vanessa

OMG!!  I got my package in the mail last night but wasn’t able to get to the workout, this morning I made time to get to it.  Man O Man this workout kicked me in the butt!!  I can do 45min on the elliptical and NOT sweat as much or be as sore and tired!!  It hasn’t even been an hour since I finished and I can feel the soreness in my lower body as if I just lifted weights for hours! lol  I then did the AB mission specialist and feel as though my abs are now made of jelly from working them so hard.  I can definitely feel it work my body, so I know as long as I  keep on it and eat right I will see the changes if not on the scale then I KNOW in my clothes and thru measurements..well just had to share I was so excited!!

Well, I am so excited that my hubby has decided he is going to join me on this weight loss journey!  When we actually diet together we do awesome keeping each other motivated..plus I won’t have so many temptations in the house :)  He says he is ready to start training again, so that means extra fun workouts for me too I am so  excited!

I just have to brag real quick!  He has been working for a steel forging company for about 5yrs now, he started out on the night shift doing the dirty grunt work, and working 80hrs in a week.  He worked his ass off and has been moved up in the company a few times but NOTHING major, just a few months ago he was given the position of plant manager asst. and they even bought him a laptop to work from home when needed just this week….Well guess what we find he won’t have that position anymore…he is MOVING up again!! WOOHOO!  By request from Pres of the company they have moved him into the corporate office, and have already told him they see a bright future for him with the company and plan for him to just keep going up!  They had been sending him to do some college courses..I kept telling him they were prepping him for something…but he doubted it.  My man will actually be home without a doubt on the weekends!  I am so proud of him….he aint doing to bad for someone who barely graduated high school and has NO college education except the few credits he has from work! :)   I finally feel a sense of ease knowing he should be getting a raise…I always feel so guilty when we pay our mortgage and we have $100 left in the bank for gas or anything else, since I stay at home with the kids.  I know money is tight for everyone not just us but it sure is nice to know that when you feel as though walls are closing in around you….God seems to open that window just in time for you to escape.

WOW! I am so aggravated today I can’t stand it ANYMORE!  My brother in-law as well as my husbands cousin whom are both 17 have been here staying the night for ummm….lets see..I dont even know how long anymore because I lost count!  GO HOME!!  It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t leave their DIRTY clothes in the restroom and their stuff all on the counters and pick up their damn dirty clothes off the floor of my sons room! Oh, and lets not forget the fact I have to go grocery shopping EVERDAY, they are eating ALL my kiddos snacks at night while we are TRYING to sleep!!!  And they are smoking and bringing that stinch in my house…hello boys this is a smoke FREE HOME!!!  My 6 yr old got picked on yesterday…and I have NEVER been so proud in my life of him when I heard my brother in law (Joel) saying mean stuff to him and heard them kinda rough housing..I heard Joel yell hey that hurt!  lol  My son had punched him EXTREMELY hard in his jaw to get back at him, and it had hurt him most of the day! lol  That’s what you get for bullying someone 11yrs younger than you, and his dad teaches his boxing!   Anyways, I feel so UNCOMFORTABLE I havent been able to use my elliptical cause I don’t care for an audience while my big ass is jigglying!  I havent been able to walk since Sunday cause it has honestly rained cats and dogs here where I live since then!  Our yard is a swamp lol!  I just want my house back, along with my PRIVACY!  Damn boys need to go home!!  Better believe I am MAKING hubby take thier overeating, punk, smoke smelling asses HOME!!

plummeted to the poin of not having ANY! I was doing so great then got bronchitis so took it easy, got better, and then it came back.  I feel like if I am not working out then I am NOT loosing weight.  So here I sit wondering what I can do to get that motivation I had and was doing so good with…..I promised myself that this was the time I would do it….and actually loose the weight I am 24 it will just get harder if I keep waiting…and I have spent way too much time as a teen and in my 20’s hating me and being a hermit!

I first had problems with my elbow and on Thurs started to feel a pain in my back and my side…yet I still went and ran along side my dog as we worked him(getting ready for a HUGE weightpull comp) and thought I was going to die..lol…  So Friday I was having extreme trouble breathing so I made a Doc appt and she told me I was hardly pushing air, so she couldnt tell if I was wheezing or not and made me do a breathing treatment so she could hear me better….I did the treatment and she told me I had Bronchitis…damn I just had this about 2mos ago.  I had been working out so much I NEVER realized I was feeling crummy she couldnt understand how I didnt notice I had a high fever or that I didnt notice my body was so weak.  So, this may hinder my cardio workout…but damn it!  It’s NOT going to completely stop me from at least walking!

Poof just like magic, and 5lbs was lost….well ok maybe it’s not exactly magic….but it sure feels like it today!  It’s nice to see the progress on the scale because I am definitely one to base my progress on what it says.  When I saw that I lost I said to myself wow only 20lbs more til I reach my mini-goal…see I have NEVER thought like this..It was always more along the lines of…hotdoggit, I have like 80lbs to loose thats too much.  I think setting this mini-goal is making it so much easier I am so glad I stumbled upon this site, and all of you amazing, wonderful, inspiring, motivational, genuinely caring people!  Because in all honestly reading your blogs, and chatting with yall in the forums, and reading your success stories is pushing me harder!

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Monday night while doing my resistance band workout and doing some pushups I think I messed my elbow or something around it up pretty bad!  It hurt yesterday but not nearly as much as it did today!  My elbow is actually swollen really bad and extremely noticeable…I cant lift it to even pull my hair back in a ponytail :( …so I didnt want to just stop working out with as good as I have been doing keeping up with it..so i got on my eliptical…and can only do a few mins at a time or my arm feels like it may fall off …lol…so I guess i will continue to try and do the eliptical if even for 15 at a time…and go walking tonight even if I just take the dogs.  Just sucks seems like anytime I get going, either my knee acts up so bad I am in bed for several days, or this same elbow swells up on me !  Note to self: get up and move girl…you have had two 10 lb babies and whined less….you have had a cheekbone broken in basketball and still played and NEVER cried…you have had a foot smashed by a biatch in soccer with cleats on and still went on with the game, you dealt with worse than this…dont let it get you down…You can do this! Pick yourself up and rub some dirt on it youll be OK!

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For the longest my hubby had trained to be an MMA fighter, and was doing great, til I got pregnant.  My pregnancy was so rough he was scared to leave me to go train, so he just stopped going.  We both did this diet thing before but its always he is motivated I am not, and vice versa, and ITS REALLY HARD when your spouse is eating a pizza while you are eating carrot sticks.  Well now I am ashamed that I wasnt there for him when he was doing so well, now I know exactly how he felt.  It’s like now that I am dieting…I SWEAR he IS eating WORSE!  I even finally broke down last night and told him so, and told him to get off HIS rump and do something even if it was hold the pads for me so I could do some Muay Thai…but no lazy just sat there.  So, here I am trying to figure out what can I say or do to get this man going!  His response to me telling him to get up is…why I will NEVER be able to fight anyways!….ewww he made me SO mad I could of punched him (without gloves on)!  He tells my son NEVER quit and always follow your dreams…yet he cant even attempt to follow his dreams.  I just wish we could get on the same page for once…I know if we did we would be blasting the fat away!

Well, I knew this would be NO easy task after all if weight loss was so easy it sure as heck wouldnt be so gratifying to accomplish a goal.  We needed a quick lunch and obviously hubby wanted a greasy burger and fries, so to whataburger i went.  I fought of the fast food monster that lives in my head and opted for the salad, and before layering on the dressing noticed the nutritional info and opted to cut me a lime for dressing and it was delicious! I thought my husband may fall over because he didnt take my dieting serious. It feels good to finally make healthy decisions for ME!

I started my diet on Monday because I finally got the eliptical I had been begging for and I know if I dont workout I WILL NEVER hear the end of it from the hubby.  I think being on this site and tracking my food intake is helping me to be concious of what I am eating and the portions as well.  Seeing so many people having SUCH GREAT progress is really pumping my mind up making me think hey I can do this as well! I hope that by November I am down in size when my dog club will host a show in my home town. Oh and since I cant figure out how to add exercise for previous dates I will just put it on here for now

Mon: Eliptical 30min, situps 50

Tues:None(inlaws were visiting)

Wed: 40 min on eliptical, 50 situps

Thurs: 40 min on eliptical, 50 situps, resistance band training(arms)

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