End of the first month

It is the end of the first month and although I did great the first few weeks I feel I fell off the horse when the boy went back to school. I need to get home so I can work out after school.
Ok so here is some things we all can do now that school is back in. You want to eat out? Great go for it. You say you want to eat at an all you can eat place? Dont go in your stretchy pants. Wear the cloths that just fit! Once your belly is full you will stop quicker. No time? Fast food? Who says you have to have the meal? Get the Meal for one person supersize it or what ever and then split the frys between you the other grown up and kids. Get the kids apples and eat some of there apples. Share the drink with the other grown up!
Thats the tip of the week folks.
I will go weigh on the first of the month. I do hope I lost 10 lbs! But I fear I didnt. Well I did start riding the bike more so who knows!
Thats the other tip of the week moms. Live that close to school? Bike it in insted of running over in the car. Seriously its not that far and it is a great way to get extra energy in the morning!
Well as for me Tomorrow I will be hooking the boys bike to mine in the am going to the school droping him off going back to my car going to the other school I work at and working then getting off going to get the boy wash my car and maybe I will work out. Lets hope I can get home before 5 this time

Week 4

This last week I took off kinda. I still was active and thats what really counts. We went to the water park the Theam park rode our bikes walked around San Francisco. We were active! But I took the time off because it was the last week before school started and I wanted to do stuff with my child. The one I am trying to make my self have more energy for? Yeah him!
Today we plan on riding the bikes to the school and meet the new teacher. Tomorrow I will ride him to school on the bike and then go back get my car go to work. I love that child of mine. I wish I could be there to pick him up his first day but alass I have to work as well. The good thing is when he isnt in school I am not working.
I have been trying to not eat out much and that has saved us money. We have been eating healthy for awhile which actually saves us money! I make the foods from scratch and we eat better. It is cheeper in the short term to buy boxed food but in the long term make it all the way our grandparents did is so much better for your wallet and your weight! We get our 5 servings aday. We get our healthy side and if we choose to have cake or ice cream sometimes there is room! Heck I even have made that as well!
Im working on my GF breads because I have alot of friends who are GF and that would be great to have them over sometime for dinner or stuff.....But the main thing is being GF is healthy. I do see the bennifits to being GF or mostly eat GF foods even if you dont have to be GF it is better for the system.
All summer it hasnt been hot. We had like 80 at the hottest but not realy hot! So going out for a jog or walk hasnt been bad. That is untill yesterday! OMG! It was so hot yesterday I didnt cook. We went out to Sweet Tomatoe. I figured the salad and stuff would be good for me. I had Ice tea and milk insted of soda.
Tonight I plan on making stir and dump chicken.
So here is the deal you mix up catalina dressing lipton oion soup mix and apricot, peach or plum jelly pour over your chicken breast cook at 350 for like 1 hr ( 50 min sometimes) and serve over rice. Gose well with peas. And vala you have all your food groups healthy easy and mostly home made. We use the home made jams my bil makes. But if he didnt make them I would make my own I sware!
If its too hot to cook again it will be taco salad! With chicken strips
Welp hope you all are working out well and rember to weigh in at the end of this week! Even if you dont tell me just do it.
Next week I will post the picture of my dress that I will fit in for christmas. I look at it every day

Starting week 3!

If your still with me its been 2 weeks down! And now starting week 3! Wow where did the time go? 3 weeks! This is great! However if your anything like me now is crunch time. You get the " I can do it a bit later" And Later comes " Ahhh Ill skip today Ive been doing so well" Don't do it a week will slip by! And then you will start loosing ground!
I feel great! I don't know how much I have lost but I do know I'm holding myself better. I'm eating better!
Now I bet your running out of things to do getting tired of the same video or something! Well mix it up! We love to do Yoga in the morning before the boy gos to school!It has been helping him out so much!
I have done some work outs on TV some of the ones I have the key is to keep working out.
As I write this I am watching Julie & Julia! I know its funny so many people started blogging after this movie! But this is not what I am looking for.
If you want honesty I really want to hear my one sister-in-law be jealous at my skinny butt! I know how horrible but if you ever met her you would just be the same as me. What can I do to make this woman mad! She gos out of her way to make us mad so.............
So if your out there working out with me congrats! On starting week 3!
Week 3 and I have a challange for you this week!
Dont go out to fast food! Make an easy quick healthy meal at home! Try this one

Chicken breast
Orange
Italian Dressing
White wine ( optional)
In a Carroll dish or large deep pan place chicken breast. Pour over dressing to cover chicken. Slilf slicece orange in half. One half slice in rounds! Placing over chicken breast. Other half squeeze over everything. Pour 1/2 cup -1 cup white wine over all ( Optional) and cook in oven at 350 for 45-1 hr depending on how many chicken breast and so on.
Serves over egg noodles or rice well! Use sause over on top!
You dont like chicken! Youll love this recipee! My kid loves it!
Welp off to my coffee!!!! Dont forget Monday is tomorrow! Work out. Go for a walk. If your doing it all you will have more energy to be with your life and not the tv!

Start week 2 Day 7!

So I bet your wondering what I plan on accomplishing with this blog. Well.........I hope to have people to work out with. I hope to keep myself working out. And finish something I started! Ive never really finished anything I started when I started it. High School? Nope dropped out. I finished years later. Collage? Finished years later. Any project I start I never finish. I have like 5 children's books that need to be re written have pictures and then resubmitted. Not done yet! I do manage to finish most stuff but it takes a back burner! I started wrestling years ago! and I was doing great then I dislocated my shoulder and I haven't stepped into a ring/ done any serious work out nothing from 1999. It is just me!
So here we sit I know I said I didn't want to weigh myself but I couldn't help! I now weigh 189! Thats an average of 1 lb a day loss! But I'm not going to do the weigh in till Sept 2nd! The real trick will be the week of Sept 6th. Thats my 8 year anniversary and we vacation every year that week! I hope I keep it up or I will never fit into that dress by Christmas! I have this dress. Its a size 12! I would love to be able to wear it again! This Christmas would be a nice time!
I think my mother-in-law should work out with me! She needs to loose weight before she has surgery! But I don't know if she would be interested! Maybe I could get her to at least go for walks with us!!!
Well anyways back to the work out. If you have been with me for a few days now your feeling it! Maybe even you got sick? Thats normal! If your getting sick or throwing up thats totally normal your body is not use to all this!
Today I added the weights and my shoulder is killing me! Jumping jacks and push ups are becoming harder. And I have to do the push ups as a modified! I hope to have that last surgery soon!
I pulled out an old picture of me and my husband looked at that and said " WOW! Was that really you? Is that hot woman what your going to look like?" I dropped my head " He then said I love you no matter what I think your hot!" I love my guy but I have to admit he did make me feel good!
Today I did the work out before coffee before anyone woke up! It was hard but I remember doing this before and I can do it again!
This week if you need a challenge I challenge anyone to wake up 30 min early before anyone wakes up work out start your day! Then the work out wont be pushed aside because it was done! You will have more energy and the rest of the day to play with the kids!

Days 5 & 6

Both were very unevent full. Although it was different to work out with the boy around it just happened. It was actually cute as he tryed to work out with me! It has been getting better and better every day and now I can almost do the whole video w/out stopping!
Pre work out check list
Go potty ( Because if your jumping around and need to go it wont be good!)
Get water.
Have shoes on! Pull hair back! And start video!
When stopping only stop to during some water then go back right away!
Ive been killing myself and I can feel the muscles in my abs forming! Its nice!
Now next week I will try waking up way early so I dont have the boy trying to work out with me. Although its cute he is in the way and I will get hurt.

Day 4

Today was hard! First off I spent 2 hrs trying to connect to the internet just so I could balance the check book. Sending my Husband a text message was impossible! Something is crazy! So my whole day is off!
I did my shred video Nothing special. Yeah it was hard but I did it all. As I was working out though I though " Hey I could take a day off blog like I worked out and no one would know" But I would know! So here I sit I worked out like a good girl.
Yesterday after I picked up the boy I felt so great we played after school together! I havent had that kind of energy in 2 years! It felt good! Then we walked the dog to the park and played! Its so nice to be apart of my child's life! I tell my son how he needs to keep moving but I dont do anything! I feel so much better!
Last night I had to go to costco and because of that we had junky hot dogs soda. But I guess onece in awhile thats ok.

Day 3!

Today is the 3rd day and its the hardest because I'm in so much pain! It was extremely hard to get up this morning. Walking has been hard. Oh and I had to run this morning to get the child off to his class. UGH that was hard! I was screaming "Julianne you need to get off my back!" All I could hear was her saying " Come on you can do it don't stop now!" I did I made it through the drop off.
I came home and popped in the video then decided hey lets check the on demand one and see if its different. So I did the Comcast On Demand one and its the same. But hey it was nice. I got all the way to the last cardeo through it and then I was thinking " Hey I can do this I don't hurt near as much as I did yesterday!"
So I finished the video stretched the legs out abit more and I feel great! Day three and the pain isn't near as bad! So here we go! Now remember my shoulder? I cant use the weights yet! My dr doesn't want me to use more then 2 lbs. And I need to wait till I have been doing the work out for 7 days to add the 2 lbs! So I have been doing all this w/out weights.
I haven't been eating much in the way of junk food but to be honest I have cut Junk food out of my diet along time ago! Friday I will have Mc Donalds because I promised the boy. But thats once this week and I am sure I can find something healthy on the menu!
I have one more day of this work out while the boy is in school and then I need to move it to the morning before he wakes up. Today I will go get all of the boys baby and daycare toys ready to sell off tomorrow. I have no activities planned for the day but thats ok. As long as I am busy and not sitting on the couch it should help! The key here is to not eat so much junk food keep moving and work out hard!
In 30 days I will see 20 lbs loss! I will then cut more junk food out and more moving around in!
The problem is today I find out my husband may loose his job! Which means I will go back to work. Thats more moving for me! My husband will stay home with the school age child ( not fair I had the last 5 years and I was looking forward to some me time!) But one of us needs to be there for him and I can make more money working on cars then he can on Unemployment.
So heres to hopping I can stay home a few more months finish school and my husband keeps his job I loose my 20 lbs this month ( maybe even 30!)
Is there anyone following me? I do hope this is helping someone out there. Besides me! Hey its making me do my work out just hoping someone needs to see this!
Todays advise! Stretch more after the work out is finished! Do joggers stretch 30 seconds each side or a min each side Stretch out those legs more today! And the pain will slowly go away!

Day 2

Ok so today was harder! I woke up in pain. My legs abs back arms everything. I almost even talked myself into taking a day off. But then I said how can I do that already? So I began my work out.
I cant believe how hard yet easy it was. I was hurting but at the same time the movements were easier today! I bet tomorrow it will be better. I hear that if your hurting the day after a work out then you need to push through it and work out again the next and next till the pain is gone and move on to make it harder. So here we go!
If your joining me on this adventure thats great! It doesn't matter if your behind me or ahead of me. But having someone to work out with makes it better because now you have someone counting on you!
Here is a few tips I have
If your doing the shred video with me and you have no weights grab two caned foods. Make sure there the same thing and made by the same people. Because you want the weight to be the same.
If you have shoulder injury's like me then spend the first week w/out weights and work into adding the weights in. I will find out what the cans weigh and let you all know.
Yesterday was a great day because I wasn't feeling well. ( Insert scarscasim eye roll here) I did eat well but not much. I had Risen Bran for breakfast two cups of coffee and a 8oz galss of water.
Lunch was salad and because I wasn't feeling well sprite
Dinner? Mandarin Orange chicken rice no veggie and sprite. I did say I wasn't feeling well right?
I am not weighing myself every day! So don't ask what I weigh till day 30!
If you want to join in and have cable check the on demand feature! In Aug with Comcast the level 1 30 day shred is on demand! I checked
So right now I am working out while my child is in day camp. When that is over I will start working out early and when school starts up I will have to start at like 6am! Just so I can keep up! I have a job with the school district so here we go!
I use to wake up at 5am and go for a morning jog years ago beflre I started dating my husband. But that ended when we started dating!
All right! If your listening out there send me a note. Let me know if your going to join me! Let me know what your begining weight is! I wont post it if you dont want!
Welp off to eat my Risen Bran!

Day 1

Today I start the journey of loosing weight. So many people say there going to do it. I have said I would and then I loose like 5 lbs and stop. So today with everyone as my witness I will not stop! I will go through the 30 day Shred video twice!

Here is the plan.

First 30 days I will do level 1

Second 30 days Level 2

last 30 days Level 3

Then when I am done with level three I will step it up. Do the work out on the more advance movements and then I will start all over same as above!

Aug will be Level 1

Sept will be Level 2

Oct will be Level 3

Then Nov Will be level 1 with advance movements

Dec will be level 2 with advance movements and then Jan will be the last level

I should loose Ideally 60 lbs. I loose more I will be excited.

So like I said Today I started. I worked out kinda I had to stop to drink water then catch my breath. And the Jumping Jacks! Oh my god! I think I was going to die.

I am at 193.2 lbs.

Abs are 461/2 inches

Arms 16 inches

Chest 40 Inches

If you are looking at this and saying " I'm bigger then her I cant do this!"

Your wrong! I have back injuries and shoulder injuries I am over coming. Its hard on me. I had lost 30 lbs in 3 years and I am done with the slow weight loss.

So besides cutting soda out here is to my next 30 days!