Monday, January 17, 2011

Day 4 of pics and Zumba!

So today I was off of work and I had a nice day with my hubby. We got up around 10 and went and ran some errands then came home and relaxed until around 515 then we headed off to the gym and I went to zumba it was a blast! I love it then when I was done I did some ab workouts and walked on the stairmaster until hubby was done with his workout. I came home and used my steamer to make some fish and veggies and everything came out delish! So now I'm onto day four of the 30days of pics.

Day 4:
A picture of your night
When I got home from Zumba
Cant wait for Thursday's Zumba!


Sunday, January 16, 2011

Weigh in, recipe, and day3 of 30

So it's officially my weigh in day and I am really disappointed with my results. I was up 1.4lbs bringing me to 177.8. I know what I did wrong last week and now and I know what to do to to fix it. The whole being sick thing threw me off and I didn't pay to close attention to points until the end of the week and by that time it was too late. So Sunday starts a new week and I'm looking forward to it!!! I found a recipe on another bloggers page on a green smoothie. I made my own version of it and it was so delicious and only 2pts+
filled the glass perfectly

I used
1banana-0pts+
1orange-0pts+
blended those together
then added 1cup of spinach-0pts+
and then added 1/2cup of low fat plain yogurt-2pts+ and ice blended all together and it was so yummy! It was my first green smoothie. I have been wanting to try one new recipe a week and this was my recipe for this week. Last week I tried ww chili that I got out of their store recipe magazine


Chili Picante:
Points Plus Value: 6
Prep: 1 minute
Cook: 14 minutes

3/4 pound 93% lean ground beef
1 cup refrigerated prechopped tricolor bell pepper
1 cup medium picante sauce
1 cup water
1 15 ounce can black beans, rinced and drained
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1/2 cup reduced fat sour cream

1. Heat a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add beef and bell pepper to pan; cook until beef is browned, stirring to crumble beef.

2. Add picante sauce and next 3 ingredients to pan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, 8 minutes. Ladle into 4 bowls; top evenly with sour cream.

Yield: 4 servings (serving size: about 1 cup chili and 2 tablespoons sour cream)

let me know if you try it and what you think!!!

Lastly its day three of my 30days of pictures so that means

Day 3:
Post a picture of the cast of your favorite show.
Love this show!!!

Grey's is such an awesome show, always keeps you guessing, and is full of hot male dr's if you haven't seen it I would definitely add it to your netflix queue : D !!! 
I hope everyone has a great upcoming week and definitely try one of the recipes they are very quick and easy and super yummy!!!


Saturday, January 15, 2011

Day 2 of 30

2. A picture of you and person you’ve been the closest with the longest
Me and my momma
Not much to say today.... not looking forward to my weigh in tomorrow but it's a new week starting tomorrow so I know what I need to do. I'm ready to see the low end of the 170's!!!



Friday, January 14, 2011

30 days of pics

So I saw a really cool idea today posted by Stephanie @ She's in there somewhere  its where you post a different picture of yourself or something for the next 30days and each day has a topic. Last time I tried one of these type of things I failed miserably but I am going to try it again so here goes nothin!!!

Day one: Post a picture of  yourself and 15 facts
My wedding day 3/5/10
15 Facts:
1.I'm the only child my parents had together but I have 4 half siblings
2. I have worked for att for 5years
3.I went to nail school completed the program but never got my license
4. When I was a freshman I was in public school then went to a private school for two years and graduated from public school senior year and I blame this on not really having any close friends now
5. My favorite color is pink
6.My wedding colors were pink and orange and yest it looked good
7. I almost married someone else and had last minute feelings for someone else that was about to move and made the choice to give up everything (rental house, car, and engagement, deposits on wedding stuff) to be with him and he ended up being the man of my dreams.
8. I'm a hopeless romantic
9. I love sushi
10. I hate going to the movies
11. I haven't completed one workout program (p90x, slim in 6, power 90) I always give up half way through
12. I'm an irish mexican
13. I don't have any girl best friends
14. I'm terrified of flying even though I used to do it every summer
15. I love mexican food


Thursday, January 13, 2011

random thoughts

So I don't get it I got on the scale again this morning and was up again! I'm sure it had everything to do with the sushi I had last night and I told myself not to get discouraged I am almost to my 10lbs loss on weight watchers and obviously this is working for me. I can't throw in the towel until I see that I'm consistently gaining or not losing at all it hasn't been even a week yet but still it stinks. I know I haven't been on plan as far as my eating goes. I barley have been eating since I was sick and when I would eat I would eat crap food and not eating all your points or close to it doesn't help too so I'm trying to best to not get discouraged and I'm trying to take a step back and look at what I have done wrong. This is just not a good week for me we are having friends over for dinner tomorrow so I can control that but then we are going to a christmas party (yah I know random and late ) so I will do my best to say no and make the best decisions. Anyway on a different note I got this water bottle
I haven't quite decided if I like it or not. I like how its small and compact and has a handle which makes it easier to carry and its size helps when I'm at the gym but the whole biting of the nob thing to get water out is hard for me. It's not comfortable and sometimes my jaw starts hurting since I drink a lot of water. Do any of you guys have this bottle and if so what do you think?

Hubby and I are trying to figure out what we want to do for our anniversary. It's not until March 5th but we want it to be something fun and good we are doing the a-z thing. Where each anniversary you go somewhere that has the first letter of the alphabet depending on what year your at. ex 1st anny=a (arizona, anaheim, alaska) 2nd anny = b ( boston, bahamas) and so on from there. We live in Az and were thinking of just getting a cabin and having a relaxing time and it's something we enjoy doing. The place we got married at gave us a voucher for one free night and we wanted to use it the night of our anniversary and do the cabin earlier in the week so we called today to book it and they were completely booked : ( I'm so bummed but it makes sense because that is the wedding peak time and its a Saturday. So we are thinking of just going one night in one of the upcoming weekends.



Wednesday, January 12, 2011

ok I'm better now!!!

Oh I'm so relieved to be better now it's been a week!!! It's the longest I have ever been sick. I think I'm for sure going to get a flu shot next year because that was awful! Anyway I'm happy to be back in it I had a few slip ups eating wise over the weekend. I would go the whole day without eating since I lost my appetitie then I would be to weak to cook and hubs would be tired so we ordered pizza one night and applebees to go. I obviously didn't use my whole points each day but what I did eat was not that good for me. It was comfort food while I was sick. I know I made bad choices but I'm not going to dwell on it since I know what I was doing and I didn't blow my points out. Now that I'm better I have been back on plan even though Hubby and I are going to sushi tonight. I can't wait. Last night I went back to the gym!!! I can't believe it! It's the first time I have gone in a while (well I went last week to Zumba but it's been a while since before that) I decided I wanted to start c25k again so I did week 1 day 1 on the treadmill. I don't know why but the treadmill seemed harder to run on then outside. I miss running outside but I want to complete c25k once and for all! The only thing that was a bummer is this morning when I got on the scale it was up .6 I know that's not very much and my actual tracking weigh in day for ww isn't till Sunday but I was bummed. I haven't been regular as far as my bowel is concerned sorry tmi I know so I figure since I didn't go yesterday it may have something to do with it. So we will see what happens tomorrow!!



Wednesday, January 5, 2011

It got me....

I thought I could dodge it but my lovely husbands flu got me. Well I'm not sure what it is but I have a fever and body aches and I'm super tired along with an awful flemmy cough. I'm so bummed because I was just getting back into the flow of working out to accompany my weight watchers. So I stayed home from work all day and only left my bed to go to the restroom now I'm back to my couch and still have a low grade fever well its 100.3 so I'm just going to lay around and hopefully get better fast I hate being sick and I just want to be better already even though it's only been one day. I'm already ready to get back into it and start working out. I saw 176 on the scale this morning and I can't wait to hit my first weightwatchers mini goal of 175lbs 5% of my original weight!!!

Monday, January 3, 2011

Holy Zumba and 30day shred!

So today I decided to open up my 30day shred and give it a shot and boy oh boy was I surprised I thought to myself 20mins that's nothing. I seriously could not keep up!! I was pooped it's really hard!! So about 30mins later I finished and was so happy to have it done. I wasn't quite sure how to track it in my activity tracker though. Any suggestions? I just did aerobics=low impact. Then tonight I attended Zumba at my local gym. I have attended Zumba before and it was pretty blah and boring but this lady was intense it was so fun but hard!!! I was the only new person there and boy was it obvious I was all over the place when it seamed like everyone else knew what they were doing. I was soaked with sweat when I left and I had an awesome time!! I can't wait to go next Monday or later this week. It's a different girl but I think I may give it a shot.

So also today I went with a friend who's wedding I'm in to get my bridesmaid dress. I was a little disappointed that she wanted to go so early because her wedding is not until June and I plan to be at goal by then. I had to order a 14 which sucked. I want to be around a 6 when I'm at goal. That is a lot of taking in. She didn't want to wait on having them ordered so I had to order too big just in case for some reason I don't hit goal and I don't even know what size I will be at that point. But I guess it will be nice having to have it brought in : )



Sunday, January 2, 2011

Weekly Weigh In

So with WeightWatchers my weekly weigh in day is Sunday. My hubby has been sick the last couple of days so I was up a lot this morning with him making sure he was ok. So that led to us not getting out of bed until around 4pm today. Yes 4pm it was ridiculous we would wake up a few times then go back to sleep but finally got out of bed at 4. I got up did my "morning" pee and got on the scale. It read back to me 178.6!!! Yay yay yay. So far I have lost every week I have a weigh in. That has never happened to me I wish I wouldn't of have waited so long to get on the weightwatchers train. Anyway When I signed up for weightwatchers it had me set a mini goal of losing 5% of my body weight I'm only 3lbs away from that. I can't wait to see 175 on the scale. I honestly can't even remember the last time I saw it. When I saw the mini goal and that it would be 10lbs lost I never thought I would get there. I decided to change that mentality and tell myself I can't wait until I get there. I have to believe that it's possible and I will accomplish it. I'm trying my hardest not to get sick but the flu is pretty contagious I hear so I'm loading up on vitamins and fluids and I'll keep my fingers crossed I don't get the bug. ps these are amazing!
4pts+



Saturday, January 1, 2011

2011 is my year!!!

So I finished the year weighing in at 182 down 12lbs since August. I can't wait to see what the new year brings me! I am focused and I know I can hit it by June if I stick with it. That's only 6months!!!! I was down to 178 last week but Christmas came and I'm not going to beat myself up about it I had an awesome time with family and my hubby and I will cherish the memories I think that makes up for 2lbs. Now it's time to focus!! I don't really have any "resolutions" more goals.

1. Be at 135lbs by June 1st that's 21weeks so if I lose 2lbs a week which I was doing for the first two weeks of weight watchers and now I'm going to add in workouts I will be at 140lbs by the first week of June oh how I can't wait and just in time for bathing suit season and I have a pool!

2. Attend at least 1 workout class a week

3. Run a 5k in the spring. I can't wait for it to warm up a bit so I can get out there and finish c25k once and for all and sign up for my first race!!!

4. Become more spiritual. I believe in God and I feel I have a semi decent relationship with him but I know it can improve greatly for both me and my hubby. We have a couples devotional bible that I want to start using and I also have a daily devotional for people on a weight loss journey that I would like to start reading everyday.

5. Try to take my dogs on a walk at least 3x a week they need exercise too and they love walks!!!

6. Become a better wife to my wonderful hubby. I don't think I'm a bad wife but there are things I can improve on that would for sure improve our marriage.

That's really it. I can't wait to see the results that the year brings both physically mentally and spiritually.