La Vida Fresca

I’m rather tired after such a long day, but there’s just enough time for a little recap before I pass out.

Today we hit up Yamato, a new Japanese steakhouse near us.

Kevin got the usual meat-noodle-rice-vegetable plate.

I would normally get something like that too except we had a pretty heavy dinner including noodles last night so I looked for something a little lighter/fresher.

I went with a gomaae salad (chilled cooked spinach with sesame sauce)

and a “Go Green” roll (rice, lettuce, carrots, and avocado wrapped in soy paper).

Here are food highlights from the rest of today’s foodings (the important stuff - not everything from today, but mostly everything):

After dinner (mine was a little too light) we picked up some treats. I got a huge coffee (x2 before the night was out!) and giant cinnamon pecan roll. The roll definitely looked bigger in real life.

And this was earlier (almond raisin granola, strawberries, and nonfat plain yogurt).

I also squeezed in 20-something minutes of Yoga for Runners today.

Well, I’m exhausted. I hope everyone is having a great weekend. Night!

For some reason, we ended up having a marathon night of making three different stir-fry dishes throughout the evening.

First, Kevin wasn’t hungry when he got home (and neither was I, really) and our niece, Lil’ B-rit, came over and she ended up making herself some stir-fried broccoli with garlic and oyster sauce and white rice. She wanted me to post these photos. :-) The photo on the right is hers.

Kevin worked on a video outside this evening and was hungry when he came in and saw B-rit’s dinner. Then B-rit  and I (well, mostly it was her) proceeded to make him a chicken-broccoli-mushroom stir-fry and some more rice.

Then B-rit said it was too bad we didn’t have any of that “peanut sauce” dish that I make, which is what I intended to make for dinner in the first place (!). By that time it was getting kind of late and she was still a little hungry after eating her small stir-fry, so that’s what we made (photo at top).

Just broccoli, carrots, sugar snap peas, and a sauce made with soy sauce, peanut butter, and oyster sauce. And of course noodles and toasted sesame seeds. Mmm.

Other eats today: brunch was plain nonfat yogurt with Kashi GOLEAN Crunch and strawberries

lunch was 1.5 whole wheat pitas (this plus another half) with romaine, squash, zucchini, onion, thousand island, and lots and lots of jalapenos (added more after photo)

and there were more samplings of treats from yesterday’s grocery run as well as a whole pot of coffee with about half of a 14-ounce bottle of half and half. Good thing it’s Friday.

Oh yeah, and Kevin got me this blueberry scone from Panera Bread while he was out and about late this afternoon. I had half. So far :-) There may be a little fruit in the mix here before the night is over. And definitely some tea.

It seems like an eternity ago now, but I did get a morning workout in. Quick but sufficient for a mini-workout of sorts. I walked for 10 minutes, jogged for five, and walked on a steep incline for five more. I’m babying my shins and had no intention of running today but it is so hard for me to get on a treadmill and just walk.

Then I did some upper body lifting and core work for about 20 minutes. I didn’t think I did anything too crazy as far as lifting went but I had this surprise moment later in the morning when I had difficulty lifting up my coffee cup. I guess I did wear out my arms a little.

Well, that’s all the uber exciting news for today, folks. Good night!