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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

T-Tapp Christmas Party

You'd think that a fitness company would be a little skimpy when it comes to holiday treats and celebrations centered around food. NOT at T-Tapp! We all love food and that's part of the reason why the T-Tapp workout is so fabulous -- you don't have to diet to get results! Do consistent workouts (or even a few T-Tapp exercises regularly) and you will be able to maintain and possibly even lose inches over the holiday season while enjoying treats and great eats. YES You Can! Try it for yourself here: http://t-tapp.com/try!

This year we did our annual Cookie Exchange and Secret Santa. Unfortunately, I was really sick and took my first sick days of the year, which meant that I skipped the baking this time around. (Sorry guys!) Luckily my coworkers are awesome and sent me home with a huge plate of cookies anyway. Plus, I got to enjoy that yummy cupcake from a friend.

On the Winter Solstice (December 21st) the T-Tapp staff headed over to Cello's Charhouse restaurant in Safety Harbor -- a quaint, colorful eatery right off of Main Street. They welcomed our party with open arms. We started off sampling the various wines that Teresa brought over and crunching on char-grilled pita triangles with Parmesan cheese.

And a delicious salad with Goldfish crackers.

Beer Cheese Soup with Popcorn. Sooo good!

I ordered the bacon wrapped filet wrapped in mushroom saunce with perogies and winter squash.

Lauren and I shared a slice of Lemon Butt Cake. They called it that because apparently the cake goes right to your rear.

Thank you for the wonderful meal, Teresa! It's always a pleasure spending time away from the office with my coworkers.

The moon was ripe and ready for the eclipse. I wasn't feeling well and went straight to bed, so I missed it. *sad face* But I did snap this picture, which doesn't do the moon any justice. It truly was looking magical.

Au revoir!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Kicking off Tappy Holidays 2010

This holiday season I'm armed with healthy tools to keep me accountable, active and eating veggies. T'appy Holidays with T-Tapp Trainer Lani Muelrath is a T-Tapper's dream. Lani created a spreadsheet that gives a weekly outline with some healthy habits including daily exercise, body brushing, eating 7 servings of veggies and having a "gusto" breakfast. For each activity that you complete you get a certain amount of points. At the end of the week you tally up your points and see where you fall: Goddess, Diva, Muse or Flirt. We all want to be Goddesses!!!

This is a wonderful way to keep up with your healthy habits and stay on track with a fitness plan during the busiest time of year! Tappy Holidays started on Sunday, November 7th. I technically started on Monday because I was feeling under the weather this weekend and needed to get a newsletter done for work.

Monday, November 8th
So far so good! Yesterday I got in 6 servings of veggies and my body brushing. Skipped a gusto brekkie and had a cup of hot coffee (it's cold in Florida!) with cream and raw sugar, plus an organic golden delicious apple once I got to the office. I was starving by lunch and devoured 2.5 cups of raw salad (romaine, spinach, onion, carrots, cilantro) and 1 cup of homemade pumpkin soup. That's 5 servings of veggies at lunch alone! For dinner I made a fresh organic beef chili packed with veggies (zucchini, green pepper, onion, garlic, and kidney beans). Almost 7 servings, but one short due to skipping brekkie... the most important meal of the day!

No exercise though...very busy day and I didn't make the time for it. No excuses.

Tuesday, November 9th
I made sure to get in my veggies... 1.5 cups of chopped zucchini, onion and baby bellas accompanied my 2 scrambled eggs with BVI Seasoning and Garlic Pepper. That's 3 servings of veggies! For lunch I ate another bowl of my pumpkin soup, which accounted for another 2 servings. And dinner was more of my beef chili. I did sneak in a few all-natural gummy bears.

Workout: Basic Workout Plus + floor work (OIP/HF, 15 Crunches, AL, PT, DD) for a 30 minute "free choice" routine. And got my body brushing in too!

Will keep you posted on my T'appy Holidays progress each week in a wrap-up blog. For now I'm off to get in more veggies... staying stocked up on produce is KEY!

Au revoir!

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

{ weekend } Halloween with Friends and Fire Dancers

Bonjour! What a fantastic weekend! I had so much fun with my friends and Marcel's family. Just wish Monday didn't come so fast and we had another day of weekend left. Time flies when you're having fun, right?

We started the holiday with a trip to Einstein Bagels for brekkie. I tried the pumpkin bagel with light pumpkin cream cheese and a medium vanilla coffee with cream and sugar. We didn't carve pumpkins this year.

As promised, I did Tempo 2 (lower body style) on Saturday before we left for St. Pete. (No other healthy habits completed... too much going on!) Veronica, Nikki and I went to CVS to pick up some more makeup for my costume. Then back to the house to get started on my full face makeup! Veronica is an amazing makeup artist. She had never heard of Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos), but once I showed her a few pictures she quickly go the idea and totally rocked my makeup. She made it pop and even added little jewels and everything!

Crazy, huh? SO fun!!!

Marcel took me home and I left shortly after to head to Kristy's salon for to get my hair styled. She did a simple braid to keep it off my face, added a few hologram pieces and sprayed me down with glitter. A few friends met us at the salon and we carpooled to the Annual Hard Corr Halloween Party.

Here I am with the hostess... Snow White!

Party Drinks & Eats

At the party I enjoyed 2 light beers, 2 jello shots and a Jägerbomb (light on the Red Bull), a pulled pork sandwich, a Halloween cupcake, chips and candy... totally junked out, but hey it was Halloween! We split a taxi ride home. Safe and sound.

...I got home at 3am...

Sunday was Halloween this year. We drove to St. Pete again to spend the afternoon with the gang. Once I parked on the street in Old NE St. Pete, got out of the car and Marcel noticed a little black dachshund by my back tire.

I could have hit the poor little guy! He had no collar and was covered in something that smelled like crap, we caught him, gave him a quick bath and some food and water. He didn't make a peep, even being around 5 other dogs in the yard.

Anyone missing an all black wiener dog? I want to call him Ween.

They took the lost dog to the dachshund rescue in St. Pete on Monday. Marcel really wants him... and we may get the poor little guy to see how he does with Roxy in her own space. Another dog was the last thing on our minds.

So back to Old NE neighborhood... they go ALL out! Here are just a few pictures for you:

Please take a look at my Facebook page or AdoringLife.com for more photos.

We ate Tijuana Flats for dinner... chicken and black bean burrito on whole wheat power light minus black olives, chips with queso and guac. So good! The kids were in bed and we all took a walk around the neighborhood, down to the water and back before heading home for the night.

Great times with awesome peeps!

Au revoir!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

{ weekend } Eating Labor Day

I hope you had a lovely Labor Day weekend. It feels like I ate my way through it! Lots of carbs -- cereal, granola, pasta, bread -- not enough veggies, only one workout and mostly just relaxed away my days. Have to say that I don't feel amazing today. I can tell that I ate too much and I'm not really sure why. Thought I was getting on track here, but after this weekend... well, it feels like I need to start all over again. Is it just me, or do we all let it go on the weekends?

Saturday's Eats

Brekkie

Granola, Raw Almonds and Greek Yogurt