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What I Ate Wednesday: Astoria

This is what a day spent at home, mostly alone, looks like. Breakfast: I woke up and made vegan chocolate-banana-zucchini bread, a variation on this recipe. Half the batter was in a loaf, but I also...

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What I Ate Wednesday, Astoria & New York

Breakfast: Absolutely delicious, organic, creamy cinnamon tahini smoothie I adapted from this recipe by Nutrition Stripped. Here’s my version (serves 2 – roughly 250 calories per serving): 1 cup...

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What I Ate Wednesday: Astoria & New York

Breakfast: My day last Tuesday began with the indulgent, baked French toast, courtesy of my friend Emma. She’d made it that weekend for potluck brunch, which Kiyo and I hosted; hence we got to keep...

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Half Marathon & Brunch at Rye, Brooklyn

It was cold and windy near the water, as evidenced by my hoodie and crazed hair Last weekend, my friend Jenna and I ran our first ever half-marathon: the Henry’s Hope Verrazano Festival of Races Half...

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What I Ate Wednesday: Astoria & New York

Welcome to yet another WIAW hosted by the awesome blog Peas and Crayons! Breakfast: here is my smoothie in the blender pre-blending. I thought the vibrant orange and green looked pretty cool, so I...

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Women’s Running Clothes Roundup

Now that my half-marathon is over, I’ve cooled down my running routine so far this month. However, a friend saw one of my runs posted to Twitter via the Nike Running App, and asked if I’d like to do a...

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What I Ate Wednesday: Astoria

Welcome to a weekend edition of What I Ate Wednesday, hosted by Peas & Crayons. This is what my Sunday looked like: Breakfast: my usual, a green smoothie! This one packed a whole lot of organic...

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What I Ate Wednesday: Astoria

Breakfast: Sorry to reuse some pictures from last week’s WIAW post, but this was the day after and so I had a few of the same things! Again, instant coffee with organic soy milk & stevia…...

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The “What I Ate Wednesday” That Never Was [Part II]

This is my second post of pictures from days I half-documented for What I Ate Wednesday (here’s the first). The pictures are still good so I wanted to share; so, here’s a look at a full days’ eats, but...

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What I Ate Wednesday: Astoria

Breakfast: Kiyo and I brought back an entire bag of goodies after our trip to Minneapolis, including Grandma’s seven-layer bars. They’re meant as a dessert (made with graham cracker crumbs, condensed...

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What I Ate Wednesday: Honolulu

8:00 AM: Breakfast Before heading to a doctor’s appointment, I made a quick smoothie with tart cherry juice, apple juice (both organic and not-from-concentrate), nettle-leaf iced tea, acai berry...

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Lunch at The Golden Pear, Southampton

This August Maggie and I took the ferry from Connecticut to The Hamptons to visit my friend Danielle. We began one day with a really nice leisurely run in a slight drizzle, past the National Golf...

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The “WIAW” That Never Was: Honolulu

Sometimes I have a problem remembering to document a full day of eating. So, here’s my first WIAW from Hawaii that’s from a bunch of different days. BREAKFASTS:  Iced coffee with almond milk, and...

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What I Ate Wednesday: Honolulu

Here are a few meals from different days recently… Breakfast: watermelon and coffee. Lunch: lemongrass chicken banh mi from Ba-Le. Dinner: homemade pizza! Kiyo made the crust and I topped it off: half...

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What I Ate Wednesday: Honolulu

Here is another post of meals from various days. Happy Hump Day! Breakfast: green smoothie: aloe water, frozen strawberries, frozen kale, moringa powder, acai berry powder, chia seeds. Lunch: leftover...

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The “What I Ate Wednesday” That Never Was [Astoria]

Last night I realized I hadn’t put together a WIAW for today! So I searched my drafts folder and found this very old WIAW that never got posted. Here are some eats (I don’t think from the same day) in...

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Strange Food Saturday: St. Thomas

When Kiyo and I were on vacation in St. Thomas this Spring, we went for a quick (but excruciatingly hot) run. Full disclosure: normally we probably would not run on vacation, but this was right before...

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What I Ate Wednesday: Astoria

Here are some WIAW pictures from this summer that I forgot to post! Breakfast: leftover donuts from Smorgasburg… not nutritious, but definitely tasty. I had to take my car in to be fixed, and since it...

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2014 Workouts in Review

I realize it’s a little late to review 2014 again, but I wanted to share something that I accidentally ended up tracking pretty well last year: my workouts. It began as a way to just track how many...

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What I Ate Wednesday: Minneapolis [With Nutritional Analysis]

  Today I am sharing a day of eats and exercise at my grandma’s house in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was staying with her for just under a week in February, for my cousin’s wedding. This is a woman who...

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