1.) Still haven't decided anything on the tanning front, though I did buy some Tan Towels off of Amazon. (Thanks, B!) Perhaps this will end up being like most things in my life and I will procrastinate so long, it'll actually be summer and the question will become moot because I'll be able to just go to the damn beach.
2.) This may be the best tuna ever.
Since I have been being so very, very good at making and bringing my lunch to work for over two months, I am now at the point where I'm looking for different things to take. Hence buying some tuna, which normally I am not a huge fan of. (Well, I'm a fan of the tuna MELT but it's kinda hard to make one of those in the workplace microwave. Plus, y'know, what with the mayo, the cheese, and the buttered bread, not really helpful with the whole weight loss business.) In my family growing up we always got the solid white tuna in water, which to me is kinda tasteless. At my old place of employment where I'd occasionally buy tuna in the caf, they definitely used the chunk light tuna, which to me tastes like cat food. I figured there had to be some happy medium between "tasteless" and "cat food." In perusing the shelves at Trader Joe's, I decided solid white in oil might just be that happy medium. Oh, and it is. I found it so tasty I was able to marry it with my *other* new lunch food experiment, which is training myself to like mustard. (I've switched from mayo to mustard on my sandwiches in an effort to save calories.) I tried just putting the drained can of tuna in a bowl, adding approximately 10g of mustard to it, and eating it like that, no bread or anything, and...it was good. I mean, I know it sounds vaguely disgusting, but it's actually tasty. Coming from someone who historically never liked mustard and wasn't big on tuna, this is a ringing endorsement. So try it if you're bored with your lunch. Just make sure you get that TJ's tuna above.
3.) I have recently started foam rolling as part of my warm up, not just post workout or separate from it when something hurts. I did this at a point when my lower back was spasming a bit on me and I was looking for a way to calm it down enough to get my workout in, and I've continued even though my back feels better. I think it actually helps. A friend was asking about it and I found a couple links for her, so I thought I'd share them with youse guys too.
4.) This is my new favorite shirt.
It's the Pacifica UPF shirt from Athleta, and that picture doesn't do justice to how cute it looks on with the ruching at the shoulders and the little sleeve pocket. It's technically a rashguard but it makes a nice gym shirt or a just-wearing-around-over-a-tanktop shirt (if you inappropriately wear gym clothes err'where like me). I would buy another one in a different color but it's Athleta and thus expensive.
5.) I wrote an impassioned defense of the humble bagel elsewhere when someone claimed they were nutritionally bankrupt. A Dunkin' Donuts wheat bagel is 280 calories and 13g of protein. I think that's a better ratio of protein to calories than a lot of "protein" bars, kids. I was actually surprised myself when I first saw that nutritional information, but the reason for this is that bagels are very gluten-y. Gluten is what gives them that tasty chewy texture and gluten is the part of the wheat that contains the protein. So, basically, you people that have to avoid gluten are shit out of luck when it comes to getting protein from your baked goods. More tuna for you!
Anyone have any great new lunch discoveries, warm up suggestions, favorite new clothes, or rants about unfairly maligned foods? Tell me in the comments!
xoxo
Yay, Tan Towels! Just be careful when you apply. Exfoliate first, swirl all over your body meticulously, etc. I got streaks the first couple times but quickly figured out how to get it even.
ReplyDeleteI need to try that tuna and that shirt is really cute.
I refuse to buy that tuna! Because I buy the TJ's wild pink salmon instead. :) (NOT the gross kind that has skin and bones, the kind that I think counts as salmon even though isn't all stinky and nasty. I got the feeling mercury is less of a problem with salmon. (BTW, drives my gal nuts that I always call my canned salmon tuna. IT'S NOT TUNA she keeps reminding me but whatever...)
ReplyDeleteBethany, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to exfoliate with a sandblaster. ::eek::
ReplyDeleteCrabby, I was wondering if anyone was gonna bring up the mercury problem. I feel okay with eating one or maybe two cans a week, but then I don't wash my fruits and vegetables other than a rinse with cold water, so pesticides gon' probably kill me first. (Guys, I just cannot keep up with everything that's gon' kill me, but it is a proven fact something will. I hope it's stepping out in front of a bus when I'm 89. No, wait, that would traumatize the driver. Maybe. Some of them *are* mean.) I have never, to my knowledge, eaten canned salmon but now I feel compelled to try it. :-)