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Hello everybody! Welcome to Weigh-In Wednesday!

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Ash @ A Step in the Right Direction

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Not much to say today. Two exams today & one more on Friday...then I'm FREEEEEEEE! Hang in there, I'll be updating a lot over Christmas Break and getting back to a normal place.

Still maintaining with no gain. I'm sleep-deprived and feeling quite awful, though. I really hate drinking coffee but it's the only thing that can give me the jolt I need to keep studying.

 I hope you all had great weeks though! I can't wait to catch up on all your posts over break :) 

My life in pictures:

This is the only thing getting me through these long study sessions.

Snowy snow at school.

Study time!

Here's a sneak peak at my engagement photos! More to come soon.

Have a great Weigh In Wednesday!

What are you strategies for staying on track during the holidays and stressful times?

   

Today I'm linking up with for Monday Mingling and I <3 Bloglovin'! 

We only have one week to find a new reader for all our blogs before Google Reader goes away.  I highly recommend Bloglovin'!  It's the only way I keep track of all the blogs I read and you can import you Google Reader in one click! 

 

Another chill weekend.  Nothing exciting to report. I honestly love weekends where I have nothing special planned - especially after long weeks. 

I kinda feel like I'm letting life pass me by right now. I'm waiting for work to be over, to start school, and to have more free time time to sleep. I'm like a half version of myself. I'm cranky and irritable and I'm losing sight of the fact that I only have two months left in my hometown. Such a crappy feeling but it's about to get better...

On a more exciting note, this weekend is going to be EPIC. Friday night we have the Kenny Chesney concert which everyone and their grandma is going to. It will be Uh-maz-ing! 

Then on Saturday, I get to go "home." 

Via

AKA Bloomington, IN. My roommate/sorority sister is getting married so I will be reunited with my best friends and I get to celebrate in my favorite little corner of the world. Could it get any better? Other than letting me start college in the fall as a freshman and live it all over again, no!

Part of the reason I decided to start the Advocare cleanse was in preparation for the wedding. I'm scheduled to end on Wednesday but I'll probably keep going until Friday night and then take two days off for the celebrations. 

I was really worried about how this weekend would go while cleansing. Nick and I both live at home right now so I usually head to his parent's house for the weekend. We are on our own for meals a lot of the time since he and I or his parents are usually out and about.  This usually results in us eating out a lot.   

I'm just gonna say it...I cheated a little this weekend.  I still did my best to make good choices and stay within the guidelines about 75% of the time. I'm not too upset about it considering all the temptations that I was up against but I am interested to see how the scale responds tomorrow morning. 

Shrimp lettuce wraps

We tried a new restaurant this weekend called Yard House. First of all, the menu was huge with so many yummy options and over 160 beers on tap. Talk about unfair!  That's my biggest accomplishment of the weekend - I didn't drink at all even though Nick joked about how boring I was.  Oh well, it's one weekend! :) That's pretty pathetic isn't it? 

On Saturday afternoon, we decided to check out Findlay Market which is a huge farmer's market in Cincinnati. It was my first time visiting and I wish I would've taken more pictures!  We ended up getting some delicious gelato - mine here is a vegan mango rum sorbetto which tasted like heaven! (hey...it's fruit, right?) It reminded me of the three weeks I spent in Germany between my senior year of HS and freshman year of college.  I think we ate gelato every single day. YUM - so much better than regular ice cream.

I was just asking for trouble with temptation. For dinner we ate at The Wine Guy which is an awesome restaurant at The Banks project right on the Ohio River. They have a HUGE selection of wines and I didn't get to try any of them. Seriously, what was I thinking doing this to myself?  

To make matters worse, we had a waiter that thought he was a lot funnier than he really was. After I told him I was just having water he proceeded to keep pressuring me to order a drink (I mean really...). It was funny the first time but after that I was starting to getting really annoyed and frustrated.  I said "no," now get the eff away from me (and lose the gold chain!). Thank god I didn't say I was doing a cleanse or he probably would've shoved bread pudding down my throat. Strange dude.

Look at all the pretties!

The rest of the weekend was spent watching crappy TV, taking the dog for walks in 90 degree weather, and avoiding any sense of productive behavior. Now as I hit the home stretch of this cleanse, I'm gonna buckle down and kill it! Next weekend is going to be the perfect motivation! 

Here's my pretty city. I'll miss it!

How was your weekend? 
How do you avoid or minimize weekend temptations?
Do you like the new comment system (Disqus)? I'm not sure yet.

First of all, I want to start with a HUGE thank you to all the lovelies that commented on my last post with so many kind, thoughtful comments. I love that I can post my honest feelings and you all respond so positively - usually making me feel a lot less crazy than I am.  Thank you, thank you!  

Time for a weekend wrap up!  

I had Friday off, again. My shift got canceled and I was ecstatic!  It was amazing to sleep two nights in a row...even if I woke up super early each time :) Also, for the record I only have 16 work days left until I take three weeks off before school.  One month. I can do it! 

So on Friday, Nick & I had some errands to run. We did some shopping and got a yummy (& pretty healthy!) lunch at P.F.Changs. I had a salad and steamed shrimp and veggie dumplings.  Nom Nom!

My hair is finally growing out! 

I always catch him off guard.

Yummy steamed dumplings! 

We also decided to check out Whole Foods because Synergy Kombucha tea was on sale - buy one, get one free. I think I have a bit of a spending problem...I bought six. Honestly, I just wanted the glass bottles for storing juices and smoothies.  I like the tea but it's not something I need to have... I prefer the chia seed variety although it tastes like jellied vinegar. I've read about the health benefits...might do a post soon about that! 
  

Later that night, we went to Nick's brother's lacrosse game. I don't understand lacrosse one bit but I love when the guys hit each other.  Cracks me up!

It was crazy being back at Elder (where all the guys in Nick's family went to high school).  We haven't been there since our senior year of high school.  For those who aren't familiar with Cincinnati, the city is split into an "Eastside" and "Westside."  The Westside is more traditional and they're known for the private all-girl/all-guy Catholic schools.  It's weird for an Eastsider on the Westside - it's just different in an unexplainable way.  Eastside is the best side :) 

"The Pit" was named in the Top 10 best places to watch a high school football game by USA Today.  It's awesome!

After dinner that night, this happened. We decided to take it easy and stay in with wine and probably something on the Food Network.  Nick and I don't agree on much TV-wise unless it's about food. Are we at all surprised by this? No.

Weekends are my downfall.  Every single time.  I need some tough love. Dear Chris Powell, please move-in with me on weekends only. Help.

The good news: Saturday morning we woke up super early for spinning class with Nick's mom and dad. I don't usually get a workout in on Saturday so it was nice to finally do that!  Poor Nick has never been to spinning before...he was so sore(and mad at me for agreeing to go)!  

Saturday night we went to the Red's baseball game!  And this happened. I can't even. That's not even the worst of it.  Forget the $9 ballpark beer. This was NOT part of the plan.

Positive time. We did have amazing tickets in the moon deck in right field, though. Home run territory! 

Batting Practice

Now for the exciting part.  We made it on the jumbotron!  This has been my goal since we started dating (hello bucket list!).  All of a sudden, I looked up and saw us up on the big screen!  Nick decided it would be a good idea to grab me and kiss me in front of the 40,000 attendees...and I'm not complaining.  I could hear everyone laughing.  I wish I had a picture to prove it!  A few people I knew that were at the game texted me/facebooked me about it.  Just too funny!

That's the weekend in a nutshell (if I had to pick, it would be a pistachio nut shell. delicious.) Like I said in the last post, I took a big break from blogging.  I gotta snap out of the laziness and remember that this is supposed to be my personal creative outlet.  If you like it, wonderful!  If not, that's ok too!

Have a great week, everyone!