Late Weigh-in...Just so tired...

• It has been quite the week and a half.  I am so glad that I am back to work, but damn am I tired.  I think my body is still working on getting back to normal (oh ya and healing that big ass hole in my stomach) so when I get home from work I have zero energy.  Seriously my poor family is lucky to even see me as I walk by to my bed, and not to mention the state of my house... Seriously I need the laundry fairy to come to my house.  Please don't judge I'm just being real folks!
  

  
  

• Oh did I tell you what else I got for my birthday....3 BIG POUNDS!!!That puts me at 176.6  Damnit I would totally be ok with that if I had, had a big birthday celebration dinner but I didn't.  I had my regular old meal of fish, rice and veggies and for a birthday treat a 100 cal popsicle.  I have no idea what's going on.  I am eating pretty well. I know the exercise is lacking in intensity but I am walking my feet off.   Uggg I am getting so discouraged I can't wait until I can do more.       

• Yesterday I made it back to the gym for the first time. I went to TaTa's gym Fitness 19 (she was down visiting) their policy is members can bring in a "buddy" for free anytime.  It was even better because they don't try to upsell you on their gym like most do when you visit and I even took DQ,  kids club was $2.50 and she even got to do the kids Cardio Class.  I'm not sure if all the Fit19's are like this (I think they are franchised gyms not sure so please don't take my word on it). Anyway I walked on the treadmill for a mile then the elliptical was calling my name.  I figured it's kinda like walking  right?? So I jumped on one and kept it easy  I did bump it up to a level 4 but felt a twinge after a minute so I bumped it back down to a 2 I did another 3 miles.  I'm want to try to get back to the gym at least 2-3 times this week and see if that helps anything. 

• My other goal for the week is to eat 3-5 servings of veggies a day.  I am a serious snacker  so instead of the "low cal" processed/convenience snacks I tend to grab I am going to go for veggies and wholesome unprocessed and see if that helps too. 

• I am still keeping up with my new found love of being more put together...though the Hubs was doubtful not that he was being mean or discouraging it just seems to take a while and we do get up so early he didn't think I would keep it up instead of hitting that snooze bar a few more times...not mean just honest haha.  Though a few days I did think about it!  Honestly my weight and size being at a standstill I just need the extra confidence booster, and really it makes me feel good and when I feel good I feel more inclined to make the better/healthy choices to stay on that path. 

Shirt - H & M

Jacket - Elle (Kohl's)

 Pants - Jennifer Lopez ( Kohl's) 

Shoes - Kohl's ... and they are so comfortable, I may need to go pick up the coral pair

Jewelry - necklace Forever 21, bracelet Claire's 

So Many Bubbles So Little Time

Happy Memorial Day peeps!

Hope you are all enjoying the three day weekend if you were lucky enough to have one.
It was pretty quiet around here.  We decided to just stay home and be low key.  But that doesn't mean we didn't have any fun. 

On Saturday we did this

We did the Bubble Run 5k!!!  It was so much fun and so well put together.  We signed up for this about a month ago when I saw it on Living Social (kinda like a knock off Groupon) for $24 then I saw a $5 off any Living Social deal of $15 or more so we scored and did the run for a grand total of $19  see I'm a freaking math wizard.  Talk about a deal! Normally these types of runs are anywhere from $35-$60.  I know right, but they are so much fun and I will pony up the money if it looks really good.   Luckily this time I didn't have too.

Like I said it was so much fun, I would totally do it again and maybe even pay full price.   The race started at 9AM a little late for some races but it was being held on the UCI campus and thee was a no noise rule until 9am so that meant no loud speakers or music until then.  Damn collage kids what, they actually want to sleep in on a Saturday pffftt.  I kid.... anyway once it started the bubbles where in full force.  I was a little worried that it was going to be really slippery, but actually it wasn't at all which was good as this course was REALLY hilly,

 

 and the bubbles where just as BIG.

 Everyone had a great time and we made it a girls day with TaTa, DQ, my mom, and of course CareBear.

But as with all race there is always some EPIC FAIL!!!  

 



PS.  I have no clue who that is if I did, I would not have let her wear white pants and a thong when there is water involved (isn't that like an unwritten rule or something).  

Week in Pictures

As I was going through my phone I figured I'd recap my week in pictures for you cause I know you are all so interested in what I'm doing every single minute of the day...NOT

Ok this is actually a little NSV for me.  The free pantie from Victoria's Secret. I've only ever gone there for perfume (I love me some Body by Victoria) but I've never been comfortable buying anything else from there and not to mention I didn't fit into anything (I did have myself measured there for a bra once and then was promptly told "Oh we don't carry that size sorry." So yes slightly scarred ever since) so I've always given the free pantie card to TaTa.  This time I figured I'm gonna use it and if it doesn't fit now it will later cause this girl is on a mission!!  Guess what, it fit so all those free panties are mine NOW.  Whoot Whoo... and who knows I may just have to get measured for a bra again soon. Though I'm not sure I could drop $50+ bucks on a bra  yea I can be cheap like that

Ugg this one kills me. I love living in Southern California, the weather is great and there is always something to do and everything is truly less than an hour drive oceans, mountains, deserts.  But the traffic is effing a pain in the ass.  Sometimes commuting can suck it!

When you can't make it to the gym ya gotta #JustDance  I freakin love that Wii game and it actually gives you a good burn, that's for an hours worth of showing off my sweet moves.

and when you can make it to the gym you pump some iron baby... I've become pretty confidant in my lifting skills lately so on my weekly gym dates with CareBear I make her do some lifting (and  get a third day in there for me) win win.

and this is the feeling when you forget your pony holder and you have hair sticking to the sweat on the back of your neck Ewwwwww

 

 

Once again sitting in traffic but the weather was so nice I figured I'd take advantage and work on these pasty ass legs.  #thisgirlneedsatan

 

at least I don't do it this way... WTF? dude,  and I'm not sure if he was wearing  any clothes at all, when we passed him he didn't have a shirt on either?

How was your week?

Retire to The Pool

What an amazing weekend!! 

The girls at work and I celebrated the retirement of Ms. L  she is retiring after 19 years at our school.  We decided to spend the weekend at one of the other girls house in beautiful Temecula. 

The weekend consisted of lots of relaxing, hanging by the pool (it was a gorgeous day too, low 80's yay again for So Cal weather!! sorry midwest peeps)  and of course tons of food and drink. 

Here is how the weekend went in pictures.....

Ok I  love this pic cause you can totally see definition in my arms :)

I could get used to this... when do I get to retire???

This may or may not have happened....

This totally did happen

Then we ended up at a little dive bar...
I totally heart banjo!

So I must say, I did indulge a little more than normal (and it didn't help that it is that time of month).
I probably had one to many tortilla chips, and a few too many drinks but I kept it to just the one day and come Sunday morning I got right back on track.  I don't feel all that bad.  Life happens and some times we just let loose a little but overall I believe that as long as I stick to my healthy lifestyle 90% of the time I can party the shit out of the other 10%.

Hope ya'll had a great weekend!

Fat to Fit Link Up

I've noticed that some of the earlier blogs I read have kinda vanished so I've been scoping out blogland for some new reads and motivation cause I have so much free time ya know and it's not like I want to actually clean my house or get stuff done.  So I've stumbled on to a couple of really good ones that fricken funny and a little wrong (in a good way).

One of them is the Mustache Diaries by Marcy  she pretty much keeps it real and doesn't sugar coat it.  So today she and two friends Jenna and Lori are doing a Link up!

So  I mentioned in my last post how the scale is slow going lately and as most of you know I am a total scale whore....yes I just totally said that.  So it's been pretty crappy feeling like I'm eating so well working my ass off at the gym and staying in groove with running (which I actually have been doing I know I'm pretty surprised myself), and seeing such slow progress.

So I decided to quit procrastinating and take some new progression pics and measurements. You can see all my before and afters here.

HOLY CRAP!! That scale is a lying B*tch.....(ok not really I guess it does say I've lost 38lbs but being at this almost a year and the work I feel I put in it should say more)

Measurements

May 2012                  March 2013

              Waist  49"                           38"             -11"

             Hips   51"                           46"             -5"

                   Bust   41.75"                       38"            -3.75"

                   Arms  15.75"                    13.5"            -2.25"

                 Thighs   27"                      24.50"           -2.5

 

 

That's a total loss of 24.5"   Booya!!!

 

So I guess this means I really need to not focus on the numbers so much and take more motivation away from the tape measure  (he might have to become my new BBF).

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Frankie says Relax... Then get Sick

This weekend was pretty relaxing...finally.

I could have just used a meme with the saying
but the muscles make it so much nicer to look at :)

Friday, what I thought was my allergies were kickin up, so I decided to take a rest day. Have to admit it was kinda nice just relaxing and clearing out my DVR  (anyone else watching the Following OMG! talk about suspenseful it's so good) also watched the season finale of Biggest Loser so glad Danni won I loved her and damn her arms were amazballs, but bummed that Gina won the at home prize I was hoping Lisa would win she looked fantastic and turly did most of it at home.

Saturday rolled around and there was no soccer game. CareBear came over so the hubs could replace her brakes (have I mentioned how nice it is to have a guy who can fix things) and we were planning on going to the gym.  Well time got away and before we knew it it was 1pm.  Kids Club closes at 1pm on the weekend so we decided to bust out the Just Dance 4.  It was so much fun like a mini dance party at home and we sure worked up a sweat and kept it going for well over an hour. 


Sunday I started out with a 4mile run.  It felt really good to get out there in the early morning air.  Even though I wasn't feeling all that great (I think I have a slight cold and not the allergies I had thought).  I aimed for a nice easy run and turned out I had a pretty good pace 12:20 per mile and it still seemed easyish.  I think all the cross training and weight lifting and evil squats are helping with my running.

 When DQ woke up her cough seemed to be worse but she was still bouncing off the walls and it was such a nice day (75F +  the perks of living in So. Cal.)  I just couldn't keep her inside.  We decided to hit up the regional park and do some pony rides.  Turns out they were having an Easter Event so it was pretty crowded but we stayed anyway.

Such a happy girl with her horse.

We played some games, decorated cookies ( I didn't even have a bite) and just enjoyed the sunshine.

Sun, butterflies, and frosting, what could be better

After all was said and done Sunday night turned out to be pretty rough. DQ was up most of the night coughing, and when she wasn't I was. So not much was happening in the sleep department.  Monday I was able to get her into the Doctor"s and turns out my little peanut has a sinus infection and bronchitis...ugg again I win mother of the year...NOT! Poor thing my only excuse is she seemed fine except for the cough and she was still totally driving me to drink crazy.  So now she is on meds and all is well... and she is still driving me right to the wine bottle crazy.

Hopefully this will help her sleep, if not maybe I'll down
the bottle of Nyquil so someone sleeps, whatever works right?

Geckos, The Munchies and Weigh-in

Let me start this post by saying it was written on Monday and again I forgot to hit publish geesh.

I feel like I'm losing my mind sometimes.  So it is Wednesday weigh-in day and I was up +0.4lbs  that puts me at 184.6 not the way I was wanting to go, and if you keep reading you'll see why.


I'm kinda bummed I was so motivated last week then.....

My car took a shit again!  Ugg on Wednesday the air went out and froze something (the hubs told me but when he talks cars I feel a little like Charlie Brown when an adult is talking all I hear is waa, waa, waa, waa but anyway) so it was pretty much undriveable until he fixed it. Which meant I had to cancel my Wed. gym session with Soben.

 Then Thursday this happened:

But we ran out of light and it didn't get fixed,  so I had to borrow mom's car again (have I mentioned she is the best mom ever!)  But that also meant no gym again, I know I could should of run but I didn't.  I talked myself into picking up the house because my stepdaughter Ash was visiting (that is actually a BIG  deal as she lives in Arizona and her mom can be, let's just say indecisive so we don't get to see her as often as we'd like) so even though I could have squeezed it in I didn't, and of course a case of the lazies got me and I didn't work out at all.

and this also happened...

DQ was taking out her Leopard Gecko and slipped knocking down the aquarium.  Luckily everyone was all right and Kiyou (her lizard) survived but the aquarium did not.  So it was a mad dash to find a suitable home for it in other wards something it couldn't escape from until we could get to the pet store and replace it.  So I was stressed and used that as an excuse to.

the one positive was my eating was really good all weekend I avoided pizza when DQ and I went over to a friends Saturday and opted for a salad with chicken and dressing on the side instead.....until Sunday afternoon.  I just felt super snackie. The morning started off great on the way to Disneyland we stopped at Starbucks and I got a passion tea unsweetened and a egg white spinach wrap.  We only stayed at Dland for a couple of hours and when I got home I had the rest of my salad.  Then the munchies hit I swear I didn't smoke anything  and I had a serving of cinnamon pita chips, then another, then another... then I had some Peanut Butter Toast Crunch (dry) then some more.  Crap I wasn't even hungry!!  I also made sure to track everything into myfitnesspal.  I didn't go over my calories but it was empty calories and made my feel like crap the rest of the day.  So I'm not to hopeful about weigh-in this week, but it was my fault and I need to take responsibility and move on.

Wake Up Sleeping Beauty

So to keep up with my running cause I've been doing a pretty shitty job as of late and spend time with my family so they actually remember I do live here I decided that I am going to wake my sorry butt up and run in the mornings on Thursdays so I have the evenings to nag spend quality time with them.

This may not seem very daunting to most but for me this means waking up at 3:30AM  to be on the road for work by 5:15AM.  So today was my first Thursday and of course DQ was up all night with a cough.  At 3:30  I called off work and seriously debated going back to bed (I have to stay home all day with a sick kiddo I need my strength...right??)  I even got as far as climbing back into bed...and stayed there for a whole 5 minutes before good choices or guilt but what ev kicked in.  I got dressed  grabbed a banana and off I went.

Yes folks that's AM

That gym was a ghost town, only a few hard core peeps were there (look at me I'm hard core!)  and I totally kicked some treadmill butt HELL YA!  Though it was hard to get up I love morning runs and always do better than in the afternoon or evening.

Look at all that liquid awesome!!
and that weird face, what was I doing?

A little full body shot for ya.

 

I'm so glad I didn't flake this morning I felt great afterwards.  Then I remembered I have a session with my trainer this afternoon at 5PM doh...  Oh well looks like a double hitter today, but at least I will be home sooner that if I stayed a ran afterward.  Also since I was home with DQ I was able to get a crapton of stuff done today (which means I spent the day cleaning the house).

Do you like to workout in the mornings or in the evenings?

Bars, Converse, and Towels

This weekend was filled with so many surprises and they were all good!! 

It actually started on Thursday, the girls and I went out to happy hour at the yard house to celebrate Barbies birthday.  I was actually pretty good only one Blue Moon and one Gobstopper Martini (though I really wanted another 3 they are that good, but I was a driver) and split and appetizer BBQ Chicken Pizza with CareBear.

You have a BABY in a BAR!!!   Yup I'm that mom.

Then the other girls went out to another bar but being the good girl that I am, I took DQ and I back to CareBears for bed.  Also I am totally OK taking DQ to Happy Hour and a restaurant bar, but pretty sure it would be fully frowned upon to take her to a full blown bar at least after 9pm.

When I got home on Friday the Hubs surprised me with a quick overnight at the Mission Inn for a little R&R which was sooo needed and totally awesome!  The hotel was absolutely beautiful and super fancy.  After checking in and freshening up we headed to the Presidential Lounge (named for all the Presidents that have stayed there) for some drinks and piano jazz while we waited for our dinner reservations.  Dinner was YUM and very romantic.  I very rarely eat red meat (just my preference) but I ended up having the filet mignon and it didn't disappoint. 

So romantic *hearts*

It was so nice we really wanted to stay longer but had lots to do Saturday (so we are going to just have to go again darn...lol) But I had a great NSV while I was there.  When I got out of the shower the towel actually wrapped all the way around me!!!  I normally take my own beach towel *hence big ass towel* so I can wrap it around me while I get ready but since this was so last minute I forgot.  It totally made my day.

and finally Saturday afternoon I was so excited to take family pics of my Bestie Kyss, her hub and two dogs.  Then I got this surprise

I'm going to be an AUNTIE!!  I'm so excited.  When we got to the location I asked if the had any ideas, and they said a few then pulled out these tiny Converse.  I totally freaked and started to cry.  I am just so happy for them.  They are going to be such awesome parents.  So "family" pics were actually announcement pics.

How was your weekend?    Did you have any surprises?

 

Perfectly P!NK

I got the best birthday surprise!  On Thursday I was hanging out at work waiting for CareBear so we could hit up the gym when one of our parents came in to the office and starting chatting.  Then asked if anyone liked P!NK?....

 Ummm HELLO!! this girl right here <----

I freaked I LOVE her and totally want to be her, have you seen that bod? I calmly said that my daughter (TaTa) and I love her and were pretty bummed because we had tried to get tickets for her concert  but they were sold out.  Then the heavens opened and angles started to sing he said he had two, TWO!! extra tickets OMG.  I offered to buy them but he said no....and just GAVE them to me WHAT??  Holy crap I about passed out I could not believe it.  I texted TaTa a picture and she called me freaking out it was fantastic.

So then this was Saturday in a nutshell:

Best Birthday surprise EVER!

TaTa and I on our way to LA

Gotta love hate LA traffic thank goodness we gave ourselves
2  hours to get there, even though it's only 44 miles from us.

At Staples Center

It was by far the best concert I've been to.  She is so awesome, tons of energy, and damn she is fit.  She did all kinds of ariel stunts and singing the whole time that takes talent folks (I can't even run and talk lol).  I loved it!!  Thank you, Thank you for the best birthday ever!

*(kinda bummed I didn't take more pics of "the show" but I was just enjoying it so much that I totally forgot about the camera)

Bonding

I had a great weekend full of bonding time with my girls (the Hubs is still not a 100% so he rested up some more, I can't wait till he kicks this thing, at least he's finally on meds).

On Friday TaTa and I had a date night. I was majorly craving a burger and had a free burger waiting for me a Red Robin cause of my birthday... And who am I to turn down a free burger!  But that meant some planning as Red Robin is not the most diet friendly. So we headed to the gym first to get our sweat on, and did an hour of intense elliptical work. Yea baby I burned over 800 cals. there was my burger!  

I kicked some 19 year old butt on the elliptical!!

My Blue burger, I did lighten it up a bit my subbing
a Boca Patty and Whole Grain bun, and it was so worth the sweat!

Then after my run on Sunday morning DQ asked what we were doing, she said she wanted to "go some where?" Well I though about hitting up Disneyland but I think we are planning a mid week trip so... I figured we could go up and visit my mom.  It's only about a 40 min. drive so off we went.  It was nice, but  cold .  We went to lunch then walked over to my brothers.  DQ's "other" favorite place, seeing as he has a few of her favorite animals, horses.  Oh my goodness she was in heaven.

DQ giving Kyra some love.

And she even found the last little bit of snow from Friday.

Wednesday Weigh-In

Good Morning.  How's everyone doing today?   Here not to bad, still feeling pretty good nothing has tightened up on me (yet) and my knees are starting to loosen up with the help of some Advil.

Today's weight is 189.9 so up almost 1 pound but I'm happy about that.  I was worried I would be up a lot more and actually was on Monday.  I attribute it to all the carb loading and shit ton of water I drank prior to the race.  Also the extra salt from the Gu Brew is probably working it's self out.

So I'm making sure to drink a ton of water and am doing really well on the eating.  I've cut those "extra" snacks like I said I would.  I did skip my run yesterday just to give my self an extra rest day, but will be back to it on Thursday, also I will hit up the gym tonight for another Aqua class.


This is what I did instead of running yesterday :)

Celebrating DQ's 100th Day of Kindergarten

Then we relaxed in the spa with Daddy for a while