brought to you by the letter “s”

remember when you were little and watched sesame street and every episode was brought to you via some super awesome celebrity like bill cosby or someone cool like that a “letter of the day..”

well that’s what yesterday felt like for me

literally if my sunday were an episode of sesame street it would have been brought to you by the letter “s” and most likely the number zero.

sleep.

sleep was crucial for sunday. after waking up early early saturday to get in a workout before getting to work at the gym and then running errands all day and trying to catch up on my to-do list i felt like a beaten horse. just drained and death.

sick.

i woke up feeling like death oh and not to mention i looked like death too.

super blue fingers..

1/3c oatbran, 1/4c canned pumpkin, stevia+cinnamon+ppie spice, 1/2c frozen bberries, 1/4c egg beaters, 1tbsp+1tsp trader joes unsalted peanut butter

yes. playing around with frozen blueberries will turn your hands blue. possibly permanantly? i’ve washed my hands several times since breakfast and they’re still tinted blue.

oh well i guess i’ll be sporting blueish orange hands for a couple days.

slothicticity.

is that even a word? anyways i was ultra sloth today. and went i ran out for a few to restock the veggie crisper i saw way to many people i know in my death like looks.

so many veggies

…was the theme of my lunch

that my friends is an enormous bowl filled to the brim with cauliflower, brussel sprouts, green & red peppers, and not to mention shroomies.

…oh i’ll have a milton’s english muffin with cin+cottage cheese on the side.. if you’ve never had a milton’s english muffin you’re seriously missing out.

superbowl snackies!

deejy put out some sunday snacks including morningstar meatless wangs and chips with salsa & guac and in honor of the football game tonight she even used our oh-so-classy football shaped chip platter.

spaghetti squash + sawwwce

dinner featured a chicken breast baked in fiber bran flakes over a bed of spaghetti squash approx 2 cups worth with deej’s delicious homemade sauce. a side salad with a laughing cow wedge and some mustard+apple cider vinegar was found on the side obvi.

smoooooooothiez

 1.5c water, 1/2scoop biochem vanilla whey, 1/4c canned pumpkin, stevia, cinnamon, vanilla droplets + copious amounts of the gums. and a sprinkling of kash h to the hizzle.

eaten with a spoon no doubt.

i can’t get my mind off of smoothies. i want to use my xanthum gum every minute of the day.

be warned that overuse will cause belly air bubbles.

sunday night preparation

you got it people. that means i’m writing this last night. let’s see if it works! hopefully :)

hopefully by the time you will have read this i will have already hit the gym for spin, lifted some weights, showered at the gym, and headed out to work from the gym.

which means that in about 20 minutes i’ll be sleeeeping or 20 minutes ago last night being sunday.

 

question: if you could pick one letter that your sunday would have been sponsored by what would it be and why?

the after the day of conclusions.

hey guys! this is a day late. life kicked my butt big time this week and i’m feeling it today in a major way. blah!

thanks for all of your sweet words about my puppy. he’s doing much better but we think he has some serious brain damage even possible doggie dementia (currently he finds little crevices and sticks his head in them and just stands there facing the wall yep you heard right). but he’s definitely making good progress everyday!

i’m trying to adapt to my new schedule with interning 20 hours (mon, wed & friday), school the other two days (tues & thurs), working at the gym on saturdays & then fitting in workouts and school work in all the time that’s leftover.

so here it is a day late my conclusion saturday friday!

1. i’m too young for gray hair. yes i found my first gray hair. that is not okay in my book. which means i’ll be taking out a loan to get my roots done pronto.

2. i could eat seaweed salad & brown rice veggie rolls every day for the rest of my life

3. kay’s naturals should be sold in bulk, in stores, near me.

4. chopsticks are the only utensil i really ever feel like using.

…well that and my fingers..

5. adjusting my schedule is going to be very hard. and i’m trying very hard to maintain my cool while finding what works for me and getting everything i need to get done along with things that i want to get done.

6. i must have insane luck lately. winning giveaways that involve $50 gift cards to iherb & awesome bowls perfect for yoats in the same week makes me believe in the luck of the irish

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7. when pb2 goes out of stock and your order won’t be shipped for 3-6 weeks one must find other ways to make peanut butter poolz.

8. my google reader is running faster then me this week. can you guys palease slow down with your posting!

9. proper use of certain gums make heaven in a cup.

10. sometimes good leg workouts have to come on saturday instead of friday due to traffic on the commute home and lack of motivation

30 minutes treadmill run (intervals of 5.5mph, 6.0mph & 6.5mph at a 2% incline)

• leg press 4 sets

12 reps	50lbs
12 reps	60lbs
12 reps	70lbs
12 reps	80lbs

• circuit 3 times through

step ups	10lb free weights	15 reps each leg
barbell squats	30lb barbell	15 reps
good mornings	30lb barbell	15 reps

• sumo squat & leg raise 3 sets 15 (12lb bodybar)
• stability ball hamstring curl 3 sets 15 (bodyweight)

11. leaving extra early for work to make sure you get there on time sometimes leaves you in the lonely cafeteria by yourself with an over priced cup of coffee and 45 extra unpaid minutes to spare.

12. being 45 minutes early to work also means that i will be able to workout in the morning, shower & change at the gym and be able to make it to work on time, minus the over priced cup of coffee.

13. it also means that i must make this snappy so i can head out to trader joes to pick up the essentials for a week of planning ahead.

14. inhaling this colorful snack plate must happen before i do any of the above.

15. sometimes conclusion fridays have to come on saturdays when fridays don’t have enough hours in the day.

16. i’m being “un type A” and throwing in a number 16 to let you know that next week’s conclusions will be better.

what were your friday conclusions?

another 50 buck giveaway! don't enter i want to win..

whirlwind!

hi sunshines!

phew. you ever have those times in your life when like a bagillion different things just hit you all at once with a little mix of good and bad. well of course you do, you’re human. well i was feeling the wrath of that yesterday in a major way.

in a nut shell my doggie has epilepsy and over the past 48 hours he’s had a really bad spell. basically seized for 24 hours straight, in and out of the doctor & what not. we weren’t sure whether or not we were gonna lose him and to be honest we’re still not sure. he’s much better now but he’s been pretty much blind for 48 hours and we’re not sure if the constant seizing caused any major brain damage.

the good news? well right this minute he’s actually eating bananas and chicken. woop woop :) so we’re hoping he’ll be back in his lunatic ways soon enough :) prayers for jj please!

okay julie, debbie downer called and wants her attitude back right!

so on top of that my professors have felt the need to load on the work and classes have just barely started! what’s with that teach?

it’s a good thing i’m the obnoxious kid in the back of the classroom eating her snackies.

 

by the way, how mad are you that starbucks stopped making green ginger tea. yeah. the looseleaf tea bags are nice but can’t you make my green ginger in loose leaf too!?

it’s crap i tell ya.

could someone please tell me why on earth i’m the only student eating. it’s 6:30pm prime dinner time and i’ve got to feed the beast. does no one else?

creepy food picture taken via blackberry in class. when the professor asked us to tell him something random about ourselves i should have said: “i take pictures of my food.”

whatevs i have no shame munchin down on my wrap filled with love. also known as cottage cheese, hidden valley ranch seasoning, turkey, broccoli slaw, laughing cow & moostard.

on the other hand yesterday was my first official day of my internship. i had a meeting with human resources at 1pm so my boss just asked me to start after.

lunch on the go. literally.

because it’s always normal to bring a tupperware container of veggies in the car and take pictures of yourself eating them while driving on the belt parkway.

and then creepily eat your wrap in your car in the parking lot before going into your meeting.

it’s the italian flag! also known as tomato, cottage cheese & spinach.

work went great! i found out that the entire campus is connected indoors and it has a gorgeous view of the sheepshead bay with huge windows which are glorious to look out. after lapping the entire indoor campus about 10 times & doing all my new employee thang in new heels i was happy to get home at the end of the night rest my feet and enjoy a good hearty meal.

happy to see that deej read my tilapia mind,

and i did the usual thang and threw it in a bowl with the works. because hey it’s how i do.

& don’t worry i didn’t forget about working out with all that’s been going on.

20 minutes stairmill sesh similar to this workout + shoulders

• assisted chin ups 3 sets 10 (85lbs)
• incline front raises (palms facing in) 4 sets 15 (5lb free weights) superseded with upward rows 4 sets 10 (30lb barbell)
• side lateral raises 4 sets 15 (5lb free weights)

20 lazy minutes on the elliptical. supposedly brad & jen are back together…

of course i didn’t forget about smoothie staches either. or breakfast for that matter.

directions on how to be a sloppy mess.

make smoothie, take picture, wipe stache on clean sleeve.

awesome.

okay now that i’ve officially bored you to death. you win $1.5 million dollars for making it to the end of this post. too long. anyways.

love you all.

it’s going to be a little hard for me at first to keep up with my google reader especially with the new job, all my school work & everything else in between but i’m getting there! so i didn’t forget about you lovelies and i wanted to give a woop woop to all the new readers! i’m comin to creep on you soon ;)

stay tuned for friday conclusions ;) might be a little late because i have work tomorrow but hey better late then never right!

peace, love & chicken grease ;)

how do you find time to do everything you have to & a little bit of what you want to? aka work, school, gym & blog.

q&a installment one

hi guys :) remember when i asked if you had any questions pour moi? well some of you did! woo hoo.

so this shall be my julie golean q&a installment one.

yes that means there will be an installment dos. but i’ll give you fair warning in case you don’t wanna come back for more ;)

kristen from eatingRD asked what do i want to do with my masters?

well. i won’t lie. it has taken me a very long time to figure out what i want to do. after working for a non profit for a year (right out of college) and then losing that job due to financial matters, i felt super lost with life. i started researching masters programs and knew that i wanted to do something in the “third sector” even though i received my bachelors in finance i definitely knew i didn’t want to get into the banking industry. eventually i found a really great program at baruch in manhattan and was accepted into their school of public affairs. and er-go i’m currently in pursuit of my masters in public administration. what the heck does that mean. well the best part about this degree is that it’s limitless. i can work in nonprofit management, health care, public policy but my plan as of right now is to get into higher education administration. enter internship. just recently i interviewed and got an internship with a local (well not so local, about 1 and a half hour commute) in a local college to work as a development inern. exactly what i want to do. i’ll be working with fundraising, grants, and program development for the dean of development. very exciting. and some day i would like to be a dean in a college or university. so watch out your kids may be under my control some day ;)

krista from krista’s kravings asked me what’s my favorite color?

yellow babes! it’s so bright and cheerful :) although it’s not my favorite color to wear per say i just do love yellow as a color in general!

erica from itzy’s kitchen asked a very crucial question: who is my favorite housewife of all time & what season?

believe it or not this was probably the most difficult question to ask. i couldn’t think! but eventually i came up with my favorite housewife is definitely bethenny from new york. i just feel like i would want to hang out with her and jill. but. i do love jeana from orange county!  it’s so hard to decide! it’s SO hard to decide between seasons because they just serve many different purposes. i would like to say i look forward to the oc housewives the most though! what about you guys?!

and erica also made me name 5 foods i cannot live without. ugh this was hard. like so hard. but i came up with a few that i don’t think my life would be complete without.

1. cottage cheese. seriously this is solely due to the blog world. never in life did i think i would be saying “i like cottage cheese” but now i’m saying “i love cottage cheese” and i don’t think i could go a day without it.

2. apples! for sure apples are my favorite fruit in the whole world. i could eat 10 of them in a day. minimum

3. oat bran! the creamy fluffiness is something to be reckoned with and although it does require a lot of work. the warmth and deliciousness is totes worth the laborious 10 minutes over the stovetop and the sweaty brows.

4. um hello? popcorn. nuff said about that. you all know my serious in need of a support group obsession.

for all the newbies out there hi! i make my popcorn airpopped with the cheap bag of $1.50 kernels from walmart and this bad boy space machine. i usually take 1/4c (sometimes more!) and put in in the spacecraft for about 2:40minutes in the micro then i spray it with a little spray butter (i know i know) and sprinkle my secret cinnamon+stevia mixture on top.

it’s amaze.

5. am i allowed to just say vegetables? because i eat buttloads of them on a daily basis. fine i’ll say broccoli, or mushrooms, or red peppers and carrots! gah! don’t make me decide!

ugh i can’t decide! of course there’s SO many more foods that i love and use on a hourly daily basis but these are just a few.

hope you enjoyed some of these fun facts! i’m off to drink my green monsta & head out to school smoothie stache & all.

  1c unsweetened vanilla almond breeze, 1/2 ripe banana, 1 scoop eas vanilla whey, 1/2 block of frozen spinach, 1/2tsp guar gum, vanilla stevia drops, stevia & 2 ice cubies

get ready for the next q&a installment that will just be a giant post about my weight loss story and how i got into being healthy, working out, the whole 9 yards.

any other things you want to know about moi?

now it’s your turn!

1. what’s one food you can’t live without?

2. who is your favorite housewife and what season?

bloggie blind date!

monday funday!

haha i know now you want to punch me. monday’s for the most part are not fun days. especially after fun weekends.

how can you compare the first day of the workweek to a fun weekend? well the answer is simple. you can’t

well besides for pre workout snacks, stellar workouts & even more fabulous breakfasts this day will just be another boring old moaaanday.

saturday night i had the privilege of meeting up with some of the most fun and fabulous foodies that new york has to offer. a handful of us decided to voyage on to the infamous blogger blind date and we met up at 5 burro cafe, which is a mexican hot spot in queens.

i felt like meg ryan in you’ve got mail. should have brought a rose or pride & prejudice.

instead i just looked for the group of girls waiting at the bar patiently for my late butt. i was pleasantly greeted by these fabo women monique from Food Snob, missy from Missy Maintains, dawn from Dawn Dishes It Out, jen from Pieces of Me, joanne from Eats Well With Others, mari from Namaste Mari, and sarah from Mom on the Run.

i felt like we had so much to talk about. and we gossiped and gabbed the night away. of course there were lots of pictures and lots of good eats.

drinks & food & fun filled the small delicious mexican restaurant and the little blind date wasn’t so scary anymore.

not to mention the food was delicious! most of the ladies got the sizzlin fajitas but i was in a shrimpy & salsa mood so i went with the mexican ensalada sans the dressing and drowned my meal in their needs to be slightly spicier salsa.

it was glorious! i’m pretty sure i would go back just for the rockin shrimpies. they were honkin huge and grilled to perfection.

after dinner we manned up and trekked over to the lite choice. we were ballers and they offered to stay open an extra hour so we could “indulge” in some guilt free free ice cream!

there were a ridiculous amount of flavors to choose from and the best part was that you can choose whatever flavor you want at anytime!

i was a snoozefest and went with mint chocolate chip. but it was friggn good.

thank you so much tlc! it was the sweetest ending to the perfect night!

the fun was beyond and i can’t wait for more hangouts & delicious food with fabo ladiez. thanks girls!!

sunday was filled with a little bit of gym action, a whole lotta snackage & a lotta little bit of nuttin.

for the record april’s sweet bread is amaze. make it now or else.

ensalada pour dinner & red carpet snackz

today i woke up rearin and ready to go. i hopped out of bed as soon as my alarm clock went off. dressed myself for spinnage, had a yogurt for some fuel & was out zee door at an usual upbeat mode.

50 minute spin class + back & biceptuals

• bicep curls 4 sets 12 (15lb dumbbells) superseded with bent over reverse flys 4 sets 15 (5lb dumbbells)
• incline hammer curls 4 sets 12 (10lb dumbbells) superseded with bench superman 4 sets 15 (bodyweight)
• high reverse grip pulldown

20lbs each side	15 reps
25lbs each side	12 reps
30lbs each side	10 reps
35lbs each side	8 reps
40lbs each side	8 reps

• pilates bicep curls 3 sets 25 (5lb dumbbells) superseded with bent over kettlebell rows 3 sets 12 (10lb kettlebells)

when i came home i knew exactly what i was feigning for for breakfast.

warm-a-licious oatiez (i’m all about the z’s today. k over it)

1/3c oatbran cooked with cinnamon, stevia & 1/2 small banana. added on top 1 container oikos plain & drizzled 1tbsp better n peanut butts.

par.fec.tion.

alright well i’ve got to get into today and then i’ve got a random class later tonight :)

opinions wanted: currently i have a membership to my local gym. it costs me $35 a month but with my new job that i will be at mon, wed & friday 9-5 it’s going to take me an hour and a half to two hours (yes that’s right) to commmute there in the morning. which probably means i won’t be able to hit the gym before work. i suck at working out later in the day so i’m thinking i might get a membership to new york sports club but its about $95 for the all access pass. there are about 4-5 nysc locations near my office so if i left early in the morning i could beat the traffic, work out & be 10 minutes from work which equals less parkway stress & happy julie for getting workout in. there are also a few nysc locations near me that i would workout at the days i don’t have work. is it worth the money? it would reduce my traffic and late stress as well as i would still be able to get a workout in before work and then be able to come home and do homework and not feel stressed about working out or being exhausted from work.

mmmm what do you think?

whoa this was long. thanks for making it through.

have you ever been on a blogger blind date? with who and how’d it go?

p.s. check out snackface's birthday giveaway!

guest postal

hey guys!

hope you're all having a fabulous weekend :) i know mine has been just gravy baby.

filled with good eats, awesome bloggie meetups & the usual romping around town.

but that will have to wait.

for the mean time head on over to k's blog and check out my guest post!

if you're single and ready to mingle well then the post is for sure made for you.

for now i'm going to take my strawberry cheesecake smoothie & enjoy a sunday of relaxation and lots of blog creeping...i mean school work.

back tomorrow with a full and fun recap of an awesomely awesome first blind date ;)

much love.

it’s you know what friday..

ha. so for all the newbies out there hey now! come out from the closet! i love it when you do ;) weird julie. weird.

anyways every friday i’ve gotten into this thang where i call it “conclusions friday” it’s also known as a copout post so i don’t have to get all paragraphy. ya feel me..

i think this is my 4th or 5th conclusions friday. shall i continue on with the tradish?

1.combining two cheeses also known as laughing cow & cottage cheese is awesome. melting them is genius.

roll out wrap, 1/4c cottage cheese, LC, mustard, 1/4 cado, 1 slice of turkey, broccoli slaw. grilled on a pan and melted to utter perfection

2. i love new york. hearing jay z’s “new york state of mind” on the radio every 4 seconds makes me not want to love it

3. sometimes when bars are on sale for a buck a piece it’s because they suck there’s a reason.

pure protein strawberry shortcake: this bar was on sale for $1 at the foodstore so i picked it up. major mistake. it’s not strawberry shortcake. it’s more like strawberry jam smooshed into weird white crackly frosting. the nutrition stats weren’t so bad but about 2 hours after eating it i was hungry! it’s not good for bar breaking and should not be classified under the “cake” category. i’m mad i bought two. i would definitely not buy this bar again. well unless it was free..

4. i have an addition to buying things on netrition.com

…anyone want to start a support group…

5. carbs are amazing. especially when they’re consumed with cinnamon either before bed or before the gym.

6. i will never stop talking about my love for popcorn. and i will not apologize for it.

7. i feel dirty using the good girl/bag girl hip abductor machines at the gym especially in between sets when you’re just sitting there if you know what i mean..

30 minutes elliptical sesh (crossramp @ 8, 1 minute sprint, 1 minute steady pace, 2 minutes backwards, 1 minute climb, repeat 5 times. resistances @ 8, 9, 10, 11, 10)

circuit 1 3 times through

step ups	15 reps each leg	10lb free weights
front lunges	15 reps each leg	bodyweight
dead lifts	12 reps	40lb barbell

hip abductor good girl machine

80lbs	15 reps
85lbs	12 reps
90lbs	10 reps
95lbs	10 reps
80lbs	15 reps

hip abductor bad girl machine

80lbs	15 reps
80lbs	12 reps
80lbs	10 reps

circuit 2 3 times through

stability ball wall squats	15 reps	12lb free weights
stability ball butt bridge	25 reps	2lb medicine ball between legs
stability ball calf raises	15 reps	bodyweight

8. it is not smart to wear shorts outside in below zero degree weather. nuff said about that.

9. post workout smoothies are delicious but guzzling them in under 30 seconds will cause horrid tummy aches.

1/2c unsweetened vanilla almond breeze, 1c water, 1scoop eas vanilla whey, 1/2 banana, 1/4c canned pumpkin, stevia, vanilla extract, cinnamon, 1/2tsp guar gum, under 1tbsp leftover pb2

10. i need guar gum tutoring.

11. the blogging community should start a shake ‘stache campaign

12. clearly i have no shame with the pictures i post of myself on the internet this week. obviously this website is not used for dating purposes.

13. hot showers are essential after drinking ice cold shakes on ice cold days.

14. restocking the veggie crisper is one of the best feelings in the world. paying less then 11 bucks for all of these fiberous treats is the ultimate steal best feeling in the world.

15. you are extremely jealous of my production collection as of right now and i have ran out of conclusions.

what are your friday conclusions?