Friday Letters

Dear Friday, Why do you feel like it took forever for you to show up? Wasn't this weekend suppose to be shorter than normal? Well, either way I am glad you are here because I am exhausted this week. 

Dear Hubby, I would love to go hiking soon. I hope we can find some time together too. Thank you for everything you do and working so hard. I love you very much! 

Dear Workouts, So far this week I have at least been on the tread mill for 30 minutes or with my trainer, I am feeling awesome about that. Now to get my macros on point. After watching Fed Up I really need to cut down on sugar intake.

Dear Printer for Work, You finally did it. You kicked the bucket. The bad part is that I have so much work to do still and I really don't have time to wait until next Friday to print it all. I hope we can figure something out until we get a new one. 

Dear House, Please clean yourself.

Dear Readers, Thank you for all the sweet comments this week. I am going to try to change over to disqus comments once I figure it out. I really hate not being able to reply to everyone and the no reply blogger. Hopefully this will help with all that. 

Hope ya'll have a great weekend!    

Easy Breakfast Egg Muffins

If you should know anything about me, it's that I am not a morning person at all. My husband on the other hand, he is one alarm at 4am and he can jump out of bed. Me, I have to set like 3 alarms, snooze at least 5 times and than maybe I will think about rolling out of bed. 

Now this doesn't work if I need to be at work at 7am which means I have to leave the house by 630. Also, I need to get my workout in on these days so 4am wake up call it was. 

After failing to wake up at 4am to workout, than make breakfast, shower, get ready and leave by 630 for work I had to rethink some things in the morning.

Insert, breakfast muffins.   

I make them on Sundays and they last all week for me to just pop in the mircowave on the way out the door or when I get to work. 

What you need:

-double muffin tins  
-eggs
-egg whites
-bacon // I used the jalapeno bacon from Costco
-whatever veggies you want// I use green onion
-you can add lots of other things in here such as cheese, pepper, mushrooms, basically anything you would add to any of your eggs 

Directions:
Since I am macros counting everything is weight out separately for each muffin. 

1. Cook bacon first as you normally would.
2. After cooking bacon, mix 1 whole egg with 100g of egg whites 
3. Cut up 1 slice of bacon 
4. 10grams of green onions 
5. Pour mixture into one cup of the muffin pan 
6. repeat until all muffins are filled 

Cooking directions:

-Preheat oven to 400
-spray muffin pan so the egg mixture doesn't stick 
-Bake egg mixture for about 35 minutes or until golden 
-let them completely cool 
-When ready to eat just pop in mircowave until warm (about 30 seconds) and eat with your favorite hot sauce if you want. 

Enjoy your breakfast muffins! 

Fed Up

I failed miserable to take pictures this weekend but we did mange to watch Fed Up on NetFlix and now I am second guessing everything I put into my mouth. 

I don't think it's a secret that obesity is a huge problem in the United States, but I think we are blaming the wrong people. Well putting all the blame on the obese and not truly understanding where to point fingers. 

Before watching this, I will admit I ate a lot of Mexican food and still wanted my ice cream which was not the best decision because it just made me feel even more sick while watching this documentary. I am disgusted with the food industry. I also thought obese children and adults should just workout more and watch their calories. I was so dumb and naive until this past weekend. 

It's simple to lose weight right, calories in vs calories out. sadly, that is just the beginning of losing weight. 

Working out, moving more and calories in vs calories out is just the beginning, it's where all doctors will start when you tell them you want to lose weight.. 

Sugar.. Sugar is the other side of this ugly truth that no one mentions. 

This documentary follows obese teens who are on a mission to lose weight. They are eating all the healthy foods, low fat foods, serving sizes and moving. One girl even swims four days a week. The problem is they are not getting smaller, sadly their waist keeps getting larger and larger. 

Who do we blame for this? The food industry. They removed the fats from foods and because of the taste and scared people wouldn't eat it, they added tons of sugar to it. The average american ate almost 17 teaspoons of sugar a day in 2008. We are only recommended 6-9 teaspoons a day. Think about that for a moment. 

The documentary also hits home when they mention this generation of children are the first generation who will not out live their parents. With so many medical improvements each year, this is hard. Parent's aren't suppose to bury their children, their children are suppose to bury their parents.

With all that being said and watching this documentary, I am going to work harder on what I eat each day and my workouts. Since I watched the movie on Sunday, my eats have been pretty on point. You can follow along in my journey here or instagram

If you haven't watched Fed Up yet, I suggest you do. I promise you will think twice before picking up that soda and or candy bar. Also, you might even start reading food labels. 

Happy Memorial Day!

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Happy Memorial Day from my family to yours. I hope you all enjoy your day off and send up an extra prayer for those families who sacrificed so much for this country. 

Just in case you didn't know, Congress passed a law in December 2000 that at 3pm in your time zone that you stop to honor the fallen soldiers. Read more about memorial day here. 

Friday Letters

Dear Weekend, as I always say, thank you for showing up. I am probably more thankful than normal as this week was very rough. I am excited to clean the house, do some laundry and spend time with the hubby. 

Dear Sickness, Please go away for good. Ever since Tuesday night/Wednesday morning when you hit me hard in the face I haven't felt myself. I even had to cancel my gym session because I just wasn't feeling it. 

Dear Hubby, I am super proud of you for making your 10 jumps and earning your gold wings. I know this was a big step for you and even bigger stepping stone for your career. 

Dear Bloggy Group, I love the way you are growing. You are bringing together so many wonderful ladies in this community and helping us all grow and make new friends. 

Dear Rain, Where do I sign up for the continue rain on Fridays?  I am loving it. I wish our weather will stay like this for a long time. San Diego needs the rain so badly. I would love to see the lakes filled back up and everything turn to green. 

Dear Workouts, I am sorry I missed yesterday. I was really looking forward to it but just couldn't bring myself to it after feeling like crap. I am praying to relax this weekend and get back to ya strong on Monday.  

Dear Bruce Jenner, I watched the show with the Kardashians and I have way more respect for you. I love how open and honest you are with this journey. I love how the girls all opened up about their raw feelings  

Dear Readers, Thank you for the sweet comments this week. I am working on figuring out disqus comments so I can respond to everyone. Would anyone be interested in making Friday Letters a link-up? Also, I am still offering free sponsor on my side bar. Please submit your ad and we can work together. 

Have a great weekend ya'll! 
Happy Memorial Weekend!! 

Simple Memorial Weekend Outfit

Memorial Weekend is here! 

Memorial Day 2015 by wifesticated featuring aviator sunglasses

I have a 3 day weekend to enjoy family, sunshine and a few drinks. 

What are you wearing for your BBQs, pool parties and or hanging around the house for the holiday?

I made my first Polyvore outfit for this post.  

Where I have Been All Weekend

Here I am.. I promise I didn't leave you just things around my house got a bit crazy over the weekend but none the less here I am to share it all with you.

Friday: I took the Bandit to go pick up E. You notice how small he got? plus can you tell he loves selfies? I know I need a car wash too. 

Friday my brother flew in from Sacramento because our good friend Clayton came home for the first time since 2013. It was good to see them all. So we all went out to the casino and I lost all $27 hubby gave me to play. (I need I need to clean my phone camera)

not to forget, it was the first time in a long time I stayed up past 9pm on a Friday night. Than in turn means I slept in on Saturday and missed the time to take the fur babies to get rabies shots. 

Saturday: Sister took her car into get an oil change and looked at since she bought it from Car Max. We found out her ac unit went out so they have to order in a new one. Can't live in San Diego with no AC. E man had his last game and we did the baseball party. 

Proud mama of an All-Star member too. E made all-stars for the first time and can't wait to watch him play in that game. 

Saturday night: My friend/ gym buddy Nicole had her graduation party. She graduated college and I couldn't be more proud of everything she has done in the short amount of time I have known her. So we wen celebrated with her. 

Jack Daniels shots and Vodka soda drinks

The four of us. Emily (nicole's bff & another gym buddy), Me, Nicole and my sister Cynthia

After dinner with the girls we went by Clayton's house to celebrate him being home. He has done a tour over seas and this is the first time home since 2013. I love watching how much he has grown up and changed for the better. 

We also brought the boys home and they were drunk and hungry apparently. They shared a plate of food together with Cali. 

G apparently had a rough Saturday night too. 

Sunday: Sister and I had massages scheduled and my shoulders are super knotted. I can't wait to go back. Than we went to lunch with my aunt and grocery shopping. Than it was time to start the week all over again. 

Monday: It was my dad's birthday and we had a surprise dinner at a sushi restaurant. Brother flew home late so I was the lucky one to take him to the airport. 

How was your weekend?