Flat Tires, Hospitals & Bojangles

Hello friends!

I hope everyone had a fabulous Monday...mine was a bit cray but we will get to that!

Breakfast was a total fail.  I was running late, tried to make my protein pancake again and it just wouldnt flip and stuck to the pan and I ran out of time.  I grabbed an oatmeal pack and made it work!

Oatmeal-120 cals
Smores topping-45 cals
peanut butter-85 cals

Then for lunch I had the chinese again!  I might actually be getting tired of it now. lol.

Then later on I went out to run an errand and got a flat tire!!! :( Nail was stuck in it.

Luckilly I work at a car dealership and a technician came out to help me in about 10 mins and I was back on the road, thank God!

All that craziness made me need a snack lol.

Luna bar-190 cals

This one was good....a reader told me i need to try a lemon zest, that is next!!

Whats your favorite?

Then I had a string cheese-50 cals and tomatoes-15 cals

I love these tomatoes they are soo sweet!

Ok so I planned on going to the gym, but my car tire was plugged, it was cold and rainy and my Aunt is in the hospital (which hubby happend to be working at tonight) so instead I stopped by to see her and hubby for a minute.

Please say a prayer for my aunt, they had to take fluid out of her lungs and it had blood in it :(  They are also testing her for ovarian cancer.  PLEASE pray these tests come out negative!!! We love her so much...

SO then hubby needed some dinner, I had to run to Bojangles across the street because he will still be at the hospital for a couple hours.  I am not going to lie, I had a couple of his fries, BUT I didnt order me dinner there.  A year ago I most certianly would have. 

I came home, practially STARVING now that I had a taste of some amazing bojangle seasoned fries, and on the drive home I had decided I would have a lean cuisine pizza.  Feels naughty but still within my cals. LOL. I had that with a side salad, we have a HUGE bag from costco I am trying to eat up!

I topped the salad with 4 turkey peperonnis.  Did you know you can have 16 of those things for only 70 cals??

It was sooooo good.

Salad-about 100 cals
Pizza-380 cals ( i cut it into little pieces so it would last longer haha )

I might have a piece of 45 cal toast today before I hit the hay but maybe not.  I might have some hot tea.  But I still have laundry to put away.  Tommorow morning I am going to try to get up and do a workout dvd here before work because we are supposed to have Bible Study tommorow night.  I need my rest too, I am a tired girl right now!  Still time to enter the giveaway!!!! Click here.

Valentine's Giveaway &Weekend Recap!

 

Hello there loves!!!

I hope you all had a smashing weekend! (Im feeling brittish, please excuse)

Haha. Mine was great.  Friday a SWEET customer who had started out very, ahem DIFFICULT finally paid off her car and she had brought me the SWEETEST card for working with her and helping her.  Inside was a 25.00 gift card to Applebees!

 

PRESH! 

 

So that totally started my day off right!

 

Ended the night Friday eating Mexican with Mom, Dad & Hubs!

 

Then came home and LOOKY WHAT WAS IN THE MAIL BOX!!!

 

 

A letter from my Bro!!!

 

SO stinkin happy.

 

So then Saturday I went to work and had a hair appt at 2pm with my cousin Hayley!

 

She works at the sweetest beauty salon, they also do nails and massages.

 

 

I highlighted my hair last weekend myself but didnt quite get the roots.  I was in desperate need of a haircut anyways, so Hayley hooked a sister up!  I even got my eyebrows done.

 

 

 

No roots, yay!

 

 

She does fantastic with cuts too.  If you are local to the Charlotte area and need your hair did, let me know and I will give you her digits!

 

Then I did some Valentines shopping for hubby and groceries too.  I actually uploaded a haul if you follow me on youtube.

 

Then this morning I woked up and started the day with some cofffaayyy.

 

 

This blog should be coffee & kickboxing because i drink that more than i eat cupcakes.

Whatev.

 

Breakfast was amazeballin!

 

 

Hungry Girl's Banana Split Oatmeal! From her 300 Under 300 cookbook!

 

SO good!!!!

 

Then we tried a church close to our new house and we really liked it. 

We have been hanging pictures and putting things away all day really getting settled in. 

 

Hopefully I can do a house tour soon!!!!

 

OK so now the moment you all have been waiting for!!

 

The Valentines Giveaway!!

 

 

Cozy socks from Old Navy

 

Cupcake Notepad to hang on fridge

 

Cupcake tablet with pen

 

Kisses nail file & tweezers from Sally's

 

New mini Berry flirt lotion from Bath and Body Works

 

Polka dot iphone 4 case

 

Cupcake car airfreshner

 

and MY favorite heart measuring cups!!!!

 

 

 

This is a mix of all my favorite things, BBW's, old navy, measuring cups from Target, etc...

 

 

I LOVE all of these things and I LOVE you all <3

 

This giveaway ends tuesday night 2/12/13 at 9pm EST.

 

Three rules:

 

1. You must like cupcakes and kickboxing's page on facebook.

 

2. You must be a follower of this blog!

 

3. You must live in the USA.  (Sorry my sweet Canada loves, I will hopefully be having a giveaway for you soon!)

 

Three ways to enter!

 

1. Leave a comment telling me what your plans are for Valentines Day-celebrating or not!  And maybe how you plan to deal with the chocolate all around :)

 

2. Share this giveaway on facebook with a link to this blog, and leave a comment telling me you did!

 

3. If you blog, share this giveaway on your blog and leave a comment telling me you did!

 

Good luck everyone, nighty night!

 

 

 

 

 

Man-pleasing Garlic Knots!

Well. Well. Well.

It's Thursday...you know what that means!

haha...it doesnt really mean anything except tommorow is friday!

Fridays were always my favorite day of the week growing up.  Mom & Dad would get paid and we almost ALWAYS got pizza.  Id get to play outside with the neighborhood kids till it was dark and then I would go inside, get in bed and watch TGIF on ABC and get in my Cory and Topanga time.

Ahhh I seriously loved all those shows.  Dinosaurs. Sabrina. Step by Step!!!

Who's with me?

Ok so breakfast was flipping amazing peeps. I kid you not.

 

Do yourself a favor right now and check out Jess.

 

She is seriously so motivating and inspiring and I love her recipes!!

 

This is her chunky monkey protein pancake and you can get the recipe off her blog.  I topped it with cookie butter and sprinkles and a banana!

 

 

 

But dont try to make this in five minutes the first time.  Give yourself at least 15 because you are going to need like 3 1/4 measuring cups LOL.

 

I also cooked mine in coconut oil and forgot to count cals for that although I only used like one TEAspoon.

 

Anyways.  This ended up being 302 cals and then you just add cals for your toppings~!

 

So for lunch I went to walmart again for like the millionth time this week.

 

 

Someones sweet lil granny was giving samples of greek yogurt, this was really good.  I think it was the Yoplait peach one.

 

Lunch was basically the same as yesterday except I got the general tso's chicken which was only 170 cals a serving, SUPPOSEDLY like 2.5 cups, um NO im lucky if it had ONE cup in there.  There was maybe FOUR little pieces of chicken but it was still spicy and good and I also had a bag of broccoli again for 120 cals.

Then I thought at the time I was going to kickboxing so I had me a substantial snack.

 

 

I always forget how good these are! Why did I stop eating them for like a month?!?

 

Didnt check the cals sorry yall, just google.

 

Then I came home, didnt work out and ate crap.

 

Bah!

 

Dinner was the same as last night, just a leftover portion.

 

 

Except tonight I won wife of the year award...

 

Here I am going to let Hubby tell you how much he liked the garlic knots I made.

 

"mmmmmmmmmm!!!!!"-Hubby.

 

Ok he is shy on here but whatever he may or may not have said they was DANGGGG good.

 

 

It made like 8. 

 

You take a pack of crossant rolls, reduced fat if you want.

 

Roll them out as they are in triangles.  Then add some minced garlic and spray butter right on to the triangles.  Next sprinkle with "pizza seasoning" or what is "italian seasoning" and then roll up a half of a cheese stick inside of them. Spray the outsides with spray butter and put in the oven at 375 for like 10 minutes or maybe more, depending on your oven. 

 

I sprinkled mine with parm cheese when they were done.

 

SOOOO good.

 

Would be great with a Valentines day italian dinner!

 

Speaking of Valentines Day...there will be a giveaway comming soon!!! :)

 

May or may not have had three valentines candy pieces. Get it out of my house. BAH!

 

 

Chocolate Chip Protein Pancake!

Hola chickas!

Its wednessday wooot woot!!  Ok so breakfast was AMAZIN!

Ok lets talk about this for a minute shalllllllllll we.

This is a protein pancake!  I got the recipe from jonesee90 on youtube, you can watch that here.

Its sooo stinkin easy. 

One banana (cut in half, mash that half up and stick in a bowl)
Add in one scoop protein (I use the Jillian Michaels Vanilla one-10.00 bucks at walmart)
Add in 1/4 cup egg whites OR 2 real egg whites.

Wisk with a fork and then gently add in one teaspoon mini chocolate chips (that was my special addition to it )

Also, I brilliantly topped mine with marshmallow cream (one tbsp).

Yall this whole thing only set me back like 200 cals.  Yeah 200 cals for all of that! Just add extra cals for marshmallow cream or anything else you want to top it with...i meant to get dark chocolate peanut butter today, that would be sooo good.

I also had the other half of the banana-45 cals
creamer-60 cals

Then for lunch my co worker was eating this chinese sweet and sour chicken that smelled like hot sauce.  It smelled sooo good I investigated the cals and went and bought one at walmart! LOL.  It was only $2.28 not bad! 

 

420 cals...it says it has two and a half servings but let me tell you I dont really believe that, its only like half full LOL. I only counted two servings myself. lol

 

Then I also got a bag of steamable broccoli and I ate all of.

 

120 cals.  Which is ridic for some dang healthy greens.

 

Whatevs.

 

 

It was sooo good and filling.

 

Around 5pm I found a fortune cookie in my lunch bag lol

 

 

30 cals

 

Then I went to the gym!  Running and elliptical again only 30 mins total though. 

 

I ran home and got started on dinner!

 

 

Noodles-200 cal

 

Spaghetti sauce-(went with MFP bc I was too tired to count them haha) 300 cals

 

Salad with blue cheese-110 cals

 

ALSO I ate some dang wild berry skittles that were sitting out because I saw them open and they were delicious. Bah.

 

160 cals

 

Then I had a fun size twix for 80 cals after dinner.

 

Glad I got to the gym today!

 

Hope you all are having a lovely day.

 

OH SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOU MEASURE NOODLES!!!!

 

By the way, eating sugar just makes me want more sugar.

 

I am really going to work on my sugar this summer, I want to be sugar free by this fall LOL.

 

Teenie Weenie Red Polka Dot Bikini!

Or...tankini rather! Hahah hello loves! Happy Tuesday and Hump day eve!

So roaming around Target, getting something for my upcomming Valentine's giveaway ...<3 hehe, I found the PERFECT Tankini that I want to be in this summer!  I seriously think I can rock this if I get down to at least 165-155 this summer!!

I took a pic for your viewing pleasures....

SOOOOO Stinkin cute.  I loves. 

Ok sooo...breakfast was the same as yesterday except I had two mugs of coffee with 100 cals of creamer. Bah.

Oatmeal-160
berries-45

Then my boss bought us all lunch at subway! wooooo hoo!!!

I got a oven roasted chicken breast 6 inch on white with no cheese, veggies and add mustard.

Sandwich-320
Chips-150
Fruit cup-50

 

Later I had a sugar free jello

 

10 cals

 

 

Then I had a granola bar 100 cals

 

 

THEN before I left work I needed a hearty snack to power through the GYM!

 

Yes, I went.

 

Hollaaaa!

 

 

Egg salad-breakdown

Egg-70 cals

Egg white-20 cals??

Mayo-30

cheese-30

bread-45

 

Sooo much yumminess!

 

Soooo this girl went to the gym!!

 

I started off walking like 3 minutes

then

RAN 20 mins straight people.

 

That is insane.

 

I used to could NOT run FIVE freaking minutes.

 

I am not skinny but I am getting fitter.

 

AND I love it, and I actually love running.

 

What used to make me want to CRY and crawl in a hole in middle school PE, elementary PE, and even high school, I now do willingly without a gun to my head.

 

 I HATED running the stupid mile.

 

HATED it.  Couldnt do it.

 

The skinnies ran laps around me.

 

I literally dreaded every minute leading up to it.

 

I was chubby and slow.

 

All I wanted to do was sit down and read a book and talk about boys.

 

Not run.  In front of people.  Espically, cute boys. 

 

The mile was my enemy!!!

 

Now it's my frinenemy!

 

Haha.

 

Now, I do it for myself.

 

For the way it makes me feel.

 

For the progress I literally can FEEL myself making.

 

Tonight in fact, this girl RAN one and a HALF miles!!!!!

 

:)

 

Dinner was fab.

 

 

 

Hello angus burgers, we meet again.

 

Mushrooms, onions, sauteed, with green beans, 1/2 cup rice with 1/4 cup mushroom gravy.

 

burger-280

mush/onion-50

rice-90 ish

gravy-30

beans-20

 

So good. 

 

No desert needed.

 

Question: Do you have a history of a love/hate relationship with exercise?

 

I used to hate it, but however I played volleyball in highschool. 

 

I think I have a newfound appreciation for my body and what it can do now.

 

While I was running tonight, I thanked God for a body that is able to do just that.

 

P.s. I loved the comment response from yesterday! So glad to hear what healthiness you have all been up to!!

 

A great day on PLAN!

Hey loves!  I was back on track today after eating not so great this weekend :(  Thats what you have to do though just get right back on track!

Ok breakfast kept me SO full!!

Rachel Ray Instant oatmeal-160 cals
Mixed berries-45 cals

 

 

I actually drank a good bit of water today too!

I had a crazy day until lunch time, oh boy, not crazy good either!

Lunch was a sandwich-203 cals
pickle-dont count cals for that
chips-150
fruit cup-50
sugar free jello-10

For desert I had a granola bar-100 cals

We got those at Costco, tastyyyy.

Around 5pm I got hungry!

Berries-45 cals
cheese stick-50 cals

Dinner was SOOOOO good guys!!!! I have missed my salmon burgers SOOOOO much!!!!!

Salmon burger-170
Annies mac n cheese-280 for one cup
Broccoli-60 cals

For desert I had popcorn and a pack of Valentine M and M's!!

M n M's-70 cals
popcorn-110 cals

I am really hoping to make it to the gym tommorow!  The comments have been sparse latley, where yall at?!?! hehe ...I hope yall had a great weekend and a Monday that was ON TRACK!

Question: What's one thing you did/ate that was healthy today?

<3 Night

Coffee run & Costco Haul!!

Happy Sunday all!! 

House tour comming soon, promise!!!!!!!

Check out me and hubs running for coffee here.


And then you can check out my pantry/Costco haul from today here. 


Enjoy and let me know if you have any questions!!! :)