Made ya look. So not exciting here tonight.
My stomach still hasn’t decided what it’s going to do- get better or get worse. I’m leaning towards better, but I wasn’t really feeling dinner. I’m not one to skip meals, so I went with the most basic thing I could come up with besides cereal. (Which is what I really wanted but I used up the last of the milk in chai tea that I finally decided to have as a post-run snack.)
This was my fav-o-fav meal when I was a kid. Especially in the stage where I rebelled against everything and all things tomato. (Which was basically my entire life until college, when I learned attempting to explain to Papa John’s at 2AM that no, I didn’t want pizza sauce on my pizza was a futile conversation. And then I also learned that pizza sauce didn’t in fact kill me.)
Anyways, I’m talking about spaghetti with butter and parmesan cheese. Except in my adult life I made angel hair pasta with Smart Balance, parmesan cheese, and little basil. Because basil makes it grown up, right?
And a slice of garlic toast. Because you need a side of carb with your carbs.
Halfway through I finally got up the courage to try a little spaghetti sauce since it was smelling good.
Hey, you’re supposed to start carbo loading the week before a race. I’m just following sage advice 
Pilates
Even though I wasn’t feeling 100% I decided tonight was still Pilates night. I defintely took it easy though. The coming week definitely has the potential to be stressful- I wanted to grab a chance while I had it to relax and calm down. Pilates is the perfect mental break for me- it’s calming, yet not so calming that you have time to get lost in your thoughts. (That may be good for some people, but I don’t always want to be in my thoughts! They stress me out!)
So now that I’m feeling good and brain dumped, I guess it’s the perfect time to do some homework….:)
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So that actually sounds pretty good. My little cousin used to LIVE off of pasta and butter and cheese. YUM.
Glad you are feeling a bit better girl!
Good job getting the pilates in! I need to get my core work done badly.
OMG that is my favorite dinner EVER. My grandma would make it for me when I was a kid, and I still love it (so does my grandpa)! We call it “cheesy noodles” in our family, and the more cheese, the better.
Hope you feel better soon girl!!!! That pasta actually looks pretty good!!
I hope you feel better soon! I know what you mean about wanting to relax but not get too lost in your own thoughts…when I’m stressed, I need something relaxing AND distracting. Perhaps next time I’ll try some pilates!
I use to eat spaghetti like that when I was little too
I love, love, love pasta with a little butter and parm cheese. Sometimes I also toss in a little breadcrumbs and garlic (mix with a little bit of the water the pasta cooked in) so good.
I used to eat something JUST like that when I would stay at one of my friends’ house….it was the only thing she would eat! I’m sure she wasn’t vitamin-deprived or anything
Looks delicious!
I prefer pilates to yoga myself. Glad you’re leaning towards the getting better and not worse at least.
I always eat my pasta with a side of bread. It’s weird. I never eat bread with, like a chicken and vegetable dish though, or with a rice dish. Only with pasta.
Looks pretty exciting and delicious to me!
I haven’t had buttered noodles in AGES…I think it’s time to bust them out at my house now!
hope your stomach decides to behave soon! i’m torn with spaghetti. i loved it when i was a kid but had a bad experience with it and can’t look at it the same way again. bummer because your dish looks yummy
i love your “carbs w a side of carbs” comment, especially bc last night my fiancee had a pasta sandwich. a PASTA sandwich. i said “ok, so you had a sandwich of carbs?” haha! but sometimes carbs just hit the spot