! This stuff smell like birthday cake, it is glorious. Now i am a huge choco lover but this stuff is awesome and so i made a smoothie.

Red raspberry cake smoothie

a lil over cup of raspberries

a couple peach slices(only had like a 1/2 cup left)

1/4 cup coconut flakes

packet of Jay Robb vanilla protein

3/4 cup of almond milk

topped with some homemade granola.

This is my favorite smoothie right now, i have had one every day and it keeps me full all morning. I usually have it after a workout or just when i need some thing refreshing.

• I am going to be selling a lot of my stuff i have not used online/craiglist/possibly ebay i will also put pictures on my blog if anyone is interested. I just have to start saving money before i moved to Miami. and there will be a wide range of things from a Louise vuitton laptop/book bag to sky dress to forever 21 top a tissue cashmere cardigan and random things every thing i will be selling though i have never worn and more then likely will still have its tag.
• Summer is going great! i love being a graduated high schooler. Its pretty neat. But i have finally started partying with my friends again which i love. Last night we went to a pool in a new neighborhood and we partied like rock stars,haha of course only soda ;) and then the boy and i went to WENDY'S haha i really needed some food/munchies and i was craving a plain baked potato with pepper and a lil f no fat sour cream. i ate only half then went to bed.
• I also tracked my package to my secret blogger and they should be getting it in two days!

Now on to today and some eats

brekkie

red raspberry cake smoothie

a lil handful of dried fruit one of my fav snackums

I am pretty full satisfied after this 

today's plan is to chill maybe mall, and then going to a chocolate/wine tasting/restaurant tasting festival at 4:30-8:00 i will be bringing my camera and snapping pictures