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Friday Favorites

Let’s take a look at my Friday Favorites!

Favorite Song – Break Free by Ariana Grande- I really love to run to this song. I know this song is about breaking free from another person, but when I am running…the lyrics are sort of in my head about breaking free and letting go of my old self. I spend a lot of time on that treadmill, I put thought into this haha.

Favorite Podcast – I am done with the first season of Serial, all caught up on Call Your Girlfriend and was looking for a new binge. Enter Totally Married! There are a TON of episodes because they people have been at this awhile, and they have another podcast called Totally Laime that they do as well. This couple is hilarious! I am 3 episodes in and can’t wait to binge on more in the car! I missed it yesterday morning when I worked from home!

Favorite Polish – I mentioned the other day that I painted my toes while in a rush to get out the door. The color is Nicole by OPI Purple Yourself Together and I LOVE IT! I don’t really want to take a picture of my toes, so I Googled it and here you go…

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Favorite Breakfast – Some people asked me how I was upping my protein and what powder I use. About Time Whey Protein Isolate is one of my favorite protein powders. It is made with Stevia so you are not getting all that artificial sweetener crap in it. You can’t really find it at GNC…after many hours spent in there examining their bottles…most of theirs is filled with artificial crap. Sigh. I order mine on Amazon and it is always in the $30-$40 price range and free shipping. This is my third bottle and it makes excellent smoothies! At 100 calories, 25 grams of protein, zero sugar and less than 1 carb…you will be hard pressed to find a better one! It is non-GMO.

Favorite Recipe (to try): I love nachos. I really do!!! I am trying to cut down on my carbs and processed foods and I stumbled across Zucchini Nachos! You can find the recipe here. I have got to try these soon! Don’t they look delicious!?

Favorite Funnies

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

March 6, 2015 by Nadine

fitness, goals, health

Goals

For the month of February, the Choose Your Own Adventure theme was “create.” I declared then that I would probably fail, as I usually put my creative projects on the back burner for more pertinent things. Let’s take a look at how I did.

1. Create a completely new to me recipe with something that I do not have much experience cooking. I try lots of new recipes, but they usually revolve around the same basic ingredients of chicken, beef, turkey, mexican, italian, or asian food. I want to branch out even more.

I started playing with my spiralizer this month and created three vegetable noodle dishes. That counts for something, right? I made Asian Zoodles, Sweet Potato Noodles with Sage and Turkey Meatball Zoodles. I only give myself half credit because I was trying to attempt to cook with shrimp and that didn’t happen.

2. ?? I am in the middle of designing something that I will share at a later date. It needs to be done in the next week or two so I am putting it up here to hold myself accountable.

This was the update to the Magic City Bloggers website. It was completed and looks awesome! Chris did the work though, with me just saying I like that and don’t like that….so does this really count as a goal I accomplished. ~~Absofuckinglutely.~~

3. Work on a DIY project for my office decor.

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4. Create a DIY project piece for the gallery wall.

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5. Create a work space in the office area.

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Now, I did do some things that were not on the goals list. I completed the rest of my research on purposeful houseplants and have started drafting my blog post for it. It was A LOT of research and I am trying to decide if I want to break the post up or have one large one?

I also did research on nutrition and macros. That took up all of my “creative time” and I deem more important!

This month’s theme is relationships. There is one relationship that I have that is very unhealthy. I have to work on starting to correct it this month…

1. Food – My relationship with food is the worst relationship that I have. Food is comfort, food is a reward, food is something to do when you are bored, food is socializing with friends. Food should be none of those things.

This month I am going to work on retraining my brain to see food as only nourishment for my body and eat accordingly. I have broken down how much protein, carbs, fats and calories I need each day and that is that.

2. Me – I am my own worst critic. Aren’t we all? After I finish my current book, I plan to read The Body Book by Cameron Diaz. I learned about this book through Erin who said that it really resonated with her.

3. Marriage – Chris and I are pretty good about staying unplugged for the most part when we spend time with each other after work in the evenings. I plan to continue this 🙂

4. Friends– Plan a girls night for March.

Are you linking up to work on your relationship goals for the month? I plan to do much better with these than my create goals from last month! I am not off the hook though, I still need to complete those projects too!

March 5, 2015 by Nadine

confessions

Confessions

–I had a post started for yesterday and I decided not to post at all. I was behind on blog reading and responding to emails and had a zillion things to do for MCB….so I thought it best to not add to the crazy! Why is it that some weeks I feel I can never catch up, and others are cricket chirping quiet?! #bloggerprobz

–I ran late yesterday morning because I refused to wear my peep toe booties without polish on my toes. #girlprobz

–I had to leave the house wearing flip flops to let said toes dry and got stared down by some judgy bitch at the gas station. She basically had one eye brow, so I don’t understand why she was worried about my temporary driving shoes. #bitch

–Sometimes I believe in signs. Yesterday I had a fortune cookie and check out what it said…

This morning during my run, my arches of my feet and my ankles were killing me more than the actual run. Yup, new shoes would indeed do me a world of good. #higharchprobz

–In tracking my food this week and evaluating where I need to make changes to start IIFYM next week I learned that I am not getting enough protein. Not even a little close to the right amount. #oops

–I am all kinds of confused on what was appropriate dress for today. We start out around 75 degrees and a cold front is supposed to come through and by evening we will be below freezing with more threats of winter weather tomorrow morning. Only in Alabama folks. #alabamaweatherprobz

Even my Authentic Weather app is confused…

Confessions in ecard

March 4, 2015 by Nadine

fitness, foodie, weekend shenanigans

Weekend Shenanigans & Getting Fit

Can you believe March is here? Say whaaa?

I had been fighting off getting a cold starting around Thursday after lunch. On Friday we decided to stay in since I wasn’t feeling 100% We caught up on some of our shows and then I started reading Yeah, Maybe. You guys, I could NOT put this book down! I literally read half of the book in one sitting. The only reason I stopped was because it was getting super late and I knew I needed to go to bed.

Saturday we decided to hit up the thrift store in Pell City. It was a bust, but since we were half way to Oxford at that point….we decided to keep driving! We hit up a few there, stopped by my mom’s house for a while to see her and my fursisters, ate at Jefferson’s and then headed up Hwy 431 and hit every thrift shop between Oxford and Gadsden!! We ended our evening by birthday shopping for Christopher and Cooper (two of our nephews) and getting some of our grocery shopping done. Grocery shopping on Saturday night is awful, so many meats had expiration dates of Monday. Uh, no thanks…so I am going to have to finish getting our stuff tonight after work.

We grabbed Moe’s BBQ on the way home.

Weekend eats…

Chicken Salad Chick lunch on Friday (scoop of Fancy Nancy with pasta salad and fruit), Moe’s BBQ Smoked Turkey with baked beans and potato salad(which I gave to Chris), and Jefferson’s cheese fries that had way too much cheese on them. Yes, there is a thing as too much cheese…who knew??

Sunday I worked on some blog posts, organized and started cataloging our video game collection, reading the rest of Yeah, Maybe (review to come) and finishing my research on IIFYM and purposeful household plants (post to come!!).

I realized that all of my nieces and nephews are too old for the Sesame Street Wrapping paper I have. I finished up one of the rolls for Cooper because I know he cares nothing about what the presents are actually wrapped in…just what they are!

We took the presents to my sisters house to celebrate with them! I can’t even believe that Cooper is 5 today and Christopher recently turned 10!!!! It also made me remember that the boys are the same age difference as Tracy and I. And that all of our youngest nieces and nephews (there are three of them the same age) all turn 5 this year and will be starting kindergarten in the fall! I can’t even handle that!

In other news…

Erin and Kristen brought back their 4 Weeks Fit Challenge! This is perfect timing for me! I shared my new work out schedule on Friday, so that will be part of my goal for the next four weeks…continuing with my C25K program.

The other part of my challenge will involve the kitchen. If you didn’t already know, unfortunately, abs are made in the kitchen. I have been doing research for a few weeks now on the IIFYM plan and then Mia posted this last week. Her post was great and covered the basics that you need to know, so I wont go in to some long spill.

Basically you are allotting yourself “x” amount of calories each day. But you are focusing on how many of those calories come from protein, carbs and fats. You can eat whatever you want, just so long as it fits in your macros.

Shit got real and I bought a food scale, so you know I am serious!

If you are planning on participating in the challenge, best of luck! Let me know so I can keep up with you! There is more winter weather planning to wreak havoc on the south in the form of freezing rain later this week. Gross. I love snow, I do not love ice. I really enjoyed the snowy views on my commute Thursday morning…

I hope everyone has a great week!

March 2, 2015 by Nadine

beauty, friday favorites

Friday Favorites

Favorite Song – James Bay – Let it Go – I freaking love this song and it has been on repeat basically since I first heard it. Strangely enough I heard it on Vampire Diaries. I seriously find the best songs from that show and PLL, sadly. Take a listen and tell me what you think!

Favorite Work Out – I mentioned that I started the C25K program this week! My new workout schedule looks like this:

Monday – C25K

Tuesday – Back/Shoulders/Chest

Wednesday – C25K

Thursday – Arms

Friday – C25K

Favorite Beauty Product – Last week I shared that I was loving the St Ives Apricot Scrub. The perfect partner to that? Ponds moisturizer. You guys, my skin just soaks this bad boy up and LOVES it! My skin has been insane the last few months with break outs, dry patches and just overall blah. This moisturizer and scrub combination has really kicked my skin back in to shape and I am loving the results. The fact that they are both found at Target is even better! In fact, I found them in the travel sized area!!! They have lasted over a month now too, all for just a few dollars so no big loss of investment if you don’t love them.

Favorite Recipe – I made Snow Ice Cream on Wednesday night for the first time in my life. I really enjoyed it! (I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk.)

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Favorite Delivery – I won a Bondi Band in Artney’s give away! Perfect timing for all the running I am going to be doing! Also, if you love running and fitness…you should follow Artney! She is such an inspiration, and a fellow Alabamian! She just ran the Mercedes Half Marathon last weekend and she went to Disney for their marathon. If I were to ever run a marathon….which less face it is probably a slim chance…but it would be Disney for sure!!!!

Favorite Coffee – I realize that it is a bit late for this, but Target had a coupon in their Cartwheel for Caribou Reindeer Coffee. When I lived in Atlanta, I loved Caribou just as much as Starbucks and the others out there. Right now Cartwheel has it for 30% off because the season is over. It is freaking delicious with my sweet cream creamer. It is around $7 for 16 cups with that discount. Get you some!

Favorite Funnies –

Linking up with Amanda! I have been loving all her wedding pictures this week, such a stunning bride and a beautiful wedding!

February 27, 2015 by Nadine

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