Beautiful day!

Today was a gorgeous spring feeling day in Toronto. It was warm and bright and I think everyone was feeling great today!

We went to visit my grandparents for lunch. I ate a fairly large plate of pasta and meat balls haha. No such thing as a dieting with the grandparents, they would not have it ahahh
That's me and my mom.

After we left my grandparents we headed to the book store. I read about a book called Women, Food and God and wanted to get it, but the mall was full of people and so I think I will just order that book on Amazon tonight. Have any of you read that book?
Friday I received some products I ordered from a Bloggy friend. Nuplus shake and Calli Tea. I am going to make a new plan for next week and switch my morning coffee and BF to a Nuplus Shake. I will blog about that tomorrow. I'm excited!

Hope you all are having a great weekend!!

Vacation anyone?

Bloggy friends I need your help! I read many of your blogs and know some of you travel to beautiful fun places and just know you can help me choose a vacation for our 3 year anniversary in June :)

So I made a little list, in no order. And with no relation, just places that pop up in our heads. We are looking to go away for a week end of June.

Some of our most memorable vacations have been those with beautiful nature all around. Places where we were able to go out and explore and just feel and connect with nature.

Some places we have been:
Cuba 3 times! Holguin/Varadero (Holguin wins, gorgeous scenery loved it)
Dominican Rep 2 times
Bahamas
North and South Carolina/Myrtle Beach
Sandiego
and some other smaller trips to the states and within Ontario.

I made a small list of some places we would like to go and have not been yet.

- Within Canada - BC or Alberta
- Caribbean Cruise (sorta scared of the sea eee)
- Road Trip to Florida (we enjoy long road trips :)
- San Fransisco (Always wanted to go here)
- Hawaii (The scenery calls me)

Is there any place you would recommend? Let me know your feedback! and I'll start on the vacation savings :)

Gazelle work out

This morning I went for my B12 shot and my funny doctor said "Do ppl say, wow that girl has energy" hahh! I said NOPE! she said "OK then it's not working yet". ahahah She makes me laugh. Just as she was asking me I was thinking in my head how what a horrible schedule I have. I get to bed late, wake up late, arrive everywhere late. Yesterday I was so tired that I fell asleep at 6pm when I got home from work! Now that's not a girl with energy. NOPE!

So part of my new exercise goals I'm mixing the Shred DVD and my Gazelle workouts. I like changing it up. That way when I don't feel like doing one, I'll do the other.
Tonight there are some shows on Tv that I like. Modern Family and Cougar town. hilarious! My TV snack was carrots and dip :) (well the dip part is not too good, but good thing I didn't like it to much so left a lot :)

On the way home from work tonight we stopped by Winners and Homesense. I only walked out with a button shirt and also this piece of art. I love word art. Especially when it was only $10.00 :)

Today my lower back was hurting alot. I'm glad it doesn't hurt everyday but it's been hurting about twice a week. When will this cyst bursttttt already! I can't take it anymoreee!.... that's my little bit of drama, I'll just leave it at that.

I'm hoping to get to bed sorta early tonight. :) Good night!!

Greens!

Here are my weekly goals :)

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

* Drink lots of water everyday! A MUST!

* Tracking calories on Iphone "my fitness pal app)

* 3 bite rule on sweets

* Bring left over dinners for lunch the next day and monitor portions ;)

* 3 days a week basement work out (1 day Jillian Michaels 30 day shred video 2 days Gazelle)

* No fast food! (no burgers, no fries, no pop!)

This weekend I over ate a lot! and not with the healthiest foods. But we had a great weekend full of fun and.......

Canada won GOLD in Hockey!!!!! Olympics this year was amazing! I really enjoyed it.

Hope you all had a great weekend too.

(I also want to take a moment to pray for those in Chile that were affected by the earthquake. A good friends mother and grandparents are there visiting. They are ok, but we are praying for their safe return to Canada.

Also a friends sister just gave birth to her twins. One is 3lbs and the other 2.4lbs :( they are little fighters and little miracles, I'm praying so much for their health)

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

Check out www.lifeaseyeseeit.com and participate in half full Friday's!

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!!