1:30am: It’s almost like I don’t go to sleep because I’m up all night with the baby! Leo comes into my room about 1:00ish; some nights he’ll sleep with me from the beginning.
5:30am: Carmen is usually the first one up, and sometimes I’ll go in with the baby and play with her for a little and maybe even convince her to sleep a little bit more, which maybe works once out of every ten times.
6:30am: Then we get up and a typical breakfast for them depends on whether I’m eating with my kids or if I’m getting them ready for school, and then I’ll get to eat later on. When I eat with them, I’m eating their leftover cereal that probably has snot in it!
8:30am: Chia parfait with fruit, almond milk, a little bit of honey and cinnamon for breakfast. We actually tried to make a Chia Pet once and completely failed at it, so we’re definitely better at Chia parfaits than Chia Pets! It looks very fancy but it’s not that difficult, and my kids will go for it.
12:00pm: I have a job where I’m either teaching or doing stuff with my book, so my schedule every day is very different and I have a different workout every single day. In my book I talk about being flexible with your workout, because people will get very frustrated and say “I can’t devote a full hour a day to working out,” and quite frankly, I can’t either. Some days I can and I get it in and other days I do little exercises when I’m cooking, or when I’m playing with the kids. But I do love to run outside and people on my Instagram get a kick out of these selfies that I take in the mirror outside my apartment. So I’ll workout when Rafael is taking a nap, which is now usually around noon.
1:30pm: Now I’m usually starving and I like to go to those chopped salad places, which I know is so “New York.” It’s good food, it’s affordable and you can change it up every day; this one is from Just Salad. I also do Living Clearly bowls from my book, where I have things like quinoa and a bunch of different types of vegetables that you can mix up.
4:30pm: Rafael playing with the dogs.
6:30pm: My dinner depends on whether we have an event or what’s going on with the kids, but we do try to eat together when we can. I used to be vegan but now I’m pescetarian, still with no dairy and no meats, and my kids love salmon – we eat a lot of it. My kids also surprisingly love kale, at least for now! This and my breakfast recipe are by my friend Melissa Pecicco, who collaborated with me on my book and who I call my culinary soul mate.
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