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Spring Favorites Link-Up!

Linking up with Amber for Spring Favorites!
Spring is such a beautiful time of the year.  I’m stuck in Florida at the moment though where it seems like summer has already hit home, blah!  I could probably go on and on about what I love about spring, but honestly, there is a lot that I love about each season (I obviously won’t go into all of that now).

{1} Running in the A.M.
A good morning jog is the best!!  It’s a little chilly when you get up, maybe a little breezy, extremely fresh air, and by the time you get done with your run, you’re not dying from the dramatic cold or extremely hot weather.  A spring morning provides the best running weather!


{2}My Birthday!
Yes… I’m kind of a fanatic when it comes to birthdays… especially my birthday!  Some people don’t think birthday’s are that important, but to me… they are one of the most important!  If someone is special in my life, then I’m thankful for the day that they were put on this Earth, so I celebrate that!  I’m also thankful that I’m alive and well and breathing each new day, so I’m going to celebrate making it another year!  It’s not about age and how old I’m getting, it’s about celebrating the year that God has given me!  My birthday is April 9th incase any of you fabulous bloggers wanted to wish me a Happy Birthday – I’m a little obsessed with my birthday! haha



{3} Adorable Outfits
Whether it be shorts and a tank top or a cute little sun dress, I just love it!  I can’t wait to put together some outfits like these below!




{4} A natural Tan
I use to go to the tanning bed back in highschool, but realized how dumb that was.  I immediately stopped because 1. I was wasting money and 2. I was aging myself way faster than I wanted.  I also realized right around that time that I could get an even more natural tan just from being out in the sun 30-40 minutes every morning on my run, so I stopped going to the tanning bed.  I love the look of a natural slow tan.  I don’t want to be pasty white, but I also don’t want to be really dark, I just want a little color and being out in the sun unprotected for about 30 minutes a day getting good Vitamin D does that for me.  I’m not great about putting on sunblock just on a regular day (except for my face, that is ALWAYS protected) but I do try to wear sunblock if I’ll be exposed for a long time.  I just don’t believe in tanning beds anymore… they’re fake, they’re harmful, and they’re just not good for you!


Happy Tuesday, almost to the middle of the week! 
Go Link up for your Spring Favorites!

Brunch With Amber

What’s Happenin’?

{1}Spring Break
I wanted to start off the post with a picture from my perfect week with Nick and his brother and sister-in-law.
Epcot is having the flower and garden festival right now and it is so beautiful there!
If you can see… that’s Captain Hook and Peter Pan in the background.


{2}What I’m Reading!
  
Yes… I’m reading ALL THREE of these series at the PRESENT moment.  Crazy Awesome, right?
I’ve been reading Sue Grafton novels for some time now and I’m just now on the letter N.
I never read the Harry Potter series and one of my roommates has them all, so I thought now would be a good time for that.  I’m on the fourth one right now.
I reluctantly fell into the Hunger Games.  I’ve seen tons of posts about it, my sisters are obsessed, and then Nick started reading it.  He wanted me to read it with him (without getting ahead because I’m somewhat of a fast reader) so we can be done at the same time and watch the movie together when i get to town over Easter break.
Yes… I’ve actually been reading them all at the same time.

{3} SELF Challenge
Today was the start of my SELF challenge.  While I’m not necessarily sticking with the meal plan because I honestly don’t have the money to go out and buy all the food it requires, I am trying to eat healthy.
Cardio: 15 minutes, sprint for 8 seconds, recover for 12 seconds
I wasn’t a huge fan of this.  I only did about 7.5 minutes of the intervals because I felt they were too close together to keep track of.  8 and 12 seconds goes by pretty fast.  I’ll probably enjoy it more when the time is longer per interval.  I walked a good bit today too though and I took a lot of stairs today at work.

What I ate
2 slices of Jelly Toast
Greek Yogurt with Honey
Apples with Peanut Butter
Kiwi
Banana
Ritz with light cheese
Ritz with tuna
3 oreos

I really need to incorporate more veggies into my diet, so I’ll be working on that, but I went and bought a lot of fruit last night that I’m really excited about.  And the strawberries… well folks, they’re in season, and their cheap and beautiful and red!  GET SOME!

{4} Home
I’m going home! yay! Not for good unfortunately, believe me… I came close to leaving this place, but I’m not. I’m going home for Easter, my birthday, and to bring my car back down to Orlando.  I’m so excited!  I Already have a lot of fun stuff planned and I’m counting down the days! 

My SELF Challenge!

I’m somewhat obsessed with magazines… I have about 5 different subscriptions and want to add more!  They all deal with food, cleaning, or working out.  So I was reading my April subscription of SELF magazine and came across this 5 week, lose 10 challenge.  It uses a lot of intervals in the cardio routine, a 5 or 10 pound dumbbell in the firm up routine, and there are some simple recipes in the meal plan.  I thought it’d be fun to give it a try.  I’m going to be honest though… I don’t plan on doing the meal plan full out because they are always way too expensive for my college budget to buy everything the recipe calls for, so I’m going to improvise on that, still try to eat healthy and follow the calorie intake while making sure to get plenty of protein.  The great thing about this plan is you get 200 free calories every day that you can use on whatever indulgence you like.  You can also roll them over to another day (up to four days)  So if I’m having a pizza party movie night or going out with friends one night, I can plan ahead and rack up 800 calories that I can use as a freebie.  I’ll do short updates in the middle of my regular posts (mostly for myself as accountability) detailing what the workout was for the day, how I did and how I felt while doing it, and a food log of what I ate.  Hopefully this will get my butt in gear for the coming weeks!!

Today should be a good day though.  I woke up around 8 (which is kind of sleeping in for me! yuck!), I’m about to have my morning coffee while I map out my 5 week plan here, and then I was planning on visiting Blizzard Beach waterpark because I had a blast at Typhoon Lagoon last weekend and I also want to run by Animal Kingdom and see about a coffee mug that I noticed last week and possibly ride Mount Everest a few times since it is possibly my FAVORITE ride!  Hope you all are having a splendid Sunday morning, I’m starting to feel good again (although, you never know how long that will last) and so hopefully I’ll be back in gear for some good upbeat blogging.  I’ve been missing everyone’s posts recently, so I’m also hoping to stay up to date on posts and commenting now.

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