Clif Bar: Chocolate Almond Fudge

First actual Clif Bar. I have had Kid’s Clif Bars (Chocolate Brownie is my fav). I really didn’t know what do expect before eating this. I took a small piece to try.

Smell: It smelled rather nutty and sweet. (5)

Touch: It was rather thick, but still a little moist, but grainy at the same time. (7)

Look: I like that there were actual almond chunks. (as well as chocolate pieces). And the fact that even the small piece I took was rather thick. To me, it shows that even small pieces of this bar could be filling. (8)

Taste: It tasted like it smelled. It was nutty, sweet and chewy. The nut flavor definitely was more pronounced than the chocolate flavor. (5)

Nutritionals: The fact that it is made with organic ingredients is a MAJOR plus. The protein/dietary fiber was stellar. (9)

All in all, I give this bar a 6. I don’t really like nut flavors, but with everything considered together it is a nutrionally sound product? I still have a large chunk of this waiting to be eaten at some other time and I have a Chocolate Brownie one upstairs that I look forward to trying out later this week

Muscle Spasm.

Monday was a snow day for our school district. There was at least 6 inches of snow. I decided to be helpful and I went out to shovel. The first time I shoveled, everything was alright. The second time? – a muscle spasm occurred in my back. I never felt this type of pain before in my life! It was absolutely horrendous. I went to the doctor yesterday and he said with Advil and compression is should be relieved within a few days. Whew! Every little activity takes so much strength and causes so much pain. But, I’ll choose to believe the doctor, stay optimistic, and wait another day or two for it to pass. Because of the muscle spasm I can get barely any activity in. I won’t let that weigh me down, though. I will stay positive!

Today, for breakfast, I ate maple & brown sugar Quaker oatmeal with fat-free milk, a pinch of Hershey’s dark chocolate chips, and a scoop of Skippy’s reduced fat PB! This is definitely my all time favorite breakfast, especially in the cold weather. Filling and warm — what other kin of breakfast can you ask for, especially in the winter season?! 

Well even though I stayed home yesterday and am staying home today, I still have mucho work to get done for my classes! Lotsa studying.

Although winter is almost over (even though some places are still getting snow in March!), what is your favorite winter breakfast?

FIRST POST & INTRODUCTION.

Hi everyone! This is my first blog. I’ve been reading quite a few food blogs recently and reading all these blogs and enjoying them thoroughly, i thought “what the heck, I might as well join in!”  I guess with with the first post, should come a proper introduction. So let me begin:

I love food, but I have had body issues my whole life, they however reached their climax during the summer of 2007. That summer my family and I had plans to travel overseas to see some family that we had not seen 5 years prior. With that, I figured I would drop a few pounds (I was slightly overweight at the time) to look nice for my family whom I had not seen for numerous years. What started out as an innocent “weight-loss” regime turned into extreme disordered eating. In a matter of three weeks, if not less, I had lost 20 lbs (the doctor recommended weight loss per week is 1-2 lbs). I refused food, weighed myself constantly and arrived at the weight of 100 lbs. First off, I am 4’10.75, and any short person knows that the shorter you are, the harder it is to lose weight because you have to eat less and exercise more. Second off, 20 lbs in a little less than three weeks a HUGE amount of weight loss, especially for someone my stature.

Eventually my parents realized that I had eating problems, but I absolutely refused to go to a nutritionist. I came back from the trip 107 lbs and horrified. From there, binge eating began to become a consistant daily ritual (possibly from the calories that were lacking in my body) and I slowly gained the weight back, hating myself every minute of everyday. Over the course of 6 months or so, I went back up to 120 lbs. I was furious. Crying and body-bashing was a daily occurence for me. I despised myself for “letting myself go.”

Even though 2 years have passed, everyday is a constant battle of either choosing to starve myself or eat healthy.  I made this blog for myself to help find the balance in everything and build my self-esteem back up and finally be happy in my own body. In addition, though it will take time, I want to rid these thoughts of body bashing and let go of these harmful thoughts. These thoughts will take a long time to get rid of, but that doesn’t mean I won’t try my hardest to make it happen. I will honor my body, my food, my satiety, hunger signals and most importantly myself.

This is my journey. Let it begin.