baked & toned

I had an amazing weekend with the boyfriend here and all. We baked poppy seed cranberry bread to go with our coffees for breakfast.

Although I consider myself to be a pretty good cook and all, I am a terrible baker. I hate following directions and using exact measurments. My BF, on the other hand is great with that. Recently however, I've been baking a lot coming up with my own recipes... and I love love love a good carrot cake... and although I still can't perfect the measurement (since I always come out with more than I actually need) I still came up with the best carrot cake of mine so far. Yummy and super moist! Maybe when I get the measurements right, I'll share it with you guys.  

On another note:


It was really nice to be able to eat fatty foods this weekend... I pretty much been eating cardboard with all the healthy foods I eat over the week. Flaxseed wheat tortillas with swiss cheese, and etc... not so much flavor as I'd hoped for... and with all this working out over the week, my abs, butt, legs and arms needed a much deserved break. Funny thing is that I started noticing results when body took a break from working out. And although I actually gained four and a half pounds over last month (mostly muscles), my BF says he's noticed the changes and he called my stomach tiny this past weekend. It's not that I want to get skinny, I just want to get toned and strong! And maybe you can see it... but I have some new abs on top... yay~ I'm pretty proud actually.

{FLAT STOMACH 4-YEARS AGO...}

{HALLOWEEN 2009}

{THIS MORNING}

I can't say that I'm where I want to be yet with my body, but i am proud to have gained some of my abs back...and hopefully flattened the buda-belly a bit... I use to have a nice stomach four years ago... but then again... I was also younger four years ago. My plan is to use my blog also as an inspriation to work out. Looking at my new Shape magazine, my current inspiration is LeAnne Rimes~ look at those rock hard abs on that last pic! sigh* one day...

 No more sweets this week, back to healthy foods...and back to the gym I go...  


Oh, and we gave Bailey a bath in the sink this weekend and since it was sooo hot, the BF let him air-dry by the swamp cooler for a bit... he looked like he enjoyed it at first, then it was getting too cold so we took him down.