Great deals!

Today was one of those rainy yucky days. So what better to do than to go shop!

I went to Winners and found some great deals in their clearance section. I love shopping the clearance section, I always find unique items for great prices.

I got this for $5.00 "Live Laugh Love"

And this basket for $8.00, which Zoe immediately claimed as her own ahah!
I also bought a few candles and a new pair of yoga pants :)

On another note a friend of mine suggested I use this organic fruits and veggie wash so I went out to buy that today as well. Can't wait to use it!

How do you ensure your fruits and veggies are clean?

Out of it!

Zoe can always imitate how I feel... UGH today I feel out of it! Work has been soooo stressful! I left work yesterday so upset! Today was a little bit better. I made sure to voice my opinion at work... to my boss! I really am not going to take bullying in the workplace! So when I feel I'm in the right I neeed! to stick up for myself! :)



This week was our second week of Italiano Classes! It was so much fun. I forgot to take pics!! Next week I'll be sure to take pic of us students. haha!


I've been doing REALLY REALLY well with the no fast food! Fast food meaning drive thru places like McDonald's/Wendy's/Harvey's etc. However the other night coming home from work and having an appointment to make we went to McDonald's. I did not want to break my no fast food streak, so I went for a grilled mcmini haha! It was ok. Not the most filling meal but it did the job until I got home to grab something healthier.
I bought oats last week and still haven't made it. Some friends gave me ideas on what to add to it but I'm still scared to make it.... I've never eaten Oatmeal :O.... I'll get to it... eventually haha!

As per doctors orders I haven't been doing my workout DVD's :( I'll post on that soon. I'm still waiting for my results. But for now I'm sticking to eating healthy and light exercises which means lots of walking!! :)

Hope you all are having a great week so far!

Weekend relaxation!

Zoe and I cleaned the house today ahah! She chases me around when I sweep or swifter and gets extra hyper when I go in to the dining room or basement (she's territorial ahah!)

It's a beautiful day. I ran some errands and just relaxed outside getting fresh air!

We are still pretty new to our area and we are always looking for new places to eat and check out. Yesterday we found a Italian Sandwich place right by our house! I had a chicken sandwich with veggies. It was HUGE! Husband had to finish it off for me ahhah!

I'm sure you all know what next week is! World CUP! My husband is a HUGE soccer fan! I just tag along for the fun ahah! The teams we are going for....
He would also like me to mention he is also going for Brazil LOL.

What team/teams are you routing for!?

I Love Broccoli!

I loveee Broccoli! But I only have 2 ways of cooking it. Boiling it, and adding salt and pepper.
And adding it to my famous Thai Coconut Curry Shrimp dish mmmm so good!

So I would LOVE to know other broccoli recipes. If you got any, please send them my way!


These are my new Salt and Pepper grinders. I bought them at Winners...Really I could just spend all my evenings at winners and that would make me so happy aaha! I was close tho, I've been there 3 times this week!
Like I said on Wednesday my exercise has not been going too well., BUT I have been walking ALOT! So I think that makes up for half of that.
However.... I just ruined my healthy day with THESE! I think I should head to the basement to workout!

Soooo Glad tomorrow is Friday! Yeah weekends!!!

CIAO!

Look at us good students! Italian classes began yesterday and it was so much fun! The teacher is coming to us and we are getting together at my moms house once a week. Tutorino.ca is the company we went with. Our teacher is from Naples. He is soo nice and funny and we had a great time laughing and learning!

Summer is here and there are MUCH more things to do. I'm SOOOO busy! I have not worked out at all! So tomorrow I need to sit down and re-do my weekly schedule! When things get hectic, I get a little crazy and the meltdowns begin! Soooo I'll need to get on that ASAP!

Also, work is really getting in the way of my eating ha! BUT It's true. I'm always in meetings or on different floors that I miss my snacks then get over the point of hungry which you know what that equals ---- crazy me and meltdowns! Seems like this is the story of my life these days! Crazy and meltdowns!No fun!!!!!

Tomorrow I'm heading to the doctors for my B12 shot, hopefully this gives me the energy I neeeed!



My mom came by with her dog tonight and Zoe just followed him around the whole house. They were good with each other it was cute.

Hope you are all having a great week!

Filling up on fruit!

We have been having beautiful weather and fresh fruit just goes so well with a sunny day!

I put together this bowl on Friday and have been grabbing a hand full whenever I feel like a snack. I Love having fruit at hand!

My weekend eating was pretty good, I tried to make the healthy choices with a few exceptions!... It's the weekend! One exception was dinner at a Colombian restaurant in our old neighborhood. We ordered yummy pupusas! MMMM!



Today was my day to run a million errands! While at the pet store we decided to buy Zoe a little gift. A water fountain bowl. I think she was impressed ahah!! She started biting at the flowing water and starred at it for a while before drinking. I hope she likes it, that way I can remove the cups of water I leave for her around the house ahah!

I got a little gift too this weekend. The below pic is not that great, but my mom put together a little pot of herbs for me. I think there are 4 or 5 different things in it, the only ones I remember her telling me was basil and cilantro ha! I'll have to ask her again what the others are.


Hope you are all having a great weekend! I'm off to make Thai Coconut shrimp with plenty of veggies!

Eating every 3 hours...

As soon as I came home after work I popped this whole meal in the oven for 35 mins while I did a workout in the basement. Baked chicken (with Jerk seasoning from Jamaica! Asparagus with a touch of salt, yukon potatoes and salad) Yum!

Although weight loss is high on my list to do's ahah!... So is my health. I'm learning a lot about my body and about the nutrients it needs also learning that limited food brings out the worst in me ahaha! My new focus is to ensure I'm eating enough, every 3 hours mainly and focusing on my workouts as well. Summer is here and there are more events to attend. So I will stick to the minimum 3 days a week working out and only add more workouts if I have the time. Oh and wear my easy tones as much as I can!

My job get's busy on some days but I'm going to really try and stick to eating every 3 hours. 8am, 11am, 2pm, 5pm (on way home from work small snack) 6pm dinner and 8pm(if I need to ha!)

While grocery shopping this weekend I decided to go higher %in the dark chocolate. I usually get 70%. Not a good idea. YUK! Talk about bitter and the feeling of crumbling powder in my mouth.
Are you a Dark chocolate lover? What percentage do you love? I need to keep it no higher than 70%! ahah!

Back on track after a long weekend...

Trying to get back on track today from a eating frenzy long weekend! I was too tired today and ended up eating leftovers, who can resist a bbq hotdog and pasta salad! eeee!


We had a fun long weekend full of visiting family and enjoying BBQ afternoons. The weather was amazing!

We had some guests over yesterday for a BBQ and Victoria day fireworks!

My sister/sister in law/me/neice in the pic above. Our other little neice in her belly! And will be joining our fun in August!
I actually got to hear the heart beat on the weekend too and felt her kicking! :)
The weekend was fun but busy! I ate wayy too much so decided not to step on the scale until next week haha!

Back on track tomorrow! Hope you all had a great weekend.


(crazy Zoe!)

Calorie counting

Like I mentioned before I use my Iphone app to track calories (My Fitness Pal) It can search pretty much everything you are looking for. It has helped a lot with counting my daily cals.

Another way to ensure you keep the calories in check, is using a measurement cup. I never use to do this, but there are some foods I'd like to enjoy and moderation is key. So measuring cup to the rescue!
I came home from work tonight a little bit stressed (ugh again!) and ALMOST ate out, but made sure to come straight home and make dinner!

Then I used the rest of my daily calories on a Strawberry Sundae ahah!

Workout Dvd's Update. Love the new total workout in 10. I did 10 minutes on Monday then 30 minutes yesterday. I wanted to get 10 minutes in today but I'm wayyy too exhausted and my legs are pretty sore!

So glad tomorrow is Thursday! We have a long weekend and I'm looking forward to relaxing!

Great weekend and new workout DVD's!

Hope you all had a good weekend! I know Zoe did ahhah! Such a little trouble maker!

I had a great weekend, it was relaxing and tried my best to keep the stress away!

I rocked my easy tones all weekend. I did all my errands with them on, cleaned the house with them on and even worked out with them on. I feel them working my thighs and tushy. So far so good!

At walmart they had a sale on workout DVD's. 2 for $10. So I bought 2 of them.

So far I tried the ten minute workout. I love it! Although I enjoyed the 30 day Shred as well I found that it would make me dizzy going up and down from lunges to laying down- doing abs then back up etc... This new 10 minute workout has 10min cardio, then 10 min lower bod then 10 min upper.. see below...
The 10 min cardio is a really good work out and it makes you sweat! All while standing up no laying down haha! My workouts are remaining as minimum 3x week and on days I'm not that busy i'll add in the 10 min cardio for a total 5 days when I can. :)


I'm adding some extras to my diet this week. Plenty of broccoli since it helps with increasing metabolism, plums that are rich in dietary fiber :) and pistachios which also contain lots of fiber.

Hoping for a good week! :) Hope you all have a good week too!