I’m not often a victim of bad luck, but whenever I am, it seems to hits me pretty hard.

This past weekend was one of those times! On Saturday afternoon, I hit the gym with my new armband and my credit and debit cards in the cardholder (get where I’m going on?). After the gym, I went grocery shopping. I know I had both of my cards while I was at the checkout counter, but I couldn’t find my debit card when I got back to my apartment. Luckily, I live about three minutes from the grocery store so I just ran back out and retraced my steps… No luck though. I’m guessing someone found it and picked it up because I had to have gone back within the span of 10 minutes. I had to call the bank and get it replaced.

You know how I talked about getting my bloodwork done in my June goals post? Well, I’d gone and had it done last Monday and the results were waiting in my mailbox when I got back from my debit card-hunting trek. Sadly, more bad news. I’ve been plagued with genetic high cholesterol since I was in high school and I was really hoping it’d gone down in the past year since I’ve gotten a lot healthier, in terms of both my eating and exercise habits. But according to my bloodwork, it’s actually gone up slightly! Not significantly, but it was just very disappointing because that wasn’t the news I’d been hoping to get. There was some other bad news in there that I don’t really want to talk about… I need to call my doctor to talk about the results tomorrow and get some referrals for specialists. Boo.

And after all the bad news bears, I was totally drained and skipped my plan to write a post catching up on the week. But I’m trying my best not to make myself feel like I’m getting behind… S&R is my baby but it’s not my whole life!

Now let’s talk about the good stuff… Fooood! Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been enjoying lately:

A sample of chocolate/vanilla swirl frozen yogurt from my building’s cafeteria today. Topped with toasted coconut, yum! And how cool is this spoon?!

Vegan Divas’ chocolate mousse, which I discovered at my company’s cafeteria. Only 42 calories and absolutely delicious! Sadly, it’s a little pricey ($3.50) for an everyday snack so I may try making it at home to get my chocolate fix.

Veggie burger with soy provolone and roasted red pepper hummus on an Arnold sandwich thin. I just bought all of these things and they are all things I need to buy again soon. It’s a tasty combination and a very quick meal!

Roasted pepper lentil chips with roasted red pepper hummus. Another awesome combination! I’m just loving this hummus lately.

And raspberries! They’re finally in season and I can’t get enough!

Peace out, Cub scout!

Makes my nose tickle! Yuck. Well, I guess you only truly know it’s spring when them horrible allergies kick in again!

Yesterday afternoon, I finished my weekend off by sweating it out through one of Nike Training Club’s 45-minute beginner strength workouts, along with 25 minutes on the elliptical to warm up and cool down. According to NTC’s guidelines, I should really be doing their intermediate workouts. But man, even the beginner workouts just completely kick my butt!

After my workout, I decided to make myself Maria and Josh’s Creamy Avocado Yogurt Dip for a light and early dinner. I didn’t have any jalapeño peppers on hand, but didn’t miss it at all. The garlic gave the kick the dip needed. I also split the recipe in half to make two servings instead of four.

Creamy avocado yogurt dip with baked lentil chips

Yum! This recipe was definitely a hit. I had the dip with Mediterranean Snacks’ Baked Lentil Chips. These are my favorite chips for snacking on when I want that crunch. Unlike most chips, they don’t have that ridiculously high 110-for-10 calorie count. They’re 110 calories for 22 chips — not bad. And they still taste good!

Mediterranean Snacks' baked lentil chips with sea salt