Monday!
Breakfast I tried a smoothie!
1.5 scoops Pure Protein Chocolate Flavor ( 110 kcal a scoop-23g protein)$
1/4 c frozen blueberries
1 frozen banana
1 cup 1% milk
1/2 chobani plain,
1 T PB
1 tray ice cubes

I used my birthday present blender for the third time since last year and split the contents into two glasses ( one for me one for jeff). I also threw in some new Smart Start Strawberry Oat Bites …
Tasted Fantastic! But after running around with Matthew all morning, by 10:30 I was starving! The hunger went away but I scarfed down my orange and balance bar at lunch! I also had my green tea.

I also made an appointment for the orthopedic tomorrow… hoping I hear good news about my knee… its killing me and I hate that I can’t run!!!!! ( although walking without pain would be SUPER right now!)

I had a Welcome Back Dinner for grads and new grads in the nutrition program! We had 17 new grad students join the nutrition program this fall! How awesome! I hope I make some friends my age! I love all my current friends but none of them have the passion for nutrition and fitness as I do!
Dinner was eggplant parmesean, carrots, green beans, scalloped potatoes, salad with cucumber/carrot/tom. I had the apples from the apple pie dessert and the chocolate from the chocolate pie dessert! I am very picky about my desserts!

Horray for a little bit of sleeping in tomorrow!

Charleston Saturday-Sunday

Wow its so much to recap! Saturday morning I volunteered to walk/job to Bruggers three blocks away and get breakfast orders. I ordered a whole wheat bagel with smoked salmon and a coffee. During our jog I realized my knee was really messed up and felt super twisted. Really painful… I was glad to have to walk back with breakfasts! Once back to the hotel, I had an orange in addition to 2/3 the bagel, all of the salmon and my coffee.

It looked like rain late morning so we decided to do a Scavenger Hunt of Charleston! I highly recommend doing this for any city that is a historic/walking town! We had to get pictures of the hotel-mates in front of things like a canon…. a horse drawn carriage… a four leaf clover… a statue… a farmers market stand… a bad parking job..

Aside from sweating like pigs…It was hilarious and perfect to explore Charleston! We walked at least 5-6 miles in less than 1.5 hours!

Our end meeting place was Cupcake…. where we got delicious gourmet cupcakes! We took them to our lunch, King Street Grill- I ordered make your own salad.. The most perfect combination for me:
Mixed Greens with:
Broccoli
Hummus
Feta
Bell Peper
Hearts of Palm ( first time I ever ate them! Delicious!)
Blackened Grilled Chicken
I didnt use any dressing! The hummus and seasoning from the chicken was plenty!

We had to walk about 6 blocks back to the hotel, then we enjoyed our cupcakes! I also had the frosting off of a friends… hmm yum! Then we all decided we should burn off the cupcakes by strolling through the open air market! I didnt buy anything but it was great to look around! I wanted to head back over to King St. for more shopping at united colors of benniton, gap, ann taylor.. my hotel-mate Brittany came with me – what a trooper!! We went for another two hours in the rain!

Dinner was at Tommy Condons, I split the Turkey Reuben with the Bride to Be, we both got salads on the side too. Then it was off to a bar that used to be a church ( super cool!) and then to The Saloon! Bride to be and our party were called up onto the bar for dancing! How fun!

Sunday I woke up and could not move my knee! I think all the walking the day before really did me in… We ate next door to our hotel – I had old fashioned oatmeal,1/2 banana, rasins, and I asked for some peanut butter!! The waitress yelled at me for getting oatmeal… It was all I wanted though! We didnt eat a formal lunch- I had a V8, an apple from my survival tote, and then a few hours later I had the rest of my think bar!

Dinner at Jeff’s parents was so cute! His mom was making shrimp and grits ( im allergic to shellfish and they know it!) so they go “We should make you an omlet.. an egg white omlet, with tomatos and zuchinni and cheese .. how does that sound?” I was like “awww that is PERFECT! and too sweet!”….I had 2 small zuchinni cakes ( like potato pancakes but with shredded zuchinni, parmesean, garlic), a corn muffin, my 3 egg white omlet, and a piece of brownie after we did dishes!

Thursday- Friday

Friday August 15th: Charleston or Bust!! I was thinking of getting in a workout before Andrea’s bachelorette party but my knee hurt so BADLY during my yoga warmup that I decided to rest and pack. Breakfast was the same as all week, oatmeal (1/3 cup made with water) , banana w. pb, two egg whites (hb) and coffee!

Lunch… I had to be in the van by 1:30 so I grabbed a balance bar ( I tried not to have too much in the house because both Jeff and I were leaving friday for the weekend, dinner at his parents sunday evening, and I had a Welcome Back Grads Dinner Monday so I knew we werent going to need anything until Tuesday!)
and as I figured, we had tons of snacks for the car ride. How sweet is this… Andrea has only 2 maids ( her sister and her bf) and they got us all survival bags! A cute straw tote filled with:

• fresh fruit
• 100 calorie packs of craisins
• smart pop,
• pretzels
• motrin packets
• chapstick
• lotion
• airplane bottles of flavored vodka
• juice boxes,
• old navy flip flops
• AND .. her bf Rachelle is a sales rep for Chanel ( i know!) … she gave us all mini travel bags with samples! Love coco mademoiselle!

I ate the pretzels just after we got onto the highway ( i get a little motion sick and we had stopped a few times already to pick up people)… I ate half the craisins an hour later and a bite of a Think bar I brought with me!

Once we got to Charleston we headed over for dinner, I ordered a house salad and the sesame tuna appetizer! Perfect! We ate at the Crab House and then headed out to bars: Vendue Inn, The Winery, and Tsunami – I had two rum and diet cokes, plus two glasses of reisling at dinner! We did a ton of walking to all the bars so I think it helped burn off the extra alcohol calories!

Thursday August 14th: No running, my knee was still bothering me! I did some upper body strengthening and yoga again (30 minutes). We had to drop Jack off at Jeff’s parents for the weekend so it was super fun to catch up with them!