may 1st…

…is the 121st day of the year.

wow. that means the year is already 1/3rd over! can you believe how fast time is flying?!

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…is 77 days before my wedding.

holy crud. don’t remind me! i feel so unprepared!

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…is exactly one month until i enter my late twenties.

AKA exactly one month until my birthday. marshall and i have discussed this break down on several occasions, and we decided this is how it is:

• 20, 21, 22 & 23= early twenties
• 24, 25 & 26= mid twenties
• 27, 28 & 29= late twenties

sigh. it’s all downhill from here ;)

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…is national chocolate parfait day.

i wish i had some chocolate vitatops because i would totally celebrate with a parfait a la k! i used to eat those so often.. i looked in the archives and found an old chocolate vita parfait photo to rep the national food holiday :)

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…is day one of my wakeup call challenge.

if you haven’t read about it yet, check out the challenge page i made for it~ and join in! it is going to be a lot of fun and you could win a super sweet prize :)

this morning i started with just 5 minutes of plyo for the first day of my challenge:

• 1 minute of butt kicks
• 1 minute of jumping jacks
• 1 minute of belt kicks
• 1 minute of high knees
• 1 minute of downhill ski jumps

my heart was pumping. it is really hard for me to get going in the morning and i can see that this challenge is definitely going to be.. well.. a challenge! but that is why i am doing it. hell or high water (what does that phrase even mean?) i WILL become a morning person :)

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…is the sorest my triceps have been this year.

probably due to this upper body workout i did yesterday:

• 5 min elliptical warmup

body for life style sets~

chest

move	reps	weight
incline dumbbell chest press	12 @ 10 @ 8 @ 6 @ 12 @	17.5# each 20# each 22.5# each 25# each 20# each
incline dumbbell flyes	12 @	10# each

*i did 25 bench crunches between the first 4 sets for a total of 100 reps.

back

move	reps	weight
single arm dumbbell row	12 @ 10 @ 8 @ 6 @ 12 @	17.5# 20# 22.5# 25# 20#
bent over barbell row	12 @	40#

*i did 15 tricep dips between the first 4 sets for a total of 60 reps.

shoulders

move	reps	weight
seated overhead dumbbell press w/ twist	12 @ 10 @ 8 @ 6 @ 12 @	10# each 12.5# each 15# each 17.5# each 12.5# each
side dumbbell raise lateral dumbbel raise	12 @ 12 @	5# each 5# each

*i did 15 overhead dumbbell tricep extensions between the first 4 sets for a total of 60 reps.

biceps

move	reps	weight
incline dumbbell biceps curl	12 @ 10 @ 8 @ 6 @ 12 @	7.5# each 10# each 12.5# each 15# each 10# each
standing dumbbell biceps curl	12 @	10# each

*i did 25 ball crunches between the first 4 sets for a total of 100 reps.

triceps

move	reps	weight
overhead triceps cable extension	12 @ 10 @ 8 @ 6 @ 12 @	35# 40# 45# 50# 35#
vrope triceps cable pushdowns	12 @	25#

i did 10 standing vrope cable rows between the first 4 sets for a total of 40 reps.

the end :)

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…is the only day that the jazz have off between WINNING THE QUARTER FINALS last night and game 1 of the semi finals (against the lakers) tomorrow.

we went to the game last night and we were on THE VERY BACK ROW. like.. the very, very, very back row. it was so fun. and it didn’t matter that we were at the back. it was awesome.

we put on our “game faces”. fierce.

and we won :)

 

go jazz!

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…is saturday! which means a more time consuming, leisurely brunch:

i saw jessica talking about omelets today so i had to make one! this was just 4 egg whites+1 whole egg+cheddar cheese. topped it off with some reduced sugar ketchup. mmm.. cheeeese.

  

i also had a small bowl of kashi go lean~

i love free day because my meals can be a tad carb heavy and i don’t have to worry about it. although, looking back on brunch, this was a pretty balanced carb/protein ratio meal.

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…is the first day of the following national food months:

• national asparagus month
• national barbecue month
• national chocolate custard month
• national egg month
• national gazpacho aficionado month
• national hamburger month
• national salad month
• national salsa month
• national strawberry month

now you know.

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…is a good day to drink THREE mugs of coffee the size of my head.

 

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…is day one of national bike month. but my bike is at marshall’s.. and it was raining all day. so i went to the gym for my cardio!

my physical therapist told me i needed to take more time warming up before i dive right into my workouts. so i started with a 7 minute warmup instead of the usual 2 minute one.

elliptical:

minute #	resistance level	speed range (MPH)
0-1	1	5.0-6.0
1-2	2	6.0-7.0
2-3	3	6.0-7.0
3-4	4	7.0-8.0
4-5	5	7.0-8.0
5-6	6	7.0-8.0
6-7	7	7.0-8.0
7-8	8	7.0-8.0
8-9	10	7.0-8.0
9-10	12	7.5-8.5
10-11	14	7.5-8.5
11-12	8	7.0-8.0
12-13	10	7.0-8.0
13-14	12	7.5-8.5
14-15	14	7.5-8.5
15-16	8	7.0-8.0
16-17	10	7.0-8.0
17-18	12	7.5-8.5
18-19	14	7.5-8.5
19-20	8	7.0-8.0
20-21	10	7.0-8.0
21-22	12	7.5-8.5
22-23	14	7.5-8.5
23-24	8	12.0-13.0
24-25	6	6.0-7.0

total time: 25 minutes, total distance: 3.2 miles

i couldn’t help myself and i ran 1 mile on the treadmill after this so i could add to my mileage goal~

minute #	speed (MPH)	incline
0-0:30	5.0	2.0
0:30-1:00	5.5	2.0
1:00-1:30	6.0	2.0
1:30-2:00	6.5	2.0
2:00-2:30	7.0	2.0
2:30-3:00	7.5	2.0
3:00-3:30	8.0	2.0
3:30-4:00	8.5	2.0
4:00-4:30	9.0	2.0
4:30-5:00	5.0	2.0
5:00-5:30	5.5	2.0
5:30-6:00	6.0	2.0
6:30-7:00	6.5	2.0
7:00-7:30	7.0	2.0
7:30-8:00	7.5	2.0
8:00-8:30	9.0	2.0

1 mile in just under 8 min 20 seconds

so my total workout today was just over 30 minutes~ i burned around 300 calories. not bad.

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…is FREE DAY, which means dinner out with friends :)

we went to canella’s which is an italian restaurant in downtown SLC.  our friends go all the time but marshall and i had never been.  EVERYTHING on the menu looked super delicious, but it was pouring down rain and i was really in the mood for soup.  my friend kristen told me that their side salad was really good because it contained garbanzo beans. um, sold!

i went with the side salad & vegetable minestrone soup.. both of which contained garbanzos, actually! super double score.

the house dressing, which i got on the side (because i hate soggy lettuce!) was incredibly flavorful. it was a unique blend of italian dressing and bleu cheese. i loved this salad because it had so many components! iceberg and romaine lettuces, cucumber, grape tomato, beets, beans and cheese. and a super teeny pepperocini! cute.

this vegetable minestrone soup was just what i needed to warm up.

it was packed with all kinds of veggies, noodles and beans!

  

we were all pretty full after our meals, but then kristen told us that their tiramisu was one of the best she’s had~ and she doesn’t even love tiramisu! well, you know who DOES love tiramisu? marshall. he is even having a tiramisu groom’s cake. so naturally we ordered a piece and i helped myself to quite a few bites.

hey, it’s no chocolate parfait, but it’ll do ;)

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Qs~

1. what national month of may food holiday (listed above) are you most excited about? wow. that is hard. i guess i will have to pick egg since i love eggs.. from my head down to my legs. but i am pretty stoked on the strawberry shenanigans that go on in may as well!

2. let’s pretend you always order dessert. what is your favorite dessert to order at a restaurant? i really never do order dessert.. i am always SO full after eating dinner! but marshall likes tiramisu so i usually end up with a few bites of that. but since we are pretending, and i am not so dang full and have room for dessert, my favorite dessert to order is some sort of fruity cobbler or crisp. peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream? yes please!

happy may! hope everyone has a great sunday!

xo. janetha b.