~ A New Day ~

That quote pretty much sums it up!! There is probably nothing else that i need to share other than that picture. WOW, it was such a powerful message to me this morning when i pulled up the computer. Every day i make a pledge to myself to make some changes with myself. And every day i find myself making the same pledge because the day before didn't quite pan out the way i planned. We have a busy weekend with soccer, working on our raised beds, getting our plants planted and doing some cleaning inside; but come Monday morning...i will be ready. I don't have a choice this time. I was on a healthy kick of eating well and exercising and then i am not sure what happened. I guess the busyness of life gets in the way! Hopefully i will be able to share with you how great things are going next week. HAPPY FRIDAY!

Sick of Sports (kinda)

I feel SO bad for using that title but that is exactly describes the feeling that i am experiencing and so is my poor baby Jackson! I think that kid is totally worn out from going non-stop with 1-2 (even 3 last spring) different sports per season that overlap. He has not a break from anything (a few summers included) since he was 4 years old. That has almost been 6 years!! We chose to only play soccer this spring (and not baseball also) because last spring basketball, soccer and baseball all overlapped from the end of January through March. It was tough, very tough. And myself, JJ and Jackson did not want to go through that again this spring. We are going to let Jackson enjoy his summer OFF and then rethink things for next fall and spring. Suggestions are greatly appreciated :o)

SPRING is HERE!

I love this time of year...time to clean things out, clean things up and get flowers planted. We spent the day yesterday doing just that. It was all on the backyard though. This year, we are adding a garden to our list of To-Do's so we will see how that goes. I am a little nervous about it but hope that it turns out ok. We got a lot of good advice from our neighbor, Brad, yesterday. We have contemplated doing either a raised bed garden or just tilling the area and planting in the ground...our final decision was to just do it like my dad did and plant in the ground. After hours of tilling yesterday, JJ and i decided today that it would be better just to bite the bullet and do raised bed gardens. HA! I guess all of the tilling was not a total waste because at least it marked the 2 places that we will add the raised beds. I cannot wait to get them made and get my lettuce, broccoli, bell peppers and strawberries planted. The other stuff isn't quite ready to plant time wise just yet. I have had my herbs planted for over a week now; my chives were still going strong from last summer!!

 I like the look of this...but not 4 tall.

Oh...what i wished that my home and garden looked like!!

I also got the back patio power washed and looking all sparkly clean. I just LOVE when the patio is that clean. It looks brand new. And i am just antsy waiting on my new patio furniture to be delivered. I ordered a new loveseat, 2 chairs and table for the back patio. That will make all the difference in the world. I still have to plant flowers in my window boxes and my hanging baskets and the flower bed but i am not sure just yet what i want to plant. But i cannot wait until it is all done!

* Worn Slap Out *

Ok...so i have not blogged in a few days. And that is because i decided that i was tired of it and i felt like it was something that i had to try to do daily. And who really reads this stuff??!! So i said i was not going to do it anymore. So why am i doing it today, you ask? I.HAVE.NO.IDEA. But while i am here, i will tell you that i left off on blogging about being scared to see what the next workout was...well, i did it. And i HATED it. I decided that i was not going to do it anymore after this past weekend so i didn't. And i mailed that bitch back. HAHA!! I could not stand those workouts. I have never dreaded doing a workout in my entire life. So, i am back to walking/running and i am going back to doing my Core Secret videos with Brooke Burke that are good and i loved them and never dreaded doing them and did not watch the clock the entire time i was doing it. Almost 8 more weeks until the BEACH so i have got to get in gear.

My view for 8 days!!

3 Days Strong!

Yesterday, i was pretty terrified to see what my workout of the day was. I had not even looked ahead in the training book that i have because i thought you did workouts 1-4 and then add the cardio workout in. So i put in workout 3 and once it started she mentioned weeks 3 & 4....WHAT??!! At that point, i was hoping that i had not messed up the two previous workouts. I pulled out the training schedule and come to find out, i did complete the first 2 workouts correctly. And workout 3 was going to be CARDIO! Thank goodness. I was happy that my legs did not have to go through a gluten again with lunges, etc. Her 30 minute cardio video was not grueling but it made you work your tail off and sweat a lot. I am ok with that. Just glad to have it behind me and ready to get workout 4 done as well. Today's workout goes back to the first workout that killed my legs. But they are a bit better today and i am just ready to get that workout behind me and move on.

I definitely needed this today...

Jillian Day 2 . . . OUCH!

Well, another video has been completed! I promise not to update every video every day but i was just giving you some insight into what the Phase 1 videos consist of. Yesterday afternoon i did workout 2. It was actually ok. Yes, it is hard but manageable and i made it all the way through. You SWEAT your tush off from about 6 min in to the video until the very end. I was not really sore this morning from workout 2; however, i am terribly sore this morning from workout 1. My legs are still about to fall off. Workout 2 did do a little with legs and i was ok doing it but i was hoping that it would work all of the soreness out from the previous workout. I have NO CLUE what today's workout will entail and i don't evan want to get a glimpse because i am scared it may say something about legs. HA! Whatever it is, it will be good. JJ also does not have baseball games today (YAHOO) so i will probably try to get some cardio in as well and maybe that will help my legs. There is no way that i can run, but i can try to walk it out.
And good news today...i lost another lb this am when i weighed! That would be a total of 12 llbs (in the past few weeks) but 6 of those lbs have been lost since Saturday. I am definitely not complaining. Just crossing my fingers that it continues. I feel so much better since getting over that bad juju that i had and i am back to eating well and exercising and taking care of myself better.

Here was what Workout 2 was...

WORKOUT 2 (WEIGHTS, RESISTANCE CABLE)

Continue building your foundation with classic “back of the body” moves that work your back, biceps, glutes, hamstrings and core using your weights, a resistance cable and your own body weight. Like Workout 1, strength, balance and stability are the goal as you burn mega calories.

Gettin Back in the Groove

PHASE 1

Blast calories. Blast fat. Blast metabolism into the stratosphere!

So...i started my Jillian Michaels Body Revolution videos yesterday afternoon and i was very proud of myself for completing the entire video. There was one exercise at the end of the video that i stopped 3 reps early because i was about to DIE but other than that, it went well. I did see how the stability of my left leg is much stronger than the stability of my right leg when doing these 2 different exercises. I know that will improve over the course of these workouts. When i woke up this am, i hopped out of bed and was not really sore at all; but as the day has gone on, my legs are much more sore and i feel it in my chest as well. The positive thing about the soreness is that i know i have accomplished something that is doing wonders to my body. I hope that i can make it through all of today's workout. It is different than yesterday so i hoping that i will not be too sore. I will just work my way through the soreness. Another positive for today is that i lost another lb when i weighed this am. As long as the scale is moving, i am a happy girl! I know there are days when this will not happen and those days i despise but i will try to look past it for the moment and know that it will move again soon. I went through this about a month ago and it gets you discouraged but i just had to sit back and look at the big picture and loved the way that was i feeling...that was the only motivation that i had to get through the disappointment. But i am trying to approach it a little different this time. Here was workout 1...

WORKOUT 1 (WEIGHTS)

Start off strong with basic moves that target “front of the body” muscles like chest, shoulders, arms, quads and core! This workout is about building balance and core strength in order to burn calories and prep your body for the upcoming workouts. Your body and light weights provide the resistance. Low impact cardio bursts make this a non-stop fat burner.