Show and Tell

Well I cant say today was totally awesome calorie wise, BUT I did do good~!

Ok so breakfast started out good.

 oatmeal with a few rasins!  sorry guys i dont have time to post calories tonight!! :( But i figured I could at least show and tell LOL!

 

 

Before lunch I got ravenous. Not sure why..maybe didnt eat enough yesterday? Normally oatmeal fills me up.

 

 

Cottage cheese, blackberries and cantalope for a yummy filling snack!

 

Lunch was so special.

 

Same as yesterday LOL.

 

And then I got my free birthday drink from Starbys!

 

 

Venti iced coffee with caramel drizzle and toffee nut half and half and 4 splendas.

 

I really dont know how I will ever give up freakin splenda yall.

UGH.

 

Anyways it was sooo dang good!

 

For dinner we ate at Moms.

 

Corn and crab chowder from costco, light chips, deli chicken meat panini

 

we also had some roasted cabbage and popcorn and I ate half of a coconut chocolate granola thing for  75 cals.

 

Night loves!

 

A Success!!!! Take that Moes...

FINALLY thrilled to report a great day on plan, workout and all!!

I know yall just arent going to belive it. haha.

But its true! Woot woot! I tell yall the bad, yall know Im gonna tell yall the good!!

This morning I had the last bagel as I was running out the door!! With honey walnut cream cheese whipped or something of the sort.

I ate it in the car and forgot to take a pic sorry guys :(

Bagel-220 cals
Cream Cheese-35 cals (maybe more but I am just counting a tbsp)
Coffee creamer-60 cals

Then for lunch I almost got SUBWAY for lunch but I decided to get some food at Aldis.  WAYYY cheaper. I got these Aldi's brand of like hot pockets...but it was BETTER to me than hot pocket brand.  $1.89 for two is a great deal and I got a bag of baby carrots for like 69 cent and then a bag of baked bbq chips for like either 1.79 or 1.99 and had a serving of those and carrots.  I also bought some other things we needed.

 

YUMMY and I will prob have the other pocket tommorow!

 

Pepperoni pocket-270 cals

Baked BBQ chips-120 cals

Carrots-about 12 cals

 

Then I had a snack for desert.  Banana cream pie fit & active yogurt and I had some of these cookies with them but they were not that good so I ate only a couple and threw it away.

 

 

90 cals for yogurt

 

Then I went to the gym with Bestie...we did 20 minutes of the stair climber...which was PURE torture.  I thought I was going to fall off, puke and go all out biggest looser style. I mean my heart was beating out of my CHEST people and sweat was everrrrwhere.

 

I also did the bike for like at least 20 mins if not 30.  To be honest I needed a cool down becasue the stair master kicked my ever loven hiney.  Then I went home while Bestie tanned. 

 

Dinner was made while chatting with my mother on the phone (hi Mom!) and it was tuna helper!  I had one cup measured out and green beans with onions in them. 

 

 

tuna helper-250 cals

green beans- 40 cals

I think I put some brummel and brown in the green beans while cooking, but I am not counting cals for that lol.

 

Then for a desert I had a gala apple cut up and sprinkled cinnamon on it.

 

apple-60 cals

cinnamon-18 cals

 

This was such a delicous and satisifying desert yall! 

Please try it!  Also try it with Mom's Apple dip, its on the blog!

 

I was under calorie today I am soooo happy!!

Evil Moe's.

Hello there lovies!

Wow I feel like its been a super long time since I have done a blog post with pics!

Ok so today was NOT good calorie WISE. However. I still TRIED and I took pics for you.

Arent I awesome?

Not.

Anyways! Its a start. Gotta start somewhere once you have decided not to give up haha.

Breakfast...

Coffee-2 cals?

Creamer-30 cals

Cottage cheese light-80 cals for half cup

Pineapple chunks-1/4 cup for 30 cals

 

Ok breakfast was like the ONLY successful "meal" today if you call that a  meal.

 

Lunchtime rolled around and hubby had came by my work.  He is working nights this week and I was thrilled that we could go to lunch together because I figured I wouldnt see him hardly at all.  Yesterday he worked from like 6am-12:30 pm with about a 30 minute break at home between two different jobs they were on.

 

So, needless to say I was happy that we could have lunch together unexpectedly.

 

Bad part is, I picked Moes.

 

Listen...it was 60 plus degrees, sunny skies and a sweet frog was next door.  How could I not pick Moes? haha.

 

 

EVIL EVIL MOES.

 

I shall not pick you again unless I plan on eating lettuce without a side of chips.

 

OK their CHIPS, which I had never realized are 360 calories PEOPLE!!!!!

 

FOR A SIDE OF CHIPS!!!

 

Which is like barely an ounce and half the time they arent that generous.

 

So I thought I was doing good and got 2 chicken CRUNCHY tacos. Little bit of cheese, no sour cream or anything else bad. 

 

It was still 230 cals a taco!!!

 

Not a happy camper with over an 800 cal lunch.

 

For fun, I checked out hubs burrito...clocking in OVER 1,000 calories JUST the burrito!!!

 

Beware if you are going to Moes!

 

Ok so then to add insult to injury...unawares...lol I went to sweet frog to get some fro yo.

 

I had about 4 oz's and actually did good..the thin mint fro yo was only like 55 cals and I have no clue how much the toasted marshmallow was because it wasnt on my fitness pal. 

 

 

Ok so then by the grace of God, I didnt eat anything till I got home.

 

But in a state of HAUNGRY I ate two pieces of skinny cow candy for like 100 cals almost and then I made dinner.

 

 

toast-160 cal

burger-280 cal

cheese-50-60 cal?

annies mac and cheese- not sure, didnt look to be honest

sweet potatoe fries-75 cals

broccoli-35 ish cals

mayo-50 cals

pickle-5 cal?

 

Then I may or may not have eaten some reese whoppers with hubs. BADNESS.

 

I admittedly probably had two servings so 2 times like 190.

 

Maybe not quite two but CLOSE. 

 

Ah.

 

Well tommorow is another day and at least I tracked most of today and took pics that is a start LOL.

 

I hope you all had a great tuesday!

 

Night!

Struggling

Sorry I have been MIA latley guys....

honestly I have been struggling with eating right/exercising.  You know..the whole "healthy lifestyle" thing...and its definetly catching up with me on the scale unfortunatley. 

However, I am not going to let it get me down. 

I am not going to give up.

Nope.

Came too hard, ate too litte, sweated too much, and sacrificed a ton to get me where I am today. 

Today just sucked for me.  Emotionally.  And it got the better of me.

And I forgot my phone at home so no pictures.

So, basically I am not promising anything for tommorow, except that I wont give up.

I hope you all are still doing good if you are on your journey!!! I love each and every one of you so much and am so thankful to have you (if I still HAVE any readers after this long hiatus and a no picture post LOL).

But tonights plan is to get caught up on a LOT of sleep, plan my food for tommorow, and make a list of rewards for each milestone.  I may share them tommorow.  I should be back tommorow guys...its just been a rough couple days.

What do you do for motivation?

What I did ALL day

Hey loves!

OK so this morning was great.

I got up even EARLIER than I normally do on a workday...someone take my temp. For reals.

Ok so I started some of this...

And then had some of this.....

Settled down on my couch to read this...

Ate some leftover this...

Then I put on this...

And got ready to leave the house!

This is HALF spa day today because I actually returned the massage hubby got for me.  I made him tell me this price and I got mild heart palipatitions from it....plus I would love a massge but the frugal diva in me just could not deal.  Not to mention the spa is an hour from my house.  So hubby said I can just spend some money haha. I shall have no problem with THAT!

So I went to Ross, TJ maxx...Target..my faves :)

and of course no HALF spa day is complete without this...

and got me a mani/pedi that my aunt had given me for Christmas that I saved for my bday!

I also drank a lot of water out of this...

 

May or May not have left it with the mean Asian ladies at the nail salon.  I went back about 10 minutes later and they had already put it in the back...I think SOMONE wanted to take it home with them.  Naughty!

 

Then had a little of this...

 

 

And threw away most of that free birthday cookie...just not worth it.

More shopping commenced and then I went home and cleaned like a MAD woman because Bible study is at my house tommorow night. 

 

And this box was in the mail.

 

I LOVE GETTING MAIL!!

 

We just got a letter! We just got a letter! We just got a letter-wonder who its from!?

 

Hahah there is some old school blue clues for ya.

 

THIS lovely package was from sweet Sheila!!!

 

Sheila is one of my most longest loyal readers and I just love her!

 

She was so sweeeeeeeeeet to send me a birthday gift!!!

 

I totally didnt expect that!!

 

 

Beautiful cup and Cahhhute card!!  This is to encourage me to drink more water!!!

 

She is SOO thoughtful!!! I need this yall know how I love me some cups!!!!

 

I felt super special, thank  you Sheila!!!! :)

 

Then I made this one....

 

 

Some of this for dinner....

 

And we finished it off with leftover fruit tart for desert!

 

Ok kiddos, time for bed, yall know this old woman cant be staying up late no moe!  Gots ta get my beauty sleep!!

27th Birthday!

WOW.

Seriously cant believe Im 27, it was TEN years ago that I was 17!? That is crazy because I feel about 19 LOL.

Anyways here is a little birthday recap for you before I hit the hay with hubby!

 

egg white and ham sammie from subway hubby got for me!

 

For lunch we went to a new-to-us peruvian resturant called Generos and it was sooo good.

 

I had wayyyy too many fries today but this was it, a rotissorie chicken sandwich on this amazing bread with avacado, red onion, lettuce tomato and cilantro lime dressing.

 

Then bestie suprised me and showed up at the restaurant bringing me a present and some balloons and a beautiful craft she made for my office from pinterest!

 

 

She also got me a tervis tumbler DESIGNED espically with a cupcake and the words cupcakes and kickboxing on it!!!! SO awesome!!!!! See my cute zebra vase with flowers I cant kill?!?

 

LOVE her.

 

So then I came back to work and those sneaky guys called me into the breakroom to give me my cake and a card & gift card!

 

 

I am one year old hehehe.

 

 

Sean actually picked me out a little cupcake-ish card too haha so sweet!

 

Then my sweet grandma and aunt stopped by and brought me a present!  I shared my cake with them and the boys demolished the rest of it but I did have to have a piece!

 

So...I did NOT want to have a big party this year.  I just feel like the older I get the more spoiled and childish I look having a big family party.  All my cousins my age already have kids and none of them really have birthday parties anymore. 

But mother insisted we at least eat something tonight so we went to Firebirds.

 

Here is a tip, if you sign up for their emails you get 10.00 off for your bday and just for signing up so we got 10.00 off for me.

 

 

I LOVE those sweet potato waffle fries and I got a grilled chicken sammie. So good.

 

Mom got me a fruit tart, they are so good, they have like a sugar cookie type crust.

 

 

 Me in all my OLD glory hahahaha.

 

 

This is a naughty piece of cake from Will who was trying to please dad for cooking his steak to death.  Poor dad, we did not have good service tonight LOL.

 

I did not eat all that in case you are wondering but had maybe 4 bites?

 

Then this PRECIOUS man got me this present!

 

 

He even got me fancy pink tissue paper haha!

 

Notice the cupcake bag too!

 

And inside was...

 

Breaking dawn part 2

 

My starbucks cup I have been wanting FOREVER

 

AND

 

 

 

 

A MASSAGE MEMBERSHIP!!!

 

I am taking off tommorow from work to get a mani/pedi, FACIAL (thanks to hubby!) and go shopping! I cannot WAIT!

Birthday Eve

Hey there loves!

Its my birthday eve tonight, in case the title didnt give it away ;)

But there is not too much going on here.  I am hanging out by myself tonight, hubby is working out of town but will probably be home around midnight I am guessing.

I did however celebrate the eve of getting even older than I already am, by working out at the gym which made me feel a tiny bit better about aging :)

But before we get into today, lets recap this weekend...I am sooo sorry I failed to post this weekend I have just been crazy busy latley!

Friday

 

freakin love me some coffee yall.

 

 

lunch was leftover sketti!

 

and for dinner we met mom and dad at a nearby mexican joint and they bought us dinner!

 

so sweet!

 

 

You are welcome for this pic.

 

My phone died and I had to take it with hubbys and he had to text it to me and I had to put it on google. I hope it was worth it. Haha.

 

I got chick fijitas, my usual. Didnt do too bad with the chips either.

 

Saturday

 

 

FREE biscuit from bojangles for my birthday! woot! sign up with their email club.

 

Lunch was more left over sketti.

 

Then hubs and I went to the mall and I proceeded to use a birthday coupon for tcby

 

 

which was shared with the hubs, hence the two spoons.

 

And we may or may not have shared a cinnabon. #shame #hubsfault

 

Dinner was chicken nuggets and waffle fries from chick fila on the way home around 10 pm.

 

#moreshame

 

Sunday

 

I took no pic but had a bagle with a piece of turkey bacon and I think some fruit?

 

Lunch was disasterous.

 

We went to Quincys which is basically Shoneys.

 

They are known for their steak though, and big huge rolls with honey butter.

 

I didnt see any honey butter though.  Cheapies.

 

We had to wait in a huge line, it was full and I mean we had to stalk people for a parking spot....and then it just got kinda stuffy in there and damp feeling. 

 

Honeslty it was kinda gross.

 

And I saw a hair on some beets in the salad bar.

 

Luckillly i dont eat beets.

 

But it was still gross.

 

Then they sent me my WELL done steak TIPS (TIPS MIND YOU) to me, on top of a WELL DONE reciept order, BLOODY.

 

I do NOT eat bloody meat people. 

 

I sent it back and I am curious as to how they cooked it.

 

If they threw it back on the grill I am further grossed out.

 

She wanted to take my whole plate and I was like WOAH NELLY.

 

I had to stop that jazz, you know it will come back cold probably with boogers in it.

 

I sent the 3 or so tips on a seperate plate.

 

Anyways then i ate some stupid desert, not really even worth the calories!

 

Then me and mom went to a baby shower and the southern home and garden show, which was nice.

 

We had free tickets and didnt have to pay to park. 

 

They had some cool vendors and gorgeous gardens.

 

I got some kettle corn though on the way out. fatty fatty.

 

For dinner, mom and dad invited us to eat with them.

 

They had amazing lobster bisque from costco, SO GOOD.

I also proceded to eat some light chips, half a sammie of deli chicken meat, and some kind of ravioli. 

 

Needless to say I deserved the gain I saw on the scale this morning.

 

What a bummer.

 

However this morning I woke up back at it, because that is ALL you can do.

 

 

oatmeal

 

subway eaten after 3pm.

 

starbucks tall caramel iced coffee with half and half and 2 splendas (thanks stacey!!!)

 

 

1 oz sharp cheddar cheese and red grapes

 

went to the gym and burned over 400 cals LIKE A BOSS.

 

Dinner was weird.

 

I had a salmon patty burger thing while i waited one everything to cook in shifts haha.

 

Then i had sweet potato fries.

 

 

And lastly broccoli that was roasted to a burnt crisp. #fail

 

Anyways I hope you have all had a lovely Monday and will hopefully have a great tuesday! 

Night!