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I just like to enjoy my tea in the morning and give my body a second to digest from the night before and then get into my lunch. Pop Up Bagels invited me over to their store in Westport and I picked up some spreads in Bagel and they are the best bagels I've ever had. So I grabbed some of these. Okay, so the first thing that I'm making, I actually got this in Italy. I ordered avocado toast and this is what came. The best avocado toast I've ever had, but it's really not avocado toast. I feel like it would also be really good on a bagel. So since I have those bagels, I'm just gonna try making them both for fun. I feel like it would be really, really good on the bagel. I'm just gonna quickly toast these. While that is toasting, I'm going to make the lettuce portion of this. It's really not much lettuce on top. Cut a lemon, do some lemon, olive oil, and then salt and pepper and then I think I'm gonna put some everything but the bagel seasoning in it. That's pretty much what it was in Italy. Okay, my camera just dropped and broke so we're gonna be using my other camera. So now I'm just gonna put this hummus on the toast. This is a grainier hummus. This is freshly made at a market near me. I like it to be a little bit grainier. That's just my preference. I think it has better texture. And I'm also gonna make it on the bagel. Okay, then I'm just gonna take a little bit of avocado. I don't want too much avocado on it and this is honestly how they did it in Italy, which I really liked. So yeah, that much is good. And then I'm just gonna take this dressed lettuce and put it on top of the toast, like that. And then I'm just gonna put this everything but the bagel seasoning on top. And that's it. I'm just gonna eat it right on this cutting board. Pairing carbs with proteins and fats and some vegetables keeps me fuller, more energized throughout the day and just feeling better. So I'm not scared of carbs. I just am always pairing them with the right thing. And I'm using them as like a fuel for my day and feeling full. That is so good. Okay, I have to try a bite of the bagel one. This is by far one of my favorite lunches. I thought it was breakfast. It's brunch. It's brunch. Can you see me? Mm-hm. It's a lady bad. Okay. Since I've broken my camera, I've acquired a videographer. Hi. Hi guys. I've never done this before where someone's like following me. So silly. Oh wait, also, I'm bringing my Dairy Boy tote available on DairyBoy.com. To go to the farmer's market. Oh, I'm not good at this. I have to do that smoother. Wait, okay, let's go. I fucked it up again. Okay, guys, I'm going to do a little haul from the farm stand. So I got these peppers, got some tomatoes, got some cucumbers. You really won't find cucumbers like this in the supermarket. So I always love getting cucumbers, got some squash. And then I got these green beans that I'm going to pickle. And then I got some fresh eggs. Okay, I'm just going to put these in this big jar that I have. This is equal parts, white distilled vinegar and water. And then I'm just going to add some kosher salt. Kind of just do everything like eyeballing it. And then some garlic powder. For the green beans, I like them pretty tart and garlicky. So pretty simple. I'm not even going to add any dill or any fresh herbs. Going to let this boil and then pour it over the green beans. Okay, close this up. I usually just wash it and then dry it. I'm going to pop this in the fridge. I wanted to add a segment in this video talking a little bit about my nutrition and diet and how it's evolved. I get asked a lot about how I maintain my weight, how I eat what I eat while maintaining my weight. I had a reflection recently and I was able to reflect on why I think my relationship has changed with food since moving to Connecticut and leaving the city. And I guess it did kind of take me a full year to fully reflect on this. I knew that my relationship with food had gotten better because I'm cooking more, because I'm getting more fresh produce. I know I have a healthier relationship with food, but I never really realized that it was probably also had to do with my environment. I just feel like I'm a much less emotional eater. I get a lot of questions about weight, how I've lost weight or how I'm able to eat bread and pasta and still maintain the weight that I'm at. And for me, it's more about enjoying all of the things in life in moderation. Another thing that I really like to do, which you'll see in this video is I don't really snack or have much sugary treats throughout the day, but I'll always treat myself to dessert. I really love to bake. I love making treats. I don't want to use words that might seem like toxic, but the thing that I thought of was like rewarding myself after a long day of like hard work. It's not rewarding myself for my diet. It's rewarding myself for my day with like a comforting baked thing, which is like I bake cookies a lot. I make muffins a lot. So I kind of save that sweet treat until the end of the day. I love ending the day with like a treat. I definitely have a sweet tooth, but that doesn't mean that I don't have Starbucks sweet drinks or like, you know, I'm not like super disciplined about it, but that's normally what my weeks look like. But yeah, everything in moderation, that's much easier said than done. I know that that took me 25 years to learn, but I eat everything, but I eat everything in moderation. So I'm definitely very aware of my portion sizes because at the end of the day, I feel like there are so many diets and there are so many content creators that are sharing different tips and tricks and different diets and it's really not a one size fits all thing. And you really have to listen to your body and kind of intuitively eat. But I also think that people are so scared to say and talk about especially influencers because they're worried about the backlash coming out and saying, I really do believe that we burn a certain amount of calories a day. Our body, everyone's body is different. And if you consume more than you're burning, you will gain weight. I don't count calories, but I definitely am aware of what I'm consuming. It's just science really at the end of the day. If you are consuming more than you're burning, you're going to be gaining weight. Sometimes you wanna gain that weight and sometimes you don't. So just being aware and conscious of that, I would focus more on intuitively eating but rather than following trendy diets and crazy things and unhealthy diets that will lead you to binging. I think just like set yourself up for success. And then I'm just getting started on dinner. I know that it's gonna be a soup, but I'm not sure what type of soup yet. So I need to go talk to the girls and see what they want. But we've been on a very big soup kit recently. So just gonna get this started and let it simmer. I've talked about it before, but this is by far my favorite chicken broth seasoning. I'm almost out of it. This is what I use for a lot of my broth bases. Sometimes I'll mix this with water and even some bone broth, but this is what I'm using tonight. Okay, I put this chicken thigh from Butcherbox that was frozen in the soup. I'm just gonna let this simmer. Okay, just shredded the chicken. Gonna add this back to the soup. Going to chop some green onions to put in the soup now. And then before I serve it, I'll probably garnish it with some more. I just added some shiitake mushrooms. Now I'm just gonna add a little bit of soy sauce. Mix this. Now I'm gonna add these rice noodles. I forgot to mention, I also added a little bit of miso paste to this. I'm gonna add a few of these just to add some spice to the soup, but not make it super spicy, just like warm and add some flavor. So how I usually serve this is I get my noodles and the chicken and the veggies that I want. And then I just take the broth and I pour it over because I'm a big noodle person. And this is it. If you know, you know. I'm grating some of the zucchini that I got today from the farmer's market. I wanna try putting some zucchini in two of the muffins. I think it would be really good and add texture. That works.