(This entry crossposted between Sweets&Sweats and Happiness Awaits)

Here is a little recap of the weekend.  Atlantic City treated us well, but not our bank accounts.  Not a single one of us won money!  We only lost.  I lost my money on roulette.

Here are a few photos from the weekend:

Kim, Justin and Chris picking our horses for the Derby (we definitely didn’t pick Mine That Bird!)

The ladies looking lovely!

For some reason the boys thought this would be a good idea for us girls to have a shot.  Good thing we were smart enough to go for a girlie shooter.

And getting ready to leave on Sunday morning

All in all, we had a great time.  Too bad the weather wasn’t a little better.  It poured down rain the entire time..ugh!  But we had a fabulous time and just sitting in the car together, the group of us can make ourselves laugh so hard you think you may pee.  

On to normal life.  I have been thinking lately that I really need to clean up my eating.  Get some of the crap out of my diet.  I need less chemicals and artificial crap.  I need to be eating things that are all natural and closer to its original form/source.  So I mixed up my grocery shopping a bit yesterday (and unfortunately it did cost a bit more) but I did find some good all natural, at times organic finds.

Agave.  I see this on so many other blogs, I figured I would take the jump and spend the $$ and buy it.  I added a little drizzle to my oats this morning and it was the perfect amount of sweetness. 

Jammy Sammy’s

No HFCS@!

and the perfect size for a snack

I’ll let you guys know how this thing taste:  I have high hopes.

I also got some yummy,yummy bread:

I love the size of the seeds on top and that you can actually see whole chunks of carrots.

 

And have any of you tried the Truvia stuff?  I used to have Purevia.  This is the first time I’ve bought Truvia.

It was on sale.  So what are your thoughts on this stuff?  (Obviously in moderation!)

And I finally am weaning myself off the artificial sweetened yogurts.  I have loved my Dannon Light and Fits, but they really do have a lot of chemicals in them.  So I sucked it up, bought the higher calorie yogurts and told myself it is actually better for my body to be putting all natural things in it than lower calorie chemicals.  Hopefully this doesn’t backfire!

A Stonyfield Farms yogurt with a cut up apple.

I just about killed my Ipod on Saturday morning.  I woke up at 7AM so that I could go run before we hit the road to Atlantic City.  I have to admit to being a bit hungover from the 2 beers and wine the neighbors kept pouring into my glass on Friday night.  But I coaxed myself out of bed, laced up the shoes and hit the wet pavement.  The run felt awesome.  55 degrees and a light mist but still sunny.  I ran for 35 minutes and then did 9 minutes of 2 minute runs/1 minute walks and then a 1 minute walk to equal 45 minutes.  I was going at a pretty good pace through all of it, but when I got back home and went to hit “End Workout” on my ipod, it some how left the Nike+ screen without saving any of my stats.  I assume I ran a bit over 4.5 miles…no clue my time.

Here is my run from Friday afternoon:

4.44 miles in 45 minutes.  A SLOW 10:08 pace (why am I so SLOW lately?!).  I think I’m slowing down because I am adding mileage and going further.  So it is either stay at the same mileage and get faster or add mileage, go further, and probably get slower.  Just frustrates me because I always want to be under 10 minute miles.

Total mileage last week: (M-Su) was 21.59 miles.  At least I broke the 20+ miles per week.  I want to get above 25 miles a week but alas you can’t just suddenly increase.  I am smart enough now to know to slowly build myself up.

I hope you all had a great weekend!  I hope it is sunny where you are because the weather is just AWFUL around here.