Group Projects Suck!

I love school, I love learning, and I actually enjoy projects. Normally, I like hands on type of projects where you have to be creative. However, I don't like working with a group. Ideally, I don't think it would be that bad and actually think that in theory it is a beautiful idea. I think that people who work together for a common interest will create a wonderful project because there is a variety of different strengths and creative input going forth into the assignment. However, we all know that is not at all what happens. In reality, in a group of about five people you have

1. The overachiever, who is a
bit narcissistic about their grade and therefore takes over the project because
they can't stand working with lazy people,
2. The person who works on the
project, but only does their part and nothing more
3. The person, who seemingly
works on the project, however is just communicating with everyone and spamming
everyone with pointless messages.
4 and 5. The slackers, who do
absolutely nothing and are a pain to drag on. They don't communicate or
anything and you have no idea what is going on in their minds. You give them
assignments however, they can't be trusted to complete them or do a very good
job.

I am a 1. I tend to be very anal about my grades and strive to have the highest GPA possible. I try to work my best. However, school isn't enjoyable when I have to push other people to do their required work. It is pathetic that people in their LAST semester of UNIVERSITY can't even manage to do their share. These are the same people who are going to be in the workforce in a few years. They should be trying to prepare for their future career, using the last semester as a test for them to see if they are interested in what they are studying. Noticing if it’s worth the effort. Also, why wouldn't you want to try hard in your last semester, hopefully you love what you are doing and that makes you excited? There really is no reason why anyone should be slacking off.

This year, I am currently working with three other girls on our final project. Two of the girls are a "5" and the other girl is a "3". It’s really annoying me because we are doing a topic that I felt was played out and uninteresting. I wanted to do something that I haven't heard any of my other classmates in my classes talk about. However, they didn't want to. I tried to be a good teammate and I accepted their idea. So now I am stuck with a group that doesn't do anything, stuck with a topic I don't like, and a suffering grade. I am doing most of the work; it wouldn't be such a pain if I got to choose the topic that I would end up doing all the work for anyway. However, I didn't and no I am suffering the consequences.

You will probably hear more of my rant throughout the semester.

Bf: (1/2) pear and slices of jicama while making my sis lunch

               Grapes (2-3 cups)

               4 small oranges

               5 clementine  

Lunch: Salad: romaine, red leaf, green leaf lettuce, 4 tomatoes, 1 mango, onions, (1/2) cucumber, lime, avocado, and cilantro

1 quart of OJ

3 clementine and 1 orange

Dinner: grapes (2-3 cups), huge nectarine, pear, 10 Medjools, apple

Exercise: Slow 7. something run, starting the tapering processes for the LA marathon. 

Clothes

To be honest, I love leather. I feel it has a "bad-ass" look to it. However, I no longer wish to be a "bad-ass". I rather be someone who supports the environment and isn't so concerned with material goods. I do own a few pieces of leather. I admit, I think my Doc Martens are the coolest looking boots I own. I also have a very nice leather jacket my mom ordered me from Mexico. I love these items. I also feel sad every time I now wear them because I know how they were acquired. Ever since turning vegan I have not bought any animal clothing. I also do not intend to do so in the future. It’s cruel that these animals are practically skinned alive just to make a coat or shoes. Now the thought of wearing dead skin repulses me. I find it horrid that I am wearing the flesh of an animal whose life was forcefully taken because I wanted to fashionable cover my body. The thought make me feel repulsive and selfish.

The whole ideology of becoming self-sufficient and SACRIFICING animals is completely out of hand. We are no longer spiritual creatures who take only what they need. We have been gluttonous devils who demolish everything to over fulfill our needs/desires. Knowing what happens behind closed doors helps you appreciate everything around you. It makes you realize that all the time and effort you spend on purchasing items does not make you a better person.
Stereotypically, we are accustomed to think that the best dressed person is "nicer", "smarter", and "better". However, the saying, "clothes don't make the person" can go a long way. Clothes do not make the person in any way. People are disguised in clothes and try to create an image that may not exist. They want to portray that they have things that others don't so that they feel superior.

An example, I see countless amounts of people who buy new shirts every day or only buy brand name clothing. However, these same people don't have a car, a decent home, a good relationship with their friends and family, nor do they have any true aspirations in life. These people are using up our earth’s resources on an ideology that doesn't exist for them. They want to portray a "cool and suave" persona so they wear animal skin. They take expensive material such as leather, snake skin, animal fur so that they can receive comments on their "awesome" ensemble. However, they don't realize that the very clothes that are covering them are made from sacrificing an animal. They had to be killed and tormented so that they can fashionable cover their hide.

I am now starting to think that those whom are well dressed and are "fashionistas" are now the ignorant individuals. Think about all the time they are spending shopping, looking for deals, wasting their life following trends. They can easily be using that time on something a bit more humane. Even educating themselves or becoming one with the environment that they are a part of. There is so much do, so much to learn, however people are wasting their life on the materialistic aspect of living. They are willing to sacrifice much more than their environment around them, because in using all of our resources, we are destroying the future. We are starting to deprive the future of the natural beauty that once surrounds us. We are killing animals and creating famines due to our selfishness. It’s time to change something, even if it is as little as one person who stops caring about designer clothes and fashion, it’s a start. Hopefully those values will rub off on those surrounding them.

Exercise: 10.08 miles at an easy pace

45 min of light Hatha yoga

Food intake:

Breakfast: Banana/date/spinach smoothie

                        Nectarine

Lunch: banana/pear/date smoothie

Dinner: two large nectarines, a pear, about 4 cups of grapes, and I stuffed my face with dates  

Guacamole Salad

Salad:

Romaine lettuce

Iceberg Lettuce

Tomatoes

Cucumber

Mango

Avocado (what didn't go in the dressing)

Sauce:

(1/3) Avocado

Mango

Lime

Cilantro

(1/2) tomato 

Nothing special

Breakfast:(1/2) smoothie made from 6 large bananas, 10 dates, 1 apple, 1 pear

Lunch: rest of the smoothie

Snack: smuggled some raisins and 1 dried apricot from sprouts

            Small piece of papaya

Dinner: 3 cups of grapes, 1 large banana, 1 large green apple, 1 pear, 5 dried figs, 6 dates

Exercise: 10 miles

            45 min of basic hatha yoga

            15 min strength training.

I am not going to lie; today was a pretty hard day emotionally. I have no idea but for some reason I kept obsessing about my appearance and how I wasn't skinny enough. I feel fat and I feel like I look bloated. The other day a guy randomly told me I was skinny and I felt good. However, today I just woke up in a funk. My acne is coming back which makes no sense to me because I haven’t been eating a lot of fat. Anyway, it was just another typical grocery store day. I went to the internship site and am not here at home sitting in front of the computer. I really need to start meditation and repeating the mantra, “I am wise, I am kind, I am strong, I am beautiful” hopefully it will help cure any negativity.

I came up with this random list that runners say….enjoy

I need water
I’m carbing up
don't you hate people with strollers
It’s too cold to run
Its too hot to run
If you’re not sweaty, you didn't push it
I hate hills
I love carbs
where are my shorts?
Are these pants clean? (Sniffs pants)
Which running shoes did I wear yesterday?
Socks?
Aww, my nipples hurt! So tender and sore!
I NEED Neosporin!
My butt is sore
my calves; they are killing me
why can't there be any skinny jeans for my big calves?
Water belts look so dorky. (Later buys awater belt) Yeah, but I needed it. Don't judge.
*When someone passes you* show off! I bet he isn't even going fat.
Who runs in Nike? Lame!
MOVE people! Can’t you see I’m coming!
I really need to pee.
Get your own sidewalk
I only did an easy 10 miles today.
Pssssh, a 5K is nothing; I can do that in my sleep. Aw man, I'm drench today. Sweat is soo gross.

My knee. I hope I didn't ruin the good one.
My IT band is stretched out.
Man, I need an ice pack.
Where are my compression shorts?
Treadmills are for losers. Not a real run.
I hear coconut water is good for recovery.
When eating a lot:

Hey, I did good today
I’m carbing up.
I have endurance tomorrow
leave me alone, I’m hungry
 I’ll just run it off later
You just jealous cause you can't have any

Can you walk on my back
I hate hills
Hill runs are the worst, going down is actually harder
DANG! Beast mode!

Fasting?

For the first Friday of lent I did a mini fast, I did not eat anything upon waking and I had one meal at night time. I thought it wouldn't be suck a big deal because I could go a long time without eating, as I have done it before. To take my mind off of food I started the day with my normal five mile run, when I got home I drank lots of water. I was off to work. Thankfully we had just gotten new merchandise that needed to be put away so I was able to occupy my mind on something other than food and my grumbly tummy. Another fortunate event is that the food shop wasn't cooking anything very fragrant. I don't think I could stomach any strong smells, especially French fries. Even though I have not eaten a French fry in over two years, it is still the smells that always makes me hungry and crave them. I doubt I will touch them though. However, if I would have smelled food that day I think it would have gone one of two ways

1. I would get soo hungry and eat; even some questionable items might be consumed
2. It would make me nauseous because I had an empty stomach and therefore I would be sick and feel faint.

Thankfully none of the above occurred. However, around 3:30pm I started to feel the pains of hunger. It was kind of awful. It felt weird not being able to satisfy my body's need for food. Unfortunately, I had finished putting away all the merchandise at work and therefore had nothing to occupy because there wasn't any customers-it was a slow day. I couldn't concentrate on homework, it was pretty bad. I started to feel like a

zombie. Around 5pm, I was starved. I felt like I was living in a dark hole. I had no emotion, no feeling, I was getting irritated quiet easily. I didn’t want to talk to people, however I did not want to be alone, because alone was when I started to think about food and that was a bad thing.

Finally, it was time to go home, I raced home and looked into the fridge, and I ate oranges and apples till my stomach popped. I thought I was full, but I wasn't because, my stomach was soon asking for nutrients again. I ate banana chips (bad choice), raisins, apples, pears, dried apricots. I didn't properly combine my food; I was just acting on instinct. It was horrible. I felt like a disgusting creature that just thinks about food. I soon was able to stop eating; I ate the later portion of food in my room because I kind of felt guilty for eating. I soon went to sleep. 

The next day, I went on my usual Saturday five mile run in the morning. However, I felt the effects of not nurturing my body properly immediately. I ran slower, I got tired faster. By the second mile I was running on pure will power, I was not motivated to keep running. I got home and decided that if I was ever to fast again; I will not be participating in any physical exercise because it does have an effect on your body immediately. 

Now that I experimented with this mini fast, I am thinking of all those poor girls (and boys) who suffer from body dismorphia and chronically under eat and over exercise just to fit a certain image category. These individuals must have a miserable life--I felt as my personality was sucked from me in ONE day--imagine these people who under eat for a lengthy period of time. They don't realize that they are not eating enough to nurture their body properly so that they can continue to perform at or above their desired level. They don't realize that they themselves are abusing their body to the greatest degree, robbing it from the basic needs it needs to survive.  

What are your opinions about fasting? Under eating? Over exercising?
Do you think some people thrive on over exercising, that it makes them feel alive?
I feel that fasting shouldn't be done by everyone; only certain people know how to properly listen to their body and are able to do it safely. However, i think it abuses your body to participate in this practice tooo often.  

Breakfast: Oranges (4), Cuties (6), few slices of jicama Peach and pear

Lunch: less than two cups of OJ

            Papaya tacos: papaya, cucumber, bell pepper, tomatoes, scallions, cilantro, tomatoes

            Guacamole

Dinner: three baby bananas, 3-4 cups of grapes, 1 apple, 1 pear, 5 dates, and 4 dried figs 

Exercise: 11.45 miles

random soccer/volleyball playing at the shelter I volunteer for 

Earthlings

After watching this documentary it’s very hard not to be emotionally disturbed.  How low has the human race gotten that we have no sympathy towards other creatures?

Specism is a profound word used to describe how humans beings prefer their species above all else. It is an immoral way to justify the killing of innocent animals for sport, food, clothing and other selfish reasons. The fact that these animals are not simply being killed--they are being slaughtered, tortured, brutally murdered and disgraced by the human race goes to show how much we as the superior species have evolved that we do not know what it means to have mercy.

First of all, food is the main reason why animals are killed. Pigs, sheep, chicken, cows, fish, and crustations are all being housed in horrendous conditions. When going to a grocery store and selecting fresh produce such as an apple, one is keen to pick an apple that is without blemishes. However, when one buys meat they don't have that capability. These animals, of course, are housed in close quarters that disease is inevitable. Pigs are often covered with open wounds; they are constantly licking/eating the flesh off of each other, as well as living in sordid conditions. Then they are ruthlessly butchered and sold as meat. The evidence is wiped clean and one selects, "the best prime of meat that money can buy". That same piece of meat was part of the body of a disease raised creature that was unnaturally brought into the world due to human's "need" for meat. In reality, people who are picky about their food aren’t as selective or aware of what they are putting in their body because they don't know the exact condition of said animal. One who doesn't eat meat and relies solely on fresh produce can tell whether an apple has been dropped, sprayed with pesticides, coated with wax or other extraneous factors.

This film makes someone re-evaluate what they are putting in their mouth due to the ethical conditions of the animals.

I'll admit, I did not become vegan due to ethical reasons. My goal was vanity. I wanted healthy hair and skin. I also wanted to eat all I wanted without gaining weight (anyone who knows me has seen me stomach a huge amount of food). However, once you immense yourself into this lifestyle, you start to educate yourself and you do feel compelled to become a more compassionate being. In some cases, you may end up loving animals and hating humans a little. By watching the film you realize-in my case-that I ate beef, which is a cow, that was strung by its hind leg upside down and had its throat slit. In many cases, the conveyor belt took it to its slaughtering location. In many of these instances, my heart skipped a beat as I watched the cow move. The creature was still alive and was ruthlessly being treated as an object that cannot feel.

The hardest part was watching how they manufacture "kosher" meat. It’s pathetic to say that people who view an animal as something so sacred will slaughter an animal with no respect. Now it boils my blood to hear the hypocritical people who claim to only eat kosher meat because it’s more humane. There is nothing humane about the way they torment and toss the animal to their death for the sake of food.   

As for clothing, I must admit that I love leather. I feel it has a “bad-ass” look to it. I no longer with to be classified as a rebel as I rather be someone who supports the environment and isn’t so concerned with material goods. I do own a few pieces of leather, I admit, I think my Dr. Martens are some of the coolest shoes ever. I also own a very nice leather jacket my mom ordered me from Mexico. I love these items; I also feel sad every time that I now wear them because I know they how they were acquired.

Ever since turning vegan, I have not bought any animal clothing. I also do not intend to do so in the future. It’s cruel that these animals are practically skinned alive just to make a coat or shoes. Now, the thought of wearing dead skin repulses me. I find it horrid that I am wearing the FLESH of an animal whose life was forcefully taken because I wanted to fashionably cover my body. That thought alone makes me feel like a repulsive and selfish-human being.

Food intake:

Breakfast: (1/2) smoothie made with two baby bananas, 2 apples, 10 dates, 4-5 large bananas, carob powder and cocoa powder

Lunch: rest of smoothie

Dinner: 3 cups of grapes, apple, peach, nectarine, 2 dried figs , 1 large banana

Exercise: 10.09 miles
45 min basic hatha yoga

Pets

I love running; it is a very relaxing and stress reducing activity for me. It’s the only time that I can feel free and not have a care in the world. It’s a freeing activity. As I was running I passed by several houses that had dogs. Some of the houses had their animals inside, so you can hear them bark through the screen door. Other households had the animals in the front yard, contained inside by the gate. We often watch the news, infomercials, or just by word of mouth that animal cruelty is on the rise. We often think of animal cruelty in the form of farm animals, slaughter houses, or shelters. However, I was thinking that having a pet is a sugar-coated way of animal cruelty. The main difference here is that, hopefully, the animals are taken care of and are loved by their owners.

As I passed each of the homes, every single dog barked at me. Some were violent and defensive barks--it’s seemed if there was no barrier containing the dog then there is a chance that it would eat me alive. Other barks were more delicate and playful. The majority were defensive. That’s when I started to contemplate the reason that these dogs were barking. I wondered if it was just their natural instinct to bark and want to run with me. That they anticipated freedom and wanted to follow their true animalistic instinct and run and be free. Also, I pondered if the dogs that had the defensive barks felt a sense of oppression and wanted to take their anger out on anyone around them.

All these thoughts came to mind. It makes you change your opinion on the simplicity of existing. These dogs, as well as all animals experience a strong sense of stress. The stress of being confined into a society that they are not naturally part of. The stress of having limited freedom to move about as well as the stress not to be in control of their day. All this adds up and builds tension for these animals which cause them to rebel and attack or become vicious with everyone around them.  

On a side note, imagine that you were constrained into a building for your whole life. You were only allowed to eat when someone would remember to feed you. Imagine being separated from your family, not knowing or being aware that you had ancestors. Imagine only being able to go outside and walk around when someone made time to take you for a walk, even then you were not free to move as you please. You were still strained to the speed/mobility/direction that your owner decided to take you. You didn’t have the ability to decide what you wanted to eat and when you wanted to eat. If you were cold, you had to deal with it because if your owners didn't want you in the house, you had to stake it outside. If you were dirty, you better be good when they wash you up, because you may get in trouble for "misbehaving" or as I say, following your natural instinct.

As we see, animals are constraint to live unnatural lives unless if they are released into the wild. Many state the fact of overpopulation as a problem; however, the only problem is that WE are breading too many animals for the diminishing wild to sustain because the human population likes to have mascots in their life.Humans like to be in control, they normally can't control the lives of other humans so they happen to control animals--cats, dogs, fish, iguanas, hamsters, etc.

Now the question is: are pets considered animal cruelty?

Breakfast: Grapes, 4 oranges, ½ peach and 6 cuties

Lunch: ¾ avocado, lettuce leaves

                Salad made with: mango, pineapple, tomato, onion, cucumber, bell pepper, cilantro and lime

                (Shared with my mom)

Dinner: grapes, 1 banana, 1 pear, 1 apple, 4 baby bananas, 6 dates, 4 dried apricots 

Long Wedesday

There were predictions for rain today; I was pretty disappointed because I had planned a 9 mile run. Thankfully, it didn't rain and I was able to run--it was freezing though. My body is still somewhat sore from Monday, my gluts hurt like crazy and I have a yoga and strength training class today. Hopefully it isn't too painful. I am looking forward to yoga, since its basic Hatha yoga and concentrate on breathing and relaxation; it is a nice de-stressor for my days. I also need a little de-stressor because my group for school isn't pulling their weight with the project. I swear, it very annoying because this is our last semester of school and they are slacking off so much. I can't believe they can't even follow through with basic communication. It really isn't that hard, especially because they are the type of people who are always on the phone 24/7. It makes no sense that they can't respond to a simple text.

Besides my mini-rant (it’s possible that I will continue to complain about these people for the restof the semester). I was watching a documentary called Dive. It is about food waste and how America is the leading nation in waste production. It made me think, especially when it stated that Americans waste about 50% of our food supply through production, transportation, consumption, exportation, and actuallyselling the food. It is mind boggling, how we always state that we want to cure world hunger however, we can't even stop our nation's hunger problems.


There are so many people suffering from food insecurity, it may not seem obvious because food insecurity isn't just defined as not having enough food. It can mean going hungry for a period of hours (as in skipping breakfast or lunch) because you are not sure if you are going to have an enough to eat for dinner. I went to asymposium a while back; food insecurity was one of the topics. It said that if you live in a family with children and the adults skip meals to protect the children from going hungry, then they are suffering from mild insecurity.

However, if the children often skip meals because of lack of food, then that is considered dangerous or serious food insecurity. My question is when is mild and major food insecurity? No one deserves to skip a meal. In my opinion, if anyone skips a meal because there is a lack of food, they are suffering frommajor food insecurity. If you are hungry--no matter your family size, it is shame to our nation. A nation who strives themselves on caring for their citizens, yet can't make sure everyone is properly fed. It’s disturbing to know that all this food that is being wasted can't go to the mouths of the people who need it. 

The documentary discusses the fact that most of the food from supermarkets such as Trader's Joes, Whole Foods, Vons, Ralph's, etc. end up in the garbage because they are either near the expiration date or because it appealing to the eyes. Most of this food is still useful and valuable. In the documentary they will dig outcarts full of food that was still valuable to eat, if frozen it can last a while or if it was immediately prepared in mass quantities (such as in food shelters) it would not be a problem. The thing that was most provocative, was the fact that these supermarkets barricaded their trash cans because they knew that people were dumpster diving. They preferred to ensure that their garbage would get all moldy and return to a dump instead of having someone eat it for dinner. Trash, is trash, if someone throws it into the dumpster it would signal that they no longer need or want it therefore it no longer has value. However, they do get offended when people dig it out. Am I noticing a trend in society here? The wealthy try to humiliate and barricade any access to progress.

Today’s food:

Breakfast: (1/2) of smoothie made from 10 bananas, 10 dates, 3 pears

Lunch: other half of smoothie

Snack? Small pinch of raisins and 1 dried apricot smuggles from sprouts bulk section when shopping

Dinner: fruit salad made from 1 apple, 1 pear, 3? Cups of grapes and two peaches

            Left over frozen smoothie

Exercise: 9.12 mile run

            30 min strength training

            45 min of light gentle yoga

Gloomy weather Tuesday

So, I know I am a horrible blogger. I am not in the habit of keeping diaries or even writing about my life every day because it’s pretty routine. I find that I pretty much do the same thing on a weekly basis. It pretty gloomy outside, we have a chance of rain and it the sky is overcast at the moment. At first I was sad because I thought I wasn't going to be able to go out and run. However, I did thankfully. Not a long run, mind you—as I am still pretty sore, however a humble 4.78 miles was enough to get my blood pumping. I had to hurry home because it started sprinkling and I want to avoid getting sick at all cost.

I have to go to my internship site today, I kind of feel lazy because sometimes it can be very boring. But the thing I dread the most is driving there. This is what irritates me because they are suck long drives and I feel that I waste my life in my car getting from point A to point B. But, we all have to struggle some to make our life happen right?

AHHH, my feet feel like icicles right now, it so cold.

Oh, I have a major rant coming later. But FYI it’s about my group. I can’t believe that the three other girls can’t get their act together to decide how to do our project. I already did like 60% of the assignment and no one else can do anything else? I can’t believe it; they are like 22-25 years old and can’t even act mature. This is what our future employees are going to be like? It’s quiet ridiculous.  

Breakfast: nom nom.

                I had my wooden bowl (I love my wooden bowls J) full of grapes, papaya, and 3 baby
                bananas+2 dates    

               (I had to cut the brown yucky spots off)

Lunch: Leftover salad/tacos from yesterday

          2 cups Fresh squeezed OJ
          1-2 oranges and about 3 cuties 

Dinner: fruit salad with 3 nectarines, 1 apple, grapes (like 3 cups), 1 banana, and 6 dates.

Feeling stuffed.

I just got home from the internship site only to find out that my group for my project haven't finished their fair share of the work. It disgust me how people can be so irresponsible. 

Run it Baby!

First time for everything right? Well, I have always been dreaming of running, running oh so very far like my dad’s job. That 10 mile stretch doesn't seem too far, but when you consider that it is a 20 mile round trip, I bet you will be thinking otherwise. Well, today I did that 20 mile trip, plus some. I had to make a few detours due to construction so I ended up running 22.71 miles in about three hours and 38 min. I feel good. It was a huge accomplishment for me. At first, it didn't seem so bad. When I got to my dad’s work (giving him a hug and then leaving), I thought it was a piece of cake. However, a bit longer and I got thirsty so I had to buy water (I had no pockets so put a 5 dollar bill in my bra pocket) and my money was kind of soaked. I ran about two miles fanning my money so it could get dry so I wouldn't have to hand over a sweaty bill. That would have been embarrassing. However, I got my water (something so tasteless has never been sooo good before) and tried to ration it so I wouldn't get a stomachache as I still had about 8 miles to run.

My legs started to feel heavy and I thought that I wouldn't make it. I was no longer enjoying the scenery as much, I just wondered if I would make it home. The airplanes, my old neighborhood, my old home were no longer appealing as the wish to see my new home, my new neighborhood and not see planes (my dad works near our old home which is located near the airport). But I soon saw the bridge that I longed to see, miraculously my feet took off. That three mile stretch was no longer a challenged I ran my heart out until I saw the beautiful fence that surrounded my home.

Surprisingly, I wasn't as starved as I thought I would be. I did eat throughout the day but my hunger hit at night time. I was famished for dinner and ate about 10 tacos. Then two hours later I was still starving so I hit the grape container pretty hard. But I feel satisfied now, not stuffed.  Have you guys accomplished any goals lately? Today’s run was a major accomplishment, I now feel ready for the LA Marathon.

Today’s food:

BF: Medium size bowl of grapes (like 4-5 cups without the stems)

      Two nectarines

Lunch: 2.5 apples

            6 cuties

Diner: raw tacos: "salsa" pineapple, papaya, tomato, cucumbers, celery, scallions, cilantro, bell pepper

                    "guacamole"tomato, avocado, onion, cilantro and lime

                     "sauce" (same for noodles) papaya and pineapple

            Raw fiesta noodles: Cucumber and carrot noodles with sauce 

Dessert: nectarine

            Bowl of grapes (like three cups-without steams)

Exercise of the day:

Run: 22.71 miles

            Short 20 min walk with the family