Breakfast for the family!

Sunday, being the traditional brunch day, I decided to make my family brunch! I made everyone a fruit platter (plus hummus and Celery). I made one for mom, my brother, and me. The one on the left with apples tangerine celery and flat pretzels was for my mom because she likes those (I do too, but they are not the best so I passed – my plate is in the middle with strawberries instead) and my brother who had the same as my mom but strawberries instead of apples (he loves strawberries.)
A great way to help make your family eat healthy or learn what you are eating is to make a meal for them. This was super easy and fun to make!

*This meal has a ton of fiber and you can get some protein but adding a dip like hummus or peanut butter with your fruits and veggies!

My Meals today!

Here is what I ate today (all vegan and almost raw!)

Woke up: Warm glass of water with fresh lime juice (less than half a lime – very strong)

Breakfast: a fruit salad I made last night with apple slice, a tangerine, banana, and grapes. Then for some protein I had to tablespoons (or a bit more) of hummus which I accompanied with Bell peppers

Lunch: today at school it was “burrito nacho day” so I had black beans and guacamole topped by a salad consisting of tomato, cucumber and lettuce with olive oil vinigrette for dressing. So delicious! (and water)

Dinner: half a banana sliced dipped in some almond butter (appitizer) followed by a whole wheat Trader Joe’s tortilla smeared with hummus and bell pepper and celerie. I made it a wrap and it was really tasty!

So that is what I had today. I just wanted to give an example of my nutrition habits and what I eat because this blog is partially about my veganism. Hope you enjoyed, try these on your own and if you have any questions feel free to ask!

Sleep: motivation

So I just came back from a class trip and I was tired. Yesterday I took a two hour nap and still had 10.5 hours of sleep (I don’t have school today). It was great, I feel caught up on sleep. However I don’t always have that motivation. Most nights I don’t want to go to sleep until a late hour because I always think I could do something better. I don’t have insomnia and I love to sleep, but getting to sleep is the problem. So I did some research and here are some tips on specifically having motivation to sleep (falling asleep is a different article)

– make a goal that you will go to sleep at say 9 or 10 pm for three weeks (that is how long it takes to form a habit) and I know for me it feels great to check something off my to-do list, which could include “go to bed at 9:30.”

– if you have homework due the next day and haven’t finished it, make a goal to wake up half an hour or a hour earlier – and the way you do that is by going to bed at either a reasonable time or telling yourself to go to sleep when your body tells you even if you haven’t finished the product.

-think about how good you have it. You have a bed, blankets, a place to live, and ability to have breakfast the next morning. Not everybody has those resources. Think how comfortable lying down on your bed is and how good breakfast will be tomorrow!

– I know tons of people don’t have breakfast in the morning but make a goal to wake up fast (by getting sleep) and make yourself a quick breakfast or something to go. I know I try to have a smoothie every morning. And even though most places say making a smoothie is so easy, its not the easiest when you are slow and tired in the morning. You feel me?

– I’m obsessed with youtube, I watch it more than TV and that is my main problem. youtube videos at night, so good but such a procrasonation of going to sleep. Since this isn’t a post about HOW to go to sleep let me just say that reminding yourself that your subscription box is still going to be there tomorrow and choose the videos that you think are most interesting and watch those tonight if you must and save the rest for free time tomorrow!

So this is something I am working on currently and I wrote this just because I haven’t found a video or article that specifically talks about motivation to get away from busy-ness and the computer. Hope this helps. Post on falling asleep coming soon!

PS: If you didn’t know, teens are supposed to get 8 hours of sleep