7:15 am – alarm goes off, hubby jumps in the shower, so I figure it’s time to get up, grab my phone and immediately get sucked into social media land. Whoops, productive way to start the day.
7:30 am – get out of bed, chug 16 ounces of water. I’m trying to make this a habit! Head downstairs to let the pup out and get coffee. Start my day with coffee, one scoop collagen, and half and half. Then I decided to get my cooking on, was in need of some veggies, bad!
8:00 am I knew I couldn’t wait for the breakfast I was cooking to be made and photographed, so I ate a protein bar.
8:30 am Quiche in the oven, so I finish up my post (Don’t Be Tricked! Foods That Seem Healthy)
9:30 am back in the kitchen, I decide to make roasted delicata squash and sweet potatoes to have on hand. So I get to prepping those and throw those in the oven.
10:00 am photograph foods yesterday’s How to make your own anti-inflammatory instant oats post!
Ten something am – knock an entire bottle of molasses onto the ground, guess we won’t be having to barbecue anything anytime soon
10:45 am photograph egg bake and potatoes, at some point while I was photographing I ate a flax ball (recipe to share soon)
11:30 am clean up everything
11:45 am respond to blog comments and messages, then head upstairs to put on real clothes and makeup
12:15 pm eat lunch the egg bake and delicata squash after I had that I had half a banana with a teaspoon of nutzo because I was still hungry (not pictured)
12;30 pm start oatmeal post
1:00 pm skype with my sister in law who helps me with food site submissions, get to see my 10-month-old nephew 🙂
2:00 pm check email
2:45 pm start working on this post
3:15 pm eat peanut butter yogurt with a half of an apple
3:45 pm head upstairs to edit photos
5:15 pm start dinner – I made salmon and planned to eat sweet potato rounds for me but Mr. Hungry doesn’t like sweet potatoes, so I used the side of the box recipe to make quinoa pilaf for him. (I doubled the recipe and froze half.)
5:45 pm change into jammies and shower, continue messing around in the kitchen
6:15 pm have dinner- Salmon, sweet potato and large salad with goat cheese and TJ’s Champagne vinaigrette. I’m all about big dinners, when I eat big dinners I don’t snack, it works much better for me. If I eat a puny small dinner, I end up with a snack or two or there or four. It’s stupid, so now I just eat a big filling dinner (not over filling but good size) on a big plate.
6:45pm clean up dinner
7:00pm back to work – finishing up The Anti- Inflammatory Oatmeal Packs
8:00 pm update old posts – worked on this 35 Healthy Snacks Post
9:00 pm head up stairs, plan next day and get ready for bed. Since my hormones returned with a vengeance, I’ve had hormonal acne like a teenager. It’s been real fun y’all. So I wash my face and then douse it with as many anti-acne chemicals as I can find. I’ve also tried to be really good about keeping up with cuticle oil and lotion, so my cuticles don’t peel down the side of my hands like they used too. Any tips for keeping hormonal acne under control would be much appreciated.
9:30 pm lights out!
Overall, I felt like it was a decent day of eats. Plenty of protein and produce, so that’s always a win! I definitely don’t love starting my day with a protein bar, but sometimes it happens. It’s fine, I’m sure I’ll live! Lot’s to do on the to do list today. I’m trying to make a huge effort
Lot’s to do on the to do list today. I’m trying to make a huge effort to stick to my list. Only check email and social media when necessary. Get. stuff. done. I feel like I’ve been super unmotivated since the holidays and it’s taken me all week to get back my mojo! Appointment with my chiropractor tonight as well, heres to hoping working out comes back soon!
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Ooh, I always love reading these “day-in-the-life” posts from nutritional bloggers! It gives me lots of inspiration for my own eating. Is it pretty typical for you to have lots of smaller “snacky” type things in the morning? I tend to do that too, and I’m wondering if there’s any pros or cons to doing one main breakfast vs. 3 little snacks throughout the morning as I get hungry. I used to be a huge breakfast person in college when I was swimming, and now that I’m not a college athlete anymore, I don’t need as much of a breakfast! Thanks!
Hey Kelsey, welcome! These posts were the most requested on my end of the year survey so I’m trying to make them a regular thing! I’m so happy you enjoy it! I’d say for myself personally, it’s about 50/50. If I’m working out in the morning I tend to be ready for a big giant smoothie or huge plate of eggs after. If I’m not working out I’m much less hungry in the morning. So that kind of goes along with what you said, morning workouts = hungrier in the morning. That being said, three little snacks before lunch might mean you need to beef that first one up and see how you feel. If you are getting hungry every hour or two then maybe it’s time to increase the size of breakfast? I try to aim for 3-4 hours and I coach my Hungry Hobby RD clients to do the same. Hope that helps!
You know what… I never even thought about my skin getting bad with my new hormones. I have the pityriasis rosea, so that is my body, and if my face breaks out… well, then I will officially be a leper. And not the cool kind, if there is one.
It’s so much fun, I wake up I have three more bumps on the middle of my nose. My husband affectionately calls me rudolph so we can be rudolph and the leper. It will be great, no one will want to be near us.
Come make dinner for me please?! Also girl I feel ya on the acne post hormonal regulation…I had never had pimples in my life until I got off BC and finally (after a year) got my cycle back! It will get better with time!
OMG THAT IS SO COMFORTING! Literally my face keeps breaking out so bad and I have no idea what to do!