Nutrition Podcasts

I can’t believe the week is almost over! I had a great day at work. That is awesome considering today marks the start of one of my busiest seasons at work. I guess I just needed a change of pace and getting away from my desk most of the morning felt good. The day flew by! I always had something to keep me busy and I kind of thrive on that, as long as I am not too stressed out.

I’ve been listening to nutrition podcasts on my way to work lately (all pictures were taken at stoplights, not while the car was moving) and while this one hasn’t impressed me yet:

There just has been mostly promoting of the podcast author’s books and her being apologetic for not podcasting for a while. I haven’t learned much at all quite yet!

This one did impress me today! The subject was “The Dark Side of Soy.” I can’t wait to keep listening. I kind of like the speaker’s voice though because she’s from Minnesota and I find her Midwestern accent soothing. I know, I am weird.

They were cautioning using soy for menopausal treatment and eating too much of it in general.

Do you ever listen to nutrition/fitness or other podcasts? Any favorites? I like language podcasts too. I am sort of a language geek though.

While I lived in Switzerland, I missed hearing the English language, so I used to listen to podcasts on my iBook each night. I looked forward to it while having dinner most evenings.

Back to last night–I did go to the gym and I lifted some weights and ran/walked on the treadmill. I set an incline on the treadmill to sort of prepare for Sunday’s 10K run. I did pretty well with the hills! I guess I am used to them from living in San Francisco and running two half-marathons and Bay to Breakers there.

After the gym, I needed a quick dinner, so I had a veggie masala burger on whole wheat bread with spinach.

Dessert was Stonyfield vanilla yogurt with berries, which is what I had for breakfast this morning too. One of the strawberries was from our garden and it just smelled so delicious!

Right before we went to bed last night, Craig and I went for a nighttime walk. It was fun to walk under the street lights. Kind of romantic too!

Today

Breakfast was Stonyfield Vanilla yogurt with strawberries and blueberries. This was exactly what I wanted!

Lunch was a nice potluck one at work. I brought the veggies. I haven’t purchased baby carrots in ages, but they were easier to just bring instead of preparing some for the lunch.

This was our wonderful spread of food. I had turkey meatloaf, fruit, carrot cake (heavenly), gummies, doughnut holes, veggies, and pasta salad. We had a celebratory goodbye lunch for a volunteer that has been in our department for years. It was sad to hear her reminisce about her wonderful time at my workplace.

Clearly I am feeling better today because I enjoyed a nice big plate of food and wasn’t too worried about what I ate. Sometimes when I get sick like I have been the last couple of days, I am ravenous for the next couple of days. I swear it’s because my body isn’t processing food correctly or something and then it craves all of these nutrients.

After work, I was trying my hardest to make it to Zumba class at 5, but due to a baseball game, I had to take the long way home. I just decided to take a rest day because I usually do on Wednesdays anyway. Craig and I went on a walk around the neighborhood instead.

Dinner was late and quickly made-the pizza bagel with basil, bruschetta sauce, pizza sauce, and provolone cheese.

Time to go read some blogs and then call it a night!

“Mother Nature is Trying to Kill Us!”

Yeah, that title pretty much sums up yesterday evening.

Before braving going out in nature, we made these lovely pizza bagels using pizza sauce, Bruschetta from TJ’s, provolone cheese, basil and roma tomatoes.

This was a quick and easy meal–great for a busy weeknight. Probably not the healthiest with the normal (not thin) bagel, but we had to use them up because I got a bunch of plain bagels free at work last week.

After digesting and looking at some new kindle books, including this one that was free and looks quite good…

…we went to Boerner Botanical Gardens, where we were married almost two years ago. Going back there, I always get the feeling that we chose the perfect place to get married in. I am glad we didn’t just get pictures taken there, as many brides and grooms do.

This was my “aisle.”

I took lots of pictures of the rose garden area, our ceremony site.

I liked that these signs and flowers were right next to where we said our vows.

Where I became a Mrs.! And yes, I do have a hitchhiker’s thumb, thanks to my daddy’s genes.

Then it was off to hike around the Whitnall Park pond, which is right near Boerner Botanical Gardens. Yeah, not a good idea to go hike in the woods when it is sunset I guess. I think summing everything up in bullets is the best way to describe what happened because I wasn’t able to take pictures of our adventure until the end.

-First, there was a robin on the trail who wouldn’t leave us alone. He was just super friendly and cute.
-The bugs were getting really bad and buzzing around our heads. We were flailing our hands above us and then we started running on the trail. I love trail running, but this was the “survival” kind to avoid the bugs.
-At one point, I was leading the way on the trail and concentrating so much on not spraining my ankle or falling, so I was looking down. Craig yelled “Lisa stop!” He didn’t explain why I should stop and I looked up to see a big deer on the trail. I was about 10-15 feet away from running straight into it!
-And then there was another deer about 5 minutes later. This time it was a big buck.
-This is where it gets gross. Craig had a bug fly in his mouth. I have had this happen once and it was not pleasant. Anyway, Craig was pretty disgusted by this and we got off the trail and walked out by the Wehr Nature Center.
-We had to walk on a road to get back to our car and towards the end, there were geese with their babies on the side of the road. We stayed on the same side as them until one of them started hissing at us and looked very threatening. Trust me, I love birds, but I was scared when the hissing began. I thought for sure the one goose was going to chase us and bite our butts.

Evil goose is right behind the street sign. Yes, he is still watching me very closely at this point.

-This is when the quote that is the title of my post was blurted out by Craig. I really felt like everything was against us doing this hike and it was time to call it quits and get one of these at Kopps.

I had Orange Dream and Craig had vanilla.

Aaah, that made everything feel better. We had quite the adventure last night, but those kind of funny things make great memories! We’ll never forget what happened and will probably reminisce every time we go back to Whitnall Park pond.

Back tomorrow with today’s recap! I am behind on my posts, but today just flew by and we were gone for a lot of the day.

How has your holiday weekend been? We went to a cookout today and tomorrow, I am debating whether or not to go to the outlets with my mom. So glad for another day off, but I feel like I didn’t get everything done that I wanted to this weekend.