Good Morning! I was about to say Happy Monday but luckily it is Tuesday! Yay! I will recap back to Saturday!
My parents came to visit for my sister’s birthday. We went to a restaurant called Vynl and I got the best vegetable goat cheese wrap ever! We went to a bar after and watched the football game for a little while. I left early so I could meet Dori and Melanie for dinner! We went to a restaurant on the Upper East Side called Merchants!
Dori and I both got 2 Lychee martinis. They were so good there…very strong!!
I have to show you Dori’s soup since it was so pretty!
It was Roasted Tomato and Fennel Soup. I tried some and it was delicious! I would definitely order it next time.
I got the Goat Cheese Salad with Peppercorn Crusted Tuna.
The salad contained arugala, blood oranges, warm goat cheese “croutons” and red beet vinaigrette. I thought I hated beets but I loved the little chunks of beets in the salad! The goat cheese balls were delicious too of course!! The 3 of us don’t get to hang out too often so we had a great time catching up!
Sunday
I woke up at 8:30 for no reason and my gym class was not till 12:15 so I decided it would be a good idea to eat breakfast! Normally I would just have a small snack but 3 hours is enough time to digest!
I made 1 egg and 1 egg white with mushrooms and Laughing Cow on a flat out wrap. I had a Click Espresso protein drink as well since I was very tired!
I went to my sister’s apartment in the city and she took me to her new gym, Club H. It was very pretty and new inside! Everyone was extremely friendly too! We took Reboundingclass first. I liked it a lot more than the one at Equinox. The teacher was fun and nice and he played great house music. I think I was more familiar with the moves this time so it was easier for me. I also liked that we used weights for some of the class. We did abs while laying on the trampolines at the end. It was a great workout!
We decided to stay for his next class, Abs, Back, and Butt. We kept our rebounders and weights but also got a body bar, a ball and sliders. We started out with the sliders under our feet. We did planks while holding onto the trampoline and had to slide our feet back and forth. It was extremely challenging! I was drenched after 5 minutes of these moves. We layed on the trampolines and did abs with the ball between our legs. My ball was too huge so I couldn’t use it for that section. We did a ton of legs moves while lifting our feet the way we do in Core Fusion! We did all kinds of other crazy moves for 45 minutes! It was a great class. I burned 350 calories in rebounding and 250 in the abs class.
We were both starving after so we went to Whole Foods!
I made a delicious salad. It had salmon, edamame, mushrooms, kale, sprout salad, baked tofu, seeweed salad, and cucumbers. I had some popchips on the side!
I hung out at my sisters apartment for the rest of the night and played online. Eventually we ordered dinner from Baja Fresh.
We split a whole wheat burrito with beans, grilled chicken, and avocado. We had some salad and wine on the side! It was yummy. We made really random dessert plates. Don’t ask.
I got hungry a few hours later once I got home so I had a little midnight snack of grapes, a Vitatop, and a few chocolate chips. Oh and I ran out of whipped cream 
I went to another gym class this morning but it was not fun. I will save that for tomorrow! I will leave you with Daisy!
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hahah Merchant is my maiden name! I want to go there!
I have been dying to taste a lychee martini for years. Are they sweet? Bitter?
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Missy Reply:
January 19th, 2010 at 11:53 am
They are sweet and delicious!
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Love the random dessert plate
Looks like a fun weekend!
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What a fun weekend! Sounds like a great workout on Sunday!
I’ve never had a Lychee Martini before. That’s on my list to try
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Awww sounds like u had a great weekend!! Your salmon salad looks great!!! Glad u had fun with your sister!! Where can u buy popchips?
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Missy Reply:
January 19th, 2010 at 11:55 am
They sell them at Whole Foods, Target, Duane Reade, Jamba Juice, and I see them at small health food stores.
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It sounds like you had a great time with you sister this weekend! It seems like this was “sis weekend” ha.
Yums that soup DOES look good! That Martini reminds me of a Witch’s Brew
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Glad you had a great weekend!
I need that martini right now. Being back at work is not fun and that would make it a lot better. Yummy!
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What a fun weekend! Mmmm that soup does look amazing – so does your salad!
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hey love!
what a great, busy, FUN WEEKEND!
great eats!
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awww looks like you had such a good time with your sis! you always find the best restuarants in the city! i gotta start trying these babies out
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I’m so glad you had a fun weekend. Hope youre doing well darling <3
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I think you are the exception to the rule “Don’t eat out more than once per week” because you always seem to find the healthiest restaurants and entrees! That soup looks fantastic, and yes, very pretty! The salad also looks great. I really love crusted tuna, especially when it’s on the rare side.
Glad you had a nice weekend Missy!
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I had so much fun – thanks for the awesome birthday gifts!! I’m still so sore from those gym classes!!
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is saw on your sisters blog about the rebounding class! it looked so fun! thatsa wesome that you two are so close and can workout together, sisterly motivation! I had a lychee martini at this sushi restaurant a few months back OMG it was so good! I loved the big lychees in there…they were dangerous because they tasted like NO alcohol was in there!
they should make chocolate whippred cream!! (or do they already??)
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Missy Maintains Reply:
January 19th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
They make it! I don’t know why I never buy it!
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Dori’s soup is so pretty! And Daisy is all grown up!
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haha i love your random dessert plate! & the burrito looks yummyy love it. that soup looks really good too!
xoox
shelley
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Good times with big sis! I love sisterly bonding time.
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lychee martini?? hmm, what is a lychee?
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Missy Maintains Reply:
January 19th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Lychee- Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.
It is veryyyy good!
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Oh my God, your cat is so adorable. My cousins just left today- they were in town staying at my apartment for nine days. Sounds like you had A LOT more fun!
Alison
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One of the things I love about your blog is that you show how easy it is to eat healthy and *delicious* food on the go. I still struggle with making healthy choices at restaurants (I tend to use it as an excuse to eat not-so-healthy :/) but you show that you don’t always have to eat an iceberg lettuce salad to be healthy when eating out!
I also love that you show your exercise calorie burn. Seeing the amount of food you eat and the amount of exercise is helpful for me because sometimes I still don’t really know how to balance the two. Like, should I be burning more calories or eating less calories? Or vica versa? Does that make sense? haha
Have a great night!! xoxo G
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Sounds like you had an awesome weekend! Awesome eats and workouts. Your dessert plates are cute
My favorite weekend bfast is egg white wraps, so good but I never have time to make them during the week.
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Wow your food looks really yummy. Sounds like an awesome weekend eats and family wise.
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Baja fresh looks great!
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sounds like a really good workout you and your sis had!
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there is something about eating pretty food that just puts me in a delicious mood, and makes the taste sour. that soup…how do they DO that? I saw one last week, a pumpklin with a cranberry coulis swirl on it! So interesting. If I did that with just three of my meals a week, I’d be a happy chicka!
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my adorable kitty is about the be in trouble for all the stuff he is getting in to and dragging around the house!
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How’d they get those fancy decorations on the soup?? I am so not a culinary fancy shmancy person. Highly impressed.
And Daisy? Can’t get enough of that fluffball *love*
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