Life as of Late

Hey friends, yea I may or may not have not blogged for a week straight. I don't even know what happened haha. Work got really busy. Boss man gave me a project that took up my entire life. ANYWHO. I'm back. Recap on the past week? Yes.

1. The boyfriend and I got approved for our first apartment! We move in July 14!

2. I had this deliciousness on Saturday afternoon. It's from &Pizza on U Street in Washington, D.C.!! I have no idea if they're a franchise or not. The boyfriend suggested it while we were in the city to get his haircut. You pick out your dough, sauce, and all of your toppings and it bakes right in front of you in one of those rotating oven things. Obivously the inner fat girl in me got excited and I put a million toppings on it. Oops! From what I remember, I had multigrain dough, garlic cream sauce instead of marinara, broccoli, mushrooms, artichokes, spicy chicken, mini pepperoni, four cheese blend, aaaaand prosciutto! It. Was. Amazing. I would recommend this over any restaurant ever. Yea, it was that serious. 

3. This picture makes it look like I went walking. But I assure you, this is a big ass hill in my neighborhood. Today I ran to the hill (1/4 mile),10 rounds of hill sprints and 10 rounds of hill jumps (literally jumping up a hill), followed by 20 minutes of 25 minutes of tabata style cardio, and then I ran home. Google tabata if you don't know what it is, you'll fall in love. I did squat jumps, mountain climbers, switch jump lunges, and burpees. I did it alllll outside because it was just freakin gorgeous. I didn't care if people were looking at me (they most definitely were) because I was the one working out while they were casually walking by yappin on their cell phones. I win. Burned almost 600 calories under an hour!

4. Got my Influenster VoxBox! Influenster is suuuuch a cool website. You sign up (might have to wait on a waiting list, not long though) and then you get started doing surveys, giving feedback on products, and stuff like that. You only do surveys that interest you and give reviews on products you've actually tried, so its not obnoxious. If they're doing a big review on a "genre" of products you've done surveys on, then you may have a chance to get a box in the mail to do a review on! Obviously I'm all about health and staying active, so I did a lot of those surveys. So when they did this round of product reviews, I was selected to get one! I'll be doing a product review once I've tried everything in the box. I got a spa lotion, shaker bottle (that my dog chewed up...little asshole), arch support inserts (I'm so excited for these!! My feet are flatter than pancakes, ugh), meal replacement shakes, tampax sport, aaand a foot scrub thing for calluses. I'm super pumped. *I received these products complimentary for testing purposes from Influenster*

5. Lastly, I tried Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream this weekend! It's from this cool new place called The NiceCream Factory, in Clarendon (little sub sect of Arlington, VA). Weird, right? So this is how it works, from my understanding. I had the nutella ice cream. So they literally put cream, some nutella, and liquid nitrogen, in a mixer and mix that ish up. 60 seconds later you have deeelicious ice cream. It's very cream, almost like a custard. 

I'm sure you're thinkin, hmmm lots of treats it sounds like, Crystal...But I assure you, I worked all of these treats in to my macros. I'm not about that deprivation life. I'm still young, and while I do want to watch what I eat and make sure its 85-90% clean, I'm not gonna be that person bringing my own meals out with me when I'm trying to have a good time with my friends. I'm  I worked out Sunday morning and burned over 1000 calories between running 3 miles and going to body pump. We also had to walk a mile there and back to the ice cream place....aaaand I was wearing heels. So yea, calves were on fire this morning when I woke up. In any case, I'm trying to break out of the 170s in the nearish future, so I am gonna try to keep it closer to 100% clean for a while. I'm still seeing progress so I'm a happy camper!

My sister Rachael gave me more ideas for blogging (basically things she wants me to talk about hahaha) so you'll see more of those this week!

Later friends,

Crystal