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!

From Wikipedia:

Gulab jamun is a popular dessert in countries of the Indian Subcontinent such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. It is made of a dough consisting mainly of milk solids, traditionally, khoya, an Indian milk product (buffalo milk) is rolled into a ball together with some flour and then deep fried, but at a low temperature of about 300°. It is then put into a sugar syrup flavored with cardamom seeds and rosewater, kewra or saffron.

What it doesn’t mention is that it is both delicious and dangerous for the waistline!

To backtrack a bit, my sister and I decided to hit up a brunch buffet at an Indian restaurant just around the corner, Raaz, after a full morning of shopping. It’s by far one of my favorite places in Jersey City! My boss and I try to go to their weekday lunch buffet whenever we’re having an especially slow day.

We absolutely inhaled the food, so the only thing I managed to get a photo of was the gulab jamun! I didn’t taste any rose water or anything else in the syrup though. It just tasted like ordinary maple syrup to me. Still good though.

I dropped my sister off at the train station in the afternoon and went to the gym for a short run and a full body circuit.

While making dinner, I spotted this article in my new issue of Women’s Health. To sum it up in one quote: “If your food and dishes have a high color contrast, you’ll serve yourself less.” Interesting…

Dinner was whole wheat rotini with turkey meatballs, spinach, and my favorite red sauce: Francesco Rinaldi’s hearty tomato and basil sauce.

So keeping in mind the color control article I just saw, I decided against using my favorite bright red bowl for my pasta and instead used my new green and white bowl. It’s part of a set that I just bought at TJ Maxx a few days ago. Love it!