SWEET POTATOES

I cannot get enough sweet potatoes lately. Japanese, Jewel, Garnet, any kind I just love them. I've been eating them for dinner almost every night for the past week. If I get home in time, I just bake them and pair it with a small green salad or spiraled zucchini and it makes for a pretty satisfying dinner.

I say that because this morning after feeding this CUTIE PIE

I had the energy to go work out, even though it was 5am and I had only slept 3.5hrs. I'm glad I went though, I've been really focused once there so I've had some stellar workouts. Passed out on the train though, so at least I got another half hour nap. But once at work, I dug around for my earbuds and found a sweet potato! I bought two y

esterday, and since I try to use as few plastic bags as possible, I stuck it in my bag and forgot about it.

This meant that I got to have this wonderful, happy breakfast:

Just one sweet potato cubed and microwaved for five minutes. I try to steer clear of a microwave when possible but eh, my work doesn't have an oven. To add a little protein, I paired it with 2 tbs of my left over, homemade hummus. I don't put oil in my hummus so it's a little thicker. Breakfast stats were: 203 cal, 43 carbs, 3 fat and 3 protein.

Ugly breakfasts

Seriously, I eat the ugliest breakfasts. Take a look:

So yeah. Unattractive. But I'm attempting to not buy any food until payday, so I'm scraping the barrel here. I also just haven't had the time to go to the grocery store between work, school and kitten feedings. But this, in case you are interested, is 1 bartlett pear chopped, 2 tbs quaker oats, 1 tbs peanut butter and 2 tbs ground flax seed, all mixed with water until I get the consistency I want, then microwaved for a minute. Stats are: 308cal, 35 carbs, and 16 fat.

I've not been sleeping much due to the kittens (which are eating lots and growing like little kitten weeds) so I've been determined to keep up eating whole and exercising more. Went to an amazing circuit training cardio class last night and it was the first time in a while that I've left the gym with soaked hair because I was sweating so much. I'm going to be a long, lean vegan machine in no time.

This post is kind of blah, I know, but I'm too tired to think so I'll just leave you with this precious picture taken in the middle of the night:

Day......8? Yes? I think it's day 8.

My one week weight loss (weighed in yesterday) was 5.2 lbs. I know so much of it is just bloat and water weight but hey, I'll take it. Also, it's really really hard for me to not weigh myself everyday. I'm addicted to my scale. I typically weigh myself twice a day, but seeing how this is not healthy behavior, I'm weighing myself on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This way I can see midweek what it's looking like, and on Friday I have a reminder to not blow it. I've also worked out four times last week. Some of the classes I took really kicked my butt and I'm still feeling it.

I became a foster mom on Saturday to three babies. Three, three day old abandoned kittens. They are such hard work. I keep telling myself we just have to get through the weekend. When we get through the weekend, they'll be two weeks old and I feel like that's a huge benchmark. They'll be able to walk more steadily, it won't have to be 9 million degrees in Elise's room, they won't need feedings every 3 hours, their eyes will be open and they'll actually look like kittens. Until then, keep these babies in your thoughts as they will hopefully continue to grow and get strong and healthy.