Time for a new adventure

Being an adult sucks. I remember in my younger years wanting to grow up and doing what I want, when I want and how I want. If only we were rich and could be in that zen. Currently it's lunch time and I've paid my Rogers bill, and inquired about a pre approved mortgage. YAY! Living the dream life. I miss the younger years though - not giving a shit about what you ate, and now it's all about counting calories, intermittent fasting, some sort of fad diet and/or keeping up with a healthy lifestyle. Speaking of which.. here's my update for yesterday's food and exercise (plus so far today):   I had to make this picture huge because it was so fcking amazing! Boiled carrots/peas/green beans, roasted potatoes (garlic, pepper, salt and paprika) and lastly the chicken schnitzel! Instead of flour I've been using unflavoured protein powder and it is BOMB. Shoot I just remembered I was thawing pork tenderloin ... gotta make more schnitzel - I doubt Jack is complaining....

I was spoiled rotten yesterday. From the beers, to the shots, poutine, wings, salad it was great and delicious. Yesterday was a bitter sweet moment in my life. The last day with these ladies as co-workers but will remain friends. And it was at one of my favourite restaurants - Wild Wing. And before you even think it - I'm not hungover! One thing I have learned on this journey of health discovery is that eating better foods for your body does wonder - and I don't just mean the bowel movements. Haha! I mean, the food I have been eating is helping my body and my muscles recover at a faster rate. If I go hard at the gym and I don't stretch after or before, my body isn't super sore afterwards... maybe a little but not overly huge or anything. I'm thinking the protein shakes really help. And this is what I need to remember for this weekend. May 2-4 weekend is coming up and this basic bitch is going to Montreal for a bachelorette. Shit is going to get REAL. And lit....

Before I tell you my recipe let me just correct myself - we are going to call this a combination of ingredients. Because what I do when I try something new is "throw that shit together and hope for the best". So we all know that quesadillas are pretty much some sort of veggies, cheese, meat and seasonings / herbs. For this combo I included: boneless skinless chicken breasts (I had 2 breasts - HAHA!) cheddar cheese (about 1/2 cup) 3 red pepper and 1/2 orange pepper (don't be scared of leftover mixture - it's amazing on its own). 1 yellow onion + 6 tortilla wraps (I used 2 pesto and garlic and 4 chiptole flavoured - yes I know I spelled that wrong). Prep work Spray the baking sheet with non stick spray. Tear apart (2) pieces of aluminum foil that are roughly double the size of the chicken breasts. Spray 1 side of the foil with the non stick spray as well. At this point you can place the chicken on the foil and season it however you like. I used Clubhouse T...

Whoops. Guess I forgot to post about day 5. Well not really, I did post.. I just didn't have an official post entitled "day 5". I hate when people are inconsistent now I've become one. Gosh darnit I just can't win at life. So this was my breakfast post workout. It was DELICIOUS. Here's my workout 5 sets of 10: Chest press 1 set at 35 lb, 2 sets at 25 lb and 2 sets at 15 (seriously been awhile since I worked out my chest) Pectoral fly: 25 lb The above workout was with the machines at the gym then I headed to the weights and did... Bicep curl: 10 lb dumb bells and lost track of my sets and ended up doing 10 sets of 10... Teapot dips: 7.5 lb dumb bell 20 minutes of cardio before weights and 5 minutes post weight. I also wanted to do my core but after all of that, my arms couldn't lift the smallest medicine ball of 4 kg. I figured I should be done for the day. However as I'm writing this, I have a slight grin on my face... YES I am totally go...

It's day 5 and I cracked. I was thinking about drinking the moment the maintenance guy opened the window and I saw the sun shine and reflect off the window. It was peering in the room as I painted. The worst paint job ever by the way. PSYCH. I told myself I wasn't going to drink until my birthday and I plan to stick with that for as long as I can. I didn't drink. Instead I barely ate today - there was a lot going on and we went off site today to the new location. Time was flying so fast I didn't realize I didn't really eat. By the time the day was over and the Rogers tech left, it was 4:30 pm and Jack had picked me up. I wasn't hangry not yet anyways but I knew I had to eat soon before I got hangry. We drove around aimlessly not knowing where to go. We both knew we wanted something somewhat healthy and we are both trying not to drink alcohol or beer. We passed a lot of sushi places until Jack said "we should have just stayed in our area and got sush...

So today marks the second day I'm assisting my brother. Today I'm not nervous. Why you might ask? He texts me sometime last night (because you know I'm already passed out by 8:30 pm) to ask if I want to join in for a Shaun T workout. OBVI. My brother was the one to introduce me to Insanity! He even burnt multiple discs of the workout. It's funny though - I asked him if his workouts are longer than 25 minutes because I started doing Focus T 25 ... and he's like " well I want to do a full workout but bring it anyways". Dude doesn't know that T25 makes Insanity look like child's play ... Aint he in for a TREAT! I look in the fridge and realize we literally have nothing. Like I can tell you right now what's in the fridge - a huge container of water, another huge jug of iced green tea, shit load of condiments, baking yeast (been there for almost 3 years) lol I swear I meant to make bread and just kept forgetting... until now. Umm..minced ga...

Ever hear (and feel) that rumble in your stomach and wonder if you're truly hungry or just thirsty? I do, all the time too. So far today I drank 3 of my water bottles (each at 25 oz) and about to refill for bottle #4. I'm 99.9 % sure I'm hungry because a) I haven't eaten since 11:00 am (and it only makes sense I'm hungry) b) Starting to get a headache and c) I just chugged some water and I have that weird feeling in my stomach like - Hey, your water count is too high for the amount of food you have eaten which is practically nothing. Low carb, high protein.  And man does it feel good to eat. Honestly, it feels like I have been starving for a day and I could dance around in happiness after that first initial bite. I am going to devour this bowl of food.  Only 15 more minutes until I have to get back to work. Why does lunch always disappear so fast when I am on the computer but when I am outside for a walk it seems like its forever  Hopefully K-sta...

Hey there stranger, it's been awhile, hasn't it? I don't even know where to begin!! It feels nice and calm that my head is screwed in and I don't want it to EXPLODE. The speech went great. It was short and sweet - Jack went off his speech and did an amazing job. I was really impressed, his was pretty sweet. We were a bit taken a back because there was no podium. Jack wrote his speech on his phone.. so it was a bit weird for him but so did a couple other people. Actually one, it was one other person and it was Jamaal's family member so Jack shouldn't feel awkward or anything. YAY! Christine is married. I'm so happy for her. She has the whole week off - lucky goose. Then again, today is my Friday. Tomorrow is good friday so that's a day off but because I usually have fridays off, I get a lieu day so I GET MONDAY OFF TOO!!! Major smiles up in here. So lets get this show on the road shall we? Okay so this is what happens when you forget your protein ...

It's April 7, 2017 and it's snowing. There isn't a lot of snow that is staying on the ground but what the actual fck - it's snowing in Spring! Today I scheduled a walk on one of the most gorgeous trails in the east end and now I don't think we will go. We are both somewhat of clutzy people and snow can sometimes make you slip and thus fall - nu uh. Not today. Guess what?! Two of the weights are off my shoulders! I not only finished my speech but I also found my swim suit. It was hidden in a mountain of summer clothes - eek - probably summer clothes that don't even fit. Time to get my ass in gear! So that's that, yay I'm happy that I found my bathing suit. Tonight is the rehearsal dinner. Tomorrow will be a bit hectic. This may not seem like a lot for you but it is for me. The plan: wake up, get ready, pack my bag for a slumber party, have the bridesmaid dress by the door (could you imagine if I forgot that?!), SHAVE MY LEGS omg the dress is long bu...

PRAISE THE LORD. Hallelujah! I was so prepared to blog earlier today about how nervous I was regarding this afternoon. I had a killer workout / training session planned with a friend and it was just confirmed that it's cancelled and we both rescheduled for next Wednesday. Just thinking about it was giving me an anxiety attack (okay that was far fetched) but it gave me the sweats! This woman was training with a Personal Trainer at GoodLife Fitness so the workouts are intense and now she makes her own loosely based on the PT she had prior. She was afraid to tell me what part of the body we would workout because she thought I would cancel! I'm always up for the challenge I'm just terrified of trying new things (alone). If I have a partner or someone there with me, it's not so bad but doing something new without any guidance and possibly "failing" .. I'm not into. Speaking of trying something new, I'm 99.9 % sure I'm going to try boxing. There'...

I'm starting to think I should just post my blogs at night instead of constantly updating the same entry or titling an entry 'update on this' and that etc. So here's the last update during the day. Here's my second meal of the day (yesterday - if you didn't get the above memo). JUST KIDDING! Mom's homemade potato and leek soup. No cream, she used milk - I'm wondering to myself if it would work if I attempted the recpe with almond milk and made it vegan? Thoughts? It was delicious by the way. I can feel my stomach rumbling right now. But that could also be because I only had a carrot stick for breakfast and a strawberry. Whoops. Another one of my favourites that mom makes - beef stew with potato, beef (obvi), carrots, turnip and parsnip. She let the meat cook in the broth for hours so it was super tender. *mouth watering* I tried to make the same recipe but vegetarian only and I incorporated Yves breakfast sausages - barf. It was disgusting....

What a busy weekend. Some days I'm sad because I have no plans for the weekend so I usually grab some wine, Kristina and play Just Dance (and also go to the gym in the morning) but then other weekends like this past weekend I'm busy!! I love having plans but when it cuts into my meal prep time I feel incredibly lost the entire week - like I go out after the gym and have a 12 inch sub or end up at Swiss Chalet and just binge on all the calories I worked off - like sure, yeah, maybe I "earned" it but really I'm maintaining my body and the whole purpose of my meal prep and working out is to change my body. My end goal for this journey is to appreciate myself inside and out - it's a slow process but I'm not helping myself by going out and skipping out on my meal prep. Well it's not really "skipping" the meal prep more so I have too many plans therefore no time for the meal prep part! This weekend I had (2) bridal showers for Christine + my ...