Protein powder or food with protein?
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 6:26 am
8. To train: Upper body or Lower body?
Training lower body is usually pretty easy for me — I’ve always had decently strong legs — so I like training my upper body!
I’ve never been one for protein powder, though sometimes I get curious about it and think about trying it out. I’m definitely more of a food with protein kind of girl.
10. Lunges or squats?
Squats I guess, though I feel like one is just as bad/good as the other…
11. Sweet or salty?
Sweet! I’ve always been a dessert girl.
I know I am. Tomorrow evening (it’s Thursday night as I’m typing this), I’ll be hopping on a bus to NYC with Fabio and our friends, Megan and JR! Like last year and the year before, we wanted to plan a weekend trip up to the Big Apple to celebrate the holidays with some of our very best friends.
This year I’ll be spending time with my best friends from high school (Bianca, Hana, and Sam) as we as my best friends from college (known as Sloppytown or The Gurlays). I can’t wait for us all to be reunited again!
Eeek!
Before I can dive into the weekend fun though, let’s talk about some of the things that made me smile this week with my usual Favorite Things Friday post! Feel free to play along in the comments below and let me know what you were loving this week.
Favorite Purchase
A while back, my friend Cait raved to me about her new favorite cookbook, Cravings list to data by Chrissy Teigen. At the time I had just bought Eating in the Middle, a cookbook by Andie Mitchell, and so I raved back about that one.
Then my mom got me the Cook’s Illustrated cookbook for my birthday, and I realized how ridiculously happy it makes me to read a new cookbook.
I know they might not be for everyone – certainly the Internet has changed the way most people find recipes – but there is something about flipping through the pages of a book with beautiful glossy photographs and flagging recipes that I know I want to make in the future. It also makes meal planning a lot easier because I can just look back at the pages I’ve bookmarked when it’s time to select a recipe.
So, last week when I saw Chrissy Tiegen’s cookbook included on a holiday gift guide I was reading, I decided to treat myself to it.
Training lower body is usually pretty easy for me — I’ve always had decently strong legs — so I like training my upper body!
I’ve never been one for protein powder, though sometimes I get curious about it and think about trying it out. I’m definitely more of a food with protein kind of girl.
10. Lunges or squats?
Squats I guess, though I feel like one is just as bad/good as the other…
11. Sweet or salty?
Sweet! I’ve always been a dessert girl.
I know I am. Tomorrow evening (it’s Thursday night as I’m typing this), I’ll be hopping on a bus to NYC with Fabio and our friends, Megan and JR! Like last year and the year before, we wanted to plan a weekend trip up to the Big Apple to celebrate the holidays with some of our very best friends.
This year I’ll be spending time with my best friends from high school (Bianca, Hana, and Sam) as we as my best friends from college (known as Sloppytown or The Gurlays). I can’t wait for us all to be reunited again!
Eeek!
Before I can dive into the weekend fun though, let’s talk about some of the things that made me smile this week with my usual Favorite Things Friday post! Feel free to play along in the comments below and let me know what you were loving this week.
Favorite Purchase
A while back, my friend Cait raved to me about her new favorite cookbook, Cravings list to data by Chrissy Teigen. At the time I had just bought Eating in the Middle, a cookbook by Andie Mitchell, and so I raved back about that one.
Then my mom got me the Cook’s Illustrated cookbook for my birthday, and I realized how ridiculously happy it makes me to read a new cookbook.
I know they might not be for everyone – certainly the Internet has changed the way most people find recipes – but there is something about flipping through the pages of a book with beautiful glossy photographs and flagging recipes that I know I want to make in the future. It also makes meal planning a lot easier because I can just look back at the pages I’ve bookmarked when it’s time to select a recipe.
So, last week when I saw Chrissy Tiegen’s cookbook included on a holiday gift guide I was reading, I decided to treat myself to it.