Last Weekend of Summer 2013

Happy 1st week of fall, Friends. I hope everyone had a fab-tastic weekend!

I was on my work turnaround on Friday and Saturday but got asked to work on Sunday. I must say though, I had a great third weekend of September. Can you believe it's fall already? Crazy-cakes! / I love it. Scarves, boots, pumpkin, leaves, crisp air, mittens :) Hellooo!

Did anyone have any good workouts this weekend? My god, I did! I am actually sitting here with a huge smile because I feel lean and light. It's a feeling that does not often follow me.

Anywho, my fall season began as follows..

Friday

I went to bed at 7:00-pm on Thursday night. I was actually so exhausted and pretty much died in my work clothes. I didn't get up until 8:45-am.. Isn't that awesome? I slept almost 14-hours! My godddd! I have a smile on just thinking about it. If this were any other weekend, I'd have a small panic attack but I kinda had it planned for this one. I had a meeting with my coach, Jon on Monday and he seemed rather concerned on my sleeping schedule. He said that I'm never going to see the results I want with  sleeping 4-5-hours a night so he advised me to have a mighty sleep during turnaround. And a mighty sleep it was !

First thing I did was cook me up some breakfast (well quickly whip it  up) .. 1/2 cup of oatmeal, 1 T of ground flax, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/3 cup of egg whites. I mixed this up, let it sit (to soak in the egg whites) and then nuked it for a minute in the microwave. Now, I can see some of those disgusted noses rising to this but it's actually delicious and I eat it almost every day! No joke.

Breakfast wouldn't be breakfast with a Venti Ice Americano now would it? But I'll spare you the picture that bad boy as 1. you all could probably start a coffee scrap book from the copious amounts of coffee-porn I post and 2. I kinda maybe mighta had it guzzled down in this ol gut before I could snap a pic! Oops.

Someone headed to the gym and did a 1-mile interval run followed by what I would consider an intense chest workout! (The chest workout was the 51-minute snap. I stopped the clock when I started running and forgot to turn it back on)

And then ran home to re-fuel with a mandatory protein shake (8-oz water + 1-scoop of Nutriwhey Vanilla Protein Powder), followed by some taco tasting sweet potato bake <--Holy YUM!

Someone also has been carrying her MacBook Pro around in a towel.. Yes, wrapped in a foolish ol' towel in my book bag. It looks quite odd when I plant my ass at Starbucks and whip out my baby size towel and slowly unwrap a computer. These cases are almost 80 bones so I kinda mighta put it off for a few months. Better late than never though, right? Right.

Someone did a little bloggy blogging (here)  and then decided she'd head back to the gym for some core and cardio!

 

*I shall wake and be a sex-bomb..I shall wake and be a sex-bomb*

Why did I wanna go to the gym twice? O, I don't know .. maybe cause I had a hot-smokin-sexy date planned . . . at Boston Pizza!

David and I decided to have a dinner-movie kinda night so he came up and we ventured on.

I had the spinach salad with a grilled chicken breast and raspberry vinaigrette on the side. I skipped that cheese on the side of my plate. It was feta. I heart feta. But with weakness comes sacrifice, right? (errrr something like that).

David had a starter salad like mine (he gobbled it up before I got a snap) and he ordered the bacon wrapped steak skewers with fried onions.

Tip: Always get your dressing on the side. I order my dressing on the side every time I go out for supper. Simply dip your fork in the dressing and then the salad. You get tons of flavour but save mad calories. You honestly do not need the portion they serve you. (I used approx. 1/4 of the dressing. Not kidding)

Now, you all know a supper isn't a supper without desert .. but what is my favourite desert? O I don't know ... David doesn't know ... O ... wait there for a second ... David does know now..
...Cause he had his FIRST real Starbucks experience! His first step walking into the coffee shop. His first Starbucks Pumpkin Spiced Latte and his first Starbucks gingerbread cookie.

 

Look at that smile! He is jumping over the moon with his latte, isn't he? (Apologies for the enthusiasm here ... I'm a tad hyper her tonight) O, ps. I had a black blonde roast coffee.

It was too late for a movie after supper + coffee so we opted for a rental. We went to Philly's (seeing how it's just up the road) and debated for a good 15-minutes on what to rent. We pick a movie and the conversation between myself and the clerk-girl went as follows:

Clerk: Number please.
Queen-Bee V: 763-shhh
Clerk: O, you don't have an account with us?
Queen-Bee V: Nope
Clerk: Where do you live? hmm *sketchy face ON*
Queen-Bee V: Bell's Turn
Clerk: O .. ya .. ok, so I can't rent to you
Queen-Bee V: Ahh excuse me? ha-ha-ha-why not?
Clerk: Cause you don't live in Airport Heights
Queen-Bee V: Are you serious???????
Clerk: Ya, we only rent to those living in APH. Sorry. Bye *he-he-he*
Queen-Bee V: RIGHT ON

*Victoria flicks her long lushious locks of hair and struts out with her angry face on*
Note: I even put back the almonda I was gonna get.

RATTLED! So the movie date was a no-go..buttt we got to bed at a decent hour and woke up to the birds!

No movie..no almonds..but I got berries?

Ps. Look what a lovely friend picked all for me-me-me

Goodbye Costco steroidal blueberries! This is a 2-L ice cream tub. Talk about get-in-ma-belly.

Idea: Think about this combo .. almonds + blueberries + 1T of almond butter + shredded coconut + 1T of honey .. sound delish? Ahh I think so. I'm thinking out loud here guys.. but I'll put that in the books to try. Perhaps you'll try it? And then enlighten me?


Saturday

Saturday started like every other day but today I added some blueberries to my fuel-mix!

And then headed to the gym for a little cardio and a LOT of weights. I did circuit training for almost an hour and a half and sweat more than I've ever sweat before!

After lunch I decided to meet up with Val at Montana's. I ordered the watermelon feta salad (hold the feta) and altered it to my allowances. This salad was holy yum and the balsamic vinaigrette whipped across the top was to die for! Val and I had our hearty little lunch and then headed to the mall.

 After the mall I took a nap, got all dolled up and headed out for some birthday celebrations :)

Val made Shaneen this giant cookie cake and it actually took everything in me not to eat it! Holy smokes did it ever look delish! I told Val that she should make me a personal cookie cake for the end of September. She accepted and I decided that it will definitely be eaten in one sitting.

I only stayed out on Saturday until around 12 because I had an early rise. Saturday was the 8-week mark from the November competition (you have no idea the nerves I have) so I needed to get some sleep so I could workout Sunday evening.

I was pretty excited to go to bed on Saturday night because I knew I had some progress pictures to take on Sunday.

The following are a little embarrassing/graphic/hashtag-naked .. but that's the territory with a public blog I supposed.

Week 1                                 Week 7

Verdict: I thought I'd see a more of a change after 6-7-weeks but all this means is that I really have to get into game mode now. I need to start taking this more seriously and no cheating/cutting meals/lacking sleep/not giving 100% overall.

Note: When this is done, I will post ALL of my progress pictures. Some are still a little heart-breaking for me to look at haha

Anyhow, all in all I had a fantastic weekend :) Great food and great friends all around.

Happy last week of September, friends!

 

Did you get up to anything fun this weekend? Any good stories? Workouts?

 

Send me some motivation! :)

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