Random Thoughts

My daughter turned 4 and we have had a couple parties for her in the last week. Yesterday was the big one and I had a ton of food for the party and a ton of chips and leftovers left over.

I did a Jillian Michaels DVD today and found myself eating on a bad of Doritos. Kind of not the best choice after doing the video, I know. I stopped myself and threw the chips in the garbage along with the other 2 half bags of other chips I had left as well.

I hate to waste food and we know it is hard times with the recession, but I had to get rid of them because I would have eaten them all.

Now I am going to jog for 15-20 min in front of the TV and try to combat the extra horrible calories I just ate. No more party leftovers!

I went to the library and got a handful of Jillian Michael’s work out DVD’s and today’s work out was, Burn FAT Boost Metabolism. Holy cow I am on fire! It killed me but I did it. No one has ever kicked my butt like she does. I may swear at her a bit during the work out but totally love her in the end. She is amazing and can really make you sweat.

I love it that she is not some little frilly girl just doing a bunch of dance moves on the video. Yuck, those kind make me want to vomit. She is down to earth and ready for business. She makes you work hard and I love how I feel when the work out is over.

I did do measurements today and after doing her 3 day shred levels 1 and 2 and the boost metabolism one day I have lost ¼ inch in my hips, thigh and arm, but have gained an inch in my bust. Hay, if I am going to gain the bust is the right place! The gain is from all the weight resistance I have been doing so it is good muscle gain so this is not a bad thing. I lost all that in 21 days. Probably would be more inches but remember I got the flu for 5 days during that time so really if you minus the flu days it is in 16 days. I can’t wait to see how fast it goes off now with her work outs.

I will break down my measurements after working out with her for a full 30 days (well really 35 days because I want to make up for the flu days).

My baby girl turns 4 years old in like 3 hours. I cannot believe this is happening. I was looking at her laying on my bed the last few nights and she is so long! When did she grow so big and where is my little girl?

It feels like yesterday she was my little infant baby girl sleeping on my chest and coohing. You always heat that kids grow up so fast and you just never really realize it until you have your own kids.

I can’t wait for her to wake up in the morning and be so excited about her birthday day. We will have family time tomorrow and the big party on Sunday.

Love you peanut!

OMG I started level 2 of the 30 day shred video by Jillian Michael’s and I have to say that I was pretty much begging for mercy about half way through. This video is really hard and I was literally dripping sweat onto the floor and it was nasty. I have to say that this video is going to be a real challenge and very good for me in the long run. I hope that this level 2 gets easier for me so I can get to the last level and hopefully lose some good inches!

I finally watched the preview of Jamie Oliver’s food Revolution and he has officially become my new hero. I support everything he is doing 100%.

I really hope that the US takes this education and incorporates the better food into our school system. We have way too many obese kids in our country and we definitely need to do something.

I would like to know who makes the guidelines for our schools meals because as I watch these episodes it just makes me cringe. First of all they tell him that even though he is serving brown rice with his meal, he needs to have a bread too? What…seriously. They then pulled out a bunch of white bread and served the refined sugar to the kids and this is supposed to be a healthy guideline? Please, this is ridiculous.

Another guideline that has potential to be good is that they do require 1 ½ cups a vegetables for each high school student. The school system actually counts French Fries as this vegetable. That is not a typo and I am still sitting here with my jaw to the floor saying, what the heck?

I would love to help America re-write their guide lines because the guidelines they have are “crap.” I really hope that Jamie has it in him to help change our screwed up nation and its eating habits.

Jamie I support you all the way!

I was sick for 3 days, so sick that I was literally going to bed at 6:30pm. I actually had the crud twice in 3 weeks but only managed to take off 3 days of work outs the second time around.

I was able to do the 30 day shred by Jillian Michael for 3 days, had 3 days off, and now have done it for a couple more days. I pretty much am starting my 30 days over as these last few days seemed as hard as the first 3 I did.

The DVD is awesome so far and I sweat like a pig, and I can feel my heart rate go up and my muscles BURN! These are all good things of course. I am hoping that I do not run into any more obstacles to keep me down, I want to attach this 30 day shred work outs with full force and see if all this extra sweat and burn pays off.

I have not blogged for a while for a few reasons. We have had a flu and a cold in this house for the last 3 weeks, I am tired of it! Hopefully on the mend now so we will see. It is also a very stressful time of the month of March as our anniversary was this past Friday and it should also be my first son’s 2nd birthday (Brayden). I have been in an emotional slump for a few days and this has not helped me kick this flu and cold either.

A few days before the 26th, I started fighting with myself about dusting the shelf in our room. The reason why this is such a task is that this is the shelf dedicated to my son. I do not dust it very often as it is very hard for me to do. I beat myself up about it too, feel bad because I let it get so dusty, but know when I do it I will have an emotional breakdown. Needless to say, I still have not dusted the shelf. I really should just do it as I have had a few breakdowns already due to the time of year anyway, but can’t get motivated to do it.

I have been in a slump and no mood to even write or pay much attention to anything else. I am slowly getting out of it now because now I have my daughter’s 4th birthday coming up and I need to get on the ball and start getting ready for it. It least this will help me distract my thoughts and maybe I can move into a happier and healthier direction.

I never get on the scale. I have blogged before on how much I hate the scale. I especially hate it when I am working out because it does not give you accurate weight loss because when you gain muscle the numbers will not go down as much.

Today I fought with myself for about 40 minutes and then bit the bullet and hopped on to the scale. I had to be weighed at one of my last doctor’s appointments right before I started this journey around the end of November 2009. So it has been four months.

Here is what my numbers were from August-November 2009:

• Had a baby in august and my weight about 4 hours before I gave birth was 252 pounds. In November at my last appointment I was down to 224 pounds. I did not exercise at all and had toxemia and was on bed rest and an infected c-section scar. The weight loss was simply water loss from the pregnancy.

• Today I weigh 196 pounds. I am actually 8 pounds lighter then I was when I got pregnant last December. I was pretty excited to see the number go less than 200 pounds. I literally got on and off the scale 4 times to make sure it was right, whihoo!

I still have a lot to go but this does give me some more incentive and drive to keep doing what I am doing. I figure that by the time I go out of town for the summer near the end of June I could see another 20 pounds or so gone. This will make my whole summer and then some! Maybe by the end of the summer I will be at my goal weight. Not entirely sure the exact number but I know that for me anywhere from the 160-170’s is healthy for my frame and muscle size.

I really need to get a recent picture posted and will get one on here this week.

So as always I am getting bored of the same thing so I went to the library and checked out Jillian Michael’s 30 day shred DVD. There are 3 work outs on the DVD and each is its own level. I did level 1 today and it was only 27 minutes but oh my land, my arms are still burning, seriously they are hot right now and I quit the work out about 7 minutes ago. I sweat something fierce and feel good. I am going to do one level a week and see how good this is over a 3 week period. So far I really like it. Another bonus is that I got it from the library so it did not cost me anything and I can continue to renew it if I want.
I did take my measurements for better tracking and they are the same as they were the last measurement post that I did.

I did do my normal leg and arm weight exercise today and was not up to doing anything else until I sat down to watch the biggest loser. I have to say that it made me feel really guilty that I was sitting on the couch so I got up and jogged in front of the TV for 15 min. I would have gone longer but my calves are burning from all the weights I did on my legs earlier so I quit at 15 minutes.