Long time, no updates. Cant believe its June already! Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend, and is enjoying summer!

This past weekend was rough – my stomach was hurting all weekend and was really bloated. Friday night we did have a nice night – hit Uptown for happy hour, and walked the dog by the lake a little. But then my stomach started hurting, and it didn’t let up all weekend. Didn’t get nearly as much accomplished as I wanted, at least I got a facial, cleaned the house, made yogurt and cooked some food.

I have been keeping up with workouts, runs, cycling and yoga. Diet has been so-so. Alcohol intake has been high – a mojito just goes so well with grilling out, lol. I actually went a week or so without weighing myself, belive it or not. But I need to get back to tracking better – and updating this site!

I am eating chocolate at 10:23am on a Monday. Yes, it has already been that sort of a day, lol. I actually got up fairly early, stretched a bit, and had a nice run around the lake with the dog – the weather is absolutely gorgeous. But hubby is down, so that is really stressing me and bringing me down.

I haven’t been posted as much lately – feeling rather blah. No particular reason, just blah. Anyway, had a good weekend, although it was not good from diet standpoint. Saturday night we were invited to a friend’s home for a barbeque, and of course there was tons of good food (and wine). I made my always yummy buffalo chicken dip, as well as coleslaw – one with cilantro, one without (some crazy people don’t like cilantro, go figure)

Today’s weight was 139.0lbs. Did 20 minute Yoga for Runners, followed by a 15 min run by the lake (yay for running). Hit the gym over noon hour – did the Action Hero workout again (cut it short a tiny bit) – that was really awesome. This morning I pulled some stuff out the freezer for lunch: gyro meat and baked quinoa, figured I would have it along with some salad, turned out pretty good:

What a day! Started off not too bad: up at 7, did a bit of stretching, weighed 137.0lbs. had a nice breakfast of 1 egg scrambled with egg whites, spinach, onion and mushroom. Cooked down some ham stock I had simmering overnight in the crockpt, started some “baked” beans in another crock pot. Then the house cleaner called – she was coming to clean although we weren’t expecting, so I ran around the house prepping for that. Then I leave for work, drive down the block – my back tire is completely flat! So after much hassle end up dropping car off and taking the other vehicle to work (thanks to help from hubby).

Had a nice noon hour workout: Yoga for Buns (I reall do love this one) followed by full body strength training (skipped most of my usual lower body, just did 1 set of squat presses to warm up and dead lifts). Lunch was more leftover BBQ chicken with half a bun (had the 2nd half forafternoon snack with peanut butter) and sautéed cabbage. I love cabbage so much

Ordered a set of Val Slides, excited to try them. Lots of great reviews, sound like the reverse lunges are the best thing ever for butts!

Happy sunny Friday! This morning’s yoga was Yoga for Weight Loss #2. It was OK, it had a rather quick flow right at the beginning, and I think I should have done something a little slower. My hips and lower back need more stretching, maybe at lunch.

Had a pretty good workout over noon hour – did a modification of a new program from Women’s Health (I can never follow a program exactly, lol), it was a nice change and challenge. Lunch was BBQ chicken (I found it in the freezer – made it a couple months ago) with coleslaw, felt almost like I was at a picnic.

I think I am a little sore from yesterday’s workout – my mid-back specifically. I increased weight on my rows, I think that did it. Did not do any stretching this morning, but did 30 minute Detox yoga over noon hour. It was ok; a bit slow, but the balancing postures really did challenge me, and I think it did a nice “twist and rinse”.

Ate and drank too much last night – we grilled burgers and I made some excellent coleslaw (key ingredient: celery seeds) – weight this morning was 136.8lbs.

Woke up 10 minutes before the alarm again (7:20am), yay. And I was up late doing work. It’s a beautiful sunny day, wish my leg was up for running, but its still not, so I did some yoga – Power Vinyasa #5. I don’t remember doing this one before, it was OK, but I don’t think I will get a longer version nor do it very often.