Posts tagged ‘halloween’

October 31st, 2012

What I Ate The Day Before Halloween

by Tiff

Happy Halloween! As of yet, I have not dug into my stash of Halloween candy. The goal is to open it for the first trick-or-treater and have exactly 49 little ghouls/goblins/witches/supermen come to the door so that I have only 1 Reese’s cup leftover for myself. We’ll see how that works out for me.

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Pre-Gym – slice of low-sodium Ezekiel bread & my last Aminolast packet (actually this was between running and lifting)

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Breakfast – a schmear of pb on a slice of low-sodium ‘zeek bread with half an apple (*tip: thinly slice your apple and microwave it for about 20 seconds to soften it up – yum!)

breakfastSnack – ridiculously good banana bread

bread

Lunch – salad (lettuce, cabbage, boiled egg, sunflower seeds, carrots, broccoli, & Newman’s Own lite honey mustard)

salad

Snack -7 almonds and a small honeycrisp apple

Dinner – tempeh Guinness pumpkin pie – Recipe Coming Tomorrow – and some bedtime snack baked potato chips, whoops!

recipe

Don’t scare too many little kids, and don’t eat too much candy. Wow, I really took the fun out of that, didn’t I? Have fun tonight!

  • What’s your favorite Halloween candy?
  • Please tell me you don’t give out stickers or toothbrushes. ;)

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November 1st, 2011

Yipes – Gripes!

by Tiff

No, I’m not in a bummy mood. No, this is not supposed to be a Negative-Nelly type of post. There are 3 mini gripes and 1 major yippee that I really want to share. The yippee makes up for the gripes… I promise!

Gripe 1

While on the stationary bike yesterday, a commercial for a local plastic surgeon appeared. This ad put voluptuous, bra-clad bosoms in my face at 5:30 a.m. So while I’m busting my butt at the gym, you’re telling me I should look like that? Well guess what, Doc, I’m not buying into your tacky mind tricks. Those are not the boobs I am looking for. (Sorry for the Star Wars reference… sorta.)

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Gripe 2

I saw a lot of articles yesterday about candy alternatives for Halloween. Ya’ll know I’m into health foods, and I try to follow a mostly all-natural diet. However… give the kid a Snickers! This is what I handed out to the kiddos, and I am not ashamed to admit it.

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One night of candy won’t hurt anyone. My mom only let me have 2 pieces per night, and my bag of candy lasted me for months!

Grip 3

Toddlers and Tiaras has loads of backlash. I used to do beauty pageants, and I think I turned out OK. Pageants were like a second sport for me (first-place sport was soccer). I practiced. I traveled. I competed. I made pageant friends. Most importantly, I built confidence.

toddler

Honestly, I’m still not tooooo sure what to think about this, so it’s not a full gripe. In my day, we didn’t have fake hair, fake teeth, and fake tans. We did wear makeup, dresses, and smiles.

beauty queen

Like my frilly socks?

Yippee

Kevin received a promotion of sorts last week. Yesterday was his first day at the new job. Woohoo! He’s such a corporate rockstar! To celebrate, I gave him the dram of 50 year-old whisky that I recently won from Master of Malt.

whisky man

He still prefers his 21-year Glenlivet, but he said this was pretty good too. (As a beer girl, all I could say was, “Ewwww… go away; I can smell it from here!”)

Where do you find confidence? What are your gripes?

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October 31st, 2011

Happy Halloween

by Tiff

Happy Halloweeen! I am not too happy that trick-or-treaters will be coming by my house tonight. I mean really, Monday? Ugh. Oh well… I have candy; I’ll put on my big-girl pants and share it.

Today’s post is all about Halloween, though it is a bit random. Enjoy!

1. I went to a costume party on Saturday with fellow bloggers and their significant others. It was a great time! Sadly, Kev couldn’t make it. Since I was “going stag,” I figured I’d dress the part. Get it – I’m a stag??? (Lame, I know.)

the girls

Above Image from Caitlin – Other great pics from Brittney HERE

2. I had too much of some things, and I didn’t over-indulge in other things. I ate way too much chocolate (Reese’s dark chocolate pumpkins and gooey cocoa cookies), but I didn’t drink too much beer. I alternated between Leinenkugel’s Fireside Brown (good, but definitely not great) and Buckler Non-alcoholic Beer (lager flavor that’s extremely similar to Heineken).

beer

You might be surprised that I drink NA beer. I don’t do it often, but it’s a responsible alternative to a heavy brew. If you’re a beer lover and not a beer snob (nothing against beer snobs), you can find value in a good NA beer.

3. If you ate too much candy, drank too many beers, or skipped a few workouts (luckily I still squeezed in 2 runs and some gym time), you might want a few festive moves. Here ya’ go…

  • Smashing Pumpkins (aka: ball slam): total-body compound movement especially good for the core, arms, and lats (click HERE for video)
  • Haunted House Decoration (aka: wall squat): an isometric hold in a squat position with your back against a wall – I’d stand still there until a trick-or-treater comes, then move all of a sudden. Guess who’s not yard decor??? ;)
  • Trick-Or-Treater (aka: farmer’s walks): walk with heavy items (candy) in both arms. The walk to each house is a set. Bonus points if you don’t eat the candy along the way… (click HERE for video of farmer’s walks)
  • Running (aka: running): run from scary stuff, but don’t be the dumb girl who goes upstairs to check on the creepy noise
Enjoy your Halloween! How have you celebrated, or how will you celebrate? If you dressed up, what was your costume?

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