Rambles & Product Reviews

Hi ladies! I hope you have all had a magnificent Monday. The sun has been out the whole day today which is a major record considering the past rainy week.

I don't usually do this, but I kind of wanted to get something off of my chest. So please pardon my rambling!

Yesterday was a really bad day. My boyfriend of 2 years recently got accepted into law school (4 states away) and in about 2 weeks, he'll pack his bags to start a brand new life. We're trying to work things out, but it's just so hard.. especially since we've been in 2 different cities this entire summer. We had a really good talk last night and tried to figure some things out. But after our talk, I had a major meltdown and was up til about 3AM thinking about things.

Needless to say, when I woke up this morning I knew I needed to find something happy to do. So I went all by myself to my favorite place:

The beach! (post swimming picture ;] ) It was really relaxing. I swam, listened to my iPod, and read some of the last Harry Potter book. I felt much better after this!

Thank you so much for reading if you got through all of that! Now here are the eats:

Scrambled eggs with ketchup and turkey slices

Total Cereal. Sadly we were out of milk which made me even more hungry. I had this amount times two!

Toasted turkey wrap, grapes, apple, & diet cream soda

A little piece of coconut.. mmm

Strawberry Slurpee from 7-Eleven's Free Slurpee Day

Salad with strawberries, onions, and honey mustard
Archer Farms Jumbo Coconut Shrimp with pineapple chutney dipping sauce
My Review: DELISH. The sauce was amazing! I bought these at Super Target in the frozen aisle. As Rachel Ray would say, "Yum-O!"

Granny Smith with creamy peanut butter

Breyers Pure Fruit Pomegranate Blends: Blueberry Pomegranate
My Review: Blueberry was definitely the best flavor out of the three (mango, blueberry, and mixed berry). At only 40 calories per bar, they are perfect for those hot summer days.

Have a great night tonight friends! I'll be watching The Bachelorette in about an hour. I'm so excited! <3HBB

Summer Lovin'

Hi friends! I'm Shannon, The Healthy Beach Bum, & this is my first post! :) I discovered all of your amazing foodie blogs towards the beginning of this year, and have secretly been hooked ever since.

I just finished my junior year of college at the University of Florida and will be home sweet home for the summer in FL. My goal for for these next few months is to get into a consistent and healthy eating/fitness routine.

Breakfast:

1 egg + 1 egg white, 3 pieces turkey deli lunch meat, & hot sauce (muy caliente!)

1 tiny Granny (Smith) :)

Workin' on my fitness:

Post yummy b-fast I went out for my daily run. I'm VERY bad at making decisions, so it took me THREE tries before I finally decided where I wanted to go running .

The plan was a beach run.. I was hoping for a day like this:

But it turned out it was HIGH TIDE. I attempted to run it for about 15 minutes, but it was just too difficult. There was no room to run on shore.

So instead, I drove by Hulk Gogan's beach house for a little tourist time. :)

I finally decided to run a 1.5 mile sidewalk (down & back) alongside the water.

In the end, it all worked out.. literally! :)

LUNCH:

I'd like to call this the "Salad Concoction"

(I make a lot of these...)

Romaine, sugar-free bread & butter pickles, vidalia onion vinaigrette, ramano cheese, broccoli slaw

The secret YUM factor in this salad was...

Sauerkraut + turkey lunch meat!

First fried in a pan & then mixed all together.

WEIRD, but amazing..

I also had this orange + frozen blackberries combo:

Time to take my dog out for a walk!

I can't wait to share more of my healthy ramblings with you! <3 HBB