{New Shoes!}

Today's Activities:
Jillian Michaels Banish Fat Boot Metabolism
Pick Your Level Weight Loss Pilates

My ankles have always kinda bothered me and when I rotated either of them to either side they will make a small cracking sound.....over and over again....basically until I decide to stop.  I can somewhat do this with my wrists too, but not as long as I choose.....it will stop on it's own.  This grosses my Hubby out.  lol
Anyway, when I was working out before I avoided the high impact stuff...well some of it cuz it hurt my ankles and some cuz I didn't think I could do it.  By joining this boot camp with Amanda the trainers there have pushed me farther than I ever thought I could go....and farther than I ever would have pushed myself.  I am so thankful to them for this.  :-)  I mean I was using 3lb weights on the 30Day Shred & thought I was going to die!  & during the workouts at the boot camp I would be using 10lbs weights for more reps.....& I completely felt like I was going to die.....more & more each day I went back!  LOL  I was great!  :-D
But the impact part on my ankles has been the worst!  Near tears....needing to takes breaks, not being able to do as many as I'd like because of the not "good pain" pain.....so I was reading online & I realized that I might need different shoes.  And that really would be the easiest fix. So I was talking to my Hubby and come to find out......I was wearing running shoes.....I honestly don't know these things.....I don't even know how he knew the difference......so we went out today and he got me some cross trainers!  :-D  I am SSSOOOOO EXCITED!  to do a workout & see if these help at all for my ankles!

 Luvs! <3

{Background??....This Time I Think Not...}

Morning Weight: 167.2 (Thursday Weigh In)
Today's Activities:  Crunch: Burn and Firm Pilates 48 min

Right now it's been a long time since I've been on here.
Right now I've been eating good and finally started working out.
Right now I'm looking forward instead of looking back so.....
Right now instead of giving an update on how I've been or what's been going on etc etc
I'm going to keep moving...keep sweating....keep making those positive choices....and keep blogging about them.  :-D

 Luvs! <3

{Out to the Lake}

Morning Weight:  163.1

This mornings weight was a little more that yesterdays....I don't know if yesterday was a glitch....it WAS a HUGE jump in weight for ONE day.  We went out to the lake with my mother in law and the boys...we even brought baby Dita with us....yes we have named her :-D  Her name is Dita....after Dita Von Teese :-D  My sister Serena was there too and I did really good with food choices!  I had picked up salads to bring with us....they were AWESOME too.  I ate one bite of the potato salad that my mother in law made, and she made one of my favorite desserts too (yes, I know it's not hard to make a dessert that I like haha) I was so proud that I only had ONE of them tho.  They also had chips and I didn't have any of those either. But when I came home I was craving CHOCOLATE bad!!! And ended up having a few small hands of m&ms and two of the four to go twix.....so much better than it could have been with the food I had to choose from around me.....one food choice at a time....and even if the scale was a glitch yesterday or not....it wasn't too bad this morning....it's still going down from when I started :-D

Luvs! <3

{New Addidtion To Our Family}

Morning Weight:  161.8

When it comes to working out yesterday...I didn't have anything to workout in so I ended up doing a BUNCH of laundry instead. Now I have a BUNCH of laundry to fold and put away too LOL But I also have something to workout in today which is what I was going for :-D
I wasn't able to completely watch my wheat/corn intake which is part of my goals (which I'll get up here soon) but I did do really well with eating a little bit here and there and not too much at dinner.  And did great with drinking water and not too much soda too.  I'm not too sure if the scale is correct and going to continue this morning but it sure is encouraging!!!  :-D

On with the most exciting news of yesterday tho!!  We got the newest addittion to our family....we got a little girl finally!!!!  She is a mini pin/chiwawah and is 3 months old.  :-D We haven't completely picked out a name for her....but we're trying out Dita....with a long E....as in Dita Von Teese....hehe  :-D  I know she is something that is what I would normally be blogging on our family blog....and believe me I will be here soon....lol....but I'm just SOOOO excited I had to have here on here too.  :-D

 Luvs! <3

{Past Couple Days.....}

Morning Weight: 166.8

Last night and the couple days before that I really wasn't paying too much attention to what I was eating.....much more than normal.  When I do that I tend to eat quite a bit of sweet wheats like donuts lol and I end up getting bloated and gaining weight in my waist/love handle area.
Getting up and weighing myself was really hard....I've weighed myself before but just waved it off and ignored it....now I'm not ignoring it....now I'm forced to look at the number square in the eyes and see it.  Well I'm tired of seeing it and ignoring it....I'm tired of skimming through my closet at my shirts that don't fit me and ignoring the cute pair of jeans that I long to wear that are hanging on my closet door!!! 
I'm setting up a game plan and some goals and I'm going to watch my journey on my blog once again to help keep me motived :-)

Luvs! <3

{Almost Square One....}

Very.....VERY LONG story short.....
A combination of meds, depression, life....and lots and lots of food.....and I'm almost back where I started at weight and eating habit wise.  Also I found out that I'm allergic to wheat and corn....I don't know if I've mentioned that on here.  So that has made it really difficult for me to pay attention to eating healthy for ME.
So here I am again.  I don't know what my plan is yet.  The kids are starting another school year.  I have three full time students this year.  Tommy is also going to be going to school so that will be an adjustment.  But I am looking forward to setting up a schedule that will get me working out again.  And figuring out how to get me eating healthy again too.....that's a hard one for me with cooking for my family.....I'm also hoping to continue to blog about it....through all of it.

 Luvs! <3

{Recent Pic}

Excuse the sideways camera angle LOL I usually end up taking pics of myself..by myself.  And it's hard to get a full body pic by yourself lol

This was taken on Mother's Day.  I wore a really cute dress to church and I was going to take a picture in that, but then in my rush to change out of my church clothes and get dinner and the evening rush I completely forgot....but I promised I'd get a recent pic up.....so I'm putting it up here too.  This is me now.  :-)