Happy Friday! It is time to announce the winner of the Bollywood Boogie Workout DVD!

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3- Erin from A Girl and Her Mutt! Congrats Erin! Please send me an email with your address and I will ship out your DVD!

Week in Review

Let’s start with some food talk. I am happy to say that I brought both breakfast and lunch every day this week! I only ate dinner at home once but a girl’s gotta start somewhere right? It’s been months since I’ve had oatmeal at work but it really is the most affordable breakfast. I forgot how much I missed it!

I added banana, Navita’s Naturals Trail Mix, and Justin’s Chocolate Hazelnut Butter. Thank you to Amie for sending me so many packets of this stuff! Amazing!

For lunch I brought turkey sandwiches, veggie burger wraps, and tuna in a pita! I also always brought some popchips to munch on.

Dinner included a wonderful Whole Foods salad:

Of course I went to Friday’s one night for cheap drinks! I got a usual salad for dinner so that I could enjoy this:

That thing is an entire day’s worth of calories but sometimes a dessert like that is just necessary. I had about half of it and enjoyed every single bite.  I don’t know how people can eat one bite of a real dessert and feel satisfied. If something is good, I’m not stopping after one taste! Props to anyone who can have a warm, soft cookie topped with ice cream, Oreo’s, hot fudge, and whipped cream and feel satisfied after a spoonful! That’s just not me. You only live once!

As far as exericse goes, I went to intenSati Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and today! I took a nice rest day on Wednesday since I hadn’t taken one in about 10 days! I told you I love Equinox. Today’s class was amazing. Patricia (the creator) is due to have her baby in 2 weeks and was there at 6:30 am to sub for Natalia! She was still able to do so many of the dance movements!! Love it!

Monday Announcement!

In other news, I have a really exciting Monday coming up! In the morning I am going to be filmed doing intenSati! Natalia (the teacher I mentioned above) is a Lululemon Ambassador and will be the star of their promotional musical! They will be filming her teaching intenSati so I get to be one of 10 people in the background! I also get this free Lululemon tank out of it!  

After that I will be heading to Philly for the Phillies game! My mom got invited to do Zumba with the Philly Phanatic at the game that night!! My mom got to choose a few Zumba instructors to dance with her.  I am going to learn the routine and dance too! Scary but exciting! I just want to meet Chase Utley and Cole Hamel (maybe sneak them kisses too). I will try to get some nice pictures and video!

1) Can you eat one bite of a dessert and feel satisfied?
2) What baseball player would you love to kiss?

Have a nice weekend!

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Happy Thursday! It is the last day of the work week for me!!! Remember the bachelorette party I went to in Puerto Rico a month ago? Saturday is the wedding! She is the first of my friends to get married so it is pretty exciting. Tomorrow is manicure/pedicure day and the wedding rehearsal. I will make sure to take lots of pictures of course! I also have some guest posts lined up so be sure to check back! Now for some eats from yesterday…

I couldn’t decide what to have for breakfast. I remembered that I had a bunch of coupons from Self Workout in the Park for $5.00 off a $10.00 purchase at Energy Kitchen! I did not want the coupons to go to waste so I decided to order breakfast and lunch. For breakfast I got egg whites with mushrooms and broccoli on a multigrain wrap.

They really do have the best breakfast ever.

Every month something new is on special there for lunch. Last month the burgers were $5.00. This month the wraps are $5.00. I went with the California Wrap. It has hummus, guacamole, roasted red peppers, and sprouts.

I didn’t love it the first time I tried it a few months ago because it seemed a little watery. This time the hummus was much creamier. The breakfast wrap was $4.99 and lunch was $5.00. I was one cent short from being able to use the coupon!! I’m sure they do that on purpose. I decided to get a bag of Soy Crisps to make it over $10.00.

Both wraps plus the chips ended up being $8.00 with the coupon. Not too bad. They gave me another coupon for $5.00 off a wrap too! Looks like I’ll be getting another free wrap this month.

A few hours later, I received this email:

They are giving out more free wraps tonight! So fun!

I went to the gym after work and did 45 minutes on the elliptical. I was craving a nice big salad after all of the wraps and chips so I stopped at Whole Foods for dinner.

I threw in a little bit of everything! The star of the salad was the yucca fries. They taste so much better than normal fries to me! I need to make them one day.

I got home and had an intense craving for some ice cream! I decided not to fight it and just stop at the store and get some. I found this little single serve container of Skinny Cow!

I am obsessed with Cookies ‘N Cream so this was perfect. It is just 150 calories for a nice size serving. Just don’t look at the ingredient list. Not good! I could have bought a normal size container of soy ice cream with better ingredients but I have no control and would have ate the whole thing. I need single serve containers when it comes to ice cream. I usually don’t keep it in the house at all. I just won’t be buying this very often in the future! At least Daisy enjoyed it It was delicious and the perfect treat. Well I am off! Don’t forget to enter to win SmartSole Exercise Insoles! I will be choosing the winner tomorrow!

1) Do you prefer single serving containers for control or bulk containers?
2) Are there any foods you have to keep out of the house?

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Hey everyone! Hope you had a nice weekend! Mine was busy but very fun! Let’s recap back to Saturday…

I had my friend’s bridal shower during the day. It was at a really pretty country club in Long Island. Check out the view!

I did not feel like I was in New York! They were serving these amazing drinks when I got there. They were similar to sangria. I probably had about 4 by the time it was done

We started off with a salad. It was topped with a refreshing summer citrus dressing.

We had the choice of Baked Salmon, Penne a la Vodka, or Chicken Florentine. I went with the salmon.

The salmon was delicious! It was very moist and had a delicious sauce over it. I skipped the potatoes because I wanted to save room for the cake!

The bridal party:

Very glad I saved room for cake. YUM!

I found a ride back to the city and got ready for my next event: my brother in law’s birthday! We started the pregame off at Pop Burger. I walk by the restaurant all the time but never knew they had such a nice bar upstairs!

They served us unlimited sliders and fries!

I was still pretty full from the shower so I split one of the sliders with my friend Kaity. Delicious! I drank a Flirtini and several vodka sodas!

After Pop Burger we headed over to the Empire Hotel Rooftop! There was a beautiful view of the city! My sister and I (and her husband-birthday boy behind us):

Very fun night! Kaity and I headed back to my place once we reached our drink limit! She ordered 2 large pizzas from Domino’s when we got home but luckily I passed out before they got there!!

Sunday Blogger Brunch!

I woke up on Sunday with a nice headache, chugged some water, and headed to Wild Ginger in Soho to meet some blog girls! Marina from A Veggie Girl (and her cat) planned the event. We’ve met a few times before so it was great seeing her again. I also got to meet Caronae from Run Write Therapy Life and Gabriela from Une Vie Saine.

I ate at Wild Ginger once before for dinner and loved it! Yesterday I got to take advantage of the lunch special menu. Everything came with a spring roll and miso soup.

The miso soup was delicious! For my main course I got the tofu and mixed vegetables.

I loved the sauce on the tofu! It also came with a piece of kabocha which was great too! According to Marina, the spring rolls used to be twice the size! I still highly enjoyed mine. Nothing better than fried food after a night of drinking! We had a great time and talked for over an hour!

I went home and relaxed for the rest of the day. I skipped pizza Saturday night but ended up having it on Sunday night for dinner! So good…

I drank some Vitamin Water which Daisy loves as well!

Can’t have pizza without ice cream! I got a little single serve container of Ben & Jerry’s fro-yo. Perfect for portion control!

I didn’t work out all weekend but went to the gym this morning after a not so healthy weekend! I am also going to Core Fusion after work so it’s all good. I will definitely be eating very well for the next 3 days since I leave for Puerto Rico on Thursday. Beach and hot weather….here I come! Speaking of drinking and indulging, be sure to check out my new post on HollaBack Health!

1. Do you tend to indulge on weekends or a certain day of the week?
2. What was your favorite part of the weekend?

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Hello! Hope everyone had a nice weekend! I was super busy and did not get online even once! I am not complaining because school was amazing this weekend. I never thought I’d say school was fun! I am going to do a recap of my day Saturday and save Sunday for tomorrow’s post. I had lots of yummy meals and also wanted to share some of what I learned! It will be a nice refresher for me and I’m sure most of you are interested in the topics we covered.

On Saturday I woke up and had to grab something fast for breakfast and run out the door. There is no snacking allowed in the theatre so I downed a cottage cheese mess on my way to the subway.

I added cinnamon, Stevia, banana, and Kashi cereal. I loved it with the cinnamon and Stevia but don’t think I can eat it anymore! Missy and cottage cheese do not agree. I haven’t been eating much dairy lately so I don’t think it was the smartest breakfast. Oh well; at least I know now.

In the morning we covered high carb and low carb diets. I like the fact that the school believes in bio-individuality. This means that people’s food choices depend on their gender, age, DNA, climate, and lifestyle.  While one person may feel great with a vegetarian diet, another person could need meat to feel good. We are learning about all of the dietary theories and are able to choose which one works best with our body. Our teacher makes everything very neutral so no one feels bad about eating meat or feels weird for eating raw. We are learning the pros and cons of each of the theories.

High Carb: Pros

• Fiber
• Nutrients
• Energy

High Carb: Cons

• Won’t work for everyone
• Some gain
• Some lose
• Blood sugar levels
• Indigestion
• Gluten
• Phytic Acid

I had no idea what phytic acid was before class but learned that brown rice contains phytic acid. My teacher was eating a ton of brown rice and had perfect health except for extremely low zinc levels. He learned that the phytic acid was binding with the minerals and leaching them out. To prevent this from happening, soak your brown rice or cook it with wakame or seaweed.

We also spoke about macrobiotics. It is a way of living with respect for physical, biological, emotional, mental, ecological, and spiritual order of our daily lives. We learned about yin/yang and that everything has its polar opposites.

We spoke about lifestyle suggestions:

• Give generosity of yourself
• View everything and everyone you meet with gratitude
• Live happily
• Sing a happy song every day (we all had to sing “Row Your Boat” after!)
• Treat yourself to quiet time
• Exercise
• Scrub your skin
• Less jewelry
• Reduce chemicals in soap, shampoo, perfume
• Keep home in order
• Plants for oxygen
• Chew food well
• Less TV
• Give thanks before and after each meal
• Be on good terms with people
• Learn to make an enemy into a friend

I really liked all of these suggestions. Singing “Row Your Boat” with 1100 people in a theatre definitely made everyone much happier!

Next Andrea Beaman, author of The Whole Truth spoke. She teaches the art of cooking in a fun, easy, and simple way and was featured on Top Chef. She showed us how easy a brown rice vegetable stir fry was to make. She suggested making a lot on a Sunday night and then turning it into a wrap, porridge, or rice pudding later in the week!

Lunch

I met up with about 20 other women at a restaurant called Gabriel’s. It was basically a brainstorming lunch to come up with business ideas and to simply share our stories about why we were there. I have no pictures since I did not feel comfortable pulling out the camera in front of 20 people I just met! We all got the pre-fixed menu. I had:

Appetizer: Toscana Soup. Italian Sausage, Beans and Kale in a light Tomato Base.
Entree: Seared Tuna Salad, Horseradish Cream sauce, Watercress, marinated Cucumbers
Dessert: Strawberry sorbet

Everything was delicious and it was great hearing what everyone had to say!

The afternoon was all about marketing and building our business so I won’t bore you with that!

After class there was a meetup for drinks at the Dream Hotel. We all met in the Ava Lounge which is a beautiful penthouse suite bar. I started with a Lychee Martini (3 by the time I left!) 

It was really nice inside!

We had a beautiful view of the city.

Some lovely girls I met…

It felt like a blogger meetup! Who else would pull out Kale Krisps and Edamame at a bar??

Around 8:00 at night, I finally left. 3 martinis was enough! I met a few other girls from California and New York so we decided to go to dinner at Blossom! There were 6 of us so we almost got one of everything!

Appetizers:

Quinoa Salad:
Red quinoa, red and yellow peppers, cannellini beans, mango guacomole, lemon vinaggrette.

Autumn Sweet Potato Rolls (Raw) ~
Serve Coconut noodles, jicama, carrot, red and yellow pepper, scallion and avocado with an almond ginger dipping sauce

My first plate:

Both appetizers were delicious! I loved the sweet potato rolls! I also split Butternut Squash soup with another girl.  It was thick and perfect!

Entrees

Moroccan Glazed Tempeh ~
Glazed tempeh in an eggplant-chickpea stew with red bell peppers and sweet potato topped with a creamy fennel-black olive relish

Zucchini Linguini (Raw) ~ Almond pesto, cherry tomatoes, portobello mushrooms, kalamata olives, v-parmesan cheese
*Gluten Free

Plate of spinach, sweet potato fries, mushrooms, and brussels sprouts!

Four Onion Risotto ~
Roasted acorn squash, swiss chard, sweet potato crisps

My first plate!

I loved everything we got! I’d say my favorite was the zucchini linguini and the vegetable plate! I never knew if I liked tempeh either but this dish was extremely flavorful! Everything was heaven!

Dessert was soy cookie dough ice cream!

I had 2 of the bowls. Another girl got the Chocolate Peanut Butter Shake. I was slightly jealous.

2 other girls got a green juice and blueberry shake! So pretty!

We also tried a raw cinnamon raisin oatmeal cookie! So good! Oh..we also tried the chocolate cake which surprisingly was not good. It tasted like a fake Hostess cake so we sent it back. Everything else was amazing and I will be back there soon!

I got home at midnight and woke back up at 7 on Sunday for more school! Long day! I will save Sunday for tomorrow but it was another great day!  All 1100 people in the room are so happy and passionate about their health so it is just a great environment to be in.

I am off! Have a great day!

P.S. I found out 5 minutes ago that I am going to FitBloggin!!

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