Wednesday, 30 January 2013

WIAW - Food, Jelly shots and Floods

Well, our weekend started off great with some super fun pre-wedding celebrations. Josh's grooms men visited for the Australia Day long weekend... Many jelly shots were consumed Friday night, we proceded to dance the night away in the city and eventually made our way home early Saturday morning.

I woke up a bit later on Saturday morning feeling pretty darn good for the amount of jagermeister and vodka jelly shots I had. I only drink once every few months - if that but I have noticed since I made dramatic changes to my health and fitness I don't get hangovers anymore... does anyone else get this benefit?

Saturday morning - the crew (majority hungover - lol) battled some torrential rain to the suit store for the final fittings before the big day, which is March 9th for anyone wondering. Don't the boys look soo cute!


The rain did NOT let up. An ex-cyclone had made it over the coast up north and was giving everybody hell in our state. Sunday we started hearing news of locations around the state flooding and the crew decided to pack up and make their way the few hours home before the roads flooded... Lucky they did.


The news started bringing us information of this, above is a very scary picture of Bundaberg. This is actually the home town where I lived for the first 21 years of my life. Many places that are so familiar to me were completely underwater - my school, the places I worked and many of the roads I drove day after day. It was completely surreal to see these pictures flooding Facebook and the news. Luckily Josh's parents and my parents live just out of the affected areas of flooding and their only problem at this time is that they are isolated at their homes. A lot of my old school friends were not as lucky and had to be evacuated.

Luckily news today states that the floods are slowly receding (thank goodness!), cleanup has begun and Josh is part of an emergency crew that is travelling the five hours up to Bundaberg to begin restoring power to many of the affected homes. As you can imagine this brought my weekend to a very sobering halt.

I hope you guys don't mind me sharing this with you... I know it is a bit of a downer but I really want to try to make this blog personal and share things that are significant to me. Thanks for reading anyway.

Now let's get onto onto my eats, these are actually from Monday (we had a public holiday so YAY for no work and for natural light at home).


Breakfast - The boy made me the most delicious cappuccino and I whipped up a batch of Heather's blueberry cobbler protein pancakes which were amazing!


We had a very late lunch salad. Iceberg lettuce, carrot, tomato, radish, beetroot, grilled chicken and crumbled goats cheese. This was actually my first time trying goats cheese and it was a really delicious alternative to the feta I generally stick too. 


Josh wanted a 'takeaway' style dinner so we had sweet potato fries and chicken burgers which was made up of melted cheese, tomato, lettuce, mayo and a grilled chicken patty on turkish bread. This beats Maccas anyday!

And that's about it! Happy WIAW guys and go visit Jenn if you want to join in!

Monday, 28 January 2013

My Workout Schedule

As previously mentioned in my January Goals (read about them here). I wanted to sort out my workout schedule so I was improving (or at least maintaining) my fitness and strength without tiring myself out.

For anyone interested, P90X is strength building workouts and Insanity is very high intensity interval cardio (both produced by Beachbody). Doing a mix of both has been sooo beneficial to my strength and fitness - I can honestly say that I have never been this physically fit ever.

Over the last 4 or so months I have been following the P90X and Insanity workout schedules. As a result, I have been get getting too tired doing the 1 1/2 hours of exercise every day. I decided that I needed to change it to only five days a week. I am still performing a hybrid of the P90X/Insanity workouts but not to the volume I was doing before Christmas.


So I've decided three days a week I will be doing the P90X strength workouts and two days a week I will perform the Insanity cardio workouts.

 I have two seven day workout schedules which I will alternate between. This will ensure it doesn't get boring (variety is the spice of life!) and also means I get to focus on all body parts.

If your also a P90X or Insanity fan - please feel free to use my workout plan. I am not a fitness expert in any way, shape or form so just be aware of that.

Friday, 25 January 2013

Friday Ramblings


  • My cat is a supermodel... no joke.
  • Deep heat is my new best friend. My left calf muscle has been in cramp mode for the last 2 days. Word of advice don't lather your calf in Deep Heat and then put on tight pants... ever.
  • Josh's grooms dudes (plus one associated girlfriend) are coming tonight for Australia day weekend. Cue... drunken rowdiness, BBQ's and suit trying on. Probably concurrently. Should be fun though :)
  • Plus I may be making jelly shots - oh no! 
  • I hate wedding planning... my procrastination is getting me nowhere though... figures. Doesn't help I only have one free weekend out of six until the wedding.
  • Anyone else follow a bunch of fitspos and foodies on Instagram. One second I want abs next minute I want cake. Why do I do this to myself?! (p.s. cake wins.. always)
  • Does anybody know where to buy coconut milk in cartons (not cans) in Australia? I want to make the conversion for my daily coffee.. coconut and coffee sounds soo dreamy!
  • I am making these for dinner tonight... I can hardly contain my excitement!
Have a gorgeous weekend guys - wish me no hangover tomorrow (usually the result of jelly shots).

Tell me your weekend plans in the comments below! It will be like I am there with you enjoying your fun!

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