I am feeling great!!!!
I joined beach body last week and got a coach to help keep me motivated. I worked out 6 days last week and started tracking my nutrition and weight yesterday.
All in all it is going very well! I am excited to see progress!
Category: food
Monday Motivation**May 14, 2018
I have actually not done terrible the last weekish.
Last weekend I was in Cali with my friend and we went on a 1.75ish mile walk on Friday and a 3 mile hike on Saturday and during the week Brandon and I went on 3 runs.
May Goals
May
The goals for the year broken down for this month:
1) Start running again
2) eat healthy
3) Stop buying things until you organize what you have
Take a few minutes every day to sit in quiet reflection, meditate, and do something spiritual. 10 minutes a day, full moon and new moon and celebrate May Day!! Which is today.
Plant a minimum of 3 plants a week.
Continue to work on and grow my relationship with Brandon. Outing every weekend, cook dinner together, and garden together
Read 1 non-school book a month
April goals check-in
PROPERLY train for and run a half, full and ultra marathon, Miles needed this month: Running the half marathon, a week off to rest then start training for marathon- 77 miles Actual miles run: 2.4 miles.
I really don’t thinl the June marathon is going to happen with buying the house and getting the flu and now I have i don’t even know what. We might have to change this toba fall or spring 2019 marathon. But that is life man.
Revamp my diet and STICK TO IT!!!!
Breakfast-juice and muffin or toast and coffee (add in a protein of some sort every morning)
Midmorning snack- Slimfast or smoothie
Lunch- Soup or salad
Dinner- Anything I want as long as it is make at home
After dinner- tea or hot chocolate, popcorn is fine
How did this go? Nope. Being sick means I’m not eating much lol. And I ordered my bridesmaides dress one size smaller and managed to fit into it so yay.
Get A’s in all my classes this year. –Get off to a good start in classes well I took this quarter off to move and deal with my brothers death so no grades right now.
Drop two clothing sizes, go from a 10 to a 6. Maintain size 8 ??? Still at a 10. But a tiny tiny but smaller 10.
Stop overspending!!!! Keep no money on you, put at least $20/month in accts and at least $75 in savings Total saved: $4.
Take a few minutes every day to sit in quiet reflection, meditate, and do something spiritual. Change 5 minutes a day to 10 minutes a day and celebrate full and new moon. Out of 30 days I did: none.
Plant 3 plants a week minimum. Total number of plants planted: Lots! The one goal I met and surpassed lol.
Continue to work on and grow my relationship with Brandon- 1 weekend outing, 1 meal a week and 1 hour a week gardening together
4 weekend outings: I think we did 2 date nights this month AND went out for my birthday so 3.
4 meals: none.
Total number of time gardening together: actually together not much, concurrently a few hours lol
Read 1 non-school book a month
Books read this month: actually i have read a good dozen books with my kindle unlimited. I need to do some boom reviews.
Let’s talk about food!!
Oh my gosh how I love having a kitchen again!!!! I am loving cooking!!!
Salads are making a come back in my life.
A little veggie stir fry using yakisoba noodles from the grocery store (teriyaki flavor) then added any veggies I had in the fridge that needed to be used up.
Homemade guacamole!!! This will be happening a lot this summer I think.
Beef straight from the farm!!!!
Another meal kit I will be cooking up this week.
Brandon made breakfast for me this weekend. I cook most of the time but when he does he blows me away! This was so good and had amazing flavor! I think he used pepper and garlic salt and who knows what else. And on rosemary bread, oh yea!
Someone gave me a donut at work last week, YUM
Last weeks dish! I may have had it for a few meals cause it was delicious.
Night in Box
This is the other date subscription box I bought called “night in boxes”
The theme this month was Blind Date
This box sends an email ahead of time with suggested menu choices (you buy and make it all yourself). It suggested small meat, cheese and bread like items and I added the mac and cheese in case we were still hungry.
Have I mentioned he hates taking pictures lol.
Once again I had a lot of fun but overall this date box was lacking in my opinion. It came with 2 blindfolds, a small dry erase board and some cotton candy (if you can call it that) and a link to a website with voice recordings telling you what to do.
The concept was great. You did some talking to each other, 1 person put the blindfold on and had to draw something then draw it again with directions from the other person and vice versa. Then 1 person put the blindfold on and the other created an obstacle course and led the blindfolded person through it with commands and vice versa so it was great for communication. Then there were 10 questions you both had to answer. Then there was a part that had the potential to get a little sexy or just really messy, you both put on the blindfolds and fed the (terrible) cotton candy to each other and put some on a body part, such as your shoulder and had them lick it off and so forth. But the cotton candy was TERRIBLE!!! it wasn’t light and fluffy at all, it was all compact and crappy and had no flavor………though maybe cotton candy has always had no flavor and I am just now old enough to recognize that.
Overall I had fun but this box was definitely not worth the $30 something I paid for it. But I will never think that spending quality time with my man is a waste. So far DateBox is winning over Night In boxes.
We will see what next month holds!
Monday Motivation**April 16, 2018
I got in 1 run that was 2.3 miles on Monday then nothing until some gardening on Saturday, there is still just so much to do at the house. I don’t in any way feel like I am sitting on my butt every night so I can’t beat myself up too much.
We will see what this coming week holds.
Some Tidbits on a Tuesday
This is how broke people trim their hair hahahaha. I have actually done this for years, I only pay for a haircut like once every 2 years. Since my hair is curly you can’t really tell if I don’t cut it totally even!
Got in a little run yesterday with the pup, it was beautiful out! I did couch to marathon day 3. It was a 5 min warm-up walk, then 7X of run 3 min, walk 2 min then 5 min cool down walk. Of course someone who runs faster is going to get farther than the 2.36 miles I got hahahaha but it was good. 1 run of a minimum of 3 this week, done!!!!!!!!
After my run I checked on my peas, beans and zucchini I had planted on Friday before the crazy storm hit here on Saturday and turned our yard into a pond. They survived!!! Everything was still upright and growing, my spinach looked a little worse for the ware so we will see what happens with that.
I got the email notification and my tomato plants and herb plants have shipped so I will probably need to plant those this weekend and I think some of my other starts are ready to get in the ground so it will be a busy planting weekend this weekend.
I also made some potato leek soup which I have a pictures and a little video but of course they are on my tablet and not my phone so I will post those tomorrow.
The BF and I avoided housework and watched a movie together. Housework piles up fast. Today or tomorrow I need to get on that hahaha.
Monday Motivation**April 9, 2018
I got in one run last week, my goal this week is 3 runs.
Apparently when it rains 1.25+ inches in 24 hours we get a little pond in our backyard. As we get settled we will be filling this in with more dirt.
My friend Amber got me this awesome map! it is so much fun to scratch things off it!! I can’t wait to scratch more!
Enjoying coffee on a quiet morning in one of the mugs I bought on my last trip!
Things are slowly getting organized and put away.
I did a little cleaning, also see the pretty flowers Brandon got me for my birthday!
The peas and beans started going crazy so I got them in the ground on Friday and Saturday we had to make an arc, I haven’t had time to see if they all survived, I will do that today after work.
Some of my food creations as of late. Packaged ravioli spiced up a bit with cheese, basil and fresh tomatoes.
Salmon with a mango cucumber salsa and a baked potato with all the trimmings.
Chicken with asparagus and shallots with an olive tapenade.
Weekend Wrap up
My birthday and the weekend!
I woke up to this awesomeness on my birthday courtesy of the BF
When I was 19 I wrote myself a series of letters to open every 5 years. They are pretty fun to read and see how my life plans have changed and stayed the same.
Birthday Dinner!
I shared a cocktail with Brandon. Hazelnut espresso or something like that
His dinner
My dinner.
Then we went to the movies, it is a movie theater/bar combo!
the movies are cheaper than a regular theatre but they get you will the drinks and food hahaha. I had 2 strawberry daiquiris (we saw 2 movies) big drinking day for me!
Brandon got me this for my birthday! He knows me so well! I am SOOOOO excited to cook some stuff!
Trailing the blonde 