Cake, Part II

Sunday night ALREADY? How does it always come so fast? If you are catching up on weekend posts you can read about my fun Saturday and my yummy Italian food.

I didn't really get much accomplished today, but it was definitely a fun day.

I started the day with a kickboxing class. I haven't done kickboxing since high school, but it was a lot of fun and a great work out. Lately I have total work out ADD- that's the second new class I've tried in less than a week. I was a little worried about my knee because there were a lot of jumping jacks thrown into the mix but it's not really bothering me so I guess my own modified jumping jacks (aka do normal ones but put all weight on my right leg) worked!

When I was younger we used to go to this fancy brunch at a golf club that my grandfather, and now my dad belong to. We haven't been in years but we decided to go again this year since my sister and brother were both home from school at the same time. I love any opportunity to hang out with the whole fam, and Eric's mom came to brunch with us too! I have trouble with going out to breakfast because a lot of breakfast food tends to have either lots of oil or butter (pancakes, waffles, french toast) or cheese (omelets), neither of which I can do. So I had a pretty random selection of food at brunch today...

I know I just said I can't eat waffles, but seriously I can't live on some fruit, potatoes and a shrimp haha. Plus the waffle was seriously amazing. It kind of tasted like cake actually.

I did go back to lunch side of the buffet for a bit of chicken and another roll, but I forgot to take a picture :)

It was good to have all the "kids" home for the weekend :) Well, I'm always home- but the college kids haha.

We headed back to my parents house after brunch to do Eric's second birthday cake.

My mom made Eric red velvet cake which he has been dying to try for awhile...

Although you wouldn't know by my blog the past week, Eric is not a huge cake person. He'll eat it, but he usually does not go back for seconds. Lets just say he went back for seconds on this cake, and took a piece home so I'd say he gives the red velvet cake his seal of approval. I only had a taste because I am more of a yellow cake person (which fortunately was part of this celebration as well). I had a small piece of yellow cake with a side of vanilla ice cream. Yum.

When I got home tonight I began "Operation stop eating cake and ice cream or your wedding dress is not going to fit." Haha. I wanted to try some Trader Joe's Carrot and Ginger Soup for dinner but it was yucky (in my opinion) so I decided to make the most random dinner instead. Ever mixed beans and egg whites? cuz I did...

I made an egg white omelette with black beans and mushrooms. Plus a delicious sour dough roll from Panera. This may seem random (and it is) but in fact it was just the leftovers I had from making my veggie and black bean pizza that I'll be eating for lunch this week. Oh well, it was pretty tasty- and also healthy and quick, both priorities for my dinner tonight.

While I was eating I planned out my work out schedule for the week. I was sort of joking about "Operation stop eating cake and ice cream or your wedding dress is not going to fit." BUT, my wedding dress is due to arrive in the store any day now and I do need to lose a few pounds to be back where I was when I was measured for it. SO...planning (and follow through) will be key.

Week of March 7th Work Out Plan

Monday- Spinning
Tuesday- Yoga
Wednesday- Core & Urban Rebounding
Thursday- Body Pump (may change based on how morning class on Wednesday goes)
Friday- Off
Saturday- Spinning & Strength Training
Sunday- Kickboxing and Abs

One of the big changes I'll be making to my work out schedule is squeezing in two morning work outs this week. I used to be a morning exerciser, but since I do longer work outs than I used to it's hard for me to get them in before work. However, I hate having no time to relax at night, so I'm going for it this week. I'll have to get up a little earlier, and compromise getting some morning work done, but hopefully it will work out okay :) Thanks to everyone who gave me breakfast ideas for quick breakfasts. I actually used to make my oatmeal at work every morning and I got out of the habit, so I may go down that road again this week. I'll have to bring my giant bowl back into work.

I also have big plans to try chia seeds and tempeh this week (not together), and to seriously portion control my ice cream intake. I'll let you know how it goes. I hope everyone has a good Monday, as good as Monday can be anyway.

Are you trying any new foods or fitness classes this week?

What was the best thing you did this weekend?