Day 2 – The Vacay Exercise Rockstar & Whole Roods Junkie Edition

If there was ever a time where I would spring out of bed earrrrrly in the morning to exercise it was today.  I had to seize the moment this morning and as soon as I could see the daylight through the window, I sprung up out of bed.  I mean, doesn’t the idea of going for a run on the beach at sunrise sound like the ultimate enticement to get up?!  This was most definitely a first for me.  My foot has been paining me like a mo fo for weeks now but I didn’t care I had to go!  I haven’t even exercised in, well, weeks, so all signs pointed to DO IT!

It was sooooo refreshing at that hour.  There were a few people out walking along the beach, but not many. I ran and walked about half and half for a total of 1 hour and since it was fairly light intensity, I burned about 350 cals.  Greeeeat way to start the day!

 

I also came across this awesome sand castle that had survived the night’s incoming and outgoing tide:

 

The birds were so peaceful to watch too.  Loved every second.

I hadn’t eaten anything beforehand and by the time I got back, I had no problem gobbling up a post-run Peanut Butter Cookie Larabar and shortly after that, a homemade cosmic cookie (last one):

After hubby woke up about an hour later, we went down the street for real breakfast.  We happened across a “buffet” which I thought would be fun because I could pick and choose whatever.

I started with some fruit (which I only ate half), then I got an assortment of ham, scrambled eggs, tomato  pancake (I only ate half of one pancake, a few bites of eggs and most of the ham (not the best quality of food I have to say):

Although I did enjoy some baked beans and (of course), some much anticipated cup ‘o joe:

Next up was TENNIS!  The husband and I hit up the tennis courts and tore up the courts!  Okay so he beat me AGAIN, but in my defence, my foot was excruciatingly sore and I was anxious to hurry it up so that I could get to the beeeeeach! (Tomorrow I’m going to WIN!)

After about 1 hour and 20 mins of that and a super fun 600 calories burned, I had the best lunch.  It was a combination of lobster, scallops, shrimp & haddock with a special “captain’s stuffing” (sooo goood!) with a side of steamed broccoli & a roll:

And I was feeling all “well balanced food groupie” and added some Stoneyfield raspberry yogurt + fresh raspberries (important from NS a la moi!):

Thennnnn it was beach time!!!!  Hubby wasn’t really interested in vegging at the beach with me (don’t ask me, he’s a little nuts!), but I didn’t mind spending a little quality time with moi and my new read:

Later in the afternoon I got hungry and ended up having the most perfect snack!  It was a few melba toasts, cheddar cheese, grapes, blueberries and some diet coke:

Hubby had come back from his own little exploring while I was chilling at the beach and he looked as though he had hit the motherload of all special vacation treats!  He just had to take me there to show me his heaven:

  I have to admit, even though I had zero interest in this sport outfitting store, he was in his bliss and I just adored watching him be so happy browsing about the store.  It sort of felt like a museum with all of the stuffed animals and this giant fish tank:

After that we hit up the Maine Mall where I had scoped out the fact that there was a Williams Sonoma there.  I knew that I wanted to buy a bottle of their aged balsamic vinegar and pure vanilla extract, but I’m tellin’ yas I came out with more than that!  I’ll just leave it at that! ;-)

Hubs and I were feeling a little “deserving” of a cold treat given our activity of the day, so we treated ourselves to some TCBY.  He got a strawberry sherbet and I got the white chocolate frozen yogurt with oreo topping.  Can you believe that these are a small serving?? They were both the same size until he rolled the fro yo in oreo topping.  We shared both and only ate half of each!

 While hubby was out and about as I relaxed on the beach, he had already scoped out where he wanted to go for dinner: 

The waitress talked me into:

     It was reeeeally good!  I could have done with less blue cheese, but still it was delish!

Then it was my turn while I went to my heaven :-)

OH.MY.GOD!  I just couldn’t believe the extent of ORGANIC foods that were all sooooo reasonably priced!!!  This store takes ALL of the work out of it!  There’s no hunting around from store to store trying to find the products you like.  It’s ALL right there.  (I even bought organic Heintz ketchup!) I seriously feel SAD about it because we don’t have nearly as grand of a selection (or at as good of a price) in Nova Scotia.  If I had this readily available to me in Halifax at the same relative prices, there is no doubt in my mind that I wouldn’t even think twice about eating all organic foods.  No question. Hands Down.  I do it 90% of the time now, but I make major $$ sacrifices to do it. 

Okay, just for fun, look at how many different kinds of hummus there was:

And bulk nut butters:

 

I knew that my main mission was to stock up on greek yogurts and I think I may have gone a little overboard:

Um, yeah.  Be prepared to see a lot of Greek Yogurt around here for a while! ;-) 

Oh and the individually packed nut butters…

AND THE LARABARS…

*sigh* if only I knew of some Halibloggers who could help take some of these off my hands ;-)

And yes those are the new flavours ;-)