Progress not Perfection

I feel like I need to get this tattooed someplace I can read it multiple times a day.  I very much have an all or nothing type of personality so if my diet isn’t 100% perfect then I catch myself feeling like I failed.  I’m trying to change my mindset and give myself a break, but dang-it, that’s just plain difficult some days.

This blog is really more a journal for me to reflect on and get my thoughts out.  So I’m now in the middle of week two.  Last week, I surprised myself and got in every single workout and cardio session.  This week I’m struggling to get all of them in as the schedule got a bit hectic.  I am doing my best though.  Is my diet perfect?  No way!!  But if I sit down and think about it, I’m betting it’s really not as bad as I think.

Next week we are on our “staycation” and to be honest, I’m not sure how that will all fit in to this program.  But I will do my best.  I will keep making good choices and try to squeeze in whatever exercise I can get.

Thanks again for the support and please feel free to share any advice on this whole “live a balanced/fit” lifestyle or especially any yummy recipes.

Patience

Hello friends!  Well, it’s been 2 days since I started my “program.”  So far, so good!!  I’ve been able to get all my water in (100 oz) which is HUGE for me!!  I stuck to my diet and my ratios (protein/carb/fat) look great!  I’m pretty proud of myself.

My workouts have been good too.  Today is the first day back at work since starting this again.  Also, today is the first of 11 days I will work in a row….yes, I’m crazy.  But after those 11 days, it will be VACATION!!!!  We aren’t going anywhere, but still.  It’s a week home with my whole family.  I can’t wait!

I knew I was impatient, but this has made it even more apparent.  So I’ve followed the program for 2 whole days now and I expect to see the scale move.  HAHAHAHAHA!  Instead, today it went up.  I mean it only went up .2, but still!  LOL  I realize this is so irrational, but I can’t be the only one right?  We expect instant results.  When we don’t see it, we get angry.  I get frustrated with my kids when they expect things to be instant, but yet, here I am getting mad that I don’t see instant results.  *shaking my head*

I will say that chicken and veggies will probably get old quickly so if you have a good (protein/veggie) dinner recipes to share, I would be so appreciative.  PS, I don’t like fish 🙂

Thanks for the support!

Back at it!!!!!

Well, it’s been quite a while since I even read this site, much less posted.  Thanks to good ole Timehop I was reminded of my competition journey.  Yesterday, I decided I was going to re-committment myself to fitness and get back to my happy place once and for all!!!

I spent this morning looking through all my old pictures taken by my beautiful friend Brandi and from me on the stage.  Seeing my face, I can just see the confidence I had and I’m longing for that feeling again.

Since the competition, I feel like I’ve struggled with “living” and finding the balance and I’ve just reached my breaking point.  Yes, I know to many I probably have a fit, small figure, but as we all know, we are our own worse critics.  For my confidence and comfort zone, I’ve reached my bottom and need to build myself back up.

What will be different this time is, I won’t have that end goal of walking across that stage. This time my motivation has to come from deep within and I have to push myself even without that that end goal.  The end goal this time is to prove to myself I CAN get back to this point and whats even more is that I can maintain it without going overboard!

Will I be 100% strict this go around?  No.  But, part of me putting this out there is to keep myself accountable.  I need support and motivation to stay on point.

When I started thinking about doing this again, I looked at my calendar and noticed we have a week long vacation coming up and a week at the lake coming up.  At first, I thought I should wait until all that is over, because let’s face it, no one will stay on point being on vacation (or I’m just speaking for myself, whatever!).  But my wonderful husband, told me to start anyway.  There will never be 12 weeks in our schedule that will be perfect and completely open so just go for it.  So my plan right now is to start this Sunday, May 29 and hit it hard for 2 weeks.  Our vacation is June 13-17 so I will essentially take that week off.  Now not off the wagon totally, but give myself a break.  Then get back on it June 19th and go strong again until July 4th.  Take a break again and then get back at it.  Will I do the whole 12 weeks again?  I don’t know.  I’m just going to play it by ear and see how it goes.  See how I feel and see how my body responds this go around.

Maybe I will schedule a photo session with Brandi again.  I don’t know, but that could be the motivation I need.

This time will be a tad more difficult.  Not only are the kids older now, but Joe’s schedule has changed too.  Before we lived a “normal” life.  We both had administrative jobs working normal “bankers” hours.  Since the competition, Joe got promoted and now works evening hours.  Paige’s cheerleading schedule has also changed and practices 11-2 meaning I will have to work 6am-2pm.  No way in hell am I getting up at 3am to do cardio, so those days I will have to adjust.  I’m trying to give myself some wiggle room in this plan so we shall see how it goes.

I haven’t measured or weighed in quite a while (on purpose) but I know things are not good as my clothes do not fit and I don’t feel comfortable in my own skin.

So there it is.  I’m re-committing myself to this journey!  Wish me luck!!

The thing about plans…………

The thing about plans is you can’t plan for everything!!  So we did all that cooking.  All that planning…..and we all get sick!!!  Awesome huh?  I had flu like symptoms (luckily negative test), Paige has an ear infection and Mason has allergies and a cough.  Poor Joe was left taking care of all of us.  Needless to say….not all of that food was eaten.  I had zero appetite and therefore zero energy for any working out.  I’m just now feeling better so I will get over this bump in the road and move forward.

That’s that.  Plan went out the window and that’s life.

Meal Prep Sunday

It’s the part we hate the most – make food list Friday. Well, in the case it was make food list Saturday. Once a week we sit down and write out all dinners for the week, Paige’s lunches for the week and our lunches for the week. Of course, we have to take into account what we have going on in the evenings that week – which is where the difficulty lies.

This week is a tad more busy than normal.

Monday – Joe works off duty but not until 9pm.
Tuesday – Paige has cheer practice and I have an FOP meeting.
Wednesday – Paige has tumbling class.
Thursday – Paige has cheer practice and Joe is traveling for work and will be home late.
Friday – NOTHING!!!

So having evenings like that is hard and would be easy to just say “We don’t have time so just go through a fast food place.” But that won’t make us feel any better. Not saying that there aren’t nights that that happens at all. We are human.

So here is the meal plans for the week:
Dinners:

Saturday – rotisserie chicken and creamy garlic zucchini noodles. Which by the way, we used our “Veggetti” for the first time to made the zucchini noodles and it was awesome!! Highly recommend!

Sunday – Turkey Quinoa Meatballs and roasted broccoli (http://yummyaddiction.com/turkey-quinoa-meatballs-stuffed-with-mozzarella/)

Monday – Healthier Meat Lasagna and spinach salad (http://www.marthastewart.com/336865/healthier-meat-lasagna)

Tuesday – Leftover chicken nuggets (frozen from last week), edamame and spinach salad.

Wednesday – Leftover turkey quinoa meatballs (http://yummyaddiction.com/turkey-quinoa-meatballs-stuffed-with-mozzarella/)

Thursday – Leftover lasagna

Friday – is open. We like to leave one night open in case things change throughout the week. If all goes as planned then we may go out to eat or something like that.

As for lunches. Our plan is:
Monday – Burrito Bowl (http://damndelicious.net/2014/09/10/easy-burrito-bowls/) with shredded chicken breast (http://www.organizeyourselfskinny.com/2011/11/04/make-ahead-meal-starters-slow-cooker-mexican-shredded-chicken-filling/)

Tuesday – Turkey Burger, brown rice, zucchini and broccoli

Wednesday – Burrito Bowl with shredded chicken breast

Thursday – Turkey Burger, brown rice, zucchini and broccoli

Friday – Burrito Bowl with shredded chicken breast.

So that means Sunday is a day of preparation. We had to make our eggs for the morning. We find that easier. I am eating 3 egg whites and 1 whole egg right now along with oatmeal in the morning. My protein shake and Joe’s rice cakes. Then I made 6 servings of brown rice and 4 turkey burgers. Then I cut up 3 zucchini’s and 3 small heads of broccoli and put them in our rice cooker to steam all at once. I also cut up 3 other heads of broccoli for dinner tonight. I also put 3 large chicken breasts in the crock pot with spices for shredded chicken in the burrito bowls.

Once that was made it was time for assembly. I made the turkey burgers and seasoned with Mrs. Dash, but them up and placed in 4 bowls. I put 1/4 cup brown rice in each bowl and 1 1/2 cup of the vegetable mix. BAM! Tuesday and Thursday lunches made.

Next it’s time to shred the chicken in the crock pot and assemble the burrito bowls. BAM! Monday, Wednesday and Friday lunches done!

Then it was time to make dinner for the night!

Morning snack is a protein shake made with 8oz unsweetened almond milk, 1 scoop chocolate protein powder, 1 tsp. flaxseed meal, 1 tsp. chia seeds and a whole banana. My afternoon snack will be an apple with peanut butter.

It’s not easy and not exactly the funnest thing in the world, but it makes our evenings during the week SO much easier. Knowing that we have good, healthy food made is such a relief.

Not every week is like this, but it’s just an example of how meal prep in my house works. Not gonna lie, this weekend wasn’t the best for my diet, but it is what it is. All I can do is move forward and make good decisions. I did get my workout in yesterday and today. I even added on a small run after my Insanity video!!!!

WHEW…ready for the week!!!!

Journey for Balance

Well…..I’m back!  Last time this blog was about my journey towards the stage.  This time this is just my journey towards balance.  I have learned a lot about myself in the past year.  I’ve learned that when I commit, nothing can stop me.  I’ve learned that I love to train and see my body transform.  I’ve also learned that I’m all in or all off.  To me losing weight is the easy part. It’s maintaining that level of fitness that is crazy hard.  Since the competition, I have struggled.  My mind went from being ecstatic for accomplishing such a huge goal to WHAT NOW?????  I’m very much a goal driven person.  I need that goal to reach towards.  I need that constant accountability.  But I have come to realize that if I truly want that physique I’m going for, I need to find it in ME to get it.  I need to change how I think sometimes and, well, find that balance.  I made some awesome changes in my body during comp prep, but I also felt deprived and therefore, when it was over, I kinda went a tad crazy!  So I have decided I need to get my butt in gear and figure out how to live life AND be strong and fit.

2015 is going to be an awesome year.  In June we are taking the kids on their first vacation to Florida and in October Joe and I will be celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary and treating ourselves to a trip to Aruba!!!!!  So I have that motivation to feel comfortable in a swimsuit on both vacations.

This past year I have continued to work out.  I have continued eating mostly clean and healthy, but now I’m ready to push it further.  I did a 10k series last fall which was three 10k races in three weeks.  That was fun and I will most likely do that series again.  And about six weeks ago I started the Insanity Max program.  I needed a change and a program to follow so I turned to Insanity.  Let me tell you IT.IS.HARD! But I am really enjoying it.  The first four weeks, I did lose a few inches overall, but didn’t lose any weight.  Yes, I know, I know….the scale isn’t everything but it is something.  Besides the competition weight, I haven’t been able to keep my weight down since having Mason….he’s 3!!!!!!!!  Time to get my butt in gear!!!!

So like before, I’m starting the blog again to hold myself accountable.  To track my journey.  To write about my struggles and accomplishments.  To let others know that it is possible to be healthy and work out of the home and be a mom, a wife and a friend.  But it will take work and preparation.

So there it is.  This is my journal to figuring out how to get to MY happy place.

The plan:  I honestly don’t know yet.  I’m in my sixth week of Insanity Max so I will finish that out.  I might add in more cardio, but I WILL finish that program.  When I finish that it will be 12 weeks from when we go to Florida.  I haven’t 100% decided what I will do for that, but I’m working on it.  What I do know is I must clean up my diet and be consistent.

Another thing I plan on working on is a positive mindset.  I have to learn or retrain myself to not focus on the negative, but focus on the positive.  Instead of thinking, “UGH, I wish I didn’t have these love handles.” I need to think, “WOW!  Check out my muscles in my arms!!!” It’s hard, but I think slowly I can change my mindset.

Meal Prep Chaos

So here’s how my weekend typically goes regarding food in our house. 

• Friday night sit down and figure out what Paige will get in her lunch for the week.
• Figure out what dinners will be for the whole week.
• Figure out our lunches for the entire week.
• Figure out what snacks to feed the girls after school. No shit, that takes at least an hour to figure all that out. 

 THEN, I have to make the grocery list.  GEEZ!

Saturday day we go to the grocery stores.  Now we are a bit crazy here and typically go to three stores, yes THREE stores.  We go to Aldi for almost all the produce and maybe some cheese.  Hy-vee for lunch meat, marinated chicken breasts, large container of Peanut Butter and large box of brown rice.  Then we get everything else at Price Chopper.  It just works for us.

First things first, Paige’s lunch:  Luckily, I follow www.100daysofrealfood.com  and she has a TON of real, healthy food ideas on there for kids’ lunches.  Here is what Paige gets this week:

Monday – “lunchable” Annie’s crackers, pepperoni slices (yes, not the best, but it is what it is), cut up peaches, Colby jack cheese and two pieces of dark chocolate. Water to drink.

Tuesday – raisin bread and cream cheese sandwich, applesauce topped with cinnamon, slicked carrots.  Water to drink.

Wednesday – Peanut Butter and honey sandwich, granola bar, fruit.  Water to drink.

Thursday – whole wheat waffle with cream cheese “sandwich”, carrots and grapes, Greek yogurt (we buy the large container and mix honey in ourselves) with honey and granola (we use the honey oat)topping.  Water to drink.

Friday – “lunchable” Annie’s crackers, pepperoni slices (yes, not the best, but it is what it is), cut up peaches, Colby jack cheese and two pieces of dark chocolate. Water to drink.

Then I had to look through our calendar to see what we had going on this week to determine dinners.  If we are home in the evening with nothing to do then we can actually make dinner that night.  There are many nights we are busy so it needs to be something we can warm up.  This plan has worked really well for us.  It truly helps us not use the “no time” excuse and run through a drive through.  This week we actually weren’t that busy so we were able to make a few meals the night of.  Last week was a bit crazier so Sunday was BUSY BUSY meal prepping. 

Here are the dinners for the week:

Monday – Spaghetti with ground beef and salad.  I use thin, whole-wheat noodles and Newman’s Own sauce.

Tuesday – Lunch meat sandwiches with fruit salad.

Wednesday – Baked Roasted Almond Chicken Strips and Parmesan zucchini and corn

Thursday – leftover spaghetti and salad

Friday – leftover chicken strips dinner

On to lunches for me and Joe:

Monday – ground turkey, quinoa, veggie mix.

Tuesday – Jenni-O turkey burger and a sweet potato/broccoli mixture. 

Wednesday – turkey, quinoa, veggie mix.

Thursday – Steak filet and sweet potato/broccoli mix

Friday – turkey, quinoa, veggie mix.

Once that was done, I had to figure out what we needed to meal prep on Sunday.  Here’s how that went:

• 4 – small salads (I make my salads with spinach, green leaf lettuce, carrots, celery, red onion and use this dressing) we make our salads (me and Joe) ahead of time and make the kids a small one the night of.)

6 – turkey, quinoa, veggie mixes for the week. For this, I used the leftover turkey breast from last week that we froze and then made another pound of ground turkey.  I tend to follow this recipe for the ground turkey.  Last week we made these lunches and had extra turkey breast so I froze what we had leftover and used that this week.  The ground turkey I add in some minced onions and a few gloves of fresh garlic.  Then add 2 tablespoons of low sodium soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce and Dijon mustard.  I do add in a chicken bouillon cube or paste into the quinoa for extra flavor.  As for the veggies, we cut up about 18-20 baby carrots, one zucchini and one yellow squash.  Place all veggies in our rice cooker and steam (I’ve learned that the carrots tend to take longer to cook so place those on the bottom and the zucchini and squash on top).   Since we are making six of these lunches (3 days each for the week) we also scrambled 6 eggs and divide them up for the week.

For my lunch, I get 3oz of the turkey breast,   1 scrambled egg, 1/3 cup quinoa and ½ cup veggie mixture.  It’s seriously DELICIOUS!!!!  Joe gets more turkey breast and more quinoa.

4 – Sweet potato/broccoli mix – I peeled and cut two sweet potatoes and boiled them until I could put a fork through them.  Drained out the water and placed in a bowl.  Threw in some olive oil, chives and shredded parmesan cheese.  Tossed to combine.  For the broccoli, I bought two “packages” of broccoli with had 2 heads in each package.  I cut up broccoli and steamed with some salt and garlic powder on top.  Placed one cup of broccoli in 4 different containers and added just over ½ cup sweet potato to each bowl. 

Washed all fruit for the week.  I place one cup of vinegar and four cups of water in a large bowl and wash all fruit:  blueberries, strawberries and grapes.

And there you have it….that’s my meal prep/lunch/kid lunch/dinners for one whole week! 

Vitamin Test

I’m skeptical.  I know many of you are probably extremely shocked right now, but it’s true.  I’m a skeptic.  Now that that’s out of the way we can get to this post.

As previously mentioned, I recently started taking Hair, Skin and Nails (HSN) from the It works company.  While talking to a friend, she mentioned a trick she did with her husbands vitamins to see how many “fillers” the vitamins had in them.  She placed his vitamin in a cup of water and a vitamin from the It Works company.  At first, his pill dissolved and hers didn’t.  However, after they left it in the water for a while, hers ended up dissolving much more than his.  Moral of the story?  If it won’t dissolve in water how do you think you can get the full benefits from the pill?  So I had to try this myself with my own vitamins.

I placed one Hair Skin Nails pill in a cup of water.  One of my Vitamin Code Raw Women’s multivitamin’s in a cup of water. And one of my Vitamin Code B12 complex’s in a cup of water and waited.

 

Pretty impressed with my multivitamin!  BAM!!!  Dissolved like super lightening fast!!!  I was a bit shocked that the HSN didn’t ever fully dissolve, because I can see and feel the positive effects from taking it.  (Again I’m NOT selling this stuff) Even still, I wanted to see if my vitamins I’ve been taking were full of fillers.  Now I know this was no scientific proof or anything, but eased my mind a bit!

Also, we made this dinner (http://www.michellesfitlife.com/turkey-quinoa-taco-bake-recipe-made-to-fit-the-21-day-fix.php) the other night and let me tell you IT.WAS.YUMMY!!!!  Highly recommend!

Turkey & Quinoa Taco Bake

Makes 4 servings

 

Ingredients

1 cup uncooked Quinoa

20oz package 93% Lean Ground Turkey

Tomato Sauce (low Sodium) 2 cups

Chopped Red or yellow or green pepper*

Chopped onion & Jalapeno*

Shredded Cheddar

Juice of 1 lime

Garlic 3 cloves minced

Chili Powder 2 Tbsp

Cumin 2 Tsp

Onion Powder 1 Tsp

Chopped Cilantro 1/3 cup

Hot Sauce to taste (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat Oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9X13 baking dish with cooking spray & set aside.
2. Add Quinoa to 2 cups water in a Medium saucepan & bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil for 5 minutes. Turn heat to low & simmer for about 15 minutes, or until water is absorbed. Remove from heat & fluff with a fork. Cover quinoa & set aside.
3. Spray frying pan with non-stick cooking spray. Add onion, garlic & jalapeno & sauté over medium-high heat for 1 minute. Add the ground turkey, breaking it up as it browns. Cook for about 5 minutes & add the peppers. Cook for 3-4 minutes more, or until meat if no longer pink.
4. Add the juice of 1 lime, cumin, chili powder & cilantro. Stir to combine. Adjust seasonings to taste.
5. Remove from heat & add the quinoa to the meat & veggie mixture. Pour in the tomato sauce & hot sauce if using & stir. Add 1 blue container of shredded Cheddar Cheese.
6. Pour mixture into prepared baking dish. Top with remaining Cheddar. Cover with foil & bake for 20 minutes. Remove foil & bake for an additional 10 minutes or until cheese is melted & edges are bubbling. Remove from oven & let cool for 10 minutes.

Yoga

I’m not sure if I mentioned or not, but I’ve started yoga – again.  And might I say, I’m totally in love!!!  It’s hard to explain, but it’s relaxing and challenging at the same time.  Yoga can be quite expensive, but I found a groupon that helped a ton.  I got to InBliss Yoga.  They have a groupon right now 10 classes for $20 or 20 classes for $40.  Totally worth it!!!

Last Monday, I decided to kick it up a notch and take the Astanga 90 minute class.  It was one level up from what I had been doing and WOW…it was a challenge to say the least.  I will say that I don’t think that was a normal class.  The instructor decided to switch things up a little and do some arm balance poses.  WHOA….what the heck did I get myself into.  If you aren’t sure what I’m referring to check this out:

 

 What the WHAT?????  What is she doing?  And is she nuts?  Those were the thoughts in my head.  But I attempted and yes, fell on my face.  But I sure wasn’t the only one.  Yoga is typically quiet, but there was definitely some laughter going on during those poses. 

And did I mention that those rooms are quite warm.  It’s not HOT yoga as they call it, but it sure wasn’t cool.  The room was roughly 85 degrees.  I was drenched in sweat, but loving every minute. 

So now I’m more determined than ever to actually nail some of these poses.  Any suggestions????

Climbing Back Up

So, yeah, sorry it’s been like 500 years since my last post.  Life just gets crazy.

My entire family went through one heck of an illness this past few weeks and that has totally thrown me all off course.  You know when you are sick and you don’t feel like eating anything…so anything that sounds remotely good, you eat?  Yeah, that’s what I did.  Which pretty much consisted of eating out every day for lunch.  I.feel.gross.

Not sure what has gotten in to me lately, but I’m feeling like a bit of a hypocrite.  Let me explain.  I’ve always been the person that doesn’t go to any of these “I’m selling stuff” parties.  Like Avon, Tupperware, etc.  Well, since I last wrote, I’ve bought two things from It Works company, Beachbody and Norwex.  What the heck is wrong with me? 

Well, it all started with getting my hair cut.  I liked the cut, well, I didn’t hate it, but I really missed my long hair.  So my friend messaged me about Hair, Skin and Nails from It Works….have NO fear, I have not given into those crazy wraps and NEVER, I repeat, NEVER will!!!  Anyway, the Hair, Skin and Nails is just a supplement to take to help with, you guess it…hair, skin and nails.  I took a before pic and one week later noticed a little change.  The biggest change I noticed was how soft my hair is now.  Like, I can’t quit touching it.  Apparently, Mason likes it too.  Every night when I put him to bed he has to run his little fingers through my hair a few times.  It melts my heart.  Here is the one week pic:

 

I plan on taking another one at one month so stay tuned. 

The next thing I bought was the “Greens.”
Their claim is this:  (taken directly from their site) Alkalize, energize, and detoxify your body with every glass of Greens. Fight acidity with a supercharged pH-balancing blend and maintain a healthy balance by keeping your digestive system regular through our cutting-edge probiotic.

Benefits

• Detoxify, alkalize, and promote pH balance within the body
• Acidity-fighting magnesium and potassium blend
• Cutting-edge probiotic support for digestive health
• 38 herbs and nutrient-rich superfoods
• 8+ servings of fruits and vegetables
• Free radical-fighting antioxidants

 My opinion on this is still up in the air, but I’m willing to give it a try.  The people who sell it and use it say that they haven’t been sick in a long time…for that reason alone I’m willing to give it a shot.  I will say this…if you chose to take this stuff, take it in the morning and when you first start…be close to a bathroom.  After a while, it evens out – if you catch my drift.

 My friend Lori talked me into going to a party…now this was a HUGE step for me.  I never go to these parties, but for her I did.  And wouldn’t you know it; I liked the products and even decided to give some a try.  The party was for Norwex products.  They are cleaning products.  If you haven’t heard of them check them out.  They claim to be a more effective and efficient way was cleaning without the use of harsh chemicals.  I was like “how is it possible to clean with cleaning products?” Apparently, you can!  I love that you can use one towel like thing for your entire kitchen.  I cleaned my sink, counters, stove, cabinets AND back door inside and out with one cloth.  I did wash the cloth out in between things, but still it took like minutes.  Best part…I can clean the back door window and wipe it with the polishing cloth and there are ZERO streaks…like none at all.  Anyway, I like their stuff so she talked me into throwing a party.  WHAT????  Can you believe it?  I will be 100% honest here…I’m only doing it to get free stuff.  Seriously, if I throw a party I get more Norwex products to include the mop system which is what I really wanted.  So there you have it….hell has frozen over!

 

My next adventure…because, let’s face it, always need some type of challenge. 

http://www.beachbody.com/product/fitness_programs/21-day-fix-simple-fitness-eating.do

 My dear friend Emily (https://www.facebook.com/livewellfitnesskc) has really impressed me.  She has so much energy and seems so happy.  Not to mention, she has really leaned out and her arms are like rocking!!!!  So I asked what she had been doing.  She started with the 21 day fix (what I’m starting) and from there has transformed into a coach and got her certificate to teach classes at the community center.  She does mainly body weight type exercises at her home.  The workouts are quick and intense – totally what I needed.  After this illness and eating crap food, I’m in need to get myself back on track ASAP!  I worked way too hard for my bikini body to let it go, so that’s that.  My new challenge.  I plan on starting Monday.  WOOT! WOOT!

 

Stay tuned for progress pics and results!