I couldn’t be more frustrated with the whole scene. Yesterday was the end of our seventh week of working out with our trainer, Troy. Time to retest our body fat percentages. Ugh. Even though I woke up late from last night’s crazy martini party, I was still in a decent mood. Until now that is. Brian went first. Then he and Troy looked at me and said “Get up on the scale. Let’s get this over with.”

Yep, I went up in weight. Figures. Then Troy told me to hold the metal bars while the machine calculated body fat. I wanted to hit him and Brian with the machine. Stupid grins on their faces. Until, until, the results popped up.

I lost 5% body fat! I ended up screaming in the gym, jumping up and down, and hugging sweaty people!! In the midst of our high season and all our traveling, crappy meals and crappy restaurants, and dreary weight rooms in hotels, I still lost 5% body fat from training with Troy on the Cross Fit program! Amazing! Seriously amazing b/c I never drop anything. In fact I worked out with the triathlon group for over a year and stayed the same. But Troy, he’s my man now! 🙂 I had to share the good news with all my “suffering friends” that have been on this journey with me for months.

Before we break for the weekend, I want to remind all you lovely ladies that our Early Bird Registration for the Seattle December Workshop ends this Saturday night at midnight.

This workshop is going to be so special. We’ve already got an amazing group of women forming, and they are flying in from all over the country! If you want to give yourself a COOL Christmas gift and join us, take advantage of the $799 price before it bumps up to the regular price of $999. Make sure you register before Saturday night at midnight PST! Click here for details and registration.

Also, we had a BLAST Wednesday night at our Martini Garden Party. Lots of yummy food, flowers everywhere…

I think we had 50 photographers show up at our house!

Crazy fun! Brian set up his own bar in the backyard and reminded me of Tom Cruise in Cocktail! 🙂 (expect Brian was sexier of course) Did anyone get a shot of Brian mixing drinks?! And, check out that HUGE speaker to the side of Brian.

The music was awesome! The BEST DJ in the WORLD, Michael of Integritas, was there DJing fantastic music. I can’t believe our neighbors didn’t kill us. They REALLY love us.

And check this out!

We made our own Me Ra Koh Pink Martini! I know, I know. They look red. But it was late, sun was going down, and I wasn’t to in to my camera settings. You get the picture though, right.

Yummy stuff! Want the ingredients to my favorite martini, the Me Ra Koh Martini, that Brian and I made up? 😉 You know you do! 🙂

Thanks to all the wonderful photographers who came Wednesday night. We host this Annual Garden Martini Party to celebrate YOU and how hard you shoot all summer. Brian and I are honored to know all of you and proud to call you friends! As always, great to laugh with you, catch up and just have fun being together!

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