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Weekend Faves No. 1

Since Charlie and I run a restaurant we have a weird work week. We personally love it since places are generally less crowded on Mondays. 🙂

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Nevertheless, I can’t help but be excited about the weekends. We’re going to be attending a friend’s birthday party this weekend. The weather is expected to be pretty nice so we’ll be out eating some good food, drinking cocktails, and take a lap or 2 in the pool. We’ll see!
That being said here are some fun things we plan on including in our weekend!
 1. Cocktails
Here’s a yummy Moscato Strawberry Lemonade I found on Pinterest

2. Tacos
Our friend is having a taco guy come and cook us some amazing food! If you don’t want to spend on getting it catered here’s a great idea to create your own DIY taco bar for your next party. Just use a couple slow cookers, put your sides on ice, and voila!

3. Pool Floaties
A pool party isn’t complete unless you have some fun floaties!

Have a great weekend loves!
xoxo,
Kissa
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Lately – I’m Back!

Hello Internet!

I’m back from what we’ll call…a “mini-vacation” from work. Truth be told I wasn’t on vacation, I just needed time to get away and not have to focus on work. Lots of family events happening, a quick trip to Vegas for my brother-in-law’s wedding, my dad came in to town for about a month…Luckily I was able to take time off to put my focus on my family. Now I’m back and ready to get to work!

My wheels have been turning while I was “away” and I’m excited to share with you! Today is the first day I’m sitting in my home office in over a month. I’ve been working on some product updates and development to the #COfitnessjournals as well as designing some cards. I’ll be releasing a new version of the journals hopefully by the end of the month. 🙂

On the fitness end I’ve also started my 2nd round of the 5 week challenge! Follow us on Snapchat and Instagram (@cartel_co) to see our daily and weekly progress! My goal is to lose 15 lbs. in 5 weeks! I’ll give you an update of my first round soon 🙂

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In the mean time, take care friends!

xoxo,

Kissa

 

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5 Week Challenge Update – Week 3 and 4

I can’t believe that I’m completing week 4 of my 5 week fitness challenge! That flew by so quickly, I felt like I just blinked and next thing I know the challenge is practically over.

So just an update, since my last post. Week 3 and 4 were actually great! I’ve been using my #COfitnessjournal ever day since I started the challenge and this is what I noticed.

  1. I eat better quality food and food that is good for me because I don’t want to write something bad in my journal. 😛
  2. The journal forces me to set small goals every day which helps me to accomplish the bigger picture.
  3. It’s not that I can’t have something. It’s about when and how much you have of it.

My weigh in is tomorrow for week 4, but by the end of week 3 I’ve lost 6.1 pounds (a little over 2 lbs a week). Woot woot! I know I’m nowhere near the goal I set for myself in 5 weeks, but I’ve learned a few things since my week 2 post.

  1. Progress is better than perfection. To improve even just a little bit is a bigger accomplishment than we give ourselves credit for.
  2. Sticking with something is definitely worth it. If you put your mind to it, see it through to the end!
  3. Things might not turn out the way you plan, but you’ll definitely learn something along the way.

For those of you that have been following along, I’m going to do this 5 week challenge again starting Monday, July 4th! Who’s with me?!

xoxo,

Kissa

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