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I know, I know. I promise you all I am working on getting back to being a good, scheduled blogger. But bear with me as I settle back in.

For tonight, I want to share with my favorite blog friends some of my top eats and feats from the weekend and starts of this week.

Eats

I’m going to be honest with you guys, because I like you. I pretty much ate sushi for every.single.real.meal this weekend. True story.

Ok that’s a lie, I didn’t eat it for breakfasts — but I did eat it for three meals in as many days. Upps. Moving on. . . the ladies and I went to this adorable little Cafe, where I was BEYOND tempted to throw caution to the wind and order everything baked. BUT, I stayed good and ordered some turkey sausage and fruit. Which was, not surprisingly, delicious.

And I ended the meal with two undocumented macarons. And they were AWESOME.

And of course, lots of bear and wine. Yup. Too much. #sorryimnotsorry #butiwasmonday.

Getting back to normal eating, last night was Mexican. Steak quesadillas and side salads topped with pico.

All made by the hubby because I worked 7-7 and well, he’s awesome.

With a very necessary side of red wine {that you can hardly see}. I know I just mentioned I drank a lot this weekend, please don’t judge. It’s been a long day or two for the hubby and I thanks to some careless errors…but we’re working through it and today was definitely a better day :).

Feats

While I was a bit crazy this weekend enjoying friends, I didn’t completely forget my healthy lifestyle.

I did manage to fit in two runs over the weekend

{one 4 miles on Sunday post football game, I know I’m impressed too}
{one 3 miler Monday morning before we left}.

A strength session yesterday

10 minute stair stepper warm up
Decending bicep curl work out (15, 14, 13, etc. 25 lbs)
tricep curls (15 lbs) 3 reps of 12
20 minute bike hill routine
chest press (20 lbs) 3 reps of 12
25 incline sit ups

A Dynamic Cardio/Strength work out today

4 sets of: 800 meter run for time/ 400 meter row for time (TOUGH BUT FUN)
75 leg lifts on machine
75 weighted russian twists
75 incline sit ups
75 second plank

Now that I’m back in action: You tell me! What were your eats and feats like this weekend?

I have been a cardio Queen this past 24 hours. Between two workouts, I have enjoyed:

20 minutes or about 2 miles {no clue how they compute that} on the stair stepper

20+ minutes doing a hill routine on the bike {5.5 miles}

40 minutes easy pace on the treadmill {4 miles then walked it out until 40 minutes}

20 minutes on the rower {just under 3000 meters}

Seriously, cardio queen this lady. The stair stepper and bike were last night, and the run and rower were this morning. I had some time to waste before picking Zach up from the air port yesterday, and wanted to burn off some energy before I myself head for the airport this afternoon. So where else but the gym to do that, huh?

Yesterday I also completed my 100th NTC app work out

Which was just a morning stretch but it counts. . . and a fun Ab routine. Here’s what it looked like.

20 Minute Oblique smoker

Superset One Complete 3 times

Bench press leg pull in {15 reps/body weight}
Weighted twists {12 reps each side/15 lbs}
Dumbell side bend {12 reps each side/15 lbs}

Superset Two Complete 3 times

Medicine Ball sit ups {15 reps/body weight}
1 minute plank
20 bicycle crunches

25 incline sit ups

It was a good one 🙂 ❤

Yesterday in general was pretty much a blur for me — so I’m not too sure there’s much else to report besides these fun work outs.

Zach did make it home safe and sound from London — which is really the highlight of the week :). I got to the airport early {I was excited} so I hung out in one of the bars and enjoyed a glass of wine and people watching. ALWAYS fun in an air port :).

And we actually picked up an AMAZING dinner on the way home, but unfortunately we were both so freaking hungry that I didn’t even snap a pic. It was a gluten free 10 in pizza and an anti pasti platter. YUM! Let’s just say between the work out and glass of red wine, I probably ate nearly as much as the boy. #Noshame.

So the two of us will be visiting close friends in New York over the weekend and I will likely be fairly absent except for pictures and likely lots of Instagram posts. Stay tuned and everyone have a great and safe weekend!