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The first long week after a bunch of short ones is hard!

Thursday night’s snacks:

• 1 cup TJ’s high fiber cereal
• 1.5 walnut BSI muffins

I just wanted to share two really sweet posts that I read recently.  This is why I love blogging so much – there are tons of truly inspirational people out there.

• The first was Madison’s (just found her blog recently) – she reached 100 days of not bingeing!  So fantastic.
• The second was Angela’s post @ Oh She Glows – she has such positive energy and she wrote about how happiness is contagious.

Yesterday morning I got up and did 2 20-minute yoga sessions – Power Vinyasa Flow #4 and Solar Flow #1.  They are both from yogadownload.com and I hadn’t tried either one before.  Both were great.  I plan on checking out yogatoday.com at some point this weekend so be sure to stop back for a review of that as well.

Breakfast yesterday was something different!  This mix was…

• 1.25 cups of TJ’s high fiber cereal
• 1 cup of vanilla almond milk
• a big banana

I also had the apple, but had to wait almost 2 hours before eating it – the cereal was so filling!  I think it may replace the oats for a while because oats have been failing me recently on the fullness factor.

For lunch I was supposed to have free lunch at work… but by the time I got back from my walk it was all gone!  Instead I grabbed some stuff I happened to have on hand:

• Chocolate Jocolat bar
• Dannon yogurt (I don’t really care for these but it was all I had…)
• an apple (free from work)

Confession: this is the first time I ever had a Larabar!  (Well, Jocolat bar.)  It was decent!  Very very filling.  I think I might prefer my Zbars just because they are more like a cookie/brownie.  But it was still good.  I used to eat the Clif Nectar Bars all the time and I would say those are similar – but I actually prefer the Nectar Bars over this Jocolat bar.

I had another Larabar for a snack – Peanut Butter Cookie!  This one was quite delicious.  I like it better than the Chocolate one.  I love the ingredients: Dates, Peanuts, Salt.  How awesome is that?  I also had an apple on the side.

For dinner we went to Vietnamese (Pho Vi Hoa – best Vietnamese place ever).  Bobby and I shared these two salads:

• Papaya Salad
• Lotus Root Salad with Fried tofu

I also had some of his (unpictured) pho, which is beef noodle soup.  I had lots of broth, veggies, and a few bites of the lean beef.  It’s quite delicious.

For dessert I went all out again:

• 1 chopped apple, 2/3 of a mushy banana
• lots of whipped cream
• 1-2 T of pumpkin pecan butter from Williams Sonoma

And I went back for another apple with some whipped cream and a tablespoon of almond butter (unpictured).  I’m kind of sad – I finished the can of whipped cream in 3 days so now I have none.  I’m kind of a whipped cream addict when I get it, so it always goes very quickly.

Happy Saturday!  Today I’m going to do our Christmas cards and I’m SO excited because this is the first year that we’re doing them!  Do you guys send out Christmas cards?

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