My Editor

Yes I have an editor and he is an AWESOME one. Its my hubby Brian, the behind the scenes man! He reads through and changes all my bad spelling, and times when what I write just doesn't make sense. So I wanted to tell him how awesome he is and that I love him so much and that Im thankful for his support. Babe, thanks for putting up with me on this crazy journey we call life and being someone who always understands and supports me when I have insane ideas like running a marathon. An be abegue! (this is something we always say to each other it means, I Love You in an indian dialect)

Eating Right vs. Working Out?

What is more important eating right or working out? In my experience it has been eating right. You could work out all day burn a ton of calories and then go gain it back by eating a Big Mac, fries, and drink. Yes you'll gain muscle and get in better shape but in the end your not helping yourself be healthier. I started out just eating right and lost 17 lbs. fast. It's really important what you put in your body. I try to only eat and drink the best things for my body. I know whatever I put into y body has an effect on me for good or bad. I eat a chicken salad and I feel great afterwards. But when I eat a cheeseburger I always feel awful afterwards. So if you have to pick between making a healthy meal or working out. Eat something healthy

How I did it?

People ask me all the time how I lost weight. It's simple I ate right, exercised and worked hard. People always look at me funny like they're expecting me to say I did surgery or a special pill that made it all easy. Sorry it is not! It may seem simple and silly but that is the best way to lose weight and KEEP it off

Just do it!

This has become my new motto. Yes I borrowed it from Nike but it is an awesome saying. I have people ask me all the time how did you lose weight when you have two little kids? My response was, “I just did it.” I got up every morning and planned when I was going to fit in time to work out and exercise. I made it a priority! Trust me if I can do it you can. I started my journey when we had a two month old and I was hardly getting any sleep. I think sometimes we just get content with life and don't expect anything more of ourselves. Now I understand it’s hard to make changes. Losing this weight has been one of the hardest things I've had to do (and I have kids so that's saying a lot). We always say we’ll start fresh on Monday but what happens on Monday. Well at least in my experience I forget and nothing happens. If you have a goal you need to start today, right NOW! Make the decision to make YOU a priority and know that you ARE worth having a healthy body, mind, and spirit. I see all the time these beautiful women who just let themselves go. I'm not saying we always have to look like we are models are anything. I surely don't but just taking care of ourselves. Wither it’s painting your nails, reading a book, going on a walk, or eating an apple instead of a candy bar and being excited that you could make that decision. As moms we always use the excuse of our kids. It doesn't matter if your pregnant, nursing, sick, working, tired, or etc. you can make one decision today to become healthier spiritually, physically, mentally, or emotional. Whether it’s to decide to stop drinking pop or cutting sugar out of your life or making time to get out for a walk today or doing 20 push-ups before you go to bed. It doesn’t matter what your goal is as long as you set one and just do it. No matter what happens. Yes we all have days where we fall off the wagon and we need to just get back on and keep going. My problem is I always let myself get into my own head and psych myself out. That is why I always tell myself "Just do it!" and just don’t even think about it. 

My thoughts after 50lbs of weightloss

So last week I hit a 50lbs weight loss, then I went on a all time binge and gained 5lbs. Ugh! For some reason I wanted to do nothing. I kept thinking why am I training to run 26.2 miles I am crazy!!! Well finally I started running again. Today as I was running a little girl asked me "Why are you running" and I thought "WHY AM I RUNNING, THIS IS CRAZY" All I could think about was how much losing weight and training for a marathon has taught me about me. I have had to push myself beyond what I thought I could. I thought I was strong before but I know I'm stronger now. Then I thought of the man I married at such a young age, someone who was made for me and loves me unconditional. And kids who depend everyday on me and make almost every minute better than the one before. I give up everyday of my life for my family. But words can not even describe how wonderful my little family is and how much they teach me. So next time a little girl asks me "Why do you run?" I'm going to say "I run for me, because my life is about somebody else"

I just re-read this from a Facebook post I made a few months ago. It made me remember as moms we give up everything for our children and we need to do something for ourselves every once in a while. For me I exercise, I don't always love it but I always feel better afterwards. Plus its a lot cheaper than my scrap booking hobby and less time consuming! So what is it that you do for yourself to recharge and start over fresh?

30 Minutes a Day

"A recent study found most Americans can’t seem to find 30 consecutive minutes most days to exercise. We do manage, however, to “squeeze in” an average of 2.8 hours per day of TV viewing." 
If this doesn't motivate you to get up and exercise I don't know what will. I think I am going to go right now!!!

Stuck in a rut?

Are you stuck in a rut? I hate to admit it but I am. :( Over the past few months I have been working out twice a day for at least 2 hours 6 days a week. It was a lot and I loved it! I feel like now I have just hit a major wall. I have no motivation to do any workouts and if I do anything I can't go for very long without giving up. I'm just not able to push myself like I used to. The marathon (26.2 miles) is in 6 weeks, I AM REALLY STARTING TO FREAK OUT!!! How on earth am I going to do this? Training for it has been really hard and has taught me a lot about myself. Now that it's finally approaching I am scared. My sister in law, who is running it with me, has really got me hooked on the singer Hilary Weeks. SHE IS AMAZING!!! Sorry I know I use capitals a lot but that is how I really talk, yes I'm crazy. Anyways my new favorite song is "Beautiful Heartbreak". Here is a link to it on YouTube if you are interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyX-I-um5Kk
 I have actually heard one of the ladies that is on the video.  She is an inspirational speaker and it was such a spiritual experience. The song is all about how all the pain we feel in this life is for our good so that we can learn something and become a better person for the trials we go through. My ultimate goal is to have a healthy body. Yes having a body that looks good is a great result but not the ultimate reason. I want to run a 7 minute mile, and be able to play with my kids and not get so tired. I want to go hiking and feel like I can go forever and not be fatigued the whole way. I want to be able to play basketball with my husband and be able to keep up with him. There are so many things that I want and I can't do right now and it's so frustrating!! I hate to be so depressing because I want this blog to be inspirational and uplifting. That is the whole reason I started it. But all of us have hard days where we don't want to do anything. We need to have a way to be able to push through them and keep going. I am living proof that losing weight and keeping it off is a DAILY trial. Everyday I have to get up and start all over again, and it's hard but it's worth it. I think up to this point for me it has been all about losing the weight so I'm not so embarrassed by it, but I think I need to shift my thinking to having a healthy body. I think that will help me get through my rut and push on. Do you have any other ideas? If you could share anything that helps you get through the hard times I would really appreciate it. I could use all the help I can get.