Here is the link...

To my new challenge!
http://warofthescales.blogspot.com/

I am so excited and so ready!  I am nervous tho too because I think this could be the ticket to reaching my goal!  It will be interesting to see how I do this blog and that blog since they are a lot alike but this blog I can talk about other issues too.  Life issues. 

I am very sore in the legs today! LOL!  I even wore heels today to work and I feel my muscles that I worked yesterday with every step I take.  Why did I wear these shoes today?  I think because I feel pretty today!  It is a first time in a long time that I have felt good like this.  So I must be making some accomplishments. 

Had some yummy salmon patties over brown rice last night for dinner!  I am having it for lunch today too.  I went to the store and got some veggies and fruits.  I am doing good!  My father in law is with us for the week and I know he doesn't eat healthy so he is having to at our house! I think he could be having some health issues so I am going to have a lot of fish and chicken this week and lots of veggies.  My family could use an extra good week too! ;)

check out the new challenge!!!  http://warofthescales.blogspot.com/

Tried something different

So for today's walk I went to the local track.  I wanted to take a shot at jogging a bit and not worrying about how silly I look when people see me! LOL!  No one at the track and there is a slight breeze, I start walking and think to myself "I can do this!" I start jogging after a lap of warm up walking and OMG!!!! I feel like I have never moved my body before!  Like I couldn't pick up my feet! But I went along anyways and jogged the straight stretch and walked the corners for two laps.  I think I need different shoes cause I could feel every pebble and they weren't very supportive.  I guess that is what I get for $15.00 Walmart shoes.  Maybe I did burn the soles off them the other day! LOL!  So then I walked a lap and I thought "I will do lunges on the corners!" What the heck!  Have I gone looney tunes?  At first, it was good, I did 10 and the walked and then on the exit corner did 10 more and then walked the straight stretch and on the entry and exit corners did 10 more.  All I could think about was, " I WILL FIT INTO MY JEANS AGAIN DANG IT!" "I WILL WIN THIS CHALLENGE WITH TRISHA!" "I WILL NOT FAIL!" So then I did a cool down lap and stretched cause I know I worked muscles that haven't been used in a long time.  After stretching I walked away from the track...thinking..."OMG, I am already sore! Why did I do that to myself?" I did it so I can do it again tomorrow! :) 

I have been reading up on my favorite blogs (that you can find on the side bar over there). And I have learned so much from those girls and gotten so much inspiration.  Life really has been hard on me lately and I think exercising has kept me from going over the deep end, seriously.  I just want to say thank you ladies, for being in my life.  I know you don't know me but you are important to me. And of course my husband and my bestie... :)  Cause they are always proud of me!

Tomorrow I will link you up to the challenge!  :)

UPDATES, UPDATES!!!

Lots of news!!!  First off, I wanted to post my weigh in of 194 last Thursday but I have had a really crappy run of things in my life.  Sometimes I feel that post partum depression is going on or some kind of depression.  But my husband and I talked about it and I think life is just giving us a run for our money and testing our limits.  Communication is key people.  Gotta have it in every relationship you have in your life. I had a crappy weekend too.  Again, pushed to my limits.  I ate crappy too.  Not horrible though.  Just not how I wanted to.  Stupid ice cream!  It will be the death of me! LOL!  Chocolate with peanut butter swirl...it is sooooo yummy!

But I have news...I am in a challenge.  A friendly challenge.  With my daughters step mom!!  I am so excited for this!  We have been through every battle we could rage on each other for the last 8 years. We are finally at a point where we can get along and make decisions based on facts and the goodness of my daughter's best interest, instead of what would hurt each other more.  We are very competitive of each other, so what a good way to put that competitiveness to use and challenge each other to reach our goals! We are going to blog about our adventures and our contests and such and I will link ya to it when it's all set up. 
This is going to be fun!!!! 

stay tuned!

Today is just not my day...

I have very good intentions to have a good, normal day.  But every door has been shut in my face!!!  Sheesh!  First, my husband texts me and tells me I left the burner on when I made my oatmeal this morning.  Then he texts me and asked where the burritos I said I was going to make him out of leftovers were.  Well I forgot to make them.  UGH!  Then work crap happens, people just can't worry about themselves I tell ya!  It is retarded! But I move on, I try to keep that smile on my face and chug through the day.  I think to myself "can't wait for my walk at lunch!" 

Lunchtime roles around and I change my clothes and fill my water bottle and hit the streets. To the hill...

Going up!!  This is what we call Ash Hill.  It is a good jaunt and pretty steep. 

This is half way up... the steepest part.

THE TOP OF THE HILL!  I love the top of the hills I climb!  It is a good accomplishment no matter how many times I have walked it!

Then I walk around a neighborhood that I haven't been through in a long time.  It seemed more runned down and not as pretty.  But my mind is diverted to my feet because I feel like the rubber soles are being melted off as I walk!  My feet are HOT! But I keep going, bound and determined to have a good walk!

I come around and start back towards the top of the hill.  And as I am figuring out which neighborhood to walk through for the next part of my walk, my husband calls me.  He asks, "honey did you feed and water Fluffy lately?" (Fluffy is our guinea pig of 5 years) I say, "yes honey, I did yesterday, why what's wrong? Is Fluffy dead?"  My dear husband says, "Ya, I'm sorry honey." Then he asks, "are you crying?"  "No", I say, "just feel bad and hope she didn't suffer". I am sad.  I cut my walk short and just head back to the office.  I am just going to face the facts and my day sucks.  Now I have to tell my daughter...

Miss me? I was a busy bee!

Hello folks, sorry for my absence I couldn't seem to get my blackberry to blog this weekend.  It was a busy weekend and I did get some walking in!!! YA for me! I got through a weekend and still walked.  I seem to have trouble with that, especially with both kids there.  So here is a break down for you...Saturday we waited around our friends house, standing outside, while 5 horses got some shiny new shoes.  Then on Sunday we went to the lake with some family so that was fun exercise! Then on Monday I walked on the treadmill for a half hour while my baby boy watched me in his little seat.  My daughter was watching cartoons and doing a craft project.  My treadmill is OLD! I think it might be on its last leg too cause it won't hold it's speed so it's a bit challenging! LOL! 

There it is...the mean machine!  I don't think she is too accurate, so I just go on time when I walk on her.  The one nice thing is that when it's a 100 outside, it is cool in the house and walking on the treadmill is wayyy better!!
Speaking of hot...I walked on Tuesday outside. 

Down the dirt driveway which is about a 1/2 mile one way I believe. 

Then down to the straight stretch in front of the ranch.  I walked probably 1 mile down and back. 

The back has a little hill to walk up, pushing a stroller up is a GREAT workout!!!  Holy smokes! 

My stroller...I had to walk beside it so that my boy could see me.  He cries the WHOLE TIME in the stroller.  I have tried everything but he just doesn't like it I guess.  Anyone have any ideas on how to get him to like it?  Will he just grow out of this?  He cries in his car seat too all the way to town which is a 1/2 hour each way!  UGH!  LOL!  Love the little bugger! 

As I look at that picture, it just makes me want to not stop moving!  I want to reach my goal and I want to reach it fast!!! 

I watched an interesting show on Dr. Oz the other night about his diet that he promotes.  He was talking about what foods to buy in the store and to just keep to the perimeter for the "good for you foods". He talked about canned Salmon and how it is just as good as the fresh but way cheaper.  So I bought a couple cans and I am going to give it a whirl.  Also that a rutabaga can be substituted for a potato for more nutrients and less carbs.  So I am going to give that a whirl too!  He also had the Dean Brothers on there to make healthy cheap meals!  I am going to go back to the website and check those out!!!  What tips have you learned along the way???  My challenge will be to get the rest of the family to eat my experiments! :)  I just won't tell them! :) HA!

So tomorrow is weigh in day...I don't feel like I have lost much weight, if any, but I feel better physically and mentally.  I feel empowered and strong(er).  I have a long ways to go but I will get there. 

Still working on the secret challenge...waiting to hear back from my challenger! :)

Goals and Guilt...

So I have been thinking a lot about goals and guilt.  Two "G's" that seem to go together.
Goals both long term and short term.  Long term is easy peasy...I want to:

Look this cute in this shirt.  Right now, total back fat role and belly...UGH.

I want my butt to look this cute in my jeans too!  :)  I know it can...I just have to lose a few layers!

So long term goals: check

Short term goals are a bit harder.  I am so afraid of failing them.  But if I write them down and get them out there then there is hope.  :)  I can be held accountable.

1.  Get in the habit of exercise.
2.  Eat a cleaner/healthier diet.
3.  Make time for me and still be a good mom and wife.
4. Get over my sugar addiction.
5. Get to 180
6. Get to 170
7. Get to 160
8. Get to 150
9. Get to 140
10.  Be less stressed

That is just the beginning. And funny that they all go hand in hand.  Before, I gave myself a list of rewards for accomplishments.  I never reached one.  This time it will be different.  I have been reading other blogs and I start from their starting point and read to most current.  They all start the same.  They all start the same way I am starting.  Fears, failing, starting, failing, starting again.  You could see them drop off the blog world for a bit only to come back and feel bad.  But then a miracle starts happening, and it happened in all the blogs I read, they start seeing a difference!!!!  They start weighing less, losing inches, feeling good, and their blogs start to get more positive! They talk about the past and what is different.  They keep at it and WALA...they reach their goals.  So what if we started out more positive?  What if we don't be so hard on ourselves and just breathe and keep moving forward?  How come we let guilt take over and cause us to fail?  Darn it, if I can see this then why do I let it happen?  So there, it is out there in blog land and out of my mind where it can swim and fester...guilt is out!  Positive in... moving on to achieve my goals.

The Grade

So today I thought I would challenge myself a bit and walk up the big hill called Kermal Grade.  I have done this before and I remember it being quite difficult, so I said "heck, it's Friday, let's give it a go!" I will have a long weekend to recoup! 



This one isn't too pretty! :)

 This is a couple shots of the bottom of the hill.  There is a lot of traffic zooming up and down this road.  So you have to be very cautious.  I am feeling pretty good. 

This is the view from half way up the hill.  That is my little town that I work in!  So at this point I am sweating and feeling like I am walking up hill! LOL!  But I am still feeling good! 

AND THEN....

THE TOP OF THE HILL!!!!  Do the happy dance!!!  Funny thing, it really wasn't that challenging.  It was hot, but not hard.  It was a good walk, don't get me wrong but it wasn't impossible!!!  I am going to feel it tomorrow because my leg muscles have that tingling sensation going on.  I think I will do this hill twice a week. 

It took me 15 minutes to get to the top and I kept going for another 15 minutes because I have an hour and I wanted to walk my whole lunch hour.  I am thinking I probably walked a few miles but I mainly go on time since I have my phone with me to check time not distance. 

And then...

Going down!!!  :)  Oh ya baby! 

I feel like I have lost 5 pounds already! :) 

So I have to tell you a funny story about yesterday.  I got back from my walk and I was all sweaty and red faced and I was getting my bag to change back into my work clothes.  I work in the reception area and so there was a lady at the counter waiting.  I had to say hi and she looked at me weird.  I said I was just getting back from my lunch hour and asked how I could help her.  She needed to talk to someone, so I was looking to see if that someone was available and the lady asks, "having a hot flash?"  I WAS STUNNED!  OMG!!  Do I seriously look old enough to have a hot flash?  I am 35 for goodness sakes!!  I turned to her nicely and said, "No I just got done walking a few miles." with a smile.  Then when I tell my friend about it, she laughs and says "its the grey hair...it's deceiving." OMG!!!  Totally dying my hair now!!  I kinda wanted to ask the lady "when's your baby due?"  and see how she felt about that!

So plans for exercise for the weekend????  Yard work and walking.  I'll keep you posted!