breakfast | nutcaseinpoint

Don’t worry, everyone- I’ll post about this past weekend soon! There’s just so much to show and tell and I’ve yet to have the time to get it all together! In the mean time, I can show you some other pics:

I made some healthy strawberry scones for breakfast

Te recipe can be found here. I didn’t make the yogurt sauce, nor did I do the egg wash or sugar on top, and I used applesauce instead of oil. The verdict: delicious!

I went to the jeweler to visit my diamond this morning! The ring Tyler gave me this weekend is not the real thing (he wanted to make sure I liked it before he had the real diamond placed in the setting) so I went to check it out, get sized, and give the OK to put my real one together!

I took Layla in the car with me because it’s beautiful outside and we went downtown to walk along the river.

We walked across the new bridge (one of many bridges we crossed today)

Then we looped around, crossed another bridge, and went up a hill. Here is a view of the bridge- and you can see just how far we walked!

Back by the river, my embarrassment of a dog decided to go in the water, lay in it, and not come out. People were laughing. Other dogs were behaving. I was mortified.

I got real sketchy back at the parking lot because I saw a group of girls doing my favoritist thing ever: planks. If I didn’t have Layla with me, I would have joined them! (Athena, I thought of you!)

I’m now burnt, I have cleaned the house, and friends are on their way over for a gumbo dinner!

See ya later!

Well, last night ended terribly. I committed a crime, a very bad crime. I weighed myself at the end of the day- at the end of a holiday weekend. The verdict? You don’t want to know. Ugh, I was so mad at myself. Hated myself even.

You’d think after 25 years I’d have learned to enjoy food and fitness in balance. But every once in a while- it takes a mean turn and I cry myself to sleep over a stupid number on a stupid scale.

After a huge sobfest and a good nights sleep, I started today with a clean slate. Breakfast was a bowl of oats w/honey, almond milk, almond butter, raisins and toasted coconut.

Today’s workout included a 3 mile run- the first ever since moving to 3500 ft altitude. I think I did pretty good

Sub-10 min miles. I’ll take it, thankya. And the route I took was hilly. Another high five for me.

I listened to a new playlist for my run- it’s a weird mix of genres and old/new stuff, but it hit the spot for a run today!

Oh, and Nicki Minaj’s new CD? Fantastic. She does a lot of the rap that she’s known for, but here and there she actually sings and she has a great voice. And great lyrics. And great featuring artists. Most of the songs talk about b*tches and d*ck, though. Hell, one song’s even titled Come on A Cone. For serious. But I really like the music- I’ll just have to watch my potty mouth for a bit 😉

My heart was a-thumpin’ by the time I got home. Theeeen, I did a quick at home circuit that consisted of

Oof!

15 minutes of those moves, and I broke my second sweat of the day. Very pleased with my workout on day 1 of post-scale horror.

Lunch was a smoothie with an interesting list of ingredients.

It included: 1 frozen banana, 2 handfuls spinach, orange juice, frozen raspberries, Oikos Greek yogurt, and 2 medjool dates. Totally delicious.

Dinner was quickly and easy- another round of healthy chicken tenders with broccoli and spinach citrus couscous.

Dessert was an orange.

I finally got around to trying out another way to get hard cooked eggs. Rather than boiling them, I baked them!

In the oven they went at 325 for 30 minutes, then I plunged them in ice water to stop them from cooking. They actually turned out! I’ll be eating them over the next few days! Yum.