Stylish Little Cheat Day

I wore this outfit on Saturday for our diet cheat day (the best day of the week, thank you).

We started the day with this delicious one serving coffee cake recipe that Mike found and some bloody mary's.

From Chocolate Covered Katie

We then ventured over to our first farmer's market since moving here (yay Spring!), where we grabbed some local beef, broccoli, and eggs.

We traveled over to Solomons Island and had lunch at our favorite little place CD Cafe and then walked over to Lotus Kitchen to grab some key lime pie for dessert that night.

We lost our sun unfortunately, but we stopped to take some outfit photos on the pier anyway.

I don't have an anecdote for the outfit, but it really was just a lovely, perfect little day.

And I felt pretty dern cute if I do say so myself.

And just for fun, one of our favorite houses on the Island.

I think the salty wind beaten paint is dreamy.

Shirt: J.Crew

Blazer:  Gift, Gap

Necklace:  Jewelmint, Similar

Jeans:  Gift, Gap, Similar

Shoes:  Gift, Sperry, Similar

My Revolt Diary - Results

I wasn't very great about taking my measurements up front and I didn't get a scale until two days into the detox, but we'll just go from there.

Starting out, I was 5'2 and weighed around 125 pounds.  

Which, to give you an explanation why I'm doing Revolt in the first place is over 10 pounds more than I weighed before we moved here.

Which doesn't sound like a lot, but on a super short, small boned person like me, it shows.

Ma' jeans are tight.

I did my skin fold tests with calipers (how gross is the phrase skin fold??) and measured out to about 29% body fat.

Yikes.

That's not great.

I decided my goal body fat should be about 19% which made my goal weight 105.

Which to me sounds daunting, but we'll see how it goes.
My main area I want to see improvement in is my waist.
I want that "Dear God if I have to sit here with these jeans poking into my fat stomach, I'm going to freak out." feeling to go away.
My waist measurement around starting time was 33.5".

Over a week later, my measurements are:

Weight hovering around 119-120.  Weight loss is pretty stalled which is okay with me as long as I lose fat mass and gain lean mass.
Body fat percentage is down to 24.78%.  I'm pretty happy about that as long as it keeps going down!
Those numbers mean I've lost about 6 pounds of fat mass which is pretty darn awesome to me.
Waist measurement came back as the same this morning which is a bummer, but okay with me since I can see my abs coming in and my stomach feels so much harder and stronger than before.

Overall, I'm a little bummed I'm not having a faster progress than some of the people on my program, but I'm going easy on myself since I started out pretty small and had already been eating well and doing weight training before I started.  I just need to keep plugging away, drink my damn water, and up the intensity of my workouts.
Mike, on the other hand, says he is super happy with how the diet is affecting him and his lean mass is the best it's best since high school.  Effer.

Want to learn more about Revolt?  Go here!

His Style

I barely leave the house during the week now that I'm unemployed and have no car.

So my outfits are not worth posting.

But this guy, he brings it daily.

So expect to see a little more of him...

Shirt:  Banana Republic Outlet

Sweater:  Banana Republic

Tie:  Tie Bar

Pants:  Gap

Socks:  Happy Socks via Nordstrom Rack

Shoes:  Heutchy via Gilt

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(And Oggster, he wants you to start wearing bow ties...)

Guest Post

Hey All!

I'm over at Political Style today talking about my favorite places to eat in my new little town. 

Check it out here!

A DIY That Actually Worked!

Are you ready for this?

I did a DIY that actually worked!

The world MIGHT end.

No joke.

(It's also the worlds easiest DIY so....)

So, when we moved here we accidentally started the habit of getting Gizmo a squeaky toy every time we went to Target.

And now, any time we come back from a store he stands there watching us unload everything waiting for his toy.

And he makes the saddest face if there is no toy at the end of the unloading.

But he destroys those things in like five minutes and they're like five bucks a pop so we were getting sick of this.

To keep the pup and our wallets happy, I decided to re-purpose the destroyed toys.

I bought a bag of squeakers for way cheap on Amazon.

via Amazon

I cut open the hole in the toy a little bigger (I do not understand how he gets his nose in these tiny holes and pulls out the squeakers.  He's amazing.) and shoved a new squeaker in there.

I then sewed up the hole and just like that, brand new squeaker toy!

Worst sewing job ever, but Gizmo didn't mind.

Good as new!

Gizmo was happy as a little corgi clam.

I already have one hidden for when we get home from Target tonight!

He'll never know...

Instagram Shops

I just recently became obsessed with a new thing on instagram - the clothing shops.

Did you know about this?

Probably, I'm usually super late to the game.

There are all these women on there selling vintage/thrift finds or re-selling their gently used clothing and it's amazeballs!

The grand puba of instagram shops is of course Karla Reed.

Have you seen her instagram account?  Ohhh the cute outfits.

Here's one of my faves:

Found here

She has an insanely popular instagram shop called Chic Thrifty.

Here pieces rock and they sell out in seconds.

Like this little number:

Here are some of my other favorite shops.

(Be prepared to get addicted to instagram shopping!)

From Cute Classy Closet

(I got this one and it fits perfectly!)

From Vgtgyuyu

ModCloth for cheap!

From Lissy's Closet

Cynthia Rowley!!

From A Thrifty Girl

Oh this necklace!!

What do you guys think about this new trend?

Red & Coral

I wore this outfit on Saturday for a day trip to the outlets and Annapolis for lunch with my dad and step-mom.

We were too lazy to bring our camera to the trip or to take outfit photos, but I loved the color combination so much, I wanted to blog about it anyways.

Sweater:  Gift, J.Crew

Blazer:  Forever21

Scarf:  Gift, Old Navy

Jeans:  Forever21

Boots:  Gift, Steve Madden

Earrings:  Thrifted

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What do you guys think about coral and red together?

(I would have never paired these two colors before I started reading fashion blogs...)