Saturday.

Posting the day after. Was at my parent's house all week-end.
So Saturday was the wedding of my 2nd cousin and a good family friend. It was great.

10:30 a.m: Corn flakes cereal with 2% milk. Haven't had milk in a while.

Went to the ceremony, came home and had very little time til the reception so....

5:00 p.m: 2 spinach pies. See yesterday's photo for reference.

So, the wedding was nice. Here is the food in order of appearance. I have the veggie option. Except the main course was salmon and the others got beef. Ummm, is salmon not meat? I only ate the veggies. I didn't eat everything on each plate. A lot of courses...

Roasted veggies, slie of cheese and cantaloupe. No cantaloupe for me. Never been a fan!

Tomato with bococinni cheese. You know I love it!

Pea Risotto.

Grilled veggies, asparagus, potato and salmon. Salmon is not veggie you nutty banquet hall.

Chocolate mousse. Didn't finish it all. It tastes like cake icing, meh.

So ummmm, there was a waffle sundae bar later. OMG, so good. If I ever got married (hah!), that would sooooo happen. I may have had 2. Soooooooo freakin yummy.

So, in terms of actual weddingy stuff. The biggest thing of the night seemed to be the bride's dress. Gorgeous. I'm not that girl who is all into weddings and dresses and blah blah but this one had my jaw on the floor. It was something I would do. Very couture and looked like she should be at the Oscar's. Very over the top but awesome. My picture's don't do it any justice. The bottom poof was all light pale colourful flowers and the top was all jeweled up. Loved it! I haven't seen a wedding dress I loved since Gwen Stefani's! haha.

 On a side, serious note... it made me sad again that my brother and I won't be able to give this to our parents. I could tell they couldn't wait until they got to throw a wedding like this as well. Sadly, I don't think I'm going to get married. Just not for me. My brother, doubt he'll get with an Armenian girl so that'll bother my parent's. It already does. Everything isn't always sunshine and lollipop's! Can I throw an "I'm single!" party at 30? I fucking want presents and money and a bigass party too!


Oh, this was my dress. Cute? I though so.



Fryday.

6:30 a.m: Kashi Honey Almond Flax cereal with rice milk.

12:30 p.m: We went to Sushi Queen. I eat out, a lot. But i'm making somewhat better choices than I used too! It was also a success today in getting a completely veggie meal out for sushi. Yea!

Cool straws for bubble tea. Enjoy the colours so I snapped a pic.

Panic mode! So the dry cleaner screwed up the dress I am to wear to the wedding. Ugh. So I went to the Le Chateau outlet (always my saviour!) and found another. Annoying, unnecessary money spent, however, I love it.

6:30 p.m: See below. Went home to my parents house and this is all they had. Its a spinach pie type thingie and the other thing is spinach (I think!) with like rice and tomato and stuff, cooked. I don't know, it's foreign.

Thursday.

Gonna leave early today cause I have a party to go to in Guelph. It's a pre-wedding party. Middle Eastern thing. I expect good food to be served. We also have a work lunch again sooo we'll see what's gonna happen there.

6:00 a.m: Protein shake. Rice milk, water, frozen strawberries, protein powder.

Exercise (7 a.m): 45 min boot camp.

10:00 a.m: Oatmeal with water, cinnamon, banana.

12:30 p.m: Lunch. We went to Canteen. Sad times. What I assumed the lunch was for was true. My best buddy from work Mishkebob is partying ways and working somewhere else. :( Who will I talk too!?! Anyways, food. I had a pizza (minus 2 slices which I gave away) and it was thin multigrain dough, tomato sauce, artichoke, mushroom and caramelized onions. Very good. Then, I shared an almond croissant with Mish. See, who will share snacks with me now!?! *sigh* It was gooooood.

Alright, so, I went to the party. Long story short, in I guess in Armenian or middle Eastern culture 2 days before a wedding there is another party. So on Saturday, my 2nd cousin and long time family friend are getting married. We'll be there from both sides of the family as a guest! So yea, we went to this party which for a lot of people could just as well have been a wedding. It was a tent set up in their backyard. Pretty cool! It's my dad's dream to have a tent set up in our backyard like that (we have a pretty big one) but ya, made me sad that likely he'll never get to do that! I'm not the marriage type. Anyways! Here are a few pics as well as what I ate.
Oh! I overheard 2 people say that I look like I've lost weight. Woot!

Goodnight! 1:30 a.m. Gotta get up at 7. Thank goodness it's not a boot camp morning. Phew!

Wednesday.

5:30 a.m: Kashi Honey Almond Flax cereal with rice milk.

Exercise (7:15 a.m): 1 hour with trainer. My legs are currently sore and my butt hurts, hah! All from yesterday's boot camp. So, we focused more on arms today.

9:30 a.m: Booster Juice Bananas a Whey. Yum! Go 26 grams of protein!

We have a going away party today at lunch for a co-worker. Must make a good food choice! I feel as though I may not have been doing as well lately and it makes me angry.

12:30 p.m: We went to Il Fornello. I had a salad with mixed greens, goat cheese, roasted red peppers and walnuts with I think balsamic dressing. Also had a few small pieces of bread with olive oil pre meal. Yea yea my photo is blurry.

3:30 p.m: Had a bunch of almonds and a few chocolate covered pretzels.

6:00 p.m: I was out and about and picked up the below. Couscous and wheatberry salad. Didn't finish it all though. Maybe half.

Rain/thunderstorm/hail like crazy outside. It's scary from a condo with big windows. It looks like the end of the world. I'd rather it blizzard snow than rain. Rain scares me!

On a side note, I feel fat. I don't know. Something is telling me I've gained some weight back :(

I'm bored. I did a few floor exercises. I looked over to my right and it was an interesting sight. My new running shoes (the one's I thought were hideous but I've come to like), my gym bag (Lululemon, really? me? WTF) and an exercise ball. This is my life now.

Tuesday.

6:00 a.m: 1/2 a banana

Exercise (7:00 a.m): 45 minute boot camp.

9:00 a.m: Booster Juice, Bananas a Whey. I didn't think this one through, I've had too much banana already. Anyways, ingredients are vanilla frozen yogurt (sugar content is probably bad I bet!), banana, skim milk, pineapple and 30g of protein powder.

12:00 p.m: Gross. I made a salad and hated it. I bought some couscous on the side. Salad included arugula, mushroom, potato, chickpea in balsamic dressing. Here is a before/after... I threw most of it away.

Before

After

I got hungry seeing as how I really didn't have lunch/

3:30 p.m: I went and got brown rice with veggies over top. Teriyaki sauce. VERY filling. Yuck. Kinda bland.

So I bought two pairs of running shoes today. One is ugly, one is ok. The one I really wanted was awesome but not as comfortable. Tomorrow I am returning the ugly one. Damn, running shoes are expensive. But, I finally have the proper support!

7:00 p.m: Same dinner as last night. Broccoli with tofu thingie.

Take a look at the current contents of my fridge. yup, that's it. Only took 3 days for my grocery shopping to finish. Boooooo.

Monday.

Hair down Narine has made an appearance today and she is uncomfortable. How do people do it?
I rarely do it so when I do everyone seems to think I did something new. I already got the "Did you cut it?" and "You coloured your hair?". No, co-workers, I just straightened it and it's down.. It'll be up by lunch when I finally give in at how uncomfortable I am.

9:00 a.m: Oatmeal with water, cinnamon and a banana. I put too much water and it was soupy and gross. Yuck.

12:00 p.m: Leftover chickpea salad from last night.

2:00 p.m: I'm getting hungry. I bought some almonds which I shall snack on. I also got like 8 chocolate covered pretzels which I scarfed down.

Exercise (6 p.m.): 30 mins on treadmill and 1 hour personal training. I died, but it was a good death. I had a protein bar following.

8:00 p.m: I'm loving this meal, it was delicious. I made enough for lunch tomorrow and then it was so delicious I ate it all sooo I had like 2 plates of this. First I sauteed onions and garlic in olive oil. Then, I mixed water, corn starch and soy sauce in a bowl. I then combined it all with broccoli, tofu cubes and corn. I can't always handle raw broccoli so this was a nice way to distract from the taste but get all the nutrients. Don't overcook the broccoli though, keep it crunchy!

Sunday, bloody Sunday.

11:30 a.m: Wheatberry salad. Obsessed. Wheatberry, canola oil, sunflower seeds, salt and white pepper.

 

4:00 p.m: Fried onion, mushroom, tofu cubes, corn in soy sauce and mixed in with arugula, red pepper and boiled potatoes. Looks like a salad, and it kinda is, but not.

 

5:30 p.m: Got hungry. Had my Honey Almond Flax cereal with rice milk. 

7:00 p.m: Banana

8:00 p.m: Whole grain macaroni, chickpeas, red pepper, corn, onion, green beans, artichoke, garlic, salt/pepper.