My Weekend and Monday fun..

Its already Monday evening, but I still want to talk about the weekend.. I hope all of your weekends were good ones with hopefully some exercise and not too much alcohol.

I love it when I am awake on weekend days very early so I can do my exercise, clean my house and actually still have some hours left to spend with my girls and chillaxing.. 

This weekend was definitely on of those great weekends. Saturday I woke up around 8.30 , got dressed in gym-wear and did an hour of Bodypump.

The only part from Bodypump I don' t like is those frigging chest presses! Somehow I always end up with pain in my elbows while doing it, get then annoyed that I cant keep up but amazingly still manage to have muscle pain in my chest the next day!

Anyhow.. when that was done and dusted, I got some of my house chores done as I have the whole week to clean the house! Yep the Aupair needed a week of , so the school-runs are on me this week!

This Saturday was also Fiesta Primavera ( Spring Party) at the girls school where Sofia and me wanted to join the Zumba class... It ended up with a big age variety in the public ( 6 to 60 I guess) and two 18 year old boys leading the bunch.. I only managed to do half an hour as I found it a bit awkward to jump around in my normal clothes with a beetred head and makeúp on.

Saturday also means cheat-day and this time I wanted to celebrate this with a small block of chocolate. Yeah dieting and  eating healthy is all well and good, but a hormone infested woman does need her chocolate sometimes! And this combined with a good view, sun on the face and some knitting to relax.. makes me definitely happy!

Dinner was hamburger and chips..but then our more healthy Version...

Aubergine slices instead of bread, roasted sweet potato instead of chips and home made tzatiki instead of Mayonnaise..

On Sunday again I was up early and decided to go for a long cycle. The weather was still nice ( thunder storms and rain in the evening) so the ride along the beach in Barcelona was amazing! 

The trousers I am wearing are padded and I am sure some people had a good laugh when they saw my outfit versus the bicyle I am riding lol. I used to have a road bike, but my neck was always cramping up on that. Then I got an amazing ´High Nelly´ Bicycle I got from my in-laws.. Including the basket!!

After the cycle , the kids and me went to the playground and then relaxed some in the house.. Lovely  Lazy Sunday afternoon...

For Dinner we had chicken roasted in fresh Ginger, spring onion,Soy Sauce, Indonesian spices, curry powder and a bit of olive oil. With a Quinoa stir fry with fresh green beans, spinach, red bell pepper and unsalted,skinless almonds.

Today exercise wise, it was a horrible day , but I am trying t not feel bad about it as I had good exercises over the weekend. I was doing a 40 minute Pilates Ball workout, but the amount of times the ball was rolling from underneath me was countless. At one point i was ready to throw the damn thing out of the window.. Poor guyor girl who would be standing underneath it.. basically having a spacehopper thrown at you and bumped of your head.. ( sorry I am very imaginative lol) .

I also think with the amount of windows I cleaned today , I have a fair amount of squats and arm exercises done!!

Now off to bed and tomorrow a Zumba class again with a mum from the kids school..

However I dont want to deny you the salad I made tonight as a side dish...

Cucumber, Cherry Tomato, Red Onion , Pine nuts ,Chia, a bit of pepper and salt , a table spoon of olive oil and Water Chress from our own Garden,uhm I mean Balcony..

Have a nice evening all and you know.. Stay Strong!!