Sunday, January 11, 2009

Bon arès-midi! It's been a lazy morning chez Ari et Katie... we slept until 10:40, which hasn't happened in I don't know how long! It's kind of a nice change, although I do feel like I missed out a little on my day considering I have to be at work in five hours. Oh well! Let's backtrack.

Yesterday I had an amazing workout at the gym.

20:00 minutes stairmaster
13:00 minutes bike
10:00 more minutes on the stairmaster (I found a new magazine I wanted to read, which really makes all the difference)

arm machines (shortened to two instead of four; the gym was very crowded)

ab series (no plank)

I used my HRM Andrea-style and kept it on the whole time I was active (machines, stretching, abs, etc), and burned a whopping 600 calories in 1 hour and 8 minutes. Woohoo!


I was pretty hungry after my workout, so I headed to Whole Foods and bee-lined to the salad bar. I filled up the bottom with mixed greens, then proceeded to try every form of fake meat there: plain baked tofu, Indian curry tofu, seitan something, etc. I can't remember everything, sorry! I also had two dumplings, couscous, and this amazing fig and dandelion salad. I love figs!


Although I wasn't exactly hungry, I finished off "lunch" (at 4!) with a ThinkThin Brownie Crunch bar (sorry for the blurry pic, I took it on a moving subway car) so I wouldn't be ravenous throughout my work shift. I've put off trying these bars before because 1) the name kind of puts me off, and 2) they're pricey! I had a coupon for .50 off so I sucked it up and bought it. It was pretty good, although I'm not entirely sure why "glycerin" needs to be on the ingredients list.


I had some goldfish and white chocolate (blegh!) nibbles throughout work, and champagne for my shift drink.

I ordered a spicy tuna handroll:



And this is what's left of my Crispy Crunchy Salad. I was so hungry I forgot to take a picture!


Usual breakfast cookie this morning, although it was 36 hours old, so it was actually kind of hard like a cookie!


Gotta go, busy day. I'll catch up on your blogs tonight!

10 comments:

Laura said...

Great workout!

I haven't been to the WF bar in a long time. I may have to plan that for dinner one night. They always have so much good stuff on there!

Trying To Heal said...

what a great day!

i'm jealous of the wf bar experience...too bad that now the nearest one is freak'n over an hour away!

Caroline said...

Crazy workout- go girl!
Can't beat WF bar! So delish Enjoy your sunday my dear

Anonymous said...

Woah! That's a great workout!! WF bar is the best way to refuel in my opinion :)

Have a great Sunday!

LizNoVeggieGirl said...

Haha!! I always look forward to your French/English openings to your posts :-D

Faaaabulous workout and eats!!

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Anonymous said...

Awesome workout! I love Whole Foods!! Hope you had a great day!

Anonymous said...

wow, that's some workout! too bad i'm lacking motivation lately because yours sounded so fulfilling!

oh, and delicious eats as always- especially that wf salad bar! def. a favorite of mine.

Amira said...

fantastic workout, sounds great!
What a cool sounding salad, i've never tried dandelion but always wanted too
love your smiley face breakfast cookie, so cute!

Em said...

great workout and great eats girl!