My new thing...

I have been working out 4-5 days a week

I have been eating really well....like really well

I have lost 18 lbs since the middle of Jan.

2 weeks ago Sky got sick, then Kev and I followed as of Sunday night

Woke up Monday feeling terrible.

Monday, didn't end up going to the gym

Since not going to the gym and having a visit 

from Aunt Flow I have been eating TERRIBLE!

I haven't had a visit from her in 4 years 

and it was no day at the park to say the least...

When I started to go to the gym and eating better 

I cut out coffee....COMPLETELY :(

It was terrible, Migraine for 3 days...

I feel so much better not drinking it though

I found out that Green Tea is good

for people that have liver disease

Which I have....So now I am on a tea kick.

Weird since my bestie is now on a tea thing as well

Gotta love her <3

My Birthday is coming up.

I have decided to embrace my birthday 

instead of cringe at the age I am going to be

For so long I was sad that I was getting older

But I really am happy with who I am 

and who I have become

I know I think I'm getting old now but when I'm 40

I am going to feel like I didn't enjoy my young years 

because I thought I was old when I wasn't

A couple years ago my 

Aunt introduced Teavana to my Dad.

I loved it then but couldn't ever think about 

spending that kind of money on tea

I think I want to invest in a nice

tea steeper and get some loose tea leaves

tiramisu

Today was the first day Kevin and I had off from working out since we started. I didn't eat ALL day which I didn't do on purpose, I was just busy and forgot to eat. Then when I did eat I had anticipated eating dinner soon so I had top Roman. BAD IDEA. Super unhealthy and WAY to much sodium. Then I decided to go to Fresh Market and what did I do? I got a freakin tiramisu  slice of cake....uggggg, REALLY!?!?! I had never had tiramisu  before and I just had to have it.....SO BAD! But it was soooo GOOD!
After that little adventure I came home and made up dinner. I made a pot roast, broccoli and cheese and garlic mash potatoes. I wasn't going to eat the mash potatoes but I did. Today was so terrible for my eating but over all it was a good day with some friends and family.
Tomorrow is another day off from the gym but I will be strickly back to eating healthy because I need to make up for how bad I was today....I feel soo guilty.

Eat better tomorrow and work my butt off at the gym for the next 3 days to burn off that tiramisu .

Gym Day 3

I woke up today well rested. As soon as Kevin and I said good morning to each other baby girl walked in and crawled into bed with us. We all hung out for a couple minutes...its a great way to start the morning. Then we got ready and headed out for the gym. Unlike yesterday I was super motivated to go. I got there and got to it. When I was about 25 min in on the elliptical I wanted to give up so bad but I started talking crap to myself and saying JUST DO IT! Hahahaha I didn't think about this but I was listening to Nike work out music routine. Anyways, I got done at 35 min and then did a 10 min cool down. My goal is to be able to work out for an hour but I know I wont get there for another couple of weeks. I came home and had 2 boiled eggs, 2 pieces of bacon and 2 sausage links. I am trying to stay with a high protein and low carb. It worked for me a couple years ago so I'm sticking with it. As for the day a head, I have plans to have coffee with Morgan, hang out with a new friend then have play date with another one of my friends for Skyler and my friends son. Yay for a busy day!

Todays Goal: Get Skylers room clean, clean my bathroom and maintain what is already clean :D

The New Year

I haven't been blogging for awhile as you can see. I was at the gym this morning and I was just wishing someone could understand how miserable I was while working out. I hate mornings, I really don't enjoy working out and I was completely nauseous. When I went yesterday I felt great. I was glad to be getting it over and done with and had a great day following my work out. But today was completely different. I woke up and just couldn't seem to get myself going. So I decided to eat a protein bar. BAD idea! The entire time I just knew I was going to yack in front of everyone. After only 10 minutes I had to call it quits. I felt so guilty. I felt like I gave up. But I knew that I couldn't have gone any longer. I left the gym, came home and slept for a couple hours. Its 1 am now and I have to make sure I get up at 8 so I can get my morning going and get to the gym for day 3. 

On a good note, my home looks great. Its clean and as organized as its going to get     : )

Chai Tea Miso and Christmas

So at Starbucks AGAIN with the bestie. Thanks to my Mom I can now have a chai tea at starbucks with low calories. Order a Chai Tea Miso (chai tea bags) with non fat milk, 1 pump of sugar free vanilla and 1 equal (splenda if you prefer). Its not exactly the same but for not taking in 230 calories its pretty darn good :D

Also its the Month of December which means that I am now obsessed with Christmas. The season, the decorations, the drinks, the movies and music. I listen to Christmas music at home in the car and most places have it on when you go shopping. I love Christmas movies and it has been even more fun to watch them this year now that Skyler is 3. Kevin has been a joy to be around more too so its nice to spend the time together as a family and create all these memories together. With all that being said these are some of the Christmas movies we have watched already.

Passion for Photography

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Ansel Adams

The joy of doing Nothing

Today was such a lazy day....I did NOTHING all day!!! I wanted to see my bestie but both her and I were having LAZY days. I wanted to go over to her place so we could do NOTHING together but I didn't even have the energy to get over to her place.

My hubby had the day off and we just sat around and were lazy together. To be honest it was kind of nice. We watched a couple of episodes of some ghost show...its always entertaining. Then Kev made it a point to get down to Blockbuster so we could rent the Disney Christmas Carol with Jim Carey. I enjoyed it except it was kind of dark. Well I guess in a sense that movie is kind of creepy. Ghost of the past, present and future. It was kind of scary for Sky but she was a trooper and sat through it. Sky fell asleep on my lap which is always a great Mommy feeling.

Tomorrow I will be back to the everyday things...Its starting to get cold outside and its going to be difficult to get Sky out of the house. I need to start going to the gym. Its has become real apparent that Kevin isn't going to motivate me to get to the gym so I'm on my own. What I need to do is get up in the AM and get Sky ready and get to the gym by 9-10 am. They have a fun class for preschoolers from 9-11 and it would be great for her as well as for me. I need to get to Costco tomorrow since I have ran out of the basics, you know like milk and eggs. Then after grocery shopping I am on a mission to get this house back in order. Its not that bad but for some reason even when a couple of things are out of place lately the house looks a wreck.

Well I didn't know what to post about so I just decided to get on here and type....I know its kind of all over the place and kind of random but once you get to know me you realize thats just how I am. :D

Weather tonight was thunderstormy. I don't know if thats a word but I like it. 

Kevin and I love thunderstorms so it made our night wonderful.

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