This weekend is going to be tough....First of all, this is the first weekend into the Biggest Loser challenge. I feel like its much easy to get into a routine during the week when, for the most part, everyday is the same: get up, drive to work, eat breakfast, work, eat a snack, work, eat lunch, work, eat a snack, work, workout, drive home, eat dinner, hang out, go to sleep. Whereas on the weekend, you're left to your own devices, including meal and exercise time.
Secondly, my out-of-town girlfriends at coming to visit! My best friend/maid-of-honor, Allison, is taking the train up from Raleigh, NC this afternoon, and another friend/bridesmaid, Meagan, is driving up tonight from my hometown Forest, VA. (Shout out to Kristin, my sister-in-law/bridesmaid who can't make it this weekend) And what do I want to do when they get here??? Go out to eat and drink lots of wine!
Regardless of what I want to do the plan for the weekend is to make my girls suffer tonight with healthy food (sorry girls!). But I found a yummy-looking recipe for a baked almond crusted chicken from a fellow blogger (minus the flour: http://hungrynomadeats.blogspot.com/2011/03/almond-crusted-chicken-baked-low-carb.html) I'll let you know how it goes! Well, I'll let you know how it goes for Seth, who so graciously offered to cook "all the chickadees" dinner, but escaping to a friend's house for the rest of the weekend :) Love my future hubby!
Then tomorrow, we're going to meet up with my mom, Seth's mom, and my cousin/bridesmaid, Emily, for lunch and go bridesmaid dress shopping!!!!
**Side note**As I mentioned yesterday, I'm planning on wearing my mom's wedding dress on my wedding day. However, I might try on a couple dresses this weekend just for fun and because I really don't want to miss out on the experience of dressing shopping with my mom(s) and girlfriends!
We're going to lunch at Yama Sushi and even though I don't like sushi, they have other hibachi options, which *confession* is my weakness. There is this amazing, hole in the wall Japanese fast foodish place back home that I must frequent anytime I visit, which coincidentally is called Yamazato (must be a Japanese thing). And I miss it dearly. But I'm planning on just ordering plain chicken, rice, and veggies (stay tuned Sunday for the recap to find it I can actually do it).
Then, Saturday night we'll probably just head back to my house, cook another healthy dinner, and watch some girly movies and talk wedding stuff (unless they can convince me to go out to dinner in which case I will be forced to make another healthy choice). The former plan was to crash at my cousin Emily's place in Arlington and go out on the town. However, going out on the town doesn't really fit in with my no alcohol plan. I definitely offered to be sober-Sally that night but my girls graciously opted for a girls-night-in inside :)
So here's to making healthy decisions this weekend, both meal and dress wise :) Wish me luck!
Yesterday's Recap:
1/19
Breakfast: Grapefruit and two hard boiled eggs
Snack: Mandarin orange
Lunch: Small salad - red leaf lettuce, cucumber, green pepper, onion, carrot, and roasted red pepper dressing (not light but its my favorite and only 40 calories per 2 tsbp) and tuna, which had very little mayo, relish, and onion.
Snack: grapes and a palm full of almonds
Dinner: another hard boiled egg (I like eggs, OK?!) and a banana smoothie (I wasn't very hungry when I got home from the gym...yay!)- awesome recipe I found on pinterest.com (minus the almonds because I didn't have any and light vanilla yogurt instead of Greek because I think it's nasty :) haha) http://www.chiquitabananas.com/Banana-Recipes/Banana-Oatmeal-Smoothie-recipe.aspx
Water: four 24 oz bottles
Exercise: 1 hour and 15 minutes in the gym after work (about 50 minutes cardio and 25 minutes strength)
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