Halloween Party at the T-Tapp Office

Bonjour! Here I am over here to the right... all sleepy, but costumed up and channeling Cleopatra with my Pumpkin Kale green smoothie. Yum!  Today was a great day... dressing up just for fun, Halloween party at the office with delicious eats, it's Friday and fun is plentiful this weekend.

The spread of food for lunch was serious... we sorta went all out for this one. But I was the only one in "costume".  Cleopatra is a recycled toned down version of my costume from two years ago.

I ♥ being Cleo!

We planned to each bring a dish for the office party.  They made burgers and ribs next door and brought them over.

We ate fresh and grilled veggies with ranch and hummus dip, baked beans and deviled eggs.

Here's my mac n cheese... needed to be in the oven for another 20 to get real crispy, but it tasted awesome.

And for dessert... cupcake sized cheese cakes with cherries on top, Halloween cupcakes from Publix and rice crispy treats!

My plate: turkey burger (with cheese, mustard, lettuce, tomato), one rib, roasted veggies and a little mac.  I also ate a deviled egg and rice crispy treat.

 And then a cherry cheesecake and La Croix Lemon for dessert...

Here's Ava dressed up as a Ghost Buster!  Too freakin cute!

After work I recycled a whole car load full of paper, plastics, cardboard and aluminum.  Amazing how all of that stuff really stacks up after a week or two. 

We decided to go to Dominic's for Friday night pizza... it's becoming a weekly ritual.  I got a tall nonfat vanilla latte, Roxy barked her face off, we got a fresh pizza made, picked up the mail and headed home to relax and drink wine.  After this crazy busy week it was nice to have a chill night at home.  I'm listening to Marcel jamming out on the guitar right now...love this life.

And I got into the cupcakes Lolly sent home with me... they're actually really good for store bought cuppy cakes!  I dare not look at the ingredients.

I'm super excited about getting all dolled up tomorrow!!! Day of the Dead makeup + cute outfit + styled hair + party and lots of photos with my friends = FUN!  Halloween rocks.

Au revoir!

P.S. I am SO doing a killer workout tomorrow!

Goodbye June...

{ clouds over Tampa Bay on June 18 ~ photo by me }

I'm baaaack! This month has been the lowest number of blog posts I've had in a looong time. Today was a good day! I got a massage with Margie first thing this morning. Picked up some of my healthy habits again. Ate pretty much all whole foods and I feel like I'm on the way back up. I did a few Basic Workouts, many a sets of Hoe Downs and applied some T-Tapp techniques throughout the day (shoulder rolls, curling my core, sitting and walking in alignment, etc, etc). I've been really needing more consistency with exercise this past month, but have been so busy. Anyway, I decided to do a 4-day boot camp using Tempo 2 (8 Reps). Today is day 2! A bit sore, but the massage helped a bunch.


Healthy Habits

Body Care
Body Brushing - check!
Oil Pulling - check! (Oil pulled while brushing this morning... multitasking!)
Salt Bath and Sauna - I miss you! We'll meet again soon.
Workout/Exercise - Tempo 2 (8 Reps)... Boot Camp Day 2!

Nourishment
Fruits - check! 2 servings today.
Veggies - check! 5 servings today.
Water - check!

Supplements
Alfalfa: 6 caps
Emergen-C: 1 packet
Natural Calm - Raspberry Lemon: 2 tsp
Vitamin D3: 4 sprays


Eats

Brekkie

Yummy Purple Monster.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup frozen wild blueberries
• 1 frozen banana
• 2 cups fresh spinach
  
• 1 1/4 cup original Almond Breeze
• 1/4 cup Chobani 0% plain Greek yogurt

Boiled Egg with sea salt.

Lunch

Crispers Spinach Salad.

A bit too much cheese and bacon for me, plus I'm not really down with the crispy Ramen topper. The Light Ranch dressing was delish! I ate about 1 Tbsp.


Dinner

Black Beans and Brown Rice with fresh spinach, onion and garlic.

Yesterday...

Healthy Habits

Body Care
Body Brushing - check!
Oil Pulling - check!
Workout/Exercise - Tempo 2 (8 Reps)... Boot Camp Day 1!

Nourishment
Fruits - check! 1.5 servings today.
Veggies - check! 5 servings today.
Water - check!

Supplements
Alfalfa: 6 caps
Emergen-C: 1 packet


Eats

Brekkie

Yummy Purple Monster. (Same recipe as today's with less banana and milk.)

Hot organic green tea... and a Starbucks Grande Nonfat Vanilla Latte.

Lunch

Boiled Eggs and Salad... plus a few bites of that Ezekiel wrap.

Post-workout "snack"???

(Let's just call it that!)

I just had to try these... Chocolate Lucky Charms with original Almond Breeze.

They were good, but not enough marshmallows and I prefer the regular ones anyway.

And this one too... gosh, guess I was hungry!

Can you tell that cheap-o cereals were BOGO @ the store?

Dinner

1/2 of this Stuffed Pepper with Cabot 50% Reduced Fat Cheddar.

Au revoir!

Drink Your Greens

Green is LIFE!

Healthy Habits

Body Care
Workout/Exercise: Hoe Downs after lunch.

Nourishment
No fruits today.
Veggies: 2 servings today. (My smoothie killed the produce this morning.)
Water: 1.5 liters

Supplements
Alfalfa: 4 caps


Eats

Brekkie

I attempted a green monster with the ingredients in my fridge, but the overall final drink was not edible. Yuck! So much for trying to save frozen foods (or dishes apparently) during moves.

I did get to use my new beautiful green drink container from The Raw Divas though! Isn't it cute? ♥

So... I got Starbucks instead. (( sigh ))

Lunch

About 2/3 of this chicken burrito bowl from Chipotle.

Dinner

More Mexican food for dinner...

Our classic chicken tacos. Yum!

Dessert

Edy's Creamy Coconut Popsicle and 3 Iced Oatmeal Cookies with a little milk.

{ sorry no photo }

NOTE TO SELF
Drop your Starbucks habit like it's hot... and let the dessert go with it. Drink your greens!

Au revoir!

P.S. One more post and then it's time for bed...

It's a Kashi Day!

Posting late again...

Skipped another workout... and body brushing... and oil pulling...

Here's Monday's eats...


Eats

Brekkie

Chobani Plain 0% Yogurt with Kashi GoLean Crunch and Organic Apple.

Starbucks Grande Nonfat Vanilla Latte.

Lunch

Kashi Lemongrass Coconut Chicken meal.

After work I picked up Marcel and we had a marathon shopping spree at Publix GreenWise Market. Seriously, we splurged on some things and got food for the next week and a half. Kashi had tons of stuff on sale!!! We clean up.


Dinner

Tuna, Red Quinoa and Broccoli.

Plus 1/2 Organic Sweet Potato.

Dessert

I ate about 8 of these damn cookies...

Supplements

Alfalfa: 6 caps
B-12 Plus: 8 sprays
Pyruvyl Glycine: 8 sprays
Vitamin D3: 8 sprays

Water today: 1 liter

Veggies today: 4
Fruits today: 1

Au revoir!

{ weekend } Beach Day & Rainy Wedding

Gloriously beautiful St. Pete Beach!

As you may have noticed I haven't posted since Friday at lunch... life has been busy! I'm getting ready to move out of my apartment and apparently haven't found the time for blogging.

This post will be backwards starting with Sunday and ending with Friday's dinner and drinks.

This weekend I was pretty bad... skipped blogging, workouts, brushing, oil pulling, supplements, healthy eating, etc. Sometimes it's good to let things go for a few days, however now I feel like my body needs to be reset... and it does!


Sunday, April 25th

My entire Sunday was pretty much wasted away by computer time. Yes, I did clean and organize some of my stuff for the move. But then got sucked into researching stuff online and it was time to head to Matt and Jessica's wedding before I knew it. I got pretty and we started driving to Lutz. The sky looked strange and threatening. After they were married and the reception started (under a tent with tables, flowers, candles and a DJ) the sky let it all out.

Pretty much the entire wedding party got soaked. We moved inside the house to dry off and eat cake.


Eats

Brekkie

Einstein's Everything Bagel with Cream Cheese and Medium Coffee.

Snack

Kettlecorn... gave me a tummy ache!

Lunch

The rest of my Eggplant Marino from Friday's lunch.

Dinner

I ate a small plate of food at the wedding... the meatballs were to die for, and a few bites of a pumpernickel roll. Sorry no photo!


Dessert

Wedding cake! Shared this slice with Marcel.

Matt & Jessica ♥

Supplements

Alfalfa: 3 caps

Water today: 1 liter

Veggies today: 1
Fruits today: 0


Saturday, April 24th

Saturday morning we planned on waking up early (yeah right!) and going to St. Pete Beach to meet up with everyone. Well, we ended up going to the beach but didn't get there until about 2pm. The place was packed due to a sporting competition on the beach. I don't think I've ever seen that many people on such a small section of the beach at one time. Even though it was later in the day I still got some sun. The weather was beautiful and breezy, so the beach wasn't hot at all.

After the beach we headed home to shower, change and go to my Dad's for dinner.


Eats

Brekkie

Egg on 1/2 Ezekiel English Muffin with Spinach and Cheese.

Plus a little Organic OJ.

And a Venti Iced Green Tea Unsweet.

Here's what was left of it...

Lunch

I basically had a liquid lunch (a few Bud Lights and a Yuengling) with some popcorn (not pictured).

Later when we got home from the beach I made some Organic Carrot and Beet Juice.

The sunset on the way to my Dad's.

Dinner

Burger on WW Bun with Veggies.

And for dessert... a slice of Apple Pie and scoop of Ice Cream.

Supplements

Alfalfa: 6 caps
B-12 Plus: 4 sprays
Pyruvyl Glycine: 4 sprays
Vitamin D3: 4 sprays

Water today: 2 liters

Veggies today: 4
Fruits today: 1


Friday, April 23rd

Friday evening after work we had some friends come over, kinda of unexpectedly but it worked out perfectly. We all decided to go out to dinner at Whiskey Joe's... and drove there instead of walking. It was okay this time -- service and food-wise. They messed up our order, but we ate it anyway.

I don't think I got to bed before 2am... so it was a good night!

Eats

Dinner

Marcel and I shared these fried shrimp and salad.

Then the Zwack girls came around giving out shots!

Zwack is an 80 proof (40% alcohol) herbal liqueur made in Hungary with a secret blend of more than 40 different herbs and spices. It was pretty good... kinda of a mix between Jager and Goldschlager.

Dessert

Snickerdoodle Cookie.

Milk & Cookies Ice Cream.

Supplements

Alfalfa: 3 caps
Vitamin D3: 4 sprays

Water today: 2 liters

Veggies today: 5
Fruits today: 0

Roxy was so happy to have friends come visit her. ♥

Au revoir!