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10,000!!!!

I noticed recently my page views coming up on 10,000. When I got on last night I still had about 20 more to go. I woke this morning and I have made it over the 10,000 views. I never thought I would be seeing those kind of results with a blog about health and fitness but much to my surprise there is a big community of people all working towards the same things. I love all my readers because without you this would be so much harder to do.

If you like my blog and are feeling generous, how about spreading the word. Share my blog with your readers or friends. If you do leave me a comment on this post and I will do a post with all the links to each of your blogs for my readers to check out if they want to.

Giveaway Prize Review:

S'well Water Bottle

I am really happy I spent the money on this water bottle. I take it everywhere with me. There are two reasons it is my favorite. The first is the bottle doesn't sweat. This is great because I have a brand new car and always have my bottle with me. Now that it has warmed up outside, I would typically have a puddle of water in my cup holder. This means I can have it outside while taking the engine out of my dads boat a few days ago and not drip water all over myself when I go to take a drink.

The second thing I love is this bottle will keep my water cold for 24 hours. My dad made a sarcastic comment the other day when working on the boat about his water still being cold. I took a drink of mine and it was still as cold as it was when I put it in there. I would take it to work with me and leave it in the car. When I got off and it had been sitting in the hot car all day but it was still cold.

Alter Eco Chocolate

I purchased three different flavors of the Alter Eco Chocolate. I love chocolate and I love that these are around for a better splurge. They are vegan with no added crap. Plus it's all dark chocolate which is also better for you. I love toffee so that was my first choice. I liked it. I just with it was 60% cocoa like the other two. I think the mint was my favorite. It had the perfect amount of mint flavor with a great tasting dark chocolate. I still have most of my chocolate left because I eat one square whenever I'm craving chocolate. The quinoa is decent and I would buy it again but in comparison to the other flavors it gets out shined. I also tried the Almond that my mom ordered. Another favorite.

Banana & Eggs Only Pancake

I found this series of gifs. on Tumblr and I thought it was worth a try.

My review:

Let me start off by saying I'm ass backwards when it comes to cooking. I can make some pretty hard things but when it comes to the simplest of meals, I just can't do it. I've made a beef wellington before and can't seem to make a decent batch of mac n cheese..

That being said, I have never been good at making pancakes. That is why you guys will not be getting a picture to go along with this review. Ha! Ha! I had my sister watching as I made these and after her saying how gross this was going to be, I started to doubt it myself. Just eggs and a banana.. Wouldn't that just taste like scrambled eggs with banana?

I used a regular pan instead of a griddle so the mixture spread out in funny shapes and I am horrible at flipping a pancake. That means it ended up in pieces like scrambled eggs. Not helping my idea of how it was going to taste. Once I was done I added a little bit of peanut butter and just a little bit of syrup. If you can get past the texture it really isn't that bad.

The texture is like a scrambled eggs but what you taste is the banana. I really didn't think one banana's flavor would overpower two eggs. It is a good recipe because you get the pleasure of having pancakes but without so much crap. You're getting two eggs worth of protein and it cures a sweet tooth. If you guys try it I would love to know what you think about it.

Hard Work Pays Off

My hard work is starting to show some results. I weighed in today again at 158. That puts me down another two pounds. That also means I have made it to the 50's!! Only three more pounds and I will be at the half way point. I told myself when I started, if I could just make it to 155 pounds I would be happy. I am beyond happy right now and I still have three pounds to go. I've decided once I hit 155 I want to reward myself. I'm just not sure with what.

I am for sure taking progress pictures today and posting them. Last night I looked through my new cookbook: Skinny Bitch, that was one of the giveaway prizes. I found a few recipes I would love to try but I am having a hard time deciding which one to try first.

It is up between:

Squash Linguini with Vegan Cream Sauce
Spaghetti with Spinach in a White Wine Garlic Sauce

What would you reward yourself with? Which recipe would you try first?