"I am a nutritional overachiever. ~Author Unknown"

Today, I...

Got a Gyros for lunch from the Greek place on the 8th floor. Thought no one goes to lunch right at 12:00 inside... wrong. I get there. I order. Think I'm in the clear and then bam, 10 men show up. Granted they are old and all into each other proving how cool they are buying each other lunch. Greek guy then asks in front of everyone if I want the "everything on it" and I say yes, but can you cut it in half? I wanted to elude people into thinking that I was petite and only going to eat half at a time. Ha! This turns into a spectacle, because Greek guy says that is not the way to eat a Yee-Rohhh. Okay great, don't cut it. So he cuts it, then explains he did his best. Blah blah blah. Stop talking, just let me run away with my tzatziki sauce filled dough bread wrapped around beef like the lady I am!

The story is really to tell you that I realized that I got back to my office, took off my navy blazer and put my hair up in a pony tail. It occured to me that I am such a beast of a person that I prepare to eat lunch much like one would get ready for a competition that takes place outside.

I mean, really.

OOOhhhhhhooooprahhh!

Dear Oprah,

You defined my afternoons in high school, I spent many an afternoon waiting for late field hockey practice sitting on my bff's couch watching you. You taught us to get up everyday and make the world a better place, to be responsible for the energy we put out in the world. Thank you for Nate Berkus. So now that you're going off the air how will I know if I make in the world if you don't ask me to be on your show? Maybe you could feature me in your magazine? Okay, thanks. That's a fair deal.

Love,
Kathryn

super easy multi-grain bread

"There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ~Mark Twain"

T-minus 124 days until I must fit into a bridesmaid's dress.

One of my friends suggested I try a few methods of getting oneself into shape:

"Tape a picture of yourself at your heaviest on your fridge, don’t drink any beer, remove complex carbs and cheese from the diet, yadda yadda yadda…"

Clearly, my dear friend is a) male and b) someone with self-control in his life.

Don't drink any beer? Okay, easy. Tequila it is. Oh wait, margarita's have a day's worth of calories. Mother of...

Remove complex carbs? But, I thought complex carbs were good and simple carbs were bad? I'm supposed to give up bread? For real? Is that even possible?

Cheese??? Cheese??? Really. Kill me. Just kill me.

No cheese? No bread? andddd I'm supposed to work out? This is going to last about 15 minutes.

... and done.

Tonight, I shall prepare this multi grain bread that is supposedly (with moderation) not like eating glazed donuts and chocolate covered peanut butter balls.

I'll let you know how it goes...

As sent from my mother, please note her comment about at what rate the bread should be consumed:

Super Easy Multi-grain Bread

Makes (1) 2lb loaf

Diet Facts: multi grain, minus the preservatives- just try not to eat the whole loaf in one sitting.

350g/ 12 1/2 oz multi-grain bread flour (or mixed seed or malted grain) OR 1-1/2 cups
300g/10 1/2 oz whole wheat flour OR 1-3/8 cups
1 pkg active dry yeast OR 2-1/4 Tsps.
2 tsp salt1 tsp sugar50g/2oz pumpkin seeds (optional) and/or flax seeds/linseeds

400-500ml hand hot water

1 Tbsp oil or melted butter

1) Mix together the flours, yeast, salt, sugar and pumpkin seeds in a large bowl.

2) Make a hole in the middle and gradually begin to add the water, stirring with a wooden spoon to gradually incorporate the flour. You want a smooth dough nothing wet or sticky, so don’t add the water all at once.

3) Once it begins to look scraggly and has come together add the oil or melted butter and mix with your hands. Remove from the bowl and knead a few times just to bring it together.

4) Roll into a log about 18 inches longs and tuck both sides back in on each other so that they meet in the middle. Grease a 900g/2 lb loaf tin lightly with oil or butter and drop the loaf in. Gently press down evenly cover and cover with a clean tea-towel and place in a warm place, such as a preheating oven.

5) Heat the oven to 200C/400F Make sure that the rack is in the centre of the oven. Place the bread into the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and the tin and then place back in the oven upside down for 5 minutes so that the bottom gets crispy.

6) Remove and try to let it cool or it has a tendency to break up! But this is harder than it sounds. Freezes beautifully pre-sliced if wrapped really well.

prosciutto mozzarella chicken cutlet panini sandwiches

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. ~Author Unknown

I hate my life when I sit here at work eating dry salad with 100 calorie pack popcorn and my two desk buddies, Jeremy and Adam, are discussing their prosciutto mozzarella chicken cutlet Panini sandwiches with sides of french fries and chips.

Why is it that cheese and bread are so amazing, because they’re terrible for you?

It seems unfair to me that I can’t too drown myself in the depths of edible goodness and cheesy delight without recourse. Why is it that cheese loves my thighs?

Last night, I finished off the leftover grilled chicken the boy made and headed to his house to catch the Biggest Loser premiere (brought celery sticks for snacks!) but... forgot I would need a protein for lunch - fail. At least there are chick peas in this bad boy.

Dating is terrible. I'm sort of glad I'm not single, except I was so much better about running and not eating when I was. Last night, I rode the T home, ran, ate salad, and went to the boy's house... so at least I have one day down on the back to getting me on track calendar. 130 days ‘til I have to bridesmaid my way down the wedding of one of my high school bff’s. Yikes. Think it's around 18 weeks away… Can I lose 2 pounds a week? I'm pissed I didn't get mono for Christmas.

They say nothing tastes as good as skinny feels, but have they ever had baked brie on a lightly toasted garlic salted baguette? Ah yeas... now I'm day dreaming and fantasizing about melted cheese.

Somebody get me diet water!

cookie dough balls

"Broken cookies don't have calories" Unknown

It's always fun when you get your final paycheck print-out and you look down in the corner to read Year-to-date Earnings ~ some decent seeming number for a inexperienced young professional out of college.

Then you look at the way bottom of the page and it reads "Net Earnings" and you want to drown yourself in a sea of ice cream floating clumps of unbaked cookie dough balls, because that's what you really get to spend.

After you realize it's been two years since you graduated and if you continue climbing the corporate ladder at this rate you'll never pay off your student loans, maybe your credit card debt, but definitely never afford to go on vacation without your parents supplemental monetary aid.

At least you know, that someday you can give the gift of life long debt by encouraging your children to go to college. You wish someone had explained that getting a degree really meant, "you'll be able to get a job other than McDonald's, except you might actually make more if you were the manager at McDonald's"...

If only someone had encouraged becoming a lawyer instead of an architect, then dinner would consist of organic delicacies instead of bumblebee tuna cans. Does anyone else feel like they didn't get that memo?