Motivation on my clothes

Motivation on workout clothes, awesome!

Friends help too though Once again my friend Bria dragged me off my accounting studying butt and got me to do my cardio for the day.

Today’s workout:

Today was a rest day (thank goodness) so I stuck to 30 minutes walking on the treadmill. Half at 5 incline then I bumped it to 6 for the last 15 min. All was at 4.0 mph.

twas eazy peezy but I had just eaten and I also haven’t been doing much cardio lately so it still felt good.

I finished with some abs then called it a day.

Eats:

Since I messed up my schedule by skipping out on my workout earlier in the day, my eating was totally random today. It always happens to me that when I don’t workout I’m always more hungry. Does this happen to you? I’m blaming being bored for the munching monster in me.

Anyhooo, after class I decided to make a smoothie but since my sun warrior stash is dwindling quickly I made a random concotion with this

a papaya, blueberry, strawberry smoothie + half a cherry pie lara bar+ and a heaping spoonful of quinoa

I’m trying to use up the cherry pie lara bars because they’re too tart plain so I’ve been trying to find things to eat them with. The smoothie wasn’t bad and the bar actually tasted really good crumbled in it but the quinoa def shouldn’t have been invited to the party. Oh well, you win some you lose some. Besides that it was actually really good and a tastier way to eat those bars.

Dinner was also rando

then I drizzled a ton of brown spicy mustard on top of everything and cleared out my sinuses for the day. Phew that was a lot of peppa!

Have I mentioned how much I hate accounting? Well I do. Wish me luck for my first test tomorrow, it’s back to studying for me!

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Late Night Brussel Sprouts

Hey everyone!

How’s your long weekend treatin ya? My was fratastic Too bad I didn’t use my camera to take pictures yesterday so you’re going to have to wait for me to get them from the third party first. But I will tell you there was plenty of drinking, a slip n’ slide (or slip n’ bleed from the anooos, more on this in a different post), music, and sun. Def a fun time but it caused me and carson (along with Scott and a friend who stayed over) to pass out as soon as we got home around 6-7. I’m pretty sure we were in the middle of a conversation when we both just fell asleep! Bad bad bad lol.

Now onto today,

Since I didn’t have a very patriotic bfast yesterday I decided to make up for it today

With my fav smoothie except it’s red, green, and blue. Still pretty patriotic in my book!

And what did bebler have this morning? Something that has turned out to be his new fav bfast of choice…

english muffin+ peanut butter + honey + cinnamon

except I surprised him today and put peanut butter + cocoa powder on one side. He said it was yummy

And guess what it is already time for again???….. Grocery Shopping! Yup I am cleaning out the fridge again so last night in my crazy hungover state at 11 after napping off the july 4th madness I finished off my carrot sticks and the homemade hummus with, wait for it…

brussel sprouts… yes BRUSSEL SPROUTS! What hungover person in their right mind wants that as their get sober meal? Me I guess. But they were absolutely delish so no matter I also picked at a brown rice tortilla to get some carb soakage going on.

And I furthered my random fridge emptying eats by making a huge batch of kale chips for dinner

with a very ripe and juicy nectarine, and some cashews which I can’t seem to put down lately :/

Hopefully I’ll get the fourth of july pictures sooner rather than later!

Green Monster Cure

Last night was so fun

But I woke up this morning from a night of drinking and all i wanted was a nice cold refreshing green monster smoothie

into the magic bullet went the usual suspects: blueberries, strawberries, almond milk, almonds, sun warrior, and spinach

=perfect hangover cure

While I enjoyed my smoothie, Carson got something extra special. Since it is our anniversary tomorrow and we’re having a date night tonight, I decided I would start things off extra special by making him breakfast.

He loves biscuits and gravy so I made the ULTIMATE breakfast: bicuits, gravy, bacon, eggs, iced coffee

baby is now full Unfortunately I didn’t get to take a picture though because I have a pet peeve about people letting their food get cold…sorry but needless to say it was epic.

It is also  finally good weather in tally so I plan on laying out as much as possible today

I don’t know about you guys but I am sooo psyched for the fourth! Big plans for tomorrow but you’re just gonna have to wait for the recap! What are you’re plans for the fourth of July?

Giveaway Alert: 18 Rabbit snack bar giveaway!!

Eggs anyone?

I’m officially in Tally!!!

It was a long 4 hour drive but I’m officially here and unpacked! Such a good feeling. This morning I woke up and went to my tally gym for the first time in what seems like a reallllly long time.When I got back I made a green monster (oh course)

this one had:

4 strawberries

2 handfuls of spinach

1 scoop sun warrior

1/4 cup water

handful of almonds

some ice

delicious as usual.

I’m so excited to be living in my own apartment and having enough SPACE for everything. Btw, did I mention I’m living with 4 guys (one of them being giraffe)?!? Yeah, everygirls nightmare/dream combined lol but I love them all so sall good. Oh and two of them are body builders lol yup I live with this

Just kidding!

But they do eat ALOT.

the protein lineup

They eat every 2 hours and they’re STILL hungry. Look at how they buy their eggs

5 dozen at a time, ya that’s alot. But enough about my beefie roomies…

Now onto the grand tour

*keep in mind it’s nothing fancy, just wanted to show you the new digs*

kitchen

our room

living room

AND guess who finally found these

but you’ll have to wait on that one! Ta ta for now

New obsession

Where does the time go??

It’s already Wednesday and I have so much to do! I started the day with body pump which I have been missing lately. I feel like since I’ll be loving soon I should get my body pump fix because my gym in Tally sadly doesn’t offer the class

For breakfast I had Chocolate cherry bomb that looked a lot less pretty than this

but I did add a little dollop of almond butta because I noticed that I haven’t been that hungry lately and so I’ve been having a little trouble getting enough calories. But don’t worry Mr. Almond Butta can fix that

After a day of shopping I picked these up

Cathy Jean Shoes

ooh la la

And was super hungry so I whipped up a monster salad with sweet potato on the side.

bet you’re wondering what the dressing is huh? Wellllllll…this is actually the second time I’ve used this dressing and I have to say I’m kind of loving/obsessed with it at the moment. So what is it bianka? Answer- Spicy brown mustard.

This is especially weird for me because I have NEVER liked mustard, in fact I loathed it. But this spicy mustard is kind of horseradishy and delicious I don’t know lol I just like it and you should definitely try it if you’re getting bored with your same old, same old.

All I do is put a little mustard and water in a bowl (just to thin it out) and if you want add a little stevia if you can’t handle it straight up

And since it’s Indian Food Wednesday I dressed my wittle sweet potato with some curry, cumin, paprika, salt and peppa. It wasn’t my best yet but still pretty tasty and HUGE. I’m coping with a food baby right now as I type.

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Cleaning out my closet

Don’t you hate when you have something planned out in your head and then your forced to change it?

Well last night I decided that I would do body pump this morning and maybe some cardio but didn’t check the schedule to make sure the class was today. Of course it wasn’t. It was yogalates and def not what I was in the mood for but it actually turned out to be a really good thing because I realized I’ve been missing my cardio

today’s workout:

10 min. jog at 6.5 mph/0 incline; followed by 5 min. walking at 4 mph/5 incline – then repeat for a total of 30 min.

followed by 15 min. on the elliptical at level 7 and 15 min. of abs and back = 1 hour workout

When I got home I had the usual green smoothie with some of these bad boys

ya I know they’re probable genetically modified to make them that huge but I don’t care, these puppies are glorious

yum!

As for the curry last night, it was a hit! My parents loved it and my mom said it was SPICY SPICY SPICY!! So beware if you go to make curry using that spice packet. My mom loves spicy food though so she was in heaven.

*News update*- So I completely forgot to mention the fact that in less than a week I will be moving! Yup no more lounging around at home with nothing to do. It’s finally time for summer school and I’m soooooooo excited because I’m finally living in an apartment (no more dormsssss!!!!) AND I’m living with giraffe and one of his frat bros for the summer Get ready for craziness ahhhh!

So where am i moving to you ask? I’ll give you some hints-

• It’s in Florida
• It’s north of Orlando
• It’s a public University
• Our mascot isn’t an animal
• It’s the capitol of FL
• It’s freakin rage

If you still haven’t guessed it I’m a Seminole! I can’t tell you how excited I am to get back to Tally. My freshman year seriously went by way to fast and I feel like I didn’t take full advantage of it so this year I’m planning on going out a lot more and going on all the trips/ date functions/ socials i can!

Since I only have a little time left at home I’ve started to buckle down on the things I need to get done. One of which is clean out my closetAnd no that’s not all of it

And even that’s not all but you get the idea.

So far this is what I’ve accomplished

It’s a start.I really liked what Angela had to say about getting rid of clothes- “if I haven’t worn it in a full calendar year (all types of weather!) it gets donated.” So I used that rule of thumb while sorting out the keep and dump piles and it reallllly helped. Thanks girl!

What do you guys do with your old clothes?

- I usually just give it to my mom and she’ll sometimes give it to people she knows who are less fortunate or send it to family we have in Brazil.

Teaser

Howdy!

My morning started with the Booty Firm Up workout. Today’s kicker was definitely the flying scissors- lunges always kill. And i followed it up with my own version of the chocolate cherry bomb which just sounded too delicious since I finally have fresh cherries!

Chocolate Cherry Smoothie

a handful of pitted cherries

a little bit of frozen blueberries

2 handfuls of spinach

1 scoop of vanilla sun warrior

1/2 T cacao powder

1 tsp vanilla

ice

Might be a new fav!!

I STILL havent gotten the pics back from my photo shoot (I know it’s only been like 2 days lol patience is hard though) but she did send some teasers so I guess I’ll tease you guys too.

trying to move a turtle out of the road!

hehe this last one wasn’t a real picture, she just decided to snap one while I was picking up this little guy. I think it’s my fav though.

The beach was AMAZING yesterday. Perfect weather which we have def been missing lately.

Gorgeous!

My parents recently bought a beach house and we are in the process of fixing it up but it is seriously torture knowing that I could be at the beach all day everyday if it weren’t for construction. I can’t wait until it’s finished!

Whenever I go to the beach I always stop by Heath’s Natural Foods and get lunch (and dinner) for the day. I don’t know why, I think it’s the mix of healthy/ already prepared that makes me totally obsessed with their wraps and sandwiches. Yesterday they were out of my favorite Vegan Chicken Salad wrap so I opted for the Avocado wrap and the veggie wrap (which is waiting for me for dinner today yay!)

sorry for the already munched sandwich, I was hungry

Well I’m off to bake myself in the sun some more! Gotta love summer. What’s your favorite thing to do during summer?

p.s.- Happy Giveaway!! Hurry it’s a quick one with really awesome prizes. Also a giveaway for Mary’s crackers at Physiquespeak!!

Sweet Potato Smoothie

Morning bloggies! Did everyone watch their shows last night? You know I did! Phew that was a lot of tv and I wasn’t expecting the Next Food Network Star to be 2 HOURS but sall good. I still have to watch the Movie Awards but Carson recorded it so we can watch it commercial-free when I visit him on thursday.

I forgot to mention earlier but this morning I had a photo shoot to get some professional pics taken. They aren’t necessarily for anything but my mom wants to send them in to some agencies to see if I can start modeling. I’ve always dreamed of modeling but to me it’s one of those things that I never thought I was really good enough for. I mean I’m no Victoria’s secret angel (my Dream has always been to be one hehehe) I’m just little old nobody bianka.

But I really enjoyed today and the pictures were looking really good so only time will tell. I’ll post some of the pictures when the photographer sends them, I can’t wait!

the park where we did the photo shoot

After the photo sesh I made a green monster with sweet potato! It was pretty delish and I was pleasantly surprised

than again how could anything be bad with sweet potato?

Sweet Potato Smoothie

1/2 sweet potato (cooked)

1 cup blueberries

2 cups spinach

1 scoop sun warrior

dash of cinnamon

enough water to blend and some ice to thicken

Have an awesome monday!

Krispy Kale Khips

I can’t believe I forgot but Carson reminded me that yesterday was our 7 month anniversary (we celebrate every anniversary lol). At least we had a cute date night. After the movie we laid down to watch Boondock Saints before calling it a night (we’re kind of movie buffs). Willem Dafoe is a bamf btw.

Some of today’s eats:

I started my day with a cup of coffee- black with a little cinnamon and mesquite because I’m hardcore like that

then a little later I had a strawberry smoothie which I have been absolutely loving lately

strawberries, blueberries, vanilla sun warrior, spinach, cucumber, ice

Carson had his usual= a whole wheat english muffin with strawberry jam and an Ice Coffee

For Lunch he finished off the leftover sushi

and snacked on some organic tortilla chips and a protein shake-> he’s a growing boy. Sometimes i feel bad when he’s  visiting me because we don’t keep his usual eats in our house but the good thing is it’s like a little detox and he eats really healthy for a couple of days

I ate carrots with some hummus I made from the leftover white bean salad

white bean salad and artichoke hearts blended together= yum!

and half a sweet potato with the sweetest green beans EVER. I had no idea how good raw green beans were until I spontaneously decided to get some since snap peas were so expensive. what a good decision!

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Besides the hummus I also decided to use up the kale that was lingering in my fridge. I decided to try kale for the first time a couple days ago, since everyone seems to enjoy it. I stuck it in my green smoothie and boy was that a mistake! The texture was soooooo disgusting I had to throw it out after forcing down a couple gulps (for ME to not drink it says ALOT). It tasted like poop/barf horrible and I was literally going to give up on kale forever when I decided to at least try it a different way since maybe blending it was the problem. I have seen people enjoying kale chips (like Averie’s) all over the blog world and Ani even has a recipe in her book so I decided that was how i would prepare it.

these. are. so. freakin. good!!!!!!!!!

Omg you seriously don’t know what you’re missing and I’m telling you that you MUST go to your kitchen and make these now. Everyone says they taste exactly like real chips but you know how people exxagerate so I wasn’t expecting much but I’m telling you they literally made a *CRUNCH* when I bit into one, Amazing!

I Didn’t use a recipe though because I was in the mood for some specific flavors so I decided to make my own recipe to flavor them. And good thing for you I wrote it down

Kale Chips

1/4 cup water

2 T nutritional yeast

1/2 T olive oil

1/2 T liquid aminos (or Nama Shoyu/ Soy sauce)

1/2 T lemon juice

1/4 cup chopped mushrooms

1/4 cup chopped tomato

1/4 cup sunflower seeds

1 clove garlic

1/2 inch nub of ginger

pinch of salt and cayenne pepper

blend in food processor/blender. rip kale into small pieces and put in large bowl. pour blended mixture on top and toss. dehydrate or bake on lowest setting. enjoy!

If we didn’t have dinner later I could def down the whole bowl in a second. so good.

Teriyaki Noodles

It’s WEDDING SUNDAY!!!!! I don’t know if I’m the only freak of nature that is this obsessed with Wedding Sunday but I pretty much look forward to this day all week.

And tonight is finally the season premiere of not one but TWO shows- Bridezillas and all time fav My Fair Wedding!!! I may or may not be obsessed with David Tutera but i mean honestly what can’t this guy do? He’s incredible!

ahhh how can life get much better ? The only thing that’s missing right now is my giraffe but he will be visiting soon enough so we can go to the beach and sloth around together. I didn’t think it would be this hard to be apart but I think we are so used to being together that we don’t really know what to do with ourselves when the other isn’t around.

aww how cute!?!

Anyways, I’ve really been wanting to try a kelp noodle dish lately just to mix up my daily salad routine but haven’t been to the store/don’t really know where to look for kelp noodles. So instead I turned to my handy dandy notebook (jk Ani’s Raw Food Essentials) and made her teriyaki noodles for dinner last night.

except i subbed the kelp noodles for carrot “linguine” noodles and added spinach to my sauce for more greeeeeens. I just peeled one carrot with a potato peeler to make my noodles.

I was surprised by how much it felt like i was really eating noodles! I didn’t feel like i was missing out on carbs at all. Only problem was that it didn’t last long enough on my plate . I will definitely be making more carrot noodle dishes and trying out different sauces…. I’m thinking spaghetti might be next.

And for breakfast, my usual shake

I don’t know about you, but I like something to chew on in my food. I find that it slows me down while I’m eating and allows me to enjoy my shakes longer so I like to add just a little bit of quinoa.

I don’t really measure when i make this so these are all approximates but in case you’re interested….

Chewy Smoothie (any recommendations for a better name?)

1/8 cup uncooked quinoa -> (i usually cook 1/4 cup the night before so i have 2 servings worth on hand)

2 handfuls of spinach

1/3 cup of cucumber

1 scoop sun warrior vanilla protein powder

1/2 frozen banana

1/2 cup almond milk

3/4 cup of frozen blueberries

blend and enjoy!

And don’t forget WEDDING SUNDAY tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!