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June 25, 2014

June Bliss – Books, Blogs, & Burgers!

 

Happy Wednesday, friends!

Today we’re linking up our Bliss posts, but before we get to that let’s talk about BREAKFAST & my WORKOUT this morning.  I chose to do a 30 minute walk this morning since my legs are so sore from the HIIT class I took last night!  Man, that class wears me out – think about squat after squat after squat or lunge after lunge after lunge….. ouch!  I came home this morning and had a glass of chocolate milk, a banana, & a boiled egg & vegetarian bacon english muffin!  Now I’m off to get ready for work, but check out what’s been bringing me Bliss this month!

Blogger Bliss Button updated

 

PRODUCTS/THINGS

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{1} Never Eat Alone

I recently became a “Blogging for Books” Affiliate and now receive free books to review.  You’ll get a full review once I complete this book, but I have LOVED it so far.  Sure, I’m only on Chapter 2, but I already know I’m going to learn a ton!  It’s a business book and talks about networking & relationships.  Stay tuned for my review in a couple weeks!

jack-juicer

{2} Jack LaLanne Juicer

I was super excited when I found this beauty at Dirt Cheap for a mere $26!!! I’ve used it a handful of times now and still can’t believe I’m lucky enough to have found it!  If you’ve thought about juicing, I would recommend a Jack Lalanne Juicer, but hopefully you can score a great deal like I did!

blender-bottle

{3} Blender Bottle

Not only has this shaker been great for my juices, but it’s been an excellent way to keep up with my water consumption at work.  I’ve had a problem getting plenty of water throughout the day, so I’m working on drinking one blender bottle by 12:30 and another by 4:30 so I at least get about 50 ounces of water during the day.

BLOGGERS/POSTS

I like to dedicate a portion of my #BloggerBliss to new bloggers I’ve been able to find throughout the month!  It helps keep me engaged with bloggers and constantly finding new blogs to support and hopefully new friendships down the road!  I’ve been transitioning my blog into a more health conscious blog so I can encourage myself to eat better and workout more, but also encourage others.  This month I found some really great Healthy Living blogs & posts to share!

{1} Char Eats Greens

This girl became a vegetarian and then quickly became a vegan!  I love finding other bloggers like me!  She’s also a runner & loves Starbucks – clearly we’re meant to be friends!  And if you’re thinking that going vegan means you have to cut out all the good stuff – then you should seriously check out her recipe for Triple Threat Vegan Gluten-Free Brownies because oh em gee… I’m giving that a try for sure!

{2} Sweet Miles: A running & lifestyle blog

I love the clean feel to this blog.  You get there and instantly feel refreshed!  She’s another runner, but I love drawing inspiration and encouragement from other bloggers who run.  When I read about their runs, it helps me envision my own run and gets me motivated.   She’s not all about running though – her goal is a healthy lifestyle.  She created this amazing post for 7 Ways to Maintain a Healthy & Active Marriage and although I’m not married, I could re-title it 7 Ways to Maintain a Healthy & Active Relationship because I think that’s just as important and I felt like most of these could be applied to mine and Nick’s relationship – with the exception of some things due to our long-distant relationship!

{3} Bagels to Broccoli

Another blog that’s clean and refreshing to stumble upon!  Jen isn’t a vegetarian (as far as I can tell), but she works to incorporate more veggies and a healthy lifestyle.  In fact, she recently completed her very FIRST half-marathon! {You can read about that here}

It has been such a treat stumbling onto these ladies blogs and I hope you’ll enjoy them too!

MOMENTS

I, of course, enjoy recapping some special moments from the month and the biggest one that sticks out to me is finally switching my blog over from From Here to There to No Bologna!  I’d been wanting to make a change for so long and I feel like a dream has finally come alive!! It’s still a work in progress, but I love what this space is becoming and how it’s encapsulating my love for health, veggies, & fitness!

I forgot to mention that Nick and I tried out Majestic Burger!  I’m not sure if it’s a local place or if there are chain restaurants floating around, but I went with their veggie burger and it was great!  Plus those onion rings… I could make a meal out of any kind of fried side dish… onion rings, pickles, zucchini, okra… you name it!

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Lastly… National Donut Day…. Enough Said!

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  • What’s bringing you Bliss this month?
  • What bloggers should I be reading? Any fun/informative posts you’ve come across lately?

Link Up with us Below!

Filed Under: Bliss, Blogging, Fitness, Food, Mississippi, Nick, Reading, Summer Tagged With: bliss, blogging, Blogging for Books, dunkin donuts, juicing, Majestic Burger, vegan, vegetarian 4 Comments

June 23, 2014

Starbucks Tomato & Basil Panini

 

Good Morning!

We are back to Monday – I hope you all had a great weekend!  Mine was a lot of fun, I headed up to Starkville.  I’ll be recapping some events from the weekend later today!

Let’s start with BREAKFAST.  It’s a good one this morning.  I’m really trying to eat a larger breakfast to help fuel me through the day!

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Cup of coffee, of course!  English muffin with honey & butter, Morning Star Farms Sausage Links, and a Banana.  It was delicious.

I planned on waking up this morning for a run, but I’m seriously trying to improve on some bad habits I have.  One of those being the amount of sleep I get at night.  I got exactly 7 hours last night, preferably I’d get more, but that’s the reason I didn’t wake up any sooner.  I’m packing my gym bag for work though so I can squeeze in a workout at the gym after I get off.  Another bad habit I’m working on is my water intake.  I definitely don’t get enough to keep my moving body hydrated.  I’ve been working on a system at work that helps increase my intake by setting a goal to drink my blender bottle full of water by 12:30 and then again by 4:30, so I get about 44oz. right there.  It still needs some improvement.

This past weekend in Starkville, I experienced two very different scenarios that a vegetarian may find themselves in.

First, Nick and I had Mexican on Friday night.  I mentioned that in my post on Fun with Food Camp (btw, I found out it’s culinary camp – very cool).  I found a piece of chicken & steak in my veggies.  Something completely different happened on Sunday though at Starbucks.  I was there alone working on the blog, enjoying my skinny caramel macchiato and a lady offered me a sample of their panini (with ham & Swiss).  I thanked her, but told her I’m a vegetarian.  She moved on to the next guy.  A few minutes later, she brings over a bag and says that this panini has NO MEAT in it, it’s a tomato & basil (I’m fairly certain it was also larger than the first panini I was offered.  I was extremely thankful because that was unnecessarily sweet!  By the way, it was delicious – so if you’re hungry on the road and need to stop for some lunch, I highly recommend the tomato & basil panini from Starbucks!

tomato-basil

 

Alright friends, I’m off to get ready for work, but I’ll be back later to recap my weekend!

  • What do you eat for breakfast to fuel your day?
  • How do you measure your water intake & what tricks do you use to increase that?
  • Have you had the Tomato & Basil Panini at Starbucks?  What were your thoughts?

Filed Under: Blogging, Food Tagged With: banana, basil, blogging, coffee, mexican, morning star, panini, starbucks, tomato, vegetarian, water 1 Comment

June 20, 2014

WordPress Comments

 

Yay, it’s Friday!

This morning I had 2 pieces of toast for BREAKFAST.  One buttered and one with peanut butter.  I’m finding myself completely in love with toast. 

 

 

peanut-butter-toast

Yesterday I had lunch with a sweet friend – we’d been meaning to catch up for a while.  We had Japanese and I got the vegetable hibachi.  I was so hungry that I forgot to take a picture.  Question for my veggie freinds out there.  I was served the onion soup.  At first I didn’t think anything about eating it.  Honestly, I’m not a fan of it but I was thinking it might be healthy for me.  Then I realized it was brothy and a lot of broths are made with chicken.  I asked the waitress and she said it wasn’t.  I still didn’t finish it though because I felt wierd eating it.  Do you know how they typically make onion soup at Japanese restaurants?

onion-soup

Sometimes when I get bored at work, Nick experiences some cheesy texts.  I sent him this yesterday in the middle of work and I loved the way he responded!  He’s not the mushy type haha, but he caught all of my kisses!

text-message

When I got home from work, I folded some clothes and then headed out for biblestudy.  We discussed being ready for marriage and like usual, we digressed pretty heavily.  It was such an empowering time though!  I love how these girls came together – as it was mentioned last night, we’re all SO different.  I wouldn’t have picked out these girls from a lineup to be in my biblestudy group, but God knew better than I did that this was the place for me.  I just love our time together on Thursday nights.  I enjoyed some Chamomile Citrus Tea & a Monster Cookie {that I got for FREE!}

 

 

tea-cookie

Do not be fooled.  I ate the entire cookie last night.

WordPress is hard, y’all.  People love it and I’m really trying to!  I cannot figure out my comments though.  I’m trying to make it where I can reply back via e-mail to the comments you leave me.  That’s what I loved so much about blogger.  I feel like there was real interaction there.  I have these plugins installed that are suppose to make me do that, but I’ve been testing it with various e-mail accounts I have and I’m not receiving any responses when I reply.  I just ask that you bear with me, I am seeing your comments and I love reading them and I apologize that I haven’t been as great with responding to them like I was when I had a blogger blog.  If you’re a WordPress user and have any input for me, I’d greatly appreciate it!  I’m using CommentLuv, but also trying the Email to reply comment plugin and I’m just not sure why it’s not responding how it should unless it has to do with the theme and template I chose.

Hopefully I’ll get a lot of issues resolved this weekend when I have more time to work on it. 

  • What weekend plans do you have?
  • Any suggestions on my comment issue?  How do you WordPress users manage comments?

 

Filed Under: Blogging, Food Tagged With: blogging, corner bakery, toast, vegetarian, wordpress 3 Comments

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