The Exclusive Insider’s Look Into My Life! Part #2

Hey My Banana Cream Pies! 😀

How was your Easter?! Mine was truly amazing. 🙂 Astonishingly, I DIDN’T do any baking on Easter! I know – shocker!! 🙂 But, no worries — I made some cookies for my mom Saturday night, so I’ll be sane. 😉

Thanks for all of your loving support and wonderful comments on my last posts! You guys mean so much to me! 🙂 I’m glad you guys enjoyed Part 1 of My Life. And before I continue with Part 2, I wanted to thank Wendy, Kayla, and Ann Claire for all suggesting I do a Day-In-The-Life-Of-Kathleen Post. Thank you my darlings! 🙂 This is so much fun! Maybe I should join the WIAW crew! 🙂

And Now—

My Life: Continued. 🙂

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SCHOOL/CLASSES

3 pm-ish Snack (#4):

Usually fruit w/ nuts; Green Smoothie; roasted vegetables; veggies with hummus; or a Bananner with PEANUT BUTTAH! 🙂

This time I chose a Green Monsta. 🙂

Around this time (or right after lunch), I may get a nap too! SCORE! 🙂 Sometimes I get a nap in the morning. It’s really just if I have the time.

SCHOOL/CLASSES

Help with making dinner

Dinner(5:30-6pm ish):

My dinners consist of a protein, starch (brown rice, whole wheat pasta, sweet potato, reg potato), and VEGGIES.

One example is a big ‘ole plate of roasted cauliflower with whole wheat pasta, peas, carrots, and meatless meatballs! 🙂

YUM! The cauliflower and meatless meatballs had so much flavor that I didn’t need tomato sauce! 😀 Well, and, I don’t really care for pasta sauce on my cauliflower anyways.

Evening activities: Either School, Activities, Babysitting, Blogging, Reading, time with my family, or whatever! 🙂 I sometimes do some weight training in the evening, too. 🙂 A lot of my cardio workouts incorporate strength training in them already, so strength training isn’t something I worry about. Pilates is another one of my favorite wind-down activities. 🙂

You can’t NOT have dessert! 🙂

Dessert at around 8 pm (Meal #6):

How about some Nutty Apple Spice Cookies!

I’ll either have a piece of fruit, a couple cookies, a muffin, peanut butter cupcakes, a single lady pie, ounce of bakers chocolate, or whatever I’m in the mood for. 🙂 Sometimes, I just munch on some veggies.

Activities, whatever. Read, blog, (play a Nancy Drew game if I have one I haven’t conquered yet. ;))

BED TIME! 😀 (Varies from 10pm-12am) I’m still working on getting to bed earlier. It’s really hard to change my body clock. My mom has now set a limit to how late I can be on the computer, and that limit is 11pm. During Spring Break, haha, I was on the computer till 2AM most nights, either blogging or watching a movie on Netflix. Haha, not good, I know. Even though the 11pm rule may feel like a restriction, I am actually grateful for it — it allows me to work on getting to bed earlier! 😀

My Life

IMPORTANT! These pictures DON’T REALLY SHOW EVERYTHING I eat. Sometimes, when I have a day where I worked out SUPER HARD, I get into a very snacky-mood. So, I reach for more fruits (frozen strawberries are one of my favorites) and vegetables (like cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, whatever). 🙂 Think of me as a Rabbit. 😉

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How do I incorporate all of these lovely baked goods into my diet????

I’ll explain.

Are baked goods all that I eat? Definitely not.

Are they an addition to my diet? Well, not quite. When I eat baked goodies, it is a replacement of other food, and not an addition to what I normally eat. Like, for instance, if I make some muffins, I’ll view them as my grain for the meal, and such. Dessert Bars, well, dessert! 🙂 Pizzerts! Well, I’ll have that for ANY meal. 🙂 Breakfast, Lunch, OR Dinner. Doesn’t matter. 🙂

What I strive for is to balance out the baked goods in my diet. Baked goods do NOT have to be unhealthy for you. And eating healthy definitely does NOT have to taste bland. Healthy can taste like Almond Joys! Healthy can taste like Reese’s! Healthy can taste like cookies and cakes and pie!! You can stil enjoy the things you like, just in a healthier way. Find that balance within yourself. Eat your fruits and vegetables. Eat your whole grains, healthy fats, and lean proteins. Healthy is a way of life. Healthy is balance.

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Have you ever made your own pasta? I have. We have a pasta maker (and a wheat grinder, and a soymilk maker, AND a rice cooker), and it was so cool to watch it mix the dough and come out as pasta! PLUS, it only took a minute to cook — SCORE! 🙂 Though, I don’t think we should have doubled the recipe — it made a TON! 🙂

Do you like cauliflower with spaghetti sauce?

What time do you usually go to bed? My goal is to get to bed by 10 pm every night.

xoxox,

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