First weekend recap of the decade/year/ since last November or something like that?!? Better late than never I suppose! I finished my Mental Health clinical last week and am beginning my second-to-last semester this week! I was surprised at how much I really loved the Mental Health portion and am excited to have my Pediatrics & Women’s Health clinicals this semester! Soon my views will look a bit more like this again:

We are also still mainly eating plant-based (since November)! I don’t love to think about it as a ‘restriction’ and we’ll occasionally eat out and get whatever we want (restrictions for me = I generally eat UNHEALTHY items just to fit into my diet & cut-back on the good things like veggies because it’s just easier). We also got an awesome coupon from Hello Fresh so trying out their vegetarian options too the past few weeks (we’ll either cut-back or cut-out the amount of cheese they want us to add). Whenever we have gone totally ROUGE on our diet -> I have pretty immediately gotten crazy heartburn & a stomach ache. That definitely tells me that my body thrives on plant-based foods with the occasional egg or teaspoon of cheese.

We’ve also started doing 20-30 minutes of yoga each night before bed & we both sleep so much better. Sometimes it’s nice to switch-up your nightly routine and try something new!

I’m also still getting my butt-kicked with swimming lately (2x/week!). I can only make it like 10 minutes before I need to take a breather (convinced swimmers are super-athletes), but love it as an extra cross-training activity!

I’m onto book #2 for the year & am hoping to finish this one this week before classes take over my life again. Although the next two semesters shouldn’t be too busy, so happy to have a bit more freedom for running & reading 🤪

Alex picked up his suit for the wedding and we finalized on a tie- can you guess which one we went with?!?!

My Dad got a new puppy over the weekend and I cannot wait to meet him. Just look at all those wrinkles!

Most of my classes don’t start until next week so I have today & tomorrow off! Hoping to get my long run in today (Monday’s are my ‘free’ day this semester so those will be my long run days), do some baking/meal prep, begin my studying for classes, & hoping to either go ski or do a winter hike somewhere tomorrow. I’ve been dying to get out into the mountains!
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• Can you guess what tie color we went with?

• Anyone else a sucker for puppies?!?!

• Favorite plant-based or vegetarian recipes?!