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!

 

Bikini Zuchinni

Hey there loves!

Its friday eve :)

I hope you all had a teriffic thursday!

Ok apparently I went to bed too late last night and I overslept till 7:55 AM even with my alarm going off every seven minutes after 6:30.  NO BUENO.

Lateness.

My sweet hubs made sure I had oatmeal packed, snacks and coffee ready to go!

120 cals

 

For lunch I used a $5.00 coupon that McAlisters deli had sent me for my birthday and for only $2.36 I got a pick 2 and chose the grilled chicken spud (add olives and red onions) and the veggie chilli.

 

620 cals

 

I also had like 2 pks of crackers.

 

SO YUMMY!

 

For a snack I had an apple and dark chocolate pb

 

60 cals apple

85 cal pb

 

 

 

Then I made these beauties!

 

Bikini Zuchinni's

 

 

My hubs says "But how do these get you in a bikini"

 

Oh dear...

 

Ladies I am sure you understand, lol.

 

This is a MUCH better and more low carb option than traditional pizza or italian food!

 

What you need:

 

4 medium zuchinni

2 tbsp chopped onion

small can of mushroom pieces and stems, drained

one small can of tomato sauce

2 tbsp of spaghetti sauce (or pizza sauce)

16 slices of turkey pepperonni

Pizza or Italian seasoning to taste

Mexican or Mozzarella blend shreadded cheese

salt

 

Preheat oven to 400 deg.

 

1. Wash zuchinni and slice them in half, use a spoon to scoop out the insides.

 

2. Get a bowl and add in turkey pepperoni (chopped), onion, sauces, and chop up the mushroom (after draining liquid from can) and add to the bowl. Also add in your seasonings.

 

3. Line a rectangle dish with the zuchinni and sprinkle salt over them.

 

4.  Next add in your fillings to the bellys of the zuchinnis that you hollwed out.

 

5.  Top with cheese.  I used maybe a cup total. 

 

*Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes.

 

 

 

They were sooo freakin good yall!!

 

In MFP they came out to like 92 cals a piece! 

 

Just make yours how you like but just figure at least 100 cals unless you really skimp on the cheese.

 

Dinner was spaghetti

 

374 cals

 

I also had that piece of garlic bread with it-100 cals

 

Parm cheese -20 cals

 

And for desert...

 

 

130 cals

 

Yum.

 

I cleaned the kitchen which was a mess and now I am sitting down trying to relax. 

 

I hope you all try the recipe!! :)

 

 

 

 

 

Like a Boss.

Today...I did freakin awesome. 

Like a Boss.

Haha.  Sorry me and my brother have this "like a boss" inside thing and tonight for some reason I decided that should totally be the title of my post!

Because my friends, I rocked the plan, the weight loss plan, like a boss!

Ha ok so lets just get in to this juciness!

Breakfast was the same as yesterday, not going to bore you with a pic, because I didnt take one HAHA. Ok one difference was that I put one extra slice of turkey bacon on it.

Whopping 274 cals...and I didnt drink much coffee so I am not going to try to estimate the creamer. LOL.

Ok so lunch was another beautiful mexican mess salad just like yesterday, however the creative blogger in me decided it would be thoughtful to take a picture of my goods before they get thrown into the pile on the plate.  I know yall love some pictures. heh.

642 cals

 

I might try some other meat in it next time to lower the cal count but MAN the guac really MAKES it.

 

Ok so of course I had to run errands and I had DENIED my sweet tooth/chocolate/carbs/crackers-smeared-in-chocolate-peanut-butter-wont-hurt? CRAVINGS and so I decided that called for some starbys haha. 

 

110 cals

 

YALL.

 

Ok I got one of the BEST (that I have tried) low cal drinks at starbucks, maybe to date.

 

It was so good.

 

Heres how you order it:

 

Grande

Iced Coffee

Non fat milk

w/Toffee Nut Syrup

 

The toffee nut is sooo sweet and good i love it!!

 

I used the starbucks app I have on my phone to customize it!

 

Ok enough about overpriced coffee. Ha.

 

However good news was it was only $2.62 w/tax. 

 

Ok sooo...crap I just remembered I had a banana I didnt log, which is OK because I had cals left after my sweating session (like a boss) at the gym tonight.

 

That's right. You read that right.

 

I went to the gym for the third time this week.  Amazeballs.

 

Ok, but I have to give props to my bestie because all this was brought to you by April's emergency fitness kit.

 

It included a nice hot pink Nike gym bag packed away secretly in Locker #5

 

with the following inside:

 

-Smallest sports bra she had (that heff!)

-two old t-shirts (i chose the pretty white blood donor one)

-3 pairs of pants for me to choose from

-socks

-shoes

-HAIR TIE!

 

Thanks boo!! <3

 

I seriously love her.  She brought all that stuff so that I could meet her at the gym after work. 

AND we freakin rocked it!!

 

She introduced me to the stair climber.

 

My new FRIENEMY. 

 

I hate you.

 

I love you.

 

You make sweat literally pour off my face.

 

Talk about feeling like a biggest looser contestant. 

 

That thing will make you feel WEAK.

 

But it was amazing, we pushed through 20 minutes!

 

That was a ridiculous ammount of flights of stairs.

 

Burned like 147 cals.

 

I was a tad dissapointed in the cal count when I got off the stair climber feeling like someone Jillian had just pushed to the ground 15 times.

 

But I still felt amazing. Seriously amazing. 

 

 

Ignore how fatish I look in this pic, just notice the happy face that means I was done with 20 mins of torture!!

 

Bestie kept telling me how proud of me she was.

 

Which seriously made my day.

 

We discussed how we have came a LONG way, from breaking bad habits, not pushing ourselves, not caring about health and exercise...to who we are today.

 

We proceded to be at the gym until 8 PM people.

 

(like a boss)

 

We did a crap ton of weight training that made me feel like a limp piece of spaghetti someone threw against the blacksplash to see if it would stick or not.

 

But we pushed each other and it was seriously loads of fun. 

 

Then after realizing we have no healthy options in our town that arent extreemly boring and played out (coughsubwaycough) we went to red bow.

 

 

Adorbs.

 

 

 

Spring roll-110 cals

 

I dont hardly know what that mustard/dip is called so i dont try to count cals for it...its not much i dont think.

 

Beef and broccoli-152

BROWN rice-216

ginger dressing-80

 

I also had 2 fortune cookies-50

 

So yummy!!!

 

Thats all for tonight my loves, what is one thing you enjoy at a chinese/thai/asian place that is healthy?

Biggest Bestest Mexi Salad that ever was!

Hola chickas!

I dont know where you live...but here it was SUPER gloomy, cold and rainey, and did I mention cold?

Bleakness. Where is my spring time?  I expect springtime when my birthday is so rapidly approaching. 

315 cals

 

Breakfast was devoured in the car on the way to work.  I toasted the bun, had one slice turkey bacon with egg (both are cooked in the microwave, not pots and pans-aint no body got time fo' dat!)

There was also a yummy triangle of spreadable cheese on there too-aldis brand.

 

Then hubs brought me a little "treat"

 

 

Literally.

 

A rice krispy treat and a coffee from QT he made with splenda and creamer, not sure how much so I gave myself 50 cals for my early morning coffee creamer and this.  The treat was 150 cals by itself.  Bless him he gets me the calorie friendly option at the gas station.

 

Thats a good man rite thurr.

 

 

Lunch was the biggest bestest Mexican salad there ever was!!!

 

SOOO good people. I am telling you. Fantastic-ness.

 

In the mix:

 

Ground turkey seasoned with taco seasoning.

Black olives

Romaine lettuce

1/4 cup kernel corn

1/4 cup black beans

Red onions

7g of 2% shreadded cheese

1 tbsp light sour cream

a bit of salsa

100 pk wholy guacamole

cup of brown rice

 

SOOOO good.

 

637 cals

 

Later I had some almonds

 

 

and a banana

 

 

 

I resisted the carmello in the vending machine because BESTIE said "why are you sabatoging yourself??"

Shes right.

 

Then I thought of Alissa.

And her recent post about how she forgot that weight loss was supposed to be hard.

That really hit home for me.

 

So much of what I do, is "stuff that I can keep doing forever" which is good, but it also makes me slip into lazy mode, because of COURSE i want to eat chinese every week for the rest of my life.

 

That, my friends is easy.

 

What is hard, is saying NO to things you want to keep up doing for the rest of your life, that could possibly hinder your progress today. 

 

Ok so me and the cuz hit the gym again today!

 

20 mins elliptical

10 mins bike

2 weight machines (we are starting off easy lol)

and then 10 mins treadmill to finish it off

 

It might not be a super hard core plan but at least we are doing SOMETHING.

 

Do SOMETHING every day!! It honestly makes me feel so much better.

 

 

370 cals

 

Dinner was a salmon burger, the rest of my roasted broccoli (which i have been dreaming of all day) and a potatoe (cooked in the microwave...which really makes me think I should make my own microwave cook book HAHA) with some brummel and brown on top.

 

Love it people.

 

Today has had some dang good eats in it, if I do say so myself!

 

The birfday is in ONE week and I will be STOKED if I can at least be at 174 next tuesday AM!

2 Workouts in One Day...who am I!?

Happy Monday peeps!

I woke up supa early and did a 2 mile walk with leslie sansone.  Does she remind anyone else of Sarah Palin? I love it!

Ok so then I had me some cofffee and got ready for workeee.

I had another egg which for breakfast so im not showing a pic of it, yall know what it looks like lol.

For a snack I had some greek yogurt and strawberries

 

i only ate half the yogurt as it was 130 cals, pretty steep.

 

I had 50 some odd calories of almonds later.

 

lunch was chicken salad with cottage cheese, baked wheat crackers, and veggies!

 

Later on I had to run some errands so I got a skinny vanilla latte at starbucks.

 

 

90 cals

 

I was watching a video by the Quickie Chick (she is great, google her) and she said that we need to take the lid off so we can fully experience and smell our coffee.

 

I agree, it was much lovelier to drink that way!

 

 

small naner and tbsp of peanut butter before I hit the gym with my cuz tonight!

 

We did the treadmill and elliptical and I came home and made me a turkey and cheese with turkey bacon on top sub with chips.

 

 

I also roasted some broccoli tonight because i believe i intended on eating it tommorow, but about half made it into my mouth haha.

Im sure there are much worse things I could eat mindlessly though.

 

 

I also chewed 13 pieces of sugar free gum today and now my mouth is a bit sore. 

 

WHATS WRONG WITH ME. 

 

Night loves!!

A Really Long Weekend Recap!

Hey loves!

Ok so this weekend was awesomeness!

Lets recap shall we?

Saturday-worked. Fun fun.  Got off before 12, did some grocery shopping & attended a birthday party for a cousins little girl. 

breakfast

 

lunch-turkey and ham six inches/75 cal chips/water

 

By the way, I left the party before they cut the cake..it is SOOO hard for me to resist cake, I was proud of myself, but it was sorta sad I had to go early...saturdays are busy for me anyway, I had a ton of things to do in a small ammount of time.

 

Got home (by the way it was freezing and rainy all day, just in case you were wondering) and me and the hubs lounged around in the living room, eating humus and crackers. Nice.

Then we got ready for our date night!

Hubby wanted to take me to see Safe Haven! I have the book actually signed by Nicholas Sparks...one of the perks of living in the Carolinas is that I have got to meet him/get a book signed...three times!!!

He is so so nice. 

Anyways!  So hubs knows Im a freak about the movies, so we were going to do dinner and a movie.

We decided to use my Applebees gift card my customer had given me...now this was not exactly a healthy night but whatever LOL.

Normally our towns Applebees has been ENORMOUSLY crappy...bad BAD BAD service, as in we got the meal for free last time we were there.  However we were pleasantly suprised with good food and a normal waitress.

 

We had buffalo chicken tenders for an app...we got the two for 20.

 

I got steak broccoli and mashed taters for my meal.

 

 

And my hot date...

 

 

We watched the nascar craziness on the tv...I feel so bad for those people!

 

 

To kill some time before the movie we went to walmart and target...did some window shopping!

 I got an iced coffee and target to keep me awake for the movie. LOL.

 

 

We drove out of our way to get GOOD popcorn...

 

 

I love hot fresh buttered popcorn, and for my "special" movies, I have to have it!

 

I know its bad for you but I really dont care.

 

Its my one thing I dont think I will ever give up, because I dont go to the movies an awful lot anyway!

 

We got diet coke too...I fo sho' aint gone waste no calories on liquid. LOL.

 

The movie was good...except for a few choice words that I KNOW it could have done without.  Really makes me mad when you go see a Nicholas Sparks movie, the book is CLEAN and hollywood dirties everything up.  But other than that it was great and Julianne Hough really makes me want to chop all my hair off and live at the beach. 

 

 

Before church I made us egg whiches with (microwave egg), bread and I used a 25 cal wedge of Aldis brand laughin cow spreadable cheese. Delish!

 

 

 

We made "subway" sandwiches when we got home for lunch. so tasty!

 

And for dinner we had a "Red Lobster" night at home.

 

I made Salmon stew from watching this youtube video, and cheesy garlic biscuits!

 

 

It was SOOO good.

 

Now Im home chilling with my loves on either side of me (kitty on left, hubby on right) on the couch and I have been trying to plan what I will eat tommorow. 

 

My weekend is pretty much gone, its sad how fast it goes by :(

 

Have a great Monday beauties and I hope you all had a fantastic weekend, what was the best thing you did?

 

I have to say, date night with Hubby takes the cake!