Ryan and I rang in the new year with a delicious dinner at the Worthington Inn, which was a generous Christmas gift from my parents. Their creme brulee was SO good, I could have eaten 3 of them.
We are officially less than 10 days until match. At 12pm on Monday, January 28, 2013 the match service will post results to their site and Ryan and I will find out where we will spend the better pat of 2013 and 2014! The options are, in no particular order:
Denver
Salt Lake City
Portland, OR
Seattle
Burlington, VT
WOW! I really can't wait to find out. I've been counting down all month, and trying to keep my mind off of it.
In other news - our diet is working out really well so far. Since around Thanksgiving, we've been toying with the idea of going vegan. We are not vegans, but what we have done is cut processed foods down to a very minuscule amount, eliminated dairy, eliminated meat to about 1-2% of our diet, and made an effort to buy as many things USDA Organic as possible. We also try to stay away from soy for the most part.
Breakfasts are usually either steel-cut oats with mix-ins, a USDA Organic dippy-egg on a corn tortilla with Valentina sauce, or vegan pancakes made with baking powder, a banana, a flax-seed egg, wheat flour, oats, almond butter, and almond milk. Mmmm!
We have also been having a green smoothie every morning with any combo of the following: kale, spinach, chia seeds, carrot, celery, wheat grass, fresh mint, almond milk, beets, cacao powder, blueberries, spirulina, mango - and more that I can't think off.
Dinners of course consist of many veggies, quinoa, brown rice, lentils, beans, sweet potatos, and might I add: FRESH ground coriander and cumin. If you have not bought the whole spice and ground it yourself I STRONGLY encourage you to do so. It changes the meal 200%. So good. The entire kitchen becomes aromatic when we toss these in the coffee grinder.
Speaking of coffee - we make an effort to buy fair-trade. Luckily Sam's Club has this. It's kind of an ironic thing that the Walmart mega chain has fair-trade anything, isn't it? Anyway, I add black-strap molasses to my coffee for an extra boost of iron in the mornings.
We are supplementing with methyl B12 and Vitamin D3 (for me).
All in all we've been having fun experimenting with our WFPB diet (Whole food, plant based).
I really have to hand it to Ryan on this one. He has always been dedicated to a healthy lifestyle, but he takes this very seriously and helps me stay on track. He gets up at 6am on his days off just to make sure I get my green smoothie (since he knows I'm all "ain't-nobody-got-time-fo'-dat"). What a guy.
In my own defense I have been the one making sure we eat al meals on our exercise balls. Yes. You read that correctly. It seems like a better alternative to plopping down in a chair.
How weird do we sound right now? Not weird enough...really? Ok fine...I'll fix that.
We don't wear deodorant anymore.
It's true. And surprisingly - not gross.
We've discovered that we really don't sweat that much. Not enough to justify clogging our glands with aluminum on a daily basis. And we've found that if we keep our pits clean (i.e. regular showers) there really is not an odor. If it's been a day since our last shower we'll simply spritz some rubbing alcohol under our arms and we're good to go.
