Hey there

Gosh, that weekend went by fast, no? I can’t believe it’s already Monday night.

Jas and I spent so much time doing homework this weekend, the only “us” time we had together was our date night on Sunday. Our day started out with fab-u-lous oats:

In this bowl:

• 1/2 cup oats
• 1/2 cup vanilla soy milk
• 1/2 cup water
• chai seeds
• 1/2 banana
• 1/2 Cliff Zbar S’more
• 1 tsp pb
• 1 tsp blackberry jam

..with coffee of course …all on top of my algebra homework.

This bowl was so filling. I went 5 hours without any hunger cues whatsoever!  I spent the morning with my calculator and my laptop. The 6 hours spent was worth it because I totally made an A on my homework At 2-ish, I realized I should probably eat so I whipped up an easy lunch:

A Smartdog, vegetarian baked beans and grapes. Nothing fabulous, but it served it’s purpose. I also had one of these for dessert:

These intrigued me while I was grocery shopping. Caramel? Mousse?60 calorie dessert? What’s not to love, right?? The texture..that’s what! Maybe I had different expectations for it in my mind, or maybe I just wasn’t thinking of a “mousse-y” texture when I picked it up….either way, I hated the texture. It was like air. I felt like I was eating nothing. The flavor was good, but it was gone in a matter of minutes…leaving my dessert craving still raging. Oh well!

After dessert, time to get ready for our date!

First, we went to Target to go lamp shopping I know it sounds corny, but I love doing stuff like that together. Doing couple-y things makes me happy <—–Cheeessseeeballll.

We decided to have dinner at Thai House. I wanted some fried tofu. The place is soooo dark, so these are the only pics I was able to get!

Ummmmm…I promise there are veggies under the fried tofu In fact, there are cucumbers, tomatoes, red and green peppers, onion, mushrooms and zucchini. All in a pool of sweet-n-sour sauce. 

 Oh, and there was steamed brown rice in the mix too And you see that beer glass on the far right? That, my friend, was a Sierra Nevada that Jas and I shared. And how sexy do I look with that big hunk of food in my cheek? Uber-sexy, I know

 After stuffing our faces finishing dinner, it was time for the movie! We went to see……….dun-da-da-dun-dunnnnn, dun-da-da-dun-dunnnnn, dun-da-da-dunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn:

Shutter Island! Doesn’t that make you want to shutter? Enough with the bad jokes That’s my “ooohhhh this might be scary” -face.

[Side-note: Got the jacket at Forever21 for $12!!!!!!!!!! It was marked down from $45...who loves a good bargain?? This girl.]

The movie was really clever and kept me on the edge of my seat. I could do without the blood, but otherwise it was great! Leo DiCaprio is a great actor, though he always looks like a kid put in grown-up clothes in every movie, haha

Now, I am “ashamed”…..or, I guess I should say that I am having the “non-exercise guilt” right now. I’ve been feeling so tired lately. Jas and I both got up before 8 on Saturday and Sunday so we could do homework. He has been sick, so he was super tired and weak to begin with. The only time we did a work out was on Saturday for 45 minutes. Here is what we did:

• 100 crunches
• 50 left/right side oblique crunches
• 3×10 lat pulldowns (65 lbs)
• 3×10 v-pulldowns (50 lbs)
• 3×10 bicep curls (25 lbs)
• 3×10 military press (45 lbs)
• 3×10 rowing machine (50 lbs)

..and then we had planned to do cardio but we were so weak. It took all of our strength just to get through that last exercise. We left the gym and I silently promised myself I would run 6 miles on Sunday..because I really wanted to get out and run.

Well, the run never happened either. I spent much more time on homework than planned and before I knew it, it was time to get ready for our date night. When Jas and I got home from the movie, I lay on the couch and started watching FoodNetwork love of my life and I fell asleep while talking to him.

This morning, I woke up after he had left for work. This week is our “Spring Break” at school so I didn’t have school. The only plans I had were to meet my mom for lunch, coach and then the gym. As the day went on I felt more and more sick. Sore throat, watery eyes, weak and tired…needless to say, the gym didn’t happen today either. You guys ever have an off-week??

I can’t say that it doesn’t bother me that I haven’t done cardio in three days. It does. Tremendously. Help me feel better about my exercise mishaps!

Do you guys feel this way when you miss a workout, or 3 in a row?? Hope I’m not the only one!

Ugh. I need to drink some sleepy-time tea and curl up under a fluffy blanket. See ya Wednesday

[Edited to add: It's a few days later and I guess my body knew what it was doing. I left work sick yesterday and am still recouperating. I don't care that I haven't been to the gym in 4 days, I just wanna get better so I CAN go running or to the gym! Thanks for the support ]

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