I've been drinking all the water, all day long. Pretty much daily I'm drinking 4 liters, and 8 oz. of water, little over a gallon a day! Yay! Go me!! You should jump on the water band wagon. It's good for you! I said so!! Just do it! It's a choice, but it is most def a good one! That's all.

This has been a long week, not a bad week just a long one. Buddy got his cast off Monday, we had tball Tuesday, I had a meeting last night and Buddy has AWANA. So we have pretty much been on the go since Monday with not one night home before 7pm this week. That makes for long days, especially when our days start by leaving the house at 6:30am. Today I left at 6am, yowza! But in the grand scheme of things we have had a good week, but I am ready for the weekend!!! Plus, the house is a nightmare that needs to be cleaned. So...moving on... the benefit to this week is that I have honestly had the best sleep of my life for really the last month. I feel so rested and happier (as I just yawned :)) But in all seriousness I really have been sleeping well. I re-ordered my greens, and I am going to be making my sleepy cream from our oils. Buddy loves that I slather it on his feet at night, and I even put it on Julia and Sam last night (and yes I had to put it on EVERYONE!!!) But everyone slept good so there you have it. Julia said that she fell asleep, slept good and never woke up once. I will say that I do sometimes still wake up in the middle of the night, however when I do it's funny because I will wake up and feel like I have been asleep all night and I have no problem rolling over and falling right back to sleep. I only threw that in there because let's be honest, I think I'm hilarious.. ha ha, just kidding, but no really I do! ANYWAY, I'm just in a super good mood today so I just would like to say that I hope you have a super duper pooper scooper Thursday!!! Luv ya! Sleep good my friends! And in the event you would like to sleep better too let me know! xoxoxo

Its a little crazy to have the time to blog... I'm not sure what I'm going to do with myself. Well I do know that I will probably be blogging at least 3 times a week goodie!! So I'm looking to do something that will help me make a little extra money. I'm exploring a few options, I'm trying the Young Living Oils, I'm trying out some IT Works products so we'll see. I would NEVER sell or try to get someone else to sell something that I personally don't believe in. So at this point I'm still looking. I can say that I LOVE the greens from IT Works!!! Best sleep of my life without Benadryl or a sleep aid! I also am really liking the oils so I'll keep using different products from these companies to see how I like them. Even if I don't sell them you should try greens!! They will change your life, if only your sleeping life. I look forward to going to bed at night now! BUT there is a caveat, you must find the right mixture or they taste awful! I use 8oz. of water, greens, and 1 whole packet of Crystal Light Peach Mango Green Tea and it tastes wonderful! I think it tastes a little like a Flinstone vitamin. Trust me you won't be sorry you tried it! Last night I made Cauliflower pizza for dinner. It was very yummy! Sam (who hates cauliflower) said I hit it out of the park! So that is a win! I don't feel like writing the recipe...I'm super lame right? Basically I put cauliflower in the food processor - microwaved after for 8 minutes - let it cool - added 1 egg, salt and pepper, mozzarella cheese, and parmesan cheese - squeezed together and mixed - pressed into a Pam sprayed pan - baked for about 15 minutes at 425 - added pizza sauce, cheese, turkey pepperoni, heirloom tomato's, mushrooms, olives, and fresh basil - put back in the oven and baked another 10 minutes - sliced and ate. There you have it! HA HA if you really want to know the exact deets let me know and I'll tell you. It was yummy! Try it today! Super easy! BTW I was in bed at 9pm last night! Yippee!!! Everything else went well. Working on keeping up the fight! Have a fab day my friends!!! Let's rock it together!! But first lets go get a green tea from Starbucks!! XOXO

I absolutely hate when I get off track! And how sad is it that I got off track in week 3??!!! I have no good excuse, I hit that time of the month, but seriously if that is what is going to derail me... Bottom line is I didn't stick to my plan and I didn't keep my promises. However, I really am committed to losing this weight. I want to wear leggings this winter, I want to feel good about myself! Surprisingly at the request of my 6 year old we went to the gym last night. I did a decent ab workout, with some dead lifts and squats thrown in. I work with two different trainers (when I work out with a trainer) Crazy that in the last two days I have spoken with both. One at the gym last night and the other one contacted me, ha ha probably because he knows I've already paid him for 5 training sessions and haven't seen him in months. (insert scared face here) I told Anthony (my main trainer) last night that I had really just lost my motivation. I still am struggling to get back in the gym and to work out. Last year when I felt and looked my best I was working out 3 to 5 days a week. So here is my plan... eat right and get in my water (i have sucked at that the last week) and get into the gym. I made two training appointments and would like to try to jump into the boxing class my gym offers. There is basically a week and a half left of the diet bet so I need to get on it. I'll let you know how the weekend goes! My fingers are crossed! But so far so good today!

So yesterday I wrote about goals and promises. Well of course I promised myself yesterday that I would do something active... I did, and I didn't. I went out to lunch yesterday with my friend for her little girls birthday. I ordered Chicken, Shrimp, and Veggies. No soda even though I was dying for one. I'm thinking that the sauce that was on the chicken was a little too much for me because I got really sick last night. It was also really stormy in San Diego yesterday (not at my house so much just windy) so I had to take down the canopy on our gazeebo, and then I carried 5 heavy cinder blocks to my back yard to secure Buddy's trampoline. (it blew away a few months back and I did not want a repeat of that) Believe me, it was 100 degrees outside and those blocks were heavy! I honestly was thinking to myself this is active. It wasn't really what i planned though. I was down this morning but I didn't eat more than some crackers and cheese last night and Pepto Bismol, so the number doesn't really count. My stomach cramps last night were insane. Today is a new day! My promise to myself today is to do 100 squats. I can and most certainly will do that! I'm also hoping to hit the gym while Buddy is at AWANA tonight but we'll see. Things happen.

Ok so here is the run down, Friday through Monday. Since I'm covering four days I will not go over everything that I ate, because honestly its not crazy important. I will tell you the facts about those four days though. I've been at this now for a week, I'm down 5.2lbs. I weighed in this morning at 144.4. I am completely ok with that. I focused all week on eating lots of protein, veggies, and not many carbs. My main focus was getting in a gallon (or as close as I could get in) of water a day. I did VERY good at this during the week, and by week I mean Monday through Friday. For some reason I just have a harder time getting in my water durning the weekends. Probably because I'm running around and it just is not as handy. Food wise I did really really good. I ate exactly how I wanted. I had one cheat meal on Friday night and it was so yummy! Calazone from our local pizza place. I'll be honest, I jump on my scale almost every single day. I'm just one of those people. I plan on changing that a little through this process. Part of the reason I do it is so I can see how each day shook out, but honestly you really should only hit that scale once a week. I know this, and like I said I plan on sticking to that more throughout this process. I will still jump on it, but maybe not every.single.day. I can tell you that Friday I weighed 143. something, (right now I can't remember if it was 2 or 4) and on Saturday morning after my Calazone I weighed 145. I was not discouraged by this at all. Here is why, first off I enjoyed my dinner! Second, if I limit myself forever I will never stick to anything. I know this about myself. And lastly, I knew that I planned on eating good the rest of the weekend, and I did. I packed in lots of protein and veggies/salads. I was super proud of myself by the end of the weekend, they have always been the hardest for me! We headed down to the beach on Saturday and stayed until heading to work/school yesterday. We had such a nice weekend trying to escape the heat. 104 at my house all weekend! The beach was great. We rode our bikes there on Saturday, 8 miles round trip. So I was happy I got a little exercise in! I do plan on doing more of that, the exercise thing....but the heat here has been almost unbearable. I will do it!________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ So this week I am going to be setting some small goals for myself. I started reading Choose more lose more for life by Chris Powell, and I will be starting the carb cycling soon. I would like to read a little more so I can't say for sure whether it will be sometime this week or next but soon. In the meantime I will be sticking with my protein cuz it works for me. One thing I read that I really liked was making goals/promises to yourself that are within reach. Not huge or vague ones that are untainable. I'm not going to say I'm going to lose 40 pounds or that I'm going to go to the gym every single day. It is not something that will ever happen and then I've just set myself up for defeat. He talks about SMART goals... Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time-Bound, this makes a ton of sense to me. So while I'm still getting further into the book I plan on setting some SMART goals for this week. I actually will also be setting some daily goals as well and I will keep you posted on how I do. I plan on starting each day with a promise to myself! I'm holding myself accountable through this blog even if I'm the only one who reads it. Ha ha... So here are the first of my SMART goals... __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Today's promise to myself____ I will do something ACTIVE!________________________________________________ *****This weeks goals/promises***** 1. NO soda this week (yikes, I love me some diet dr. pepper) 2. Exercise at least 3 times this week 3. Be at 136 by October 7th - that equals out to 2.8 down per week 4. Get in my gallon of water (even on the weekend) 5. Goal weight for 9/23 (next Tuesday) 141.6 Here's to a great week!!! XOXO

Oh day 4 how i love you!! Ha ha just kidding. It was just an average day. I'm gonna keep it short and sweet, and lets be honest...I'm the only one reading these posts so you (figuratively speaking) really don't mind if all i tell you is what I ate yesterday and what I weighed in at this morning. So here goes... I weighed in at 143.4, I am down 6.2lbs. since Monday. I feel good, less bloaty and contrary to what you may think I am not hungry at all. Yesterday I had a protein shake for breakfast, talapia and Kale salad for lunch, and hand full of dark chocolate covered blueberries in the afternoon to cure my sweet craving, and I had green chili fajitas for dinner (this was beef fajitas, green chili's, jack cheese and salsa, so yummy) I drank just about the full gallon yesterday, plus one Trenta Green Tea from Starbucks! Quicly I will say that my protein shake is 8oz. fat free milk (I used to use almond milk, but regular milk has more protein), PB2 (powdered peanut butter), honey, and ice. It tastes amazing!!! It tastes like a bit o honey candy, so yummy! My talapia is Gortons, easy peazy! 80 calories for each piece and I just pop it in the toaster oven at work. So today is Friday which means you will most likely not get a post from me until Monday. I am going to work really hard at staying on track, but typically how the weekends go for me is this... I don't get all my water in (i'm lame) and its way easier to cheat on food. I will try my hardest to be consistent. That is my theme word for this little endevor, consistant! I'll let you know how it goes! Also, this weekend I will finally be getting some exersize so yay me! Talk soon! XOXO

Ok, so I will start with where i landed on the scale this morning. I was at 144.4! Down 5.2 as of today. Again, I feel like i have to emphasize that I know that this is going to slow WAY down. I'd drinking almost all of my water ( I was a little short yesterday, but I picked up the boy from school, got him a quick dinner took him to church, headed to back to school night, hit the grocery store, Starbucks for and Iceed Green Tea, picked up the boy from Church and arrived at home by 9pm) So I missed a little water, but not much! Here is what I ate: 1. Eggs, low fat mozzerella cheese, apseragus, tomato scramble 2. Salad, gyros, chicken (2 squares of pita) 3. Handful of Almonds 4. Handful of dark chocolate covered blueberries 5. 1 cup of coffee with sugar free vanilla creamer, 1 diet dr. pepper, 1 green tea I know, I need to eat more food. I'm working on it. All of the water this week has made me feel pretty full! Yesterday there were cupcakes at work... I didn't eat any. Win for me! I was extremely tired yesterday and got woke up in the middle of the night. So I'm tired today. I feel like tonight is my night for an amazing nights sleep though! I definitely feel less bloated. You figure, I'm a carb o'holic and I was pretty bloated so that 5.2 and water are making me feel a little better. This weekend I am planning on getting busy with the exercise, so I'm hoping that I have a great week next week too! (In reality though, I'm only expecting 1 or 2 lbs. but I'll be ok with that). Anywho, that is it for today. XOXO

So the top picture is before I went on a little road trip a few weeks ago, I am definitely not happy with the legs or the giant roll when I sit down...hence this journey/challenge :) So day 2 was a good day. I finished all of my water yippie (and I'm off to a great start today! Half gallon down and its only 11am) I jumped on the scale this moring after legit being in the bathroom all day yesterday. And was at 145.4, so I am down 4.2lbs as of today. I am completely aware that is water weight and I'm totally ok with that this week. It will tapper off I know. All the water definetly makes me less hungry which is good because I have sorta become a snacker (grr...) I did not snack yesterday or cheat at all!!! Win for me! You will find as you follow this if anyone ever follows that I don't eat conventional so I just thought I'd tell you up front. Here is what I ate: - 1 Cup of Coffee with sugar free vanilla creamer - stew meat (i cooked in the crockpot on Sunday) and Kale salad (Breakfast) - stew meat and kale salad (lunch) - Protein Shake (dinner) So, was this enough food? Well the portions were big and honestly I wasn't hungry so for yesterday it was enough. As I move into next week i will be adding more food intermittently but my focus this week is getting in my water and lots of protein and low low carbs. Buddy had tball practice so there really was no physical activity yesterday either. I pretty much suck! There you have it. The next time I take a picture on that rock I want to look thinner dang it! For reference these two pictures were clearly around Halloween last year, I believe in these pictures I weighed in about 134. I felt good! I am searching for that again! Until tomorrow... XOXO!

I'd love to tell you that day 1 was a smashing success,but lets be honest...I think the first 3 to 5 days of any new regimen are hard. I did good all day until I made Buddy's dinner. Mac n Cheese... I did some spoonfuls to make sure it tasted ok... My plan for the first week is fairly simple, eat very low carb and mostly protein, drink a gallon of water a day and take my Bio-Cleanse. We have lots of activities scheduled this week, tball practice, AWANA, back to school night, tball game so I don't know honestly how much physical acitivity I will get to. Most likely that will be my focus this weekend. Ideally I would like to drop 5 pounds the first week (I'm a realist, I know that it is water weight the first week) After that I would like to lose 2-3lbs. per week. Honestly I'd like to wake up tomorrow 20lbs lighter but that ain't gonna happen so I'll settle for slow and steady. Here is what I ate yesterday (Don't judge me): Protein Shake Italian sausage with carmelized onions and bell peppers Stew meat I made in the crock pot on Sunday mixed with a kale salad A little more stew meat and a couple spoon fulls of mac n cheese 1 sugar free jello pudding 1 Diet Dr. Pepper and only 1 bottle of water :( but, I didn't plan on the gallon until today. I will most likely step on the scale everyday. I may or may not post the number. This morning I was at 147.5 and in the event you didn't do the math yesterday my weigh in weight was 149.6, so down 2.1 lb. since yesterday. But lets be real, I went to the bathroom a lot yesterday (my cleanse), so I am not surprised by this number. I in no way believe i will lose 2lbs. per day, nor do I think that is healthy. So we are officially off, I'm a good chunk into my gallon of water so that is a bonus. (***note- if you start drinking a gallon of water a day, you will notice changes in a few things. A. you will feel leaner B. after the first week your skin looks like crap, but it does get better by the second week C. you will be surprised you could do it! Honestly, i think that the easiest way to do it is to get a gallon jug and set hourly goals. I do every two hours. I also find that if you start with a big glass of water in the morning it starts you off right and you will drink it the rest of the day. If I forget to have a glass of water in the morning I may not have one until mid afternoon. So just try it, you will be pleasantly surprised that this is as easy as it is to do, even if you don't like water.***) Anywhoo... gotta run (but not litterally ha ha) xoxo

The nice thing about a blog you seldom post in is that you can post something random and chances are almost no one is going to read it. So why post? Well, I actually plan on posting more. But I want to get back into it by starting with a little challenge for myself. Last year I got really focused on my weight and working out. I was working out with a fit group and really liked the results that I was seeing. I hit my goal weight just before Christmas of 129lbs. That made my year! So much so that I'm sure I treated my self to something yummy! On top of that yummy treat, my job slowed down and I had to cut out my workouts with my group, add in a holiday and you have a recipe for disaster :( So, now here we are 9 months later and guess what. I weigh what I did when I started my weightloss a year and a half ago. I'm so sad. And I've honestly not been super motivated. We do lots of hikes but eating a lot and not working out regularly have killed me. So, that being said I am going to start over. Today I weighed in to do Mama Laughlin's diet bet it runs until October 6th. I don't want to have a huge goal other than the 4% you have to lose in that time to win. So by October 6th I need to be at 143.6, I'll let you do the math ha ha! Here is the reality: I guess it could be worse, but then it would take twice as long to fix. So, my plan is to do my diet bet but also to hold myself accountable I will post everyday to update my blog and myself as to my progress. Hopefully this will help me. So each day I plan to write, good or bad what occurred the day before. What I did activity wise, and food wise. Starting tomorrow I will be shooting for drinking a gallon of water a day. (i've done this before and it is totally doable) I'm also going to be doing a cleanse So I guess I should tell you (ha ha as of right now there really is no you) to stay tuned. I'm hoping to have this miraculous transformation. I'm going to label this little journer #fit2fab so if you find this somewhere sometime you can follow the whole thing by searching that label! See ya soon! xoxo

So I may have mentioned that I'm doing Jenny Craig. I love it. I love the ease and I love the food. However, this last two weeks some stuff has come up and I could not get my Jenny food so I had to eat low calorie low fat food and really watch myself. I already know that I cant be trusted when it comes to eating especially since I am such a foodie. I had seen a picture on pinterest on some egg muffins and I tried my own version with two eggs, a ton of diced green chilis, and a small amount of cheese. The flavor was so yummy that I made them for breakfast and dinner that night. Ok honestly, I ate them four days in a row. But only because it is so easy and I was running low on groceries. Sunday morning I knew I wanted to have them but maybe a little different since I had been eating them a lot already. So I looked in my fridge and grabbed what I thought sounded good. Some turkey pepperoni (you can eat 15 of these for 17 calories) I think I grabbed 7 and chopped it up. Then I chopped up some baby bella and spayed them with a little olive oil spray, added garlic salt and pepper and popped them in the oven on the broil setting on high for about 5 minutes I mixed together two eggs added some chopped tomato and cheese. Then I added the pepperoni and mushrooms. And then I added two table spoons of spegetti sauce because it is what I had. ( I didn't take a picture of the completed mixture cuz lets be honest it looked yucky) I then sprayed the muffin tin with Pam and scooped in my mixture. I only filled each one about 3/4 full. It made four muffins. I had turned the oven onto bake at 325 and then popped them in for about 20 minutes. They don't always transfer from pan to plate so nicely :) I know you are loving my plate right??!!!! I also made a kid friendly version with just eggs and cheese for Little Joe. These are simple and yummy and honestly you could do anything with them. 2 is perfect and fills you up. So then if you are only making them for yourself you can put the other two in a container and eat them the next day! Anywho... hope you are having an AMAZING Friday!!! Have a happy weekend! ~Heather