Morning Mission Accomplished

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CLX Burn Circuit 3

I did it this morning! Up at at 'em by 6:30, workout accomplished, boys fed, me fed, homework worked on... I feel good. I started about an hour later than I actually wanted to, but that was mainly because Jonas woke up at 5AM and would not go back to bed. I finally got him watching cartoons long enough to finish my workout - he came down for the last 5 minutes and worked out with mommy. Always fun to watch he grabbed my 3lb weights off the table and did sumo squats with me and the stretches at the end - including the moaning and groaning I was doing because of the increase in my weights today!

And as my body was calling out for spinach sautéed eggs for breakfast and lunch, that is what I decided to eat. Big bottle of water and a small glass of milk to round it out and I feel that I did what I needed to do today to be healthy

Reaching out for help

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None

For any readers out there, I am struggling. I want to workout - I really do. I want to get up early and eat healthy and be healthy and change my body and improve my life... but I haven't been able to get myself out of bed in the morning. I hate this. My alarm goes off and I hit it and fall back to sleep. I wake up hours later rushed for time and cranky and made at myself. I need suggestions for getting my schedule together and back on track - ideas for getting myself more organized and together, to accomplish all the things I need to get done!

Others who have done it - how do you make yourself a priority? If you are not necessarily a morning person, how do you get yourself out of bed to workout? I don't want to keep struggling like this, I hate it!

Groovin' & Movin'

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ChaLEAN Extreme Burn Circuit 2

Okay, so the weekend of being in the car, eating crap and not working out have certainly caught up with me. I've had virtually no water in the last 5 days - a by-product of the dogs eating all of my good water bottles (planning on hitting Walgreens this afternoon and getting an aluminum one) and not carrying my water with me. I took action this morning though and even though I overslept - and dropped the boys of at daycare almost an hour late - I did get my workout done! Yay me!

I am also proud of my grocery shopping prowess earlier this month. When I go shopping again next Friday (when we can afford it) we will still have some supplies left from my earlier trip! Actually using the Crockpot Lady Site and planning my meals has helped so much. Tonight is going to be burgers, fries (for the boys) and veggies, tomorrow chili, Wednesday lemon chicken, Thursday Baked Penne, Friday left overs, Saturday "Brinner" with whole wheat buttermilk pancakes and apple cider syrup (from the Apple Farm) and Sunday beef stew or Pot roast. I love the feeling of having my whole week planned out already. After the stress of the weekend I feel much better overall.

Too much to do

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... maybe BBL later

I just have way too much to do today. I am supposed to have a doctor's appointment, but I am cancelling/rescheduling that. I still need to pick up the rest of my financial aid money from school - assuming it is in, the student accounts office is closed for training and no one can tell me if I even have a check there. I also need to pick up Jonas' new bed in Canandaigua, take mom into Syracuse to pick up her rental car and at some point finish my homework! Stressed out just thinking about it.

Shape Ups - the most wonderful sneakers ever!

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Zumba Express

I stole mom's sketchers this morning. I think I am in love with these shoes. My knees did not hurt going up the stairs, my heels do not hurt like they normally do at the end of the day and I couldn't wait to do a workout with them on. I am going to go for a run tomorrow and really test them out! These are fabulous sneakers and I am not going to be able to give them back to mom.

At the moment I am contributing the increased pounds this week to the cold meds drying me out and the weight training causing me to retain the water I am drinking. I am trying to drink at least 3liters or so today and try to flush some of this junk out of my system.

Sick Sick Sick...

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Nothing yet, need to get in Bum Bum Rapido or HIIT 15 at least (today is supposed to be my rest day, but still)

Ugh, it is almost noon on Sunday and I am the only one awake. And that is only because of the 3 cups of coffee I have had. Jonas has been coughing and running a fever all night. He slept in our bed (wouldn't even lay down in his) and woke up coughing at 4AM, he finally fell back to sleep about 20 minutes ago. Jackson has been coughing all night and awake since about 6AM and is finally taking  a nap. Jacques` didn't get to bed until 2 so is still sleeping... And I am sitting at the kitchen table trying to figure out something for lunch. Sort of vaguely hungry, but nothing really appeals at the moment. I do have French onion soup going though, and I am going to make some bread bowls for it in a little while.

Here's hoping that the boys are well enough to go to day care in the morning, I really can't afford to miss school so early in the semester.

ChaLEAN Extreme

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ChaLEAN Extreme, Burn Circuit 1

I started ChaLean Extreme today and I think I am going to like it. From what I have heard the cardio in it gets repetitive, so I will add some of the other BeachBody programs I have, C25K and Zumba to mix up the cardio. I am looking forward to this, and I am proud of myself for getting in my workout even with the moose hanging on and adding his own resistance...

And I have said "no" to the cheese puffs all day! :)

On the downside of my day, somehow I managed to accidently erase all the video off of Jacques` hard drive. I didn't actively erase anything, so I don't know how it happened, but it has certainly put a damper on my weekend.

Missed day

Oh the whoas (at least sometimes) of being a girl. Cramps have laid me up the last 2 days and generally fouled my mood so much... Led astray by grumpy hormones I have eaten cheese puffs again! I need to get those things out of my house.

I did make applesauce in the CrockPot this afternoon and my latest batch of yogurt. I am going to start a loaf of bread now so it is ready in the morning and then snuggle up on the couch with the monkey. He is not feeling well tonight - a late summer early fall cold has felled us both (the moose too). Coughing and crying. I think I am going to throw down on a pot of broccoli soup for him tomorrow - complete with whole wheat bread bowls. Hearty, filling, wholesome and healthy  I should be able to get at least 2 or 3 meals worth of food into Jonas with out complaint - heck he'll probably ask for seconds!

Paying for Cheese Puffs

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TurboFire Fire 45EZ Class

This morning I am paying for the cheese puffs I ate last night. Not financially - although really the cost of junk food overall is ridiculous. Especially when you consider how cheap junk food is next to real food. No I am paying for those cheese puffs with a lack of energy or drive to workout this morning and with a 1lb increase on the scale. I did not eat enough cheese puffs (or anything else) to have actually gained a pound overnight, but the cheese puffs and other snacks (I will not bore you with a bite for bite account) that I ate yesterday contained so much sodium that I am retaining the little bit of water that I drank. That was the other price. Instead of drinking nearly a gallon of water like I did all weekend, I barely had 6 glasses. Not nearly enough. Even 8 doesn't feel like enough to me. I never feel hydrated with less than 3 liters (about 12 cups) of water. I need to get a new reusable re-fillable water bottle to keep my water up. The puppies have chewed up my old ones.

I still need to do my TurboFire workout and get started on tomorrow's homework.

Day 4

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Dance class

So I made the first crockpot meal that didn't really turn out. Not bad just sort of bland. I'm still sore from the TurboFire core 20. Tight through the middle and hips, but looking forward to my workout tomorrow.

Too tired for a long post today so this will have to do.

Energized morning & New (School)Year's Resolution

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Turbo Fire Core 20, Bum Bum Rapido


I woke up energized and refreshed this morning! I don't think I have felt that way in a long time. I was actually able to wake up a little before my first alarm went off and was out of bed making coffee and getting my workout prepped before the second one. Going back to cleaner eating is doing the work it is supposed to. And I was rewarded with another 3+ pounds down on the scale.

So I have decided to make a new year's resolution for the start of the school year.

This school year I will make my health and my family's health a priority - this means:
Cooking as much from scratch as possible
Little (for the boys) to no (for me) "junk" food. If it does provide real nutrition I do not need to eat it!
Adhere to the clean eating principles - whole grains, lots of fruits and veggies, lean healthy protein at every meal.
No procrastinating on homework - I get cranky, miss sleep eat poor and skip workouts when I stay up until 2AM writing papers and doing homework. All my homework should be done by 10PM the night before it is due at the very latest! A day or before is better.
Start research papers soon rather than later. I already have an idea of what I want to write about for at least 2 of my papers, now is the time to get started on them.
Workout every day - even just a walk with the boys. I feel awful and am not the mom I want to be when I don't move. I need those endorphins to keep me sane and keep me from over reacting to everything.
I will blog every day (yes every day) to keep myself on track and accountable. It will include my weight and my workout.

This is my New (School)Year's Resolution!

edited to add:
10 days of getting back to clean eating and my personal portion sizes have drastically reduced themselves naturally and I have lost almost 8lbs!

Getting my plan in motion

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Well I haven’t been as good as I would like to have been with exercise this week, but I have been eating much healthier and it is starting to show! The scale is moving back down again and I do feel much better. In went grocery shopping on Wednesday and while I spent almost my entire food budget for the month in one trip I have many of the supplies necessary to start making all our foods from scratch like I want to.  Real whole wheat bread in the bread machine, orange chicken and fried rice (which was absolutely fantastic! Authentic flavor without extra crap and no delivery or take out charge) in the slow cooker, even whole grain ridiculously tasty macaroni and cheese – it may not be low fat, but it was clean and wholesome and with the full fat cheesy version I ate ½ the portion size I would have of boxed mac and cheese – and I didn’t need to add some hamburgers or hot dogs or chicken or anything else to make it feel like a meal.

Now I have got granola cooking in the slowcooker while I do homework and give the boys a bath. Woo Hoo for multi tasking!

Wrong direction

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I'm moving in the wrong direction. I know I did not eat enough to gain 2lbs since yesterday, but I certainly have not had enough water and way to much salt for the scale to have changed that much.

At least my dance class has got me moving and in the mood to move again. I have decided that for this semester I am going to do ChaLEAN Extreme and my dancier cardio workouts - along with some running. I will be able to do something different every day and keep my motivation changing up.

I am also going to join the Eat Clean Diet Contest and a few more of the challenges on the Tosca Reno boards.

Need to get started

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From Flab to Fab - one mom's journey from fat to fit (I am looking to be one hot mama!)

It seems that my journey to health and fitness has had a major stall out. So I am going to blog about my journey and force myself to confront the reality of my progress everyday. The last two weeks of poor food choices and total lack of movement have taken a little toll and I have gained about 2 lbs.

I am sick of being fat and out of shape, but I am also sick of dieting. I just don't have the energy or drive to restrict myself from foods I enjoy - or the foods I can afford. It is sadly true that good quality food is more expensive and it is hard to feed a family of 4 on less than $400 a month and have it all be good food. That said, I am making it my mission to use whole food and make things from scratch. I am not going to deny myself or my family cookies or cupcakes - but I am only going to eat the ones I have made from scratch. I am only going to use bread (at least for myself) that I made from scratch - that way when I eat whole wheat bread I know exactly what went into it. I am going to buy and use some new tools to help me with this, but I am beginning to think that if  eat real food instead of processed "franken-food" I may find a big difference in my appetite and lose the need to fill some void inside with overwhelming amounts of food.