Purse Food and Other Eats

How’s that for a new head shot?  Nothing says sexy like getting a brand new set of highlights.  Especially when lunch is being consumed at the same time.

What?  You don’t think I was going to try to buy lunch downtown and waste money and calories did you? :)  Purse salad for the win.

This is the longest I have ever gone without getting my hair coloured in one variation or another.  My boring natural brown hair growing in was making me sad so today we welcomed back the blonde. 

Blonde hair, white pants, preeeetty new purse. NOW it feels like Summer.

1. Coffee with almond milk.  (note the missing water…doh)

2. Overnight oats with local raspberries.

3. Purse salad: red leaf lettuce, cucumber, raspberries, chicken breast, avocado, mango salsa with olive oil and sea salt.

4. Freeeeeee Starbucks Triple Grande Non-Fat 1/2 Sweet Hazelnut Latte.

5. 1/2 Pecan Pie Larabar.

6. Baby carrots.

7. Wee glass of white sangria.

8. Dinner out with the ladies: Polenta cake with black beans, rice, salsa and sour cream.

9. BC cherries.

Pretty good day if I do say so.  Hope yours was too!

Good Day

I just about fell off the scale this morning. I finally had the big loss I've been waiting for! For the first time since before Christmas I am finally back at my happy weight. Not just my comfort zone, but at the bottom of my comfort zone! I forgot to weigh in last week, but two weeks ago I was up to 157 (highest I've been in MONTHS...possibly a year) and today I am back down to 151.8. Woooohoooooo!

What a great day for it. FH will be home in just a few short hours...after being gone for what seems like an eternity...today is day 36. Some trips just drag on and this was soooo one of them. Yaaaaieee for the boy on dry land!

And since good things come in threes (well, bad things do so good things must too right?)...I get to have wine and cheese for dinner!

I'm sure you'll understand if I don't go to the gym tonight. But I did already do some crunches and bum exercises. :)

Monday menu...

- coffee with demerara & skim
- oatmeal with banana, chopped date, coconut & drizzle of chocolate PB2
- grapefruit
- (potentially an afternoon muffin or small snack depending on when we break out the wine and cheese)
- red wine, 4 kinds of cheese, salami, crackers, olives, grapes, cheese bread!
- snuggles with my future hubby!

Camping = F@*K it! :)

haha, I should never have tried to even pretend that camping could be done on plan. bwahahahahaha. Who was I kidding?! peanuts, and candy, and grease, oh my!!

So totally worth it though. It was sunny and gorgeous the whole time. Just the kind of camping weekend I had hoped for. My tummy isn't really thanking me right now, but I don't care. :)

Monday is yet another new day!

Happy Weight

According to self.com's "Happy Weight" calculator, I should be ecstatic with my scale and where my weight consistently lands. For the last year, I've bounced between 151 and 155 pounds. Apparently it's the happiest place on earth....

What's your happy weight?
Eighty-seven percent of normal-weight women wish they weighed less. Stop aiming for an unrealistic goal and use this formula to get a healthy number that's easy for you to maintain without obsessing.

My Happy Weight?

152.6

Also,...

How many calories do you need?
To maintain a healthy weight of around 152.0 pounds and fuel your current activity level, you need to take in about 2245.45 calories a day. (based on moderate activity)

And,...

What's your BMI?
Your BMI of 20.9 is within the healthy range of 18.5-24.9.
This means that your weight is not putting you at increased risk for health problems like heart disease, diabetes and some types of cancer.

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