The Weekend

Oh, hello weekend. What? It's Sunday night already? Gosh, you went fast.

Yesterday was a lazy rainy day half spent with hubby who got a colonoscopy and the other half relaxing on the couch with my Russian Revolution book (#4 but who's counting) and a little viewing of "St. Elmo's Fire (because why not?). Food was not bad but the exercise was awful. It was the pilates day and let's just say, I couldn't effing do it. It was SO HARD I felt like I modified more than half the workout.

Today, I enjoyed an extra hour of sleep and worked with my coffee on a historiography final writing about nine pages of my final paper until I just couldn't formulate sentences anymore. Even writing here feels a little forced tonight.

But, I did my cardio workout this afternoon (squeezed in at a weird time. I usually like working out in the morning but I did it, so brownie (oh yum, brownies, but I digress) and I'm glad about that) and had trouble with a few moves like the burpee. Who came up with such horrific moves? My gawd. I had to modify the modify. Then, there was some other move where you get into a plank something or other and mountain climb and I had to modify that too. Then, there was another move where you...oh, I don't even remember anymore but I had modify that too. I kept moving and sweated like a dirty, ugly, chubby pig. That's good, though, right?

Onto food.

Let me just say: most of the day hubby and I spent in the kitchen. My back hurts, my leg hurts, my shoulder hurts. Between the bloody workout and prepping food, I feel like my eyes are ready to close and it is barely 7:30, or 8:30 according to my body.

Anyway, boy did we PREP!

Hubby made some AWESOME DESSERT TREATS. They are worth the caps. I can't tell you how excited I am over these. To think that I could cold turkey all things delectable, sweet, and treat-like is unrealistic and hell, life is too damn short to not enjoy yourself. But, I will say I am loving the whole food idea and not using boxed crap and sugar free bullshit but real, honest to goodness ingredients.

Today, he made chocolate peanut butter fudge, oatmeal banana squares, and a pumpkin custard bar thing. They are like equivalents to 1 yellow swap, 1 tsp (!!!), and 1/2 of one and 1/2 another container. No matter, I am thrilled. They are not tiny little one bite treats but a decent bar-shaped size treat! I can't wait.

He also prepped some salad dressing and made fresh "jam" using frozen berries.

I poached about ten chicken breasts, browned three pounds of lean ground turkey, cooked a batch of quinoa, a batch of mixed grains (brown rice, barley, oats, etc.), hardboiled some eggs, roasted cauliflower and carrots, sautéed broccoli raab, and cooked up broccoli rice, grilled zucchini, and a lean pork tenderloin for dinner. Oh, and I prepped tomorrow night's dinner too since I will be in school...and filled four small bell peppers with a mixture of ground turkey and mixed grains/lentils.

So tired.

Fridge is full.

Ready now to relax a little bit and enjoy the last few hours of Sunday.