It's the freakin weekend

I am soooooo excited for the weekend to be here.  Not so excited that my Saturday is jammed packed full.  I dislike Saturday's like that.  I got to bed late last night because I had another meeting with my sissies but even on five hours of sleep I still made it to spin.  I have sucked at working out this week though so its the least I could have done.  Workout of the day:

Spin

Gpp:

-Complete 6 rounds of each triplet.  Each triplet is done individually. 

12 back squats 45/65
12 biceps curls 45/65
12 OH BB press (strict) 45/65
30 sec rest

Then,

12 straight leg deads 45/65
12 skull crushers 45/65
12 v-ups (slowly 3-0-3-0)
30 sec rest

Then I did supersets of:


Weighted sumo squats-15
Push-ups-10
*repeat four times

Reverse Lunges on ball-15 each leg  (Sorry the video is sideways?)
Hamstring roll in on ball-15
*repeat three times

Breakfast looks appetizing eh?  I REALLY need a new camera.  And for some reason I was craving that darn carrot.  I do not know why.  This was 3 egg whites+1 whole egg with salsa.

My kiddos enjoying their hot cocoa that they have been begging for since Wednesday.  I finally caved.

One of my favorite snacks is this.....2 plain brown rice cakes, 1 tbs almond butter, and 1/3 banana.  Yum!

Afternoon snack was air popped popcorn with a little olive oil and sea salt and a protein shake.  I thought I would leave you with a nice picture of myself right out of the shower.  Non styled hair sans make-up and all.  :)  This could be blackmail people.  Be nice.

Have a happy healthy weekend!  We will be having a crazy one over here.

PS.....just realized I didn't really eat lunch today.  Oh well....I'm going out tonight so I will make up for all the calories.  No worries!

I dont know what my deal is.....

But I am on a sugar binge.  It all started last night when I was working on our new Spring/Summer catalog with my sisters.  Thanks Keri for all the treats!  Given I don't eat crazy amounts but too much for me to feel good about it.  It has got to stop people.  How....I don't know.  :)

Workout today.....I made it to spin a little late so I only got about a half hour in.  However, it was one sweaty half hour.  I felt good about that.  Next up was this gpp workout:

Every minute on the minute for 20 minutes preform:
10 thrusters

Yowzers.....my shoulders were feeling it.  But I wanted to work them a little more so I did a couple more things one of which was running the rack.

Running the rack:
Overhead DB press.....repeat three times

Threw in some abs to end and called it a day.

My eating today was sooooo off track.  I hardly ate any veggies and I could tell in the way I feel.  I ate to much crap and too many carbs.  B-fast was peanut butter banana oatmeal.  Delicious, even if I did have to break halfway through to clean up poopy jammies.  Barf.

For lunch I had a quarter of my kiddos sandwiches.  Turkey and cheese......

Along with half a sweet potaote with chocolate on top.  Then I ate Hershey's kisses and animal crackers.  Awesome!

One day I will be able to go a full day without eating these pancakes.  I had the cinnamon protein pancakes for a snack.  These fill me up.

Salad with chicken on top for dinner with a sweet potato and one little fingerling.  I never eat ranch but today I was craving it so I gave my body what it needed.  Haha...ya right.

Tomorrow will hopefully be a better day.  I need to lay off the chocolate and animal crackers.  :)  It's not even the weekend.  Sheesh!

a fabulous recipe!!!

How was your weekend.  My was so great I did not want it to come to an end.  Friday I got to spin and then lifted.  I got to go out with my three favorite people.  I enjoyed dinner.  I enjoyed dessert.  I enjoyed the company.

Saturday when I woke up my sister called me to go for a run.  I wasn't going to go since I haven't ran since Christmas eve but I decided it wouldn't hurt.  I ran six and a half miles and I think she did around ten.  I met up with her after she had already started so I didn't go as far.  I felt great on the run even if I was thinking about donuts the whole time.  :)  It looks like it was early but it was actually nine in the morning.  Just cold.

Post run I was starving since it was 10:30 and all I'd had to eat was half a banana with peanut butter.  I drove past the donut shop....thank goodness....and made this ginormous breakfast.  These pancakes are sooooooo yummy and I have made them for the past four mornings in a row.  They are a protein pancake and these ones had cinnamon in them.  They are pretty low calorie and high in protein.  That was a fabulous post run meal.  My belly was happy.

The next morning I made the same basic pancake recipe but left out the cinnamon and added 12 chopped chocolate chips....that only adds 35 calories.  I was in heaven.  Really.  These are good.

 Now for the recipe!!!!

3 Tbs whole grain flour ( I used 2 tablespoons brown rice flour and 1 tablespoon coconut flour.  But I'm sure oat flour, almond flour, and whole wheat flour would all work as well.)
2 Tbs vanilla whey protein powder ( I uses Dymatize Elite)
1/8 tsp baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder (heaping 1/4 teaspoon)
1 egg white
1/3 skim milk (or unsweetened almond milk)
vinegar.....yes vinegar  (about a tablespoon)
*Add in any mix-ins.  If I do cinnamon I use a lot....like a teaspoon.  If I use chocolate chips I use dark chocolate or semi sweet and do half a serving....so around 12 regular size ones, or 8 jumbo ones, chopped them coarsely.

First whip the egg white and add the baking soda, baking powder, and vinegar.  This step makes them nice and fluffy.

Add the rest of the ingredients.  This is the chocolate chip recipe.

Cook em up.  This makes two good size pancakes.  Make these.  They are so worth it.

They have around 212 calories in both of them and 27 grams of protein (depending on the flour you use and the milk....Almond milk had less calories).  If you add chocolate chips add on about 35 more calories.  Also, remember to top them with healthy things so calories don't add up there.  I topped these with 1/4 banana, a drizzle of maple agave......just a drizzle, and unsweetened coconut.  Maybe a teaspoon or two of that.  Don't go overboard on toppings.  :)

A lot of people ask me where I get my flours from.  Most of the time your local health food store should have some.  Sunflower Market, Whole Foods, Good Earth, Trader Joes, etc.  But you know what???  Amazon.com is amazing for this kind of stuff and I don't have to leave my house.  I get my coconut flour from there, oat flour, and others.  So great.

This was on the seat of my car when I hopped in it this morning.  Jose is so good to me.  His note says, "smile, enjoy life, and this roll.  I love you."  Ahhhhh, thanks for the extra fat darlin.  :)

Crazy weather..

This weather is awesome.  I know we probably need the snow and all but I can't help but enjoy myself a little.  Today we spent a good hour and a half at the park.  Kids were wearing short sleeves.  It's crazy.  It definitely does not feel like January but it is really pleasant.

Last night was spent with one child throwing up and two in our bed with Jose and I all night.  Not a good night.  Needless to say, the gym was out of the question for me this morning.  I did end doing 100 pushups and 100 dips in my living room this morning.  I'm hoping to get to the gym tonight as soon as Jose is home.  Please babe???  Maybe some weights?  Intervals?  Spin?

Breakfast today was so goooooood.  A little plain greek yogurt, topped with a little raw oats, unsweetened coconut, and half of a baked apple with cinnamon.  Yum!!!

Gettin our workout on.  He always "helps" me by climbing all over me while doing push-ups.  Thanks dude.  This picture is absolutley sick.  Why does my nose look so big?

We took our lunch to the park.  I snuck in some animal crackers and nutella before we left.  I popped some air popped popcorn and added a little olive oil and sea salt to it.

That's what I snacked on at the park.  Along with an orange.

After my animal cracker/popcorn binge I had a light snack.  Two hard boiled eggs, one ginormous carrot, and a few apple slices.

L chose the dinner menu for tonight.  She wanted fettucini alfredo, sweet potatoes, and asparagus.  I sprayed the asparagus with pam and sprinkled on a little sea salt and then roasted it.  She loved it.  We all loved it.  I made the fettucini with brown rice noodles.  My kids don't even notice a difference.

I had some talapia with sweet potato and asparagus.  Now I want dessert.  But I am making myself not eat it.  :(

Spin at five thirty tomorrow.  Better get my butt there.  PS.....I know I need a new camera.  One day.

I like carbs

Got up but early today for the first time in awhile.  It sucked.  Bad.  But I did it.  :)  Today's workout:

Standing straight arm lat pulldown-15

Pulley bicep curl-15

Lat pull down-15

One minute sprint

Repeat three times

High pulley bicep curl-15

Repeat three times

Barbell curl-15

Plank with back row-15 each side

Hammer curl with single leg lunge-10 each side

Sprint one minute

Repeat three times

Then I had the crazy idea to switch it up a little and do GPP in the middle.  I. was. dying!!!

For time

15-16-17-18-19-20 reps per round of:

back squats 95/135
box jumps
lunge switches (R+L= 1)

Then I did:

Reverse flys on incline bench-15

Incline bicep curl-15.......finished off with some abs and called it a day.

Breakfast was a veggie omelet made by the hubs while I was in the shower.  Thanks baby.  It was delicious and healthy.

I took care of that sweet tooth of mine by eleven o clock while out and about.  Dark chocolate and dried fruit.

Lunch was really light because my friend brought me over some devilish almond joy brownie thing which I ate most of while preparing lunch.  :)  Salad with egg whites, a tablespoon of dressing, and some tea.

Afternoon snack was whole wheat toast with peanut butter and jam.  I REALLY wanted a bagel but opted for something a little bit healthier.

Dinner is at my in laws.  DD made us homemade bread and soup.  Can't wait.

It's a brand new year!

I'm back!!!  Finally.  We had a fabulous holiday season.  My husband has been home for most of the last two weeks and we have had so much fun just being together and hanging out.  We had a bunch of parties.  Too many.

These pictures are from our Jamberry Nails Christmas party we did for our employees.

Can you tell were sisters?

The "boss" in his Christmas attire.

Me and my twin brother.  People think were a couple all the time.  We do look good together.

We did a raffle and played a white elephant game.  I think it was a little inappropriate for the sixteen year old employee we have but it was fun.  We came home with a "queef-o-nator" and a nighty.  Awesome.  That queef-o-nator made it to my family's white elephant and some fighting went down over it.  My bro ended up with it.  Lucky.

We have made so much yummy food/treats.  And eaten way too much.  But that's what the holidays are for right?  I saw these roasted chickpeas online and made some up.  They were good warm but not so good cold.

Christmas eve we made all sorts of yummy pizzas and I forgot to take pictures!!!!  I got one.  This was the roasted pepper and goat cheese pizza.  We also made a chicken peanut satay pizza, pear and Gorgonzola, salami and cheese, etc.  It was good and will be a tradition from now on.

S'mores cookies were also on the list of yummy things to make.  I think I ate five.  FIVE.  Goodness.

These were so good.  Cranberry bliss bars like the ones they have at Starbucks.  I devoured these as well.

The things I contributed to our New Years Eve party.  Jose couldn't keep his hands out of the dip.

We left cookies for Santa and danced silly till bedtime.  We left out carrots and oats for the reindeer.  And............

Santa came!!!  I look sleepy eh?  Santa brought the girls what they wanted and brought P a new car seat and shopping cart.

But his all time favorite present was his own little box of goldfish he got in his stocking.  He loves "tish".  He was one happy camper.  :)

He planted himself on my booty during one of our parties and sat like that for a good couple of minutes.  It nice and soft.  Who can blame him?

He is just like his daddy and is obsessed with computers.

Now that the holidays are over we can finally get back into our normal groove.  Unfortunately that means waking up early which hasn't happened in about two weeks.  Ugh.

What are your new years resolutions?  Jose and I have decided one of ours is to eat more locally grown food and buy meat from local farmers.  Maybe start our own farm?  We really would if we had a bigger yard.  One day.  If you think I'm crazy go watch this and you won't think I'm crazy anymore.  I have never heard my husband say the f word till this movie.  :)  Haha...made me laugh.

Workout today was deltoids and spin.  Just so ya know.  I'm hoping some normalish posts will be coming.

Dont expect anything...

Just an FYI that with the craziness around these parts, a real blog post won't be happening till next week.  Just know that I am eating a lot of bad (yummy) food but being a good girl and keeping up on my workouts.  :)  Haha...lets be honest, how could I not?  We are ready for Christmas to come and will be a lot less crazy after.  So until next week.....Merry Christmas!!!!

Wow, what a fabulous post that was.