Before, during, after..........

Ok i told you i would post before and after pictures. So here you are:) This is my way before picture ( sorry about the darkness of it, it was taken with Ryan's phone)

 This is my picture at the half way point....I see a difference already!!!

Then this is my after picture!! You can bet that i will be sending it to Insanity so that i can get my T-shirt!! Love it!! SO excited to start my second round!

I am taking the rest of this week and next week off.
There is still going to be a Weigh in Wednesday though. I still need to monitor it:)

I hope everyone has a great 4th of July!!! Enjoy your vacations and family time!!!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!!

Weigh in Wednesday!

Its Wednesday again? This week has just flown by! Troy has been gone all week. He is at my Mom and Dads house till Thursday. They have vacation Bible school this week and it was easier for him to stay than to run him back and forth every day. They are enjoying having him and i think he is enjoying being away from his sister for a few days:) haha.....She is actually going tonight to stay the night and go to Nursery at Bible school (since she is not old enough for Bible school, this way she feels like she is part of it even if she is just in the nursery with other kids). That means date night with the hubs!! O YA!! Its been a while:) We are going to go to Mishawaka and eat at TGIFridays (bruschetta chicken pasta, here i come:) ) and then go to Old Navy and Dicks Sporting Good:) I love my man:)

Mmmmmmm.........Yummy!!!!

Aaaannnnyyywayyy.....Time for the moment of truth:)
Today on the scale i was 171!! Woot woot!!
I am only one pound away from the first goal i set myself!! I can not hardly believe that...

with that said i have to admit that this week i have not been doing insanity. I have just upped my water intake and watched my diet.  I love my water bottle:) Mine is the pink one! I got it at CVS. It has an ice stick inside that is re freezable and the bottle holds 64 oz! (I have since found a bigger one:) I try and drink 2 of these a day.

I came to a point where i just needed a break. Since this was the last week i decided to just take it off as well as next, before starting over on July 11th with Ryan:)
I am planning on taking an after picture tonight...and another before picture before the next round.

I am also thinking about doing p90x after the next round of insanity. Not sure on that one yet. I am going to be doing c25k on my phone DURING the next round of insanity.



It is an app on my phone where you go from the couch to a 5 k (hence c25k). It helps you get in shape to run a 5k, which is something that i would like to do by the summers end. Not sure it will happen but we will see.....Maybe i can talk Stephanie into running with me (hint, hint Steph:).....

I will not be moved! Will you??

I will stumble, I will fall down, but I will not be moved! This has been my anthem today!
I love this song!!

http://youtu.be/vyEMJBhCtU8

I have been tempted, and taunted by the devil this week. He has thrown past things at me and reminded me of who I was. He has told me that I'll never succeed, but......he's wrong! He has not won and I will not let him defeat me! God is on my side and i am bought with the blood!!
When ever the devil reminds you of your past, just remind him of his future, and watch him quiver!!!!

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What its not Wednesday? ...........

What? Wait...its not Wednesday? O wow I guess I finally have time to get on here and post. haha......


Yesterday was a long day.....in more than one way...
Have you ever had one of those days that just make you wanna cry all day?
Ya that's the wonderful kind of day that I had.
I let petty things, that don't usually bother me, affect me hardcore yesterday!
I even got to the point where i had to shut myself in the bathroom and just cry.
My feelings were hurt so bad over something so small.
I don't think this person understands how bad i was hurt.
It felt intentional (even if i wasn't) and then it felt like they were poking me with a hot stick all night:( Just a bummer of a night!
Ryan was so sweet and just came and gave me a big hug and kiss and told me he loved me and would take me to do anything i wanted that evening, but then Kaydi was not feeling the best.
She laid down and took a nap and seemed to be feeling better later on.
At that point though we decided that it would be best if she didn't go anywhere. 
I did go out later with my girl Tanya though:) I am so thankful to have Tanya as my bestie:) She is such a great friend to me, and is always there to cheer me up when i need it. She came and picked me up and we went and just talked and laughed. It made my evening much better! I realized that the friends who truly love me and care about me will always be (and have always been) there for me no matter what.
Isn't it amazing how some people change from day to day. One day they are your best friend and wanna hang all the time and the next day they can make you cry:(
I am not saying that i am perfect by any means. I am however trying to live my life for Christ to the best of my ability. Which means letting things go. I prayed alot yesterday about the whole situation. I believe that God is telling me that i need a Facebook break. I need to focus on the things that are important in life, and i believe that Facebook keeps me from that.
I have realized that people use Facebook to hurt others. They use it as a venting tool and run to it when they are mad at someone so that the whole world can see.
I have decided that i am going to take a Facebook break for a week. With that said i will be posting Weigh in Wednesday, since i know several people read it.
So if you don't hear from me on Facebook, you can always check in here. And if I'm not here, don't worry, I'm fine and am concentrating on my life:)

Weigh in Wednesday!

So today i was not excited to weigh in...several reasons caused this. I am very bloated, thanks to a certain monthly friend :/,  I also have been having indigestion a lot lately (probably cause i have been eating so much broccoli salad:) But its so good:) ) Anyway, i did weigh in this morning. For the last few weeks i have been stuck at 176ish. i increased my water intake, hoping that would help. So with out further Ado........my weight today was 173! Woo hoo!! I finally made it over that 176 hump! YAY!!

I only have a week and a half left of Insanity. A little bitter sweet...
i am ready for a break from the insanest, but at the same time i am worried about not working out intensely every day. I am going to be doing other things during the week i am taking off. My last day is July 2nd, so i am going to get to enjoy the 4th of July week, which is very busy for me.....Then i will be coming back to Day 1 of Insanity, starting over, with Ryan:) I am excited to start it with my husband (although he doesn't seem to reciprocate those feelings....Hahaha...)

Well i am off to take Troy to church camp:) He is so excited!

Hopfully it will not be a week before i update again.....

Weigh in Wednesday! (very late!)

So sorry That it took me so long to post. I did weigh in today. I was not able to get on here though and post it. I had a cake that I had to finish and deliver today.  (see below) :)

Now to the weigh in.....176:( Same same same! A little frustrating, at the same time I lost more inches. I am now over 30 inches lost. So I know that its still working. I am not sure if on the scale I have hit a plateau or what. I am going to look into it a little.

I apologize to those who are tired of hearing me talk about calories and working out and weightloss, but this is who I am now, so I guess you'll have to get use to it or ignore me:)

So I am going to try to post more. These last two weeks have been crazy busy, but I'm going to try:) Thanks for patiently waiting for "Weigh in Wednesday":)

Weigh in Wednesday!

So there was not much to report this week. My weight stayed about the same. Right about 176. I can handle that though.... I am increasing my water intake though. We will see if that helps.


I started the second half of Insanity Monday. It is crazy! I thought the first part was hard. I had no idea what was in store for me. I have been so sore all week. I am interested to see what the scale says next week.

So like I said not much to report. Just truckin' along and working my tail off. Sorry this took so long to post though. Busy day:) Mowing, Insanity, lunch and swimming with Ms. Stephanie and my kids. Welcome back summer:)

Wash..rinse...repeat....

So I wanted to add another post today to give an update. Yesterday when I weighed in my weight was 182.5. That didn't seem quite right even though I weighed twice. So I took it and accepted it as my weight. Today I weighed in Just cause I was curious. I have been very good with my diet and water intake and with insanity. Well I guess the hard work paid off. I weighed in today and the weigh in was 173.5. Same weigh in spot and everything. Not sure why it was so different except for the fact that I had been terribly bloated the last few day and today I don't feel that way. (Monthly just ended a few days ago). I guess I could probably chaulk the weigh gain up to that:) O well Just thought I would update:)

Weigh in Wednesday!

So its Wednesday once again.

This weekend was filled with lots of stress and adventures. I think these all played a part in my weight this week. First of all let me tell what my weight was. It was 182.5:( Meaning i have gained a few pounds since last weigh in:( This saddens me a little. At the same time i know that during this process there will be ups and downs. This weekend i let my self indulge a little. Not to much though.

Well lets start at the beginging.

Friday night the plan was to try and be there around sevenish. Ya....lets just say that didn't happen. Haha. We did arrive around 7:30ish though. We got checked in and went back to our site. When we pulled up to the site it did not look like the site we saw on the web site. It was more slopped than the one on the site and more shadded. O well we decided to park. It was a tough spot to back into, but Ryan had backed into worse, so we didn't think much of it. As he is backing up we hear a POP! We rush to the other side of the truck to see a nice dent in the side of Duane's truck. :/ Nice...... :/

After we finally got parked we realized the camper was leaning to the right terribly bad! So they decided to try and level it out. Ryan pulled forward, which ment pulling into the grassy campsite across the road from us. (Remember all that rain???) well while trying to back up he got stuck:( Great.....There were some guys just a couple camp sites over from us that hooked up to the back of the trailer and helped pull us backwards. :/ Finally we were parked. Still unlevel but parked...It was time to finally cook supper. Burgers and veggies it was...at 8:45 but better late than never....i guess. haha.

Saturday morning came way to early. One we stayed up and talked around the camp fire. Troy fell asleep in my lap and Kaydi fell asleep in Ryans lap. (How did i get the heavy one?) Two Kaydi did not sleep very well. I was up on and off most of the night. All i wanted when i woke up was some coffee. Ryan was on the same brain wave as me. So he got the coffee pot and decided to take it outside to make it. While at the top of the camper stairs, he dropped the pot.....crash and crack....broke clean in half. We have on of those thermas coffee pots. It broke right where the black handle and the silver part meet. Not a big deal, just one of those things where it just takes the cake........Lucklly you can buy just the replacement pot. I love this maker:) 

Most of Saturday was spent taking care of my little Troyer, who was throwing up and running a fever. He had (and still has) a terrible cough and lots of chest congestion. (which we figured out later in the day, was Kaydi's issue as well) We decided to go into town and get a few things that we forgot, and to get TT some meds. We then looked for a place to fish. Didn't really find anything that was not under water from all the rain. Troy got tired of walking so i carried him piggy back all the way back to the truck. Ryan told me how impressed he was with me that i could carry him up that hill. My thighs were burning by the time we reached the truck, but it felt good to get some exercise in. The rest of the evening consisted of rain, rain and more rain....can you say MUDD!! My feet felt like this all weekend long...

(these are not my feet, just how they looked...lol)

We gave Troy his meds and he ended up sleeping from 8pm-after 8am. He felt much better when he woke up.

Sunday started out great. Sunny and warm. We decided to take a row boat out and fish a little. Not one bite, but the kids enjoyed our little lunch on the boat:) Kaydi kept singing the duck song. Haha. Got any grapes??? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q (Click to watch the duck song:))

On the way back in from the lake i decided that i wanted to row in. So i rowed the boat all the way in from the middle of the lake! ABS and arms baby!
We came back from the lake to discover we were under a Severe thunderstorm watch and tornado watch. (which were upgraded to warnings)  Great...... We decided to just wait it out at the camp site. It blew over very quickly and our evening continued. Corn hole and campfire:)

Monday was just beautiful! We spent the morning cleaning up and packing away. We then went to the beach. It was so nice. We had corn dogs and ice cream. 

All in all it was good weekend. We did have to shampoo the camper floors from all the mudd and i mowed the yard when we got home:) Camping is always fun, but always so much work. It is all worth it to see the kids have a good time and to spend time with friends:)

I hope everyone had a great weeked.

Now its time to get my self back on track. Time to kick back into weight loss mode!

First i have lots of cleaning and putting things away, to do from the weekend. I better get cracking!

Happy mid week already!!!