This week, I stopped at the bar and had some tacos for Taco Tuesday and a couple of margaritas. Bad idea, because they were salty as hell and caused me to bloat and go up 2 pounds the next day. EEK! This is why you should eat Nutrisystem food before you head to some place like that, because then you’re full and don’t want to eat nothing else. But, sometimes I feel like I deserve a cheat day.

When my sister visited last week, she was sick, which resulted in me catching what she had. I haven taken Vitamin C, multivitamins, NyQuil, cough drops and nothing is kicking this virus’ ass!

Even though I was completely feeling like crap with a nasal drip and a sore, phlegmy cough, my boyfriend wanted to do a day hike and I obliged. I wanted to choose something that was rated easy and wasn’t that many miles because I didn’t know how much I could actually do feeling the way I did and didn’t want to over exert myself in the process. So we head out to the same area where Multnomah Falls was, but just a little bit further and do the Upper McCord Creek Twin Falls. Only this time, we started off on the wrong, steep, longer path for about 1.5 miles. I mentioned to him that this must be wrong because we should already be there. So we had back to the beginning and break off onto the other trail, which ended up being right. After 1.25 miles up that way, we finally reached the top. The fairy falls wasn’t as pretty as Multnomah, but still we had never done the hike and are willing to experience and see what all nature has to offer regardless. So all in all, we probably did about 4.5 miles that day, which is not what I wanted to do, but I made it and did it even though I was sick.

The other side was supposed to have water, but maybe wrong time of year. Taken with Droid 4.

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Full view of Multnomah Falls.

This week, my sister came up since she missed my birthday and we decided to do a family BBQ, which actually turned out somewhat decent with only one dramatic altercation. IF you knew my family, you would know that this is a miracle. But, I did cheat by indulging myself in pasta salad, potato salad, a turkey burger, and some good ol’ corn on the cob fresh out of the garden and cooked on the grill! So as you can see, I was off my Nutrisystem diet for that day, maybe even for half the week. OOPSIE! Summer is my weakness because of BBQ season. I just can’t help myself.

At the top, where there were small waterfall run-offs.

The following day, my sister, her fiance, our youngest sister and myself decided to do an impromptu hike up Multnomah Falls. Now the last time I did this hike, I was 25 pounds heavier and at the half way point I couldn’t make it up anymore cause I was constantly trying to catch my breath. Well, that was not me this time! I simply had no problems and was full of energy since my sister made me a delicious fruit juice drink from her juicer that morning. My sister, however, was me from my last experience. She had to stop quite a bit, but she recovered and pushed herself all the way to the top for which I am  proud. She really wanted to give up, but we knew she could do it if she just kept at it and that she did. 

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Summer has finally started to emerge here and I must say that working out upstairs in a room without air conditioning is quite dreadful. However, you do sweat more than usual, so I guess that is a plus.

This week, I am going to talk more about the Nutrisystem food, in particular what my favorite and least favorite meal currently is.

Favorite this week: I must say, the chicken and pasta in caccitore sauce is heavenly, but I am somewhat partial to tomatoes. It has a great flavor and the right amount of meat, noodles and sauce. I could probably eat 2 in one sitting it’s that good.

“This combination of tender chicken, onions, tomatoes, black olives and spices is sure to tempt your taste buds. We’ve added jalapeño peppers for extra flavor.”

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Since I was on summer break, I tried to work out on the elliptical every day. Sometimes it was daunting, and sometimes I just got the spurt to get up and do it, which made it easy of course since I had this unknown energy. I decided I need to work on my incline and set it at 75% instead of my usual 25%. To me, it doesn’t really feel like going uphill, but it surely does work your legs a lot more and makes you burn out quicker. I think if I keep at it every week at least 4 times, I can make vast improvements while losing weight on Nutrisystem.

BTW, they offered me 2 more months, and I of course said YES!! So exciting, since this will definitely lead me in the right direction of where I want to be. I seem to be at somewhat of a stalling point, so 2 extra months should do the trick to get me down to 180, hopefully.

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