Traffic

I am grateful to be home safe tonight. It is crazy driving around town today and I feel like making it home safely was a miracle :)

Here where we live there is a HIGH amount of 18-19 year old male drivers. Most of them drive like they own the road and are very very aggresive behind the wheel. I usually don't go out during high traffic periods.

We carved pumpkins tonight and we are getting ready for trick or treating tomorrow :) The kids will look so darn cute, can't wait.

Killin It!

So, I have been getting down to business and working out hard this week. Now to just stay consistent and I will see my results!!

I have 131 days to my 30th birthday. I want to make each one count and reach my goals I set for this year. Part of that is getting my weight down to a great happy healthy weight.

18 weeks! I can do this!!

I just have to say I am so sore! My muscles needed help for sure. I have started The New Rules of Lifting for Women again (I did this after my son was born). I am also walking/running everyday. I am enjoying the running and want to make it a lifelong activity. I can see races in my future, maybe a marathon one day. I am also doing some cardio videos at home in the afternoons during my daughters nap.

I am itching to get busy with something and I keep getting side tracked. I have to stay focused and stay on track with the goals I have set already. I see the bigger picture and I want to be there already, but I won't be able to get there without the baby steps. I need to remember that!!

So, What am I doing and focusing on right now?
1. Studying for The National Strength and Conditioning Certified Personal Training exam. I am expected to take this by the end of the year, so I can help others just in time for New Years resolution time.
2. Getting my weight down and increasing my strength.
3. Organizing and keeping the house kept.
4. Increasing my spiritual relationship with God by reading everyday
5. keeping my relationship with my family strong.

I feel good right now, not overworked and I need to keep it that way. I, like alot of women, over schedule myself and I am trying to avoid this.

So, here is to keeping it consistent, staying positive, and KILLIN IT!

Friends

I am extremely grateful for good friends and laughter today! Life is better with friends, isn't it?!

Coconut Oil

WHERE HAVE I BEEN???? Seriously, the stuff is amazing! I am just learning about it and using it. Tonight I didn't have enough butter to make cookies for my son as an afternoon Friday snack. I was thinking okay, I don't have shortning because it is crap and I just got home from the market, what am I going to use that will work. Then it occured to me that I had a jar of coconut oil/butter. I looked at the jar to see if it would convert equal parts for baking and sure enough it does. The cookies turned out AMAZING!

It is good in cooking because the high heat doesn't change the lipids into transfats. It is good for hair and skin topically. I am just learning about all the great uses, but I am excited to add this to my arsenal of good general use items.

Check it out, if you haven't already. If you have and you have more tips, I would love to hear them!!

Freedom

Today I am grateful for being able to help people when I can and my freedom to do the things I want to do when I want. This comes from my husband staying with the kids, the country we live in and the lifestyle in which my family lives.

I was able to drop everything and go help a friend and I was so happy to do so!

Pre-School

Today(well everyday) I am grateful for my son's preschool. He is already starting to talk better and behave better. I am glad that the little amount of education that this country has includes people who want to help young kids with their delays. I would be lost without it!

Ah Ha!

I had one of those moments this morning. I feel so good and I want to write about it before this feeling melts away. I realized that the reason I have been losing and gaining these 10 lbs is because I am not focusing on changing for my life. I was doing short term things and then thinking I could go back to bad habits and that the weight would continue to come off. Well we all know how that works.

I do want to lose this weight and keep it off. I do want to be healthy and keep bad foods out of my diet. Here is the thing that struck me: The bad foods aren't going anywhere! They will always be around!! BUT I can choose to eat them or not. AND I don't have to stay away from them forever. Once in a while is fine and while I am not in a healthy state very rare will I eat them. This is how it works. This is REAL LIFE.

My REAL LIFE right now: I can't get to the gym, I have a baby. SO I am going for jogs in the morning and doing things I can do. I'm done with the excuses, I'm taking responsibility for my actions and I am doing something about it. It is my time to take charge of my life.

Thank you Heavenly Father for helping me put it all together!

For some of you, you may be thinking 'where have you been' but for me this is my breakthrough. The MOTIVATION I have been lacking. The WHY behind it all. Everyone has to have that breakthrough moment in their struggle. I feel like I have finally found mine. Let's see where it takes me..............................