Scenes from the weekend

Chocolate, Lemon and Raspberry French Macaroons from Patrick's French Bakery

Ukrainian Eggs

As I mentioned earlier, I'm doing a body re-define workshop this month. Sunday to Saturday is protein, veggies and Beans/Lentils - no white carbs (I can eat all the beans and lentils I want though). By the time Saturday comes around, I'm plotting my takedown of all things sugar (basically I should be committed to carbaholics/sugarholics by Saturday night) This weekend was no exception. We started the day off right at the Original Pancake House. I'd never been, so it was quite the experience. Let's just say I walked away so stuffed you could have rolled me outta there. It was delish. I had an egg soufflé omelet with blueberry pancakes and Ramesh had the corned beef hash and a cherry crepe. From there we hit up Patrick's French Bakery to pick up French Macaroons (My Fave!), truffles and a French baguette. After working and playing in the yard with the dogs, I made my way through plenty a chocolate covered sea salt caramel (heaven) and finished the night off with left over Pizza (I froze it so it would last) from last week's adventure at Mozza Mia (Prosciutto, Fig and Gorgonzola Pizza no less). My binge was complete at around 9:30 pm, I could take no more. Sunday rounded out the weekend with a trip to the Ukrainian Egg Event and then the Mall of America (we're crazy like that!) Here's a few shots from the weekend:

T-shirt- H&M, Vest- Gap, Jeans-J Brand, Trench-Burberry, Shoes-Dolce Vita, Necklace-Vintage, Necklace-F21, Necklace-Tiffany&Co

 

Shirt-JCrew, Sweater-Banana Republic, Vest-Gap, Khakis-Jcrew, Shoes-Sperry, Hat-Target, Sunnies-Target, Watch-Coach

Tick Tock

Blouse-Gap, Skirt-Anthropologie, Boots-Nine West, Lion Necklace-Local, Chains-Jewelscapes, Watch-Coach, Bangle-Forever21, Bangle-Gift from my Girlfriend (I've been wearing it non-stop!- thanks Elena) Earrings-Forever21

Happy Friday! Do you all have big plans for the weekend? We're going to dinner with friends tonight. Should be fun times.


This week Ramesh and I started a body re-define workshop our trainer is hosting for next 30 days. Basically during the week we don't eat carbs - we focus on protein, vegetables and legumes/beans. After the first two days of sugar cravings, it got MUCH easier. In fact, I'm rather enjoying it and feel really good. What got me thru those first few days was knowing the sweet victory I'll enjoy on Saturday. We get one free day a week to eat anything we want... and yep, you guessed it...we picked Saturdays. I can't tell you how much I've been looking forward to this day! I think we are going to start the day with a big gooey donut. We've been writing down what we want to splurge on for that day all week. I'm afraid we might make ourselves sick. BTW-you can have 2 glasses of red wine a day. How sweet is that? I'll keep you posted on our progress. We're only on week 1. Have a fantastic weekend!

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