an estimated 640 million to be exact. That's the pot for the Mega Million tonight and I've got three tickets so one has to be the winner right?! So if I fall off the face of bloger-earth, no worries, I've just moved to my own private island that I purchased with my winnings....be jealous
Went out to eat with friends at a new-to-me restaurant tonight for dinner. Had a tasty adult beverage and an obscene amount fries, albeit very tasty fries. I might regret that in the morning.
'bout sums it up
That's all for me folks, tune in tomorrow for more of the same boring blog shtuff, but I plan on winning lots of money tonight so in that case, adios!
So on Fridays the company I work for pretty much
closes down at 1pm which is awesome, so I always have the afternoon to
get my shiz done! Plus today was payday – holla! So that makes it even
more of a ‘Friday Funday’. As I’ve mentioned
before I’m starting the Jamie Eason LiveFit Trainer on Sunday,
and I needed to stock up on the groceries that I will need. Her recipes
sound dang tasty so I’ll let ya’ll know how they turn out in case you
want to try for yourself . Some called for babyfood
though, I felt a little weird in that aisle, but my friends have a baby
so I’ll just say it’s for them. NO BABIES UP IN HERE!
Workout: 3 mile run - slow and cold
I was feeling pretty unmotivated today (shocker)
and thought about just loafing around with this critter -
meet Beesly!
But I sucked it up and got my workout in anyway. I always feel better when I do. I'm really looking forward to a long stretch tomorrow. I try and take one day from the weekend to do a nice long stretch "workout".
Eats so far...
b-fast = turkey on a bagel thin and naners
snackypoo #1. I ended up dropping my apple on the floor so ended up only eating half. Fail.
Lunch = Choc. Shakeology with cherries and almond milk
Late snack = mango Chobani, Kashi and fruit
alright kids, this house isn't going to clean itself, gotta go!
…..probably me if it were socially acceptable.
It’s by far my favorite fruit and I ate A LOT of it today. I cut up a
fresh one last night and it is super good. Warning: you might be seeing
a lot of pineapple in the blogs' future.
ain't it the truth!
Workout: Kettlebells – 30 min
TM run –3 miles
Ab work - 20 minutes
2 runs in a row I can hardly believe it! My legs
were feeling pretty good, and since I was already down at the gym I just
hopped on the treadmill. I don’t know what it is, but I can’t stand
doing the other cardio machines. I feel like
the elliptical and stairstep are just too boring – I know, like running in place staring at a wall is better. I just feel like I work up a sweat
much quicker when I’m running so I think that’s why, and when I’m on the
elliptical it takes like 40 minutes and by then
I’m just over it. I have this weird thing that if I’m not sweating
buckets it doesn’t feel like a hard workout you know? Maybe I’m alone
on that….
Kettlebells was fun, a nice warmup. I like it
cause the instructor rocks and it’s a quick workout, plus I feel pretty
badass swinging that thing around. After class I did my run, then a
random core workout. I’m really bad at figuring
out my own workouts so I probably spend more time laying on the gym
floor (gross), then I do actually working out. I’ll be glad when I’m on
a structured plan again :)
Moving on, here are the goods for today
b-fast was coffee and Kashi w/almond milk
snacky = naner & pb2 bagel w/pumpkin butter
typical...Shakeology....are you getting bored yet?!
Like I've said before, if you don't want to look at pictures of my eats, then read a different blog. It helps keep me accountable to see and document what I'm eating, so I plan on keeping it up for awhile ;)
Is it true that if you plant the top from the pineapple another one will grow?
Truth - I used to think they grew on trees like apples
Went for a quick run today, which you will come to
know is rare for me. I have a 5k race at the end of May so I’m trying
to force myself to run as much as I can. As I said before, running
isn’t exactly my favorite thing to do, so a 5k
might not sounds like much to the rest of you, but to me is a big deal. I don’t run fast or gracefully, but I do it so that’s all that
matters. Plus I want to PR so I want to actually
try at this one.
My next few workouts will kind of be pieced
together for a couple of days. On Sunday I’m starting the Jamie Eason
12 week LiveFit Trainer. So until then I’m just
wingin’ it. I was a little under the weather so I took
the last 2 days off and I feel it! Ugh, I always feel so gross when I
do that. Makes me feel like I gained 50lbs when I know I didn’t, and I
always get so snacky when I don’t workout – so I’m sure the 75 bowls of
Cheerios I ate didn’t help….oh well, onward
and upward!
I forgot to take a pic of my actual b-fast, I
scarfed it down before I remembered, so all you get is the empty box. These are good, quick and easy – just like I like it ;) I wish
they had a little more blueberry in them but I liked
‘em anyway. I ate 2 with almond butter and sf syrup. I usually don’t
like syrupy things early in the a.m. but I make an exception for
waffles.
Snack numero uno was this, my coworker Andrew added the face to the 'Cutie'
.
Lunch was the usual Shakeology
I will discuss Shakeology in another post, so if
there are any questions anyone wants answered let me know. That is, if
anyone is actually reading this boring thing.
Snack numero dos - nutz and naner
Literally JUST ate this - SO good
I try and eat 5-6 times a day. I know I call
them “snacks” but everything is around the same
calorie count so I guess they are more like mini-meals. That’s another
topic I will get to later too.
I swear I eat the same things everyday – I’m a
creature of habit, what can I say. If variety is the spice of life then
I am its’ bland boring stepsister. Oh well, there are worse things I guess…
*If you could eat one thing for the rest of your life what would it be?
I would probably go with greek yogurt. I eat one every.single.day
Hi everyone…… or anyone? Anyway, I thought I would
start my very first post off by recapping this past year and how its
led up to the start of this blog (finally!). I apologize in advance for
the novel-length post, and can assure you
this will be the last time ;) Again, if you’re not in the mood for yet
another weight loss/fitness/foodie blog then I suggest you scroll down
and watch the videos, or just look at the pictures.
My journey to today started exactly 1 year ago. I
feel like my entire life – at least my preteen to now life, I have
struggled with keeping a good healthy weight and body image. I don’t
think I have ever been obese, but I have definitely
been overweight. I would bemoan my thinner healthier friends and
wonder what I wasn’t doing. I can tell you now that there was a whole
LOT that I wasn’t doing! I had, and still have, a very skewed view of
what I think I look like. However, when I was larger,
I assumed I was smaller than I actually was – I became good at not
looking in a full length mirror. I would work out, occasionally, I even
taught fitness classes at our local YMCA. Now, I understand being
healthy doesn’t mean you need to be stick thin, but
I just wasn’t healthy. I was a poser. I didn’t notice that I was slowly
but surely buying bigger jeans, that my clothes weren’t fitting right,
but I would insist on squeezing into them – I was in denial and
uncomfortable, and apologize for those who had to
look at my muffin top all these years L
I finally had it when I went to buy new jeans that actually fit, and
came home with 2 pairs of size 12. How could this happen, how did I
just give up let myself get this way.
Let me tell you, the Chinese buffet, Sunday night Dominos nights, and
large concrete mixers from Culvers probably didn’t help. I was eating
as if I was immune to food and I wasn’t – it finally caught up to me as I
tipped the scale to my largest of 167lbs
and I finally noticed.
After my light bulb moment with the jeans, I realized I
had to do something different. Obviously going to the gym wasn’t
working, I needed something new. I saw an infomercial for a 12 week
program called TurboFire from the company Beachbody.
It looked awesome, and just what I needed. Enough was enough ,so I
went online at 11pm that night and ordered it. I was nervous because I
knew the way I had been living couldn’t go on anymore. Could I really
give up pizza Sundays and Ben and Jerry’s? Well
I was going to find out, and I was excited. I got the program about a
week later and read through everything. I wanted to be as informed as
possible. I know what you’re thinking about an at-home workout program,
probably this…
(is it sad that the song kinda pumps me up? Where's my unitard?! )
I hate to say it but
you are all wrong.
TurboFire has been one of the most life changing things that I have
done. Chalene Johnson knows her stuff! Turbo will be my first fitness
love for the rest of my life, and I don’t care if I’m
still doing it when I’m 60 years old – I hope I am! I will discuss the
program more along with my results in another post, but for this post, I
am saying it was the program that started it all for me, it’s changed
my life and I can’t believe it’s been a year.
Since then I have completed 2 5k’s – big deal for me cause I don’t
exactly “enjoy” running;) I completed ChaLean Extreme last fall, and
Insanity this past winter. I am a Beachbody junkie and I don’t care who
knows it!
I’m not going to post my before and after pics
quite yet – that takes a huge amount of courage that I don’t quite have,
but I will someday. I
will say this, because of these programs, and changing
my eating habits to healthy I have lost 36 pounds
and have kept it off. I have a little bit left to go, but I’m getting
there. I feel like I’m gaining the knowledge and have made this my new
lifestyle.
So listen up friends, NO I am not on a diet, NO
just because my programs are set up for 12 weeks doesn’t mean they ever
“end”. This is a new life for me and I will keep putting my all into
it. We all deserve to be as happy as possible,
and I feel lucky that I have found the way to do that for me. I still
have things I need to work through – but again, that’s for another
time. I will leave you with this. If you want to change your life you
can. If you want to get healthy, lose weight,
run a marathon, learn to cook, or climb a mountain you can! I may not
be the best at this – whatever “this” is, but I’m better than where I
was a year ago. I have learned quite a bit, and if I can share that
with anyone I will.
So that’s that. I will get off my soapbox now and
let you all go on with your daily lives, I’m sure you have much more
important things to do that read my ramblings. But if you decide to
come back, you will not be disappointed! But maybe
you will, you be the judge.
*Disclaimer!! I am not a registered anything, I
have no actual medical, nutritional training. I will do my best to give
factual info, but for the most part anything you read here are my own opinions and the methods,
tips, tricks that have worked for me – follow
at your own risk;)
