Great Job!!!

I am so excited to see this blog being used again. I am so proud of you guys for doing it, and yes it is really hard sometimes especially when you are doing something six days a week, but eventually when we hit our goals we won't have to work out as much just use portion control and work out 4 times a week.

Well since everyone is putting down what they are doing so will I.

Monday: Plyometric Cardio Circuit (yeah I did this yesterday lol)
Tuesday: Recovery week- I have been doing Insanity for 30 days holy crap never thought that was possible. Anyway so all week it's Core Cardio and Balance and I did it today !!!
Wednesday: Core Cardio and Balance
Thursday: Core Cardio and Balance
Friday: Core Cardio and Balance
Saturday: Core Cardio and Balance
Sunday: Day off
Monday: Core Cardio and Balance

I will let you all know how I'm doing throughout this week
Love you guys great job to everyone

Apple Tuna Salad

Here's an idea for lunch, and it's super yummy!
Servings 2
Prep Time 10 minutes

Need
1 can tuna
1/2 onion (optional)
1 stalk celery
1 tsp spicy brown mustard (or any kind you have in your fridge)
1 apple cored and diced
4 cups lettuce leaves (or however much you want)
1-2 tomatoes, cut in wedges

Directions

1. In mixing bowl, combine tuna, onion, celery, mustard, mayo, and apple;mix well.
2. Divide lettuce and tomato wedges between two people or kids :) Top with tuna and EAT IT! Yum

I hope this helps give an idea what to have for lunch today or in the future.

Angie's Plan

O.K. So today I'm doing my upper body weight lifting workout at 12:30. This is a good time for me because Hannah is at school and Zack is taking a nap, or at least pretending to take one :) This workout is in the Body for Life book, and works with the intensity interval system. If you want to know more about this I'm sure the Library has a copy of the "body for life" book. by Bill Phillips. I'll also be using the Eating for Life Cookbook.

Here is what I'll be doing for an example:

Mon: Weight lifting/upper body
Tue: Teabo
Wed: Weight lifting/lower body
Thur: Teabo
Fri: Weight lifting/upper body
Sat: Cindy Crawford video
Sun: Off

Here is Mondays Menu Plan
8:00am Eggs/Toast/water
10:00am apple/string cheese/water
12:00pm tuna fish sandwich/water
3:00pm cliff bar/water
5:30pm sloppy Joe's/salad/peaches/water
7:00pm Banana cream pudding/water

My goal is not to eat anything after 7:00pm

Good luck everyone. I know we can do this. Great job Karen on getting up this morning!!! You are a SUPER MOM. And Julie I was so proud of you for working out over the holidays, you are truly an inspiration. Mom I'm so glad you are going walking in the evenings!

I haven't decided if I want to post my starting weight, but I weighed myself and took my body measurements. It's a good idea to take measurements because sometimes the scale can be misleading. We may not be losing weight but losing inches, which is really important as well. Love ya Can't wait to see every one's weigh in on Friday ;0

In the beginning.....

ok. so i wanted to start today with my running. I went to bed at like 10:30 but right when we were going to sleep the baby woke up. I fed her and then was asleep by 11:00. Then she woke up 4 times in between 11 and 6:45. it was a rough night. As i was feeding her I was already making excuses. "I'm so tired. Ella has been up all night. it's already 7:00 and i won't be able to run long enough." I thought to myself, " Your sisters can't hear your excuses only you can hear them." So, I got up and went running. Even though by the time I got to the gym it was 7:45 and I only had 15 minutes to run I decided to just give it my all and see how fast i could do one mile. So, I ran and did intervals of one minute. I walked for two minutes and then increased the intensity every minute for five minutes and then repeated it two times and I was sweating really good by the end. It was only 15 minutes. And I have to admit, this morning I got up because I didn't want to have to tell you guys that I didn't do my work out this morning. I didn't do it for me. Soon i hope I will get to the point where I am doing it for me but until then, thank you for being the voices in my head telling me "I can do it!" They are way better then my own voice that only seems to tell me negative things. I feel great and I have my plan for the week. I am going to write it here for me. If you want to do something similar cool if not do what works for you, just do it!
Mon-run 30 minutes (only did 15 but better than nothing)
Tue-Biggest loser work out
Wed-run 30 minutes
Thurs-biggest loser work out
Frid- cycling class
Sat- run 40 min.
Sun-OFF

My eating goal this month is to only drink soda once a week (since giving this up 100% usually just sets me up for failure) and be aware of what I am putting in my mouth.

Alan is going to help me set up the calendar on gmail for us to use. I'll try and get it up soon.
I love you guys and thanks for all your positive attitudes!

Time to choose to be different!!!!!!!

Okay ladies it is time to make the decision to be different. We may in the past have not succeeded and sometimes we have been a little prideful when the ones we love have tried to get us to keep going and do what we said we would. It's time for us to be humble not prideful or stubborn. We can change, we will change, we will meet our goals and celebrate what we have accomplished. We will accept help from each other and believe that they are not looking down on us but are only trying to help us see what they see we can be.
This road is not easy especially after many years of bad habits, awful diets, and lots of heartache. We can do it with each others help, and from our spouses help. We just have to decide today that we are going to change and know that in order to change the first step is to seek help from the Lord who can help us accomplish anything that we want to master. Second we have to put in the time to be organized!!!! This is the hardest part sometimes, but if we are organized and have our week written down what we need to do we will most likely get it done. I will try to show you examples of what I have started doing which has helped me. Third when you do not feel like eating healthy or working out that is the time you need to force yourself to call one of us or get on this blog or just get out of the house.
I love you guys and I don't care if you don't want to do this, I am going to. So I hope you choose to do it with me. I will try to get the things posted A.S.A.P.

Tell yourself you are Amazing and start believing!!!