Project Strength

As you may have noticed, Savvy Eats got a makeover this weekend! I love that it looks so much cleaner now, don’t you?

Project Strength

This weekend marked the end of Project Strength, the results of which you can see here. I didn’t make quite as much progress as I would have hoped, but I think part of that can be attributed to my month-long running struggles.

Prospects are looking good for my ability to run the half marathon, so I’m icing, stretching, foam rolling, and Ibuprofin-ing (yep, that isn’t a word) for the rest of the week to prepare. Cross your fingers!

I am also attempting to get a lot of rest in this week, as my body tries to deal with my IT Band issues AND the head cold I seem to have come down with.

And lots of liquids. Lots. As in, I am alternating sips of all three of these right now:

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Water, Green Monster, herbal tea. Awesome.

Project Glow

I’ve definitely been fulfilling the drink Green Monsters, stay hydrated, and avoid dairy aspects of Project Glow!

Well, except for the day that our Food Science professor brought in ice cream cake. He likes to bring in whatever foods we are learning about that day, and we covered ice cream cake in one of our lectures on freezing. I wasn’t about to turn down free ice cream cake!

Oh, and Greek yogurt. I still eat Greek yogurt.

New Veggies

Remember when I said I was experimenting with new vegetables, and that sunchokes (the smaller brown discs below) were next on the list?

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Turns out I’m not a huge fan of sunchokes. They just taste too ‘earthy’ to me. When roasted, the smell reminded me of when people burn leaves in the fall. It is a good smell, but not something I necessarily want to taste.
Though they were better than mustard greens, I’ll give them that!

And just in case you thought I hated all new veggies that I tried, I roasted parsnips with the sunchokes, and liked them. Very sweet, kind of like roasted carrots! Since I cut them relatively thick, they came out soft and pillowy. If you want them more crispy, Zesty has a parsnip chips recipe!

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Did You Win?

Crofter’s giveaway winners, I still need to hear from two of you! Did you win?

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Happy Birthday + Weekend Updates!

February 15, 2010
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Happy 24th birthday to my best friend, Kelley! Kelley and I met when I was a senior in high school and she was a freshman at UW. Every April, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), invites all the senior girls who have been accepted to the College of Engineering to Day on Campus, where they [...]

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Chocomize: Design-Your-Own Chocolate Giveaway

December 31, 2009
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One note before I share this week’s giveaway: I have decided to extend Project Strength to Friday, January 22. I forgot the outfit and measuring tape for the final Project pictures in Madison, and will be all over the place for the next few weeks! Now, on to the giveaway fun! Look what showed up [...]

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Happy Snow Day!

December 9, 2009
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The unthinkable happened today. We had a SNOW DAY. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has had 3 snow days in the past 50 years, if you include today. Every other school, including the Technical College, is closed? We still have school. Temperature is below 25 with wind chill? We still have school. We get 14″ of [...]

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Project Strength Update

November 28, 2009
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Remember Project Strength? What, you forgot about that? Oh wait, maybe that’s because I did too. Oops. Its okay, though. Annie still loves me. And so, I proclaim tomorrow to be the re-start of Project Strength. Between Sunday, November 29 and Thursday, December 31, I pledge to: Do push-ups every day. Strength train 3-4 times [...]

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