These two lovelies.

Dinner was this quick and easy salad of arugala, tomatoes, mushrooms and beans! And a repeat of last night’s dessert. 

I love salad a lot, but I love dessert a lot more. And since today well let’s talk about my hump day:

• Started with a speeding ticket on the way to the doctor at 7am
• Got too busy to eat lunch and I ate hummus with my fingers 
• Still finishing work right now, just taking a blog post break and it’s 10:35pm 
• Hubs is snoring next to me…
• Did not update the Daily Schweaty Balls calendar because I did not have time to workout
• Did drink 1/2 bottle of champagne because I am out of red and well… 

HAPPY HUMP DAY INDEED! 

So tomorrow is another chance to fit into those two bikinis for the cruise happening REAL effing quick like. Catch up on, everything. AND it’s one day closer to the weekend. Don’t let the world swallow you… I leave you with this:

x to the ohhh

Oh it’s only Tuesday… 

(Latrice Royale)

I feel like it should be Friday. But it’s not. Tomorrow it’s Wednesday, ALL day long.

Emma Lilly agrees that this is essentially horse shit. But not to worry Emma we have this…

Annnd let’s be honest here, I am motivated almost entirely by these things:

• Dessert
• Wine
• Looking good in a bikini

Yes these are entirely competing forces, which makes my brain both confused and ahnnry. 

Dinner was this:

Salad - Arugula, yellow pepper, tomatoes, mushrooms, balsamic, evoo, sea salt. And the last veggie burger in the pack. All delish, healthy and wonderful.

But my Tuesday needed more. After a lonnnnggg day, waking up real early to squeeze in a long workout, I felt the need to reward distract myself from the fact that it is only Tuesday. (No wine is not a reward in this house, it is free calories that make everyday feel like the weekend.)

So dessert was this:

The perfect dessert. One little cup of organic yogurt + one tbsp of cacoa powder + a few shakes of cinnamon. Just enough sweet, with lots of nutrients and protein to fill this hungry, wanting to look shmoking haute in her bikini beezy right hizzle.

And life is pretty good. Though I could go without the added guilt of the fact that I am going on a cruise this month, so dessert shouldn’t be an option. So I just ask myself girrllll you got room in that bikini for dessert? #sorryimnotsorry 

What’s your favorite dessert that still let’s you dream of that bikini?

Did chubby used to be a flattering term? Or at least not as offensive? I die for this old Lane Bryant AD I found today.

Whatever. At least someone used to call it like they saw it. Kind of funny, anyone ever watch Weeds? Remember Huskeroos? Just own it. 

Watch this right now.

Huskeroo huskeroo you’re beautiful in all the things you do!!

Discuss amongst yourselves.  This makes me laugh because we take ourselves too seriously, we do not educate ourselves or our children on how to eat properly, and we are addicted to decadence. AND I personally just showered in some chips’n queso from Baja Betty’s, so I am not even trying to judge.  I am just sayin’, I wish we cared a bit more about nutrition for ourselves and the youth, and I wish when we had a cookie we just were okay with it.  Because we work hard enough as it is.

And don’t get me wrong, I don’t blame society for making me feeling bad in a bikini, I blame myself for just not owning it and/or appreciating the fact that I work hard but I am not perfect. I do hope, wish and work towards a more better, more nutritious world for my children, but that happens one glass of water, one less chip at a time.

In the meantime I do have a delicious veggie burger recipe for all of you who are chubbies at heart, but know and feel eating clean is better for your body and soul. 

Baja Greek Veggie Burgers

• 1 cup black beans
• 1 cups garbanzo beans 
• 2 tbsp flax seed meal 
• 2 shakes of cayenne pepper
• 2 shakes of turmeric
• 2 shakes of curry powder
• 1 shake of sea salt
• 1/2-1 cup of chopped/shredded carrots
• 1 tbsp of nutritional yeast (optional for vegans who want it to taste cheeeesyyy)

My little buddy Jackalope that is.  So over the years I’ve really come to love running.  NOT because running is amazing because let’s be honest, it absolutely sucks every step until you’re back to your front door.  But I love the way it makes me feel, inside and out. 

Best sign ever right?  ANYHOOTers.  I went on a weird hiatus because it was cold, Jack was pulling on the leash too much and it hurt my hands annndd running just wasn’t fun.  Again, retail therapy was just what the doctor ordered.

For little man that is.  Man needed him a harness.

Look at me now, look at me now, I’m getting papereeedd. I have always gaffed at harnesses in Petco, but finally decided to buy one because nugget head has been ridonkulous on our runs as of late.  Literally one of the best purchases of my life.  The sucker works.  And to cure the cold…

lululemon brisk run gloves

+ lululemon brisk run headband ear warmer

Which Jackalope lovessss.  Long story long, it was the common cure to the common [running] cold.  Jack and I are off running again, living the dream, feeling fab.  Goes to show you, went in doubt, pull out the credit card, and get moving again.  Time for some RuPaul’s Drag Race… #thehousedown

x to the ohh