Health & Fitness Friday

I'm so excited Ive got my workout partner back we would go together for a while but here lately she has had so much stuff with her Dad and her nieces wedding that she couldn't make it and it was kind of a dull and boring time but now that she is back I have been loving it. I don't know what it is but a workout buddy makes it so much more fun and it goes by quicker. I have bumped up my Cardio and even got my running up to 2 minutes before I have to go back to a walk. I'm walking 5 minutes warm up then I run 2 minutes walk 1 minute and then repeat until my mile is up. BoooYa Bishes! I'm actually liking this running thing. I think I might finally get it. Yes I know I'm only a 2 minute runner but it feels great so I guess for right now I'm really not a runner I'm more like a Sprinter. Bahaha Now that it is the end of the week my legs and feet feel awful I can tell these suckers haven't this much play since....Never! I got the biggest compliment Wednesday night the Farmer and I were welll... skip all that part but he said I have noticed that your calves are tone. Say what??? SO that was huge but when I stepped on the scale to weigh for this week I have gained 2.6 pounds I am pissed I have been running and also I have came in under my calories every single day so how in the hell do I gain 2.6 pounds? wtf? So I not a happy camper and this week is a High because of my running but a Low because of my weight gain. As bad as I want to say F-shiz and call my surgeon I'm sticking with it and not letting this over take my mind...well I'm going to try but I'm still fired up.

My hips are huge I always had big hips so after 3 kids the only got bigger. I'm in need of major shrinkage of the hips while the Farmer loves some curves..ugh not me I like more of a pencil figure with some JWoWWs. I didn't really know what moves or workouts to do. I'm a huge Mama Laughlin blog stalker and Ive gotten some really good advice so while I was doing my day to day stalk of her blog I found a few great moves she posted on hips so I have been trying those out this week.



As far as eating I haven't been eating as clean as I need to but I have been doing really well on portion control if that counts for anything. But....I have remained under my calorie count every single day so that the main thing right?
Please give me some tips Im stuck.

Ballin

Maci has put an end to rodeoing since her accident in July but decided to try Basketball. She goes to a small private school and they have an elementary girls and boys teams 4-6th grade. There was only 6 girls that signed up to play and you have to have 5 on the court so it was a close call. There is over 20thing boys. These girl have to work the tails off because there is no bench rest time hardly ever. Her Coach is the most amazing Coach ever he teaches them and takes all the time with them then once he knows they know how to do something if they don't do it he will get on them in a heartbeat. The kids love him. These girls have worked so hard and have won every game except 1 and actually one of our own girls made the shot for the other team and it counted for them so we made their winning shot. Crazy right?

Prairie View girls Basketball Team

 

Look who got the job of being score keeper...Farmer

 

Maci taking the ball out

this one is a clear but cant see her

My little purple #7 they were fouling but little did I know 7 had enough and went to business and fouled right back at them. I had to chill her out. 

 

Now she is my White #7 passing the ball down the court



 

She is now hollering STACK

Having worked so hard these cheeseburgers make them better

 

They even have track suits to go over their uniforms.

You will see her wearing this everywhere lol







 I never played Basketball I played softball so I knew nothing about it but I love it and now wonder why I didn't even try. I love how fast pace it is. I find myself getting all rawled up and have to remind myself this is a kids game not high school.
This weekend we are playing in the Championship. I know it is going to be alot of hard work, excitement, and anticipation but we are ready.

Monday Goals

I'm super pumped to do Monday weekly Goals. Nicole @ The Prairie Princess  posted weekly goals last Monday and I loved it so much I told her I was going to do it this week and she needs to do it every Monday so I could link up with her.
This weeks Goals:

1. Work out 5 days M-F

 



2. Burn over 500 calories each workout

 

3. Loose at least 1 pound hopeful 2 or more

 

 

4. Drink nothing but water and cut out my 1 diet Dr Pepper

 

5. Stick to my cleaning schedule

 

 

6. Pick out a paint color and curtains for my kitchen

 

 

7. Get a Home Tour Post together 



So there you have it these are my weekly goals I will be back next Monday to see what all goals I accomplished and my new weekly goals.

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Health & Fitness Friday

 



I have been working out lately and as you know it has not been dropping off any of my weight so I had to change my eating to a more clean eating. I had to cut out the I worked out so I can eat whatever I want.
I use My Fitness Pal to track my calories and I also put my workout into it too. When I do that I usually end up eating those calories that Ive worked out for and I stay under my 1200 calorie diet but I'm this week I decided to not enter my workout calories and still in my 1200 calorie range that way I would  not eat my workout calories and I would loose weight quicker. I'm not a patient person and the fact that this weight loss is not an over night deal drives me nuts. I would love to be able to go back to my surgeon and do some fat ass removing procedure but my budget isnt allowing that right now uhhh

My Journey

Before I begin I just want to say that as I was doing some blog reading I came across Megan @Skinny Meg and I stayed up way past my bedtime reading as I just fell in love OBSESSED over her blog I read so many weight loss blogs and they are mostly the same so I really cant explain why this particular blog spoke to  me but it did and I can explain it but it just clicked for me. For starters I was trying to stay into a mind of eat less weigh less but I came to realize that it doesn't work that way and now here is proof right in front of my eyes. Everything that I read just hit me like a ton of bricks and I soaked it all up and was so pumped to get my weight loss back on track.
My Changes:
Eat more but Eat Clean
Hit the Gym harder (Go Big or Go Home)
Its ok is if I know nothing about Fitness, Exercise, Clean Eating just keep trying and learning and I will get there
Have Fun {Most Important}
Its ok to be selfish and take as much time or work into my Heath

My Clean eating changes include
Grilled Pork Chops with salad
Grilled Chicken Salad
Turkey Wrap with baked chips
Blackened Mahi Mahi with grilled vegetables
Burger with Lettuce as a Bun
Grilled Chicken with Mashed Mock Potatoes
Left over grilled Chicken sprinkle of taco seasoning, lettuce, onion, dab of sour cream lite in a tortilla
Roast and Carrots it was so hard to not have any of the potatoes
Beef Stew without Cornbread which totally sucked
Eggs with turkey bacon and sugar free syrup

I have added Fruit to my diet Grapes and Apple and while putting them into MFP I saw how many sugars they had. WOW Does that count if you are trying to cut out sugars?
I hate Bananas but being that I have turned my workouts up I know I needed to Potassium in my body so I try and choke half of those down after every workout. Its so gross! I would love all the before and after workout food tips.

Laugh away all you want....I am not a runner and quite frankly I hate anything to do with running. I have never been a runner. I'm way to lazy for that. I got some information about running from one of my girls (I wished she still lived close instead of Baton Rouge) SO I thought I would give it a try being everyone just loves it and O how fun it is to be a runner...blah blah blah so let me see what I'm missing.
1. Come in with a good attitude
2. Try and if you fail try again until you finally succeed
3. It takes time I'm not going to be a runner overnight or in a week. Time give it Time
4.Baby Steps are key {well for me they are}
Before I started working out I could only run 45 seconds at a time now I thought I would give it a try. I came into the gym all pumped and did 35 minutes on the Elliptical then I moved to the treadmill to see if I could run O dear I thought. I started of walking at 4.0 then I took the plunge and moved it up to 6 Holy Hell I'm running I'm running I'm a damn runner Hellz yeaaaahhh then I quickly felt the burn when I looked I was at 1m3secs. Boooyahh Bitaches I moved up! From then on I knew that workout day was going to be awe-to-tha-MFn-some!

Love my Lululemon headband managed to grab this ebay find for 7.00 Holla

How much do you love my All abord the HotMess Express tank
Fake boobd and running dont mix so I have 2 tight sports bras on holding the swet puppies down 



 After finishing my 4 miles (usually do 2 or sometimes 3) I was on top of the world so I figured I would see how long I could last at a plank. I have never did a plank for exercise so this is new for me and I thought ok I can do this easy.... well let me tell ya now not as easy as it looks. I was dying but I wanted to hit the 30 second mark and Yay for me I did it. I think I am going to try to do a plank every other day and see how I can get my time longer.

All of this and in the last 2 weeks I have a big deal to celebrate I have lost 4 pounds. Whoop whoop
Cheers to the start of a successful weight loss journey. Now I have no excuses because I know now I can loose weight I just have to get off my lazy rump and get pumped.