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Hello friends, happy marvelous Monday to you all! Thank you for the beautiful Katie for hosting MIMM 🙂
It’s marvelous to have been catching up with my friends I haven’t talked to in a while. I saw a lot of friends over the past few weeks that I’ve missed and I’m happy that this summer is proving to be super fun, eventful, and beautiful (in terms of weather). This weeke was also Pride Week 2012 and my friend and I went over to the Boystown neighborhood in Chicago to support our gay friends. We didn’t stay at the parade long and went straight to Wrigleyville for some day partying which I’ve missed so much.
This song is marvelous and I’ve been lovin’ it the past 2 months and I’m still not over it. I absolutely suck at genre-naming but I guess I’ve totally shifted towards the whole chill indie music over the past year. I used to listen to house all the time and now the only time I really listen to house is when I’m working at the club. On my own, I’m like this chill machine that listens to the calmest music. Strangely, Jango thinks that City and Colour is similar to some crazy rock songs and my City and Colour station is randomly intertwined with screamo, crazy indie hip hop, and then chill indie. It’s one confusing station. I have to click the thumbs down button quite a bit when I listen to it, haha.
Another marvelous thing that has happened recently is that I’ve completed the ChaLEAN Extreme program! So I think it’s a perfect opportunity to talk about how marvelous this program was and what my overall opinions of it were. Personally, I loved this program. I love Chalean Johnson – she rocks! She is very motivational and not throughout the whole 5 months was she annoying or boring. Never have I thought to myself “Oh God, Chelean, just SHUT UP already.” Nope. Which says a lot considering she’s been the first person I’d see every day (almost) for the past 5 months.
Happy Father’s Day!
My dad is a huge fan of cream-based desserts. He loves all of those creamy fattening desserts such as eclairs, but is a sucker for Wuzetka, which is a Polish cake that has chocolate cake layers on top and bottom and in the middle it’s a very thick cream. He always buys that cake when they go grocery shopping in Polish deli stores. My mom hatess it. The cake is so fattening and it doesn’t really even taste all that good when it’s made in a store anyway. The way we remember it, from Poland, was much much better. Especially when it’s homemade.
Well I totally went off track. I’m not even making this cake for Father’s day. I don’t think my culinary experience is high enough to tackle this just yet. One day though, I might. A healthier version, of course. So for today, the cupcakes I made (of course it’s cupcakes, of course, haha) were inspired by Wuzetka.
It’s a deep chocolate cupcake with a homemade vanilla pudding filling and a chocolate frosting. While this dessert looks and tastes completely sinful, it really isn’t! Healthy chocolate frosting tastes just as good as the butter laden one, if not better, and it definitely makes you feel better about eating it guitlessly. The delicious creamy pudding filling is a wonderful contrast to the deep chocolatey cupcake. The outcome is simply wonderful.
Not one person could tell this cupcake had such incredible stats. A cupcake that has 4g of sugar? And only 120 calories for such an amazingly sinful-tasting treat! How’s that for “indulge without the bulge”?!
Now this is my take on a cream dessert – make cupcakes, and make them healthy 🙂
I recently received a sample KLUTCHclub box that they had for the month of April, which they titled “Spring clean your body.” In this box, I’ve received a bunch of fun stuff. But before we get into the contents, let’s introduce KLUTCHclub:
“KLUTCHclub is committed to bringing their customers the best health, wellness, and fitness products and services right to their door. Every month you subscribe, you’ll receive a hand-picked selection of exciting products from new and trusted brands that will help you lead a healthy and balanced life, in a convenient way.”
I thought the idea is great. It is similar to NatureBox with its subscription-based monthly box shipping, except this one focuses on the whole genre of health, wellness, AND fitness. In this box (April) I received 9 products:
My parents and I made a short trip to Central-South Illinois to visit the Amish country there and have ourselves a little getaway from the city and suburbs. When I said I wanted to go to see the Amish country, my mom got really excited – she apparently already even had some info collected about the town of Arthur, IL and we were set to go. My dad just wanted to go somewhere, anywhere, so he was just as happy to make the trip.
Our trip to the cabin lasted about 3-4 hours. It was a longer trip than I expected. On our way there, we stopped at the first Amish looking town of Arcola, IL. While the town sign said that it contains the largest Amish settlement, we honestly did not see any Amish people here at all. We weren’t also entirely sure of what to look for or what to expect. But people had cars and everything, so we didn’t know if maybe our perception of the Amish was skewed and they actually are more modernized by now than we thought. We started our trip on Sunday so a lot of establishments were closed. We did make a visit to one of the antique shops though. It was interesting.
Today I have something totally awesome to talk about with you guys. I recently received a fun little package… we all know how much I love Balance Bar already from my previous review of their Balance Bare bar and the s’mores bar in my Energy Bar Wars post. Today I’m here to talk about yet another product by Balance Bar – Nimble bars!
This time, Balance Bar team created a bar specifically targeted towards women. Aside from following their 40-30-30 energy formula, they have also added nutrients and vitamins that are beneficial to a woman’s health and beauty. Additionally, the bar is only 120 calories and is the first bar to be sweetened with Truvia rebiana (as well as brown rice syrup and a small amount of regular sugar – it is second to last on the list though which is pretty good!)
“Fortified with rich antioxidants, beta-carotene and 10mg of FloraGLO® Lutein, nimble provides vital nutrients for healthy skin and seven critical ingredients for women’s bodies: protein (10g); fiber (5g); calcium; iron; folate; and vitamins D and B6. Nimble contains the 40-30-30 ratio of carbohydrates, protein and fat that can help stabilize blood sugar, reduce inflammation, steady your mood and improve energy. Nimble comes in 1.16 ounce single-serve bars and is certified Kosher.”
Flavor wise, I freaking love these bars. I knew I would. The other Balance Bars I have tried were a hit and I didn’t expect anything less than amazing – I was not surprised with the satisfaction the bar delivered for my taste buds. Needless to say, I’m super excited to have been introduced to these lower-calorie women-friendly bars.
Isn’t my dog cute? Her name is Cookie. She’s adorable. Anyway! Back to the WIAW post…
My second time doing WIAW! Yay. I have to say it really does help. It makes me even more conscious of the food I put into my mouth. Not only thinking about calories but actually documenting and seeing the food you eat is helpful. So yeah. Although the WIAW I did was for Monday, I wanted to share with you some food I ate on Easter Sunday. I was at first going to document the whole Sunday but decided against it later on… well actually I simply forgot about taking pictures of food after like 3pm. Plus there wasn’t a whole lot of veggies going on.. So yeah…
Here goes!
Wow, so I totally typed this whollllleeee thing and it took me like 20 minutes to type and I clicked publish but for some odd reason, it didn’t and the draft is gone. So that’s awesome. But ANYWAY, back to this. This is freaking awesome. I did not expect to be nominated and definitely not so early in my blogging “career.” I am thrilled and shocked, but pleasantly so. Thank you so much to Peter Block over at Feed Your Soul for nominating me. I am indeed trying to do it all, and I am thankful you noticed. Peter also has a lot of food porn going on at his blog so you should definitely check it out.
Here are the blogs I’m nominating…
I’m sure all of them have already been nominated for this numerous times and that’s okay. I want them all to know they are awesome and I always look forward to their new posts. In no particular order:
Now, here are some fun facts about me:
Finally,
Hello all! Brand new blog. I like following blogs and thought it’s time I make my own that actually has to do with life rather than photography. This one is more relevant to other people that are in similar situations as me. Not like I’m in any particular situation… but I want to start blogging about life. So let me introduce myself really fast:
You can call me Kammie. My real name is Kamila, but many people can’t seem to pronounce it for some odd reason. It’s not that hard. But then that’s why I prefer shortened versions of my name. Kammie or Kam works 🙂 I am currently 22 and living downtown Chicago. I am a third year undergraduate student double-majoring in Psychology and Advertising (creative). I am also an Honors student. Yeah, I like to brag. I think I have this right, it’s not easy being a nerd in such a busy world today :P. I am also a freelance photographer specializing in portraiture, conceptual, glamour, boudoir, and events.
My mom is a total health freak and her obsession has turned me into one before I left home also. I have lived according to the Blood Type Diet and many many other diets before. Currently, I am focused on just simple healthy living with some splurges on the side so I don’t go crazy. I like to keep my food simple and healthy – I am a proponent for organic and natural foods. I love fruits and veggies. I am also a sucker for pastries and baked goods. I’m not big at cooking but I like to make simple recipes and I am excited to learn to bake! So since I live downtown and I am already in my 20s, I am also trying to update my wardrobe and style to keep my age in check – I am slowly trying to stay more fashionable and sophisticated rather than simply comfy. It’s a hard switch but it’s gotta get done.
So that’s basically me! 🙂 Hello!
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