Day 3: The Vacay Intuitive Eating Edition

Hey bloggies!  Another full day of vacay activity is under our belt and let me tell yas, I’m pooped!  What a fabulous day we had today though.  I was feeling in need of a longer sleep this morning (most likely due to the super early mornings yesterday and the day before), so no glamorous runs on the beach today!  After I woke up though, I could hardly wait to try out one of the infamous Chobani yogurts that I’ve read so much about on the American food blogs.  This morning I decided to roll with the fact that I still have some Nova Scotia blueberries from our road trip and chose the blueberry Chobani:

I topped the yogurt with:

Kashi Black Currants & Walnuts cereal, Aurora Salad fixin’s and some sliced almonds:

  

It was sooooo flavourful and good!

A little while later, after hubby got up and we got ready for the day, it was time for him to have breakfast and truth be told I was hungry again!  It was nearing 11:00, so I decided that I would fuel up for our big tennis match that we had planned and load up on protein.

We went to:

and I ordered:

Eggs were poached and ham with wheat toast:

and a side of bacon:

And I have to toot my own horn here because so far on this trip I have never once eaten myself to an uncomfortable place!  I’ve had lots of treats, but all to a point of being satisfied and never more than that.  I left all of this on my plate:

And TWO cups of coffee with half & half.  Oh how I love a coffee in the morning :-)

Next up was my re-match against hubby at the tennis court.  I swore to him that I was going to win this time around.

We played the first match and he beat me both sets.  Booooo.  We decided to play a second set and all of a sudden I channeled a little Venus & Serena and I totally held my own and we ended up tying the first set.  Then he played some Jedi mind tricks on me, threw me all off my game and he won the tie breaker!  BUGGER!  He is not a good loser at all!  By that point it was 2 hours of straight play and I was not only tired, but my foot was aching so badly.  I have been having major foot issues lately and it’s not good! 

Plus I was getting hungry, so hubs and I split a Peanut Butter & Jelly Larabar

By the way, there’s a reason why this label is on the bar

Hubby chomped down on a shell of some sort.

I was pretty stiff after taking the break (and so was hubs), so we decided to throw in the towel for the day.  I was pretty pleased with myself for making him actually work for that last win.  I’m getting better!  We had soo much fun playing!  Lots of laughs and lots of calories burned.  To the tune of about 600 :-)

By the time we got back to our room, I was super hungry and just couldn’t wait to whip up a delicious and healthy salad from the fixin’s I bought at Whole Foods!  Woot!  I hadn’t stopped thinking about it since our visit to the store!  How pathetic rehabilitated is it that I dream about salad now rather than Big Macs?!

Who says you can’t eat healthy foods while on vacation on the road?!  The magic word = kitchenette!

The mix:

plus: some cubes of cheddar cheese, grapes, avocado, fresh lime juice, Maine honey (bought a smidge in bulk just for the salad):

You guys, it was THE BEST!  I enjoyed every single bite!  Lately I can’t get enough yummy salads! 

Then hubby and I hit the road to The Kittery Premium Outlets where hubby put his “best husband in the world” hat on and it was like “Driving Miss Angie” around from store to store while I browsed and shopped!  What a little angel he was!  He was so patient and sweet driving me around to the different parking lots and making sure that I didn’t have to walk too far because of my killer foot (I just typed food ;-P)

And boy am I ever glad because I just may have gone over my planned budget and he didn’t even give me that “look of death” that he would normally give me (I love you darlin’! MWAH)

I HAD to get me a Grande Iced Americano with SF Hazelnut syrup  & half & half to tide me over to supper.

Oh and SPEAKING OF SUPPER we were just around the corner to Portsmouth, so…….we hit up my favourite:

I had only ever been there twice and both times was two years ago when we went to New Hampshire and I got my wedding dress.  I heart The Olive Garden!

 

 

They have the BEST wine!  I enjoyed a glass of their blush: 

 

 

Salad & a Breadstick

We split an appetizer

where I ate all the stuffed mushrooms..mmmmm…

And I ordered the

 

which was AWESOME

and what was even BETTER was how much I left on my plate because I was “satisfied”:

And no dessert was required because of these tasty little guys:

And we left the restaurant having had an amazing day together all in all an it was time to head back to the hotel.  And that’s where things kind of took a “wrong turn.”  It was late by then (like 9:30 p.m.) and we were just about to make the 50 min drive back to Old Orchard Beach when the husband realized that we should get some more gas. We drive a diesel and well, it turned out that we had the hardest time finding a diesel gas station and our GPS kept taking us to these old creepy vacant roads where no gas station existed!  Every time we’d try to turn around we’d end up back on some highway heading for Boston or some such!

Every station we found didn’t have diesel!  And I asked one gas attendant lady where we could find diesel and she gave me this SOL look on her face and rambled off lingo that only locals would understand and was not very helpful at all.  I tried to get her to clarify what she had said and she was only interested in changing her garbage cans.  What a !*$#!  Honestly!  Finally we found our way (somehow!) to where she had vaguely explained on the million highways that there is (in the DARK) and filled up!  Pheeeeeew!  Somewhere during that time my perfect “Driving Miss Angie” husband hat turned into “stressed out lost and going to run out of gas” husband and let me tell you, it was a tense situation!  I kept picturing us running out of gas on one of those old creepy roads that the GPS was telling us to go to and so was he!

Not to mention, he had the voice on the GPS to be “Yoda” and it said everything backwards.

If I had of heard “Left, you must turn,” “On the motorway, you must join” one more time! lol

All in all though, we got home safe and sound and no worse for wear and had an absolutely fabulous day, although there was no beach involved which I was sad about.  We’re both stiff from all of the on-the-go activity and tennis playing and it feels great :-)  So far I am feeling great about my balance of activity and vacation indulgences an listening to my body :-)