Fitness and Tea Filled

Fitness Fun!

I had a lovely fitness-filled day off! This morning I had posing practice, check-in and leg workout with my trainer. 1 week out from FAP I am around 117lbs and somewhere around 7.8% body fat. My bf went down just slightly from last week, which I was a little surprised about. I’m suppose to be maintaining at this point so last week my low-carb day was upped to 50 grams and cardio cut to 30min a day to accomplish this, so today we moved them up to 60 grams. You don’t hear me complaining, that just means oatmeal for breakfast everyday!

On another exciting note, I decided to do Figure as well at Fitness America. It was recommended that perhaps I have more of a figure look for FAP, and am overall more of an NPC Fitness girl. I guess I’ll find out soon enough, but I figure why not do figure too since I’m there, especially since the more I can get up on stage and improve my stage presence the better!

I’m slowly working my way through my pre-comp to do list, which looks something like this:

To Dos:

• Hair cut & color – Scheduled for Saturday
• Wax
• Mani & Pedi – Scheduled for Tuesday
• Bikini for media
• Tanning (x4 for FAP, x4 for AZ NPC) – Scheduled indefinitely.. ok over the next 2 weeks
• Stage makeup – partially purchased
• Stage jewelry – Have a ring and earrings but still need bracelets
• Bedazzle costume.. Been putting this off, I’m not to crafty :0
• Costume shoes
• Pickup fitness/figure suit – tomorrow!

After running errands all morning, I got a bunch of tasks done around the house before heading to spin! I found this outfit on sale today at Sports Authority. Many of my gym outfits are currently warn-out or not fitting so this was a happy find:

Ready to spin spin spin

You may have picked up on my slight obsession with my Monday & Wednesday spin class. I am super crazy picky when it comes to fitness classes, so when I find one I like, I never miss it. I got to the gym early so I worked on biceps & triceps which I hadn’t focused on since last week. Spin class rocked as usual.

Whole Foods Delights

After the gym I headed to one of my very favorite places, Whole Foods! I am a bit of a seafood brat so I will go out of my way to go for their fresh selection. I of course then found myself wandering the isles and look what I found!

Artisana selection grew!

The last time I was at Whole Foods they only carried Artisana’s Coconut Butter (which I love love love), but I’d been curious about their other products. But much to my delight they are new also carrying Walnut Butter, Pecan Butter and Cacao Bliss. I really wanted to get the Cacao Bliss, but I figure there’s no need to dance with the devil at this point (they also have Barney Butter which I can’t wait to try), but it’s definitely going into the basket come December. I did however spring for the Walnut Butter. It’ s ingredients are raw walnuts and raw cashews. So I figure since I can eat those in whole form I should be ok with them ground up.

More isle wandering revealed:

Holiday Tea Yummyness

They had all of the Celestial Seasoning’s Holiday tea flavors (Sugar Plum didn’t fit in the pic)! I’ve been dying to try these, so I bought one of each. I drink a ton of tea these days and immediately following dinner initiated taste testing. First up was  Sugar Cookie..

First I tried it plain and it was just ok, but when I added a splash of Unsweetened Almond Breeze and a tbsp of SF Cookie Dough Syrup it became wonderful! Later on I mixed up Pumpkin Pie in a Bowl topped with a tbsp of the new Walnut Butter and tried the Gingerbread tea flavor. The Walnut Butter is pretty dry so there’s no pretty spreading but it was a nice addition. It’s not sweet at all, which I like, and I’m sure that will help me not to eat to much of it (ok I admit it, I’ve been known to have nut butter binge issues on occasions). And so far Sugar Cookie’s in the lead.

That's a lotta orange

Chances are the other two tea flavors will be tested by the end of the night, and I’ll keep you posted tomorrow. Glad this week is flying by! Have a wonderful Thursday everyone!

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