Day 60- The Most Perfect Cookie

I am under a mountain of work today... trying to get all of my best vintage listed on etsy before viva...
So I took a snack break (as I often do) and decided I needed something sweet. I fished around in my husbands cookie jar (not that cookie jar, gross) and came up with my favorite girl scout cookie. And when I looked closer, I realized that it was a production error cookie and it is a triple decker!! Oh man. OH MAN!! This is my favorite monday. Thank you girl scouts. Thank you.

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Day 57- Ode To Snacks

Oh snacks. How I love thee. I love the way I can fill a bowl with you and just munch away while I am working. I love how you can be sweet and salty. I love that I can alternate 3 bites of each of you in mathematical succession to quell my inner OCD demon. I love that I can literally eat you all day long and never be full. I love that you can be both healthy and junk. I love that you can be crunchy, crispy, creamy, chewy, or just melt in my mouth. I love that I can sneak you into movies. I love that I can smuggle you basically everywhere I go, in my purse. I love that I can keep you in the side pockets of my car for hangry traffic emergencies. I love that I can carry a full bag of you on my tours and refill with local snacks as I see fit. I love that you leave crumbs in my bed even though my husband hates it. I love that you also leave crumbs in my bra, making me chuckle at the end of the day as I sift you off of my underboobs. I will never stop loving you. I will never stop consuming you. Thank you snacks. You never let me down.

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Day 37-- Breakfast Is The Most Important Meal

I am a breakfast person. I eat breakfast every day. And it has to be substantial. Eggs, avocado toast, oatmeal... Cereal days are reserved for the days that my cupboards are bare and they seriously bum me out. My favorite breakfast is (left) poached eggs on top of avocado on top of toast drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with salt and pepper.
Something I learned very quickly when I started traveling is that not everyone values breakfast as highly as I do. I have spent several morning hours with hosts and photographers that don't even eat a single morsel of anything before lunch. Meanwhile, I am hanging out trying to quell my stomach growls that are only matched by my hangry nature. After my first full tour, I packed my luggage to the gills with breakfast bars and to go oatmeal cups. I WILL NEVER GO HUNGRY AGAIN.
(As I am typing this, my annoying husband is telling me to write something in my blog today about him. So here it is. Now quit bugging me baby)
When Trevor and I went to Italy for our honeymoon, we also learned quickly that Italians do not value breakfast the way we do. Rather, I do. Trevor thinks I am obsessed with breakfast to a fault. I think it is a human necessity. We spent our first 3 mornings in Rome with him drinking coffee and us both eating pastries. Which is fun and romantic. For about 3 days. By the 4th day, I would have strangled a small human for just one plate of scrambled eggs or a morsel of bacon. By the time we got to Florence, it was code red. We finally found a place in the most touristy square that had "America Breakfast" advertised outside. We got scrambled eggs, 2 slices of "bacon" (which in Europe is not REAL bacon... it is a thin, floppy, not crispy and not smoked piece of ham. IT'S HAM PEOPLE!!), a piece of toast, a sliver of strawberry and orange juice. Our bill was $70 American dollars.
I am a firm believer that breakfast is the key to kick starting a healthy metabolism. I believe that being 33 and still being svelte has a lot to do with my eating habits. I eat a good breakfast and then I eat small meals and snacks throughout the day.
But mostly I am a firm believer that breakfast is important for me to have if the people around me value their lives.

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Day 28- Give Me All Of The Food

In about a half hour, my group of girlfriends are coming over to watch Sisters and veg out. We are ordering pizzas, drinking wine, and my girl Lauren is bringing a bag full of cookies and brownies she has stolen from her work. Why do stolen treats always taste better?? I dunno, but they do.
I think it is important for girls to have nights where you just forget about the calories and the processed foods and the sugars and just enjoy yourself and be a teenager again. It is important for me, at least. I work hard most days to try to eat right and work out. Call it a "cheat day"... call it being irresponsible... I don't care what you call it... because it is about to go down and I feel 0% remorse. Mostly I just want to hang with my girls and laugh and be ridiculous and not obsesses over everything I am putting in my mouth. My ass will survive.

In other news... my hand looks INSANELY huge in this picture. I swear I don't have Dave-Grohl-In-The-Everlong-Video-Hands. That is all. Thank you, and good night.

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Day 9- Lord Help My Self Control!

Food. I love it. I love all kinds of food. Sweet, salty, fatty, carby. I love it all. I even like healthy food. Just not as much as the other (tastier) stuff.
I am a rampant snacker. I don't usually eat big meals... But oh man, I can snack ALL day. I snack out of hunger. I snack out of boredom. I snack when I am sad. I snack when I am happy. And don't even get me started on desserts. When a meal is done, my mouth instantly tells me that I need dessert. Every. Single. Time.
So I am really trying to harness all of the self control in my being this year. I am trying to eat better. I really am! So far I am 3 days in on being responsible. And it's so hard! It is especially hard when I travel because a lot of the time I just eat what is quickest and easiest. I am usually at the mercy of whoever I am staying with, so I never want to be a pain. And in the midwest and the south, people don't eat healthy! I mean... the odd person does. But in general, it is really hard for me to find any healthy options-- especially when I am in small towns. So I usually end up going with delicious fried chicken, BBQ, or diner food. My mouth is always happy-- but the dimples in my thighs are not.
I honestly FEEL so much better when I eat well. My body is happy and runs like it is on premium fuel. When I eat fatty stuff, I feel tired, lethargic and kind of sick. So even though I need to eat better for my health and for my fitness goals-- I mostly want to eat better so I feel better.
Here is my lunch today. Flatbread with garlic hummus, red peppers, cucumbers, avocado and salt and pepper. It was delicious. And I didn't even have dessert!
What easy, healthy, and most importantly, DELICIOUS things do you guys eat to get you through the day??

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