Supporters, and Haters and Five on Friday

I swear no matter what you do, there will always be someone hating on it!

Whether you are trying to get healthy or just switching your damn hairstyle.

Everyone has their views and opinions and some think it's their way or the highway.

Personally I prefer back roads, but that's just because I'm a country girl.

For the past few months I have really be focusing on bettering my health, inside and out. I run a lot more than I used to, especially considering I never ran! I eat healthier or at least try to and I have also been working on other personal goals involving my kids and my husband that are more private and I'm not quite ready to share those yet.

But there will always be those people in my life who focus on my eating and think I'm being "picky" or not happy with whats around. Well if that's what you want to call it then yes I'm being picky.

I'm choosing more veggies, and lean meats. Less carbs and less dairy (my weakness!!).

Through my journey I have also met some really awesome people who are inspired by me, which little do they know is CRAZY and I am more inspired by them even thinking about making changes!!

AnyWHO, yesterday was a beautiful holiday and we spend the morning at the beach. Both kids actually took a nap, and we ended the day at the Strawberry Festival with strawberry shortcake (which I did not partake in). We caught up with good friends and finally got to drool over their GORGEOUS new baby. Her red hair I die!

Now we are off for a weekend away. There will be more swimming, more temptations and hopefully more sun!

Now for my link up

 

 1. Fresh fruit on hot days

Amazing

 2. Dancing babies

 3. Motivation in the form of Snooki...

Get it girl!

 4. My pups Ms.Large, Ms.Medium and Ms. Prissy Bitchy Pants.

5. Sunny days at the beach with my loveys

 

 

Workout Wednesday Link Up

Today I'm linking up with one of my favorite bloggers Skinnymeg . She is amazing and so inspirational. When I'm sitting on the couch and don't want to get my fat girl hustle on, I just read her latest blog post. That usually does the trick.For Workout Wednesday I am posting a lower body tabata workout that makes me my fat cry.

Do each excersize for 20 seconds, then rest for 10 and repeat whole thing 4 times through.

Jumping Jacks
Sumo Squats
Pendulum Lunges
Squat jumps
Burpees
Plank
Mountain Climbers
Plank Jacks

Your legs will be screaming but it hurts so good.

I use the Tabata Pro app so I don't have to focus on the clock, the count down helps me push hard.

Today is chest and back day for me so I'm glad Skinnymeg posted her shoulder workout, I may just have to add it in!

Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, and I wont be enjoying any margaritas, hotdogs, bacon cheeseburgers, or cupcakes. It's a sad day for me America. Maybe I'll just burn this candle instead,

yeah, no.

My lunch today was good, baked chicken over romaine lettuce and tomatoes, with Tequila Lime Salsa.... a girl's gotta get her tequila in some way! (it's clean right?!?).

And to round it all up, I got a little crafty today and polished out this gem.

We'll have to see what the hubby thinks when he gets home, cause I LOVE it.

Clean Choices, and Round Two's

Yesterday was my first day on the clean eating challange and guess what the hubs wanted to do after dinner.

Go get ice cream.

Reluctantly I went, but before we left I cut up a banana sprinkled a little unsweetened coconut and a little squirt of honey to take with me. It worked perfect. It gave me something sweet to munch on while watching my loving family down some of my favorite flavors....

My hubs is also on vacation this week and next week so today we took a drive to the mall and he decided he wanted to go out to lunch....uhhh okay I guess. We decided on Ruby Tuesday's because they have a great salad bar so worse case I could load up on veggies.

Immediatly the waitress came over and placed two cheese biscuit on our table. I kindly asked her to remove them because if I eat them there is a good chance I could also eat her hand.

 I looked over the menu and decided to go with a chicken breast with steamed broccoli and zucchini and added the salad bar.


It was amaze.

I was so full after the salad and veggies that I only ate half the chicken breast and didn't even look at the dessert menu.  I walked out of that restaurant on cloud 9. Not only was I still full of energy as opposed to every other time we go out to eat and I roll myself back to the car to unbutton my pants and sleep the way home, I was so proud.

While today is only day two I feel like a million bucks!

To top it off I got called back for a second interview for a job I really want. Could things be looking up? I think they are. 

Farewell Party

I threw a three day long party this weekend. It was planned a little last minute, but all the invites showed up. It was a sort of going away, farewell party....


....to my fat.

The turn out was great, that party of one got a little crazy. There was food. There was booze. There may have even been a little throw back to my college days with a few backyard games of beer pong.

Okay that wasn't by my self that was at a legit party with other people... I promise.

So why did I throw this rediculous party of one all weekend you ask?
Well today starts that stupid  awesome 30 day clean eating challenge thats going to melt off all those pounds... or so I hope.

I meal planned and went shopping on Sunday, and said my final farewells to all of my staple grocery store products such as these,

Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes...seriously....

I love you Dr.Pepper, in all of your forms.

Don't worry Jose I wont forget you.

I may have shed a tear but I'm ready. I'm sick of being uncomfortable in my own skin. I'm sick of hiding cupcake wrappers, and feel guilty about  my food choices. I'm am SO READY for a change. I've been on the workout train for awhile, and I feel good about it, but whats the point in busting my ass if I'm not willing to change my diet. I might as well just enjoy my cupcakes on the couch (which I do).

Every Sunday I'm re-taking measurements, and weights as well as taking progress pics to send to my accountability partner who I will lovingly refer to as Ms.M. Those bathing suit pics are a bitch. I tried every room and ever form of lighting to use the shadows in my favor, and there's no getting around it. Yuck.


The end of 30 days will be August 1, which just so happens to be the month that both Ms.M and my birthdays fall in. Sounds like a good goal to me.

I'm going to do it. For the first time in a long time, possibly forever that I'm not going to fail.

I'm going to eat right and sweat right.


On another note... I'm in love with Spencer from BB. A train conductor... I mean come on how can you not love him.

Teddy bear status.

Five on Friday

This morning I am linking up with Darci over at The Good Life for Five on Friday woop woop.
My first link up so here goes nothing...


1. the library, yup I'm a nerd. I go every other week to get books for the little princess and she absolutely loves it. We have book time every night before she goes to bed, and she refuses to sleep with anything less than 5 books in her bed.  I am totally okay with this. I also have been picking up books for myself, and have started (and not finished) 2 books. I am an avid reader and love me a good book but for some reason I have not been able to get lost in a good one. Maybe it's because I live in a Podunk and my library has about 5 books. I'm trying again today with Mr.Mou's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie check out the first comment....looks like I'm in for a treat.

2. Coffee...
Dear Coffee,
I love you.
In all forms, hot, cold, ice cream, perfume (okay maybe not perfume).
You make me excited about waking up in the morning
and going to sleep, because I know what awaits me
You make it possible for me to get through a morning after I've been puked on twice, cleaned up a carton of spilled blueberries, looked for my keys for 20 minutes, only to get to daycare to realize we've missed breakfast.
Thanks for always being their for me, even when I joke about giving you up, or cutting back on you.
You + Me= Us, I know my calculus. please someone get that reference


3. My husband and his amazing ability to do crazy ass things around the house, like build a deck in a weekend, or replace all of the floors, or let me pick the paint colors, or build my garden beds. He may fill up our DVR's with endless episodes of Diner's Drive-in's and Dives and leave the air conditioner on -89 while it blows directly on my face but if that's the worst... I can deal. He also always finds a way to make our pictures so priceless....

Yeah we're cute

4. My amazing photographer friend Lauren!!! If you are in the NH area and you are looking for an amazing photographer let me know and I will hook you up. She just did a whole photo shoot with my husbands entire family....all 40+ of us. I may or may not have thought that idea up all on my own after a couple of drinks.... I'm nuts. BUT it turned out amazing, and we surprised my MIL and she cried....mission accomplished. I also got some amazing family pictures, and pictures of my little babes that I'm dying over.

agh... I love us

This is making my ovaries ache....and then I remember this morning..

5. My sore muscles, because that means someday they will be really strong and I will be able to win an arm wrestling contest against my nephew.. or just show him up when we run this mother in
in 15 frickin days....




In other news, remember that awesome friend I was telling you about that I met on Instagram...well she's challenging me to 30 days of clean eating, no cheat meals, balls to the wall... I'm double thinking our friendship... I love my donuts, and cupcakes, and pizza, and my sweet sweet Miller Lites.... Lets hope I see major results because if not... well there isn't going to be a not.


CHEERS TO THE FRICKIN WEEKEND!! 

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5 Miles...No Really

(This post was supposed to happen a million weeks ago.... judge me.)


For some reason I thought it would be a really great idea to wake up at 3am on a Sunday, during a long weekend, to drive to Boston, to run 5 miles.

The longest I have ever run.

Ever.

It was the Boston Run to Remember, and it was... amazing. 

I was so nervous and was on a total anxiety ride the whole way down, which originally I was going to do alone because there is no way the hubs and the babes would be joining me at the ass crack of dawn. 

At the last minute my sister-in-law decided to drive down with me and thank goodness she did. 

There was about half a million people and everyone was wearing super cute running clothes, and super high tech running gear, eating their super cool running pre snacks, and there was me. 

I don't know why but it's hard for me to call myself a runner. I always feel like an impostor and I'm just waiting for someone to spot me and start pointing until I'm slowly pushed out. (Irrational fear #1)

Luckily I wasn't spot before the race started and I was able to sneak in.

The race was amazing. The course was beautiful and so fun. Who wouldn't want to be able to run down the middle of the street in downtown Boston with cops cheering you on instead of chasing you ( I kid I kid...okay maybe not).

It wasn't hilly at all and I breezed through the first three miles at my normal sloth pace of 12/mi. My pace usually gives me anxiety because I'm afraid of being so slow that someone has to stop me because the race is over (Irrational fear #2), but this time I didn't care, I was taking in the scenery.

 Sometime during the third mile my stomach was all "hey remember me and how much I like food". It was about that time that every bakery in Boston decided to start wafting their yummy goodness into the street. 

So at the next water station I grabbed a Gu...vomit flavored Espresso flavored. It did the trick. 

Then before I knew it I saw the finish line and as if on cue my pump up song came on, and I sprinted. 

That's right I sprinted that shit, and my sister-in-law was right there cheering me on. So amazing. I'm hooked. Next year I'm doing the half, and I'm going to have a super cute running outfit because now I'm not scared to shop in the running section, 

because I'm a runner. 

Not the same race... I just look good here ; )

Remember that time I started a blog....

....you don't?

Oh thats probably because I posted like twice, and then decided I was too busy not doing anything to keep up with it.

So here goes another attempt.

I recently started a new weight training program, and so far I love it. I am trying to "lift heavy" so I can buy one of those cute workout tanks someday with the cute sayings like

"Keep Calm and Lift On"

When in reality mine should read something more like

"Do cupcakes count as dumbells?"

and not feel like a total imposter. I hope I stick it out, and gain some crazy girl muscles in the process.

As far as the job department, everything is pretty much exactly the same.
I'm still applying to half a million jobs, and not getting any interviews. So I sit at home and wonder why I got my Master's in the first place.

I met this great new friend through Instagram (@candra_ellen) who has had an amazing weight loss and she is insanely inspirational. Maybe some day I'll post about her, in the mean time, she's my little secret!! 

In the mean time I leave you with my most recent purchase,

I was channeling Matilda's mom... nailed it.