Sushi Party!

Sushi Platters! Yesterday night we had a bday gathering for my husband. We ordered 2 platters of Sushi and had samosas and spring rolls. They were all a big hit! :)


Love hosting parties can't wait to host the next!


Me and my sister. She baked for us below :)Cookies from Amanda's Cookies 4 Hope. If you are in the Toronto Area, Check out her site!
FUN! We had a great time :)

Even Zoe is pooped too!

With only 5 hours of sleep, I woke up, cleaned up then we went for a much needed Breakfast at Cora's :)



I just realized that tomorrow is March 1st and I still have 8lbs to lose by April 1st. I have been eating way to much, and altho I am working out, I am just maintaining and not dropping any weight!

Neeed to be more strict!.... 2mrw ;)

It's hockey time now CANADA Vs USA!

Half Full Friday

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This weeks list of what I am happy for:

I am happy that husband and I are starting to understand each other better on some issues that have been haunting us for a while.

I am happy that I have a wonderful husband and furbaby Zoe to come home to everyday ;)


I am happy that I finished a big project at work, whoohoo!

I am happy that I will get to see my friends and family this weekend and have fun!

I am happy that I got a great deal on this stool that I was looking for everywhere!


I am happy that husband and I wrote down new goals this week and I'm excited to get at them!

I am happy to be alive! and I am so grateful for everything and everyone in my life! ;)

End of the week

End of the week ahhhh. Friday!!! Love Friday's well 5pm on Fridays to be exact. Weekends rock! :)
I'm loving, loving watching the Olympics and I am going to miss watching it when it's over on Sunday :( I've never been a sporty person so when I see these athletes with soo much passion in what they are doing, it makes me feel soo inspired and I feel like I'm there with them. Zoe obviously loves hockey the most ahahahah. Canada so far has 8 Gold, 6 Silver and 3 Bronze.
Joannie Rochette won Bronze in ladies figure skating today and I was just tearing up when she accepted her award. Amazing.

Tonight we are expecting lots of snow and we are getting 3 days straight of snow. I guess we had it really good with only a few days of snow and not that much this year.

...We have not had this yet... ahha!
Eeeek 2008 at our old house and street parking was no fun!!!

30 day shred friends...

30 day shred friends. How are you liking it? So I've been doing it for 2 months now, for an average of twice a week. Some times only once a week. My issues: If I have anything in my tummy, the jumping around makes me sick! If I'm on one of those off days where energy is low, the up and down movements make me dizzy! Are you having these same issues? I've been slowly moving away from the DVD and doing other exercises. Let me know your thoughts :)


For tomorrows work day snack I added a lot of cucumbers, carrots and cantaloupe. :)

I'm really trying to get healthy on the inside. I started taking a multi vitamin and I have my B12 shots every Wednesday. I also ordered from a blogger friends store. I'm ordering a nuplus powder full of nutrients to make healthy shakes and a Tea called Calli Tea for cleansing. Read more on her Site here.

Let's get healthy! ;)

Weekend Fun

What a fun weekend! and not over yet :)

My husband went on a trip for the weekend so my sister stayed with me and we had a blast.
Friday after work we went to visit my brother and sister in law. She made us a delicious Chicken Caesar salad and it was so good!

Above is my brother and sister in law.
My sister in law is 3 months pregnant. We are all soo excited to have a little baby in the family :)
Starbucks fix was totally needed on Saturday morning. Sunday night my sister and I ended up getting home at about 2am and decided we would wake up at 8am to hit the town shopping!

I bought some dress clothes and casual clothes and a new pair of very comfy yoga pants for working out :) We were out for 10 hours!!

Saturday evening some of my cousins dropped by. We had some goodies out, Zoe ended up licking the pink cupcake and surprisingly we did not touch not one of the sweets. Carrots and dip and tostitos and salsa were the snack of choice.

Tomorrow is my husbands 31st birthday! He is coming back from his trip tonight and can't wait to see him!

Hope you all had a great weekend!

Had to buy the cupcakes :)

Food Update: My Breakfast and Lunches have been going well in terms of calories. I'm bringing more fruits and nuts to work to snack on and I'm not feeling that starved feeling when I leave work at 5pm which is good :)


Howeverrrr... I just HAD to buy cupcakes yesterday when I went grocery shopping, but I did good by sharing. I brought the cupcakes to my moms house yesterday and shared them, then today I had 1 but shared that 1 with my husband :) AND zoe got to my last bite so that was ok too ahhah!

I also bought 1% milk instead of the 2% since I have a new milk addiction.


Tonight we went out with friends to a Persian restaurant. I ordered a chicken breast kabob with rice. I only ate less than half the rice and shared my meat with my husband to keep my portions controlled :) See sharing is a good thing ahah!
So far so good and tomorrow is already Thursday :)

Hope you all have a great week!!

A new week...

Ahh just loved having this extra day off, I think every Monday should be a holiday :) heehee I can wish. We woke up late today, made breakfast at home, watched the Olympics and enjoyed fresh cut fruit... Wish everyday was as relaxing as today :)

The last couple weeks I did not follow my goals to a T, But I also did not do sooo bad. No weight gain so that is good :)

For dinner I made a delicious stir fry full of veggies and Shrimp.



Last week I skipped my SHRED workout. So I need to get back on track this week!

Here are my weekly goals :)

*5 days a week of home cooking, include many "green" veggies and carrots.

*Drink lots of water everyday! A MUST!

*Coffee - Only 1/2 cup in the morning only.

* 1300 - 1600 daily Calories intake (Tracking on Iphone "my fitness pal app)

*3 bite rule on sweets

*Eliminate "White"Carbs

* 3 days a week basement work out (Jillian Michaels 30 day shred video)

* 3 days a week 10000 steps on the pedometer

* loofah body scrub to enhance circulation :)

Hope you all have a great week!!!

Weekend Fun

The Winter Olympics! Friday night we stayed in to watch the opening ceremony and I am so glad I did. I thought it was amazing. (I took some pics of the TV, my sister asked me where I was ahaha wished I was there!
AND Canada won the first GOLD for Canada on our own soil! Mogulist Alexandre Bilodeau Won Gold today. Exciting!!!

This weekend is a Vday weekend and we have a holiday Monday for family day, so it's a perfect long weekend :)

My husband bought me a new camera and also gave me the gift of painting our powder room and bedroom. He is the best! and totally won a bunch of brownie points this weekend ahahaa!
Had to throw in a random pic ;)

Here are some pics of the new paint colors.

Powder room, before color was a Orange peachy color and now...
Our bedroom was a light beige color and now...



I bought this art for 10.00 in the clearance section. It says "Courage". I love art with words.

By the time we cleaned up we ended up going out for a late dinner and were too tired to drive across the city to our planned lobster dinner so we just went down the street for Sushi. Sushi is always good :) I'm sooo looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow :) yippy to no work Monday!

Before I go I also want to thank a sweet blogger friend Swapna over at Petals for giving me an award today :) I will post about it tomorrow :)

Hope you all had a great weekend!!

Friday Finally!

This week I've been doing pretty good with my eating, with a few exceptions, but overall keeping within my calories. Something changed this week, I've been drinking so much milk! I hardly drink milk and I've been having 2 full cups a night! Since my new found love for milk I figure this weekend when I do groceries I'll buy 1% instead so I can save those calories.

I'm so happy it's Friday and we have Monday off for "Family Day" a long weekend is sooo needed! This week I've been so tired, I feel like a slug going through my days then when I get home I don't want to do anything. Sometimes I wonder how could I be so tired taking care of just meeee!hmm.

On another topic, today I stopped by Homesense and found this Cat piece. When I paid for it the cashier said "Oh finally the cat is gone, it was here for so long" LOL my husband looked at me with a "what a cat freak you are" look ... ugh I am... :)


And talking about cats, that little girl Zoe has been SOOOOO BAD lately! We have been so busy or just so tired we are not giving her the affection she use to. Every night she meows and jumps on things and running out the door every chance she gets and begging for food, all foods it's so weird she wants whatever we have, she thinks she's a dog ahah!. I know she is just looking for our attention so it makes me feel bad, but her meowssss they are turning into screams! Ok I exaggerated haha! She is still my cute furbaby I love her no matter what! :)

Happy Fridayyyyyyyy!

Veggies and Fruits oh my!

Grocery day! My main issue these days is getting very hungry during the day at work and not having enough snacks. Since I'm counting calories I'm also finding it hard to find low calorie snacks. BUT Fruits and veggies are the ones! So I stocked up!
I also bought almonds and seeds :)

Fresh cucumber with a pinch of salt is always refreshing too.

I'm starting this week off right! With a Lobster dinner at the end of the week, I'll be ready for that! :))

Weekend at the cottage

This weekend we went to a friends cottage up North in Wasaga Beach. We went up with our friends and brother in laws and had a great time. This is the cottage, it's so beautiful and there was lots of snow up North too.

My diet was NOT watched this weekend. We ate fast food twice, and snacked a lot! However at the cottage us girls went to the grocery store and pitched in $20 each to buy dinner and breakfast to cook up. We made a delicious healthy meal for dinner, Steak, Chicken and Veggies it was really good!
(ahahh I see now that I don't have much meat on my plate, hence the reason for my B12 Def. I'm trying, I'm trying)
I'm exhausted! Before heading to bed tonight I will be making my grocery list full of healthy choices for this week. One thing I need to focus on this week is healthy snack for work.

Hope you all had a great weekend.