Healthier, Happier, B

The ice cream place had some no sugar added flavors!! I got a NSA Turtle Sundae flavor.

Dinner outfit and dinner plate 🍤 it was grilled shrimp & scallops, strawberries, blue cheese crumbles, tomatoes, cucumbers, mixed greens, with a pomegranate vinaigrette! 10/10 super refreshing

Breakfast + a water with electrolytes 😋

And I pooped on day 2 of vacation which is literally unheard of. I feel amazing and so light that if we opened the window while driving to dinner later I would just fly out like a stray napkin 😆

Excited to go down to the beach soon! Our girls trip daily routine is so perfect:

- no alarms but we’re all awake by 8

- iced coffee and slow start to the morning but the cooler is packed and we’re down to the beach before 9

- set up the shady area (this year we have a big canopy thing) and apply sunscreen

- shell walk while our sunscreen dries

- sit chairs by edge of water until time to reapply sunscreen (every 1.5 hours~) and repeat until lunchtime

- sandwiches/chips/fruit for lunch

- repeat above or move into the shady area and read until 4pm

- dinner between 5:30-6:30

- decompression/alone time after dinner

- beach walk for the sunset 8-9

- I go back into my bedroom or on the patio and FaceTime Clay for a little bit, asleep before 10

Breakfast, morning shell walk, and a crispy Diet Coke on the beach. First full day is starting off amazing 🐚

Packed a roasted turkey and cheddar sandwich on Hawaiian bread with stone ground mustard and pickles for lunch with a bag of salt and vinegar chips. We got individual bags and those are much easier for me because I feel like I can let myself have them easier without worrying about how many I’m eating. Plus I packed some watermelon and a cutie.

Girls trip is underway! About 3 hours left in our drive and it’s so much fun already.

Date night before my girls trip! I had some zhong style chicken dumplings and a couple bites of pizza and then a small cup of Kilwin’s tracks 😋 should still be right around maintenance calories today!

Lunchtime 🤤 finished up the last of the chicken and dumplings!

This morning has been SO productive. I’ve gotten 90% of everything on my work list crossed off that I needed to get done today already.

Resisting the urge to unpack and go through my outfits again lol

Period was extra light and short this month but that’s antibiotics 🤪 thankful that it’s over but unfortunately my next cycle will start the Monday/Tuesday following my surgery so I will be at peak PMS anxiety the Thursday I’m scheduled for. Thank god they gave me a Valium to take. I’ve done good about not googling or getting on reddit to read stories today- I know it’s not productive and it just makes my anxiety worse.

Bringing a few foods with me on the girls trip and packed a little snack box to enjoy on the drive. I don’t typically love eating breakfast at the beach because it can cause stomach issues getting so hot right after but I have to because antibiotics 😩

My snack box will be a blueberry sola bagel cut up into bites, whipped cream cheese, a handful of shameless tropical gummies, a Hormbles Chormbles salted fudge bar, and a serving of the Wilde crackers.

That’s breakfast and road trip snacks for about 500 cal/38g of protein.

We will inevitably stop at Chick-fil-A for lunch so I can get a 12 count nuggets + Diet Coke + bbq sauce for lunch (420ish calories/41g protein) or maybe backup is finding a Wawa.

Alexa play Jack Johnson radio

TGIF!!! Just one day of work stands between me and my girls trip. Have a few things to check off my personal list today, got a lot of work stuff to do, then date night with my love, and applying press ons.

Good morning from the gym. I slept exceptionally well last night.